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    live in spain

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    fresh fruit and vegetables‚ fish‚ olive oil‚ and even red wine (yes! According to some experts‚ a glass of red wine a day is good for you!). Learn a few Spanish recipies‚ take advantage of the excellent quality fruit‚ fish‚ vegetables in Spain‚ and live longer! Spanish language. Spanish is one of the World’s leading languages and is spoken by 450 million people in Spain‚ Latin America and the USA. Take advantage of living in Spain to learn the language. Sign up to do a Spanish language course if

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    Van Beyeren’s Still Life made in 1667 has the pocket watch sitting on the table among a lavish abundant of delicious fruit and beautiful dining wear. This watch was an icon of vanitas‚ the morality of all material goods. Just like how the watch reminds

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    Dying to Live

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    Tabitha Sharp EN-1102 Cory Latta Learning Autobiography Essay Dying to Live Growing up‚ I have attended several funerals and memorials. I have never been around a dead body or witnessed a death. When viewing the body‚ I am the one you see darting out the back. I have never handled death well. When my sister-in-law was killed in a car accident in 2008‚ she was the first I had ever seen. I remember her not looking like herself. They had a lot

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    Vincent Van Gogh Strengths

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    Vincent Van Gogh’s strength as an artist comes from both the relationships with the people that he is close with and the connection that he has to the common man as shown in his many paintings of friends‚ family‚ and strangers‚ and the techniques that he has incorporated into them‚ learned from his many artist acquaintances. When Van Gogh focused on average workers in his early career‚ his drawings represented a side of humanity that no other painter was quite able to achieve. He was born on March

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    an important role in human culture as well as the society. Music is not only provide entertainment but it is also a tool for a composer and listeners to release emotion. The best well-known for his inspiring power and expressiveness music is Ludwig van Beethoven. He was a musical genius whose composed some of the most influential pieces of music ever written. During the Classical period‚ Beethoven’s compositions were the expression as one of the most powerful musical personalities. Although Beethoven

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    Who Is Mr. Van Daan

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    help from friends. With them‚ are the Van Daans‚ Mrs. Van Daan is a person that shows off‚ Mr. Van Daan is a selfish person and doesn’t care about anything else but himself and food. The last person with the Franks is Mr. Dussel‚ a dentist‚ he is a very shy but sometimes gets into his feelings that cause him to be mad at anyone who annoys him. There

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    Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn‚ Germany‚ and was baptized on Dec. 17‚ 1770. There has never been any type of authentic record or file as to when he was actually born. Ludwig van Beethoven’s grandfather and father functioned as court musicians in Bonn. Beethoven’s father‚ who was a singer‚ provided Beethoven with a lot of his early musical teaching. Beethoven didn’t have the best education‚ but he studied violin‚ French horn‚ and piano‚ and before he was even 12 years old‚ Beethoven became

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    Sir Walter Elliot is a man who is only concerned with his lineage and his legacy. He does nothing but read the baronetage over and over again. The speaker uses cynical diction and details to emphasize Elliot’s narcissism. The choice to put long sentences in the beginning highlights the last paragraph where the author’s contempt towards Elliot is more explicit. Cynical diction is used in this passage to show Elliot’s arrogance. The speaker uses words such as “pity and contempt” which both have a

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    Van Gogh Starry Night

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    In this artwork by van Gogh‚ which is‚ called starry night. What is happening in this paining is that it is a view from the east-facing window of his asylum‚ room which looks like a big tower just before sunrise with the a small village below‚ what I can also see in this painting is that it is midnight and the sky had different kinds of blue in the sky from dark blue to a light blue in the sky‚ one moon and eleven stars and there are lines around the moon and the sky which is showing the they are

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    Lives on the Boundary

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    To begin‚ the quote from "Lives on the Boundary‚" by Mike Rose reads "More often than we admit a failed education is social more than intellectual in origin." To me when Rose states this he gives examples of people like Caroline and Thuy Anh. They came from two different social backgrounds and their in the same class for the same reason. It’s not because they don’t have the intellectual knowledge to read and write. It’s because of there childhood. They had to put other things first rather than they’re

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