Cosimo Medici was born in Florence Italy‚ on September 27th in the year 1389‚ he was the the first son to Giovanni de’ Medici and Piccarda de’ Bueri. He was just the son of a meer merchant‚ but his impact on Florence and it’s people would be immense. His father was the one who laid the foundation to the family’s massive fortune‚ after the death of his father in the year 1429 Cosimo Medici continued the legacy‚ turning a small banking business into the most powerful in Europe. When you are in the
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Sebastián Chacón Domesticación de la Chenopodium Quinoa. I. Antecedentes de la especie: La quinoa‚ del género Chenopodium‚ subsección Cellulata. La Chenopodium como género está constituido en su mayoría por especies no cultivadas y se dice que el género posee más de 120 especies‚ siendo la Chenopodium Quinoa la más conocida e importante‚ por sus características -tratadas más adelante-‚ lo que la ha constituido como una de las especies cultivables más importantes del
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through the start of the Great War. Parisians have played a considerable role in setting the atmosphere of their city. Their actions shaped Paris during the aforementioned time period. As depicted by the writers Muhammad As-Saffar‚ Alexis de Tocqueville‚ Edmond de Goncourt‚ and Marc Bloch‚ Paris was a city of influence and a city of the people‚ though not always representative of the nation of France. Muhammad As-Saffar was a Moroccan scholar visiting France in 1845-1846‚ the later years of the July
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Tomás Luis de Victoria was born in Avila Spain in 1548‚ he was the seventh of 11 children. At a young age‚ he became a choirboy and studied under many Spanish composers. In 1562 Victoria went to Rome to study music at Jesuit Collegio Germanico. While in Rome many believed‚ Victoria studied under the maestro di cappella Palestrina. In September 1571 Victoria began teaching music at Jesuit Collegio Germanico‚ and shortly after became the maestro di cappella. In 1583 Victoria expressed his wishes of
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In our society‚ we are surrounded by powerful women‚ Beyoncé‚ Hillary Clinton‚ Malala‚ Rosa Parks‚ Marilyn Monroe‚ and Tina Fey. Yet our country has failed to elect a woman President since becoming a free nation. In three of the most iconic works of art‚ Venus of Willdendorf from the Paleolithic era‚ the Bust of Nefertiti from Amarna‚ Egypt and the Venus de Milo from Melos‚ Greece give us insight in the role played by women in each society. Throughout history‚ civilizations have portrayed women as
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The powerful writings of Christine de Pizan‚ in her works such as “The Book of the City of Ladies‚” have created much debate on the nature of her writings and her‚ as an author. Shelia Delany in “’Mothers to Think Back Through’: Who Are They? The Ambiguous Example of Christine de Pizan” analyzes how Christine de Pizan‚ by the standards of her time‚ is mislabeled as “a reformer or proto feminist” when she rather seems “at best a contradictory figure”(Delany 315). Although Pizan may display opposing
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Over the years I have developed a distaste for the spectacle of joie de vivre‚ the knack of knowing how to live. Not that I disapprove of all hearty enjoyment of life. A flushed sense of happiness can overtake a person anywhere‚ and one is no more to blame for it than the Asiatic flu or a sudden benevolent change in the weather (which is often joy’s immediate cause). No‚ what rankles me is the stylization of this private condition into a bullying social ritual. The French‚ who have elevated
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I‚ Juan De Pareja The book Juan De Pareja takes place in the renaissance. When the main character‚ Juan‚ a young slave’s masters die‚ he is inherited by their nephew. Juan is taken to him by Carmelo. On their journey Carmelo takes Juan to a gypsy camp and is forced to steal food. Juan is beaten and ignored by Carmelo. After a while‚ Juan escapes Carmelo‚ and starts working for a baker in the city. The deal is that Juan can stay if he takes care of the baker’s sick son. Juan does this‚ and decides
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“Musée des Beaux Arts” by W.H. Auden We have been studying a poem called “Musée des Beaux Arts” for the past 3 weeks‚ it is a poem about Icarus falling from the sky. These next six questions give us an insight into the meaning of the poem. In this poem by W. H. Auden there are six subjects being talked about‚ the suffering‚ The Old Masters‚ human position‚ miraculous birth‚ the Martyrdom and the disaster‚ these all refer to something that is happening in the
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Argentine Caudillo: Juan Manuel de Rosas In the year 1829 Argentina was faced with a conflict between two social and political groups to determine the future of the nation. Juan Manuel de Rosas‚ a federalist‚ became governor of Buenos Aires that same year starting a period of terror‚ tyranny and brutal suppression. Rosas’s dictatorship was noted for its law and order through tyranny in which his secret police and spies intimidated all opposition‚ so that by 1840 few people dared to oppose him and
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