In Europe of 1552‚ the Spanish Inquisition had recently begun‚ and art was very important. As Above‚ So below‚ a historical fiction novel by Rudy Rucker‚ transforms the art of Peter Bruegel into a story of his life and death. Peter Bruegel‚ an ambitious young artist‚ sells his first piece of art in the French-Italian Alps‚ marking the beginning of his career. Once he became a master himself Bruegel traveled Italy and was amazed by Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel. Returning to Belgium‚ he began to
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“Gretchen remained crouched on the floor‚ frozen in place‚ as though the slightest movement might upset her brother. Don’t move‚ don’t move‚ she repeated in her head‚ and then he reached for her.” In the book Prisoner of Night and Fog‚by Anne Blankman‚ It takes place in the 1930s Munich‚Germany. In the story‚ Gretchen‚a girl at about the age of 17 lives in a boarding house with her mother and brother in the 1930s She has been a loyal National Socialist (A.K.A. Nazi) for her whole life but‚ after
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STRATEGIC ACTIVISM AND NONMARKET STRATEGY David P. Baron and Daniel Diermeier Stanford University and Northwestern University ABSTRACT Activist NGOs have increasingly foregone public politics and turned to private politics to force change in the practices of firms and industries. This paper focuses on private politics‚ activist strategies‚ and nonmarket strategies of targets. A formal theory of an encounter between an activist organization and a target is presented to examine strategies
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However‚ some critics will argue that darkness did not wreak chaos onto mankind; rather‚ it is humankind that is responsible for its own destruction. According to David Spitz‚ “If anything were to go wrong‚ as it tragically did‚ it could only come‚ then‚ from within; the only enemy of man was himself” (Spitz 5). In other words‚ Spitz believes that darkness did not inflict chaos or conflict in the novel. The true source of the destruction was no one other than mankind who was responsible. If mankind
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As industries turn increasingly hostile‚ it is clear that strong brand-building skills are needed to survive and prosper. In David Aaker’s pathbreaking book‚ Managing Brand Equity‚ managers discovered the value of a brand as a strategic asset and a company’s primary source of competitive advantage. Now‚ in this compelling new work‚ Aaker uses real brand-building cases from Saturn‚ General Electric‚ Kodak‚ Healthy Choice‚ McDonald’s‚ and others to demonstrate how strong brands have been created and
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Alyssa Layman 26 February 2013 Jim Iddings English 232 Essay 1 Wordsworth renews traditional themes and emotions through his poetry. The general meaning throughout the poem “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey” exaggerates the conflict between the speaker and the term that relate to what nature meant to him in various stages throughout his life. The poem is a reflection of the speaker’s feelings and ideas concerning nature and how it has formed his memories about the past‚ present
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German theologian and pastor. Born February 4‚ 1906‚ he was one of seven children‚ and the family live in Breslau‚ Germany. In his youth‚ Bonhoeffer studied in Berlin and Tubinger. He eventually served as a vicar in a German parish in Spain. His theological studies were completed in the year 1930‚ and a year later‚ he was ordained as a priest. He eventually began to work at the University of Berlin like his father. Dietrich was an active member of the resistance against
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David Harvey is a classical marxist concerned with inequality and the theoretical bridge between social theory and geography. Argues from a historical materialist perspective – how the society reproduces itself. Harvey on space: For Harvey‚ social practices and process create spaces and these spaces in turn‚ constrain‚ enable and alter those practices and process – what Ed Soja called a “socio-spatial dialectic”. Constant relationship between society and geography and they both influence eachother
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environment in which one develops is key to studying and comprehending humans overall. However‚ the notion of biology and environment intertwining isn’t always exemplified clearly in various aspects of people’s lives. This was shown in the case of David Reimer‚ the boy who was raised as a girl. In Reimer’s case‚ he was born biologically male‚ but due to an unfortunate circumstance involving
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David George Joseph Malouf (born 1934) is an Australian writer. He was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2000‚ his 1993 novel Remembering Babylon won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 1996‚ he won the inaugural Australia-Asia Literary Award in 2008‚ and he was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Malouf was born in Brisbane‚ Australia‚ to a Christian Lebanese father and an English- Jewish mother. He was an avid reader as a child‚ and at 12 years old was reading
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