Cecilia Beaux

Cecilia Beaux was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as the youngest daughter to Jean Adolphe Beaux and Cecilia Kent Leavitt. After her mom died and their dad left for France, Cecilia and her sister, Elta, were raised by their grandparents and aunts (NMWA, 1). Beaux’s interest in art started at a young age when she was encouraged at home and in school to take up art. Her and her uncle would visit the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts where she had her first major exposure to art (Carter, 25)

Frances Burney started feeling pain in her breast in 1810, and in September 1811 a mastectomy was performed to her. In her letter ”A Mastectomy” she describes the illness and the operation, her feelings and fears, to her sister Esther Burney. The letter tells a story of a battle of control and against the feeling of powerlessness. It also speaks of empowerment; writing is Burney's way of regaining control over her operation and making it part of her own history. In this paper I attempt to find and

the more shocking theories concerning the Second Nun's Tale in her essay Chaucer's Tell-Tale Lexicon: Romancing Seinte Cecyle.  Weise argues that Chaucer's purpose for writing the saint's tale as a self-imposed literary penance for the "raptus" of Cecilia Chaumpaigne.  She posits:   Chaucer began translating the lyf in the wake of Cecilia's release to deflect negative reactions by his family... Is it just a stunning coincidence that the one saint's life Chaucer writes concerns a virgin martyr

AN ANALYSIS OF THE CANTERBURY TALES: Chaucer’s “Second Nun’s Tale”. Leah Holle REL. 700a: Transitional Moments in Western Christianity 1 November 5th, 2014 Geoffrey Chaucer was a prominent figure within English Literature during the Middle Ages, and is regarded as one of the greatest English poets. Among Chaucer’s works, The Canterbury Tales is arguably one of his most famous pieces. In this fictional work, there is a collection of over 20 stories that are told by pilgrims

Identity Crises: The Inequality of Women in The Beaux Stratagem and She Stoops to Conquer Plays during the Restoration period often contained characters dressed up in disguise as a way to create conflict and to manipulate the plot. Conversely, the “false identities” in which these characters adopt, help readers learn about social hierarchy. Specifically, characters like Archer and Aimwell from George Farquhar’s The Beaux’ Stratagem and Kate Hardcastle from Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer

Musee des Beaux Arts by W. H. Auden starts his poem by honoring painters who painted about suffering and society’s arrogance to the nature of suffering. People focus only on their lives and children continue to play, all unconcerned with the suffering of others around them. Auden brings the painting of Icarus to show the indifference of humanity to individual suffering. The central point is to show that everyone is caught up in his or her own lives and enjoyment that they ignore the suffering of

To begin with Musee des Beaux Arts, in which follows that particular motif with the ekphrasis through the painting of Pieter Breughel. This poem focuses on the human hardship and discomfort but at the same time about the tolerance that might people have in certain moments. That is obvious by the reference to the “old Masters” “About suffering… understood” who are in a position to be able to conceive all about the human suffering (1-2). In addition to these, Auden highlights the fact that the discomfort

Apple Commercial 1. a) The connotation of “information purification directives” is that it is a positive thing because it is purifying something that was once wrong or unclean. The denotation of this phrase is that rules are being applied that extract, change or delete information. when we look at the context and see who is saying this phrase we know that this is a bad thing because the so called purification of information is altering the truth and supplying lies to the masses. Because information

Born on May 10, 1900, in Westchester England, Cecilia Helena Payne went on stargazing escapades as a child with her mother, Elena Pertz. Once, she saw a meteor stream across the sky and decided at age five to become an astronomer. At a young age, she already knew that being a female would be an obstacle, especially when her younger brother Humfry was born. She discovered that he “was the one who really mattered”. Women during her time were seldom able to advance past teaching jobs, and those

Comparing Musée des Beaux Arts and Life Cycle of Common Man "Musée des Beaux Arts" and "Life Cycle of Common Man" share a common theme, though the imagery they use to express it is quite different.  Both poems have the theme of life goes on or life stops for no one.  The difference in imagery is the difference between the general and the specific.  I believe that the theme of both poems lies in the same vein, but they take different paths to its development.  Auden speaks more about society