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Rip Van Winkle Essay Brooklyn Loberg American Lit Rip van Winkle is an American Short story. This story is based on local history and European legend and myth. The author wrote it in one night in June of eighteen-eighteen. Irving wrote this story after spending the whole day with his relatives. Washington Irving’s story Rip Van Winkle was positioned in the 1700’s previous to the revolutionary war. The story is based on a man named Rip Van Winkle. Rip Van Winkle lives in a small village at…

Discovery of Uranus by William Herschel in 1781 William Herschel was born November of 1738, in Germany. As he grew up, he loved music and played in a band. In 1759 he moved with his family to Great Britain. In Great Britain, he taught music and became an organist. In 1772, with his sister Caroline, he began his study of the stars. Herschel and Caroline loved the night sky. As they were observing the sky one night in 1781, Herschel saw something moving ever so slowly in the sky. At first they…

Creatures of the Night From feared creatures of the night to romantically misunderstood, vampires have been a widely popular character in modern fiction. The characteristics have changed to a less frightening monster who is tormented with living for eternity versus the blood thirsty creature who haunts the dark and empty streets for unsuspecting victims. Vampire myths were part of European civilization since the Dark Ages. Science was a new concept and everyone turned to religion or the…

Ivan IV Vasilyevich, a.k.a Ivan The Terrible, was officially the grand prince of Moscow until January 16th 1547 when he was crowned “Tsar of all the Russia's”. Ivan was born to Vasili the 3rd and his second wife Elena Gimskaya. He then later married Anastasia Romanovna and ruled during the Romanov dynasty. When Ivan was three years old his father died leaving him to be made grand prince of Moscow. When he turned 8 years old his mother died leaving him and his younger brother Yuri alone, 8 years…

The Gross Clinic is a painting done by Thomas Eakins, an American realist painter, who also dabbled in photography. Eakins is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important artists in American art history. Throughout Eakins career he had difficulties with the public and critics. The Gross Clinic, 1875 is an oil on canvas, 96" x 77" and was rejected by the art jury for the exhibition in Philadelphia, because it was too brutally realistic. The painting illustrates the prominent surgeon Dr.…

Frank Sinatra’s accomplishments had an immediate impact on society following his death. Music had become a huge part of schools in the mid-1900’s. Douglas Fisher, an associate professor of teacher education at San Diego State University, felt that “music samples used in conjunction with children’s literature can enhance appreciation of the history and variety of jazz music's” (Children’s Literature and Authentic Music Samples 2). Children have been exploring the different styles and types of…

For this paper, I decided to compare and contrast two different styles of artwork that both have the same medium. The two pieces that stood out to me at Willards Art Center in Idaho Falls Idaho were Elise Wilding's tree painting and Bernadette Regnier's flower painting. Both artists, Wilding and Regnier, use the medium of paint to create their beautiful art. While they both use the same medium in their art, they have do have different styles. Wilding uses an expressionism style in her art to…

Sonata in A minor, K. 110 Domenico Scarlatti Domenico Scarlatti was born in Naples, Italy, on October 26, 1685. A brilliant musician at an early age, Scarlatti followed in the compositional footsteps of his father, Alessandro Scarlatti. In 1708, Scarlatti moved to Rome to become maestro di cappella to the exiled queen of Poland, Maria Casimira. He later became head of the Cappella Giulia, the choir of St. Peter’s Basilica that sings for all solemn functions of the Vatican. While in Rome,…

Chapter One: Sinatra and the Music The biggest impression Frank left on popular music and culture lives on in the heart of the music itself. The influence he had on the world can still be heard on his recordings today. His style of singing carried such meaning and depth that it transcended cultural boundaries. In a poem by Gerald Early, from Mustazza’s collection of essays entitled “Frank Sinatra and Popular Culture”, he recalls going to a freak show as a boy and hearing the wonderful sounds…

When people listen to Tchaikovsky’s repertoire they would say his music exudes passion, energy, and depth. The first movement of the Piano Concerto No.1 in B-Flat Minor by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky exhibits elements of true orchestral genius utilizing its range to the fullest in combination with the complex and intricate yet powerful fingerings of the solo pianist. What perplexes yet entertains the audience is the contrast from the beginning of the piece where the introduction is lyrical,…