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Ansel Adams
<view this essay>.... he visited annually. Ansel took much interest in the Armory Show exhibition. This exhibition contained modern art that had been first presented in New York City in 1913. There was also a music exhibition that took Ansel's interest. Ansel took his first photograph in 1916 at age 19, when he and his parents went on a trip to Yosemite National Park. He took his picture with a Kodak Box Brownie camera. His images were of the park, and nature, but his major interest were the High Sierra Mountains. From that time on, Ansel returned to Yosemite National Park every summer. While he was there in 1919, he joined the Sierra Club. The purpose of this club was t .....
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Hitler
<view this essay>.... The middle-class was ruined by
the Depression: they were stripped of their livelihoods. The Nazi's promised
them the one thing that were desperately in need of to survive: Bread!
The Nazi's promised to give the farmers repossession of their land.
Hitler had a way of persuading people to do what he wants. He knew what the
people wanted and how to make them believe that they were actually going to get
it. Hitler was given a chance to go into power despite the doubts of he ability
to rule from the Communists and Socialist parties. Unfortunately the both
parties were wrong, he was voted into power , in March and was elected without a
parliament. Hit .....
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Henry Adams
<view this essay>.... art, like the American language and American education, was as far as possible sexless” (Adams, 385). The only sculptures and paintings of women that Adams viewed with understanding were those like the Virgin Mary, who was always seen as non-sexual. For example, “America was ashamed of her…have strewn fig-leaves so profusely all over her” (Adams, 384). However, during this time of the technology revolution, women were beginning to be viewed differently, especially in Europe. Women were viewed as beautiful and mortal beings. People such as Rodin were representing women in paintings and sculptures sexually. Sex was becoming .....
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A Biography Of George Orwell
<view this essay>.... to his personal ambition. In his book Why I Write he says that from a very young age he had known that he must be a writer. But, he also realized that in order to become a writer, he had to read literature. However, in Eaton, English literature was not a major subject and he spent his five years reading works by the masters of English prose including Jonathon Swift, Laurence Sterne and Jack London on his own.
He failed to win a university scholarship after the final examinations at Eaton and, in 1922, he joined the Indian Imperial Police. This decision was not the usual path that most Eaton students would have taken. Blair preferred a life of travel and action .....
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Similarities Between Franz Liszt And Kurt Cobain
<view this essay>.... he usually played his own music and came out wearing decorations
hanging on chains, which was unusual for his time. For two years Liszt was
hospitalized for a nervous breakdown. In some ways he was much like Kurt Cobain,
the late lead singer of the rock band Nirvana.
Kurt Cobain was born on February 20, 1967, in Aberdeen, Washington. He
was passed on to several relatives after his parents divorced when he was eight
years old. For some time he even lived under a bridge and was hospitalized for
a heroin addiction. It was not entirely unexpected that Cobain committed
suicide. He had had entered a coma by overdosing on a mixture of champagne .....
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Stephen King: The King Of Terror
<view this essay>.... and It, some of his best work that has been published are his short
stories such as “The Body” and “Quitters Inc”. King's works are so
powerful because he uses his experience and observations from his everyday
life and places them into his unique stories.
Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine, on September 21,
1947, at the Maine General Hospital. Stephen, his mother Nellie, and his
adopted brother David were left to fend for themselves when Stephen's
father Donald, a Merchant Marine captain, left one day, to go the store to
buy a pack of cigarettes, and never returned. His fathers leaving had a
big indirect impact on King's life. In the a .....
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The Life Of Aristotle
<view this essay>.... school came to be known as the Peripatetic
("walking" or "strolling") school. Upon the death of Alexander in 323 bc, strong
anti-Macedonian feeling developed in Athens, and Aristotle retired to a family
estate in Euboea. He died there the following year.
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Aristotle, like Plato, made regular use of the dialogue in his earliest years at
the Academy, but lacking Plato's imaginative gifts, he probably never found the
form congenial. Apart from a few fragments in the works of later writers, his
dialogues have been wholly lost. Aristotle also wrote some short technical notes,
such as a dictionary of philosophic terms and a summary of the doctrines of .....
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Walt Disney
<view this essay>.... His family decided to move back to Chicago in 1917. Walt finished up school and then joined the family and enrolled at McKinley High School (Finch 39-40).
Walt’s brother went into the army in 1918. Walt wanted to join his brother, but he was too young. Instead he applied for an ambulance driver and ended up in France. In 1919 Walt came back to the US (Finch 40).
When he returned new he wanted to pursue a career in the commercial arts fields, so he got a job at a local studio. At the age of 18 Disney already had basic training in animation. He started making Laugh-O-Grams, which were short commercials and illustrated jokes. Walt then started his ow .....
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