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- 17201: Dante’s Influence on Italian Culture
- ... during his exile and earlier years in political office. The exiling of Dante helped him put his life and his political beliefs into perspective and let him write more freely (Holmes 1). Dante gave the world new ideas on politics, changed the style of poetry, and unified the Italian language. His effect can be seen in the writings that are prominent in Western culture today. Given his wide span of influence ...
- 17202: The Circle of Souls in John Donne’s A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
- ... it consoles the self, by following what has been proscribed we attempt to bring back to our lives a semblance of the order that existed before the loss. To mourn is to withdraw from the world. However, “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning,” is not actually about death, but rather a separation. The poet, John Donne, engages in a didactic lesson to show the parallel between a positive way to meet death and ...
- 17203: William Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre
- William Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre William Shakespeare is one of the most important and most influence dramatist of the world literature. In the year 1586 when William Shakespeare first came to London, he started working in the Globe Theatre. The Globe Theatre was build up in a octagonal shape: “Better yet, the walls give back ...
- 17204: Literary Devices in Homer’s Odyssey
- ... son is told that he must seek revenge for his father and he kills Aegisthus. This foreshadows what may happen to Odysseus because Odysseus has been away from Ithaca for many years because of the war and then because of his banishment to sea by Poseidon. Athena retells this story because she wants Telemachus, Odysseus’ son, to seek revenge for his father just like Orestes did. If Odysseus returns home blindly ...
- 17205: Kawasaki Disease
- ... it remains untreated. It may have long-term effects, but those are easily avoided by common and standard medical procedure. The disease affects few individuals and doesn’t pose a major health threat to the world. Because of these facts the study of Kawasaki disease is mainly out of curiosity than to prevent the disease, since adequate measures for dealing with the disease have already been discovered. Kawasaki disease is a ...
- 17206: Tennessee Williams' Characters: Escape
- ... clings to the fear that she is strange and crippled though she herself exacerbates the reality of that. Magnifying her illness, denying her inner beauty to come forth, is the way Laura hides from a world lit by ‘lightning.” Tom, on the other hand, relies on self-denial to justify his concerns and feelings of insecurity. By making himself believe that he is a righteous male, he convinces himself that his ...
- 17207: Grace Kelly
- ... free from this restraint to play a depressed, bedraggled woman. Many people, including her costar Bing Crosby, opposed to her playing this role. They saw her as being too genteel. Her extraordinary performance stunned the world, and she won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1954. Grace starred in eleven motion pictures before she married to Prince Rainier of Monaco. Her marriage to a prince was described as "a fairy ...
- 17208: Odysseus: Metis Is His Most Important Quality
- ... hero is his metis, a Greek word meaning artifice, stratagem, or plan. Homer even associates Odysseus as “polymetis,” or a man of “many turns.” Robert Fitzgerald, translator of the Odyssey in The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces, interprets this word to describe a man who is “skilled in all ways of contending” (219). Thus, unlike Achilles in the Iliad, Odysseus is not famous for his great strength or courage, but for ...
- 17209: Gwendolyn Brooks
- ... terza rima and the blues. She has been praised for her wisdom and insight into the African Experience in America. Her works reflect both the paradises and the hells of the black people of the world. Her writing is objective, but her characters speak for themselves. Although the idiom is local, the message is universal. Brooks uses ordinary speech, only words that will strengthen, and richness of sound to create effective ...
- 17210: H.R. Gieger
- ... His residences for the most part were all in condemned buildings, using the wide space for art studios. Giger also began using the airbrush, and has become known as the best aircrush artist in the world. After college Giger's interest expanded into sculpturing and he became a master of a very broad amount of mediums. His work uses dark tones, usually black, grey, dark greens, and sometimes dark blues. Light ...
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