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Dimitri Shostakovich
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1484.... and Alban Berg, then in the avant-garde, was played. Bela Bartok and Paul Hindemith visited Russia to perform their own works, and Shostakovich toyed openly with these novelties. His first opera, The Nose, based on the satiric Nikolay Gogol story, displayed a thorough understanding of what was popular in Western music combined with his "dry" humor. Not surprisingly, Shostakovich's undoubtedly finer second opera, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (later renamed Katerina Izmaylova), marked a stylistic retreat. However, this new Shostakovich was too avant-garde for St .....
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Terry Redlin: A Biography
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 301.... received the
Minnesota Duck Stamp competition,Minnesota Trout Stamp competition,@nd in
the Federal Duck Stamp competition, been honored by Ducks
Unlimited,conservationist of the Year, and The Magnum Donor by the
Minnesota waterfowl Association.
Five years ago, Redlin completed his largest painting yet. He
painted a picture of “America the Beautiful”. He did eight paintings in
which he painted from the West to Present day. The paintings have been
showcased by many magazines, private collectors, and also in Museums.
Terry Redlin receives the most satisfaction from his wor .....
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Albert Camus
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 340.... “failure of the world to satisfy the human
demand that it provide a basis for human values-for our personal ideals and for
our judgments of right and wrong.” He maintained that suicide cannot be
regarded as an adequate response to the “experience of absurdity.” He says that
suicide is an admission of incapacity, and such an admission is inconsistent
with that human pride to which Camus openly appeals. Camus states, “there is
nothing equal to the spectacle of human pride.”
Furthermore, Camus also dealt with the topic of revolution in his essay
The Rebel. Camus rejected what .....
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A Comparison Of Alfred Hitchcock And Edgar Allan Poe
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1142.... from
schizophrenia — he acts as both himself and his dead mother. Roderick
Usher appears strange from the beginning, almost ghost-like, with his
"cadaverousness of complexion" — however, he is not a murderer. He suffers
from a mental disorder which makes him obsessed with fear: fear of the
past, of the house, of the dead. He finally dies, "victim to the terrors
he had anticipated."
The way in which madness is projected in both stories is quite
similar as well. The short story and the movie both take place in a dark
and gloomy house, a "ghostly house" — "a mansion o .....
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Charles Lindbergh
Number of pages: 8 | Number of words: 2129.... his parents "who trusted him and viewed him as a very responsible child".
His father, for whom young Charles chauffeured as a child, served in the U.S.
Congress from 1907 to 1917. Lindbergh's love of machinery was evident by the age
of 14; "He could take apart a automobile engine and repair it". Attending the
University of Wisconsin, Lindbergh studied engineering for two years. Although
he was an excellent student, his real interest was in flying. As a result, in
1922 he switched to aviation school. Planes became a center of his life after
his first flight. His ear .....
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The Life Of Jack London
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1505.... went and retrieved her son, and changed his name to Jack London.
Jack London grew up believing that John London was his father. Jack later
found out that William Chaney the astrologer was his father, and decided to
write him a letter asking him who his natural father is. In Jack's early
years his stepfather John was a salesman for Singer Sewing Machines. John
London however could not walk very much to sell these machines. In the
Civil War John's lungs were damaged. Since John could not walk very much
to make a living, John moved his family across California to Oa .....
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The Biography Of John Marshall Harlan II
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 851.... and was admitted to the New York bar. In 1931 John Marshall Harlan II became a partner in the firm he'd begun working in while attending law school, and spent much of his early career working for the firm.
Harlan was appointed an Assistant U.S. Attorney for New York in 1925. He also served as a Special Assistant Attorney General from 1928 to 1930. Prior to working as Special Assistant Attorney General, Harlan married Ethel Andrews, with whom he had one child.
During World War II, Harlan served as a colonel in the United States Army Air Force. Harlan was in charge of the O .....
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Martin Luther King
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 472.... his speeches. I cannot decide
whether king used the memorization or extemporaneous method. If I was to choose
one I would choose the memorization method. During the speeches of
King we viewed he never losses eye contact with the audience. This is one of
the reasons why I choose the memorization method. I also feel King's
speeches came straight from his heart. King was a Baptist minister and was
without a doubt filled with the spirit of god. I feel King's speeches were
influenced by the spirit that lived within his heart. The book states that
your appearance shoul .....
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