Montmartre

Maximilien Luce was a impressionistic painter and anarchist from Paris. He was known as a French neo-impressionist artist. Neo-impressionism is defined as a late 19th century movement in French painting. He was very well-known for his paintings, engravings, and graphic art. Maximilien focused on painting, rather than engraving or graphic art. He began as an impressionistic painter, then went on to pointilism, then back to impressionism. Maximilien Luce is praised for the magnificent pieces of…

The three stories I chose for this final paper are all written by people who have traveled to or lived in foreign countries. These stories focus on different topics that happened in different countries, but a common thread runs through all of them: the desire to experience a culture different from one’s own and the results of doing so. Each author enthusiastically recounts the excitement of traveling to a different place, but also reflects on hardships encountered and lessons learned. Those…

The silent cinema offers a treasure grove for the study of film acting. In the absence of sound, it shows performers constructing their respective characters by only using their bodies, not their voices. For this reason, silent cinema demands maximum expressiveness from actors. Rather than conveying their emotions by means of words, performers of the silent era knew how to express their feelings through gestures and facial expressions in such a manner that their feelings could be easily…

Martin Luther King believed “we may have all come on different ships, but we 're in the same boat now.” This belief of equality inspires millions of people everyday, but before King there was Langston Hughes. Hughes, a poet during the 1920’s, living around the world and supporting African-Americans particularly for equality in America. Hughes is a prolific equality activist, implementing his anger, depression, culture, and oppression in his poems. Langston Hughes’s family, specifically his…

so I prayed that I would make a lot of money, and then I started to think how I would make it, and thinking of making money reminded me of the count, and I started wondering about where he was, and regretting I hadn’t seen him since that night in Montmartre, and about something funny Brett told me about him, and as all the time I was kneeling with my forehead on the wood in front of me, and was thinking of myself as praying, I was little ashamed, and regretted that I was such a rotten Catholic,…