AMERICAN CULTURE Visual and performing arts 3.Arts and letters The arts‚ more than other features of culture‚ provide avenues for the expression of imagination and personal vision. They offer a range of emotional and intellectual pleasures to consumers of art and are an important way in which a culture represents itself. There has long been a Western tradition distinguishing those arts that appeal to the multitude‚ such as popular music‚ from those—such as classical orchestral music—normally
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Make tweaks‚ leave comments‚ and share with others to edit at the same time. NO THANKSGET THE APP HH Holmes Matthew Ramsaywack 6.3.16 GB11HS Forensics Science H.H. Holmes Herman Webster Mudgett or HH Holmes was a murder that confessed to ending the lives of 27 victims‚ and was convicted of 1 murder but was also suspected of 100+ murders. Herman Mudgett was male‚ white‚ and his height was not known. Mudgett was born on May 16th‚ 1861 and was raised in Gilmanton‚ New Hampshire. HW Mudgett was the 3rd
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It could be said that Russian literature did not rise to a powerful and meaningful media until the 17th century‚ when the Russian literary language underwent drastic changes due to the influence of contacts with the West; and as a result it incorporated elements of Greek‚ Latin‚ Polish‚ German‚ French‚ and most recently‚ English vocabulary and syntax. While on the same account‚ there is two sections of this sort of evolved storytelling‚ one being Russian literature that a person might learn in the
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Russia promised there people three things; peace‚ bread‚ and land. But they never fulfilled this bold statement‚ all they did was get the populations hopes up. Lenin only promised this to earn support during the fight for power in Russia after the abdication of the Tsar. Russians were expected to live off of minimal food and land which they were not happy about‚ they decided to take action and fight for what they wanted like any human would do: “Comrades‚ if we cannot get a loaf of bread for ourselves
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subject matter‚ drawn narratively and may have a symbolic meaning. This then moved on to dance interpreted emotionally. Thirdly music and dance can be interpreted abstractly. Endell’s hypothesis (Fig.1) shows this idea of art working abstractly. Arshile Gorky describes abstraction as "allowing man to see with his mind what he cannot physically see with his eyes" and this works on the same level as a composer hearing the music in his mind before writing it down. Some of the earliest drawings made
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Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov was born on May 21‚ 1921‚ in Moscow. His father‚ named Dmitri Ivanovich Sakharov‚ was a distinguished scientist‚ a writer of science‚ and pedagogy. He also had a hobby of playing the piano for silent films and at home. His mother‚ named Ekaterina Alekseevna was the daughter of a distinguished General‚ Aleksei Sophiano‚ who was a Greek-Russian aristocrat in Moscow. Young Andrei Sakharov was a voracious reader. He graduated from high school with excellence. From 1938‚ Sakharov
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Welcome to Rostov-on-Don! Have you ever visited in Rostov-on-Don? No? Then you haven’t lived yet! My city is one of the most popular cities in Russia. Everyone knows about Cossacks of the Don. First of all‚ I want to tell you about the location and some aspects of the history. It is located on the south-east of the East European Plain‚ on the banks of the Don River‚ 46 km from where it flows into the Sea of Azov‚ the distance to Moscow 1094 km. The city
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revolution. His diction is simple. Jaray Ki Chandni (Moonlight in Winter) is the best known book of Gulam Abbas and contains many of his most famous stories. He was a great admirer of the Russian short story tradition and loved the work of Chekhov and Gorky. However the writer he most admired and modeled himself on was Maupassant. His love of poetry‚ specially Urdu poetry was abiding and deep‚ but he never ventured into it himself
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Chingiz Aitmatov: A Biography By Iraj Bashiri Copyright‚ Iraj Bashiri‚ 2003‚ 2004 | | In Central Asia‚ before World War II‚ Tajik literature occupied the high literary plane; after the war‚ that position was ceded to Kyrgyz prose fiction‚ spearheaded by the untiring efforts of Chingiz Torekulovich Aitmatov. Aitmatov provides a noteworthy account of his own life and career in his "Craftsmanship."1 He was born on December 12‚ 1928‚ to the family of Torekul and Nagima Aitmatov in the village of
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There is a lot of characters in this film‚ but every character represent different point of view of the Armenian genocide. Raffi Raffi who is the main character in the movie represent the normal Armenian kid that raised by the story of his mother that his father is Armenian freedom fighter. Raffi doesn’t understand why his father killed himself. He doesn’t understand why his father willing to kill himself for something that happened 100 years ago. We can see it in the scene when "Your
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