The Virgin with Chancellor Rolin‚ Paris Muse du Louvre Oil painting by the Flemish master Van Eyck‚ dating 1435 commissioned by Chancellor Nicolas Rolin himself shows the chancellor knelling at a prie-dieu clothed in a luxurious elaborate robe of gold lined with fur trimmings‚ before him the Virgin Mary and baby Christ. Between the two central figures is several arched openings revelling the detailed background showing the city of Ghent and all of the surrounding country. The detailing of the background
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college was headed by a chancellor who had worked there fifteen years. Because of his many years‚ he was very knowledgeable and a very positive impact on the college as a whole. After two years of my employment there‚ the chancellor decided to relocate to another state‚ and therefore‚ resigned his position. Naturally‚ this created a very drastic change for the college and everyone associated with it. Although there was an assistant to the chancellor and a vice-chancellor‚ no one could take on the
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company ’s actions and encourage a positive impact through its activities on the environment‚ consumers‚ employees‚ communities‚ stakeholders and all other members of the public sphere. The concept of CSR is well explained by Gordan Brown‚ Chancellor of Exchequer‚ that in this era Corporate Social Responsibility goes far beyond the old trend of the past (donating money to a good cause at the end of the year) And is now an all year round responsibility the companies accept for the environment around
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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the head of Her Majesty ’s Government in the United Kingdom. The Prime Minister and Cabinet (consisting of all the most senior ministers‚ who are government department heads) are collectively accountable for their policies and actions to the Monarch‚ to Parliament‚ to their political party and ultimately to the electorate. The current Prime
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bicameral system of government.”(German system of government) This basically means that Germany has a government in which the party with the highest representation in the legislature forms the government. The leaders are either a President or a Chancellor. These people are drawn from the German Bundestag‚ which is part of the legislative branch. This is one of the many ways Germany is different from the U.S. because it has two people in power. The German Bundestag is the national Parliament of the
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Hitler’s rise to power occurred in the post World War phase when Germany suffered from a spate of economic and social problems. Hitler was a cunning and intelligent man who found opportunity within every event and circumstance. He employed a variety of methods in his rise to power‚ each method specifically suitable for helping him rise a level higher in his gradual progression to dictatorship. Hitler’s initial method in his bid for power largely consisted of rallies and speeches through which
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Germany unification Why? Growing ties between the two Germany’s and a certain revival of a sense of German national identity preceded reunification during the 1980s. With the decline of the USSR and the end of the cold war and the fall of the Berlin wall allowed for German unification in 1990s. When? How? On October 3rd 1990 GDR and FRG were formally united. German reunification posed the challenge of introducing new markets to an economy with none. The formerly communist German Democratic
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chancellorship “legally”‚ there is lots of evidence that pinpoint to his evil ways of acquiring the power. If during this time Hidenburg‚ Scheicher‚ and von Papen had not taken wrong political decisions‚ Hitler would have been prevented from becoming the chancellor of Germany. By the end of 1932 the Nazi party was facing serious problems. In any of the elections the highest percentage of the German vote that they had been able to achieve was 37 percent. Moreover‚ the party’s strength was getting weaker
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‘Hitler became Chancellor in January 1933 because he had so much support from German people.’ Do you agree? Explain your answer (16) There are many factors in which helped the Nazis seize power in 1933. I do not think that one of these factors stands out to be the main reason for Hitler becoming Chancellor in January 1933. There are some factors which were more important than others‚ however there is not one outstanding factor; they all played an important part to Hitler’s rise to power. This does
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agreement to lift the ban. In addition to lifting the ban‚ the current government of Germany would fall‚ new elections would be called‚ and Chancellor Bruening would have no political value. In return‚ Hitler would support Schleicher in a conservative nationalist government. Soon everything went to play and Chancellor Bruening was labeled "The Hunger Chancellor" because of the economy and the unemployment rate of six million Germans. CITATION He looked like a Marxist by his estate proposals on dividing
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