Rockefeller and Cornelius Vanderbilt among others reached the pinnacle of wealth and amassed huge amounts of money. Many individuals developed contrasting attitudes and views on this newly created wealth. Among these individuals were Andrew Carnegie‚ Eugene V. Debs‚ and Booker T. Washington. Seemingly similar people‚ and yet they were almost completely different. One was a well-known philanthropist who was one of the richest men in world‚ another was an educator and an advocate of Black advancement and
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Alexander Pushkin was both a romanticist in his works and not‚ all at the same time. Beginning at age fifteen‚ he published poems and prose‚ and eventually his novel‚ Eugene Onegin. He is the William Shakespeare of Russia‚ influencing even the language by supplementing with his own vocabulary. He wrote everything from lyric poetry‚ to short stories‚ even personal essays and journalism pieces. Many of his works represent a highly romanticized view of the world. For example‚ “A Little Bird” refers
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Promethean Man: Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage The Myth of Prometheus: The ancient Greek myth of Prometheus is a tale about philanthropy‚ strength of character‚ moral truth and the willingness to sacrifice oneself for the good of others. It has stayed one of the most influential Greek myths throughout the centuries‚ and has inspired numerous works of art from literature to paintings and sculputres. In Greek mythology‚ Prometheus (derived from the ancient Greek word meaning "forethought") was
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despite the fact that he is economically powerless. Scholar David Pattersen describes the superfluous man as “homeless”- “a paradigm of a person who has lost a point‚ a place‚ a presence in life" (2). Much like superfluous characters such as Pechorin and Eugene Onegin‚ Raskolnikov is unconventional‚ cynical‚ ineffectual‚ and prideful. Additionally‚ he often displays contradictory thoughts and vacillates between a rational and irrational mindset. For example‚ he is initially outraged at his sister’s marriage
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His poetic short drama "Mozart and Salieri" was the inspiration for Peter Shaffer ’s Amadeus. Pushkin himself preferred his verse novel Eugene Onegin‚ which he wrote over the course of his life and which‚ starting a tradition of great Russian novels‚ follows a few central characters but varies widely in tone and focus. "Onegin" is a work of such complexity that‚ while only about a hundred pages long‚ translator Vladimir Nabokov needed two full volumes of material to fully render
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Ana Lilia Aguirre Mr. Ochoa English IV January 13‚ 2015 Alexander Pushkin: Russia ’s Greatest Poet “It ’s a lucky man‚ a very lucky man‚ who is committed to what he believes‚ who has stifled intellectual detachment and can relax in the luxury of his emotions - like a tipsy traveler resting for the night at wayside inn.” (Pushkin XLIX). Alexander Pushkin is consider one of the best Russian authors of the Romantic era. Pushkin was committed to social reform becoming a spokesman of literary radicals
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had hit a bullseye with a previous Pushkin adaptation‚ Eugene Onegin in 1879. Admitting an irresistible attraction to operatic form in spite of his inability to master it‚ the maestro used the folk origins of Pushkin’s verse novel to present a series of interlinked scenes rather than a fully realized grand opera. The Queen of Spades followed in 1890‚ and was again a success (though others in between were not). More formally rigorous than Onegin yet not entirely traditional‚ it offered a mixture of
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military junior captain by the name of Pechorin in which Lermontov uses to reveal the complexities of one’s personality. Pechorin is a character who has belief in predestination and was given the fortune of suffering consequences from a wicked wife. Carrying this fortune for the rest of his life Pechorin establishes a fear of commitment preventing him from close attachment to women. However‚ Pechorin’s fear of commitment did not impact his desire for love; Pechorin was a seductive character in search
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Tchaikovsky music pieces seem to all have some type of meaningfulness or dramatic twist. . Tchaikovsky’s "1812 Overture” perpetuated to be popular because musical program featured booming cannons‚ ringing church bells‚ patriotic sing-a-longs‚ and a grand fireworks finale. The Boston event became the first to play the overture as a component of a Fourth of July celebration. Tchaikovsky was born May 7‚ 1840‚ in Votkinsk Russia. Tchaikovsky was a composer who was reproved rigorously by peers‚ edifiers
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young nobleman whose name is Pechorin. At the beginning of the story we see that the narrator is traveling in the cart along the military road back from Tiflis. On the road he is meeting an old captain of the Russian army. Through their discussion the old captain‚ Maxim Maximich‚ starts to narrate the story about a young soldier‚ Pechorin who was sent to Caucasus as a punishment for his duel with another man. Maxim Maximich and Pechorin became good friends. One day Pechorin came to assist on a Caucasian
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