Essays Tagged: "Schoolmaster"
Robert Schumann
received his first piano lessons, fromJohann Gottfried Kuntzsch, organist at St. Mary's Church, and schoolmasterat the Zwickau Lyceum. Kuntzsch was a kindly, conservative musician oflimited abilities; ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers
A review of the book, Andrew Jackson and the Search for Vindication by James Curtis
turbulent south. Evidently, Jackson's rebellious attitude brought him nowhere in school. The local schoolmaster barley taught him to read or write, but he expressed himself directly. Even into his pr ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Presidents
Why sex ed. should be taught in schools
r the country and world.The first formal attempts at sex education was introduced by a Dr. Arnold a schoolmaster at a public school. Dr. Arnold used the Bible to make the schoolboys fell guilt and sca ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sex & Sexuality
This essay in on "Paul's changes through out all Quiet on the Western Front" describing traits of Paul Baumer that changed during the war.
y traits that eventually diminish through out the book. Entering the war after being convinced by a schoolmaster, Paul is positive and content. His elation is shown when he says, "Here it is beautiful ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays
Early Modern English (1500-1800)
this day. Shakespeare's character Holofernes in Loves Labor Lost is a satire of an overenthusiastic schoolmaster who is too fond of Latinisms.Many students having difficulty understanding Shakespeare ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Linguistics
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and Ichabod Crane.
d visions, and see strange sights, and hear music and voices in the air" (993).Ichabod Crane is the schoolmaster of the town. He is described as tall and lanky with "narrow shoulders, long arms and le ... escription of Ichabod Crane and the community of Sleepy Hollow with little direct discussion of the schoolmaster with his pupils*The character of Ichabod Crane is apparently based on a real person by ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
"Lord of the Flies" by William Golding.
1 and was educated at Marlborough Grammar School and at Brasenose College, Oxford. His father was a schoolmaster and his mother was a suffragette. He was brought up to be a scientist, but revolted. Af ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > "Lord of the Flies" by Sir William Gerald Golding
Roger Ascham's "the Schoolmaster".
In The Schoolmaster, written in 1570, Roger Ascham compares schooling to experience, and he takes the stanc ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education
Source question
in the tone of ordinary people but rather 'in the all-too-familiar tones of a Prussian officer or a schoolmaster', believed historian Denis Winter. Because of this particular tone of the German propag ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War I
John Adams:The Man Who Fought for the Ideal of Independence
on for this nations very existence.Growing up wanting to be a lawyer John Adams' first job was as a schoolmaster. In 1774 and 1775 he participated in the First and Second Continental Congress. He was ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Lord of the Flies
tory. William Gerald Golding was born on September 19, 1911, in Cornwall, England. His father was a schoolmaster and his mother worked in the suffragette movement. Golding complied with his parents' w ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > "Lord of the Flies" by Sir William Gerald Golding
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Movie Review
n character was Johnny Depp who played the role of Ichabod Crane. Unlike in the story where he is a schoolmaster, in the movie he plays an intelligent detective. This well known man uses science to ex ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Vincent Van Gogh
s uncle, and worked with them until he was dismissed from the London office in 1873. He worked as a schoolmaster in England in 1876, before training for the ministry at Amsterdam University in 1877. A ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Artists
Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle"
ather of the American short story. He is best known for "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", in which the schoolmaster Ichabold Crane meets with a headless horseman, and "Rip Van Winkle. Washington Irving's ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors
Washington Irving
ather of the American short story. He is best known for 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,' in which the schoolmaster Ichabold Crane meets with a headless horseman, and 'Rip Van Winkle,' about a man who fa ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Heinrich Himmler bio.
rich Himmler was born in Munich on 7 October 1900. The son of a pious, authoritarian Roman Catholic schoolmaster who had once been tutor to the Bavarian Crown Prince, Himmler was educated at a seconda ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
Richard Trevethick
nt his youth at Illogan in the tin-mining district of Cornwall and attended the village school. The schoolmaster described him as "disobedient, slow and obstinate." His father, a mine manager, conside ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History
Essay On Lloyd George's Life
David Lloyd George, was born in Manchester on 17th January, 1863. David's father, a schoolmaster, died a year after he was born and his mother took her two children to live with her br ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History
All Quiet On The Western Front
Paul Baumer, a nineteen year old student. Paul was convinced to enlist with the German army by his schoolmaster, Kantorek. Along with many of his friends from school, he is trained under Corporal Him ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
Noah Webster: Reflecting Or Shaping A World View?
uage, which in turn helped to "define the American character" (82, Urban and Wagoner 1996). As the "schoolmaster of America," (Spring 1990, Moss 1984) Webster infused his works with nationalism to cre ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers