HELP SUPER EASY. IF ANYONE KNOWS VINCENT VAN GOGH’s BIOGRAPHY:
Please list three positive and three negative aspects in his life and be as specific as you can :) Thank you.

Well, Here's your positive stuff be is 1. He only started painting at the age of 27.

Van Gogh only started painting at the relatively late age of 27 and was mostly self-taught. His early paintings are not the colorful displays which most people are familiar with. When he started painting, he used a dull palette of colors and painted some of the harsh realities of life. Poverty and financial hardship was a common theme in many of his early works. The painting below is a representation of how he painted at the start of his career. 2. He attempted many other careers before declaring himself an artist.

Van Gogh was only a painter for the last decade of his relatively short life. Before painting, he tried his hand at many other careers such as an art dealer (like his brother Theo), school teacher and preacher.

He had little success in any of these areas and announced himself as an artist in a letter to Theo in 1880. 3. He was close friends with Paul Gauguin.

Van Gogh met Paul Gauguin in Paris in 1887. The two painted together frequently but were stylistically different. Well, Here's your negative stuff. 1. He did not experience much commercial success during his lifetime.

In fact, van Gogh is only thought to have sold one painting during his lifetime, being the Red Vineyards Near Arles. Had he lived a bit longer, he may have had the chance to experience some of the fruits of his later fame. 2. He was troubled by illness.

Van Gogh was troubled by mental illness for most of his life. He spent time in psychiatric hospitals, including a period at Saint-Rémy. 3. He cut his own ear.

There are many theories surrounding the van Gogh ear cutting incident. One of the popular theories is that van Gogh took a razor to his left ear and partially severed it after getting into a fight with fellow artist Paul Gauguin. He then wrapped the partially severed ear in paper and delivered it to a woman at a brothel which both he and Gaugin used to frequent. Good Luck!

From ~Itsbrazts~.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)