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Author : Sarah Josepha Buell Hale
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (54 download)
Download or read book Sketches of American Character written by Sarah Josepha Buell Hale and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465549994
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (655 download)
Download or read book Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama: A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook (Complete) written by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1902 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : One-legged sergeant
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Total Pages : 152 pages
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Download or read book A Sketch of the Life and Character of Gen. Taylor, the American Hero and People's Man, Together with a Concise History of the Mexican War; Including the Last Battle of Buena Vista, Feb. 22 ... written by One-legged sergeant and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sarah Josepha Buell Hale
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Total Pages : 304 pages
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Download or read book Sketches of American Character written by Sarah Josepha Buell Hale and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Walter Isaacson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439183457
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book American Sketches written by Walter Isaacson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-11-24 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the roots of creativity? What makes for great leadership? How do influential people end up rippling the surface of history? In this collection of essays, Walter Isaacson reflects on the lessons to be learned from Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton, and various other interesting characters he has chronicled as a biographer and journalist. The people he writes about have an awesome intelligence, in most cases, but that is not the secret of their success. They had qualities that were even more rare, such as imagination and true curiosity. Isaacson reflects on how he became a writer, the lessons he learned from various people he met, and the challenges he sees for journalism in the digital age. He also offers loving tributes to his hometown of New Orleans, which both before and after Hurricane Katrina offered many of the ingredients for a creative culture, and to the Louisiana novelist Walker Percy, who was an early mentor. In an anecdotal and personal way, Isaacson describes the joys of the "so-called writing life" and the way that tales about the lives of fascinating people can enlighten our own lives.
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Author : Sarah Josepha Buell 1788-1879 Hale
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781360197876
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (978 download)
Download or read book SKETCHES OF AMER CHARACTER written by Sarah Josepha Buell 1788-1879 Hale and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-24 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Artur Skweres
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319479679
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)
Download or read book Homo Ludens as a Comic Character in Selected American Films written by Artur Skweres and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals the hitherto critically disregarded ludic elements in popular American comedy films, building on and expanding the theories developed by Johan Huizinga in his classic study Homo Ludens (1938) and Roger Caillois in Les jeux et les hommes (1958). To address the lack of attention paid to the play principle in film comedy studies, this book focuses exclusively on the elements typical of play that can be found in movies. It introduces two new categories describing play: óneiros and pragma, which allow analysis of how play in comedies is influenced by the relations between the player and non-players. The text is supplemented by the use of the author’s drawings, which, because of their analytical and selective nature, are used as a tool for visual study. The play principle has a long tradition in American humor and the films examined here were chosen for their popularity and wide appeal, often acting as vehicles for Hollywood stars (e.g. Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, Steve Martin, Eddie Murphy, Goldie Hawn, Mike Myers, Jackie Chan or Chris Tucker). The actors’ status allowed the filmmakers to construct situations in which the protagonists distanced themselves from the fictional situation. It is argued that the playful detachment from reality, typifying many of the fictional characters portrayed by actors with star status, is characteristic of the play principle in film. Another major consideration is the hotly debated notion of the accomplishment of goals in playful activities, and the book strongly supports the position that in narratives, play can (but does not have to) yield important results. The introduction of the categories of óneiros and pragma in play serves to highlight the complex relation between playfulness and practicality in the films discussed. Building on a comprehensive analysis of the ludic elements in selected popular American comedies, the book makes an important contribution to film studies, providing a unique perspective through its focus on the concept of homo ludens as a comic hero.
Author : Forrest Morgan
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Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Bibliophile Library of Literature, Art and Rare Manuscripts written by Forrest Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sarah Burns
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520943821
Total Pages : 1101 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book American Art to 1900 written by Sarah Burns and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 1101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the simple assertion that "words matter" in the study of visual art, this comprehensive but eminently readable volume gathers an extraordinary selection of words—painters and sculptors writing in their diaries, critics responding to a sensational exhibition, groups of artists issuing stylistic manifestos, and poets reflecting on particular works of art. Along with a broad array of canonical texts, Sarah Burns and John Davis have assembled an astonishing variety of unknown, little known, or undervalued documents to convey the story of American art through the many voices of its contemporary practitioners, consumers, and commentators. American Art to 1900 highlights such critically important themes as women artists, African American representation and expression, regional and itinerant artists, Native Americans and the frontier, popular culture and vernacular imagery, institutional history, and more. With its hundreds of explanatory headnotes providing essential context and guidance to readers, this book reveals the documentary riches of American art and its many intersecting histories in unprecedented breadth, depth, and detail.
Author : John McWilliams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521311465
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (114 download)
Download or read book Hawthorne Melville and the American Character written by John McWilliams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1986-02-28 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers the portrayal of the American national character in the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville. It examines Hawthorne's abiding concern with the development of New England from colony to province to republic, and analyses Melville's changing evocation of 'the new American', and the difficulties he faced in sustaining his heady nationalistic faith.
Author : Characteristics
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Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Characteristics of men of genius, essays selected chiefly from The North American review written by Characteristics and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michigan State Library
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Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Biographical Sketches of American Artists written by Michigan State Library and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The American Monthly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1086 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Chambers's New Handy Volume American Encyclopædia written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 1086 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jason Reynolds
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1481463357
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (814 download)
Download or read book All American Boys written by Jason Reynolds and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2016 Coretta Scott King Author Honor book, and recipient of the Walter Dean Myers Award for Outstanding Children’s Literature. In this New York Times bestselling novel, two teens—one black, one white—grapple with the repercussions of a single violent act that leaves their school, their community, and, ultimately, the country bitterly divided by racial tension. A bag of chips. That’s all sixteen-year-old Rashad is looking for at the corner bodega. What he finds instead is a fist-happy cop, Paul Galluzzo, who mistakes Rashad for a shoplifter, mistakes Rashad’s pleadings that he’s stolen nothing for belligerence, mistakes Rashad’s resistance to leave the bodega as resisting arrest, mistakes Rashad’s every flinch at every punch the cop throws as further resistance and refusal to STAY STILL as ordered. But how can you stay still when someone is pounding your face into the concrete pavement? There were witnesses: Quinn Collins—a varsity basketball player and Rashad’s classmate who has been raised by Paul since his own father died in Afghanistan—and a video camera. Soon the beating is all over the news and Paul is getting threatened with accusations of prejudice and racial brutality. Quinn refuses to believe that the man who has basically been his savior could possibly be guilty. But then Rashad is absent. And absent again. And again. And the basketball team—half of whom are Rashad’s best friends—start to take sides. As does the school. And the town. Simmering tensions threaten to explode as Rashad and Quinn are forced to face decisions and consequences they had never considered before. Written in tandem by two award-winning authors, this four-starred reviewed tour de force shares the alternating perspectives of Rashad and Quinn as the complications from that single violent moment, the type taken directly from today’s headlines, unfold and reverberate to highlight an unwelcome truth.
Author : Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300078954
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (789 download)
Download or read book American Characters written by Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a visual and literary review of famous Americans
