Essays Tagged: "started work"

The Italian Renaissance. Speaks of Donatello, Brunelleschi, da Vinci , and Michelangelo

cing by 1406 as an assistant to sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti (Multimedia). In the year 1416, Donatello started work on the marble statue of St. George and the relief below it, St. George Killing the Drag ... t know as Lo Zuccone 'The Pumpkinhead,' which he created about 1425 (Ward). Late in life, Donatello started to use distortion as he tried to show even more realistic emotional expressions. Donatello d ...

(9 pages) 237 0 4.7 Apr/1995

Subjects: Art Essays

Daniel Hale Williams

eer who performed the first successful heart surgery. Born in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, Williams started work as an apprentice shoemaker at age 12. He worked his way through Janesville Classical Ac ... erve as surgeon-in-chief at Freedmen's Hospital in Washington, D.C. While at Freedmen's Hospital he started another school for black nurses. In 1898 he returned to Provident Hospital where he practice ...

(1 pages) 40 0 4.6 Jan/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > African Studies - History

Inventor of the Compact Disc

ngton in 1931. Russell earned a BA in Physics from Reed College in Portland in 1953. In 1965, James started work at the Bettelle Memorial Institute as the senior scientist. That is were he designed an ... me. They always wore out after being played too many times. One Saturday afternoon, he sat down and started to sketch out a better music recording system. After years of work, he completed the system, ...

(1 pages) 21 0 5.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking

Discuss: "bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki was an immoral act, a war crime against humanity."

ustified, or an immoral act?After the attack of Pearl Harbour in December of 1941 American military started work on the Manhattan project in secret. During the time of the development of the bomb pres ...

(3 pages) 62 2 2.2 Mar/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > International Organizations & Conflicts

Spielberg as a contemporary director

ded college at Long Beach University, but soon dropped out to pursue his dream of making movies. He started work as an assistant on the classic western "Wagon Train", and soon directed "The Last Gun" ... few. All of Spielberg's early productions and TV shows were just the beginning, he was just getting started and would soon release his chart topping movies such as "Jaws" (1975), "Indian Jones: Raider ...

(6 pages) 41 0 3.4 May/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Directors

The Dinner Party

ething about it. . The idea of making the dinner party was exposed by a single woman and she started work on it by herself only. However, later on, she got a great help from the other inspired ...

(2 pages) 39 0 2.3 Aug/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Works of Art

Melanie Klein

General InformationStarted work as a psychoanalyst during the First World War.Began her work as an extension of Freud's ...

(2 pages) 46 0 2.0 Nov/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Henry David Thoreau - "Why I Went to the Woods"

rth shore of Walden Pond on a piece of land owned by his friend and mentor, Ralph Waldo Emerson. He started work on his cabin in March of 1845. On the 4th of July, he moved in. Thus began one of the g ...

(2 pages) 55 0 5.0 Dec/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Moving Pictures By Terry Pratchett

novel by Terry PratchettTerry Pratchett"Terry Pratchett was born in 1948 and is still not dead. He started work as a journalist one day in 1965 and saw his first corpse three hours later, work experi ... a regular place in the bestseller lists.Occasionally he gets accused of literature."Terry Pratchett started off as a journalist, he wrote his first novel, The Carpet People, in 1971 but it was no hit. ...

(5 pages) 20 1 3.7 Dec/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

Buonarroti, Michelangelo

least six works of art; some being secular, others being non secular. In 1504, Michelangelo started work on his most famous piece of art. The statue of David was said to resemble the man in th ... f this, Michelangelo was forced to leave art and focus on architecture. In 1547 Michelangelo started on various architect projects, which led to him being appointed as the head architect for th ...

(1 pages) 25 0 3.0 Mar/2005

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

Book Review: "Eldest" by Chris Paolini

an accredited correspondence course at American School, Chicago, Illinois. Following graduation, he started work on what would become the novel Eragon and its sequel Eldest, all set in Alagaësia. ...

(2 pages) 17 0 3.0 May/2007

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American