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Pierre Auguste Renoir
<view this essay>.... he always felt much closer to his mother and Lisa, his sister.
As a child, Renoir was constantly doodling in his schoolbooks or drawing on the floors at home. He would quickly sketch anything in sight. During this same time, young Renoir joined the choir at the church of St. Eustache. At the age of thirteen, Renoir began work as an apprentice in the porcelain craft shop of Levy Freres et Compagnie (www.augusterenoir.com). At age of sixteen, Renoir unveiled his first oil painting. This critical moment met with praise from his city and his parents. However, it would be some time before Renoir would consider himself an artist. He continued to paint porce .....
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Julius Caesar: Addaddination
<view this essay>.... soldiers in all history, a man who, more than any other, personified Rome’s rise to glory, brutally stabbed to death? Beneath the persuasive allure of his charm, lay an insatiable hunger for power. Although he was strong and clever enough to wield that power, his tragic flaw, an unbearable arrogance, brought him to a tragic end. It was Caesar’s overwhelming ambition and arrogant personality that resulted from his success, that made his assassination inevitable.
Caesar was a fortunate man; he had lived in a great city, seen much of the western world, loved a foreign queen and accumulated enormous wealth. In a world where most rarely left thei .....
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King Henry IV
<view this essay>.... was also Richard’s uncle, and Henry was the King’s First cousin.)
While taking part in the "Merciless" Parliament of 1388, Henry regained the favor of the King and in 1390 departed on the Crusade to Lithuania and then to Jerusalem. Visiting the kings of Bohemia and Hungary and the Archduke of Austria and then Venice in 1392-1393, he went only as far as Rhodes and then returned to England as a popular hero. He soon entered the government; he served on the Council while Richard was absent in Ireland in 1395 and for his efforts was made Duke of Hereford in 1397.
Henry soon quarreled with the Duke of Norfolk, each accusing the other of a .....
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William Faulkner
<view this essay>.... Albany, Mississippi in 1897. In 1902 they moved to
Oxford ("Jefferson"), the seat of the University of Mississippi. His father,
Murray C. Falkner, (the u was added to the family name by the printer who set up
William's first book, The Marble Faun) ran a livery stable and a hardware store.
Later he became business manager of the University. Maud Butler was his mother
and Murray, John, and Dean were his three brothers. (American Writers; 55a)
Faulkner's great-grandfather was William C. Falkner. He was born in 1825.
He was a legendary figure in Northern Mississippi. Many details of his life
have shown up in Faulkner's writings. He was twice acquitted .....
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Juan Gris
<view this essay>.... exhibition in Paris in 1919. From 1922 to 1924 he designed settings for two ballets of the Russian producer Sergey Diaghilev, Les tentations de la berg?e (The Temptations of the Shepherdess) and La colombe (The Dove), as well as continuing work on his own paintings. After 1925 he worked mainly on gouaches, watercolors, and illustrations for books. Some of his famous works include Portait of Josee, The Table and The Open window.
Portrait of Josette was created in 1916 and is now in the Musea del in Prado, Madrid. This was deffinetly one of Gris's greatest achievements. The portrait of Josette is based on his studies after Corot and Cezanne. To perfection h .....
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Indira Gandhfemalei
<view this essay>.... and a swimming pool, and attended by numerous servants. Being the only child in this huge household, Indira was pampered and was the center of her grandfather’s attention. Then, when Indira was barely three, the Indian freedom movement entered the Nehru house, changing Indira’s life and the course of Indian history (Currimbhoy 25-26).
Jawaharal Nehru had come into contact with Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who became the leader of India’s freedom struggle. Both Jawaharal and Motilal were drawn to Gandhi. They believed in Gandhi’s nonviolent noncooperation. The family also supported Gandhi’s policy of promoting domestic cottage industries by boycotting .....
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Napoleon
<view this essay>.... do anything great with out making a few mistakes along the way?” This great quote alone defends everything ever did.
Bonaparte born on August 15, 1769. He was the first in his family to become a professional soldier. His father fought for Corsican independence, and as a result of actually obtaining it, he then fulfilled a well-to-do job, which leaded into the aristocracy. received an excellent education, and even at a young age excelling in military training and math, a necessary trait for victorious fighting. When he was just a teen, joined the French army and was soon after promoted to Captain. Within a year of being Captain he conquered Toul .....
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Bob Marley
<view this essay>.... without an understanding of Reggae
and Rastafarianism. The origins of Rastafari goes back to the Garveyite African
Orthodox Church. A Jamaican-Born Black nationalist leader named Marcus Garvey
started the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) which was the most
prominent Black Power organization of the 1920s (Angelfire 3). Garvey although a
Roman Catholic encouraged his followers to imagine Jesus as Black and to organize their
own church.
From 1930 until the mid ‘60s is known as the Classical Period of Rastafari.
Rastafari was a local Jamaican religious movement with few outside influences. The
movement was dominated by “Elders” with widely .....
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