Biography Essays

Iris Nampeyo was a Hopi-Tewa potter whose works have remained phenomenal within the confines of art. Born in 1860, Nampeyo, she was trained in the common art of pottery at the time and later she began making and firing pottery that dated back to the 15th century. I chose Nampeyo …

Henry Fielding was born on April 1707 in Somersetshire, England to a well situated, upper class parents. He was first educated at home by a clergyman, then moved on to study at Eton, and eventually went to the University of Leyden. Before becoming a novelist Fielding wrote a significant amount …

Ouka Leele is a Spanish photographer, painter, and poet. Born in Madrid into an artistic family, she learned photography at an early age, though she initially hoped to become a painter. In the late 1970s she joined post-Franco Madrid’s turbulent cultural scene, the movida madrilène; but had her first photographic …

A man for all seasons by Robert Bolt, The character of the common man seems to carry traits of disloyalty and selfishness when he appears in the play portraying different characters. This seems to relate greatly to the works of Bertolt Brecht whose main focus was to distance viewers from …

George Lassiter is a project engineer for a major defense contractor and also an entrepreneur who manufactures and designs special events T-shirts. He has owned this lucrative T-shirt business for six years and designed T-shirts for “special events” such as rock concerts, major sporting events, and special fund-raising events, provided …

When the year 1973 came around, the most powerful economic and military force America, were being forced to come to terms with the fact that they had suffered defeat in their war in Vietnam. Despite the vast gulf in financial and military prowess which swung in favour of the Americans, …

The backdrop of this city is represented by longtang. Buildings and streets appear around them in lines and dots like the pernicious brushstrokes that bring life to blank surface of a white paper in a convectional Chinese scenery painting. As the sunlight fades away, the city illuminates and these lines …