Franz Seraphicus Peter Schubert is a founder of Romantics and one of the four great pillars of Classicism – along with Haydn‚ Mozart‚ and Beethoven. Although he only lived for thirty-one years‚ he produced a large number of masterpieces during his short but prolific career. Today people recognize Schubert’s greatness‚ but he was unknown and poor for whole life. In total‚ he composed over six hundred secular vocal works‚ seven complete symphonies‚ sacred music‚ operas‚ incidental music and a large
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William Shakespeare ’s Sonnet 107 Nowadays William Shakespeare is renown as one of the world ’s greatest and most prolific dramatists of all times.Both tragedies such as "Romeo and Juliet"‚ "Hamlet"‚ "Anthony and Cleopatra"‚ and light-hearted comedies like "The Taming of the Shrew" and "A Midsummer Night ’s Dream" are still box-office successes in theatres all around the globe.Yet‚ besides being a playwright‚ Shakespeare has also exercised his complex literary talents in poetry‚ appreciated in
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ruler in the person of Catherine the Great. Catherine the Great‚ whose real name was Sophia Augusta Fredericka‚ was born on May 2 1729; daughter of Prince Christian August‚ ruler of the German Principality of Anhalt-Dornburg and Princess Johanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp. Her father was a devout German Lutheran. Her mother arranged for her to marry Peter of Holstein-Gottorp‚ her second cousin‚ who was the nephew of Elizabeth Empress of Russia in 1741 and grandson of Peter the Great. Elizabeth
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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot’s work The Letter and Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun’s Comtesse de la Chatre‚ share obvious similarities. Indeed‚ both are portraits depicting a woman. Although they belong to two different aesthetic currents‚ Romanticism for Corot and Neoclassic for Vigée-Lebrun‚ both artists use similar tools such as color‚ composition‚ brushstroke‚ and lighting to define the character of their painting. After comparing them‚ I would advise a prospective buyer to acquire The Letter because Corot
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“I really can’t think of any other music which is so all-encompassing‚ which moves me so deeply‚ and which‚ is valuable beyond all its skill and brilliance for something more meaningful than that-it’s humanity. I would tire of a repetition of lush Tchaikovsky melodies day in and day out”(Jacobson 10). Glenn Gould said that very quote about Johann Sebastian Bach and his music. Johann Sebastian Bach left an amazing legacy as the best composer in the Baroque era‚ and he is one of the most important
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On Death and Dying The Universal Fear of Death The Universal Fear of Death expands upon the ideas Elisabeth Kubler Ross and Ernest Becker regarding the psychology surrounding death‚ and the social constructs designed to mitigate its influence on our psyche. These ideas focus on different cultural perspectives surrounding the path to immortality/transcendence‚ how culture assists us to deal with our death angst (anxiety)‚ and in a dialectical way‚ bring about a question; “Is the fear of death universal
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The third stage in the Kubler Ross model is bargaining. Bargaining happens when someone thinks of alternatives to prevent the cause of grief. If it is a loss of a loved one‚ you may often hear someone say‚ ‘I would give anything to see them or hold them again.’ If it is a loss of a relationship‚ people generally say‚ ‘I would do anything for her/him to give me another chance.’ Other losses in life‚ including that of jobs‚ choices‚ games‚ or car accidents may impel people to want to go back into
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cause of Ben’s alcoholism‚ especially when he says "I don’t remember if I started drinking because my wife left me‚ or my wife left me because I started drinking." In a last attempt and hope of human interaction‚ Ben pays the hooker Sera‚ played by Elisabeth Shue‚ 500 dollars to spend a night with him. Sera is magically attracted to the loser type of man‚ as Figgis shows us with her boyfriend Yuri‚ her abusive pimp and boyfriend. This drama is about the absolute love between two people that live on society’s
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important to the message that the play is trying to portray; intolerance must be removed to ’heal’ the community and to make society a better place. This reflects the people of Salem of the resentment‚ feuds and rivalries: Abigail has a grudge against Elisabeth Proctor: Parris‚ paranoid and
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Character comparing between Twilight and Pride and Prejudice Twilight and Pride and Prejudice are two complete different books from different centuries. Twilight was published in 2005 by Stephanie Meyer‚ while the novel Pride and Prejudice was first published in 1813 by Jane Austen. Still‚ there are quite a few similarities between the main characters in these two books. Bella Swan from Twilight and Elizabeth Bennet from Pride and Prejudice are two totally different characters‚ but at the same
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