Dresden

German musician, Clara Schuman was considered one of the most remarkable pianists in the Romantic era, although because she was a woman she faced difficult times. Challenges/ Difficulties faced by Clara Schuman & Other women's In the Classical era, it was predominately men dominated society, hence women empowerment was least preferred and they were not motivated to move forward. All the distinguished and signified recognition were shadowed mostly be men. At that time, trainings for musical…

birth was an unusual one. She was born prematurely and because of that, wrapped in the skin from a women’s body that had been rubbed with balsam. She stayed like this for two weeks until her body had fully matured (2). She spent her childhood in the Dresden Court of Augustus, Elector of Saxony because her parents came from minor nobility. Zieglerin also had princes and other nobles as her godparents (3).…

is deeply rooted into the domestic household. The narratives do not move beyond the personal struggles of the Schell family: Oskar and the loss of his father, and the grandparents and their difficulty to come to terms with what happened to them in Dresden. The novel is apolitical in its descriptions of historical events which, together with a lack of engagement in the trauma of others and a lack of narrative integration and counter-narratives, further encourage the domesticated approach to…

long-established older forces. Everyone who reproduces that which drives him to creation with directness and authenticity belongs to us." ~ Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, from a woodcut broadsheet that accompanied the Die Brücke exhibition at the Seifert factory, Dresden, 1906 German Expressionists are artists who are apart of German Expressionism. German Expressionism reached its peak in the 1920’s; “it was a part of early 20th-century in art, literature, music and theater.” It started…

Henrik Ibsen was a major 19-century playwright, theater, director and poet. Often referred as “The father of realism” and founder of modernism in the theater. People called him the “next” Shakespeare. He was born on March 20, 1828 in Skein, Norway. His parents’ were Knud Ibsen and Marichen Altenburg. Shortly after his birth the financial situation in the family collapsed. Ibsen’s father went in depression, and his mother searched for spirituality guidance. At the age of fifteen he was forced to…

Four of these codices have survived, including the Dresden Codex, which contains almanacs relating to Maya daily life, astronomical data like cycles of Venus, Mars, and Mercury, and equinoxes and eclipses, worship calendars, and several prophecies. American colonists produced celestial almanacs similar to…

Immortal Memories in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five Death. “[W]hen a person dies [,] he only appears to die” (Vonnegut 33-34). Death does not mean a moment is lost forever. In Slaughterhouse-five, Kurt Vonnegut tells the story of Billy Pilgrim, a character that experiences war and travels through time . Vonnegut conveys the impermanence of death by using imagery, a motif and creating a nonlinear plot. In this novel, Vonnegut uses a great amount of visual imagery to display the true…

Raymond Chandler’s The High Window introduces Philip Marlowe as a private detective. Mrs. Murdock is in need of a private detective, and she heard Marlowe can get the job done. He is hired and his duty is to find Mrs. Murdock’s daughter-in-law, Linda, without anyone getting arrested. Linda has stolen one of the valuable coins that Mrs. Murdock’s deceased husband collected. Already the suspicion starts when Marlowe senses that Mrs. Murdock is not telling him the entire story; she doesn’t want her…

Joshua True Mr. Woodman English 11 August 4, 2017 Coping with Trauma Throughout multiple works of literature, writers have shown many forms of dealing with psychological trauma. Whether it is based off of real life experience or fictional creativity, trauma can be a terrible, life-altering experience. However, as shown in A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer, the authors show how characters can cope with personal trauma by…

characters of Slaughterhouse-Five leave us the impression that war made them crazy and delusional. For example, Billy Pilgrim as the main character of Slaughterhouse-Five was taken prisoner of war by the Germans during the World War II and he was sent to Dresden where he witnessed and survived the destruction of the whole city. Later he became “unstuck in time” and can shuttle between the experiences of his life, not bound to the linear movement of time. He has also been captured by imaginary…