|
» Biographies Essays and Papers
Pablo Picasso
<view this essay>.... for art and literature, and became infatuated with its street life, in particular, the area of Montmarte, Paris' bohemian district where he was able to study the City's poorer people. More importantly, it was here that he discovered the posters of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, which inspired him into creating one of his great paintings, the "Mouilin de la Galette". It was here, in Paris, that most of his success was accomplished.
Three months later, Picasso returned to Spain and co-founded the short-lived magazine "Arte Joven" (first issue March 31, 1901 - "Young Art"), in Paris. On a second trip to Paris, in the summer of 1901, he exhibited .....
Number of words: 2860 | Number of pages: 11 |
|
Assassination Of Gaius Julius Caesar
<view this essay>.... There he became a priest and scholar. During the Next 20-30 years,
Caesar became a triumvir (consisting of Crassus, Pompey, and Caesar), governor,
and finally sole dictator of Rome.
In 48 B.C. the Roman Senate gave Caesar the power of dictator for one
year. During this time he defeated Pompey. In 45 B.C. the Senate made him
consul for ten years, but in 44 B.C. after winning his final victory and
pacifying the Roman world, Caesar decided to became dictator for life. This
prompted Gaius Cassius and Marcus Junius Brutus to plot an assassination to
preserve the Roman Republic. On March 15, 44 B.C. Julius Caesar was killed in
the Senate house.
The reason b .....
Number of words: 352 | Number of pages: 2 |
|
Stephon Marbury
<view this essay>.... 1988 Hoop Scoop, a recruiting newsletter, anointed him the bext sixth-grader in the nation...Up to that point, Marbury says, "I wasn't a very nice kid. I thought I was it. It was y'all supposed to talk to me, I'm not supposed to talk to y'all. i'd just come out on the court, just talk junk, with this walk and this look." In CYO ball he woofed at opposing coaches: I'm just killing your guards. Get someone out here who can stop me(Wolff, 62).
By the time that Mr. Marbury was a Sophomore in high school at Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, he had changed his act. He learned to treat everybody with respect and to be a professional person. He .....
Number of words: 2095 | Number of pages: 8 |
|
Woodrow Wilson
<view this essay>.... Later Wilson decided he wanted to become a lawyer, this failed so he enrolled in school to study history. Over time, Wilson gained a lot of respect and rose to high places because of his essays and public addresses. As the University President, Wilson resigned and looked into the Democratic point of view on politics. Wilson moved on to become the 28th President of the United States.
Wilson spent a lot of his time on making decisions rather than getting the grades to back him up. These wild ideas Wilson has made him absolutely fascinating to hear in public and people from all over came to hear him converse about his essays.
The turning point on Wilson's life .....
Number of words: 296 | Number of pages: 2 |
|
William Wodsworth
<view this essay>.... experience are not difficult to see. For instance, the subject matter, the basic course of events, and some word choices in the two renderings are identical. However, when one looks closer at these two works, the smaller, less obvious, similarities become noticeable. For example, both Dorothy and William refer to the daffodils as dancing in the wind, William's daffodils "dancing in the breeze," while Dorothy's "danced and seemed as if they verily laughed with the wind that blew upon them." (Norton, 186, 293-294) Also, both describe the heads of the daffodils, instead of say, the tops, or buds. The difference in this is, however, that Dorothy Wordsworth has .....
Number of words: 597 | Number of pages: 3 |
|
Martin Luther
<view this essay>.... two common commdities of the new land, through
Spain. When this was done, heavy custom duties were imposed and the
central government gained. Spanish American colonies were forced into
providing precious metals and raw materials to the mother country.
These colonies existed only to enrich spain, even if the economic
policies adversly effected the well-being of the colonies. This grip
caused the central economy of Spain to grow at the expense of the
colonies. During the duration of this period, the 1500's through the
1700's, mercantilism had a major effect on the economies in the new
world. English speaking colonies were effected by Englan .....
Number of words: 1628 | Number of pages: 6 |
|
Franz Joseph Haydn
<view this essay>.... that Haydn set forth were relied upon by Mozart and Beethoven in creating their own respective masterpieces.
Born in a small town just inside Austrian borders, Haydn did not have much of a chance to be anything other than a wheelwright like his father. However, his father was a man who loved to sing and when Haydn was a boy, he memorized almost every song his father sang. This was his beginning in music. Later on, he received an education from his uncle where he gained more of an interest in music. Participation in a choir gave him the opportunity to go to Vienna and there, he studied the piano sonatas of Emanuel Bach and was given the chance to .....
Number of words: 2426 | Number of pages: 9 |
|
Story Of Anne Moody
<view this essay>.... as the way it was and did not see a difference in the skin color of a white person as opposed to that of a black. It was not until a movie incident did she begin to realize that the color of her skin made her inferior. “Their whiteness provided them with a pass to downstairs in that nice section and my blackness sent me to the balcony. Now that I was thinking about it, their schools, homes, and streets were better than mine.” Soon after Moody entered high school, Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old boy from Chicago, was killed for whistling at a white woman. “Emmett Till’s murder had proved it was a crime, punishable by death, for a Negro man to even whistle .....
Number of words: 919 | Number of pages: 4 |
|
|