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Walter McDonald’s “Life With Father” and Theodore Roethke’s “My Papa’s Waltz” both offer extraordinary insight into the behaviors and lifestyles of two different families living and dealing with alcoholic fathers. Alcoholism permeates throughout each of these poems and becomes the defining factor in the lives of the children associated with both “Life With Father” and…

Our third stimulus was a talk from a senior teacher in our school, who had previously spent many years working in an African school. Amongst the many things I learnt from him, perhaps the most vivid was the attitude presented towards intellectualism, and the desire to do well. The teacher explained how in Africa one…

Still, for all the complaints lodged against the original of the now-standard museum shop trinket, Degas, unlike his fellow painters, the French Impressionists, always enjoyed steady support. One such defender, Nina de Villard, said of “The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer,” “The work that is misunderstood today will one day be in a museum looked upon with respect…

The first thing I will do to design this pond cost calculator will be to decide upon which software is wise to use. After I know which programs I will be using I shall then sketch out a few design ideas on paper for the layout of the calculator which will be sketched to fit…

Enlightenment vs. Romanticism The enlightenment was an 18th century movement that emphasized reason to change society and advance knowledge. The enlightenment changed how people all over Europe, and later North America, thought about religion, hierarchy, monarchy, and science. People began to question the church and there was a loss of unity in the Christian church….

Modernism is an inclusive name applied to the many forms of rebellion against the accepted and the tra- ditional. A modernist likes to be thought a rebel—sometimes he is and will starve for his principles, sometimes he is not, but only a self-advertiser. Modernism has had the good effect of arousing the anger of the…

Hofmannstal’s Ad Me Ipsum, which appeared posthumously in 1930, was an attempt on the part of the author to reduce his major work to a compact, often gnomic, schema of his creative intentions. Long before the appearance of this confession, which is a compendium of literary interpretation rather than aesthetic evaluation, it was obvious that…

One would have difficulty finding a stranger case of the growth and decline of a vogue than that of Jean-Baptiste Rousseau as a lyric poet. Before a single verse of his poems had been published, he was being referred to as “Rousseau, fameux poète.” When the first edition of his poems appeared in 1712, he…