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- 811: Brief Shao Lin Monk History
- A Short History of Shao Lin Monks and their Martial Arts The original Shao Lin temple was built in 495 A.D. by the ruling Bei Wei emperor for an Indian monk who came to China to ... against them later. This caused an exodus to the mountains and hills of the wilderness in the hopes that even though their temples were being destroyed, the Shao Lin knowledge would survive. There are many stories as to the survival of Shao Lin in the times following China s adoption of Communism. However, many of these stories are suspect, with the more commonly authenticated versions coming from government records. The fact that Chinese authorities outlawed Shao Lin and martial arts practices makes any story about their history from such sources somewhat ...
- 812: Constantinopolis
- ... are based on timber framing. In China, the wooden post carried on its top an openwork timber structure, a kind of inverted pyramid formed of layers of horizontal beams connected and supported by brackets and short posts to support the rafters and beams of a steep and heavy tile roof. The eaves extended well beyond column lines on cantilevers. The resulting archetype is rectangular in plan, usually one story high, with ... Florence, is a clear statement of new principles of proportion and design. A new type of urban building evolved at this time-the palazzo, or city residence of a prominent family. The palazzi were several stories high; rooms were grouped around a cortile, or courtyard; the outer walls of the palazzo were on the lot lines. The Florentine architect Leon Battista Alberti, in his design for the Palazzo Rucellai (1446-51 ... Charles Barry, was not a Gothic expert, but he called into consultation an architect who was-A. W. N. Pugin, who became responsible for the details of this vast monument (begun 1836). Pugin, in a short and contentious career, made a moral issue out of a return to the Gothic style. Other architects, however, felt free to select whatever elements from past cultures best fitted their programs-Gothic for Protestant ...
- 813: Alice Walker
- ... many other authors, she is not afraid to write about very personal experiences she has had. Since the beginning of her writing career, she has written sixteen books, including five novels, several collections of essays, short stories, children’s books, and poems. Charles Truehearth of The Washington Post writes, "She has discussed such topics as spousal abuse, fear of death, female sexuality, and incest"(1991). Walker is very much of a feminist ... that black women had been suppressed for so long that they would never know what kind of great artists they may have lost during all the times while there was slavery. This is what the short story "In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens" discusses. The title has a special meaning because Walker is referring to her own mother. In this work, she discusses all the talents of older black ...
- 814: H.G. Wells
- ... universal, and could write from many different sides. He was one of the most versitile writers, as he could write like a novelist, as in the The History of Mr. Polly. He could also write short stories, like The Star, or The Door In The Wall. He was also considered to be a visionary and a dreamer, as shown throughout A Modern Utopia, and Men Like Gods. What Wells was most famous ... make money, and to get on with his writing career. He decided to write in this genere because he thought, and was right, that there was a large amount of people looking for spine chilling stories and the unexplained. Also, Wells knew of some of the early tales of the unexplained and far fetched: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and The Last Man, and also works of Edgar Allan Poe, all ...
- 815: A Guy's Sense Of Manhood
- ... a fraternity house, and you had to bring a date. Because everyone going was on the football team, guys that I am always in competition with, and because I have only been at college a short while, I felt that I still had to prove myself to everyone by having a gorgeous date. The girl I had been hanging out with most recently, however, was not that pretty but was fun ... that stressed the importance of athletics, not to mention the fact that I have always looked up to my uncles who had great division I careers in sports: one even played pro football for a short while. I felt inferior to anyone with athletic success, or at least had a high respect for anyone with such success. I remember sophomore year I used to sit at a lunch table daily with ... If I could accomplish these two feats, then I felt that I would gain the respect of my family, and to a lesser degree my peers. Nothing proves manliness better than being able to tell stories of your victories, or if not telling them yourself, just knowing that the rest of your peers know what you accomplished. I guess it is like a war veteran displaying his medals for all ...
- 816: Comparing The Works Of Richard Wright
- Comparing The Works Of Richard Wright One of America's most prominent black authors is Richard Wright writes mostly from the African American perspective. Both his novel Native Son and his short stories The Man Who Was Almost a Man (from the collection Eight Men) deals with young black men in their quest and struggles to become "men." Neither character nor their struggles are in any way similar ... The novel ends with a trial ruling to take the life of Bigger just as he had taken the life of the young white woman who had only wanted to befriend young black Bigger. The short story The Man Who Was Almost A Man is about a seventeen-year-old black boy (Dave) who wants to buy a gun. The gun is the way for Dave to become a man ...
- 817: The Year 2000 Bug
- ... The media had virtually ignored the Y2K problem. To the major networks and cable news channels, the millennium computer rates were right up there with UFO’s and the ‘War on Drugs’. Their great filler stories and depth of investigation was so short it could fit under a door. That is until January 1999. In January there was a rash of news coverage and special reports by the major media. It seemed as though the media had an ... Still, there are some clues from which some conclusions may be drawn: 1.In the 1950's and 1960's, at the time legacy (or mainframe) system programs were being written, computer memory was in short supply and very expensive. This represented a serious challenge to computer program designers, who had to seek creative ways to get around this stifling impediment that restricted them from writing more sophisticated programs. Their " ...
- 818: Katherine Mansfield
- Katherine Mansfield Katherine Mansfield, who lived from 1888 to 1923, is considered to be one of the most remarkable short story writers of her time. Using her life experiences as an inspiration for her short stories, Mansfield sculpted her ideas into masterful pieces of literary work. Mansfield's life was full of interesting experiences that shaped her outlook upon life. The diversity of friends and acquaintances Katherine Mansfield had over ...
- 819: John Cheever’s Portrayals of Suburban Life
- ... England suburban life in a straightforward way. Experience is an exquisite tool to use when writing novels and Cheever utilizes it to the best of his ability. Throughout his “sweet, sad, nourishing, voluptuous” (Beacham 235) stories there is a recurring theme as well as setting. His works deal with contemporary ironies of middle-class suburban people. Cheever is proclaimed to be “at his best when portraying the alcoholic haze of American ... friends that spark the themes in his novels. Some say that his work is “cryptoautobiographical” (The American n.pag.) considering his bouts with publishing companies, homosexuality, alcoholism, and family. Others say that he is a “short story writer that failed at trying a novel”(Beacham 236). Some criticize his work for lacking a climax and plot making for an uneventful story line. Clearly one thing holds true. Cheever depicts life in ... meant to rout rapist and men who would strangle old women of eighty-two” (Falconer 206) or in the north wilderness on a fishing trip. John Cheever creates typical New England suburban characters in his stories by giving them the actual traits of suburban people to the best of his knowledge. The Wapshot Chronicles demonstrates the importance of traditional values of New England suburban people along with the importance of ...
- 820: Barn Burning
- Written as it was, at the ebb of the 1930s, a decade of social, economic, and cultural tumult, the decade of the Great Depression, William Faulkner's short story "Barn Burning" may be read and discussed in our classrooms as just that--a story of the '30s, for "Barn Burning" offers students insights into these years as they were lived by the nation and the South and captured by our artists. This story was first published in June of 1939 in Harper's Magazine and later awarded the 0. Henry Memorial Award for the best short story of the year. Whether read alone, as part of a thematic unit on the Depression era, or as an element of an interdisciplinary course of the Depression '30s, "Barn Burning" can be used to ... of these social themes. Works Cited Agee, James, and Walker Evans. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1941, reprinted 1960. Faulkner, William. "Barn Burning."Harper's Magazine, June 1939, reprinted in Collected Stories, New York: Random House, 1950.
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