Obituary: Samuel de Champlain Samuel de Champlain‚ who has died aged 61‚ was a French navigator and soldier. He is important to Canadian history because he helped establish the settlements. He founded New France and Quebec City as well. Early experience In 1604‚ he was made an assistant to the Sieur de Monts‚ who was a French noble appointed by the king of France to set up trading posts in Canada. In the summer of 1605‚ de Monts‚ Champlain and approximately sixty settlers and established a small
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Comme des Garçons Brands: A Cultural Perspective Lecturer: Jacob Östberg School of Business Stockholm University Individual take-home exam Anh Helge 3 June 2009 Introduction The current paper discusses how and why a particular brand functions as a cultural resource and how companies benefit from this brand functioning as a cultural resource. The brand selected for the discussion is the Japanese fashion line Comme des Garçons. The paper is divided into two parts. The first part defines
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Business Ethics at Acme Corporation Mr. Frank Garcia was a new salesman at Acme Corporation. At Acme Corporation the corporate culture was top down or hierarchal and Garcia quickly learned that because of the competitive nature of the medical supplies industry few mistakes were tolerated. One of his very first sales clients was Mr. Otis Hillman‚ the buyer for Thermocare‚ a national hospital chain. The sale was a huge success resulting in a $500‚000 contract for Acme and an additional bonus of
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Biography of Gaspar Aquino de Belén Gaspar Aquino de Belén is a Filipina poet and translator of the 17th century‚ author in particular of Pasyon‚ a famous poetic of passion‚ died narration and resurrection of Christ. Filipino natives‚ generally were not taught Spanish‚ but the bilingual individuals‚ notably poet-translator Gaspar Aquino de Belén‚ produced devotional poetry written in the Roman script in the Tagalog language. Pasyon‚ begun by Aquino de Belén‚ is a narrative of the passion‚ death
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Columbus and de la Casas make two very different observations of the new world. Columbus made many detailed descriptions in his letter to the King Ferdinand‚ who had financed his journey with the intentions of completing three very clear goals. The first‚ “to procure riches for the Spanish empire‚” the second‚ “to find a new route to the East Indies‚” and lastly‚ “to convert native peoples to Christianity (Casper et al.‚ 4).” de la Casas had a much different intention than Columbus for why he journeyed
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This summer reading book of Cyrano de Bergerac is about romances‚ war‚ hate‚ and etc. After reading this book‚ my favorite part of the book in the play‚ was in act three‚ Roxane’s Kiss form scene V-XIV. I pick this scene because‚ it’s how Christian love Roxane and Cyrano is in the middle of everything. For example Roxane is related to Cyrano and Cyrano know Christian by being in with the Gascon Cadets. With all that Cyrano have to find a way for Christian to talk to Roxane in the way Cyrano
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Knights of Old and Harry Potter October 7‚ 2012 Love and Marie de France According to American mythologist‚ Joseph Campbell‚ “The greatest love was during the Medieval Ages‚ when noble hearts produced a romantic love that transcended lust” (Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth with Bill Moyers [2001]). The Lais of Marie de France are primarily concerned with this idea of love--specifically‚ courtly love--between a man and a woman. Courtly love‚ a union modeled after the feudal relationship
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Hailey C. Brandon G. English Honors ¾ 29 April 2013 The Real Cyrano de Bergerac Hercule-Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac was born on March 6‚ 1619 in Paris‚ France. Cyrano was the son of Abel de Cyrano and Esperance Bellanger. Abel de Cyrano was the lord of Mauvieres and Bergerac. The name “de Bergerac” was given from a place that was attached to one of Abel’s estates. In 1622‚ the Cyrano family moved to Mauvieres‚ a commune in central France. Cyrano was educated by a priest he highly
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Tinker v. Des Moines School District Warren Court‚ 393 U.S. 503 (1969) FACTS John Tinker was 15 years old who grew up with his sister Mary Beth Tinker‚ 13 years old‚ and brother Christopher Echardt‚ 16. They decided to follow their parents who were protesting the Vietnam War by wearing black armbands to their Des Moines schools during the holiday season of Christmas and New Years. Once the word was out about the protests‚ the principals of the Des Moines school district decided that all students
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Picking the Aphrodite of Melos as the topic I wanted to write on was easy because I’ve seen the figure before over time and in many places‚ it is a renowned classic in art. The culture the figure is from is ancient Greece. To Socrates and Plato‚ Aphrodite was a real god because she represented the giver of love and life and joy‚ among other things. Further back and in even more ancient times‚ this Venus or Aphrodite was the mother of all mankind‚ and although the roman’s didn’t restrict her to just
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