"Is that a Monet?" As a nine-year-old boy with minimal knowledge of the arts‚ I wasn’t exactly sure what I was being asked. I turned around to look at the painting on my grandparents’ wall and saw the writing "Claude Monet 1903" in the bottom right-hand corner. I politely answered my aunt’s question‚ "Yes‚ I believe so." After we both looked at the painting for a few moments‚ she commented on its beauty and praised Claude Monet as a "great artist." I liked the painting myself. The different shades
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death of his colleague‚ Auguste Mariette‚ Maspero took over the directorship of excavations in Egypt.He later on went and continued to learn how to read hieroglyphics. His interest in hieroglyphics was probably what triggered him to want to become an Egyptologist. Maspero established the French institute of oriental Archaeology at Cairo. He was the director of the French Egyptian Museum and he had edited the first fifty volumes catalogues of the Egyptian collection there. Auguste Mariette had given Maspero
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Summary Thales of Miletus He was the first philosopher of Ancient Greece and the founder of Western philosophy. Thales came from the seaport of Miletus. He was born around 620 BC who claimed that water is the fundamental nature of the world. He correctly predicted that there would be a solar eclise in 585 BC which was credited by Herodotus. He was also known as the first natural scientist and analytical philosopher in Western intellectual history. Aside from being a philosopher‚ Thales was also
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Post-impressionism emerges (c.1880) 3. German Expressionism (c.1903-1913) 4. Fauvism begins (c.1905) 5. Beginning of World War I (1914) Names to Know: 1. Cassatt 2. Cezanne 3. Degas 4. Gauguin 5. Manet 6. Monet 7. Morisot 8. Renoir 9. Rodin 10. van Gogh 11. Seurat 12. Picasso 13. Braque 14.
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Collectivists believe the individual should be subordinate to the collective‚ which may be a group of individuals‚ a whole society‚ a state‚ a nation‚ a race‚ or a social class. Thus‚ collectivism contrasts with individualism‚ which emphasizes the liberty of the individual. Socialists emphasize the fact that people usually prefer to achieve goals collectively rather than independently. This is stems from the Socialist view of human nature‚ in which a man is seen as a social animal‚ who prefers to
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background on The Statue of Liberty‚ and interesting facts regarding The Statue of Liberty. All will work together to give one a better understanding of the value of The Statue of Liberty. The Statue of Liberty was a gift from France‚ designed by Frederic Auguste Bartholdi. It is one of the eight wanders of the worlds‚ but also acts as a symbol of peace. The statue was given to The United States of America. After The Statue of Liberty was assembled‚ it stood
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Utter the name of Washington DC and flashes of political leaders‚ congressmen and the White House emerge in front of your eyes. Founded on July 16‚ 1790‚ Washington DC serves as the capital of United States of America and it is here that all the headquarters of all three divisions of the federal government of the United States are sited. Although named after George Washington‚ the first constitutional President of the United States‚ But politics is not the be-all and end-all of Washington DC. A deeper
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b. Auguste Comte c. Karl Marx d. Emma Goldman e. Max Weber 1 points Question 4 1. __________ believed that class struggles were what led to historical progress and development. a. Emma Goldman b. Karl Marx c. Auguste Comte d. Max Weber e. Émile Durkheim 1 points Question 5 1. __________ was perhaps most influential in sociology for his studies of bureaucracy. a. Émile Durkheim b. Karl Marx c. Emma Goldman d. Auguste Comte
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classical detective fiction is located further back‚ earlier than the 1930’s of Sherlock Holmes‚ in a previous century. For all the truly educated literary readers of the world‚ classical detective fiction originated with the character Monsieur C. Auguste Dupin‚ introduced in the short story The Murders of the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allen Poe‚ in the early 1840’s. Monsieur Dupin embodied the “Bi-Part Soul...-the creative and resolvent.” (Muir 50 Course Reader. Fall 1999. P.50-51) A blending of
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Importance of Sociology____________________________________________________________________ Sociology makes a scientific study of society: Prior to the emergence of sociology the study of society was carried on in an unscientific manner and society had never been the central concern of any science. It is through the study of sociology that the truly scientific study of the society has been possible. Sociology because of its bearing upon many of the problems of the present world has assumed such
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