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on the hill of Hissarlik and consider their results without speaking of Troy or even alluding to it," Georges Perrot wrote in 1891 in his Journal des Savants. "Even then, they would have added a whole new chapter to the history of civilization, the…

Bosch was an extreme artist and an extreme pessemist.His art gave vivid expression to the profound anxieties that troubled the human mind. Bosch was obsessed with sin and the torments of hell’s fire. His paintings told tales of the snares…

not knowing how to communicate with anyone around you. That world of darkness is what Helen Keller lived in for six years. Helen Keller has been an inspiration to people ever since she turned six. From 1886-1960, she proved herself to be a creative…

sentences did more to change the style of written English that any other writing in the twentieth century. II. Ernest Hemingway has had many great accomplishments in his historical life but just one event has hardly sticks out from the rest.…

out literary history many writers have come and gone, yet only the greatones are the ones to be remembered. One of these memorable writers was Earnest Hemmingway. Through a life of uncertainty, he managed to become a world renowned writer. Through…

have different names they are fundamentally the same person, drawing from the same traumatizing experiences. However emotionally disturbed, Hemingway’s heroes always seem to have some hope guiding them into the future. Their characteristics are…

group. He was highly regarded as one of the great formative figures in 20th century art and a master of the use of color and form to convey emotional expression. Matisse discovered his artistic abilities when he had been bedstrucken with…

of honor and accomplishment have had glorious titles bestowed upon them to signify their greatness. For example, in Czarist Russia, bringing vast amounts of new land to the empire would merit the title of "Great," as in Catherine the Great and Peter…

Norway. He spent part of his childhood on Venstøp Farm after his father went bankrupt. In 1843, he was apprenticed to a chemist in Grimstad. That was when he began writing satire and elegant poems in the style of the time. He wrote his first play…

the United States’s education and growth during the 19th century. Adams was an old man who had Puritan beliefs about sex and religion. In this autobiography, Adams voices his skepticism about man’s newfound power to control the direction of history,…