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    Gail Anderson Faculty Lisa Koen Art History: From the Early Modern to the Contemporary May 29‚ 2014 Assignment 2: Discussion Forum Do you prefer the work of the French Romantics or the Spanish Romantics? Why? Please provide examples for support. In essence‚ I prefer the work of the French Romantics oppose to the Spanish Romantics. My reason for choosing the work of the French Romantics is the rich vivid colors and smooth flow of the lines and shape‚ whereas the Spanish Romantic work uses more

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    The second scene of the first act serves as the opening into their relationship‚ where Miranda has a frantic reaction to the terrible storm and tragic shipwreck. While bothered by the notion that her father could have prevented the devastation and chose not to‚ Prospero tells her that she is unaware of the reality of the situation. He gently reprimands her by saying‚ “Of thee‚ my dear one‚ thee‚ my daughter

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    Columbus worked on a ship‚ fulfilling step one‚ to achieve his long term dream of becoming a navigator. Although ecstatic about his teenage opportunities and about every new skill he learned‚ he still searched for better opportunities. After a shipwreck - a ship he happened to be working on- he ended up in Lisbon‚ Portugal and there furthered his education by studying navigation‚ mathematics‚ and astronomy. Using all his previous education from his teenage years and learning experience from his

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    Joseph Mallord William Turner was an English artist who lived in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Turner is known for creating art that is sometimes indistinct. Turner became known as “the painter of light.” Joseph Mallord William Turner was born on April 23‚ 1775‚ to Mary Marshall and William Gay Turner‚ a barber and wig maker. He also had a younger sister‚ Helen Turner. Turner had to overcome family issues‚ concerning mental illness‚ growing up. First his sister died in 1786‚ at an early

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    The Inevitability Of Human Suffering Life is not always fair. There are ups and downs and as humans we must learn to get through them. Even though we might think someone has a perfect life and you want to be him or her‚ his or her life is not as great as it may seem. In life‚ I believe that human suffering is inevitable. Someone’s life may be perfect but I believe at some point in his or her life they may suffer. Suffering may come in many different forms. It may be from a death‚ bad news or simply

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    been hundreds of other ships that have sunk throughout history‚ this event is the one getting all the spotlight. A second reason the Titanic could have been such a significant disaster was the number of fatalities. Although‚ there have been other shipwrecks that were just as deadly‚ if not deadlier. All this does is prove how much reputation impacts the longevity of the relevance of a notable event. Another way to prove that the escape from Alcatraz is still important is to apply this logic to the

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    membership in the Chartist movement‚ a political organization dedicated to universal suffrage and better working conditions for the poor. One step ahead of the law‚ a price on his head‚ Pinkerton and his young bride Joan fled to Canada in 1842. A shipwreck off the coast of Nova Scotia left them virtually penniless‚ and so Pinkerton eagerly accepted the invitation of a Scottish friend to work as a cooper for Lill’s Brewery in Chicago. He slipped across the border and worked there for a few years‚ before

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    for six days‚ and several boats are lost After the storm they are so desperate for water that some of them even resort to drinking salt water‚ resulting in several more deaths. At this point only about 40 men of the initial 600 are alive. They shipwreck on an island which they promptly call Malhado‚ “The Island of Doom”.# Over the next few months‚ more survivors die off‚ and others are put into slavery‚ including Cabeza de Vaca. He is enslaved for several years‚ now being

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    Western civilization 1 The Mental World Of Christopher Columbus Supported by Spain‚ seeking a water route to the spice islands in 1492 Christopher Columbus left Spain on his first voyage. After more then a month had passed‚ the crew started to loose all hope and the voyage seemed like a failure. Until on October 12‚ 1492 land was sighted. The land that was sighted was not what Columbus had originally intended to find. Columbus landed in the Caribbean Sea in the Bahamas‚ which was thousands

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    and the goddess of wisdom‚ battle‚ and other feminie arts such as weaving and farming. In homer’s epic‚ she plays the role of the guardian of Odysseus and Telemachus‚ saving Odysseus and helping him through many difficult situations‚ including his shipwreck caused by Poseidon (homer 5) and the encouraging him through the one-sided battle with the suitors (Homer 22). She does not merely impart sense and safety to her passive charge‚ however. She takes an interest in Odysseus for the talents he already

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