Charles Baudelaire: Romantic‚ Parnassian‚ and Symbolist Often compared to the American poet Edgar Allen Poe‚ the French poet Charles Baudelaire has become well-known for his fascination with death‚ melancholy‚ and evil and his otherwise eccentric yet contemplative style. These associations have deemed him as a "patron saint of modernist poetry" while at the same time closely tying his style in with the turbulent revolutionary movements in France and Europe during the 19th century (Haviland‚ screens
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Henry Charles Bukowski writing was influenced by the social‚ cultural‚ and economic ambience of Los Angeles. He left home after his father read some of his stories and went berserk‚ destroying his output and throwing his possessions out onto the lawn‚ a lawn that the young Bukowski had to mow weekly and would be beaten for if the grass wasn’t perfectly cut. Bukowski was born in 1920 in Andernach‚ Germany. He died on March 9‚ 1994 in San Pedro‚ California. He was a German American poet‚ novelist‚
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emperor‚ kings‚ and all the realty stuff which in the past they have a lot of importance because they have to govern the people and also give an example and in a way teach them how to live and be the head of the country. Charlemagne that means Charles the great was the king of the Franks and he expanded his empire greatly. He was a Christian governor and he makes a lot of things to the church and for its country. In the art side he make a lot of contribution because as we remember that time was
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Charles Aznavourian is a Armenian/French singer‚ songwriter‚ actor‚ public activist and diplomat. He was born in Paris‚ France on may 22‚ 1924. His birth name is Shanour Vafhenag Aznavourian. Aznavour father Michael Aznavourian was from Akhaltsikhe in Georgia and his mother was from Turkey. At a young age Aznavourian and his parents moved to Tbilisi for Jobs‚ they soon moved again to France were Michael sang in restaurants before he created his own Georgian restaurant called "Le caucase" .Together
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Charles Dickens Charles Dickens‚ is regarded as one of the most important writers of the Victorian period‚ the ’literary colossus’ of his age. His novels influenced literature greatly‚ most of his works were Narrative Fiction and because of his success‚ this became the dominant Victorian mode for novel publication. His literary style is very creative and he focuses extensively on his character’s name‚ trying to create an "allegorical impetus" to the novels’ meanings. His novels are a combination
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Charlemagne was conceived around 742‚ the child of Bertrada of Laon and Pepin the Short‚ whom became the ruler of the Franks in 751. Charlemagne’s precise origin is obscure. He had a talent for languages and could speak Latin and understand Greek‚ among others. After Pepin’s demise in 768‚ the Frankish kingdom was partitioned between Charlemagne and his younger sibling Carloman. The siblings had a strained relationship; in any case‚ with Carloman’s passing in 771‚ Charlemagne turned into the sole
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Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world’s most memorable fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period.During his life‚ his works enjoyed unprecedented fame‚ and by the twentieth century his literary genius was broadly acknowledged by critics and scholars. His novels and short stories continue to be widely popular. Born in Portsmouth‚ England‚ Dickens left school
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Although the reign of the Carolingian dynasty occupied brief part of the medieval era‚ the Carolingian Empire that was established made both a historical and cultural impact on medieval society that would resonate for centuries to come. The Carolingian House of the Franks and their expanding empire initially brought stability and progress to most of Europe‚ as well as pioneering a cultural and intellectual renaissance that influenced the remainder of the Middle Ages. Although there were various Carolingian
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Charles Handy is an Irish author and philosopher who specialising in management and organizational behavior. He has been evaluated among the Thinkers 50 ‚ a private list which is the most influential living management thinkers. In 2001 he was second on this list ‚ just behind Peter Drucker.Handy born in 1932 .He graduated from Oxford and started his business career in marketing at Shell International. in 1967‚ He was a co-founder of the London Business School and left Shell to teach there in 1972
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Coketown By Charles Dickens Dickens is using figures of speech to make pictures in the readers head and he is therefore helping people imagine the things he is telling about. One would say that Dickens is using metaphors to put a picture on his story and to make everyone feels how awful and terrible Coketown is. “Coketown was a town of red brick‚ or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but‚ as matters stood it was a town of unnatural red and black like the
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