A DOLL'S HOUSE
Seeking Truth in A Doll's House. The characters, in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, are hiding from each other and seeking the truth about each other and about life. The game of hide and seek that Nora plays with her children, she also plays with her husband. She hides her actions and her....

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce is a rollercoaster ride through the thoughts and feelings of Stephen Dedalus as he grows from a young boy into a man. The book takes us on a trip into Stephens head and spirals around the many questions he asks himself about life and all the ....

Arnolfinis Marriage
Jan van Eyck was one of the greatest and most influential Flemish painters of altarpieces and portraits of the 1400's (Hayes). van Eyck's paintings often include objects with hidden symbolic meaning. There are several different interpretations of the symbolic meaning concerning his portrait of Gio....

Australian Literature: Lawson, Baynton and Fullerton
The 1880s in Australia marked a significant step forward in its literary history. We see the creation of the weekly magazine; the Bulletin and the publication of literary works attempting to encompass what it meant to be Australian. The landscape itself became a character in these works, and several....

Beethoven
Beethoven was born on the 15th/16th December 1770 at Bonn to a family which originated in Flanders. The particle 'van' does not indicate noble birth of any kind, and it was misleading when the composer translated this to the German 'von'. The composer's grandfather arrived at Bonn in 1733 and eviden....

Betty Crocker and Her White Picket Fence
Betty Crocker and Her White Picket Fence From the 1950s until the 1960s American women tried to portray an image that is best visualized by the television family The Happy Days. The immaculate clean house, a freshly painted white picket fence. A family with a perfect mother who is ha....

Boston Massacre: Cause of the American Revolution
The Boston Massacre played a significant role in the outcome of the Revolutionary War. The Boston Massacre was the main reason why the Revolutionary War started because after the Boston Massacre, people realized that the British were not there to help them, but rather to destroy their liberty. The m....

Camille Pissarro
Bomford, D. Art in the Making: Impressionism, London, 1990 Becker, C., Camille Pissarro, New York, 1999 Gordon, D., Justice to Pissarro, Commentary, Vol, 120, Issue 3 (2005) Skikes, R., Pissarro: His Life and Work, New York, 1980 Ward, M., Pissarro, Neo-Impressionism, and the spaces....

character analyasis
Ever since its publication in 1951, J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye has served as a firestorm for controversy and debate. Critics have argued the moral issues raised by the book and the context in which it is presented. Some have argued that Salinger's tale of the human condition is fascinati....

Crucial Decision - Selecting a career
I am surprised with how much I have discovered new and important characteristics about my personality. While taking this class I wrote two papers about my personality. Now, that I have a clear picture of who I am, what I enjoy doing, and what I am able to do well. And that will definitely help me....

Davidians and the Separation from their Teacher
The Davidians and the Separation from their Teacher Jacques-Louis David acquired many students through being the founder of the Neo-Classical reformation, but despite their dedication to their teacher they did not stay loyal to teachings of David. Through social and political changes in t....

death of salesman
Arthur Miller is one of the most renowned and important American playwrights to ever live. His works include, among others, The Crucible and A View from the Bridge. The plays he has written have been criticized for many things, but have been praised for much more, including his magical devel....

Garden of Eden Parables: The English Tour of Italy
The drive down to the city of Montalcino may even be enough to understand Italy. Between there, and the neighboring town of Siena, one begins to understand the necessity of a stick shift. The S-curves of the road wind gracefully--unlike their straight and bored counterparts in the New Worldand, so....

Heartrending Downfall of A Tragic Hero
In many of William Shakespeare's plays such as In Shakespeare's Hamlet, Othello, & Romeo and Juliet, the hero makes tragic choices which lead to a tragedy which could not be avoided, but the thing is that a tragedy could be avoided. Hamlet dies by getting cut with a poisoned tipped sword, Othell....

Heavy Metal
Heavy Metal’s popularity is and has been on the rise due to its many bands and increased guitar technology. Since the mid 1960’s, when heavy metal spread to the U.S. from England, it has grown in popularity. Many of the first bands that came from Europe came with two intentions; to sprea....

INDUSTRIAL Revolution: Friend or Foe?
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: Friend or Foe? "For years the government regulators looked upon corporations as big money trees. They figured if they just shook the money trees hard enough, they could find money for everything" Howard M. Love, President and Chief Executive Officer, National Steel Corporat....

James Joyce
James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce's novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) is entirely concerned with the development of its main character, Stephen Dedalus. By comparison with Joyce's earlier version, Stephen Hero [1], we see that he has cut out all....

James Joyces Artistic View of Dublin Life
Joyces modernistic view of Dublin society permeates all of his writings. The Irish experiences account for a large portion of Joyces writings. Stephen Dedalus is sometimes Joyces pseudonym and represents Joyce and his life in Joyces works. Joyce plays a crucial role in the modernist movement....

John Singer Sargent's Portrait of Pauline Astor
On a sunny day in May, I made a visit to the Huntington GardenGalleries. At the gallery I was to choose an original piece of art that wasdone in the time period and geographic emphasis of my Western Art HistoryClass. In this gallery I saw The Portrait of Pauline Astor (1898-99) byJohn Singer Sargent....

Louvre
THE LOUVRE Pierre Lescot ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Paris, France, begun....

Lyndon B. Johnson: Portrait of a President
Lyndon B. Johnson: Portrait of a President, by Robert Dallek, gives a solid insight into LBJ the politician and also LBJ the person. Dallek discusses Johnsons long history of political experience and his effects on the United States government, as well as the effect politics had on him, as a man....

Maria Antoinette
The Life of Marie Antoinette Marie Antoinette was very young and beautiful when she married Louis XVI; she was only thirteen to be exact. At age nineteen she became Queen of France. Marie Antoinette was very immature in her role as Queen. She was not well educated and didnt have much interest to....

Native Americans
The Native Americans were a very well rounded culture. They lived off what they were given. They knew what they were here to do and they did it. Their accomplishments prove that although without industrial development a culture can thrive and flourish. They looked at survival as a necessity, rather ....

Paint the portrait of A Bird
Both poems Paint the Portrait of a Bird and To Paint the Portrait of a Bird are translated by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Paul Dehn, from the original French poem created by Jacques Prevert. Although both poems, at first glace seemed to resemble a set of instruction to paint a bird, it is a....

Portrait of a marriage in in Virginia Woolfs « To The Lighthouse »
The family is an essential element for a child because it is what surrounds him during more than fifteen years of his life. Then he will grow up and during his adolescence break progressively away from it and more especially from his parents. This detachment usually happens little by little. Howev....

Rembrandt van Rijn
Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) Rembrandt was a Dutch baroque artist who ranks as one of the greatest painters in the history of Western art. His full name was Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, and he possessed a profound understanding of human nature that was matched by a brilliant technique not....

Roman Art
Roman art As a primary source, the visual arts offer us much evidence as to what life was like in Ancient Rome. Roman art included many forms and styles and was greatly influenced by Greek styles for a long period of time. Visual arts came in the form of indivi....

Shakespeares sonnets
Introduction Shakespeare's sonnets are a collection of 154 poems that deal with such themes as love, beauty, and mortality. The Sonnets were written over a number of years, possibly beginning in the early 1590s. In a Shakesperean sonnet, poets often divide its 14 lines into 3 quatrains, followed....

Technology and Elementary Education
The Nettle Creek School District began redesigning their technology curriculum last year. The state has begun requiring schools to create Technology Plans that must be approved by the state in order to receive grant monies. The process was also incorporated into our school improvement plan, which ....

the roles that visual artists played in their society.
The role of visual artists in their society was to record important events, scenes, changes in society, people and places. Visual artists played a very important role in the development of out society in Australia. Without artists we may not have as much knowledge of what life was like and of dif....

Titian: The Life of an Artist
Titian: The Life of an Artist Titian, whose name in Italian is Tiziano Vecellio, is believed to have been the greatest Venetian artist of the sixteenth century. Titian is known above all for his remarkable use of color; his artistic approach was highly influential well into the seventeenth centur....

Victory At Yorktown
This book is as guessed about the battle of Yorktown. It tells a pretty interesting story in detail of basically how the battle of Yorktown came to be. There probably isnât another book about Yorktown in as much detail and has as much facts being in this story as this one. This book is from a....

vincent van gogh
Early Years Vincent van Gogh was born in Groot Zundert, The Netherlands on 30 March 1853. Van Gogh's birth came one year to the day after his mother gave birth to a first, stillborn child--also named Vincent. There has been much speculation about Vincent van Gogh suffering later psychological trau....

Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent Van Gogh is one of the most important figures in art history. His works are recognized all across the world for their magnificent colors and unique style. Vincent Van Gogh had a rough life full of tragic physical and mental health conditions along with plenty of love life dilemmas, but thro....

What are the comments of unions effect on the workers wages?
The debates of the social effects of unionism have lasted for more than 200 years. Many economists argue that unions are monopolies in the labor market while others say that unions can benefit economic and political issues. Over the last decades, the negative comments on unions are more prevalent (F....

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