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- 2541: Ernest Hemingway
- ... to Arms. The movie shows a truly disappointed and violent Earnest when he learns the nurse is engaged to another man. Many of his writings were degrading to women. He talked about betrayal in his stories. In 1927 Hemingway released a collection of stories, "Men Without Women," the title might reflect how he felt after losing his true love. I feel that many of the negative ideas in his writings can be related back to the experience he had ...
- 2542: Doris Lessing's Life and Her Writings
- ... of her female characters play as a heroine defeating what most women are afraid to conquer, inferiority (Scott-Kilvert,184). She writes in what she calls straight, broad and direct. Lessing, in many of her stories, has woven much of her own life experiences into her work. This enables her to tell the story with depth and real feelings. In “A Mild Attack of Locusts”, she writes about a family living ... 1952 and resigned about five years later. She was an active pro-Communist involved in many organizations during World War Two. “ The pieces in Lessing’s later collection The Temptation of Jack Orkney, and Other stories, contain analyses of the volatile international political situation during the 1960’s. “In her novel, Hunger, a straightforward social commentary in the manner of Charles Dicken’s Oliver Twist, Lessing relates the experiences of Jabavu ...
- 2543: Jim Henson, a Gentle Genius
- ... as his television appearances grew to include The Tonight Show, Ed Sullivan, and the Jimmy Dean Show, and weekly appearances on The Today Show as well as commercials. During this time he also experimented with short films, including “Time Piece,” which was nominated for an Oscar for best live-action short subject. In 1968 he broadcast his first television special, “Muppets on Puppets.” (Padgett) In 1969 Sesame Street began. Henson was always careful not to take credit due to the fact that he did not create ...
- 2544: The Autobiography of Malcom X
- ... suddenly, they faced opposition from not one, but two parties advocating racism and segregation: The white racists and the so-called Black Muslims. This radical Negro cult called "Nation of Islam" became in an astonishing short time a nation-wide movement and a threat to the White society, because of its radical principles such as "the white man is the devil" and its enormous popularity. The leader of the movement was ... Malcolm X. He gathered huge crowds of black people and convinced them in eloquent speeches that all whites were evil. The phenomenon Malcolm X became one of the most popular Afro-American leaders in a short time. Although he was dismissed by his leader Muhammad, his popularity did not diminish. When he was assassinated by Black Muslims in 1965, newspapers all over the world paid tribute to him as a great ...
- 2545: Rachel Carson
- ... Carson to take further action was a letter written to her by a friend, Olga Owens Huckins, in Jan. 1958. She owned a bird sanctuary in Duxbury, MA. Many birds had passed on just a short time after the sanctuary was sprayed with pesticides. Years later Carson wrote to Huckins : “You deserve credit (or blame according to the point of view) for having brought my attention back to this problem. I ... jurors he would not declare a mistrial and instructed them to consult with their fellow jurors and to take their opinions into account, as long as doing so would not violate their own beliefs. A short time later the foreman, Quincy resident William Vogel, a Nynex supervisor, asked to be excused because of pending coronary-bypass surgery. Skinner said he would grant Vogel's request if the jury had not reached ...
- 2546: Caravaggio
- ... by mistake. After being released he was severely ill and the boat that he was going to catch had left while he was in prison. On July 18, 1610, a fatal attack of malaria cut short, at the early age of 37, the life of a great painter. The many painters who imitated Caravaggio's style were known as Caravagggisti. Caravaggio's influence in Rome was remarkable but short lived, lasting only until the 1620's. His leading followers elsewhere in Italy were Orazio Gentileschi, Artemisia Gentileschi, and the Spaniard Jose de Riobera. Outside Italy, the Dutch painters Hendrick Terbrugghen, Gerrit van Honthrost, and ...
- 2547: The Life of Emily Dickinson
- ... 1,700, her poems highlight the many moments in a 19th century New Englander woman's life, including the deaths of some of her most beloved friends and family, most of which occurred in a short period of time (Benfey 6-25). Several biographers of Dickinson point out her methods of exploring several topics in “circumference,” as she says in her own words. Death is perhaps one of the best examples of this exploration and examination. Other than one trip to Washington and Philadelphia, several excursions to Boston to see a doctor, and a few short years in school, Emily never left her home town of Amherst, Massachusetts. In the latter part of her life she rarely left her large brick house, and communicated even to her beloved sister through a ...
- 2548: Anne Bradstreet: The Heretical Poet
- ... they are grown, And Plumbs and Apples thoroughly ripe do fall... And time brings down what is both strong and tall, But plants new set to be eradicate, And buds new blown, to have so short a date, Is by his hand alone that guides nature and fate (Spiller 64). Bradstreet's "simplicity of diction and imagery carry a genuine emotional effect, until, suddenly Anne Bradstreet realizes that she is perilously ... 232). The only reference to religion is to pray the heavens reward her husband, hardly a Puritan prayer. "Anne Bradstreet loved Simon Bradstreet and her children and God with a troubled realization that she fell short of God's, 'Thou shalt love the Lord they God with all thy heard'"(Blair 229). Anne Bradstreet's poetry shows a merging of the private life with the religious life, but also a rebellious ...
- 2549: Michelangelo Buonarroti
- ... Pope Julius II to fabricate his tomb. Michelangelo was so excited about making the tomb for the Pope that he spent many months looking for the perfect piece of marble to make the tomb. A short time after starting the tomb Pope Julius II selected Michelangelo to decorate the Sistine Chapel ceiling. The Sistine Chapel is in the palace of The Vatican in Rome. The Sistine Chapel was built by Pope Sixtus IV in 1473. The Sistine Chapel ceiling took over four years to complete, 1508-1512. Michelangelo was able to accomplish this enormous job in such a short amount of time because of his desire to finish the tomb(Janson 359). The walls of the Sistine Chapel were painted twenty five years prior to the painting of the ceiling. One of the walls ...
- 2550: George Bizek
- ... and personal life. He is not like so many other composers and musicians of the Romantic Period who led a highly publicized life like Hector Berlioz, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, or Johannes Brahms. He spent his short life devoted to music and he did not quite make it into the limelight like these other Romantic composers. The most believable explanation for his obscurity would be the lack of scandal in his life ... it's premier performance from both the public and the press. Next he wrote a melodrama, L'Arlesienne (The Girl From Arles). This was his attempt at revitalizing the melodrama form. It's success was short lived however, but the music was so well liked that Bizet made an orchestral suite from it and it became known as L'Arlesienne Suite #1. Bizet's next and best known opera was to ...
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