Robert De La Salle By Alynna Medina My French explorer is Robert de la salle. Robert’s whole name is Rene Robert Cavelier Ssieur de la Ssalle. L,la salle was born in Rouen, France on November 22, 1643.…
Representative and Senator, Robert M. La Follette Sr., a Republican representing Wisconsin’s 3rd Congressional district and later the leader of Progressive party, was an excellent Congressman because he was an effective speaker, helped pass various reform laws and fought political corruption. La Folletes’s election to the Senate was a significant one, mainly because he was not influenced by ulterior economic motives. Within the first three years, La Follete helped pass laws in opposition to the freight rates, and financing practices of railroads. In this way, he represented his constituents, the Wisconsin farmers, who were often affected by the railroad actions and rates. La Follette also fervently advocated for various other progressive reforms, particularity social security, women’s suffrage…
Monet, Claude was born on Nov. 14, 1840 in Paris. When he was five years old, he moved out of Paris, with his family to live in Le Havre. His father Kuludo Adolov Monet is a businessman. He had a shop in northern France. Same with many parents’ idea, Monet’s father wanted him to inherit the grocery store, but Monet’s dream was to become an artist.…
Debussy was a famous French composer, and pianist. In 1919 Silvestre moved to Chicago, and enrolled in the Chicago Musical College, where he graduated with a degree in violin, harmony and composition. Although Silvestre was away from his homeland and family, he managed to stay in contact with his parents through…
Besides his musical feats, Camille Saint-Saens also did well in academics, excelling in Latin and mathematics. Camille Saint-Saens first took up the position as an organist at a number of churches, one of the most famous being the Church of Madeleine. He worked as an organist for twenty years, until he switched to a teaching position. In 1861, he was hired at the Ecole Niedemeyer, where he taught piano. When the Franco-Prussian war broke out in 1870, Saint-Saens was briefly enlisted in the French Army.…
Tanner 7th Grade Richland Jr. High Essex, Mo Edgar Degas Edgar Degas was born on July 19, 1834, and died September 27, 1917. Edgar was born in Paris, France. He also died in Paris, France. Edgar died of brain aneurysm. Edgar was a French artist who was highly famous in the 19th century, and was famous for not only his paintings, but also his sculptures, drawings, and prints.…
Kaitlynn Lowrey English 1010 Professor Hubert de Givenchy As a child I was mesmerized by the classic look of the women in the 1940's-1950's. Some would say I wanted to be like them. I dreamed of being like Audrey Hepburn or Jackie Kennedy.…
At the age of seven he had lessons with Otto Friedrich Willibald Cossel. Soon after he was accepted to instruction of piano and theory with Eduard Marxen. Most of his teenage years were spent reading, learning, and composing music. His family was poor so he had to contribute to their income. He played in dance halls and along the city's docks for money.…
“If white people need colleges to furnish teachers, ministers, lawyers, and doctors, do black people need nothing of the sort?” (Du Bois). Today, this question is a foregone conclusion for anyone. In the 1800’s and early 1900’s, this question might have been harder for some to answer correctly, not because they didn’t know the answer, but because their strong racial discrimination was standing in the way of common sense. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois dedicated his entire life to the betterment of the African community around the globe.…
Denis Diderot was born in 1713 to middle class parents who were able to afford a Jesuit education for him and hoped that he would join the clergy, like his father. Instead, he studied law at the Jesuit college of Louis-le-Grand in Paris, disappointing his parents (Hinchman). However, he may have studied After Diderot’s parents “disowned” him, he eventually left studying law to become a writer in order to share his thoughts on society (“Denis Diderot (1713-1783)”). To try to turn some sort of profit in his profession, Diderot took a job translating an English dictionary, Cyclopedia by Ephraim Chambers, into French. This would eventually turn from a translation project into the writing of his Encyclopedia (Hinchman).…
Second largest art museum in the United States, the Art Institute of Chicago began its day in 1866 as a public gallery and art school. Known for its signature lion statues, the museum was very busy during weekend, making it difficult for us to take picture. The original building was destroyed in Great Chicago Fire and left mismanaged for many years until reconstruction in 1925.…
Henri Rousseau was a French post impressionist painter. He was given the nickname Le Douanier due to a job that he had during 1871-1983, he was working at the Paris Customs office. Rousseau was serving his country during his time in the Army prior to his artistic career. In 1893 he had retired, and decided to focus on painting and making it his number one priority. By giving his full attention to painting he was opening up new doors to the artistic world.…
Banksy, an unknown English street artist, believed to be born in Bristol around 1974, rose to prominence for his controversial stencil works in the late 90’s. His career began as a small graffiti artist apart of a street art gang ‘DryBreadZ Crew’. By the late 90’s his stencil works began to become more widely recognized in many different parts of England. Banksy spent years developing a very unique style which usually consisted of striking imagery and deep political meanings. The works were celebrated worldwide as some of the best and most famous street art.…
When he was 18 his parents sent him to Vienna then 3 years later to Paris both to gain some new ideas in the world of music. In Paris he was exposed to Schubert and Beethoven, he then became recitalist and composer in Paris and during that time composed some of his most famous pieces and played many concerts. “After a sensational debut at the Salle Pleyel on Feb. 26, 1832, with Franz Liszt, Felix Mendelssohn and Luigi Cherubini among those in the audience, Chopin, three days shy of his 22nd birthday, took his place as one of the celebrities of the French capital” (Libbey, 2010) This was when Chopin really came to…
When Claude Debussy composed his piece, La Mer (Movement II, Play of the Waves) between 1903 and 1905, he found inspiration in Katsushika Hokusai’s artwork, The Great Wave off Kanagawa. Because the song is based off of artwork, one with expect for it to be programmatic, and it meets those expectations. The title, La Mer, is customary for absolute music because it is telling of the idea that will be produced in the music. The music then follows through with the title by audibly depicting the sea in the artwork and real life.…