such as The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing and The Tempest. Contrasting with other countries Shakespeare mentions, such as Spain, Austria and France, places in Italy are very precise, and he often offers real names and details about the cities and landscapes. He even makes up places that aren’t even in this world. Italy, and especially Rome, were the ideal place to travel to – it was famous for its culture, tongue and customs and overall a popular place to visit in Elizabethan times. It
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Romantic-Franz Liszt Franz Liszt, a Hungarian pianist and composer. He was born October 22, 1811 in Raiding, Hungary (which is now Raiding, Austria). And died July 31, 1886 in Bayreuth, Germany. His baptism record is in Latin and it klists his first name as Franciscus but never used it himself. Many of his notable compositions include 12 symphonic poems, 2 piano concerti, several sacred choral works, and a variety of great solo piano pieces (Britannica). His father was Hungarian and his mother was
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Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo Calderon was born on July, 6, 1907, in nowadays known as Casa Azul in Coyoacan, a town on the outskirts of Mexico City. Her father, Wilhelm Kahlo, was German who had moved to Mexico at a young age where he remained for the rest of his life, eventually taking over the photography business of Kahlo’s mother’ s family. Her mother, a Wilhelm’s second wife, Matilde Calderon y Gonzales, born of mixed Spanish and Indian ancestry, raised Frida and her five sisters in a strict
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Shocking the art world with her black silhouette depictions of blacks and whites engaged in situations ranging from lynchings to rape and even bestiality during the pre-Civil War South, Kara Walker has achieved both notoriety and acclaim in the art world while still in her twenties. “It is hard to think of another artist in the last three or four years who has emerged as rapidly,” commented Alexis Worth on Walker in a 1996 issue of Art in New England. In a way, Walker’s goal with her art is to make
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to see a gradual progression through the first two parts of the novel, and in part 3 we see much more dramatic changes. Winston meets a girl named Julia at the Ministry of Truth and instantly falls for her. The couple rent a room above a shop in the city and the owner insists there is no telescreen. Unbeknownst to Winston or Julia, the owner of the Antiques shop is an officer of the thought police (Orwell 282-283). Winston and Julia
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hometown and instead decided to stay and become a widowed father. He could’ve moved away achieved a career and followed his dreams, but instead he married Emily and stayed in Grover’s Corner. Mrs. Gibbs had dreams of traveling, she always wanted to see Paris. She had the opportunity to sell her mother’s antique chair and get enough money to go on her dream trip but never took the opportunity and missed out on a trip of a lifetime. No one took the opportunities that were offered to them, instead they decided
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Budapest is the wonderful capitol city of Hungary. The people have had struggles in the past - such as the Hungarian Revolution. The people, history and architecture is very unique with churches, local shops and restaurants. They have a plethora of absorbing history. “But if you go to Moscow to Budapest, you will think you are in Paris,” according to Gyorgy Ligeti, a Romanian composer of classical music. (Brain Quotes) Budapest’s climate is the Humid Continental. The summers are from April to August
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1 Film Essay: “Perfume: The Story of a Murderer” as an Illustration of ADHESIVE PSEUDO-OBJECT-RELATIONS Like the novel by Patrick Süskind, Tom Tykwer’s film adaptation of Perfume: the story of a murderer (1986) is a gripping horror tale of a fictional eighteenth-century French serial killer. I believe it is also a grotesque version of those cases of trauma and consequence that analysts observe in the privacy of their consulting rooms. Perhaps if, as Freud (1933) suggests, extraordinary
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The Not-So-Wonderful World of EuroDisney—Things Are Better Now at Paris Disneyland Bonjour, Mickey! In April 1992, EuroDisney SCA opened its doors to European visitors. Located by the river Marne some 20 miles east of Paris, it was designed to be the biggest and most lavish theme park that Walt Disney Company (Disney) had built to date—Bigger than Disneyland in Anaheim, California; Disneyworld in Orlando, Florida; and Tokyo Disneyland in Japan. In 1989, EuroDisney was expected to be
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