Caspar David Friedrich (September 5‚ 1774 – May 7‚ 1840) was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter‚ generally considered the most important German artist of his generation.[2] He is best known for his mid-period allegorical landscapes which typically feature contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies‚ morning mists‚ barren trees or Gothic ruins. His primary interest as an artist was the contemplation of nature‚ and his often symbolic and anti-classical work seeks to convey a
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Like earlier paintings by Caspar David Friedrich‚ Turner’s The Slave Ship emphasizes the power of nature through the diminutive representation of that which is human or man-made. However‚ while Friedrich’s natural world possesses stillness and tranquility‚ Turner’s is cataclysmic and terrifying. This is illustrated by the artist’s loose brushwork and use of vivid colour. In The Slave Ship‚ the carnage of nature is comparable in brutality to the slave trade‚ a practice that at the time of the creation
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your eco-conscious friends sneer at you when you show them your shiny new oak floor. Of course‚ oak does take an exceptionally long time to re-grow‚ but you can still get natural oak floors without worrying that you are damaging the eco-system. Reclaimed wood Most oak forests in the UK and Europe have been depleted and new oak forests won’t be available for commercial use for another hundred years. This means that most oak available is reclaimed‚ that is wood recycled from another source. Any reclaimed
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Depressed? David Scharf‚ a university student‚ takes a creative approach on explaining the difficulty of dealing with the real world and the depression brought about by it‚ in a short animated film called "The Forest". The video starts out with a 12 year old girl narrating her life. She doesn’t like school; she feels alone among people; her father pushes her very hard. To escape the pressures and sadness of the real world‚ the girl spends much of her time daydreaming about a beautiful forest‚ her happy
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Jeremy Lahey Philosophy 120 Ethics Term Paper 11/27/12 Friedrich Nietzsche and Existentialism: Section I. Biography: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was born on October 15‚ 1844 to Ludwig and Franziska Nietzsche in Röcken‚ in the Prussian Province of Saxony. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was named after King Wilhelm IV as the 15th of October was also his birthday‚ he turned 49. In the summer of 1849 Ludwig Nietzsche suffered nervous seizures which ended Ludwig’s life 10 months later on July 29th
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Running head: FRIEDRICH HAYEK 1 Friedrich August Von Hayek Donotra Woods Post University FRIEDRICH HAYEK 2 According to Hayek (1994‚ p. 168) “Probably it is true enough that the great majority are rarely capable of thinking independently‚ that on most questions
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On November 28th‚ 1820‚ a man by the name of Friedrich Engels was born in Prussia‚ Barmen. As the eldest son of Elisabeth and Friedrich Engels‚ a German industrialist‚ Engels became a well-known German revolutionist and social theorist. After attending a Barmen elementary school‚ Friedrich entered Elberfield at 14‚ and left a few years later. After leaving Elberfield‚ Engels didn’t have any further schooling. Friedrich then became a business apprentice in Barmen and Barmen under pressure from
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In his lecture “This is water” David Forest (2005) by an example with fishes illustrates the real goal of liberal arts education. He claims that the most important part of it is not to obtain knowledge but to understand a way to think. He recommends being more attentive about what is concealed around us as in the given example water for young fishes. He explained that mostly people unconsciously believe in something without even hesitating or considering the fact that they might be wrong. As he explained
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Friedrich Frobel Friedrich Frobel was born at Oberweibock in the Principality of Schwarzburg ‚Rudollsradt in Thuringia.His father was the pastor of orthodox Lutheron.So‚ the chruch and Lutheron christian faith had an importance place in his early education.His mother died when he was nine months old.İn 1792‚Fröbel went to live in the small town with his uncle.At the age of 15 he became apprentice to a forester.Then ‚he worked as a land surveyer from 1802 to 1805.He quit his job and began as
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The nerve of some people! I can’t believe it! Today we arrived at Fort Caspar‚and we set up camp. As we were doing so‚ two of the cows‚ Mabel and iola‚ wandered off. It wasn’t such a big deal‚ as Jesse found them in a matter of minutes‚ but to Paul it was the end of everything. He let loose on Jesse for not doing his job correctly and at ben for not watching the cows closer‚ and then even and me for weighing him down on this trip! Honestly‚ I don’t see his logic there. I am doing no such thing as
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