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    Designers

    20TH CENTURY DESIGNERS YourFirstNameYourLastName University title Course title: Lecturer’s name: Born to welch school teachers in 11 of February in the year 1934, Mary Quant is a renowned welsh fashion designer and present day icon in British fashion circles. Quant graduated from the Goldsmith College in London with a diploma in Art and ventured in to fashion. She is credited with the popularization of the miniskirt, an outfit whose invention she is silently credited with. During the swinging sixties

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    Queen Victoria

    a doctor came out and told him his wife was dead.After many controversies between the royal family about who was to become the heir to the crown there was a female infant born in Kensington Palace in London on May 24, 1819.Born Alexandrina Victoria to Victoria Mary Louisa, daughter of the Duke of Saxe-Cobury-Saalfeld, and Edward Augustus, duke of Kent and Strathern, the fourth son of George III and youngest brother of George IV and William IV, both kings of Great Britain.In January of 1920 the Duke

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    Er Classes Of The Victorian Era

    Have you ever wondered about the Victorian england era? If not these facts will surely get you interested. During the Victorian era many things were different then from today. This includes classes of people, food, sports, and clothes. First of all, the classes of the Victorian era were different from today there was no middle class, upper class, and lower class. The class went more like unemployed, employed poors, gentleman, and upper class. The classes gentleman and upper class were treated like

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    Influence on Fashion Project - Crinoline

    women's gowns were influenced by neoclassicism and thus were simple and straight. But by 1810, there was a desire to widen gowns again, like paniers. However, there was desire to create more of a cone shape in skirts. With the crowning of Queen Victoria in 1837, all eyes were on her for fashion trends. This was when crinoline became popular. And unlike paniers, women of all social classes wore crinoline. The first crinolines were petticoats made of crinoline fabric but made stiffer. Ruffles were

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    Satire

    Satire Within The Importance of Being Earnest Comedy is normally intentioned to be engaged in theatrical plays to develop a significant message. In witty, comical plays like “The Importance of Being Earnest”, the author, Oscar Wilde’s key objective is to create comedy in a number of situations creating ridiculous occurrences and absurd characters. Wilde presents the character(s) in the comedy play to obtain weaknesses, conceits, and lack of insight so that their acts can be easily compared between

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    Swift’s a Modest Proposal

    Assignment 1: Essay Juan Smith Strayer University HUM 112 Dr. Pawel Goral A Modest Proposal it a piece lecture that was done by Jonathan Swift one of the greatest poetry writers in the Victorian age. It was a very challenge piece to understand at first. Now after reading it a few times I have a great surprise from it. It was based on how the people live doing that era. Strongly towards the children of this period that had to struggle very badly. Without food to feed them or anything that

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    Begining

    science Amongst all the glorious achievements of Queen Victoria's reign, the wonderful discoveries in science must ever claim a foremost place. Thrilling indeed are the stories of this scientific age, breathless the rapidity with which one after another burst upon the public mind, changing old-world customs, transforming time-worn ideas, and revolutionizing the thought of centuries. The name of Herschel calls up the vision of a man who, during the nineteenth century, devoted his life to the study

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    Compare and Contrast David

    Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Michelangelo Buonarroti : Compare and Contrast David This paper will focus on Bernini’s and Michelangelo’s work of art called David. The works of both artists are incredible, beautiful, and breathtaking. The works have interpretations of mythologies and Old Testament stories that originated millenniums ago. Both artists had the ability to produce such rich and poignant emotional content; their works are still able to invoke a deeply affecting response in viewers today

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    Three Sculptures

    1 Comparison of Three Sculptures The major difference between the three Davids is based on the periods in which they were carved. Michelangelos was during the Renaissance (1501-1504), Berninis is Baroque (1623), and Donatello carved his David, or Davids, (1408) during the Gothic period. Each gives a sense of style but also different perspectives on why art even exists. Michelangelo’s David is very large in size and stands 14-feet tall. This makes him a rather imposing figure, looking

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    My Story of an Hour

    Christina M Miller Keith O’Neill English 102 (Intro to Literature) 19 September 2014 The Story of an Hour In the story of an Hour we encounter a Victorian housewife that shows a reader in the present day that many feelings and self- expression have always been present. Mrs. Mallard a housewife in the Victorian era in the beginning of the story is told to have a slight heart issue which seems to play into the factor of how her sister and a friend of her husband decide how they will

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