Everyday objects were often included in Rauschenberg’s art, along with a focus of current events. This interest in everyday object, people and current events is apparent in many pieces, including Retroactive 1. After serving in the military, Rauschenberg used the G.I bill to study in Paris. He quickly realized that he was not very interested in European art and moved to North Carolina to study at Black Mountain College. At Black Mountain College Rauschenberg studies under many artists who helped to make him into the artist he became.
Santiago Ramón y Cajal was born in a poverty-stricken, isolated village in Navarre, Spain. He was the son of Justo Ramón y Cassús, a struggling barber/surgeon who acquired a medical degree from the University of Zaragoza. His father eventually became a country doctor and wanted his son to study medicine, but the young Santiago was more interested in art and while at school, showed contempt for both his teachers as well as the whole educational process. In 1873 he joined the army medical service and in the following year was sent to Cuba as a regimental surgeon. He contracted malaria and within twelve months had to be discharged from the service and was sent back to Spain.
He disassembled the camps bunk beds and used the springs as a form of resistance and created innovative machines that would also help those who were injured and bed-ridden. He started to teach his exercises to others and later acted as a nurse-physiotherapist – in a sense and brought them to good health. Once the outbreak of the influenza hit, those who followed his routine survived. When the war was over, he returned back to Germany, where he trained police officers and worked with dance and movement experts. He then got pressured to train the New German Army and he left Germany to immigrate to New York.
Ernest Hemingway and Guy De Maupassant are two of the world’s most renowned and famous writers. Guy de Maupassant was born in France and later served in the Franco-Prussian War. After the war, Maupassant lived in Paris where he met a couple of distinguished writers who would influence him later in life. After quitting his day job as a civil servant, Maupassant published one of his two-hundred or so stories. After getting the syphilis disease that had a negative effect on his brain, he attempts to commit suicide and fails.
“Farewell to arms” is an exemplification of his love life as well as his war life as an ambulance driver in World War I. In Hemingway's book the injuries sustained and the love life formed by the main character shows a striking correlation to that of Hemingway's actual war life experiences. Hemingway entered World War I in May of 1918 as a volunteer ambulance driver for the Red Cross after being deferred enlistment due to poor vision. According to the Lost Generation, Hemingway "had a bad left eye that he probably inherited from his mother, who also had poor vision. In early June Hemingway traveled to Milan and upon his arrival he was quickly initiated into his job when a munitions factory exploded and left many dismembered bodies for Hemingway to transport to a morgue.
Vesalius was sent to Paris to study medicine. Once there, he was greatly disappointed to find that his anatomy teachers were content on teaching the ways of Galen while poking around in the bodies of dead dogs. Galen, a Greek doctor who had lived in the 3rd century BC, had been the standard of knowledge about human anatomy for almost 2000 years. Searching for more rigorous training in anatomy, Vesalius left Paris and returned to Brussels, where, risking imprisonment, he stole a body from the gallows to acquire a complete human skeleton. Vesalius moved on to the University of Padua, where he received his medical degree in 1537 and was appointed professor of surgery and anatomy.
His life in Paris also brought him closer to other painters. For 2 years he stayed in Algeria because he joined the First Regiment of African Light Cavalry, in 1861. He was supposed to stay there for 7 years but his aunt petitioned for him to return after he contacted typhoid. During his studies in university, he met many artists where they all shared their ideas on new, rapid painting techniques. During that time Monet met a young woman, Camille Doncieux.
Brassai photographer / sculptor Introduction He trained as an artist in Budapest and Berlin, dabbling in drawing, painting and writing. In World War II, Brassai fought against France and the Allies. Afterwards, in the chaos of the post war world's revolutions and redrawing of borders, he joined a number of other Hungarian writers and artists in Germany. He worked as a journalist and studied drawing and painting. He arrived in Paris in 1924 and belongs to first wave of Hungarian emigrants that went over to Western Europe and America in search of wider personal horizons more than escaping from political or economical difficulties.
At the age of twenty six Hitler served as a runner on the Western Front in France and Belgium and was decorated for bravery, receiving the Iron Cross, Second Class, in 1914. After World War One Hitler remained in the army and returned to Munich where in July 1919 he was appointed Verbindungsmann (intelligence agent) to influence other soldiers and to infiltrate the German Workers’ Party, D.A.P. The D.A.P. started out as a small party in Bavaria called the German Workers Party. They were borne out of dismay at the defeat in World War One.
Dr. Manette is the first person to experience resurrection in A Tale of Two Cities. He is taken away from his pregnant wife and then imprisoned for eighteen very long years causing him to go insane. By being released from the Bastille by the French Government he is given the chance to redeem himself. He is originally put in the care of Monsieur Defarge and is suddenly recalled to life. However, his rebirth has just begun and is not complete until Lucie and Mr. Lorry nurse him back to health.