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Throughout Harry Mulisch’s The Assault, the killing of Anton’s family leaves Anton with internal questions as to how exactly this event transpired for most of his life. Over the course of the novel Anton is provided with many answers to his questions, some simple and some complex. As the novel progresses so does the complexity of explanations Anton is given about the assault on his family. To clarify, in the beginning Anton is offered many simple explanations and, seeing that he is young and his…

As various nations develop, people migrate from many different places. When they arrive, those settlers have brought with them their cultures, ideas and beliefs. In the establishment of the United States, many colonists came from all over Europe. Although many of the settlers who began to colonize the Americas came for religious freedom in 1700, the beliefs and cultures were quite different. The groups of settlers who came to the Americas consisted of many different religions. J. Hector St.…

Jan Miense Molenaer The Dentist, 1629 Oil on Panel Jan Miense Molenaer was born in 1610 in Haarlem, Netherlands ("Jan Miense Molenaer: Biography Virtual Uffizi"). He was a genre Dutch painter in what is known as the Dutch Golden Age. During this time the eighty’s year war raged and the Dutch won their independence from Spain ("History of Dutch Golden Age - Holland.com"). With this came a changing of the era. New territory was being charted, trade by the east-India company thrived and war heroes…

until the early 16 century." Iron oxide sounds like a great way to get that flesh tone that was famous in Michelangelo's drawings, but it might be too toxic for the artist today. "The variations in color in some of the red chalk studies such as the Haarlem drawing for the figure of Haman in the Sistine Chapel vault has led to the suggestions that Michelangelo was adding accents in a stick of chalk of a darker shade." This predicament could be right in trying to replicate his style of drawing…

Leading twentieth century French historian Fernand Braudel points to two specific examples of these contributions thusly: Workers from Ypres and Hondschoote [modern day areas of Belgium and France, respectively] were responsible for the textile boom in Haarlem. And in the late seventeenth century, the industry of the entire United Provinces was given a considerable boost by the massive invasion of French Huguenots [religious…

I. INTRODUCTION In Indo-English Fiction, the foundation was established by the great Indian Novelists Mulk Raj Anand, R.K. Narayan and Raja Rao and others who were followed by the younger generation of novelists like G. V. Desani, Anita Desai, Salman Rushdie, Khushwant Singh, Arun Joshi and so on. As it is evident that in twentieth century man belongs to “Lost Generation”, so consequently some Indo-English Novelists have persistently dealt with the question of the search of the individual for…

Day and Night: Escher’s Turning Point Tegan Sorensen V00885279 AHVS 260 Due: November 21st, 2017 M. C. Escher is an iconic artist, but more iconic than the artist is his art. From detailed landscapes to mind-boggling impossibilities, he worked in woodcuts, wood engravings, and lithographs. These allowed for extreme contrasts and impeccable detail. While many of his works could be named as iconic, Day and Night marked a significant change in Escher’s artistic journey. From its context and…

The largest genocide in history that killed approximately eleven million human beings who were either homosexuals,Jews, gypsies, communists or socialists. The Holocaust was the works of Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime, the catastrophic event occurred from January 30 1933 to May 8 1945. The ethnic group who was targeted a significant amount throughout the Holocaust was the Jewish people. Adolf Hitler made it out as if the Jews were horrible, horrific people who were greedy and criminals. Hitler was…

The book The Hiding Place is a memoir written by Corrie Ten Boom. Her memoir brings that reader through meaningful touchstone moments in her life: from her childhood, in Haarlem Netherlands, her life leading up to WWII, how she helped Jews and others being persecuted during WWII, and her time spent imprisoned. In these touchstone moments, she shows her reader both the joyful and sorrowful moments that build up who she is. When reflecting on her touchstone moments in all stages of her life,…

Throughout history, in civilization and societies, men were seen to be superior to women. On the top of the pyramid, men controlled women of how they should think, act, and behave. In society, women are expected to be in charge of cooking, cleaning, and taking care of kids. Women are seen to be unable to work in a business or the industry because they are incapable of handling the business affairs because of their gender. They are discriminated because they were born as a female human. From the…