Writer‚ Renaissance architect‚ humanist philosopher‚ and artistic theorist‚ Leon Battista Alberti is considered to be the Renaissance’s "universal man" of learning. In addition to painting‚ designing buildings‚ and writing scientific‚ artistic and philosophical treatises‚ Alberti wrote the first book on Italian grammar and cryptography. Born in Genoa in the year 1404‚ out of wedlock but immediately legitimatized by his father Lorenzo. Leon’s mother‚ Bianca Fieschi‚ was a Bolognese widow. She died
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The conflicts in Henry Lawson’s short story The Drover’s Wife are a comment on human nature. Being human means experiencing love‚ happiness‚ loneliness and sadness in our lives. Often these experiences are connected with conflict. Henry Lawson depicts this in his story through the internal conflict which the drover’s wife experiences‚ through the struggle between herself and her husband‚ and between herself and the harsh landscape that surrounds her. The central character‚ the drover’s wife‚ experiences
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reading the book My Brother Sam is Dead‚ I realized the plot of the book wasn’t what I expected. Judging by the title‚ you’d think the book is about a guy named Sam‚ but it’s really about his brother‚ Tim. The story takes place during a period of war‚ and Tim‚ as the narrator‚ has to witness his father and brother disagree over which side they are on‚ the Loyalists or the Rebels. Disobeying his father‚ Sam goes to war to fight the Loyalists‚ and Tim is stuck at home worried about his brother‚ but also admires
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In John SteinBeck’s “Of Mice and Men”‚ he uses the characters Crooks and Curley’s wife to show that loneliness and isolation can poor effects on people. In this book the effects that are shown by these characters are‚ pushing others away and desperately seek out any interaction. Crooks pushes others away while Curley’s wife will talk to anybody to not be lonely. Crooks is being isolated from the rest of the rest of the workers because he is black. The isolation that Crooks has been subjected to has
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“How To Watch Your Brother Die” written by Micheal Lassell is an interesting poem‚ though it reads like a short story. It is written almost as a guide to several different things. The main character is a straight man seeing a different lifestyle‚ that he had shut out‚ for the first time. The first time really seeing what other people‚ though gay‚ still human beings‚ have to go through to live in our society. A society that he has helped make into what it is. He is also a man watching his brother die
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My Brother Sam is Dead is about a family where the oldest son is a patriot and is fighting in the Revolutionary War. The parents and the younger brother consider themselves to be Loyalists. Of course they disagree on the oldest brother’s‚ Sam’s‚ actions. This story takes us through daily life with Sam away. Some major events are the dad‚ Life‚ being taken away by cowboys‚ Sam dying and Tim‚ the youngest brother‚ witnessing many gory things and having to step up and be a leader in his family. The
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Syfers- I Want a Wife Vocab: 1. Nurturant- warm and affectionate physical and emotional support and care. “I want a wife who is a good nurturant attendant to my children‚ who arranges for their schooling‚ makes sue they have an adequate social life with their peers‚ takes them to the park‚ the zoo‚ etc.” 2. Entail- to cause or involve by necessity. “And I want a wife who understands that my sexual needs may entail more than strict adherence to monogamy.” 3. Adherence- to stay attached; stick fast; cleave; cling
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In the short story‚ “Soldier’s home‚” the protagonist deals with difficult conflicts within himself and with others. Ernest Hemmingway shows us what it is like for the soldier‚ Harold Krebs‚ who returned home‚ to Kansas‚ from World War I in 1917‚ three years after the end of the war. He did not get celebrated like all the other soldiers that returned home causing some major conflict in the story. “The men from town who had been drafted had all been welcomed elaborately on their return” (Hemmingway
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My twin brother‚ Ben‚ took his own life about two months ago (July 22‚ 2017). Being a twin was (and is) a huge blessing‚ but losing him is the toughest pain imaginable. I created this channel as a way to cope with his passing and to memorialize him. Ben and I fought often (as seen in the video)‚ but we always got along when music was involved. The times where we listened to tunes together are when the twin energy was strongest. Music brought us closer together. Radiohead’s Bodysnatchers was a
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Jimmy McPerson Mr. Teacher AP US History 14 August 2013 My Brother Sam is Dead Analysis In the novel My Brother Sam is Dead‚ written by Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier‚ a headstrong lad by the name of Sam Meekers joins in the rebel cause in the Civil War much to his fathers chagrin. Tim Meekers‚ Sam’s younger brother‚ struggles to come to terms with himself and to firmly grasp his own point of view on the war throughout the novel. The novel focuses on Tim‚ a young boy trying to
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