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    A Philippine Hero

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    Aguinaldo’s Worst Enemies by Manuel L. Quezon‚ III ...I. for my part‚ have done everything possible to avoid it‚ although at the cost of many rights uselessly sacrificed... My government can not remain indifferent in view of [the] violent and aggressive seizure of its territory by a nation which has arrogated to itself the title champion of oppressed nations. Thus...my government is disposed to open hostilities [if America attacks the Visayas]. Upon their heads be all the blood which may be shed

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    Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi are simply on a different level than any other current‚ or indeed recent‚ player. They have both dominated an era of football drawing comparisons to the very greats of the game such as Pelé and Diego Maradona - but which one is a better player? Messi had a golden year in 2012‚ breaking all sorts of records and is widely considered the best player in the world and perhaps ever. However‚ Ronaldo‚ for me‚ seems to be the more complete and superior player. He is

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    Veneration Without Understanding is an article written by Renato Constantino who expresses and states what a real hero possess. It is not Dr. Jose Rizal who is the leader of our revolution but Bonifacio who thought of starting the KKK to fight for the real freedom. In no uncertain terms he placed himself against Bonifacio and those Filipinos who were fighting for the country’s liberty. The Philippine Revolution has always been overshadowed by the omnipresent figure and the towering reputation of

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    Pablo Picasso’s Surrealism Surrealism was a movement that began in the early part of 1920s. Surrealism‚ unlike other art forms‚ can be characterized by “fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtaposition of subject matter.” (Merriam Webster Dictionary). In a sense‚ it wouldn’t make much sense to the naked eye‚ as the paintings do not appear like a normal object that we see in our day to day life. Rather it creates strange and illogical creatures out of everyday objects. Picasso was a great artist

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    The work of the Spanish painter Paco Pomet (Granada‚ 1970) inserts itself against the flow in the contemporary visual culture of intensive production of images vindicating the use of the imagination to challenge the common‚ and obsolete‚ perception of reality. For the execution of his paintings‚ the artist selects anonymous images‚ usually from photographic archives‚ and reproduces them with astonishing accuracy and exceptional technical mastery. Along with this operation‚ Pomet distorts the meaning

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    Salvador Dali was born as the son of a prestigious notary in the small town of Figuera in Northern Spain. His talent as an artist showed at an early age and Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali received his first drawing lessons when he was ten years old. His art teachers were a then well known Spanish impressionist painter‚ named Ramon Pichot. In 1928 Dali went to Paris where he met the Spanish painters Pablo Picasso and Joan Miro. He established himself as the principal figure of a group of surrealist

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    Frida Kahlo Analysis

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    The Surreal Life of Frida Kahlo “They thought I was surrealist. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.” – Frida Kahlo Surrealism was inspired by the burgeoning science of psychology‚ especially its concept that the mind was made up of both conscious and subconscious parts. Surrealism involved freeing the unconscious realm of dreams and neurosis by combining images from the actual world and arranging them in such way that “worked against the logical and rational processes of making

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    Cayleigh York 4-20-14 3rd block Coach Crouch Salvador Dali Salvador Dali is a famous artist that is known for his surrealist work. Surrealism combines random images or events and presents them in a dream-like way. Dali was born on May 11‚ 1904. His parents‚ Salvador Dalí i Cusí and Felipa Domenech Ferrés‚ took Salvador the graveyard and told Salvador at the age of five that he is his deceased brother’s‚ also named Salvador‚ reincarnation. Since his brother died of gastroenteritis nine months

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    Auteur Theory

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    CHAPTER 1: Auteur theory in the context of Film theory Although the term auteur dates back to the 1920s in the theoretical writings of French film critics and directors of the silent era‚ it is worth pointing out that in Germany‚ as early as 1913‚ the term ‘author’s film (Autorenfilm) had already been coined (Hayward‚2000: 20). Hayward believed that the Autorenfilm emerged partly as a response to the French Film d’Art (art cinema) movement‚ which began in 1908. Film d’Art was particularly successful

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    The author‚ Andres Padilla-Lopez‚ states informations about how teenagers can overuse technology in extreme ways. He includes a few personal stories by teenagers who overused technology. The author doesn’t only include one type of information‚ but instead he uses many different types of informations to show the ways that teens use technological devices. The types of information that Andres Padilla-Lopez use include the following: opinions‚ facts‚ numerical data‚ generalizations‚ and information

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