Paul I of Russia

Vassily Kandinsky was a Russian painter, writer, teacher, art theorist and the father of abstract art. Being a trained musician, he used music in his approach to color which he made sing from the canvas. A major turning point in his style of art came after he viewed Claude Monet’s “Haystack at Giverny” at a Moscow exhibition. Over the years he perfected his style of abstract art. He inspired other artists, wrote books on his theories, worked with museums, and ballet’s, experienced his work…

buried in the past of descendants. The actions of these long dead ancestors inexplicably shape the present. In attempting to piece together my own identity by probing into the recorded history of the Berry family, I confronted this question consistently as each new piece of information I discovered…

dramatists Maurice Maeterlinck and so on. Its influence on the other arts can be seen in the music of Debussy and the paintings of Odilon Redon, Gustave Moreau, Van Gogh and Gauguin (Murray 1999: 1086).The aesthetic was developed by Stéphane Mallarmé and Paul Verlaine during the 1860s and '70s. In the 1880s, the aesthetic was articulated by a series of manifestoes and attracted a generation of writers. (Olds 2006: 155-62) Symbolism is a part of modernism. As a school, symbolism has some major…

political system. He knew that what he had experienced was reality in a capitalist society and for there to be a change, there needed to be a stand taken. Orwell expresses realization in a capitalist society when he states, "for perhaps ten years past I have had some grasp of the real nature of Capitalist society... One has got to be actively a Socialist, not…

majority agreement on the action, aiming at preventing any threat induced to existence and sovereignty (Pape 2005: 15-16; Paul 2005: 53-54, 59). For instance, collaborative efforts by Russia, Germany, and France in the United Nations Security Council and NATO to veto against American’s preemptive strike in Iraq partly reflecting the spirit of soft balancing (Pape 2005: 39-40; Paul 2005: 64-70). Soft balancers form ad hoc, issue-based coalition (Pape 2005: 36). Simultaneously, states strengthen…

Brutus and the rest of the conspirators feel that the idea of Caesar becoming king and gaining too much power is metaphorically killing them. Furthermore, even when warned by a soothsayer (fortune teller), Caesar still doesn’t believe his fate. Whether or not the fates of Julius Caesar and Joseph Stalin’s army were fate or just an unlucky play of events, both parties suffered immensely. To start, Julius Caesar is the leader of Rome and has just returned to Rome prior to defeating Pompey’s…

Did France benefit from Louis XVI execution, or was it just a recipe for disaster? I would argue the effect of Louis XVI, who was the king of France from 1774-1793, ended catastrophically and lead to the downfall of France. Even though one can argue Louis XVI was a traitor to his country, his execution only lead to corruption. The people were lost without a king to follow, and those who were not, were far too radical to lead an entire country successfully. Almost immediately after Louis XVI…

Canadian Prime Minister called the bombing of North Vietnam “obscene” . This was in stark contrast to his previous assertion that “It is inconceivable to Canadians, [and] it is inconceivable to me that the U.S would ever initiate an aggressive war” . Paul Martin who was Pearson’s Secretary of external affairs in the 1960s, said that “Pearson thought war was a tragedy” and that he had asserted that it was dangerous for America to become involved in Asia . It seems while compiling his public…

trilogy of books written by William Manchester, a renowned biographer and historian. They first volume was Visions of Glory published in 1983, the second volume was Alone published in 1988 and the third volume was Defender of the Realm, co-authored with Paul Reid and published posthumous. The three books feature Winston Churchill, the famous British Prime Minister who led the Empire into the Second World War. Each of the three covers of the books shows a picture of an increasingly ageing…

Twentieth century Europe after World War II was in a stage of fear and anxiety. Countries like Germany, Italy and Austria were devastated by the war. Novelists and artists all throughout Europe had displayed the stage of fear in their works. Artists like Albert Giacometi illustrated it in his sculpture City Square, by displaying how women and men were no longer motivated to improve their city after the war, instead they walking around the country aimlessly in shock and in fear (Brose, 270). They…