and historians have gathered‚ the ancient Maya were the first to settle on the land. They were well developed‚ advanced‚ and exceptionally skilled. However‚ in 1524‚ their control would be challenged and the course of the land forever changed. Enter Pedro de Alvarado‚ a Spanish conquistador with a proficient past. Arriving in Guatemala with 120 horsemen‚ 300 soldiers‚ and several hundred Mexican auxiliaries‚ Alvarado began to explore. His expedition met great resistance with a large
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This time period‚ now referred to as the Spanish Golden Age of Drama‚ saw the rise of both secular and sacramental works in the country‚ and Golden Age playwrights often aimed to analyze religious motifs through a philosophical lens in their works. Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s 1635 work‚ Life is a Dream‚ attempts this merger of Christian and secular themes by equating Segismundo’s literal imprisonment with the original sin of man‚ a controversial tenet of Protestant sects that Calderón himself‚ an
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Pedro Flores (inventor) Pedro Flores is widely considered as the first yo-yo maker in the US and with his Flores yo-yo created the start of an international craze. Pedro Flores was born in Vintar‚ Ilocos Norte‚ Philippines and came to the United States in 1915. Between 1919 and 1920 he attended the High School of Commerce in San Francisco 1919-1920 and subsequently studied law at University of California‚ Berkeley and the Hastings College of Law in San Francisco. Flores dropped out of school
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daughter. She was born into a poor family and spent her childhood in Spain‚ and eventually made her way to the New World. She lived in Peru for a short period of time and fell in love with Pedro Valdivia. Pedro Valdivia was born into nobility as a hidalgo. Well educated and honorable soldier for the Spanish Army‚ Pedro goes to the New World in search of fame and adventure. Along his journey he meets Ines and together they fall in love and lead an expedition to Chile to found the colony and the city of
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Bed‚ Bath & Beyond Executes Growth Strategy Despite Recession Bed‚ Bath & Beyond’s strong financial position puts it in a particularly strong position to explore the opportunities an economic recovery might offer. That strength has allowed it to do something in the downturn that many other retailers have had to forget about‚ and that’s grow. And not just a store here and there. The company has been able to execute on its long-term strategy of growing its core namesake stores and adding new
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Who’s Afraid of Gender-Neutral Bathrooms? “Today‚ men and women‚ not assumed only to be heterosexual‚ are expected to function at work alongside one another‚ eat at adjacent seats in restaurants‚ sit cheek by jowl in buses and airplanes‚ take classes‚ study in libraries‚ and‚ with some expectations‚ even pray together. Why is the multi-stall bathroom the last vestige of gendered social separation” (Gersen 7)? As many of us know‚ men and women are constantly being compared in our society‚ based on
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Ladies and gentlemen it has been a great pleasure to listen to all the great tales that are told throughout our journey. However every journey has an end and it includes this one. Although each tale has its own unique aspect and a great story in its own right‚ I finally narrowed it down to two that I thought was a cut above the rest. I judged the tales based on its predictability and its overall impact on our moralities. Ultimately I came to the decision between The Wife of Bath’s Tale and The Franklin’s
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The three sculptures chosen is The Rome Pietà and Crouching Boy by Michelangelo and Monument of Don Pedro of Toledo by Giovanni Nola. The sculptures are from the Renaissance era in Italy and all were sculpted in marble within 50 years of each other. Each has at least one main figure although the Monument of Don Pedro does not use a human figure as the focus of the sculpture. There as some unique similarities in the context of each of these works‚ since they could all be viewed as symbols of
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1. Introduction The city of Bath has become a World Heritage Site (WHS) since 1987‚ identified as “a place of outstanding universal value for its architecture‚ town-planning‚ landscape‚ archaeological remains and its role as a setting for social history”‚ which is a unique WHS in Britain covering the whole city scale instead of only historic core part (UNESCO‚ 2009). Following the inscription of Bath from UNESCO (2009)‚ which is “astonishingly‚ undertaken with no boundary”‚ WHS designation became
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Period‚ women just like the Wife of Bath in Chauncer’s readings were expected to act inferior to their male counterpart. The Wife of Bath’s Prologue can definitely be interpreted as an ironic illustration of this literature. I think this is an ironic illustration of this literature because the Wife of Bath represents the negative stereotypes of women in the medieval period being irrational‚ material‚ and earthly that she sought to critique. The Wife of Bath felt that exceptions should be made on
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