Essays Tagged: "visionary"

"Symbolic Space: French Enlightenment Architecture and Its Legacy" by Richard A. Etlin.

atment of emotion and its relevance in architecture, Etlin relates modern designs with those of the visionary French architects during the late eighteenth century.In understanding the role of emotion, ... andeur of Blondel, Cret was "a master of symbolic character." His works utilize many aspects of the visionary architects of the past. These aspects were especially important in establishing character. ...

(8 pages) 165 0 4.4 Nov/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Design Arts

Samual Langhorne Clemens

l Langhorne Clemens was born in 1835, and died in 1910. Twain's father was John Marshall Clemens, a visionary lawyer and landowner from virginia and his mother was Jane Lampton Clemens. When Clemens w ...

(4 pages) 50 0 4.3 Jan/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Nathaniel Hawthorne Weaves Dreams Into Much of His 19th Century Prose

nifested in the souls of man during the firm Christian precepts of the Era in which he lived. As a visionary in an extremely conservative Puritanical society, he carefully and successfully manages to ...

(6 pages) 69 0 3.0 Mar/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Freedom, and equality in the United States, it's roots, causes, and the pursuit of equality in the American culture.

, and insisted in the area of public ideas that all men are equal, he would have been heralded as a visionary, and man with the courage to guide and direct the course of a people toward a greater exis ...

(6 pages) 149 0 3.0 Dec/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

The events and terms during the Progressive Era in the United States beggining with Teddy Roosevelt entering office.

s interest expanded to China, the Pacific, and the Caribbean. People say that Teddy Roosevelt was a visionary and a genius. He truly held both these traits, the nation would not be what it is today if ...

(2 pages) 55 0 3.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Government

The Little Prince, by "Saint Exupery". A Visionary Heart

A Visionary Heart.In the story, The Little Prince, the author, Antoinne De Saint-Exupery, is the narra ...

(5 pages) 57 0 5.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

John Marshall: Did he change the constitution forever?

s separate and unique, agreeing to unite together did not seem plausible. But relentlessly the best visionary minds in the country (all hailing from different states) worked tirelessly until that fait ... tizens that his country was made up of "a government of laws not of men". He had what was called a "visionary sense"10 by author Edward Corwin, meaning; He knew the importance of the constitution to t ...

(13 pages) 123 0 4.0 May/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Presidents

"Retrieving the American Past" and Gordon Wood's novel "The American Revolution".

longer merely a colonial rebellion ...nearly every piece of writing was filled with extraordinarily visionary hopes for the transformation of America."(91). Each American had high expectations of what ...

(7 pages) 96 0 4.0 Jul/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers

The broken windows theory and community policing and how they relate to each other.

e broken windows theory gohand in hand in this new era of policing. Robert C. Trojanowicz, an early visionary who helped define the community policing movement, described community policing as "... a ...

(12 pages) 394 0 3.7 Sep/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

Mao Zedong and China's Communist Revolution.

world. The reality of this statement lies almost wholly in the hands of China's greatest political visionary and activist, Mao Zedong.Born on December 26, 1893 and reared in Hunan as the son of a pea ...

(7 pages) 243 1 4.8 Dec/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History

The Relationship Between Blake's Songs of Innocence and Their Paintings

William Blake was a truly gifted artist and visionary in every sense. Not only was he a brilliant poet who addressed important social and politi ...

(7 pages) 59 0 3.7 Jan/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

An isu all about serial killers, how their brains work, their childhoods, types of serial killers, examples of certain killers, characteristics..stuff like that

f these questions I think I have answered successfully.Killers Cycle and Serial Killer Categories1. Visionary- psycho instructed by higher power- usually medically insane (e.g. Hillside Strangler)2. M ...

(8 pages) 201 0 4.5 Jan/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays

This is an essay about world peace. It ties in the ideas of Martin Luther King, Jr. It describes the violent state the world is in and how things can change.

tween world wars and a time when African Americans were still second class citizens. Dr. King was a visionary, and he inspired many people to change their "worldly" ways. By meeting violence with non ...

(5 pages) 70 0 4.3 Jan/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Percy Bysshe Shelley

ind," "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty," and "Ozymandias." In Shelley's view, "the poet is a dreamer, a visionary" who uses these dreams and visions to "persuade men to shake off the chains of the past, o ...

(7 pages) 70 0 4.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Into The Wild

Visionary or ConfusedIn my opinion Chris (Alex) is a very confused, sick individual. Chris's actions ...

(2 pages) 39 1 4.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The Flamenco World of Don Quixote

clothes as the women.From personal experience, it seemed to me that Don Quixote is an enthusiastic visionary crazed by his readings. Don Quixote imagines that he is in a different world and all that ...

(2 pages) 45 0 4.6 Apr/2004

Subjects: Art Essays

[Authorities in Question: 'Unusual' Narrators in Tales by Edgar Allan Poe]

uction................................12. Literary Reference......................13.1. Dreamer and Visionary..............23.2. The "Impossible" Narrator.........43.3. The Narrator - A Liar ?........ ... focus on some stories in which the lack of reliability is evident to a high degree.3.1. Dreamer and VisionaryAs far as the mediatory quality of some of Poe's narrators is concerned, it seems that the ...

(13 pages) 65 1 4.5 Jun/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Edgar Allan Poe

Peter The Great

Peter the great was a visionary in many ways. At the time of his rule russia was at a time of struggle they were behind th ...

(2 pages) 28 0 4.0 Aug/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

ARCHITECT Frank Owen Gehry

g architects and architectural critics have already hailed the museum as a profoundly important and visionary building. In addition, fish and snake forms fascinate Gehry, and he knows how to incorpora ...

(1 pages) 52 0 3.7 Nov/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

Write a sustained close analysis of 'Kubla Khan' paying attention to both the form and content of the poem.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's visionary Kubla Khan (1797-8) arose out of a narcotic induced dream. According to the poet's preface ...

(8 pages) 99 1 4.2 Apr/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry