...pictures of his hero, John Henry, the steel drivin man. But he also had a secret dream of becoming a fiddle player. He told art historian Harry Henderson that he regretted all of his life not pursuing his dream, he was a prolific artist of his era. He depicted African American life, painting in both oils and watercolors. As a young man, Hayden studied at the Cooper Union in New York City and also practiced independent studies at Boothbay Art Colony in Maine. He created one of his first famous pieces in 1926, a still life called "Fetiche et Fleurs," which won the esteemed Harmon Foundation’s Gold Award, prompting his patrons to support him so he could live and study in France. Over the next five years in Paris, Hayden was very productive, trying to capture elements of society. On his return to America, Hayden began working for the United States government. He worked for the U.S. Treasury Art Project as well as the Depression-era government-funded Works Progress Administration . Hayden took his inspiration from the environment around him, focusing on the African American experience. He tried to capture both rural life in the South, as well as urban backgrounds in New York City.Many of these urban...
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...Mary Ludwig, age 78, passed away January 22 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. She lived a heroic life being an unsung hero of the American Revolution. She was recognized by Washington on the battlefield and he later issued her a condemnation. On October 13, 1754 Mary was born in Trenton New Jersey to Maria and John Ludwig. She is most commonly known as Molly Pitcher. Mary’s mom worked as a dairy farmer. At the age of 13, Molly left her home to work as a domestic servant and later married a barber, William Hays. William and Mary Hays lived as patriots in the state of Pennsylvania. At the start of the Revolutionary War, William enlisted in the Continental Army and served as a gunner in the 4th Artillery during the war. While her husband fought on the battlefields, Molly became a camp follower. Camp followers were a group of women who traveled with the army and cared for wounded soldiers, cooked, and cleaned for them. Camp followers were crucial to the soldier’s lives as they were fighting....
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...The tournaments helped him make a living, and got his name out to others for his prowess. Marshall demonstrated fierce loyalty to his “lord” the Young King. This loyalty went so far as to lead him into conflict in the Young King’s name. Again, his prowess in the tournament and his luck on the battlefield played a role in securing him a place after the Young King’s loss. Marshall not only displayed fierce loyalty but cunning in battle as he aged. Anticipating the intrigue and intricacies of the courtly life; Marshall determined his fate would be that of a courtier for his future having no lands or titles. Being a sell-sword meant he would live the life he made for himself. This was apparent in his service to Henry II; serving him until his death. With the death of Henry II, Marshall himself was sure his son Richard would not want to keep him in the royal mesnie. Having only days earlier defeated Richard by killing his horse, other knights offered Marshall money to help him get by. Richard had other plans for him, his loyalty to...
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...The Searchers The Searchers is considered to be a true American masterpiece of filmmaking, and the best, most influential, and maybe even the most-admired film of director John Ford. The film's themes are racism, individuality, the American character, and the opposition between civilizations: exemplified by homes, caves, and other domestic interiors and the untamed frontier wilderness. The Searchers paved the way for later amazing westerns. John Wayne plays Ethan Edwards, a former Confederate soldier who returns to his brother, Aaron's frontier cabin three years after the end of the Civil War. Ethan still has his rebel uniform and weapons, a large stash of Yankee gold, and no explanations as to where he's been since Lee's surrender. A loner uncomfortable in the presence of his family, Ethan also has a bitter hatred of Indians and trusts no one but himself. Ethan and Martin Pawley (Jeffrey Hunter), Aaron's adopted son, band together a team of Texas Rangers fending off an assault by renegade Comanches. Before they can run off the Indians, several homes are attacked, and Ethan returns to find his brother and sister-in-law dead and their two daughters kidnapped. While they soon learn that one of the girls is dead, the other, Debbie, is still alive, and with obsessive determination, Ethan and Martin spend the next five years in a relentless search for Debbie and for Scar (Henry Brandon), the fearsome Comanche chief who abducted her. But while Martin wants to save his sister and bring...
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...OLD ENGLISH LITERATURE • Palaeolithic nomads from mainland Europe; • New inhabitants came from western and possibly north-western Europe (New Stone Age); • in the 2nd millennium BC new inhabitants came from the Low Countries and the middle Rhine (Stonehenge); • Between 800 and 200 BC Celtic peoples moved into Britain from mainland Europe (Iron Age) • first experience of a literate civilisation in 55 B.C. • remoter areas in Scotland retained independence • Ireland, never conquered by Rome, Celtic tradition • The language of the pre-Roman settlers - British (Welsh, Breton); Cornish; Irish and Scottish Gaelic (Celtic dialect) • The Romans up to the fifth century • Britain - a province of the Roman Empire 400 years • the first half of the 5th century the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes (N Germany, Jutland) • The initial wave of migration - 449 A. D. • the Venerable Bede (c. 673-735) • the Britain of his time comprised four nations English, British (Welsh), Picts, and Scots. • invaders resembling those of the Germans as described by Tacitus in his Germania. • a warrior race • the chieftain, the companions or comitatus. • the Celtic languages were supplanted (e.g. ass, bannock, crag). * Christianity spread from two different directions: * In the 5th century St Patrick converted Ireland, in the 7th century the north of England was converted by Irish monks; * in the south at the end of the 6th century Aethelberht of Kent allowed the monk Augustine...
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...the Titans for ignoring his prayers to save his wife and children. Theseus (Henry Cavill) follows the visions of Phaedra the sibylline oracle (Freida Pinto). Phaedra has a vision of Theseus that he is the savior of the world and is the only one who can stop King Hyperion. Important characters are Theseus (Henry Cavill), King Hyperion (Mickey Rourke), Phaedra (Freida Pinto), Stavros (Stephen Dorff), Old Man (John Hurt), Zeus (Luke Evans), Ares (Daniel Sharman), Athena (Isabel Lucas), Poseidon (Kellan Lutz), Heracles (Steve Byers), Apollo (Corey Sevier), and Dareios (Alan Van Sprang). King Hyperion in Greek myth...
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...Difficult Reputations: Collective Memories of the Evil, Inept, and Controversial. By Gary Alan Fine. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2001. 267 pp. Every good story needs its hero and its villain. In Gary Alan Fine’s book, Difficult Reputations: Collective Memories of the Evil, Inept, and Controversial, he urges the importance of history’s villains, and those with controversial reputations, in modern society. Eight case studies are used to show how controversial figures in public memory (ranging from Benedict Arnold to Henry Ford to Fatty Arbuckle) acquired difficult reputations and the effects that those reputations had on the American people. In Fine’s introduction, he makes a case for the relevance of figures with difficult reputations. American society has a tendency to focus on reputational heroes such as George Washington and Abraham Lincoln who represent the center of American morality. Fine argues that those with difficult reputations are just as important because they represent the boundaries of morality. Portrayals of these figures as villains are thus examples for the people of what is morally unacceptable in American society. Fine then explains the importance of reputational entrepreneurs in the construction of reputations. He defines reputational entrepreneurs as those who help construct reputations in ways that benefit their own agendas. In the case of morality, reputational entrepreneurs can benefit society by constructing negative reputations...
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...(secretary) with the East India Company. Richmond fathered a daughter, Sarah Redfield, born in 1804, by Charlotte Sophia Rudd, his native and possibly Eurasian mistress, the mother and daughter being named in his will. Such liaisons were common among gentlemen of the East India Company, and it formed no bar to his later courting and marrying William's mother.Mother Anne Becher, born 1792, was "one of the reigning beauties of the day," a daughter of John Harmon Becher (Collector of the South 24 Parganas district d. Calcutta, 1800), of an old Bengal civilian family "noted for the tenderness of its women." Anne Becher, her sister Harriet, and widowed mother Harriet had been sent back to India by her authoritarian guardian grandmother, widow Ann Becher, in 1809 on the Earl Howe. Anne's grandmother had told her that the man she loved, Henry Carmichael-Smyth, an ensign of the Bengal Engineers whom she met at an Assembly Ball in Bath, Somerset during 1807, had died, and Henry was told that Anne was no longer interested in him. This was not true. Though Carmichael-Smyth was from a distinguished Scottish military family, Anne's grandmother went to extreme lengths to thwart their marriage; surviving family letters state that she wanted a better match for her granddaughter. Anne Becher and Richmond Thackeray were married in Calcutta on 13 October 1810. Their only child, William, was subsequently born on 18 July 1811.There was a fine miniature portrait of the exuberant and youthful Anne Becher...
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...Through the different stages of his life, he faced different problems: His parents separated, turning Richard against his father; Saladin took over the city that was so important to the Coeur de Lion’s religion; and his own brother betrayed him in search of personal gain. Richard’s relationship with his father is what shaped important parts in the king’s life in the way he behaved as a ruler. He made sure not to rule in the same harsh manner as King Henry II had. The forgiving nature the young Lionheart adopted was present when he was dealing with two men who probably were far down the list of those deserving a second chance with Richard. William Marshal and Maurice of Craon, the late Henry II’s advisors, failed in their plot to kill the young king, and he let them off without a punishment (Gillingham 1999, 101). Richard remained the good ruler he wanted to be until the end of his...
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...In the early eighteen hundreds, Native American troubles became apparent in the west, mainly between Indiana's tyrant of a governor, William Henry Harrison, and the Shawnee tribe with insulting ways of payment and battle methods. But of course with the reign of Shawnee chief Tecumseh, and brother Tenskwatawa, these tactics tumbled. In 1809, while the Shawnee chief was out on an enlisting voyage. Harrison grouped several Native American tribes to talk about the Treaty of Fort Wayne. Upon finding out, Tecumseh left his tribe in hopes to find and negotiate friendly relations with other tribes. William Harrison saw this advantage over the Shawnee tribe and attacked. With total loss of forty Native Americans, the Americans won the two-hour-long...
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...Robert E. Lee, also known as Robert Edward Lee, was born on January 19, 1807 in Stratford Hall, Virginia. He was the fourth child of Ann Hill Carter Lee and Henry Lee. Robert’s father, Henry Lee, was well known for his duties in the Revolutionary War. This caused Henry to gain the nickname “Light-Horse Harry” for his many good accomplishments. Just like his father, Robert would later become known as a war hero, and be remembered for his many accomplishments also. In 1825 soon after he said goodbye to his ill mother, Robert set off for the United States Military Academy where he would soon graduate second in his class. Through this time Robert faced many challenges with the rules for the first two years. He was not able to leave and visit...
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...Vikram Amar Mr. Levy APUSH E Block Jackson DBQ 11/4/2015 Andrew Jackson was elected president in 1828 when he beat the incumbent John Quincy Adams. He was skilled at running an emotional campaign and ended up defeating his opponent rather easily. Upon his inheritance of the presidency, despite there being only one real party, views about the United State’s future were divided. His supporters, Jacksonians, were a group of people who were united really only by their love of Jackson, and were just a group of people sewn together from different areas of the nation. Although it is said that they were “the guardians of the United States Constitution”, they were not. Their primary goals, however, were to suppress the dying federalists and emerging...
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...Early European Theater • The writings of this period were primarily hymns, sermons and similar theologically oriented works. • Latin became a literary medium. • Major preserves of learning are the monasteries. • 8th century Europe returned to greater stability under the Carolingian kings. ➢ Charles Martel – defeated the Moslems at Tours in 732 AD, through his innovative use of armored horsemen as the principal military force, initiating the development of knighthood. ➢ Charlemagne – extended his realm into the Slavic territories and converting non- Christians on the way. Charlemagne was crowned by the Pope and pronounced him as the successor to Constantine. The scenario was the first attempt to establish the Holy Roman Empire. • Charlemagne’s death caused Europe to break into small units isolated from each other and from the world. • Moslem controlled the Mediterranean and the Vikings, still pagans, conquered the northern seas. Early Middle Ages • Life was relatively simple. • Feudalistic patterns were fully established. ➢ Manor (large estate)- headed by a noble man, assumed absolute authority over the peasants who worked his land collectively. ➢ Vassals – supplies the lords a specified number of knights upon demand and the lords in return were bound to protect their vassals. The Theater (500- 900 AD) • The theater revived during the early Middle Ages. • After the Western Roman...
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...The adaptation of Much Ado was Branagh’s second attempt at turning a Shakespearian classic into a box office phenomenon. Brannagh first adapted a Shakespearian play in 1989 with Henry V. “Branagh's "Henry V" emerges from the darkness with the rip and sputter of a struck match. It's a magnificent beginning and a startling metaphor -- an inspired equivalent for Shakespeare's "muse of fire" -- and the first stroke of brilliance in this audacious, resonant, passionate film” … Well that’s what Hal Hinson of the Washington Post thought anyway. Some might say that Brannagh therefore had a lot to live up to with Much Ado, his second Shakespeare adaptation. Do I think the film lived up to the expectations? Well I guess that depends upon your motives for watching, for fun? Or like me in an attempt to understand the complicating language and humour found within Much Ado, if the latter sigh no more students, Branagh’s film makes the understanding of Much Ado far easier. If you wanted a nice night in with a film, however, under no circumstance would I recommend this film, plagued with wooden acting, confusing, casting and more over a boring, predictable and somewhat unbelievable plot. Brannaghh’s decision to cast Denzel Washington as Don Pedro, the heroic, noble fighter is somewhat bewildering, considering traditional audiences’ connotations of a black man; however as a contemporary audience we are able to look beyond the colour of Don Pedro’s skin. I however was unable to look...
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...and expectations, these objects take on meaning specific to that group. For example, the cross is an ancient archetypal symbol. When cultural groups adopt it, the meanings become both universal and specific. For most cultures the cross holds spiritual significance; hence its archetypal meaning. For Christians the cross takes on specific representation of Christ’s crucifixion. Nuance – These objects take on symbolic meaning in the work in which they appear. Modern writers often create their own symbols by repeatedly using the object in meaningful ways. For example, Golding used the conch shell to represent order and governmental control. NOTABLE ARCHETYPAL SYMBOLS, CHARACTERS, AND STORY PATERNS Characters: Hero (Epic, Classical, Romantic, Realistic, Anti-Hero) Outcast, Scapegoat, Trickster, Platonic Ideal, Monster, Temptress, Star-crossed lovers, Clown/jester, Prophet Story Patterns: Rite of Passage/Initiation, Creation, Fall, Expulsion, Death & Rebirth, Journey, Quest Symbols: (Archetypal symbols have duel nature and are often objects that we find in nature) Water, Fire, Wind, Earth, All colors, Snakes, Birds/Flight, Trees, Gold, Iron, Silver, Sun, Moon, Cross, Seasons Why study myth & symbols? 1. They enrich our encounters with art & literature as we discover the layers of meaning they hold. 2. We understand the values of cultures different from our own and at the same time discover...
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