Paul Revere was born on January 1st‚ 1735 and died on May 10‚ 1818. (1) He was someone who showed a lot of determination during his life. He fought in the French and Indian War against the French and later on joined the Sons of Liberty in their fight for independence. He was best known for his midnight to Lexington and to warn people of the oncoming British soldiers‚ a battle that would begin the American Revolutionary War. His journey was later written into a poem that would leave him forever
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In Kozol’s article “Still Separate‚ Still Unequal-America’s educational apartheid‚” kozolool describes the reality of urban public schools and the isolation and segregation the students there face today in the American system. Jonathan Kozol illustrates the grim reality of the inequality that African American and Hispanic children face within todays public education system. In this essay‚ Kozol shows us with shocking statistics and percentages‚ just how segregated Americas urban schools have become
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In Jonathan Kozol‚ “Still Separate‚ Still Unequal”‚ he explains to a managerial audience how our school systems today may be more segregated than at any time since 1954. With this segregation comes two different educational lifestyles. In order for the author to express the unsatisfactory educational conditions in predominantly black schools he uses several different modes. The most common mode that he used were pathos. In the very beginning he used the word “disheartening” on page 203 to describe
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seventeenth-century Dutch artists each created a respectable body of work in the Renaissance period as well: Pieter Gerritsz and Pieter Claesz. Their works consist of primarily still-life paintings; those commonly placed in monographs include Gerritsz ’ Still Life of the Paston (Yarmouth) Collection and Claesz ’ Still Life with Turkey-Pie. The painting by Gerritsz‚ now found in the Castle Museum in Norwich‚ England‚ portrays an uruly accumulation of both exotic and domestic items gathered by Sir
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A note from Vivian A note from Vivian My love for poetry began when I was in the seventh grade. My teacher Mr. Madura‚ read a poem entitled "Life"‚ by Paul Laurence Dunbar. The poem’s title caught my attention‚ so I listened intently‚ as he read the poem and I was somewhat perplex with the story. I said to myself‚ could life really be like this‚ " A crust of bread‚ a corner to sleep in‚ a minute to smile and an hour to weep in‚ a pint of joy‚ to a peck of trouble and never a laugh‚ but the
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Why did Georges Braque make his artwork Still Life with Violin‚1913 with a new touch to still life? To begin‚ the painting by Braque was made in a new Modern movement called Cubism. The Modern movement‚ Cubism‚ was formed by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso and French artist Georges Braque in 1907. They made Cubism as a new way of portraying multiple dimensions and perspectives of an object or subject onto a two-dimensional canvas. In Braque’s painting‚ Still Life with Violin‚ the artwork is made by oil
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Michelangelo‚ and Vincent van Gough are just a few of the many European fine artists that took the world by storm when they mastered the idea of using art as a form of communication and substitution for ones locution. French artist‚ Georges Braque’s “Still Life with Bottles and Glasses” is a perfect example of analytical cubism‚ a visual art style created by Picasso and Braque which involves a series of overlapping planes and facets mostly in near-monochromatic browns‚ grays‚ or blacks. In this particular
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miniatures like her father. Fede’s name means “faith‚” and she gained popularity by painting portraits of other great artists. She was also one of the first to use still life‚ which probably led to 44 of her 63 paintings were still lifes. Probably because Fede painted
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selected is the Anna Vallayer-Coster‚ Still Life with Lobster‚ 1781. However‚ along with the fall of the French monarchy‚ went her primary patrons and her lucrative commissions dried up completely. She‚ as an artist‚ was forgotten during these turbulent times. By using a complimentary color scheme‚ the red lobster becomes a strong focal point‚ with the red vibrating against the green tones of the background. It is interesting to note that a painting‚ Still Life with Lobster‚ which she completed
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Weston Daily Life A long time ago we the Americans were at war with the British. We fought for our freedom and even though we ended up winning the war‚ it was hard for the colonists. A colonist’s daily life was hard‚ they had to ration their food. The food that they ate was very unhealthy and often spoiled. They mostly ate meats‚ fruits‚ and vegetables such as But since they still had taxes on them it was hard to get many important products because
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