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Apr 4, 2017 · Courtesy of President George W. Bush. One day in early 2012, Dallas-based artist Gail Norfleet got an unexpected phone call from her friend, fellow artist Pamela Nelson. “She said ‘Gail, I have a student for you!’”. Norfleet remembers. Norfleet had been teaching on and off for years, ever since earning her MFA from Southern Methodist ...
Jul 18, 2017 · The history of martyrdom is not clear cut. The ideology of martyrdom has always been contested and has long contained a potential to commit violence against others. The word martyr itself derives ...
Analysis. Indiana was the novel that launched the phenomenally successful career of nineteenth-century French author George Sand. In her preface, Sand explains that she wrote without any plan in ...
THE SIEVE AND THE SAND. THEY read the long afternoon through, while the cold November rain fell from the sky upon the quiet house. They sat in the hall because the parlor was so empty and grey ...
Jun 8, 2018 · The French novelist George Sand (1804-1876) was the most successful woman writer of her century. Her novels present a large fresco of romantic sentiment and 19th-century life, especially in its more pastoral aspects. George Sand was born Armandine Aurore Lucille Dupin in Paris on July 1, 1804.
Jul 19, 2022 · Article. George Blaurock (l. c. 1491-1529) was one of the three founders of the Swiss Brethren (known by their opponents as Anabaptists) along with Conrad Grebel (l. c. 1498-1526) and Felix Manz (l. c. 1498-1527). His Origin of the Anabaptists is an account of how the sect began as well as its persecution by the Swiss reformer Huldrych Zwingli ...
Nov 21, 2023 · Athena, like the other characters in Homer's epic, comes from a rich and vivid cultural tapestry of ancient Greek myth. Athena is a goddess born directly from Zeus. While the specifics of her ...
