1. Find and post a picture of a piece of art from the Post Impressionism‚ Symbolist‚ or Art Nouveau periods‚ that is not on your list of "Required Art". Include the work ’s title‚ artist‚ medium‚ period and date . (1 points) Le Chahut‚ Georges Seurat‚ oil on canvas‚ Post Impressionism‚1889-90. 2. Are there horizontal‚ vertical‚ and or diagonal movements in the work? Describe what you see. (3 points) The painting depicts a scene in a music hall. There are two male and two female dancers doing
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to the end of slavery and was a spectacular president until his untimely death. In his‚ rather short‚ Second Inaugural Address he surprised people with not only its length but its content as well. Lincoln‚ using careful wording‚ treated both men and parties as equal‚ thus creating an impacting result on what would eventually be American History. Lincoln starts off his address with a simple “fellow-countrymen” which describes the whole audience‚ both black and white. Lincoln chose his wording carefully
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Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Inaugural Address was exactly what Americans of the 1930’s needed to hear. To begin‚ previous to Roosevelt’s inauguration Herbert Hoover was the president of the United States. Hoover was considered by many of the time to be the cause of the great depression and the worst president the United States had ever seen. This was largely due to the fact that his republican views‚ that the government should play a very small part in society and that the American people should be self
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Memory In the “Gettysburg Address” and the lecture “Hope‚ Despair and Memory” the topic of memory is touched upon. Memory is an essential part of our existence‚ but is all of it necessary? While it is true that‚ “Without memory‚ our existence would be barren and opaque‚”(from “Hope‚ Despair and Memory”) do all memories provide enough benefit to us to warrant their existence? If you could erase some of your most difficult memories‚ would you do it? While I do see value in some painful memories‚ for
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The unparalleled power of ‘first’ histories is revealed through George Dangerfield’s 1935 novel‚ The Strange Death of Liberal England‚ in creating a paradigm for which “subsequent historians have seldom been able to free themselves”. Attesting the Suffragette Movement as a major cause for the downfall of the Liberal Party in 1924‚ Dangerfield presents a distorted view of the past through the shrewd lens of comedy. Coupled with his persuasive writing‚ Dangerfield fabricates a fictitious narrative
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Thomas Jefferson’s Second Inaugural Address After Thomas Jefferson was re-elected president of the United States of America‚ he gave a speech called The Second Inaugural Address. President Jefferson was known for his wonderful speaking skills. His inaugural speech was powerful and well-written. The forms of rhetorical devices that President Jefferson used in his speech are elevated diction‚ tone‚ metaphors‚ and the power of three. The figurative speech confirms to the public that it was a good
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The last theorist discussed in class was‚ George Kelly; an American psychologist who developed a personality theory called the personal construct psychology . The psychologist did not talk about development from birth to adulthood. Rather‚ his theory sees human beings as forms of motion regardless of age . According to Kelly ’s view‚ the human `becoming ’ is a highly individualized process of psychological development . In this process‚ each child and adult continuously extends ‚ revises ‚ and reorganizes
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September 17‚ 2014 English 105 Composition I MWF Owell begins the story with the discontent the police officer has with his job and India with its oppressors‚ keeping the conflict in the mind of the readers early on and constant. The narrator draws back on his memories which haunt him of when he had to make a choice and chose his pride. Owell often writes about imperialism‚ in no shape or form hiding his distaste for it and often poking fun at it‚ such in 1984 and Animal Farm. He was born
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State of Union Address 2012 The State of Union Address took place on Jan. 24‚ 2012 and followed specific traditions. All Congress members both in the Senate and House of Representatives‚ Supreme Court Justices‚ Generals‚ and distinguished guests were at the Address. The Cabinet came before the President and greeted everyone on the isles. When President Obama was ready‚ he was announced to the Speaker of the House. He also shook and kissed the Congress women and shook hands with Congress men. The
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Haley wigal Inaugural Address John Fitzgerald Kennedy John Fitzgerald Kennedy‚ “Inaugural Address” (January 20th‚1961) “President John Fitzgerald Kennedy possessed all the qualities of greatness. He had deep faith‚ complete confidence‚ human sympathy‚ and broad vision which recognized the true values of freedom‚ equality‚ and the brotherhood which have always been the marks of the American political dreams.” Said by John W. McCormack‚ Speaker of the House of Representatives‚ at John F. Kennedy’s
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