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- 14301: Dylan Thomas
- ... Avenue and particularly…the White Horse Tavern" (Sinclair, 164). Dylan was even forced to leave his hotel because of "drunkenness" (Ferris, 232). Thomas had gained a reputation of being a heavy drinker and he wasn't ready to disappoint his American followers. "Dylan lived up to his roistering and shocking reputation, while turning in some of his greatest performances as a lecturer" (Sinclair, 166). "He was loudly applauded," Ferris wrote, "His ... rest of the country. Thomas moved west stopping in major cities all over America to lecture by day and drink by night. Tales of his growing dependence on alcohol preceded him. The quality of Dylan's lectures deteriorated as he moved west on his tour of American bars. For the final five weeks of his visit to America, Thomas returned to New York (Ferris, 248). Dylan described his last two weeks ... 173). "He wrote that he had to ruin his health again because he felt so preposterously well. Such were the healing powers of Laugharne - and of love" (Sinclair, 175). During this period at home, Dylan's father became ill and "Dylan was shocked into his last fertile period of writing poetry" (Sinclair, 175). By the end of 1951, Thomas had agreed to take another lecture tour of America, This time ...
- 14302: Baroque Architecture
- ... delicate elegant line and graceful silhouettes which he ingeniously combined with forceful mass. He was most noted for his work on the Church of the Sorbonne. Next is Francois Mansart (1598-1666), a man who's exteriors and interiors, composed with scrupulous purity and infinite stability, make him in architecture the cornerstone of French Baroque Classicism. He was best known for his work on the Ste Marie de la Visitation and ... into the seen tried to outdo the others, that is why Baroque architecture stretched the limits of what could be done. It paved a road for all other styles to come, showing that different doesn't necessarily mean abhorrent. The Baroque period came after the technically perfect Renaissance period, and was followed be the Rococo period. Most people cancel the baroque period out, but the way it looks, baroque defined all ... changing the way we look at architecture and art in a whole. Artists and Their Works ITALIAN ARTISTS Artist Name of Work year *Illustration* Pietri da Cortona -SS. Martina e Luca 1635-1650 Bernardo Vittone -S. Chiara 1742 Gian Lorenzo Bernini -Chigi-Odescalchi -S. Andrea al Quirnale 1664 1658-1670 Francesco Borromini -S. Carlo alle Quattro Fontane -Ivo 1638-41 1642-1650 Guarino Guarinin -S. Lorenzo -Palazzo Carignano -Church of ...
- 14303: Heart Of Darkness 2
- Joseph Conrad, like many authors, used his own experiences for the basis of his novels. Specifically, Conrad s journey on the Congo River as captain of a West African river steamer formed the basis for his novel Heart of Darkness. In this novel, the narrator of the story, Marlow, Conrad's protagonist, travels up the Congo in search of Kurtz, an ivory trader, and eventually ends up in the heart of darkness. Conrad also used his pessimistic view of life for the basis of Heart of Darkness. Conrad s fatalistic attitude is evident when he explained to his friend R. B. Cunninghame Graham: There is...a machine. It evolved itself...and behold!--it knits....It knits us in and it knits us out. ...
- 14304: Heart Of Darkness Kurtz Accord
- The Last Disciple: Joseph Conrad s Heart of Darkness When a man s life is the sea he has much time to think about that life and who he really is or might be. In Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad introduces readers to two such men who are at different stages of their quest to find out who they are. The two men, Marlow and Kurtz, possess traits that are a little common to every man s life, and seem to be heading in a similar direction. The career Kurtz has made for himself is not one of admiration. Kurtz had been considered in the past to be an honorable man, ...
- 14305: Marlow VS. Willard
- ... and Willard had to put up with natives, they had crews that were different. While Marlow had a crew with mostly natives, Willard had a crew of American soldiers who were serving their country. Willard’s crew was comprised of mostly young men who had no idea what they were doing. “Come on all of you big strong me,” writes Joseph McDonald, “Uncle Sam needs your help again”(Class handouts, McDonald). This would describe the men that were with Willard. None of them knew where they were headed or why they were leaving, all they knew was they were serving their country. Marlow’s crew knew that they were trying to figure out what happened to the ivory supply. Marlow had a crew full of mostly natives. Their respective ships were different too. While Marlow cruised on a French ... when he met this man. Willard knew that he would only be able to do what was wanted of him only if this man in his mind was as insane as the military thought. Marlow’s intentions were decided before he even met Kurtz. They both had jobs and were expected to do them, but were they going to? Willard and Marlow both wanted their individual missions. With the help ...
- 14306: Crucible: "We Are Our Own Worst Enemies"
- ... to The Crucible, a play written by Arthur Miller, it corresponds to the characters in the play perfectly. John Proctor, a historical figure in the play, is "his own worst enemy" in every aspect. Proctor's extreme honesty and exuberant dignity comes back at the end of the play to haunt him, which directly leads to his tragic death. Proctor's honesty ironically is one of the factor that causes him to become "his own worst enemy." His candid remarks toward Reverend Parris, pointing out that "many others who stay away from church these days (is ... criticism is bound to resent it. And Reverend Parris did show resentment by retaliating at the end. He testified against Proctor, claiming that "this man is blackening my name", and constantly taking stabs at Proctor's defense, for he appears not to quit until Proctor is finally driven to the end. But this was not the only situation in which his honest personality have betrayed him. John Proctor was heading ...
- 14307: Chinese Music
- ... as a means of calming the passions and of dispelling unrest and lust, rather than as a form of amusement. The ancient Chinese belief that music is meant not to amuse but to purify one's thoughts finds particular expression in the cult of the qin (ch'in), a long zither possessing a repertory calling for great subtlety and refinement in performance and still popular among a small circle of scholar-musicians. A famous qin scholar once said, “Though the qin player's body be in a gallery or in a hall, his mind should dwell with the forests and streams.” Also, traditionally the Chinese have believed that sound influences the harmony of the universe. Significantly, one of the most important duties of the first emperor of each new dynasty was to search out and establish that dynasty's true standard of pitch. A result of this philosophical orientation was that until quite recently the Chinese theoretically opposed music performed solely for entertainment; accordingly, musical entertainers were relegated to an extremely low social ...
- 14308: Lyrical Analysis Of The End
- The night they recorded "The End" would always remain a significant moment for Jim Morrison. After everyone finally went home for the night he couldn't stop thinking about. He climbed an eight-foot-high wooden gate, somehow got back into the studio. He was breathing hard as he took off his shoes and jeans and shirt. Naked he grabbed a ... End" tells of the impending end of a love affair quite possibly by murder. Its an eleven minute psychosexual epic done entirely in one chord (E). The song is an incredible achievement in music, there's nothing that can even come close to what was done with "The End", in terms of the rhythmic and melodic variation backing a complex story line. It builds to an effect of mood rather than a sequence of events. Morrison's masterpiece was almost pure poetry, which probably remains the single most astounding track the doors ever recorded. Jim Morrison uses words as much for their emotive effect as their meaning. The song suggests rather ...
- 14309: John Stuart Mill: Ethical Decision Making
- John Stuart Mill: Ethical Decision Making John Stuart Mill suggests that a person’s ethical decision-making process should be based solely upon the amount of happiness that the person can receive. Although Mill fully justifies himself, his approach lacks certain criteria for which happiness can be considered. Happiness should be judged, not only by pleasure, but by pain as well. This paper will examine Mill’s position on happiness, and the reasoning behind it. Showing where there are agreements and where there are disagreements will critique the theory of Utilitarianism. By showing the problems that the theory have will reveal what ... acknowledges that some pleasures are more alluring than others are. He adds to this by making known that when placing value in things to calculate pleasure, not only quantity important but quality as well. Mill’s criteria for happiness is easily understood, some statements that he gives are questionable. John Stuart Mill plainly laid out what he believes that the basis for ethical decision-making. First, the pursuit of pleasure ...
- 14310: The Growth of a “Scholarship Boy”
- ... himself as a “scholarship boy”. Now that he is done with his education I feel that he has grown up some, but he is still in the process of becoming a “scholarship man.” It wasn’t until late in his educational career, when he was writing his dissertation, that he found the description of the “scholarship boy.” He noticed the term when he was skimming through the book The Uses of ... of education. It was not that I ever thought they were stupid, though stupidly I just took for granted their enormous native intelligence. Simply what mattered to me was they were not like my teacher’s”(573). So he began to think of his teachers as the primary authority in his life because he could not respect his parents. He did not respect them mostly because they have not gotten the ... have an opinion of his own”(582). This is exactly what Rodriguez does, he never has an opinion of his own. He simply reads books without analyzing the writers thoughts, and worse yet he doesn’t even understand them most of the time. An example of this is when Rodriguez finds the lists of the hundred most important books in western civilization. After seeing this he had to go ahead ...
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