Christine de Pizan (1365-1431) Italian Renaissance Figure Venice and Bologna‚ Italy; France As a child‚ I lived in Venice‚ Italy only a short time‚ where I was born in 1365. People often believe that I was born in Bologna‚ but that is a mistake (Christine de Pizan‚ Pinn.net). But due to my father’s occupation‚ (he was an astrologer who worked for the king in France) I spent the majority of my childhood in the French court (Christine de Pizan‚ Role Card 2.3A). My father and I spent many hours
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rebirth of antiquity. It was a time in which learning was transformed‚ and became an age of daring experimentation. Some of the most important literary figures in Spain’s history came from this golden period‚ one of them being the famous Garcilaso de la Vega. His sonnet‚ Sonnet XXIII‚ perhaps one of the most significant sonnets of this epoch‚ focuses on the relationship of beauty and time. The message is successfully conveyed through the careful use of structure and poetic devices. This particular
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Profesia de medic Profesia este specialitatea obtinuta prin studii‚ complexul de cunostinte si deprinderi practice care definesc pregatirea individului. Meseria de medic este una dintre cele mai vechi din lume. Fie ca i s-a spus doctor‚ vraci‚ vindecator‚ doftor‚ medicul a fost si a ramas o persoana importanta in viata societatii‚ fiind printre cei mai respectati oameni ai comunitatii. Cateva lucruri despre ce inseamna sa fii medic‚ puteti citi in randurile care urmeaza. "Jur
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Gorritz • ´ Greer A. Raggio • Clara Pelaez • Henian Chen • Peter J. Guarnaccia Published online: 23 April 2010 Ó Springer Science+Business Media‚ LLC 2010 Abstract Past research on idioms of distress among U.S. Latinos has revealed that ataque de nervios and altered perceptions‚ such as hearing and seeing things when alone‚ are independent markers of higher morbidity and mental health utilization despite having no one-to-one relationships with any single psychiatric diagnosis. It has been
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Case Study #3 Sony de Mexico It was a hot‚ dry afternoon in Mexico’s northern Sonora Desert and Rey was in a sour mood. Rey Uribe‚ the nor¬mally energetic and optimistic president of Sony de Mexico‚ had just received the news that Sony’s Mexican operations were to be shut down in a cost-cutting move. Corporate had decided that to remain competi¬tive‚ capacity should be shifted to Southeast Asia‚ where labor costs were a fraction of Mexico’s fully bur¬dened hourly labor rates of $3.50. Of course
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Prism……………………………………………………………………..…………..p24 Appendix 2: Competitors……………………………………………………………………………………….……………………..p26 Appendix 3: Comptoir des Cotonniers in the world…………………………..…………………………………..………p28 Appendix 4: Distributors‚ Fashion Fairs and Transport contacts……………………………………………………p29 Bibliography……………………………………………………………………………………….……………………...…………………p30 Introduction Since its creation back in 1995‚ Comptoir des Cotonniers has grown and is now an international clothing company through 362 stores in different countries
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Alyssa Curley Ex RR-10/01/10 The Brief Account of the Devastation of the Indies Bartolomé De Las Casas describes many horrific actions carried out by Spanish Christians against Indians living on the island of The Hispaniola in between the mid-16th and early 17th century. Bartolome De Las Casas was a 16th century Spanish priest‚ made famous for his advocacy of the rights of Native Americans. Las Casas lived from 1484 to July 17th‚ 1556. He is the Author of The Brief Account of the Devastation
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Pierre Fermat’s father was a wealthy leather merchant and second consul of Beaumont- de- Lomagne. Pierre had a brother and two sisters and was almost certainly brought up in the town of his birth. Although there is little evidence concerning his school education it must have been at the local Franciscan monastery. He attended the University of Toulouse before moving to Bordeaux in the second half of the 1620s. In Bordeaux he began his first serious mathematical researches and in 1629 he gave a
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"De Nadie" Commentary This documentary is focused on the numerous immigrants originating from Central America‚ undertaking an extremely dangerous journey of about 2500 miles up north towards the southern border of the United States‚ where they hope to cross and profit from the wealth available in the U.S.. The movie is accordingly named "de Nadie"‚ which translates into "No-One"‚ and follows various immigrants on their journeys‚ interviewing them on their way and depicting the many injustices
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the story of La Crêperie du Marché‚ in a few words… My passion for the crepes takes its origins in my childhood‚ when mom was making her delicious crepes with love‚ knowing her three sons would devour them‚ but also the old days of our summer holidays in Brittany‚ birthplace of the crepes‚ when we would eat galettes every time we could. Then‚ at the beginning of my studies in Paris‚ and after being a waiter in a famous brewery of the Champs-Élysées‚ I started to work in La Crêperie de Josselin‚ one
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