Auguste Rodin

“The name is Sherlock Holmes and the address is 221B Baker Street.” (Moffat) This is where we start our story, with a name and an address. If you ask random people “Who is Sherlock Holmes?” most will tell you that he is the greatest detective to ever live. While this statement is taken for fact all around the world, unfortunately the great Mister Holmes has always been fiction. It is like calling the lion who lives in savannas the king of the jungle. The actuality in these labels maybe lacking,…

Adapted many times and having countless tumblrs dedicated to the tale, Sherlock Holmes: The Final Problem is the world's most treasured classic adventure. It comes as no surprise that BBC took the English tale and made it one of their own, but did their adaption, Sherlock: The Reichenbach Fall, live up to the expectation? It comes with a change of century and characters that have been moulded into, what some would falsely criticise, entirely new beings. BBC's adaption is surprisingly new… and so…

I visited the Gilcrease Museum and toured various exhibits. The museum hosts a vast assortment of artifacts entailing the history of America, from its multitude of early Native American art to current day. I loved seeing the different forms of artwork housed at the museum. My favorite exhibit was over impressionism in California during the 20th century. The movement, while rooted in impressionism, changed shape with new American influences. For example, painters used new methods to show God…

“Elementary, my dear Watson.” Sherlock Holmes’s famous catchphrase is still widely recognized throughout modern society. Much to his own surprise, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle became one of the most famed authors in the field of crime fiction after the creation of British private detective Sherlock Holmes and his associate Dr. John Watson. Even though the novels and short stories were published during the late 1800’s, people today still consider Holmes the most well-known detective of all time. The…

Out of all the detective stories, the two that have made the most impact in the genre are Edgar Allen Poe’s C. Auguste Dupin and Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. Although they were written years apart, Holmes and Dupin have as much in common, such as skills, qualities and results, as they have differences. This essay will focus on comparing and contrasting these two detectives. First, Dupin and Holmes have certain methods, qualities and skills in common. Second, the successes and failures…

In the middle of the night, from the house on Rue Morgue there are screams coming from inside. The next morning, we find out that a mother and daughter were murdered by an unknown killer, and the mother has her neck cut from her body outside the house window and the daughter was strangled and shoved into a fireplace. Two detectives, the unnamed narrator and Dupin both investigate the house and interrogate many witnesses to get clues about the killer, However useless, Dupin figures out that it…

Chicago! Claude Monet was a famous French artist who was a significant individual during the Impressionist movement. The Impressionist movement dealt with “capturing light and natural forms through art.” Like other impressionist artists such as Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, and Frederic Bazille, Monet “observed variations of color and light caused by the daily or seasonal changes.” Claude Monet connects to what we are learning in school because he is a famous artist that has a painting…

In the late 1800s three Impressionist masters were capturing images of life in France while simultaneously depicting on going changes in Parisian society and culture. The paintings that give us a glimpse into the changing times in France include Vincent van Gogh’s Terrace and Observation Deck at the Moulin de Blute-Fin, Montmartre (1887), Gustave Caillebotte’s Paris Street; Rainy Day (1877) and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s At the Moulin Rouge (1892/95). I encountered these paintings in the…

“Laurent Clerc: The Story of His Early Years” is a book based upon Laurent Clerc life as a deaf child and how he comes to find of others who were also deaf and learn school. In the first few chapter of the book Laurent Clerc is living at home with his family in La Balme. His mother takes him to see doctors and check him out but no one could seem to see what was wrong with him. They would perform all sorts of test on the boy, such as putting medicine in his ears. None of the doctor’s methods…

The Tree of Life is a subtle film that intricately links together the world while discussing vast concepts. One such concept, the way of nature, is personified through Brad Pitt’s character; he is a man who acts in primal animalistic ways, and consistently lets these emotions get the better of him. This motif has been explored in many films prior to Terrence Malick’s masterpiece and previous directors’ efforts by no means come close to the beauty of Malick’s film. Many of the films of the…