Claude

Lines of melodious music filled my ears as I listened to Clair de Lune by Claude Debussy shortly after my eleventh birthday. I imagined myself playing notes on a piano creating euphonious sounds. In that moment, I decided to ask my mother for piano lessons at our local music store. I do not regret that decision, but I long to redo what I did that Saturday after my first lesson. Elated by my mother’s approval, I signed up with a teacher named Floyd. That Saturday afternoon my mother and I sat…

A condition in which the force of the blood against the artery walls are high enough that it can cause health problems. Hypertension hikes the chances of getting a disease of the heart and having a stroke. Hypertension, also known as High Blood Pressure, has had many theories on how it was discovered. It has been around since the early Egyptian empires, but the importance did not come around until around the 1950s. By the 16th Century Leonardo Da Vinci showed many diagrams of the anatomical…

formation of the New Orleans Public Service Incorporated, or NOPSI, in 1922. Consolidation simplified rail travel inside New Orleans, particularly on the popular Canal Street. The reorganization led to the creation of the Freret, Desire, Gentilly and St. Claude…

Salutations, fellow students of Claude Watson. This is Jolie, James, and Eric from grade 8 strings. We are going to go on about the existence of empathy in music. The creation, performance, and use of music exists in all cultures, places, and in history. Music increasingly brings together many people, including a vast amount of cultures and histories. Many would even claim that music could be referred to as a “Universal Language” that can conquer cultural difference, age, social class, ability,…

Janelle Monáe Robinson was born and grew up in Kansas City in which she idolized The Wizard of Oz’s Dorothy as like her, she dreamed of a place over the rainbow somewhere. She later moved to New York so that she could study theater at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy as she planned to try to have a career on Broadway but she later changed her mind and went back to music as she said in her Atlantic Records biography: “There was a lot of confusion and nonsense where I grew up, so I…

France is mostly known for art,architecture, and Food French Art The origins of French art were very much influenced by Flemish art and by Italian art at the time of the Renaissance The 17th century was the period when French painting became prominent and individualised itself through classicism. Louis 14th’s prime minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert founded in 1648 the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture to protect these artists, and in 1666 he created the still-active French Academy…

The Workshop’s schedule Instead of writing dates on the posters, the Workshop published the monthly schedule of the performances in a regular way. These brochures were printed on coated papers or light writing papers and were usually unicolor or bicolor. The papers, whose background color changed each month, carried on them the name of the Theatre Workshop, the month and year of the program and the National Iranian Radio and Television’s logo. Workshop’s logo The workshop had no specific logo.…

Film is a unique form of media that allows the audience to experience worlds that—otherwise—would not exist. The incorporation of visual imaging further strengthens the nature of storytelling and offers insight into human imagination. Directors Claude Lanzmann and Steven Spielberg exemplify such qualities in Shoah, a documentary about Holocaust witnesses, and Schindler’s List, a historical drama about a Nazi officer and his transition to hero. Both films offer perspective into life during and…

Marie-Joseph Angélique was a slave in the 1700s in the settlement of Montréal in New France. She was born in Madeira, Portugal and sold to work as a slave in New France at age 20. At age 29, in 1734 she was accused of starting a fire that burned down a hospital and 45 houses in Montréal. The question is, was Angélique really guilty of starting the fire, or was she innocent? When the information available is weighed, Angélique was innocent in the standards of today’s justice, since her…

Given the reading and research you have conducted, how historically accurate and reliable is your chosen example of popular history? The 2014 film The Monuments Men directed by George Clooney has very little historical accuracy and is not a reliable source for learning about the art stolen by the Nazis during World War II. In the film, seven art historians, museum directors and curators form an army unit named ‘The Monuments Men,’ who set out to retrieve precious art stolen by the Nazis to…