This short note addresses the question whether Degas should be considered the last of the academics or the first of the modernists. While it may be possible to argue in favor of either thesis, in this note I will provide examples that lead me to believe that Degas should be considered a modernist. ...
Mike Emme, a seventeen year old drove a bright yellow "67 Ford Mustang. Mike worked really hard to restore his car. Mike being a gifted student was happy, helpful, and had a bright future. Mike being a kind man, he ordered a brand new transmission for his mustang, but he canceled it and bought two u...
Biographical Sketch of the Author Frederick Brotherton Meyer born in 1847 in London, England had an illustrious career that spanned several decades. He received his education at Brighton College and Regent's Park Baptist College; at the age of twenty-three, he accepted his first pastorate position....
The Women of Shakespeare Women in Shakespeare's plays were not of importance, compared to the male characters. Though, the women had a minor role in the plays, they played a big role in the lives of others in the play. Some of them will end tragically, or end the same way they started, as nothing...
" "Fly Away Peter" charts Jim's loss of innocence as he confronts the brutality of war and the truth about human nature." DISCUSS "For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow" - ECCLESIASTES 1:18 David Malouf's "Fly Away Peter" is the story of one ma...
Honor is perhaps the one distinction that humans universally strive to achieve. Unlike other ideals such as fame or stardom, honor and finding one's identity are principles that lend themselves into the discovery of one's distinction in the world, one's unique purpose in life. Although people may ...
An Einstein to his Profession: A Closer look at Sigmund Freud "Sigmund Freud, an Einstein to his profession" states Gayford. I don't think I could agree anymore with that statement made by him. He was a physiologist, medical doctor, and psychologist. He was the founder of psychoanalysis, the the...
What is the nature and scope of the modernist crises as depicted in Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"? In order to answer this question, one must firstly consider the traits of modernist writing. It was an attempt to break free from the confinements of the Victorian era, and the restric...
After months and months of suspense, love has finally been discovered. Love was not discovered by anyone in the classroom. Two characters in Chekhov's "The Lady with the Dog- fell in love. It is such a romantic way to end the semester. Well, enough about school and on to the facts. In every sh...
A pair of star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet. From the opening scenes of the play Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet, two children of feuding families, were destined to fall in love together and eventually die together. How does the reader see this? How do we know it was fate, their destiny that ...
Interesting to note that a young Stalin, then the head of the People's Commissariat for Nationalities, wanted to deprive the Soviet Republics of their independence by turning them into republics within the RSFSR, but had his proposal rejected when Lenin opted for his own. ...
Do Songs of Innocence and Experience need to be read together? Songs of Innocence and Experience are a series of poems on how we see the world at different stages of our lives. The fact that Blake himself described the collection of poems as shewing the contrary states of the human soul', must be...
"Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth denotes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash." This quote by Louis Aragon from his poem "Preface t...
"At last a theology student who's not an idiot" anne about Henrik Lawyer Eagerman is very sarcastic to his sun Henrik. When Eagerman tells Anne that they will be going to the theater he makes several remarks to bother Henrik. One example is After suspecting some alternate intentions on beh...
Mutual distrust, suspicion, and misunderstandings can characterize the Cold War by two sides and their allies. The Cold War shortly followed the conference held between the leaders of the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain, which took place at the Black Sea resort of Yalta between the 4th and 11th of February 1945. This event held great significance as it led to the Cold War. At Yalta, the Allied leaders, known as the Big Three, met to plan the last stages of the Second World War and agree to the subsequent territorial division of Europe. Notable postwar settlements were d...
Despite Marlow's determination to boast of his experiences, it is perhaps most imperative to note that he honestly earned for himself a kind of "dark wisdom" in the Congo that was absent before his employment there (Graver 88), which is vital in giving full credit to the events that took place on that winding jungle river as life-changing forces in Marlow's life. ...
Italy is probably the most diverse nation in the world. Much of the riches of early Europe material and intellectual came from this country of city-states. Italian Studies is the study of this diversity. Which is pretty much anything the mind can imagine. From politics, law, design, fashion, sports...
On September 6, 1901, at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, a young anarchist guns down President William McKinley. This tragic event marked the beginning of the youngest Presidency in U.S. history. A forty-two year old New Yorker named Theodore Roosevelt took control of the White Hou...
