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- 5971: Arlo Guthrie
- ... His father, Cisco Houston, Leadbelly, Pete Seeger and many others passed on their knowledge to the young Arlo. Arlo made his first appearance at the age of thirteen (Official Oughtabiography). He attended a private high school in Stockbridge, Mass. and dropped out of a college in Montana. In 1967, at twenty years old, he appeared at the Newport Folk Festival. He performed the song "Alice's Restaurant", the song propelled him ...
- 5972: Andy Warhol
- ... with a bachelor degree in pictorial design. After graduating he moved out to New York City, where his life blossomed. He lived for a couple of years with Philip Pearlstein, who he had met at school. Warhol, with his education centered around design, set out to begin his career on the right foot. He started doing drawings for advertisements in a women's shoe catalog. It may not have been much ...
- 5973: Alfred Stieglitz
- ... It wasn't until he got older that his photography curiosity begin to take charge of his life. Stieglitz formally started photography at the age of nineteen, during his first years at the Berlin Polytechnic School. At this time photography was in its infancy as an art form. Alfred learned the fine arts of photography by watching a local photographer in Berlin working in the store's dark room. After making ...
- 5974: "Paul's Case": Willa Cathers
- ... had began to flake. "The nearer he approached the house the more absolutely unequal Paul felt to the sight of it all; his ugly sleeping chamber, the cold bathroom with the grimy zinc tub..." His school was described with having "bare floors and naked walls". Paul's uplifting arena was either glaring up at the actors, divas, or performers at the Schenley Hotel or at the works of art at Carnegie ...
- 5975: Huckleberry Finn: Review
- ... a family with "a handsome lot of quality"(118). He thinks no more about Jim or the raft, but knows he has found a new home, one where he doesn't have to go to school, is surrounded by interior and exterior beauty, and most importantly, where he feels safe. Huck "liked that family, dead ones and all, and warn't going to let anything come between us"(118). Huck is ...
- 5976: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: Vocation Sequence
- ... to know the place for the first time. -T.S. Eliot As Stephen questions whether or not his repentance and devotions served the purpose of expiating his sins, he learns that the director of his school wants him to become a Jesuit priest, therefore serving as a model of faultless excellence. At a time in his life when Stephen must realize his true calling, he considers both the greatest honour that ...
- 5977: Catcher In The Rye: Holden A Victim of Society
- ... modern English literature supporters. Holden Caulfield explains to his psychoanalyst a four-day flashback in the manner a of a "confession" throughout The Catcher in the Rye. The narrative commences as Holden fails another private school and prepares to leave Pencey Prep. The mission of informing his parents about the blunder in studies brings psychological mishaps to the vulnerable individual. After Holden attacks his roommate, Ward Stradlater, the anger Holden endures ...
- 5978: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Huck's Father
- ... in front of his face; his skin, Huck says, is white like a fish's belly or like a tree toad's. Pap's savage appearance reflects his feelings as he demands that Huck quit school, stop reading, and avoid church. Huck is able to stay away from Pap for a while, but Pap kidnaps Huck three or four months after Huck starts to live with the Widow and takes him ...
- 5979: The Maturity Of Scout And Jem In To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee
- ... Scout question the idea of justice. "Who in this town did one thing to help Tom Robinson, just who?" (215) Scout and Jem had believe that their father was not like any other fathers in school. They see him as an old man who cant do anything. However, when a mad dog appears on the street, Atticus, their farther, kills that dog with one shot. They are surprised to learn ...
- 5980: Animal Farm: Historically And Politically Allegorized As The Russian Revolution
- ... the Proletariats nor Boxer were educated, when the animals on the manor were trying to form a system of schooling, all Boxer managed to learn was up to D. The Proletariats were never enrolled in school and were never educated in anyway because they were told they did not need to be educated. Boxer was a casualty of the revolution, he was sent away to the knackers when he was no ...
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