George Strait is a Grammy Award winning American country singer who has been singing country music for over thirty years. Strait is referred to as the King of Country Music who stayed closest to traditional country. Drawing from both the honkey tonk and western swing traditions‚ Strait didn’t refashion the genres; instead he revitalized them for an incipient decade. In the process‚ he became one of country music’s most popular contemporary singers. George Harvey Strait was born in Poteet‚ Texas
Premium Country music
George Lucas Slide 1: No other 20th century filmmaker has had a greater impact on the film industry than George Lucas. His zeal for innovation forged a new relationship between entertainment and technology that revolutionized the art of motion pictures. His uncanny business acumen turned film licensing and merchandising into a multibillion-dollar industry. And his "Star Wars" trilogy ushered in the era of the Hollywood mega-blockbuster. Slide 2: In 1967‚ Lucas re-enrolled as a USC graduate student
Premium Francis Ford Coppola Film
Georges Clemenceau (28 September 1841 – 24 November 1929) Georges Benjamin Clemenceau was a French statesman who led the nation to victory in the First World War. A leader of the Radical Party‚ he played a central role in politics after 1870. Clemenceau served as the Prime Minister of France from 1906 to 1909‚ and again from 1917 to 1920. He was one of the principal architects of the Treaty of Versailles at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. Nicknamed "Le Tigre" (The Tiger)‚ he took a very harsh
Premium Treaty of Versailles World War I
Rachna Shah The Picture of Dorian Gray Journal Entry: The Time I Was Called a Cradle Robber vs. Tabula Rasa Dorian Gray is simply too young to be in his twenties. His sapphire blue eyes are wells-magnetic. The boyish crinkling of his eyes when he smiles-oh‚ his smile is too genuine to be contrived. There is something brilliant in the pureness that radiates about him. If not for his bowtie‚ I would have thought he had lived in the countryside all his life-what a terrible waste of his Youth! I don’t
Premium The Picture of Dorian Gray Dorian Gray syndrome Sapphire
May 30th‚ 2008 Per . 5 Painting George Seurat Georges-Pierre Seurat was born on December 2‚ 1859‚ in Paris‚ France. He was the youngest of three children in the family. His father was a wealthy lawyer‚ Chrysostome-Antoine Seurat‚ and his mother named Ernestine Faivre‚ she came from a prosperous Parisian family. During the early 1870s‚ Seurat was taking private drawing lessons from painter and uncle Paul Haumonte. His uncle took him on regular art expeditions. From 1875‚ he studied drawing
Premium Impressionism Modern art Vincent van Gogh
George Westinghouse was an American entrepreneur and engineer. He was responsible for the introduction and development of altering current for light and power. Westinghouse invented the railway air brake and was a pioneer of the electrical industry. He was one of Thomas Edison’s main rivals in the early implementation of the American electricity system. This man founded 60 companies‚ eventually receiving over 100 patents for his work with the desire to turn ideas into enterprises. George Westinghouse
Premium Alternating current Thomas Edison Nikola Tesla
The Picture of Dorian Gray In The Picture of Dorian Gray‚ Dorian Gray leads a selfish and vain life. After his wish for eternal beauty is granted‚ Dorian’s vanity is fed by the admiration of his peers. In direct correlation of his increased ego‚ Dorian’s actions and treatment of others is self-serving. His vanity and selfish lifestyle begin to take root upon Dorian’s introduction to Lord Henry Wotton at Basil Hallward’s studio and grow until the abrupt end of Dorian’s life. The worship of Dorian’s
Premium Love Oscar Wilde Gothic fiction
Georges Braque Georges Braque (May 13‚ 1882 August 31‚ 1963) was a French painter and sculptor who‚ with Pablo Picasso‚ developed cubism and became one of the major figures of twentieth-century art. Georges Braque was born in Argenteuil-sur-Seine‚ France. He grew up in Le Havre and trained to be a house painter and decorator as his father and grandfather were‚ but he also studied painting in the evenings at the École des Beaux-Arts in Le Havre from about 1897 to 1899.Braque’s paintings of 19081913
Premium Cubism Collage Pablo Picasso
George Whitefield George Whitefield was a Methodist preacher during the First Great Awakening. He was born in Gloucester‚ England on December 16‚ 1714 and was buried in Newburyport‚ Massachusetts on September 30‚ 1770. Whitefield took voyages to the New World seven times‚ voyages whose one-way trips took two months. He called both sides of the Atlantic “home”. He was the most traveled preacher of the gospel up to his time and many feel he was the greatest evangelist of all time. His diligence
Premium Christianity George Whitefield Christian terms
George Eliot George Eliot taking the life of a woman and making it into something big. Mary Ann Evans also known as George Eliot was an English literature writer. In 1819 on November 22 Mary Evans was born. People that she was around for a long time were later put into her books. In the days that George Eliot was writing was when women couldn’t choose writing as a profession (“George Eliot.”www.kirasto.sci.fi web.‚ Kirkpatrick‚ D.L…). Eliot’s first fiction book was Scenes of Clerical Life (Kirkpatrick
Premium Literature