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Overview of the Life and Times of F. Scott Fitzgerald

recognized and encouraged Fitzs literary talents, anything outside that parameter was not worth his time, attention or study, unle...

Working Against the Odds The Story of Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler

originated within themselves. In present-day language, some would have been considered "nerds," because they did not necessarily e...

Novel Essays by George Lukacs and Virginia Woolf

criticism points toward a different orientation, as she accuses previous writers of materialism, and explains this accusation by ...

Overview of Photojournalist Margaret Bourke White

Margaret Bourke-White was born in The Bronx, New York on June 14, 1904, although some sources place her year of birth as 1906....

Book of the Three Virtues by Christine de Pizan

of women in medieval society, De Pizan wrote two of her most significant works, The Book of the City of Ladies and The Book of the...

Poetry and Style of Emily Dickinson

and it was this heart-felt emotion that elevated her works from ordinary to the ranks of extraordinary. Music had long play...

William Faulkner Biography

Murry Falkner was interested in railroads, hunting and drinking, not necessarily in that order. Alcoholism was the Falkner family...

Life and Paintings of Paul Gauguin

for which he is most well known. Some of his earlier pieces included Les Alyscamps, Arles 1888; Still Life with Three Puppies 188...

Plantation Economic Impacts of Slave Women's Work

ramifications (Jacobs). Consider all of the white women who would discover their husbands having affairs with slave wome...

Life, Literature, and Criticisms of James Joyce

to death, illustrating, as mentioned, how his life was not necessarily strange or completely outrageous. The second half of the pa...

Islamic Women's Lives

Women had been treated as possessions of their husbands; Islamic law made the education of girls a sacred duty and gave women the ...

Life and Writing of John Updike

from high school as "president and co-valedictorian of the senior class at Shillington High School. During that summer, Updike beg...

Cinematic Style, Influence, and Impact of Francis Ford Coppola

in his 30s. Coppola, born in 1939 in Detroit, Michigan to an actress mother (Italia) and musician father (Carmine) grew up in Quee...

Chantal Ackerman and Her Films Je, Tu, Il and Elle and the Eighties

attitude which pervades most of her works, even today, it can be stated. This is because feminism was asking women to redefine the...

The Stranger by Albert Camus

1924 to 1932. Incipient tuberculosis put an end to his athletic activities, and the disease was to trouble Camus for the rest of h...

Pride and Prejudice, Candide, and the Important Things in Life

being respected. She begins to see that it is nobility and integrity which provide the foundation for a worthy individual. This is...

Analyzing How Sandro Botticelli Transformed the Beauty of His Idealism into a Reality Dark and Somber

deserve to become the focus of a truly disinterested affection" (Kuspit The Psychoanalytic Construction of Beauty). This eloquent...

Great American Author Ernest Hemingway

first publish Three Stories & Ten Poems in 1923 in Paris ("A Chronology" PG). In 1926 , the well known work The Sun Also Rises wou...

The Life and Art of Amy Tan

little pleasure from drafting speeches for corporate executives," working as much as ninety hours a week because she could not see...

An Examination of George Orwell:

2002). He ended up getting injured in this war as he fought the communists and eventually had to flee Spain for his life (Widmann...

Analyzing Donald Rumsfeld's Ethics

occupations so controversial? Genetics is an important topic right now as test tube babies defy human nature and allow scientists ...

Analyzing Steve Jobs' Ethics

ways, this is unscrupulous behavior. Xerox would sue him down the road and then when Bill Gates stole the Apple platform for his W...

Spirit of the Dead Watching Painting by Paul Gauguin

the Dead Watching" Despite the fact that he painted numerous tropical scenes and used the colors of the jungles and oceans of the...

Life and Literary Art of James Joyce

is encapsulated in his writings. Indeed, autobiographical elements are characteristic of much of James Joyces work. This...

The Photography of Walker Evans

matter which would make him a household name in photography, that is, signs, cafes, bridges, street scenes, poor people, and the l...

Life of Benjamin Franklin from the Revolutionary War until the U.S. Constitution

general, an office he held for one year" (Anonymous Benjamin Franklin, 2002; franklin.htm). In the year 1775 he traveled to Can...

Rosie the Riveter and Second World War Working Women

workers were needed during this time and it seems as though men were not willing to do the hard work with little pay. The reasons ...

Life and Morality

role in this respect. Plato held that the key agent in any sort of behavior but especially ethical or moral behavior (or lack of t...

Modern Expressionist Painter Georges Rouault

revolution and the advent of World War I. These factors must have had a tremendous impact on the art community. This could, one mi...

Life and Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne

work which stands as the most famous of his novels. Not surprisingly, "Hawthorne came from a Puritan family of declining fortun...