Pablo Picasso’s "Guernica" is a massive painting made as a protest to war and violence by depicting their true horrors. The Spanish civil war of 1936 was fought between the democratic Republican government and the fascist forces that sought to overthrow the former. The village of Guernica‚ which was occupied exclusively by civilians and had absolutely no tactical advantage for either side whatsoever‚ was bombed in a training exercise by the Nazi German air force of Adolf Hitler‚ who supported the
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1884 Brussels Term "art nouveau" appears in print for the first time‚ describing the Belgian artists’ group "Les XX." The first subway system opens in London. 1885 Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz invent the first automobile run by an internal combustion engine. 1889 The Eiffel Tower is built for the Paris World’s Fair. 1892 New York Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company established. 1893 Great Britain Paris Japanese prints exhibition organized by Siegfried Bing. Aubrey
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were unhappy with American culture‚ the writers were involved in changing their country’s style of writing‚ from Victorian to modern. Writhers known as the Lost Generation included authors and artists such as Ernest Hemingway‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ Ezra Pound‚ Sherwood Anderson‚ Waldo Peirce‚ John Dos Passos‚ John Steinbeck‚ and Cole Porter. {draw:frame} Ernest Miller Hemmingway was born the 21th of July 1899 in Oak Park‚ Illinois. Ernest Hemingway was raised home by his religious parents‚ and he
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arts soon crossed the English Channel‚ as instanced by the abstraction and dynamism of Red Stone Dancer (1913-14) by the London-based vorticist sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska. Other vorticists and modernists include such English-language writers as Ezra Pound‚ Wyndham Lewis‚ and Mina Loy‚ who also responded to the stimulus and challenge of the European avant-garde with
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younger I had always questioned myself as to what my purpose was. Born into a highly christian family my morals and goals were always set on a certain standard. But my story didn’t start with me‚ it started with my parents. Nelly Chirchir Jepkemboi and Ezra Kipkoech Tanui were merely babies when they first met. My father barely eighteen had just gone through our cultural ritual of stripping his father’s last name and taking his own- Koech. Likewise my mother only being fifteen just started year one of
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London Underground‚ called the Tube‚ is the oldest metro system in the world. The first part of the Tube‚ which is now called Circle line‚ Hammersmith & city line and parts of the Metropolitan line‚ opened in 1863. The Tube serves 270 stations covering Great London and parts of Buckinghamshire‚ Hertfordshire and Essex. The Tube covers 402 kilometres of track‚ which makes the Tube the second longest metro system in the world‚ behind the Shanghai Metro. The Tube is an international icon towards London
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William Carlos Williams: “ The Use of Force” Katryn Punsalang English Composition II Professor Day 10 April 2012 Katryn Punsalang Professor Day English 112 10 April 2012 “ The Use of Force” William Carlos Williams (1883- 1963) is one of the prominent personas of American Poetry. He received his Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the American Academy of Arts and Letters gold medal for poetry from the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1963. Despite Williams’ recognition as one
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Q. 1. Discuss W.B. Yeats as a modern poet. Answer:- William Butler Yeats‚ one of the modern poets‚ influences his contemporaries as well as successors‚ such as T.S. Eliot‚ Ezra Pound and W.B. Auden. Though three common themes in Yeats’ poetry are love‚ Irish Nationalism and mysticism‚ but modernism is the overriding theme in his writings. Yeats started his long literary career as a romantic poet and gradually evolved into a modernist poet. As a typical modern poet he regrets for post-war modern
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T. S. Eliot‚ perhaps one of the most controversial poets of modern times‚ wrote what many critics consider the most controversial poem of all‚ The Waste Land. The Waste Land was written using a fragmented style. This is a style that is evident in all of Eliot"s writings. There are several reasons for his using this approach‚ from a feeling of being isolated‚ to a problem articulating thoughts (Bergonzi 18‚ Cuddy 13‚ Mack 1745‚ Martin 102). What influenced Eliot the most in writing poetry was a book
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he Delhi Metro (Hindi: दिल्ली मेट्रो Dillī Meṭro) is a rapid transit system serving Delhi‚ Gurgaon and Noida in the National Capital Region of India. The network consists of five lines with a total length of 125.67 kilometres (78.09 mi). The metro has 107 stations of which 17 are underground. It has a combination of elevated‚ at-grade and underground lines and uses both broad gauge and standard gauge rolling stock. Delhi Metro is being built and operated by the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Limited
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