These are some of the questions that I am going to answer in this research paper. Andy Dalton was born on October 29, 1987. Before Andy went to elementary school him and his family lived in the suburbs of texas. They moved to Katy because his mom Tina was already working there. He went to Katy High School in Texas.…
(Sinclair 1906). The Jungle, written by Upton Sinclair, was intended to show the plight of immigrant workers in the meatpacking industry of Chicago. Sinclair wanted to show how capitalism had failed and that socialism was the only way to solve the problems of the American worker. However, the American public centered their concerns on the awful conditions that meat was processed and how unsanitary, contaminated, and rotten meat was making their way to American stores.…
“And we shall organize them, we shall drill them, we shall marshal them for the victory! We shall bear down the opposition, we shall sweep if before us—and Chicago will be ours! Chicago will be ours! CHICAGO WILL BE OURS!” Persuading people to accept socialism was Upton Sinclair’s purpose when he wrote The Jungle, a third person narrative story written about a fictional family in the oh-so very realistic world of Chicago.…
Annie Leibovitz was born on October 2, 1949 in Waterbury Connecticut. She first became interested in art while attending Northwood High School where she wrote and played music. She then studied painting at the San Francisco Art Institute. After living on an Israeli kibbutz for a short period of time, Leibovitz returned to the United States and started working for Rolling Stone magazine. When she started working for Rolling Stone magazine, she worked as a staff photographer.…
Robert Capa is one of the most well known war photographers. He was a photographer in five different wars, such as the Spanish Civil War, WWII, and the Sino- Japanese War. He brought a lot of controversy with his photos with some critics even saying he didn’t take some of the photos, but either way he had a huge impact on how we view the war and definitely gave us insight on what goes on. Born October 22, 1913 In Budapest, Austria Hungary into a Jewish family, his love for writing and the arts started early.…
The Great Fitzgerald F. Scott Fitzgerald was a brilliant author who’s writing captured aura of the 1920’s and the hearts of millions of people around the world. Although Fitzgerald failed in more things than he succeeded in, and let that get the best of him, he’s still managed to bring his own story to the jazz age. He stole the heart of his wife and got his name in English books everywhere. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, named after a well-known author and cousin who wrote the “Star- Spangled Banner”, was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. He was born to an Irish- Catholic woman, Mary McQuillan, and a failed furniture maker, Edward Fitzgerald, on September 24, 1896.…
There was a country called Velarus which was controlled and ruled by two homosexual brothers. Steve Warhol was the older brother, and he was short, bald and fat. He controlled the political affairs of the country. Will Warhol was the younger brother, he was tall, skinny and handsome. He controlled the military affairs of the country.…
Gustav Klimt Gustav Klimt was born on July 14, 1862, on the outer part of Vienna, Austria. The son of Ernst and Anna Klimt. Ernst was a broke struggling gold engraver and Anna was musically talented, but had never wanted to become a professional artist. Gustav became very gifted at a young age. He went to Vienna School of Art and Crafts on a full scholarship.…
He planned to study fine arts when his academic career was interrupted in 1943, when…
Marc Chagall was born in a small community in the suburbs of Vitebsk, Belarus, on July 7, 1887. His dad was a fish seller and his mom sold miscellaneous stuff. When Chagall was a child he attended a Jewish elementary school, he studied Hebrew and the bible there, later on he ended up attending a Russian public school. “He began to learn the fundamentals of drawing during this time, but perhaps more importantly, he absorbed the world around him, storing away the imagery and themes that would feature largely in most of his later work” (biography.com, publish date not available.) t age 19 Chagall enrolled at a private, all-Jewish art school and began his formal education in painting, studying briefly with portrait artist Yehuda Pen.…
Raoul Wallenberg was born on August 4,1912, in Stockholm, Sweden. His father Raoul Oscar Wallenberg died two months before he was born. His mother, Maj Wising married Raoul Wallenberg’s father then married Fredrik von Dardel six years after her husband passed away. Out of this marriage came Raoul Wallenberg’s brother, Guy and sister, Nina. Raoul’s education was taken very seriously.…
On the night of February 20th, 1967, the cry of new life spread soundly through the maternity wing of Grays Harbor Community Hospital. This seemingly average night in Hoquiam, Washington would prove to be one of profound and unforeseeable significance; Wendy O’Connor and Donald Cobain would welcome their first-born child Kurt into their lives and, in that very same instance, the world would gain one of the most influential musical icons to strum a guitar. It was in this northern logging town on the Pacific coast of Washington state that Kurt Cobain, co-founder and lead vocalist/songwriter of the grunge rock band “Nirvana”, would flourish into the talented and tortured soul destined to be gazed upon by millions across the globe. In his tragically…
Upton Sinclair was born in Baltimore in 1878. His family lost their wealth and land due to the Civil War. At 10 years old, Sinclair’s family moved to New York City. Sinclair went to his primary schooling there and also college. He attended Columbia University, while he was there he started selling stories to magazines.…
The Life of Mr. Kandinsky Wassily (or Vassily) Kandinsky was born to his mother Lidia Ticheeva and father Vasily Kandinsky on December 16, 1866 in Moscow, Russia and at the age of five him and his family moved to Odessa. Kandinsky was educated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, Germany. He is best known for his abstract paintings and was part of the expressionism and abstract art movement in his lifetime. Kandinsky did not, however, just create art. As a young boy, he learned to play the cello and piano, and also wrote poetry.…
Danto initially felt that Andy Warhol’s art deprived of an artistic respectability. Due to Warhol’s subject matter, Danto considered his art to be unsophisticated and insignificant. Prior to Brillo Boxes Danto felt that Warhol’ art was a mere ‘copy’ of ordinary objects and that it lacked any significant meaning or value. After being exposed to Warhol’s Brillo Boxes, Danto’s perception and understanding of Warhol’s art was completely reconstructed and reversed. Danto detected that Warhol’s work did not just consists of art that merely symbolized an everyday object, but that there was in fact an intellectual motivation and commentary (Danto 1983).…