1930 résultats pour "his"
- John Huston John Huston (1906-1987), American motion-picture director and actor, who created some of the most critically acclaimed films of American cinema in his long and distinguished career.
- James Cagney James Cagney (1899-1986), American actor and Academy Award winner, noted for his tough-guy roles.
- Akira Kurosawa Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998), Japanese motion-picture director, known worldwide for the variety and visual beauty of his films.
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Animation
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Finding Nemo
A clown fish named Marlin, left, and his friend Dory search for Marlin's son in the computer-animated feature film Finding
Nemo (2003).
Animator at WorkAnimators use computers for every part of the animation process, from creating a storyboard (a scene-by-sceneillustration of the plot) to imitating camera movement. This animator is creating a scene for the motion picture Antz(1998).C. Lepetit/Liaison Agency If an animator is basing the animation project on drawings, one of the most common animation techniques, he or she will first create a series of rough sketches thatoften will be filmed in a pencil test (simple line drawings...
- Nicolaus Copernicus I INTRODUCTION Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), Polish astronomer, best known for his astronomical theory that the sun is at rest near the center of the universe, and that the earth, spinning on its axis once daily, revolves annually around the sun.
- Frank Capra Frank Capra (1897-1991), American motion-picture director and producer, noted for his idealistic comedies.
- Pala medes Greek Son of Nauplius, a king of Euboea, and his wife Clymene, a granddaughter of King Minos of Crete.
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Lele - the writer in his time
Many films and books have been adapted to this real story as the movie « A Study in Terror. » Sherlock Holmes i nvestigates a series of murders of prostitutes and chasing Jack the Ripper. His investigations lead shallows of Victorian London to the most exclusive neighbourhoods in the capital. Bloodhound finally unmasks the culprit, the son of a notable. If he direct ed Sherlock Holmes, the famous detective investigation that is not ...
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- Tom Hanks Tom Hanks, born in 1956, American motion-picture actor, a two-time Academy Award winner who is acclaimed for both his comic and dramatic performances.
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Cyclopes (1) (Singular: Cyclops; Round-eyed)
Greek Three sons of Uranus and Gaia, large
and strong, each with one eye in the middle of his
forehead; siblings of the Hecatoncheires, hundredhanded
giants, and the younger Titans.
These Cyclopes served King Proetus of the city Tiryns. For him, they built the great walls of the city. They built similar walls around the city of Mycenae and the famous Lion Gate there. The stones they used were so massive that the term “cyclopean” has come to mean gigantic. They were also called “belly-hands” for they worked for their livings.
- Mars Roman The god of war who, in his earliest forms, was a god of agriculture and prosperity.
- James Dean James Dean (1931-1955), American actor on film, stage, and television, whose early death in an automobile accident contributed to his enduring legend.
- The Graduate The Graduate, motion picture about a disillusioned college graduate who returns home to live with his upper-middleclass parents and faces amorous advances from their neighbor's wife, based on the novel by Charles Webb.
- Psycho Psycho, motion picture about a deranged innkeeper and his mother, based on a novel by Robert Bloch.
- Laocoön and His Sons - art.
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Les romans de Malraux sont-ils dominés par le « sentiment tragique de l'His¬toire » (Julien Gracq) ?
DISSERTATIONS LITTÉRAIRES La révolution comme crise tragique La confrontation suppose la crise : la tragédie antique saisissait le personnage au moment où il se trouvait placé devant la toute-puissance du destin. La révolution ou l'insurrection jouent dans le roman de Malraux un rôle analogue : elle exprime ce moment de paroxysme où la tension est portée à son comble, et où l'affrontement s'avère inévitable. Les héros sont alors placés dans des cir...
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Commentry Author 's Notes Life of Pie
The author however is suspicious, he poses leading questions to find out the motivation of Mr.Adirubasamy, finally his curiosity is piqued and he asks to hear the story. The storyteller though places a condition to telling the story; the author must pay proper attention, which cour se the eager author accepts. So the story is told, in the telling Mr.Adirubasamy mentally transports the author through the town, to the botanical gardens and an old zoo. At the end of the story he encourages the...
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Bauer, Bruno
Bauer's efforts to treat the Gospel stories as the unconscious expressions of the religious mind, and to trace their historical development. By 1840, he had written a number of multi-volume studies devoted to explaining that biblical history was fundamentally an imaginative exercise of the religious mind, with little or no actual basis in fact. This thesis was set forth in his Kritik der evangelischen Geschichte des Johannes (Critique of the Gospel of John) . From this point on, Bauer would...
- Will Francis agree to leave his family and go to Mr Chandles ?
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Lamia
reason would tell him that it is not safe enough to depend only on a career as a poet. He saw in himself the ability and didn't let count anything else what could speak against the life of poet. This alike attitude is seen in Lycius when he listens to Lamia not to invite Appolonius to the marriage, even though he had learned everything by Appolonius, had always listen to his advices and obeyed his words. It is as if Keats saw himself turning away from his reason, shutting it out from his dream-l...
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From The Canterbury Tales - anthology.
In Gernade at the sege eek hadde he beOf Algezir, and riden in Belmarye;At Lyes was he and at Satalye,Whan they were wonne; and in the Grete SeeAt many a noble arivee hadde he be. At mortal batailes hadde he been fifteene,And foughten for oure feith at TramisseneIn listes thries, and ay slayn his fo. This ilke worthy knyght hadde been alsoSometime with the lord of PalatyeAgain another hethen in Turkye;And everemore he hadde a soverein pris.And though that he were worthy, he was wis,And of his po...
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Arthur Miller
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Arthur Miller
American playwright Arthur Miller began writing plays while a student at the University of Michigan.
devoted his life to the pursuit of “success.” His misguided philosophy has ruined the lives of his wife and two sons. When Loman is too old to travel, he loses his job. In aseries of scenes, brilliantly dramatized by the playwright, Loman relives his experiences. Eventually his mind begins to fail, and he commits suicide. Although Miller generally wrote in a realistic style ( see Realism), much of Death of a Salesman is conveyed expressionistically ( see Expressionism) through Willy Loman’s mi...
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Robinson Crusoe
Part Two: Robinson was happy to be alive, he thanked God for saving his life. He had no clothes, no food and no drink, so R thought he was going to die of stavation or eaten by wild animals. That night he drank fresh water then climbed on a tree and slept. The next morning he saw the ship was near to the shore so he took his clothes off and reached it. To bring food back to the shore he had to build a raft, so he put pieces of wood together and built a raft. He loaded it with food, cloth...
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Robinson Crusoe (Black Cat)
Part Two: Robinson was happy to be alive, he thanked God for saving his life. He had no clothes, no food and no drink, so R thought he was going to die of stavation or eaten by wild animals. That night he drank fresh water then climbed on a tree and slept. The next morning he saw the ship was near to the shore so he took his clothes off and reached it. To bring food back to the shore he had to build a raft, so he put pieces of wood together and built a raft. He loaded it with food, cloth...
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Carlyle, Thomas
manifest. The title ( 'The Tailor Re- Tailored' ) refers to Teufelsdrockh's supposed 'Philosophy of Clothes' , in which clothes become the metaphor for the material world which simultaneously expresses and conceals the transcendental world within. This material world is conditioned by the categories of time and space, but these are themselves illusions, concealing the realities of eternity and infinity. These realities cannot be apprehended rationally, but only intuitively by the 'deep i...
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Oerter Wins Third Gold Medal.
Few expected Oerter to show up for the qualifying rounds. Nevertheless he did, with several parts of his 6-foot-4-inch, 270-pound body wrapped in tape, packed inice, and numbed with Novocain. After doffing his neck brace, he propelled the discus a miraculous 198 ft 7.5 in (60.5 m) in his first effort, achieving anotherOlympic record. Wrenched with pain, Oerter told a teammate before the start of the final round that his only chance to win was with a strong first throw. His initial effort, ho...
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Rembrandt.
myth that the painting was rejected by those who commissioned it, and led to a decline in Rembrandt's reputation and fortune, it was actually well received. Many of Rembrandt's landscapes in this middle period are romantic and based on his imagination rather than recording specific places. The inclusion of ancient ruins androlling hills, not a part of the flat Dutch countryside, as in River Valley with Ruins (Staatliche Gemäldegalerie, Kassel), suggests a classical influence derived from Italy...
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Rembrandt
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Rembrandt (1606-1669), Dutch baroque artist, who ranks as one of the greatest painters in the history of Western art.
of his collection of art and antiquities, taken before an auction to pay his debts, showed the breadth of Rembrandt's interests: ancient sculpture, Flemish and ItalianRenaissance paintings, Far Eastern art, contemporary Dutch works, weapons, and armor. Unfortunately, the results of the auction—including the sale of hishouse—were disappointing. These problems in no way affected Rembrandt's work; if anything, his artistry increased. Some of the great paintings from this period are The Jewish Brid...
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Theseus - Mythology.
claim his birthright from his father, the king. Aethra took Theseus, when he was 16, to the rock, which the lad lifted easily, and sent him on his way to Athens. Theseus had many adventures on his journey and entered Athens as a hero. Warmly welcomed by his father, Theseus then went on to his greatest adventure, the slaying of the Minotaur, the dreaded bullmonster of King Minos of Crete. Every year, Minos demanded seven men and seven maids from Athens to be sacrificed to the Minotaur, thus bring...
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William Faulkner
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William Faulkner
Twentieth-century American novelist William Faulkner wrote novels that explored the tensions between the old and the
new in the American South.
Faulkner’s “powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel.” He also wrote numerous short stories, many of the best of which werepublished in book form in Go Down, Moses (1942) and The Collected Stories (1950; Pulitzer Prize, 1951). In-between his fiction works, which until late in his career did not always pay well, Faulkner wrote screenplays for Hollywood; two of his more prominent scripts were for the motion pictures To Have and Have Not (1944) and The Big S...
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Dionysus - Mythology.
all his glory as a mighty god, flashing lightning and hurling thunderbolts. No mortal could withstand such power, and Semele perished in flames. Zeus snatched the unborn child from the fire and sewed it into his thigh so that it could mature for another three months. In due course, Zeus gave birth to a boy, Dionysus, who is sometimes called Dithyrambus (Child of the Double Door), referring to his two births, once from his mother’s body and again from his father’s body. Some scholars believe that...
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From "The Metamorphosis" - anthology.
As all this was running through his mind at top speed without his being able to decide to leave his bed—the alarm clock had just struck a quarter to seven—therecame a cautious tap at the door behind the head of his bed. 'Gregor,' said a voice—it was his mother's—'it's a quarter to seven. Hadn't you a train to catch?' Thatgentle voice! Gregor had a shock as he heard his own voice answering hers, unmistakably his own voice, it was true, but with a persistent horrible twittering squeakbehind it lik...
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BIOGRAPHY OSCAR WILDE
5. After graduating from Oxford, when he met and courted Florence Balcombe. However, when she rejected his proposal to marriage, Oscar left Ireland permanently in 1878. He met Constance Lloyd and fell in love with her. So on may 29 1884, Oscar married Constance Lloyd. 6. Cyril Holland, born in 1885, was the older of the two sons of Oscar Wilde and Constance Lloyd and brother to Vyvyan Holland, who was born the following year, and died on the 10 October 1967. 7. Lord Douglas, of his fir...
- Helios (Helius) (The sun god) Greek Helios was husband to Rhodos, the Nymph of the island of Rhodes, which he chose as his favored abode.
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Bacon, Roger
contemporaries (such as Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas ) who were taking a more traditional approach to philosophical study. By the early 1260s Bacon had become unpopular among the Franciscans, and was apparently sent to their convent in Paris under an injunction to neither lecture nor circulate his writings outside the Order without approval. Undaunted, Bacon set about communicating his controversial views to Cardinal Guy le Gos de Foulques. The latter, upon becoming Pope Clement IV in...
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Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Sidgwick
went on amongst the clever young men in the society known as ‘the Apostles', which he joined in his second year. Sidgwick described his joining the Apostles as having ‘more effect on my intellectual life than any one thing thathappened to me afterwards'. He described the spirit of the group as that of ‘the pursuit of truth with absolute devotion and unreserve by a group of intimate friends' ([5.30], 134). THE RELIGIOUS BACKGROUND Victorian England has been faulted for many things, but mor...
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From The Red Badge of Courage - anthology.
The youth put forth anxious arms to assist him, but the tall soldier went firmly on as if propelled. Since the youth's arrival as a guardian for his friend, the otherwounded men had ceased to display much interest. They occupied themselves again in dragging their own tragedies toward the rear. Suddenly, as the two friends marched on, the tall soldier seemed to be overcome by a terror. His face turned to a semblance of gray paste. He clutched the youth's armand looked all about him, as if dre...
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From Bulfinch's Mythology: Midas - anthology.
Gordius, being made king, dedicated his wagon to the deity of the oracle, and tied it up in its place with a fast knot. This was the celebrated Gordian knot, which, in after times it was said, whoever should untie should become lord of all Asia. Many tried to untie it, but none succeeded, till Alexander the Great, in his career ofconquest, came to Phrygia. He tried his skill with as ill success as others, till growing impatient he drew his sword and cut the knot. When he afterwards succeeded i...
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Anselm of Canterbury
twenty-six years old. After his father's death (presumably in 1060), Anselm chose to enter the monastic order atBec rather than return to the family estate. In 1063 he was elected prior of Bec, succeeding Lanfranc, who hadbeen called to the abbey of St.-Etienne in Caen; in 1078 he was chosen abbot, in spite of his disinclination toassume the office. He showed even more reluctance and protestation when selected as archbishop of Canterbury in1093, again in succession to Lanfranc. Eadmer tells...
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Genghis Khan
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Genghis Khan (1167?
died in August 1227, in his summer quarters in the district of Qingshui south of the Liupan Shan (Liupan Mountains) in Gansu, China. IV THE MONGOL FORCES Genghis Khan unleashed a seemingly invincible military force. Although usually outnumbered, his forces prevailed on the battlefield through absolute discipline, a well-understood chain of command, superior mobility, and innovative military tactics. The Mongol forces were organized into several formations of 10,000 horse-mounted soldiers, the...
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Genghis Khan.
died in August 1227, in his summer quarters in the district of Qingshui south of the Liupan Shan (Liupan Mountains) in Gansu, China. IV THE MONGOL FORCES Genghis Khan unleashed a seemingly invincible military force. Although usually outnumbered, his forces prevailed on the battlefield through absolute discipline, a well-understood chain of command, superior mobility, and innovative military tactics. The Mongol forces were organized into several formations of 10,000 horse-mounted soldiers, the...
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Genghis Khan - History.
died in August 1227, in his summer quarters in the district of Qingshui south of the Liupan Shan (Liupan Mountains) in Gansu, China. IV THE MONGOL FORCES Genghis Khan unleashed a seemingly invincible military force. Although usually outnumbered, his forces prevailed on the battlefield through absolute discipline, a well-understood chain of command, superior mobility, and innovative military tactics. The Mongol forces were organized into several formations of 10,000 horse-mounted soldiers, the...
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Claude Monet.
Gardens were a recurrent theme for Monet in the 1870s, and paintings of his own garden dominate his later work. In 1890 he purchased a house in Giverny that hehad been renting for seven years. He began to develop its gardens, introducing an ornamental lily pond and a Japanese-style bridge. These and other features of hisidyllic estate were the subject of a steady output of large decorative paintings. He generally began by painting outdoors, but would then return to his studio to work andrework h...
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Bruno, Giordano
1586 he went to Marburg, and matriculated at the university there but (as the Rector has recorded) angrily withdrew his name when denied the right to teach philosophy publicly. He then went to Lutheran Wittenberg, where he was allowed to lecture. In 1588 he visited the court of Rudolph II in Prague, and then went to Helmstadt, where he seems to have been excommunicated by the Protestants. In 1590 he was resident in the Carmelite monastery in Frankfurt. At this point he was invited by a Venetian...
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Aquinas, Thomas
part in an academic disputation. Having failed in his efforts to shake his best student's arguments on this occasion, Albert declared, 'We call him the dumb ox, but in his teaching he will one day produce such a bellowing that it will be heard throughout the world' . In 1252 Aquinas returned to Paris for the course of study leading to the degree of master in theology, roughly the equivalent of a twentieth-century PhD. During the first academic year he studied and lectured on the Bible; the...
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From Bulfinch's Mythology: Perseus and Medusa - anthology.
The Sea-monster Perseus, continuing his flight, arrived at the country of the Æthiopians, of which Cepheus was king. Cassiopeia his queen, proud of her beauty, had dared to compareherself to the Sea-Nymphs, which roused their indignation to such a degree that they sent a prodigious sea-monster to ravage the coast. To appease the deities,Cepheus was directed by the oracle to expose his daughter Andromeda to be devoured by the monster. As Perseus looked down from his aerial height he beheld thev...
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Confucius
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Confucius (551 or 552-479
BC),
Chinese philosopher and educator, one of the most important individuals in Chinese history, and one of the most influential figures in
world history.
From a modern perspective, Confucius’s worldview has certain limitations. He was ignorant of cultural diversity; he accepted the sexism of his society; he shows nointerest in natural science or technology; his political philosophy is undemocratic; and he gives insufficient stress to social change. However, Confucius will no doubtcontinue to inspire people across the world with his vision of social harmony, his insight into human virtue, and his techniques for cultivating ethical individuals. Mi...
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Confucius.
From a modern perspective, Confucius’s worldview has certain limitations. He was ignorant of cultural diversity; he accepted the sexism of his society; he shows nointerest in natural science or technology; his political philosophy is undemocratic; and he gives insufficient stress to social change. However, Confucius will no doubtcontinue to inspire people across the world with his vision of social harmony, his insight into human virtue, and his techniques for cultivating ethical individuals. Mi...
- Faustulus (Faustus) Roman The shepherd who found the twin infants Romulus and Remus being suckled by a wolf and took them to his home to give them shelter.