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    Essay on A Great Composer

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    may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness—I wouldn’t know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.      Only one man could claim the title as probably the greatest composer in American history for writing so many unforgettable works: Aaron Copland. He lived a life inspired by many things as well as inspiring people all across the nation, and it really led to the opposite of being drawn into himself, as he described in the quote

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    The Influence of Past American Women Writers Amy Tan, Julia Ward Howe, and Judith Sargent Murray are some of the noble women whom have helped shape the lives of their fellow gender with the talents of their writing. Much of their writing became increasingly influential years after it was written. Their literature allows today’s modern readers to reflect on the humanity and the treatment of women, understand history’s past, and use it as an example to continue spreading the vision of the equality

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    Maria Mitchell Essay

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    medal for this discovery a year later. The comet was named "Miss Mitchell's Comet." She continued working as a librarian, but now she was also receiving letters of congratulations from scientists and tourists were coming to take a look at the woman astronomer. In 1848 the American Academy of Arts and Sciences voted her the first woman member. The Association for the Advancement of Science did the same in 1850. In 1849 she was offered a job by the U.S. Nautical Almanac Office as a computer (one

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    Jacob Lawrence Essay

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    mother and siblings to New York, settling in Harlem. "He trained as a painter at the Harlem Art Workshop, inside the New York Public Library's 113 5th Street branch. Younger than the artists and writers who took part in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, Lawrence was also at an angle to them: he was not interested in the kind of idealized, fake-primitive images of blacks - the Noble Negroes in Art Deco guise - that tended to be produced as an antidote to the toxic racist stereotypes with which

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    black community (something that would later be apart of Morrison's works). Morrison is a well known American author, editor, and professor who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993 for being an author "who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality." Her novels are amazing themes, vivid dialogue, and detailed African-American characters; among the best known are her novels "The Bluest Eye", "Song of Solomon", and "Beloved"

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    The Great American Play

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    Isabella Niven Wilder. The Wilder children grew to see success. Amos Wilder, Thornton’s older brother, became a Hollis Professor of Divinity at the Harvard Divinity School, an American poet, a founder in the field of theopoetics, as well as a nationally ranked tennis player. Charlotte Wilder made her success as an American poet. Janet Wilder Dakin, the youngest sibling of Thornton, received a Ph.D. in zoology and became a zoologist as well as a philanthropist. Thornton was noted at an early age for

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    story. Martin Adams, a member of one of the said groups, claims that Krakauer even changed

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    there were two separate collections that caught my eye. These collections consisted of the American and European collection. The American collection focuses primarily on portraiture. In the American Collection I chose a painting by Jean MacLane called The Chintz Chair. MacLane was born on September 14, 1878 and died on January 23, 1964 in New Canaan, Connecticut. One of MacLane’s first studies was at an Art Institute in Chicago with John Vanderpoel. “ MacLane and her husband, artist John C. Johansen

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    use the imagnty and repetition in the past that is not too bad and not be great. And Justice also use personal Pronoun such as we,the neighbors,people, it was implies not only Justice’s life filled with originally and without change but still the member of the middleclass. According to the first half of “The Pantoum of the great Depression”, the sound feel like the melodious and compose of relaxed sounds which the reader can feel comfortable when you image. The mood try to make the audience believe

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    use the imagery and repetition in the past that is not too bad and not be great. And Justice also use personal Pronoun such as we, the neighbors, people, it was implies not only Justice’s life filled with originally and without change but still the member of the middleclass. According to the first half of “The Pantoum of the great Depression”, the sound feel like the melodious and compose of relaxed sounds which the reader can feel comfortable when you image. The mood try to make the audience believe

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