One of France’s most beloved public figures, Abbe Pierre, was the founder of the international Emmaus Community for the poor. Abbe was a former monk, who long remained spry and determined to help others despite his age. Abbe has served as a spokesman for France since the 1950s. He persuaded parliament to pass a law to forbid land owners to evict tenants during the long and harsh winter months. In 1992 Abbe was offered the Legion of Honor, France’s highest award, because he spoke out against government policies that were thought to be inadequate for the homeless. It all started in the winter of 1954 after a 3 month-old infant froze to death in a bus that was occupied by a homeless family. Abbe issued a radio appeal on behalf of the homeless
Jean-Michel Basquiat was born on December 22, 1960, in Brooklyn, New York. His mother was a Puerto Rican, and his father was a Haitian immigrant, the combination of both eventually led Jean-Michel's into learning creole, Spanish, and English. At an early age, Jean-Michel decided he wanted to be a cartoonist and so his mother took him to a art museums in order to stimulate his imagination. He showed a precocious talent for drawing, and his mother enrolled him as a Junior Member of the Brooklyn Museum when he was six. At the age of eight, he was extremely injured in a car accident and was hospitalized for a month. He broke his arm, suffered multiple internal injuries and underwent a splenectomy. His mother brought him a copy of his Grey’s
When traveling abroad to Belgium, it was my personal mission to visit some of the most historic cities in history. July 27, 1128, Bruege received its city charter and became known as the “Golden Inlet”. At that time, new walls and canals were built and in 1809 Bruege became the capital of County Flanders. Although connection to the sea was not direct, rather through a damme, many of its structure remains the same to this day. Bruege structures are breathtaking, traditionall sites are mesmorizing, and the food is delicious.
Alexandre Hogue was born February 22, 1898 in Missouri and moved to Denton, Texas soon after. He went to high school in Dallas, Texas but attended college for one year at Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Alexandre got a job at Dallas Morning News as an illustrator so he maoved back to Dallas. In 1921, he moved to New York City to work with calligraphy, film advertisements, and studied in different museums. Every summer, he would travel to and from Texas to draw with Charles Franklin Reaugh and to start his painting career. He got a job at Texas State College for Women as an art teacher, and later on made head of the art department at Hockaday Junior College. Hogue became head of the art department at the University of Tulsa, where he settled down and then later on, died.
Adrien Arcand was one of the earliest and most influential fascists in the 1920s and 30s. He founded and led The Canadian National Social Christian Party [1]. He was a journalist from Quebec who created several anti-Semitist newspapers [7].
Ambrose Bierce, born Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce on June 24 of 1842 in Megis County, Ohio, was the 10th son of farmers. After high school Ambrose Bierce enlisted in the Union army as the Civil War gained ground and soldiers. While in the Union army he encountered several military engagements, this being a major inspiration for many of his future writings and stories. After the Civil War had ended Ambrose traveled with a military expedition headed to San Francisco, this being where he left the army and shortly started to become a writer.
His Early Life: Francois Couperin grew in a well known, musical family in November 10, 1668. His Father, Charles Couperin, was a organist who played Church-Saint Gervais in Paris, France. Charles life was cut short by his Early Death in 1679. As a Boy, Francois was believed to be taught by his father. After his father died, the church council hired a new organist, thus Francois would play for the church at the age of 18. A few years later, Francois mother died in 1690. He was cared for by Jacques-Dennis Thomllin, who taught Francois how to play music. Francois soon married a woman name Marie-Anne Ansault in 1689. Francois then became a musical genius during the Baroque period.
Paule Maurice lived from 1910 until 1967 as a French female composer. She studied and spent her professional life at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, and wrote many works, but her most famous work is the Tableaux de Provence, translated "Picture of Provence”. Henri Busser was Maurice’s professor and she then won first prize in composition. She was a great teacher of sight-reading and theory at the Paris Conservatoire and Norma School of Music. Since Maurice was a teacher of theory and a composer, she wanted to keep a good reputation of the saxophone besides a growling jazz instrument. After discussing the seriousness off the saxophone with Marcel Mule she was motivated to write more serious musical expression for
The Belgian painter Luc Peire was born in 1916 in Bruges and died in 1991 in Paris. Renowned for the formal purity of his work, he worked through a range of genres and media, from portraits, landscapes, or abstraction, to environments. Peire received his art education from several institutions, beginning with the Academy of Fine Arts in Bruges (1930-5), continuing in Saint-Luc in Ghent (1932-5), and then at the Institute of Fine Arts in Antwerp (1935-40). Already recognized within his university years, holding a debut solo exhibition in 1938, the artist came to the serious acclaim after the war, joining the Young Belgian Painting movement (1945), and later awarded with the prestigious Rome Prize (1946). His art was gently influenced by numerous travels the artist conducted within the 50s, visiting Tenerife, Congo, Morocco, and South Africa; and in the meanwhile befriending Alberto Sartoris, Michel Seuphor, and Eduardo Westerdahl, among others with whom he established an artistic dialogue. In the 60s, after his move to Paris and first travels to New York, Peire's work became even more radical, influenced both by optical art and minimalism. By the end of the decade, the artist completed a number of environments, contributing for the Belgian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (1968), and in the same year executing "Ambiente Mexico" and "Wall Relief" in Antwerp.
Being an ordinary American citizen, I was affected greatly from this period of time of harsh war. Thousands of men were drafted into the war. Since I am a women, I was allowed to have a larger role in the workforce in place of the men who were fighting for the United States. However, older children had to step up and help their families by doing household chores. ("Impact on Soldiers”). My career as a business manager skyrocketed throughout this period. Other women also participated in community service jobs, such as nursing and the Red Cross which benefitted society. Many female jobs were created due to the war, such as waitressing. ("Social Effects of the War”). The impacts of the war on American women are extremely significant and helped
Pieter Bruegel was nicknamed “Peasant Bruegel” because he usually depicted commoners. Additionally, there was a rumor of him being born a peasant since he only depicted them in his art. He portrays the peasants very closely, right down to the worn costumes and vehement gestures they are making. Since he paints peasants so accurately and closely, he must have observed their day to day life with fascination. Pieter Bruegel was interested in peasant life and saw a potential to use them to depict morals in his artwork.
The country of Burkina Faso is a country that was established in 1947 as a French colony. The country later became independent in 1960 (CountryReports), with the military putting leaders in power. After many years of the military electing the government, a man named Blaise Compaoré was in power for 27 years (Lazuta). Recently, Compaoré was overthrown by an uprising and popular vote. The citizens of Burkina Faso started to establish a democracy, but the supporters of Compaoré have been fighting against it and been attempting to gain rights to become the leaders of the country.
Jean-Michel Basquiat was a painter apart of the Neo-Expressionism movement. He was born on December 22, 1960, in Brooklyn, New York with his Puerto Rican mother and Haitian-American father. Since he lived is such a culturally diverse environment he learned fluently 3 languages at an early age French, English, and Spanish. When he was young his mother encouraged him in wanting to learn drawing and painting. He was already a part of the Junior member of the Brooklyn museum at the age of 6.
The Landlady by Roald Dahl unveils a valuable theme through mysterious and disturbing occurrences. The integrity and truthfulness of a person are difficult to uncover. They hide behind fake identities, masks which alter the beliefs of others. Despite the difficulty to realize one's’ authentic self, it is important to be alert and to notice clues in order to depict their personality or to predict situations. This is proven by the first encounter between the main character and the Landlady, the Landlady's behaviour and the evidence within the bed and breakfast guestbook. Therefore, the theme of The Landlady is to not be too trusting or unwary and to be perceptive.
1. Preemptive arrests is when an individual is arrested before committing a criminal act. In my opinion, I don’t agree with the idea of preemptive arrest. The reason is because I believe that an individual should commit a criminal act in order to be arrested, not prior to. If a person does not commit a criminal act, then what is the point of them being arrested? In addition, in the film the precogs used their vision so that the police could see how the crime would unravel, and with that vision, it allowed for them to make a preemptive arrest (Neubauer & Fradella, 2014). In the film when the precogs predicted that Andertson would commit a murder. In my opinion, I don’t think that the visions of the future should be sufficient
Yves Henri Donat Matthieu Saint Laurent, know as Yves Saint Laurent, was born in August 1, 1936 in Oran, Algeria. He was born into working class family, his father, Charles Saint Laurent,was a lawyer and insurance broker that owned a chain of cinemas, and his mother, Lucienne Mathieu. He had two younger sisters, Michèle and Brigitte. Saint Laurent did not have a easy childhood, in school he would often be bullied by appearing to be a homosexual. This lead to him being a very nervous and would often get sick. He enjoyed creating detailed paper dolls. Much older he designed dresses for his sisters and mother. At age 17, Saint Laurent moved to Paris and met Michelde Brunhoff, director of French Vogue at the time, who published several of Saint