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Michelangelo Artwork Consisted Pope Julius Ii
1,369 wordsMichelangelo was pessimistic in his poetry and an optimist in his artwork. Michelangelo's artwork consisted of paintings and sculptures that showed humanity in it's natural state. Michelangelo's poetry was pessimistic in his response to Strazzi even though he was complementing him. Michelangelo's sculpture brought out his optimism. Michelangelo was optimistic in completing The Tomb of Pope Julius II and persevered through it's many revisions trying to complete his vision. Sculpture was Michelang...
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Falls In Love Entered The Service
1,208 wordsItalian poet, remembered primarily for his ORLANDO FURIOSO, published in its final version in 1532. Ariosto's work was the most celebrated narrative poem of the Italian high Renaissance, and the first example of modern poetry to provoke widespread critical controversy. Ariosto was born in Reggio Emilia, as the son of Count Niccol Ariosto. At the age of then his family moved to Ferrara, where he studied law from 1489 to 1494. There he also started to study Latin and Greek language and literature....
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Farewell To Arms Ernest Hemingway
1,200 wordsErnest Hemingway intended this book for a mature audience. Considering the way he describes the horrors of the book. Ernest Hemingway's novel A Farewell to Arms uses nature to structure the novel and provide symbols that replace human emotions. Nature serves as a basic structure for the plot and the actions that occur. It also emerges as a source of symbols that replace human sentiment or feelings. Characters die and there is no mention of sadness or pain. Instead, Hemingway writes that it is ra...
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Irony And Symbolism In The Cask Of Amontillado
822 wordsIrony and Symbolism in The Cask of Amontillado In the short story "The Cask of Amontillado, " Edgar Allan Poe writes in first person point of view, from the perspective of Montresor, the narrator of this tale, who seeks revenge against Fortunato. Montresor began to develop the perfect plan for revenge. During the carnival season, Montresor meet with Fortunato and decides to implement his plan carefully not to arouse Fortunato's suspicions through irony. Poe's story describes the inner workings o...
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Daisy Miller Roman Fever
1,064 wordsHenry James wrote a lot of classic stories in his time. Amongst these great classics is that of "Daisy Miller. " Daisy Miller is a love story about a young lady who appears to be out of place in culture and society. It is about a girl who wants to be free and does so by showing her ignorance in society. In the reading we come across many themes that Daisy Miller brings upon herself. Amongst these themes is that of her innocence. Henry James' "Daisy Miller" has a theme of innocence, which brings ...
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Spanish Civil War Ernest Hemingway
1,150 wordsFor Whom the Bell Tolls is a novel loosely based on Ernest Hemingway's own experiences in the Spanish Civil War in the 1930 's. Before I delve into the book itself, I thought it would be best to give some background information on Ernest Hemingway and on the Spanish Civil war and the circumstances surrounding it. Hemingway was born July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois, and the second of six children. His father, Clarence Hemingway, was a physician and his mother was a devoutly religious woman wit...
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Italian Peninsula Strategic Position
342 wordsGeography did much to shape the course of events in Italy. (Geography and Early Settlers of Italy Internet) Rome began as a small city-state in Italy but somehow ended up ruling the entire Mediterranean world. The story of the Roman Empires world domination began with the lands they lived on. (Ellis and Esler 130) Rome is centrally located in the Italian peninsula. The Italian peninsula is about 600 miles long and about four times the size of Greece and two-thirds that of California and sticks o...
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Puerto Rican Long Island
1,977 wordsThis book Down These Mean Streets is a classic confessional autobiography. This book was first published in 1967. It was written by Piri Thomas, he was a man of African descent living in Spanish Harlem. It relates how he was lost even within his own family and his identity through drugs, street fighting, and armed robbery, nearly becoming yet another statistic by the age of twenty two. In this book it tells all about the persons life. It tells how he has suffered through his life time, and what ...
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Book Review A Farewell To Arms
447 wordsA Farewell to Arms is about Frederick Henry, an American second lieutenant in the Italian army who falls in love with an English volunteer nurse named Catherine Barkley during the first World War. After Henry is wounded, he is sent the hospital where Catherine is stationed. This where their love affair begins. After healing, Henry returns to the war effort, only to later desert the Italian army. He escapes with Catherine who becomes pregnant with his child. She dies due to complications during b...
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16 Th Century Northwest Passage
1,228 wordsThe promise of new riches and the potential discovery of the fabled Northwest Passage were the primary objectives, which fueled the exploration of the New World. Yet these goals were not practical enough when the European nations decided to colonize the Americas. Apparently, "a prosperous and enduring colonial empire depended on self-sustaining economic development" (page 33) rather than an autocratic and rigidly controlled colony in which everything was to benefit the parent country. The degree...
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Point Of View Blind Man
1,332 words1) -A Choose one of the stories we have read and rewrite from a small part of it from a different narrative's point of view. "I like the way it is" I said. "I get so tired of it, " Sally said. "I get so tired of looking like a boy. " Facing her as she sat on the dressing table, I saw her twiddling with her wedge style pretty brunette hair. I sighed and admired how lucky I was to have her in my life. Back home in Boston, Sally was the Home coming Queen at Central Boston High. We were childhood sw...
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17 Th Century Italian Renaissance
578 wordsArchitect: Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola; born 1507, died 1573. His career illustrates the rigidity of Mannerist art in the later half of 16 th century. His design of Il Gesu meant that Jesuit missionaries carried copies of his design all over the world. His first major work was the villa (Rome) built for Pope Julius III, but Il Gesu was the most influential, although considered architecturally less adventurous. Vignola published his own treatise, Regular dell Clique Ordini dArchitettura in 1562. I...
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Racial And Ethnic Half Lives
1,652 wordsThe appalling conditions of New York Citys immigrants were disclosed by Jacob Riis in How the Other Half Lives. Being an immigrant from Denmark himself, Riis, felt it was his duty to present others the disturbing life that many immigrants endured, including children. Riis, a photographer, was able to portray the slums as no other person had been able to do before. He brought to light the crime, disease, and hopelessness of the tenements. His book and photographs led to legislation throughout New...
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Euro Currency World
415 words11 nations merged currencies to create the euro. Europe's leaders say that the unified currency will promote bussiness, underpin unity and strengthen their role in world affairs. Officially at midnight on New Years Eve the euro became the common currency of Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Portugal, Finland, Ireland and Luxembourg. This event is hailed as a historic turning point in Europe's history. By uniting Europe has created a powerful new economic force. Br...
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Second World War Sense Of Time
1,575 wordsHumans have been communicating since four million years. On the other hand, the birth of culture is estimated to have taken place about 35, 000 years ago. Today, both culture and communication have evolved considerably and have become interdependent of one another, to the point that communication is considered to be a product of culture. Thus, our own culture has a deep impact on our thoughts and behaviors. Since each culture has its distinct aspects, intercultural communication can be the cause...
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World War Ii Lend Lease
1,981 wordsIn 1935 the first neutrality act was passed, which meant that America would not be allowed to sell weapons to warring nations. In 1939 Americans steered clear of the war that broke out in Europe. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the first and only president elected to three terms. He answered all critics with Abraham Lincoln's slogan "Dont change horses in midstream." He was nominated to his third term in 1940. Shortly afterward, in March of 1941, Congress passed the Lend-Lease Act, which allowed u...
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Cosa Nostra Organized Crime
726 wordsIn Claire Sterling's Thieves' World, new light is shed on the current status of organized crime in the world today. The days of crime families battling it out in the streets is a thing of the past. The fall of communism in Soviet Russia and the tearing down of the Berlin Wall in Germany opened the doors to a land of endless wealth and opportunity that all the major crime syndicates have taken advantage of. Sterling suggests that the early 90 's was the beginning of a convergence of all great cri...
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Beethoven The Greatest Composer
903 wordsLudwig van Beethoven was, and remains today, an influential figure in the history of classical music. Perhaps no other composer in history wrote music of such inspiring power and expressiveness. His influence on the last 150 years of music is unequalled. Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany in 1770. His father, a music enthusiast, dreamed of molding his son into the next Mozart. Beethoven never showed the impressive characteristics of Mozart, but he was unusually talented, learning the piano, org...
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Museum That One Italian Art Renoir
659 wordsPierre-Auguste Renoir was born in 1841 to a tailor and dressmaker. He attended a Christian Brother's School where he was taught the rudiments of drawing. At the age of 13 he was apprenticed to a firm of porcelain painters, Levy Freres et Compagnie, whose workshops were near the Louvre. At the same time, he took drawing lessons from the sculptor Callouette. After serving his apprenticeship as a porcelain painter, he worked for a M. Gilbert, a manufacturer of blinds. In 1860 he became a student of...
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Main Characters Human Relationships
933 wordsLa Ventura is widely regarded as one of the greatest films to date. Michelangelo Antonioni didnt win the Palme Dor, but it did get a Special Jury Prize during the Cannes film festival of 1960. No surprise he didnt win the Palme Dor, but why give him an award in the first place? The reason for winning the title seemed unclear at first because the film had serious issues with breaking the rules of standardized filmmaking. For example having his actors enter the scene from opposite directions from ...
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