It's the birthday of novelist Joseph Conrad, born in Berdichev, Ukraine (1857), in a region that had once been part of Poland. His father was a poet and translator of English and French literature. Joseph and his father read books written in both Polish and French. By the time he was 12 years old, both of his parents had died of tuberculosis. He went to Switzerland to live with his uncle, but after a few years he decided he wanted to go off and see the world.
Tom was very young when his mother had died and his father had sold him when he could barely cry. That is another theory against Marxism referring to kids being sold back in those times. Having to sweep and sleep in the soot, it shows how cruel young chimney sweepers were treated back in that time. An example of that is shown in the poem when it
Mackenzie Coombs PHT216 Ansel Adams Biography Photographer Ansel Adams was born on February 20, 1902, and grew up in San Fransisco, California right near the Golden Gate Bridge. He broke his nose in an earthquake and, because he was self-conscious about his nose, and because he was so shy, he had problems in school, causing him to only get up to an 8th grade education. He learned through following his interests, mainly his love for the outdoors and hiking, which later influenced his photography. He began playing the piano at age 12, and his career as a concert pianist boomed. Then, he found a job as a photo technician and his life’s direction moved in a completely different way than he would have assumed.
Thomas Nast was born September 27, 1840, Landau, Bandan, which is now Germany. He was the son of a musician in the 9th regiment Bavarian band. His mother took him to New York in 1846. He studied art there for about a year with Alfred Fredericks and Theodore Kaufmann and at the school of the National Academy of Design. After school (at the age of 15), he started working in 1855 as a draftsman for Frank Leslies Illustrated Newspaper; three years afterwards for Harper's Weekly.Nast drew for Harper's Weekly from 1859 to 1860 and from 1862 until 1886.
It is the innate search for our own identity that drives artists such as Chuck Close and Vincent Van Gogh to explore their inner psyche through self expression and portraiture. The search for identity begins in how one’s childhood progressed, and Chuck Close had a very different childhood from Vincent Van Gogh. An only child, Close was always odd and with little friends due to his family’s constant relocation in his early years. His parents Leslie and Mildred, a plumber and a piano teacher, cherished their only son and aided him in his artistic endeavours to the best of their ability. When Close was about eight years old his father found a local woman of dubious work to give him art lessons in which his mentor would often provide nude models for him to study from.
When Dorothea was 7 years old she was seriously affected by polio that led to have a permanent limp, and having a lonely childhood. Her dad left her and her mother and he vanished from their lives and she never saw him again. Her real name was not Dorothea Lange but it was really Dorothea Nutzhorn she change it because she wanted a new beginning. She marry two times the first was Maynard Dixon but she divorced him then she married Paul Schuster Taylor. What you may not know about Lange is that she the one that took the most famous photographs about the Great Depression.
Sam Weinreb Sam Weinreb is a survivor of Auschwitz, who was born April 5, 1928, just celebrating his eighty-fifth birthday on April 5, 2013. A couple weeks before his 13th bar mitzvah, his parents, brother and sister, who was only six years old, were taken away and he never saw them again. He had to go to another country, which he was quite angry about. To accomplish this, he had to cross the border to Hungry illegally. He developed a plan to meet two men from the country he was crossing to.
At the age of twelve Charles’s mother took him out of school so he could work while his father was in jail for failure to pay debt. Working at a shoe-polish factory, instead of being the kid to grow up and become the intelligent young man he had dreamed of being took its toll on Charles. After a period of time Charles did go back to school. At fifteen he dropped out and resented his mother for it. (Dickens NG) Charles met Catherine Hogarth in 1834, became engaged in 1835 and
At age of 20, he inherited his father’s of art dealership and became a master painter, but struggled to keep up with the fierce competition. Unable to pay his rent, he got married to a catholic woman, Katarina Bolnes, in 1653. He converted to Catholicism to make he’s mother-in-law happy, and moved into her house where the couple had 15 children over the
It does, of course, which leads to the tragic demise of Lennie. This lays to rest the elaborate plan that George and Lennie, and later Candy, had of a better life. What little hope they had of achieving their comfortable little cottage and living off ‘the fatta’ the lan’’ is crushed the moment Lennie breaks Curley’s wife’s neck. This is, of course, a premature demise for Lennie, as well as Curley’s wife. It condemns George to living the life of every other hired hand, which is working for a month for fifty bucks, then just blowing it on whiskey and a whore, then repeating the process.