Response Paper: The Mona LisaRachel McRill The Mona Lisa; also known as La Gioconda or La Joconde‚ is a famous work of art by Leonardo da Vinci. He created this piece by using the sfumato‚ the technique of blurring sharp outlines by blending‚ chiaroscuro‚ contrasting light and shade boldly‚ and atmospheric‚ the perception of depth in nature enhanced by haze‚ perspective. The subject is a young woman sitting with a half-smile on her face. Painted in 1503‚ her name is Lisa Gheradini‚ and she was
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Ho chi minh ¨Ho Chi Minh was born Nguyen Tat Tanh in Vietnam in 1890. His father‚ Nguyen Sinh Huy was a teacher employed by the French. ¨He had a reputation for being extremely intelligent but his unwillingness to learn the French language resulted in the loss of his job. To survive‚ Nguyen Sinh Huy was forced to travel throughout Vietnam‚ offering his services to the peasants. This usually involved writing letters and providing medical care. ¨As a nationalist‚ Nguyen taught his children to resist
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Fashion in the 1920s THESIS STATEMENT Fashion in the 1920s was in a period known as the “roaring 20s” ‚ this was also known as the era of the “flapper.” This decade was the beginning of spreading of women’s suffrage. The fashion of the 1920s however‚ is no longer relevant in modern fashion today. INTRODUCTION Fashion in the 1920s was followed after the end of World War I. This lead to drastic changes in fashion and the beginning of women’s suffrage. Women in the 1920s were characterized as free spirited
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For Velasquez 7.1-7.2. All of your responses should be written in complete sentences. Define Ethics? What does it study? Ethics is the study of morality. Triese determine what things in life are morally good as well as which actions are right. How does ethics differ from sociology‚ anthropology or other social sciences? Ethics asks how ought to behave or what people ought to believe is morally right and morally wrong. Define descriptive relativism holds a fact that moral beliefs and practices
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The Evolution of Snakes Rafferty Crawford BIO/101 July 17‚ 2012 Peter Karanja The Evolution of Snakes Snakes are a diverse group of squamates that include about 2900 species of boas‚ colubrids‚ pythons‚ vipers‚ blind snakes‚ mole vipers‚ and sunbeam snakes (Pickrell‚ 2010). Snakes‚ like all living things‚ are a product of the process of evolution. Evolution allows species to change over time in response to environmental factors to produce entirely new species. As diverse as they are today
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highlighted that demographic variables have certain influences on the purchase decision (Puelles et al.‚ 1997; Burton et al.‚ 1998; and Ronjan‚ 2003). Like in the studies made by Javier‚ Cataluna‚ Navarro-Garcia‚ Phau (1999)‚ Rui Huang‚ Jeffrey‚ Villas Boas‚ (2006)‚ Rani (2009)‚ Ioan (2009) and Jones (2010)‚ shows that one demographic variable that greatly influence repurchasing decisions is age. Researchers cluster the respondents by age in order to know what ages in the market they will focus on. The
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looked tired and lazy as they lie motionless in the sunlight. In fact‚ all of these animals are fatigued with indolence. As a result‚ the zoo looks like a multicolored picture painted on a nursery wall by the very students of the nursery. Even the boa-constrictor seems to have lost its strength and velocity and lies like an ancient fossil. In fact‚ the zoo is an artificial place where the animals being removed form their natural habitation‚ are put in cage after cage. Since the animals are taken
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inferior to superior under 3 stages: salvages‚ barbarians and civilized >American Historicism or Historical Particularism: The collection of ethnographic facts through direct fieldwork must precede the development of cultural theories. Franz Boas: Dedicated to physical anthropology‚ geography and ethnology as taught on Germany. Jan 22 French Structiralis Ethnoscience: The ethnographer must describe a culture in terms of native categories (emic view) rather than in terms of his/her
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Nor the taste of the words I have willed you whisper into my mouth.” This suggests that the relationship with the lover has ended and that the speaker’s lover was unable to love the speaker. The sonnet ‘Diego‚’ begins with the metaphor “Winter is a boa constrictor contemplating a goat‚” setting a dark tone for the rest of the poem. Like ‘Credulity‚’ it seems to be divided into two parts. The first part is a description of the chill and motionless winter. Smith describes the frozen stillness and applies
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Zora Neale Hurston was born in Eatonville‚ Florida‚ a small town inhabited primarily by African-Americans. Her mother died shortly after her birth leaving Hurston in the care of her father‚ who quickly married a woman who sent little Hurston to school in Jacksonville‚ providing her with her first glance at racial segregation. Hurston left school due to financial difficulties and family problems which led her to stay with her mother’s friends. At age fourteen‚ she worked as a maid to earn money for
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