’The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie unfolds several dimensions of the female role. Set in Edinburgh in the 1930s‚ we are presented with a protagonist whom is a striking female role model in her domineering‚ manipulating and sexual powers‚ powers which we see her use to obtain her desired plans for her ’Brodie set‚’ the ’creme de la creme.’ We see Miss Brodie play a God like figure in the novel‚ leading‚ teaching and imposing her opinions on them in hopes they will become like her. She strongly echoes
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The Annunciation is a particularly good showpiece for van Eyck’s obsession with the texture of fabrics: both the Virgin Mary and Gabriel are swathed in lavish robes that fold and hang with surreal‚ wholly gratuitous complexity. Van Eyck painted clothes‚ a critic once observed‚ the way other artists paint mountain ranges. The problem is‚ once you get past the first wash of amazement the painting becomes reticent and impersonal. The Annunciation is one of the most frequently painted subjects in Christian
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e * Medical Technologies: Industry trends | | | | * Point-of-care testing (POCT) is defined as medical testing at or near the site of patient care. The driving notion behind POCT is to conduct the test conveniently and immediately for the patient. * POCT is accomplished through the use of transportable‚ portable‚ and handheld instruments (for instance‚ blood glucose meter‚ nerve conduction study device) and test kits (such as CRP‚ HBA1C‚ Homocystein‚ HIV salivary assay). Cheaper
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Chapter 1 The Bertolini: Summary: We open in Florence at the Pension Bertolini‚ a pension for British travelers. Young Lucy Honeychurch and her cousin‚ Charlotte Bartlett‚ are bemoaning the poor rooms that they have been given. They were promised rooms with views. The two women sit at dinner in their pension‚ along with the other guests. Lucy is disappointed because the pension hostess has turned out to be British‚ and the décor of the pension seems lifted right out of a room in London. While Miss
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Mr. Dunbar AP European History Chapter 10 Outline: Renaissance and Discovery Section One: The Renaissance in Italy * Section Overview * Jacob Burckhardt‚ a Swiss historian‚ described the Renaissance as the “prototype of the modern world” in his book Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860) * In Italy blossomed new secular and scientific views * People became to approach the world empirically and draw rational conclusions based on observation
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Victimization and Its Cures: Representations of South Eastern Europe in British Fiction and Drama of the 1990s. In: Betraying the Event: Constructions of Victimhood in Contemporary Cultures‚ Fatima Festic (ed.)‚ Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing‚ 2009‚ pp. 35 -65. VICTIMIZATION AND ITS “CURES”: REPRESENTATIONS OF SOUTH EASTERN EUROPE IN BRITISH FICTION AND DRAMA OF THE 1990s LUDMILLA KOSTOVA In his extended reflection on twentieth-century history Hope and Memory (2000; English
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[kal] SWF From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search This article is about the file format .swf. For other uses‚ see SWF (disambiguation). |Adobe Flash (SWF) | |[pic] | |Filename extension |.swf | |Internet media type |application/x-shockwave-flash |
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Final Paper William Kidwell ART101: Art Appreciation Instructor: Patricia Venecia-Tobin October 8‚ 2012 Evaluate Pablo Picasso’s Demoiselles d’Avignon. How did this work reshape the art of the early 20th century? Pablo Picasso’s painting Les Demoiselles d’Avignon is a wonderful piece of art‚ and the style in which the picture is painted is very typical of Picasso. The artist completed the picture in the beginning of the previous century‚ in 1907‚ and used oil on
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his early adolescence with his father and brothers. At age thirteen‚ he spent a year of his life with Domenico Ghirlandaio in Florence‚ painting‚ sketching‚ and studying art for hours each day (Nelson‚ page 5). Here‚ he admired many of the works of Giotto and applied his simplistic yet powerful style onto his canvas‚ copying the artist’s figures in an extremely accurate manner (Ripley‚ page 8). Lorenzo de’ Medici‚ known as the Magnificent for his artistic gift and riches‚ approached Michelangelo one
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T.C. Grand Tour Journal Mr. ------- July 12‚ 2013 Day 1. Sunday‚ 5 May 2013. Baltimore‚ Philadelphia. Thus it begins. The shirts Yo’el organized getting for everyone‚ which had “Uncle Mike’s Crazy European Road Trip 2013” on the front and picture of Greece and Italy as well as “ Carpe Diem #YOLO on the back‚ were a big hit. Security and boarding were uneventful. This was Jake’s first flight. We stayed relatively low the whole time—we never got too high to see cars. For mankind as a whole‚
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