Restoration and eighteenth-century representations of marriage tend to exclude happiness and focus on infidelity‚ inequality and immorality? Your answer should refer to any two or more of the following: The Country Wife‚ The School for Scandal‚ Marriage A-la-Mode‚ Pamela. The secret of a successful marriage was one of the most hotly debated topics in the public houses and coffee shops of 18th-century England‚ and the outcome of this fascination with finding the perfect formula set the tone for our modern-day
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The Great Dome One of the biggest questions in archeology has been how the dome on top of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore was built. Scholars know who built it‚ but they don’t know the means of its creation. Filippo Brunelleschi was the man and mind behind the creation of the dome. The Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore has managed to raise several questions and curiosity amongst scholars. In the early 14th century a feud between Florence and other emerging cities began‚ each trying to
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Introduction and Overview “The Shangri-la" is the brand of limited-company Shangri-la (Asia) Co.‚ LTD in Hong Kong‚ this company belongs to the famous Chinese businessman--"The candy king" Robert Kuok ‘s Kuok Group in Malaysia. The story of Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts began in 1971 when a deluxe hotel was founded in the city of Singapore. Today‚ Hong Kong-based Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts is the largest Asian-based deluxe hotel group in the region. And it is regarded as one of the world’s
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La Sagrada Familia Barcelona‚ Spain The building decorative features‚ construction‚ materials‚ floor plan La Sagrada Familia has been built using the architectural style "warped Gothic". The rippling shape of the stone façade makes it look like the building is melting in the sun. The towers are topped with brightly colored mosaics which look like beautiful bowls of fruit. Antoni Gaudí had a concept of colour showing life. As Antoni would not live to see the completion of his masterpiece‚ he left
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Contents La Porteña Bakery History La Porteña Bakery is a family owned company founded in 1995 by its owner Haydee de Guevara in a beach city called La Libertad in El Salvador. From its beginnings the bakery also functioned as a wholesale store and from 1998 the business became a bakery only. Its products are bought from customers from all around the city of La Libertad and some neighbor cities as Sonsonate‚ Zacatecoluca‚ Ahuachapan and others. The location of the facilities is
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operator Shangri-La Asia Ltd. said Wednesday its 2009 net profit rose 54%‚ lifted by higher property prices‚ though its core hotels business suffered from a sharp drop in demand due to the global financial crisis. » Jump to indexing (document details) Full Text (515 words) | (c) 2010 Dow Jones & Company‚ Inc. Reproduced with permission of copyright owner. Further reproduction or distribution is prohibited without permission. HONG KONG--Luxury hotel operator Shangri-La Asia Ltd. said Wednesday
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In 2009‚ Juan Martin Del Potro won an Olympic silver medal in a U.S Open games. The champion is eying on returning to Flushing Meadows on Tuesday. After receiving a wild invitation card‚ this will be his first time there in three years. Juan received his invitation card from the U.S Tennis Association. When wagering on Tennis‚ Online Tennis lines come in handy. With three operations performed on his left wrist‚ Juan missed two years of major tournaments. He then retuned in June to Grand Slam
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managed to amass enough wealth on his own with his writings and his travels around Europe‚ where despite whether on exile‚ he was often the guest of honor of many nobles‚ aristocrats‚ and kings. Because of his often libelous writings‚ he spent a year in La Bastille from 1717 to 1718‚ and then again for a few moths in 1726. Shortly after he is temporarily exiled to England‚ where he is presented to the English court and begin a very prolific time in his writings. In his Lettres Philosophiques
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The Notorious La Cosa Nostra and Organized Crime Abstract When the term family business is named‚ you might think of a farming business‚ or maybe selling certain products‚ but the words prostitution‚ loan-sharking‚ narcotics‚ and racketeering are not the first things to come to mind. La Cosa Nostra is what family business was about during the 1920’s and early 1940’s. La Cosa Nostra‚ a criminal organization from Sicily‚ Italy‚ began terrorizing the U.S by
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Yasumasa Morimura went above and beyond in his appropriation of Velazquez’s Las Meninas. He derived five similar yet unique works from Las Meninas‚ but our group decided to discuss this piece due to its’ far-reaching tactics to go beyond appropriation. Morimura named this piece “Las Meninas Renacen de Noche 1V: Peering at the secret scene behind the artist”‚ an extremely appropriate name considering that the “original” Las Meninas is hanging due center of this piece. Almost the entire canvas is comprised
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