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The Lighter Side Of Figurative Art
814 wordsSome works might make viewers laugh out loud; others may provoke a smile while still others will probably induce no more than an un exhibited amusement, (SJMA The Lighter Side of Bay Area Figuration, 1). Susan Landauer says this in regards to the latest exhibit at the San Jose Museum of Art. The show offers a wide range of pieces from the technically proficient to the texturally interesting; all had a lighthearted quality. I found Joe Bot by Clayton Bailey and Untitled by Joan Brown to be two pa...
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Tourist Attractions Ancient Egyptian
1,120 wordsEgypt is a country that is extremely rich in its historical background. With such a background it is easy to see why tourism is a big component of its gross national product. The well being of the Egyptian economy is highly dependent on a good year of tourism. The whole business of tourism has relied on the ancient monuments and relics of the past, but in recent years there has been a huge effort to create more modern tourist attractions like resorts and golf courses. The combinations of the old...
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Loss Of Innocence In Catcher The Rye
578 wordsNothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost exemplifies the loss of innocence. The poem displays how you are pure and innocent when you are a child but as you mature, it is impossible to remain this way. In The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger, Holden will soon realize that nothing Holden's main goal in life is to protect children from losing their innocence. He designates this to the role of catcher in the rye, who catches children before they fall off the cliff. Symbolically, the cliff represent...
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Back Of The Head Amenhotep Iii
1,481 wordsNebkheprune Tutankhamen is probably the most famous pharaoh in ancient Egyptian history, although not the most important. He lived a very short life, from 1503 to 1482 BCE to be exact. He was the ruler by the time he had turned nine years of age. Nobody really knows that much about him because he lived to only be around eighteen years old. Only because of an archaeologist by the name of Howard Carter who discovered Tutankhamen's tomb on February 12, 1924 do we even have concrete proof that he ev...
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People Republic Of China Genghis Khan
434 wordsBorn Temujin in 1167 A. D. , Genghis Khan and his mother and siblings were abandoned by their tribe after his father was poisoned. The family experienced years of hardship, and was told by his mother to ''remember, you have no companions but your shadow''. The boy showed early promise as a leader and fighter. By 1206, Temujin's military initiatives had defeated all competing tribes, and his power was such that he was proclaimed Genghis Khan, the 'universal or oceanic ruler Genghis Khan pledged t...
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Gods And Goddesses Museum Of Natural History
1,322 wordsEuropean slavers altered the way that different African people viewed one another and themselves. The book by Miguel Barnet, Biography of a Runaway Slave is a strong account that can be used to explore how Africans changed their perception of each other, and how this change influenced the lives of Africans in the Americas. First of all it is important to examine how many African slaves were brought to the New World. The Middle Passage is infamous route of the ships that carried slaves to the Ame...
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Animal Farm Compared To The Russian Revolution
1,165 words... is death represents the Siberian concentration camps, and the terror inflicted into the minds of the people, of the un-usefulness once unable to work. The other animals did not understand what was happening to Boxer when he was taken away after his eventually fatal injury. Good-bye Boxer they chorused Good-bye. Fools, fools shouted Benjamin do you not see what is written on the van? Alfred Simmonds, horse slaughterer and glue-boiler Wellington. Dealer in hides and bone meal, kennels supplied...
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William Henry British Broadcasting
1,131 wordsBetween 1844 - 6, William Henry Fox Talbot used the title The Pencil of Nature for his set of published prints which featured images of botanical specimens, photogram's, still life and landscapes. Photography was very young at the time of the Pencil of Nature; this set being the first published photographically illustrated book. Talbot first investigated the usage of the camera obscura and camera lucida to aid his sketches by tracing the image projected onto the paper through the prism; it was h...
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Woman With The Hat By Henri Matisse
1,512 wordsHenri Matisse Woman With the Hat, 1905 Oil on Canvas 31 x 23. 5 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Henri Matisse's Woman with a Hat (1905, is on display at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Woman with a Hat is a classic fauve extravaganza of wild color. It is oil on canvas; 31. 75 by 35. 5 inches. The first thing one notices about the painting is the color, its everywhere. The painting looks like a splattering of garish color. Green stands out instantly, as it dominates a good deal of the ...
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One Of The Greatest Sistine Chapel
1,034 words... n usually harsh. This style marked the beginning of Raphael's struggle with an area of Renaissance art in which he wasnt very interested. In 1508 Raphael went to Rome. It is to be believed that he made the move because of the great architect Donato Bramente, a distant relative and old resident of Urbino. It was Bramente who introduced him to Pope Julius II. 1509 gave him, along with a number of artists, given the opportunity of decorating a suite of private rooms in the Vatican. Julius II ha...
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World War Ii Harley Davidson
1,307 wordsFor the last century, motorcycles have been a major influence to international culture. Back in 1885 Gottlieb Daimler created the first gas-powered motorcycle, with the mindset of function over form. It was nothing but a wooden bicycle frame, with a simple four stroke engine attached (Solomn R. Guggenheim Museum). At that point motorcycles were very experimental. While in the beginning they werent much to look at, they truly proved their usefulness in both World Wars. For instance, Harley Davids...
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Six Million First Step
413 wordsThe Holocaust can be described one of the darkest eras in human existence, and the greatest crime imposed upon people by people. The Holocaust, which was a product of Hitler's Nazi Germany, is an event that we need to study and learn from. The Holocaust caused the death of over Six Million innocent people, the majority of whom were of Jewish descent. The intentional annihilation of six million people has affected the world in ways that we will never know. The Holocaust Museum in Washington DC is...
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F Scott Fitzgerald J D Salinger
797 wordsThere are many writers like James Joyce, Patrick Kananach and Thomas Moore who use symbolism to convey and support indirect meaning in their writings. J. D. Salinger and F. Scott Fitzgerald both use symbolism in similar ways. In both "The Catcher In The Rye" and "The Great Gatsby", the authors used symbolism to convey emotions and reality. In "The Catcher In The Rye", J. D. Salinger uses Holden's red hunting cap, the exhibits at the Museum of Natural History and "kings in the back row" as symbol...
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Catcher In The Rye Glass Menagerie
1,134 wordsThe person someone becomes is influenced by the losses they have experienced in their life. In Catcher in the Rye the main character Holden Caulfield is devastated by the loss of his younger brother Allie to leukemia. The loss of Allie never leaves Holden's mind. It changes his perception of the world. In The Glass Menagerie Amanda Wingfield's husband abandons her and their two children Tom and Laura. For Amanda the only way to deal with the loss is to escape into a dream world. She forces this ...
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British Museum National Geographic
1,185 wordsBlue heaven Great Waters: An Atlantic Passage Deborah Cramer 442 pp, Norton Adventures in Ocean Exploration Robert D Ballard 288 pp, National Geographic Historical Atlas of the North Pacific Ocean Derek Hayes 224 pp, British Museum Encyclopedia of Underwater and Marine Archaeology ed James Delgado 493 pp, British Museum If all Earths history were crammed into a single day, calculates Deborah Cramer as she rocks in the cradle of the deep aboard a research vessel, the Atlantic oceans entire existe...
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British Museum Thirty Years
483 wordsThe Chinese Pottery Chinese pottery The earliest Chinese pottery of which we have any records is the Neolithic ware from the river plains and loess highlands of north and north-west China. It was made between 5000 and 2000 B. C. and contains bowls, jars, pots and beakers of low-fires earthenware. This pots were not turned on a wheel but were build up by what is known as the Coil Method. That is, a long sausage of clay was wound carefully up into a coil shape and this coil was smoothed and patted...
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Frank Lloyd Wright Aunts Nell And Jane
1,444 words. having a good start not only do I fully intend to be the greatest architect who has yet lived, but fully intend to be the greatest architect who will ever live. Yes, I intend to be the greatest architect of all time. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 - 1959 CHILDHOOD Born in Richland Center, in southwestern Wisconsin, on June 8, 1867 (Sometimes reported as 1869) Frank Lincoln Wright (Changed by himself to Frank Lloyd Wright) was raised in the influence of a welsh heritage. The Lloyd-Jones family, his mo...
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Multiple Personality Disorder Apartment
1,735 wordsThe latest novel written by Sidney Sheldon, ? Tell Me Your Dreams? , is about three stunning young women. Their names are Ashley Patterson, Toni Prescott, and Alette Peters. They all live in Cupertino, California and work at Global Computer Graphics, a successful, fast-growing young company with two hundred employees in Silicon Valley. Ashley Patterson is a confused woman, but is smart and beautiful. She? s lonely, timid, and certainly convinced she? s being stalked. Toni Prescott is an insolent...
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19 Th Century Age Of Innocence
3,243 wordsEdith Wharton's books are considered, by some, merely popular fiction of her time. But we must be careful not to equate popularity with the value of the fiction; i. e. , we must not assume that if her books are popular, they are also primitive. Compared to the works of her contemporary and friend, Henry James, whose books may seem complex and sometimes bewildering; Wharton's The Age of Innocence appears to be a simplistic, gossipy commentary of New York society during the last decade of the 19 t...
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Playing God Bring Back
671 wordsExtinction to the Brink Every continent in the world that can be traveled has one thing in common, at least one extinct species per continent exists. Whether the extinction of a species came from annihilation by man, or natural causes; the problem is that the species cannot be reborn. However, due to the recent discover of cloning in 1997, it is believed that the extinct Tasmanian Tiger can be cloned, and able to breed. This scientific breakthrough is only a scratch on the issue of cloning and i...
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