Martha Graham

This invention was one of the most important inventions during the Industrial Revolution.The wonderful inventor was Alexander Graham Bell, along with his assistant worker, Thomas A. Watson. Bell was born on March 3, 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland. His father was a proffesor and he had two brothers. His dad and grandfather were both teachers of speech. Alexander Graham Bell also loved working with people who are deaf. He liked it because his mom turned deaf. When he wanted to build…

the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.” Alexander Graham Bell once said.Even if it takes a while to accomplish something that could change the world in a good way, it’s worth the work.Alexander Graham helped the citizens of the United States because he made a way for people & deaf people to socialize from a distance.By eventing the telephone,& photophone for the deaf. Alexander Graham bell was born March 3rd 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland.He only had a first &…

Scottish-born American inventor and teacher of the deaf, Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) is best known for perfecting the telephone to transmit vocal messages by electricity. The telephone inaugurated a new age in communication technology. Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3, 1847, in Edinburgh. His father, Alexander Melville Bell, was an expert in vocal physiology and elocution; his grandfather, Alexander Bell, was an elocution professor. After studying at the University of Edinburgh…

Imagine waking up at sunrise and tucking in your bed at sunset. Then, after many years, while striking stones, you discover fire, something that would help you stay awake at night in presence of light. Burning firewood and lighting up oil lamps remained sources of light until the Nineteenth century when the Incandescent light bulb was co-invented by two scientists - Thomas Edison and Joseph Swan. Since then, the lightbulb has been the invention of the 19th century that has shined on us for…

Telephone Essay “Mr. Watson come here I want to see you.” These were the first words ever spoken through the telephone. Spoken by Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone to his assistant, Thomas Watson. After several long months of working to build a device to help people who were deaf, finally on March 10, 1876 it was complete. He could have never imagined all the uses for his communicating device. Today, we use our telephones for games, music, communication, business, emergency,…

is the mother of modern dance? None other than Martha Graham. Many believe that Martha Graham is one of the most influential dancers of the 20th century. Martha Graham was born in what is known as Pittsburgh, PA, on May 11, 1894 to Dr. George Graham and Jane Beers. Dr. Graham had a great deal of influence on Martha’s life. Dr. Graham specialized in nervous disorders who used physical movements to treat his patients. By the age of 14, Martha and her family moved all the way across the…

Martha Graham, the mother of modern dance, is depicted preforming a dramatic kick and Warhol had to embody this graceful yet powerfulness in his print. Warhol’s use of color, texture and space help show Martha’s impact on the modern dancing world, specifically his use of the color pink in Grahams dress displays her femininity but his hand drawn lines add a boldness to the piece. This piece is just one of three in a story told by Warhol. They all feature Graham as the emphasis to…

earlier days, modern was just modern and then it molded into postmodern and finally, postmodern contemporary. Choreographers like Martha Graham, Alvin Ailey, and David Parsons have impacted the way modern has changed by their movement,…

Lamentation Martha Graham’s Lamentation expresses the emotions of the Great Depression. Her facial expressions and body movements’ shows agony from the people who endure sufferings caused by the Great Depression, and the dancer’s body language expresses it in the dance. The Great Depression is a recession in economy and market that last in a long period of time. It caused people to lose their jobs, lose their homes, and lose all the people’s saving from banks that cannot give money back to the…

to change, using the words: ‘That’s boring. Let’s do something else’” (Horosko, 2002) Martha Graham decided an autonomous route was best suited for her. She strayed away by creating her own technique focusing primarily on the opposition of contraction and release with the other dominant principle of spiraling, specifically to the torso around the axis of the spine. In 1926 Graham established the Martha Graham Dance Company and in 1930 she previewed her most notable work lamentation. The Oxford…