major music venue that was outdated and acoustically subpar. The Duke Endowment, with its long history of supporting the arts at Duke University, answered calls for help from the university’s leadership. TDE gave $15 million to fund a thoughtful and carefully considered two-year renovation completed in 2013. It was an especially appropriate gift, considering that the original funds to construct the building came from the endowment nine decades earlier. “Baldwin is a space that has been part of the
the audience of people who attend live performances. According to the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation “after decades of annual audience growth, live performing arts audience have declined annually since 2001.” For many adults in America, electronic media is their sole way of viewing or listening to art activities rather than live viewing (National Endowment for the Arts 12). In a study done by the National Endowment for the Arts, of the 27% of adults observing classical music, only 9.3% observed
Stephen Covey once said "Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change." In the novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Huck struggles with his "deformed conscience" and his "sound heart" throughout the novel. However, Huck has the power to change. Huck's conscience dictates his life in the beginning, throughout the book he battles his
influence: the Duke of Northumberland. The Duke was a man of high ambitions who sought political power for his family. In addition to convincing Edward VI to change the throne, he planned the arranged marriage between Lady Jane Grey and his fourth son Lord Guildford Dudley- therefore putting Dudley next in line as King upon Edward VI’s death. The Duke of Northumberland’s scheme failed and Queen Mary assumed the crown after nine days of Lady Jane Grey’s reign. Queen Mary promptly executed the Duke of Northumberland
symbol used throughout the story. “My Last Duchess” is a poem about a Duke who showing someone ... ... middle of paper ... ...s with his request to remove it. Hawthorne and Browning chose two different developments and extremes of their works. Hawthorne chose to be subtler with his approach to the control in Aylmer and Georgiana’s marriage. On the other hand, Browning chose a more harsh approach to the control between the Duke and his last Duchess. Regardless of the approach, both authors came
Melinda gates is an American business women and a philanthropist. Melinda gates is the wife of the richest man in the world, Microsoft founder bill gates.therefore Melinda is one of most powerful women in the world. She wants to solve some health and educational problems around the world, along with her husband.the couple are ranked #1 billionaires. Melinda Ann French was born in Dallas, Texas in August 15,1964. Melinda has three siblings. She has an older sister and two younger
How does Prospero being a Renaissance man strengthen the reading of Shakespeare’s Tempest between the reader and the play? Prospero, the former Duke of Milan and protagonist of The Tempest by William Shakespeare, is the incarnation of values and talents of a Renaissance man. A Renaissance man is someone who is not only broad and deep in knowledge, but also applies that knowledge to his profession. Prospero embodies these values because he dedicates his life to learning magic and developing powers
Mexico was home to rich landowners that ruled like medieval Dukes on large domains, keeping their workforces impoverished, deep in debt, and with barely enough basic necessities for survival. The sheer destruction wrought by ten years of war and chaos has proven to be a deep well of inspiration for Mexico's artists and writers that will be analyzed through the following investigation question. How was the Mexican Revolution the principle cause for the rise of different artistic movements in the first
forms of musical expression, jazz. Jazz is really America’s classical music. Like the country itself, and especially like the people who created it, jazz is a music born of struggle but played in celebration” (Farley, 2011, pg. 113). The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) played an integral role in introducing jazz to a broader population under chairman Frank Hodsdoll, who advocated for projects that brought
How Productions from 1720 to 1929 Close Shakespeare's Open Silences in Measure for Measure Prologue: Playtext. Performance. and Open Silences In the Preface to his edition of Shakespeare's plays, and even as he vigorously defended the playwright against attacks by other neo-classical critics, Samuel Johnson nonetheless also offered his own survey of Shakespeare's weaknesses. Among the more well-known and provocative remarks is his assessment of the endings of the plays: It may be observed
Shakespeare's female characters are represented over an assortment of social classes. In this essay I will investigate how Shakespeare depicts women in A Midsummer Night's Dream. I will be analyzing particularly the characters and depiction of Hippolyta, Helena and Hermia and how they relate to the stereotypical nature of how ladies were dealt with by men, as well as how this issue is present in modern society. Firstly, the most evident aspect with respect to Shakespeare's depiction of women in
Vassal were similar to the feudal hierarchy, resembling the arrangement of a pyramid. Here, rank was developed based off of your social class. The king resided at the top of the pyramid. In the feudal relationship, the king was the lord of a group of dukes and the counts were his vassals. The lord and vassal owed certain obligations to each other. The vassal vowed to complete certain services for his lord, and in return the lord granted him a fief. The king formally possessed all fiefs, however, a vassal
is an award winning author and history professor. He graduated from the University of Virginia with a Bachelor’s degree in English and later finished his Ph.D. in History at Duke University. Professor Holton is the son of A. Linwood Holton Jr. who is the former Governor of Virginia. Professor Holton is currently a professor at the University of South Carolina and was previously an associate professor at the University of Richmond
Henry Louis Gates Jr. was born in 16th September, 1950, in West Virginia, Keyser. He studied and traveled globally before he became department head in African-American studies, at Harvard University. Henry Gates is an acclaimed critic and author who has disclosed a wide range of literary gems. He is an educator, an American literary critic, a writer, a scholar, as well as an editor. Henry was the first black person to be offered a fellowship by the Mellon Foundation. On top of that, he has received
Early life Adam Smith was born to Margaret Douglas at Kirkcaldy, Scotland. His father, also named Adam Smith, was a lawyer, civil servant, and widower who married Margaret Douglas in 1720. His father died six months before Smith's birth. The exact date of Smith's birth is unknown; however, his baptism was recorded on 16 June 1723 at Kirkcaldy. Though few events in Smith's early childhood are known, Scottish journalist and biographer of Smith John Rae recorded that Smith was abducted by gypsies
The Harlem renaissance occurred during the 1920’s at the same time as World War I. “Meanwhile, it’s important to note that cultural developments during this decade was The Lost Generation of writers after the war--called the Jazz Age witnessed a flowering of African-American music, as well as art and literature in the Harlem Renaissance. Influenced by radio, "talking" pictures, advertising and the rise of professional sports, society became dominated by a mass culture. By the end of the decade,
Born in April of 1564 to John Shakespeare and Mary Arden during the Elizabethan era, William Shakespeare grew up experiencing a quiet childhood in a small town of Warwickshire called Stratford. His mother, Mary, was the daughter of a wealthy landowner from a neighboring village, while his father, John, was a middle-class glove-maker and farm produce trader. John also held a number of responsible positions in Stratford's government and served as its mayor in 1569. William was the third oldest of eight
minority was brought to the front line of the political enclosure in the Indian Supreme Court case Mohammad Ahmed Khan vs. Shah Bano Begum (1985). In 1975, Shah Bano, the girl of an Indian constable, was separated by her Muslim spouse and given an endowment of three hundred dollars, the absolute minimum needed by Islamic law. Absolutely devastated, she sued her previous spouse and, in 1985, the case arrived at the Indian Supreme Court. The Court decided energetic about Ms. Bano and ordered that her
During the eleventh and twelfth centuries we can read about a very interesting and somewhat mysterious figure. He is referred to by many names, such as, Valdes, Valdesius, Valdensius, and Waldo (Valdo), from the city of Lyons. Though references to Waldo and his followers (Waldensians) seem to be always in the shadows, being difficult to understand, and always enduring persecution, they seem to have been on the cutting edge of The Reformation. According to the “Anonymous writer of Passau,” some
When Henry VIII ascended to the throne in 1509, he became yet another English monarch without absolute power over his realm. Despite not having the same authority as his contemporary European monarchs, Henry was the recipient of two very important prerequisites for a successful reign. The first was a full treasury and the second was a peaceful transfer of power, which had been anything but certain in England since the War of the Roses. At first he was content to enjoy the fruits of his father’s labor