Extra Credit Jon George Mrs. Dvorak College Success December 1st 2011 Babe Ruth – The homerun king for ages was Babe Ruth. He played for the New York Yankees. In his earlier years he was a right handed pitcher in the MLB but switched to a hitter. He is now 3rd on the all time homerun list behind Hank Aaron who is second and Barry Bonds. Babe Ruth was born in Pigtown‚ Baltimore. Michael Jordan – In the eyes of many people Michael Jordan was the best basketball player in the world. He
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Bad Memories for Orwell. George Orwell demonstrated how writers and politicians use euphemisms‚ doublespeak‚ and other misconceptions to mislead their audience and hide their real agenda; he exposed politicians in his times and predicted future trends and practices in the English language usage. He expected the English language to deteriorate and individual thoughts and expression to be limited. His goal was to make people understand this practice and see through public speeches and political writings
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Original Myth In the village of San Juan Pablo‚ there was a young boy who lived in a big house near the edge of the village with his father and mother. The boy was named John and he was an adventurous kid that liked to figure things out. One day as he was exploring the area‚ he wondered upon a gate to another village. He then unfastened the gate and saw that it was filled with violence and destruction which was nothing like the village that he lived in. He then returned home to his parents and
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Andre Derain‚ Mountains at Colioure‚ 1905-exemplifeis so called mixed technique. Favism in which short strokes of pure color derived fom the work of van goh and Seurat are combined with curvilinear planes of flat color inspired by by gaugunis paintings and are nouvau decorative arts. The assertive colors‚ which he likened to sticks of dynamite do not record what he actually saw in the landscape by rather generate their own purely artistic energy as they express the artists intense feeling about what
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thematic vocabulary; use new words and word combinations in sentences of your own (10-15 – in writing); write 15 questions to the text; make a brief summary of the text. "When we invented Cubism‚ we had no intention whatsoever of inventing Cubism‚" said Pablo Picasso‚ many years later. "We wanted simply to express what was in us." What was in Picasso and his contemporaries was a voracious‚ if not violent‚ appetite for new forms of intellectual‚ cultural and industrial life that were shaping a nascent 20th
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Reed‚ 1 Jeanne Reed Mi’chel Jarjoura Art Appreciation (Web Class) 11/25/2012 The Not So Secret Life of Salvador Dali When one hears the name of Salvador Dali‚ many things probably come to mind: painter‚ surrealist‚ creative‚ artistic genius… No matter what first comes to one’s mind‚ and whether one likes him or not‚ most would agree that Salvador Dali was‚ more than anything else‚ unique. Yes‚ Dali had many influences such as Velazquez‚ Goya‚ El Creco‚ Durer‚ Leonardo‚ and Michelangelo (Bradley
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Manjarrez 1 Susan Manjarrez Marc McGrath Humanities 1 16 October 2014 Research Paper Goya: The life and Work of the Spanish Painter In the world created by Francisco Jose De Goya y Lucientes there existed no boundaries. Through much of Goya’s artistic body of work we can see diversity‚ mystery and honesty fueled entirely by his attitude. He is greatly known for his enriched paintings‚ etchings and lithographs‚ which he did excessively
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THE REVOLUTION IN ART AFTER WORLD WAR I Between 1908 and 1914‚ two young artists—Frenchman Georges Braque (1882–1963) and expatriate Spaniard Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881–1973)—began a series of artistic experiments in Paris that revolutionized the direction of Western painting. For nearly five hundred years‚ painting in the West had attempted a reconstruction on canvas of a real or ideal world “out there” by the use of three-dimensional perspective and the rules of geometry. This artistic tradition
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HUM 1020 Unit 4 Study Guide Chapter 17: Romantic Era Define: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. bel canto gesamtkunstwerk lieder natural selection leitmotiv Times to Know: 1. Beginning of the French Revolution (1792) 2. American Civil War (1861-1865) Names to Know: 1. Louis Pasteur 2. Charles Darwin 3. Ludwig van Beethoven 4. Jacques-Louis David 5. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 6. Shelley‚ Byron‚ and Keats (started Romantic poetry in England) 7. Charles Dickens 8. Edgar Allan Poe 9. Emerson
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Mansur Amin Period 1 English 12B Mr. Vaez Critique of Picasso at the Lapin Agile Written by Steve Martin and directed by Brien Lang‚ Picasso at the Lapin Agile is a play located at the Lapin Agile‚ in Paris. Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso‚ both young‚ headstrong and passionate‚ come together in a fictitious meeting devised in the comic mind of Steve Martin. It’s bohemian Paris‚ at the turn of the century and everything has fallen quiet to listen to a conversation of exquisite topics. Does
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