Hmas Warramunga i44, was one of three Tribal-class destroyers built for the RAN launched in 1942 during World War II. Hmas warramunga's name comes from the Warumungu Aboriginal people from the Tennant Creek area.…
Cabeza de Vaca was a Spanish explorer of the New World. Cabeza de Vaca was the second in command of Panfilo de Narvaez’s five-ship, 600-man expedition to Florida. In my opinion Cabeza de Vaca was an acceptable leader.…
Rigoberta Menchú Tum es una activista muy importante en el luchar por derechos civiles indígenas en Guatemala. Rigoberta Menchu Tum is an important activist in the fight for indigenous civil rights in Guatemala. She was inspired by horrible events occurring in her life, for example, the murder of her brother and her mother. She is very accomplished, including winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992. Her nonviolent activism began with campaigning against human rights violations that were committed by armed forces during the country’s civil war.…
Sacagawea was the daughter of a Shoshone chief. Sacagawea was born in 1788 (unknown date of birth) in Lemhi County, Idaho. At around age 12, she was captured by an enemy tribe and sold to a French-Canadian trapper who made her his wife. She and Touissiant Charbonneau had a baby boy. They named him Jean Baptiste Charbonneau and later on they had a daughter. They named her Lizette Charbonneau In November of 1804, she was invited to join the Lewis and Clark expedition as a Shoshone interpreter. Also she was skilled at finding edible plants. The expedition planned to explore newly acquired western land and to find a route to the Pacific Ocean. She was the only woman on the expedition. When a boat she was riding on capsized, she was able to save some of its cargo, including important…
Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, an early explorer and first historian of Texas, was born in 1490 in Jerez de la Frontera, in Andalusia, Spain a province in the south of Spain near Cadiz.…
Geronimo (Chiricahua: “one who yawns”; often spelled Goyathlay or Goyahkla in English) was a prominent Native American leader of the Chiricahua Apache who defended his people against the encroachment of the US on their tribal lands for over 25 years. While Geronimo said he was never actually a chief, he was rather a military leader. As a Chiricahua Apache, this meant he was also a spiritual leader. He consistently urged raids and war upon many Mexican and later U.S. groups. Geronimo eventually went on to marry 6 wives, an Apache tradition. He staged what was to be the last great Native American uprising, and eventually moved to a reservation often giving permissions to appear at fairs and schools.…
The couple who has been seeing less of each other’s as of late, are reportedly comforting each other’s as they still can’t accept that his baby.…
What would you do if u were forced to complete a year of high school not only worrying about what people thought about you, but also having to worry about staying alive? Melba Patillo was forced to live with this overwhelming pressure throughout her junior year when on May 17, 1954 the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas saying that public schools for whites and blacks were illegal. So when Melba’s teacher asked if anyone who lived within the Central High district would like to go to Central with white children Melba was more than eager to volunteer and explore all those opportunities she had missed out on. Three long years later when it came to the 1957 fall term Melba would be attending…
Philippina Bausch (better known as Pina Bausch) was a German performer in the style of modern dance, a ballet director, dance teacher and choreographer born on the 27th July 1940 in Solingen. At the age of 15, she was accepted into Folkwangschule (Folkwang Academy). Pina has created a company called Tanztheatre Wuppertal Pina Bausch which performs all around the world. She was married to Rolf Borzik from the Netherlands who was a costume designer that unfortunately died from leukaemia in 1980. The following year she met Ronald Kay and had a child with him called Ralf-Salamon. Unfortunately, on the 30th June 2009 from lung cancer due to excessive smoking.…
Cities in the early world were very important for establishing a kingdom’s dominance and educating the future leaders of the world. Education, scholarship, and strong financial and political leadership led to the creation and empowerment of great cities. Timbuktu was a very prosperous city. Founded on Trade and Scholarship, it was able to rise to its dominance. The main products traded along the routes of Timbuktu and ultimately the Songhai Empire were gold and salt. “The inhabitants of the city were very rich” (Evidence A). The citizens and inhabitants of the city being rich is only a benefit towards the city. The more affluent the citizens are the more the city can achieve. In the case of Timbuktu the knowledge and affluence of the inhabitants brought the city to great heights. Timbuktu received praise from other countries such as Spain for…
The Ci Wara crest or “mask” is a black wooden crest that is about 23 inches tall. The Bamana people in Mali, Western Sudan, wear this crest. The crests are sits on top of the head of the performer in a dance that involves women singing songs that praise the spirit Chiwara, the ideal farmer. The head and the body of the dancer are covered with a costume. The dancers imitate the leaps and bounds of the antelope while the young farmers in the community hoe the ground. This crest is displayed as a pair, female and male because they represent the production of a new generation and the sun and earth to produce crops. The crest is small and delicate and is uniformly covered with a thick layer of soot from kitchen fires in which it was stored. The…
Fête galante is a French term that means ‘galant party’, which celebrates pursuits of the idle rich aristocrats, from the Eighteenth Century. Fête galante is defined in the website dictionary.com as a representation in art of elegantly dressed groups at play in a rural or park like setting. Another term that has been used to explain this style of painting was “a celebration of love.” Fête galante refers to a particular style of painting that originally began with the painter Antoine Watteau. Fête galante paintings were an important part of the rococo period. Some of the artists that have painted pieces of work that have been included in this style are Antoine Watteau, Jean-Baptiste Pater, and Nicolas Lancret. According to the website ibibilo.org,…
DISCIPLINES OF PRESENCE IN MODERN TURKEY: Discourse, Companionship, and the Mass Mediation of Islamic Practice…
Purpose: My purpose is to convince people that LASIK is a healthy and safe fix to wearing glasses and contacts.…
Nelson Mandela will always be remembered as a hero because of his profound impact on South Africa to save the people from suffering and give them a great deal of justice, equity and freedom. Mandela was symbolised as a voice of the people and a man made of steel that strived South Africa to have equal rights. His strength of character that repeatedly tested throughout his long and hardworking journey, that made him one of the towering political figures of our time. He did many heroic things along his journey of becoming one of the greatest and unique human beings. But to every great hero, just doesn’t include the achievements, also the imperfections and uncertainties of the dark side.…