Genius

pottery gnome. And there he lived out his life as a garden ornament. BERNARD. Did he do anything? HANNAH. Oh, he was very busy. When he died, the cottage was stacked solid with paper. Hundreds of pages. Thousands. Peacock says he was a suspected genius. It turned out, of course, he was off his head. He’d covered…

the renaissance. Muslim scholars had preserved and developed the scientific and technical knowledge of ancient Greece and Rome, which had been forgotten in medieval europe. Artist Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) had an endless curiosity that fed a genius for invention. He made sketches of nature and of models in his studio, and dissected corpses to learn how bones and muscles work. He also painted the Mona Lisa Artist Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)…

Freedom is a sense or feeling when you decide or do something without restriction, it would not be being enslaved or imprisoned. We might think that freedom is innately and probably neglect the importance in our life. However, among the reading we read in this semester, they teach me that some people fight for the freedom and I should treasure the thing we have at this moment. I am most interested in “Narrative of The Life” written by Frederick Douglass and “From A Room of One’s Own” written by…

In the book Brunelleschi’s Dome, Ross King refers to Filipo Brunelleschi as a renaissance genius. It’s actually a part of the full title to the book. Many things led King to this conclusion. No precedence was set for what Brunelleschi did. His designs and methods were so incredibly innovative that he reinvented how architecture was done during the Renaissance. Before Brunelleschi there was a profound lack of technical knowledge amongst the architecture community. Much of the building knowledge…

Furthermore, even though colonialism affects the Mr. Kurtz in Heart of Darkness, it is war that creates the infamous Colonel Kurtz in “Apocalypse Now”. In one of the final scenes of the film, Francis Ford Coppola captures the psychological horror that has profoundly affected Colonel Kurtz, and converted him into the ominous character he is. Colonel Kurtz has experienced the devastating events of war and chosen to relent morality, allowing horror to engulf his consciousness. Although, Kurtz was…

father, she said, “I owe this to you as you have killed him… I hate you with my whole soul, and I hope you will soon perish. Oh, how I suffer. My soul is consumed by unbearable pain. May you be accursed. I mistook you for an extraordinary mad, for a genius. I loved you, but you proved to be a madman.” After Tania had cursed him in her letter, and had wished him to perish, a feeling of dread came over Andryusha, and he glanced at the door as if he feared an unknown power. In merely two years the…

Jim Morrison a musical genius and free thinker was an up and comer in the time of American history when it was all about drugs, sex, and rock and roll. Mr. Morrison was quoted saying “The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.” During one of his interviews after he was asked about what his parents thought about his career. Parents will do anything for their children but will control…

Jaylen Burnham Mrs. Hicks AP English IV January 25, 2018 A Revolutionary Analysis Social criticism (really) is nothing new, but that doesn’t stop Dave Barry’s satirical column, “The right to bear clubs,” from smacking down the fairway and into the shortsighted holes that are the general public and the U.S. government at large when regulation of the 2nd amendment steps onto the green. If people can make a gun out of golf clubs, what is the purpose in dismantling that aforementioned right?…

use of expressionism and post-impressionism to expose his emotions on the canvas using colours throughout his diverse range of paintings. It is, however, evident that the people of the early twentieth century were not ready to embrace the beauty and genius of his style and artworks. Van Gogh produced many artworks under the post-impressionism/expressionism genre counting: Starry night (1889), Café Terrace at night (1888), Blossoming almond…

I read this article last night, in which a former Apple Store Genius wrote an open letter to Tim Cook. In this letter, he describes how the atmosphere has change during his time there. Apple has always prided itself as a leader in the Customer Experience. Employees were empowered to slow down to make each interaction unique and memorable, and were given the resources to achieve anything and everything. Over the last few year, however, there has been a push to increase numbers. A place that,…