Essays Tagged: "bohemian"
Absolutism in Easter Europe
oreigntrade.In Austria and Prussia the Hapsburg king, Ferdinand II,drastically reduced power of the Bohemian Estates. He had astrong control over Bohemia and gave land from Protestant noblesto Catholi ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > Middle Eastern History
Brief history of the Thirty Years War.
hs in Bohemia. Thus began a war that lasted 30 years. The ensuing conflict came to be known as "The Bohemian Period" (1618-1625) or the Thirty Years' War. The Protestants elected Frederic as King of B ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > International Organizations & Conflicts
Rapid increase of freeters in japan.
d in television dramas is a free spirit who does a range of part time jobs to fit in with a trendy, bohemian lifestlye."it was us to recruit who invented the word with a film called `freeters` that ca ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays
An Analysis of T. S. Eliots Poetry
iterature. It is easy to understand why a young aspiring poet would want to imitate these glamorous bohemian figures, but their ultimate effect on his poetry is perhaps less profound than he claimed. ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry
The Life And The Reign Of Adolf Hitler
the provincial, middle-class boy left home for Vienna, where he was to remain until 1913 leading a bohemian, vagabond existence. Embittered at his rejection by the Viennese Academy of Fine Arts, he w ... ive politicians led by Franz von Papen, who persuaded the reluctant von Hindenburg to nominate "the Bohemian corporal" as Reich Chancellor on 30 January 1933.Once in the saddle, Hitler moved with grea ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
Appropriation of 'La Boheme' and 'RENT'
BOHEMIAN: A person with artistic or literary interests who disregards conventional standards of beha ... with artistic or literary interests who disregards conventional standards of behaviour.These said "bohemians" have featured as the central characters for two widely recognised and influential musical ... isease and those that transcend time and location about all, Love and Death.La Boheme is set in the bohemian community in the Latin Quarter of Paris around 1830. The lead characters whom we are introd ...
Subjects: Art Essays
Avant-garde cultures.
s of a completely novel character. One of the distinguishable types of this artistic culture is the bohemian avant-garde, which tends to be alienated from all rational and utilitarian aspects of socia ... of the culture of genius, with which the peculiarly modern developments in the arts began. But the bohemian and radical version of the avant-garde culture are also reactions, by artists and aesthetic ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Design Arts
"Bobos in Paradise" by David Brooks
lass of today's society. Bobos are the creation of two merging social groups; the bourgeois and the bohemians. There has been a traditional clash between the bourgeois world of capitalism and the bohe ... -class morality. They worked for corporations, lived in suburbs, and went to church. Meanwhile, the bohemians were the free spirits who flouted convention. They were the artists and the intellectuals ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
"The Winter's Tale" by William Shakespeare
vinced that Polixenes and Hermione are lovers, he orders his loyal retainer, Camillo, to poison the Bohemian king. Instead, Camillo warns Polixenes of what is afoot, and the two men flee Sicilia immed ... ueen's death to her heartbroken and repentant husband.Antigonus, meanwhile abandons the baby on the Bohemian coast, reporting that Hermione appeared to him in a dream and bade him name the girl Perdit ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare
What the author, Willa Cather, is trying to convey throughout her book "My Antonia".
igrant family from Bohemia moves in next door. Jim then meets Antonia Shimerda, the youngest of the Bohemian family. Jim and Antonia become best friends, while enjoying every moment together. Jim and ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
My Antonia
ibes the Shimerda family members in a very descriptive way. The Shimerdas's where one of the first Bohemian families to settle in the Nebraska area. "They couldn't speak enough English to ask for adv ... ibes the Shimerda family members in a very descriptive way. The Shimerdas's where one of the first Bohemian families to settle in the Nebraska area. "They couldn't speak enough English to ask for adv ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers
Theresienstadt
anted people to believe.Forty miles north west of Prague, Czechoslovakia, surrounded by the central Bohemian Mountains Hitler pinpointed the small town of Theresienstadt to be his paradise ghetto, his ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II
Oscar Wilde
ren before marriage and then being accused of raping a minor post-matrimony.Young scar grew up in a bohemian family of outspoken people including his older brother who eventually led a pitiful Oscar-s ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Artists
Henrik Ibsen Plot Summaries
r the chair with one of Hedda's former admirers, Eilert Løvborg. The latter is known to be a bohemian, gifted but prone to drinking too much. In recent years, however, he has lived quietly and ... his mother that he is suffering from syphilis, which he thinks he has contracted as a result of his bohemian life in Paris. He is afraid of becoming a helpless invalid, and hopes that Regine will be w ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Drama
A book report, comparing the immigration in the 1900's to the story line of My Antonia and sociological events at the time which made the book a classic.
was changing as technology and new methods of transportation started to take off. As stated in the Bohemian Paradox, "poor social conditions along with political persecution by the Empire and subsequ ... usually did not result in their favor like the Shimerdas who bought their first home from a fellow Bohemian Peter Krajiek that ended up overcharging them. One example of cultural differences occurred ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American