Claude Shannon Claude Elwood Shannon was born on April 30‚1916 in Petoskey‚ to Claude Elwood and Mabel Wolf Shannon‚ His parents move to Gaylord‚ Michigan and spent the rest of his life there. His father Claude Elwood was a judge at Gaylord‚ Michigan. His mother was a high school principle. Even though his father interest wasn’t for science‚ his grandfather was the one that was really into science. Shannon’s grandpa was an innovator and agriculturist. On 27‚ 1949 March Shannon married Mary Elizabeth
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Claude Mckay was an honorable figure in the Harlem Renaissance. His books and poems tell the stories of the lives of the African Americans during the time of the Harlem Renaissance. They had a constant struggle for equality. Claude Mckay is unique in style and tone. Claude Mckay tried to guide African Americans to accept African Culture. Claude McKay was born in Sunny Ville‚ Jamaica‚ and had a very good childhood. Claude was exposed to things that not every child would find interesting. .
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“America” is a poem written by prominent Harlem Renaissance writer Claude McKay. In this poem we are told about life in America through the narrator’s point of view. It is through the narrator’ experience that McKay delivers his message‚ America will one day lose its greatness if it continues in its evil ways. Personification and diction is used to convey this message. Personification is used to give human-like qualities to America. Diction is used to explain how the hostility he/she experiences
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“America” by Claude McKay is a poem describing the speaker’s alternating‚ yet passionate view of love and hate of their country due to the prominent racism they must endure. Throughout the poem the theme that a person’s struggle teaches them to grow is revealed. The theme‚ a person’s struggle helps them to grow‚ is expressed through the metaphor‚ personification‚ and unique diction. Metaphors are used contribute to the theme‚ person’s struggle helps them to grow‚ and convey the speaker’s relationship
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Topic 2 – An Instrument and its repertoire Syrinx by Claude Debussy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-9xGnbBHMI Background: Syrinx is an essential part of music for any Flautist’s repertoire. Syrinx was written by Claude Debussy in 1913‚ allowing the performer generous room for interpretation and emotion. The piece acted as a fundamental role in the development of solo flute music in the early 20th century. The piece is commonly performed off stage as Debussy dedicated the piece to flautist Louis
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is representation of an artist’s lifestyle and events. Basically Artists paint on the events based on their lives. Such as Cloude Monet and Vincent Van Gough‚ their artwork was based on movements of Impressionism and Post Impressionism. Their interest shows outdoor environment to show effect of natural sun light or atmospheric light on day to day life scene. Claude Monet’s “Water Lilies” is the great example of outdoor paintings and Vincent Van Gogh’s “The garden of the poets” is based on two poets
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Claude Debussy By: Jackson Mikkelsen One of Debussy’s quotes that really caught my attention said‚ “Music is the space between the notes.” –Claude Debussy. I thought of music in a different way after reading this quote‚ when I heard the word music I always thought of a person singing or lyrics to a song. There is a lot more to music than that and I have learned that from researching Debussy and being in this class has helped me also. Claude Debussy is one of the most famous
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Claude Debussy (1862-1918) was one of the most important composers of his time and is considered the founder of the impressionist movement‚ essentially a one-person revolution. Born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye‚ Debussy was the eldest of five children of a crockery shop owner and a seamstress. Despite early dreams of becoming a virtuoso pianist‚ Debussy found greater success working as a composer‚ producing his first works as a teenager. His first piano work was written at age 18‚ and within a few years
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Located in the Art Institute of Chicago is Claude Monet’s “Arrival of the Normandy Train‚ Gare Saint-Lazare” painted in 1877. This artwork is representational because based on the historical train station known as Gare Saint-Lazare. The reason for his inspiration for painting this piece is Monet was intrigue by the industrial revolution of transportation so he rented an apartment start painting different time setting of day of trains in Gare Saint-Lazare. Then Monet gave this for Impressionist exhibition
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Claude McKay was a poet during the Harlem Renaissance period and considered himself a voice of his people. A poet projecting the feelings of the colored youth as well as the African American community‚ who did not have one. “America” by Claude McKay is a sonnet that does not explore the meaning of love like traditional sonnets do‚ but instead McKay uses the form of a sonnet to express the rage and frustration the African Americans were feeling during that time period. A sonnet is one of the oldest
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