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… is an account by where Crito is attempting to influence Socrates that it is just to escape from prison to avoid certain death by execution. Socrates' argument directly relates to the laws of the state and the role of the individual within it.…

… asked me what a mother meant, I left it a question unanswered, I know your heart is bent, I never meant to hurt you mom, I’m sorry for what I did, You did the very right thing, though, by calling me a kid, But the truth is mom, too many words could…

… of Athens is located in the Vatican, Rome. This fresco was painted along with three other frescos in the papal apartments. When Raphael went to Rome in 1508 he was commissioned to work for Pope Julius II. He was to paint the four branches of…

… work - mainly, his ballet paintings from the 1880S - have long been popular with a broad audience; too much so for their own good. But he has never been a "popular" artist like the wholly inferior Auguste Renoir, whose Paris-Boston retrospective…

… Vincent van Gogh was a patient in an asylum at Saint-Remy in the south of France, he wrote to his brother Theo. "This morning I saw the country from my window a long time before sunrise, with nothing but the morning star, which looked very big". The…

… painting in which Van Gogh paints a picture that is colorful and descriptive. This painting can be described as mysterious and intriguing. It can signify a variety of moods, objects, and atmosphere. Van Gogh portrays a small French town located…

… heavily on the solid road that he was determined to follow until the very end. With tiny, dabbing brush strokes his paintings, more often than not exploded in the golden richness of the sun. With Monet a brush stroke, while imprecise, can suggest…

… because there seems to be a lot going on in it. It seems to be a gook old day outside on a patio. It looks like the scene is taken from a European depiction. The picture shows four people by the sea on a patio. It looks like steamboats were the…

… Opera by Messrs. W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, entitled the "Pirates of Penzance, or Love and Duty. It is amazing how two dramatic writers have mastered the ability to amuse the public in such an original manner. This opera had its premiere on…

… was born the youngest of seven kids in 1773, at his family’s plantation in Charles City County, Virginia. His father, Benjamin Harrison, was into politics and was a statesman. His mother, Elizabeth Basset, was a housewife. He studied classics and…