Francis I of France

Queen Elizabeth I Imagine if as a child, your birth was the most disappointing thing of your father’s life, your mother got executed and you had to live with your stepmother and her husband. This all happened to Queen Elizabeth I in her life and a lot more. She grew up in a very difficult family and she ended up living with her stepmother after her father and mother died. Her father wanted a son instead of a daughter so she was a huge dissapointment. Queen Elizabeth I shows her importance in her…

War is an underlying event that happens throughout history for various reasons. Whether it be an assassination, a rise of a revolution within a country, a meager argument between two settings, or a simple secluded alliance that can deceive the other at any chance, a war is bound to happen. Let’s begin with the definition of a world war. This type of specific kind of warfare occurs when major first world countries go into battle because of a formidable change that occurs or a threat of…

Edgar Allan Poe was one of the most influential authors of his time; he is considered one of America’s finest authors. His work ranged in different fields of literacy as an editor, a literary critic, he was also gifted in writing elegant fictional short stories, beautiful poems and was known to be a master of horror and mystery tales. His best and most popular works include “The Raven”, “The Cask of Amontillado” and “The House of Usher”. Poe was considered to be the inventor of the detective…

players left the diamond for the battlefield (Weintraub). With so many players leaving, it was feared that Major League Baseball might become defunct. World War I had ended the 1918 season early. An armistice agreement had to save the 1919 season. The president at the time, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, put an end to those worries as he said, “I honestly feel that it would be best for the country to keep baseball going” (Bedingfield “Baseball”). While it continued with men, the All-American Girls…

Parallel Between F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Great Gatsby, a Coincidence? While researching texts and websites about Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald and his novel The Great Gatsby, it is noticed that there are parallels between Jay Gatsby and Fitzgerald’s life. Introducing enough background knowledge about Fitzgerald and The Great Gatsby will show the parallel between the authors and this fictional character. Information about the life of Fitzgerald; such as, early years, schooling, his wife,…

In 1939, Hitler invaded Poland and Britain together with France declared war on him. This was the start of a war that would span over six years. There was a destruction of property gained during the rise after the First World War. “The products of industry-tanks, submarines, strategic bombing-had destroyed the structures of industry society-factories, ports, and railroads (Joshua Cole 643).” The Second World War is estimated to have claimed 45 -60 million lives. This war is said to the most…

Born at the end of the 19th Century in France and spread over Europe during the 20th century, Symbolism opposed completely to Impressionism. While Impressionism focused on the reality of daily life, Symbolism suggested ideas through symbols, complemented by colours and shapes. Symbolism reacted against the materialism and soulless urbanization of the Victorian Era. With symbolism, spirituality, imagination, fantasy, dreams and visions were given form. In painting, the symbolism could be…

What are your feelings about PLATOON? How did you respond to the film—and in particular, to the character of Chris (played by Charlie Sheen)? Platoon is a 1986 film written and directed by Oliver Stone, in an attempt to use the war as a medium to express anti-war message. It is a new and effective approach by Oliver Stone, furthermore based on his personal life experiences as infantryman in Vietnam war. The difference between PLATOON and other “conventional” war movies is the point of view and…

investigation is “What impact did the renaissance have on medicine?”. I chose this subject because I wanted to see the changes the Renaissance made in a specific field. I thought medicine was interesting since it is an aggregation of many different fields such as science, art and religion. I will focus on the changes that were made and the differences from the Medieval times by investigating the important figures at that time. For this investigation, I will use a painting and a website to show…

The 1920’s were a time unlike anything ever experienced in American culture before. Men were returning home from World War I, and women were joining the workforce and gaining more rights. These two instances of the time led to a new attitude of wealth, freedom, and consumerism that ran rampant through the streets, especially for the upper class. Out of this came the era of the modernist movement pioneered by authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald, who came to be an upper class man…