De Stijl‚ ‘The Style’. De Stijl was a Dutch artistic movement founded 1917 in Amsterdam by artists Piet Mondrian‚ Theo Van Doesburg and architect Gerrit Reitveld. You could say this movement demonstrates simplicity and abstraction. The new art movement was inexpensive and was seen to express visual harmony. The idea of visual harmony emerged greatly from the response to the tragedy of World War and was dedicated to reconstruct a brave new world out of the ruins of the old. De Stijl was made up of
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De Stijl in Dutch means “ The Style”‚ also known as neoplasticism‚ was a Dutch artistic movement founded in 1917. The movement was mainly about creating geometric abstract paintings. In a narrower sense‚ De Stijl was a term used refers to a body of work from 1917 to 1931 founded in Netherlands. De Stijl was also the name of the journal‚ which published by the Dutch painter‚ designer‚ writer‚ and critic Theo van Doesburg (1883–1931)‚ propagating the group’s theories. Besides him‚ the principal members
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correct term to refer to oneself‚ Hispanic or Latino? The word Hispanic has been around for a very long time and it’s a name applied to people of country heritage that speak the Spanish language. The US government began using this term to refer to a person of Cuban‚ Mexican‚ Puerto Rican‚ South or Central American‚ or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race in the 1970’s. Then the term continued to be used and I have never felt offended by the term even though I know that it’s an easy term to
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Empire and the Spanish Empire. During the building process of their empires‚ the Ottoman and the Spanish both developed many similarities in their political‚ social‚ and economic affairs. A similarity between these empires was that they both had some type of slave system. Even though they did have some things in common there were also many differences that were between these empires. Some differences between these two were that the Ottomans had the devshirme slave system and the Spanish had the encomienda
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The Ottoman Empire‚ or Turks‚ were the longest-lasting remnents of the Mongol Empire; the Spanish Empire re-asserted itself after the Muslim Reconquista of the Iberian Peninsula and became a world power through the Age of Exploration. From 1450 to 1800‚ both the Ottoman and Spanish Empires experienced political expanision in the process of empire building‚ but unlike the Spanish‚ the Ottomans experienced diminshing growth and stagnation during the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries after amassing
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El sendero torcido al español [The Twisted Path to Spanish]: The Development of Bilingual Teachers’ Spanish-Language Proficiency John A. Sutterby‚ Javier Ayala‚ and Sandra Murillo University of Texas at Brownsville Abstract This paper describes the development of Spanish-language proficiency in bilingual preservice teachers at a university on the Texas–Mexico border. A survey with open-ended questions was administered to preservice teachers in bilingual and English as a Second Language certification
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Silver and Spanish Exploitation The exploitation of the Incas under Spanish colonial institutions is a widely acknowledged abuse. Bartolome Arzans de Orsua y Vela in his book Tales of Potosi brings to light another dimension of this mistreatment: the Spaniards enabling of the abuse of coca by the exploited Indians as a means to increase productivity‚ which is an aspect that has been overlooked by many theorists up to this point. Abuse of coca expanded the wealth of the Spanish Crown through
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Interpersonal Conflict not Handled Effectively in the Film Spanglish The movie Spanglish shows many examples of conflicts. The movie displayed conflict in romantic relationships‚ in parenting decisions‚ healthy lifestyle‚ and the one I elected to focus on‚ cultural conflict. Deborah Clasky‚ a wife and mother of two children‚ hires a poor Mexican housekeeper‚ Flor Moreno. When the two families move in together for the summer into a Malibu beach house the conflict of colliding cultures and values
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Should Animal Experimentation be Allowed to Continue? I. Animal Experimentation? A. Definition of animal experimentation What is animal experimentation?. Animal Experimentation is the use of animals in research and development projects B. Purpose of animal experimentation Drug uses It helps with knowing the side effects of the drug‚ the dosing information‚ and the way a drug works. Cosmetics Cosmetics like toothpaste and mascara are tested on rabbits and guinea pigs. Testing on animals
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the Spanish and thep Russian empires were able to advance economically from their connections with societies westward. Both empires used some form of a labor system in order to support their social structures‚ despite the fact that where the laborers originated was different within the two empires. From a political standpoint‚ both empires were run under an autocratic government. This period was extremely crtical to the development of both the Spanish and Russian empires. Both the Spanish and
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