The reading passage is about the Chevalier de Seinagalt and her memoir, it gives some examples to prove that these note are not necessarily based on facts but are distorted by the writer, whereas the lectur challenges this view.…
Chloe Anthony Wofford was born on February 18, 1931 to Ramah Wofford and George Wofford in Lorraine, OH. Chloe was the second oldest of four children. Her father was a welder by trade but worked many jobs to support his family and mother was a maid. In 1949 she graduated from Lorain High School with. She then attended college at Howard University, where she majored in English and minored in Classics. . While attending college she decided to Change her name to “Toni” which a shorter version of her middle name. She decided to change her name due to the fact that many people pronounced given first name incorrectly. In 1953 she graduated from Howard with a bachelor in English. She went on to attend Cornell University and received a master’s…
Paul et Virginie is a novel written by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre in 1787. Emma read this novel during her study in the convent school and it is one of the romantic books that caused her romantic illusions and dreams. It is the story of two young guys, Paul and Virginie, friends since they were born in an idyllic setting but the two friends become lovers. However, the novel does not have an happy ending since they both die in a sad way, when the ship upon which they are shipwrecks. In many parts of the book, Flaubert underlines the importance that Emma gives to the many Romantic novels she read and the story of Paul and Virginie is one of them. This story is one of those that Emma wanted to live, full of love and passions. It…
The Lais of Marie de France offers an inquisitive perspective on the nature of love and the sacrifices one must make in relationships and marriage. While reading, I encountered many examples of a man and woman in love who must suffer for one another. This collection of narratives contains characters in relationships in which each partner suffers equally for one another and characters in which one partner sacrifices more than the other.…
Simone de Beauvoir was born in Paris in 1908 to Georges de Beauvoir and Francoise Brasseur.1 Her father was raised in a rich family that drew him to the right on the political scale.1 He was a strong atheist and pushed this on Beauvoir and her sister.1 Her mother on the other hand was a devout Catholic, and that along with her weak and rather submissive personality (something that manifests itself in the fact that she grew up in a time before first wave feminism), polarized her and Beauvoir. Her father fed her intellectual side, providing her with abundant works of literature and encouraging her to read and write from an early age. Beauvoir was very religious as a kid, which was likely a result of…
Senator Romeo Dallaire was a Lieutenant-General in the Canadian army in 1946. He was sent to Rwanda in 1993 to enforce peace agreements between the Hutu’s and the Tutsis. He was more or less set up for failure however because he did not have nearly as much soldiers as he needed. The inevitable happened and Senator Dallaire found himself as a witness to one of the greatest tragedies we have seen this century. The result of this “peace agreement” ended up with over 800,000 people dead and about 1.4 million in refuge. The most griping story that Dallaire told was when he was getting out of his army truck and was greeted by an eleven year old boy pointing an AK-47 (rifle) into his nostril. To this day Senator Dallaire swears the only reason this boy did not kill him right then and there was because he was holding a candy bar in his hand.…
The Rwandan genocide of 1994 was the largest mass slaughter of human beings since the Holocaust. Canadian Lieutenant-General Romeo Dallaire, commander of the UN Assistance Mission in Rwanda, tasked with overseeing the Arusha Accords and the transition of government. Dallaire soon realized something much more critical was being set in motion. A doomed mission in hindsight after watching the documentary, Shake Hands with The Devil. Stationed without a sufficient number of troops or weaponry to combat such an insurmountable force of people, Romeo Dallaire, as the commanding officer, realized he would have difficult decisions to make over the course of his mission. What do Romeo Dallaire’s actions…
The music of Claude Debussy and Richard Strauss demonstrates the movement away from the conventional tonal system through the use of extended tonality to shape their distinctive musical styles. The development of Debussy’s departure from nineteenth-century formal models is demonstrated in Prélude a l'après midi d'un Faune (Brown 131). Strauss establishes his mastery over the synthesis of chromatic tonality and motivic manipulation in his opera, Salome.…
Sophocles was one of the playwrights within 430BCE. Sophocles wrote approximately 120 plays in total however, only 7 survived, one in which is the Greek tragedy ‘Oedipus’. ‘Oedipus’ is considered to be Sophocles’ ‘masterpiece’. Sophocles writes upon personal and complex themes, in which represent things which happen in everyday life, we can see this within ‘Oedipus’, when it is mentioned ‘And to our suffering…
The term Post-impressionism is used to describe late 19th century art that rejects the “capture-the-fleeting-moment” attitude of Impressionism and is characterized by bright colors and defined brushstrokes as opposed to the impasto approach of impressionists. Impasto is a technique in which paint is applied so thick onto the canvas that it stands out from the surface, creating a 3-D texture effect. The paint can be mixed on the canvas to achieve a desired color.…
Texas has always had a big issue with people living in poverty. People believe that living in poverty is a matter of chance in what you are born into. People do not get to pick where, when, or with whom they are born to. No one wants to live in poverty but some don’t have the chance. People that live in the poverty level don’t have the things that are a must to be able to not be named as being in poverty such as education, food, health care, and a good home to live in. these are some of Texas’s major reasons why they are ranked second in the nations poverty rate.…
In Friedrich Nietzsche’s “The birth of Tragedy” he claims that “Every artist must appear as an ‘imitator’, either as the Apollonian dream artist or the Dionysian ecstatic artist, or finally as a dream and ecstatic artist in one.” According to Nietzsche Greek art was very superficial before Dionysus. In this original art the observer was not truly united with the art, unable to immerse himself. Apollo was present to protect man from suffering and provided them with a certain level comfort. Dionysus, who comes later, shocked the Apollonian men with his ecstatic. Dionysus helped man to find that existence wasn’t limited to his individual experiences but rather a group effort, creating a communal spirit and a way to escape death. Interestingly enough Apollo is needed to reveal Dionysus. Nietzsche finds that in a real tragedy there needs to be elements of both Apollo and Dionysus. In Kate Chopin’s “The Awakening” the protagonist, Edna, is used to employ the Apollonian and Dionysian conflict effectively arousing feelings of pity and fear resurrecting the classic Greek tragedy.…
Looking at Van Gogh's Bedroom in Arles gives me the feeling of conformity and reminds me of home. A significant compositional element in shown in the artwork is the colors. The color of the wood signifies the time in a way. The wooden beds and the color of the wood pass of this warm feeling. Looking at this piece of art takes you back to nights at your grandparent’s house.The bright colors Another element shown in the Van Gogh's Bedroom in Arles is the use of lines, specifically to form the wooden floors. The brush strokes with a dark brown on top of the light brown make the floor stand out. The use of the different browns creates the texture and tone of the wood.…
Whatever might have been be the basis for this dubious book, it must have been a question of the utmost importance and charm, as well as a deeply personal one. Testimony to that effect is the time in which it arose (in spite of which it arose), that disturbing era of the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-71. While the thunderclap of the Battle of Worth was reverberating across Europe, the meditative lover of enigmas whose lot it was to father this book sat somewhere in a corner of the Alps, extremely reflective and perplexed (thus simultaneously very distressed and carefree) and wrote down his thoughts concerning the Greeks, the kernel of that odd and difficult book to which this later preface (or postscript) should be dedicated. A few weeks after that, he found himself under the walls of Metz, still not yet free of the question mark which he had set down beside the alleged "serenity" of the Greeks and of Greek culture, until, in that month of the deepest tension, as peace was being negotiated in Versailles, he finally came to peace with himself and, while slowly recovering from an illness he'd brought back home with him from the field, finished composing the Birth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Music.…
In “On some Motifs in Baudelaire” Walter Benjamin argues that extended exposure to stimuli, or shocks, in the environment alters the human experience of our world and creates a conditioned reaction within the crowd. How does this overstimulation shape our current society and was Benjamin correct in warning against it?…