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    Cristobal Balenciaga Biography Balenciaga was born on January 21st‚ 1895 in Getaria a small fishing village located in the Basque region of Spain. During his early years he spent most of his time being an apprentice of his own mother who was a seamstress. During his teens the noblest woman of the region‚ the Marquesa of Casa Torres became his patron and his first client. Balenciaga was send by the noble woman to Madrid to receive formal training in tailoring; she proudly wore and showed off the

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    Why Balenciaga chose the young Alexander Wang to be its new creative designer Name Institution Date Thesis Statement Through an exploration of Balenciaga’s collections both before and after the hiring of Alexander Wang as the company’s Creative Director‚ in addition to an analysis of Balenciaga’s company history and goals‚ this research will prove that Alexander Wang‚ though seen as a young and innovative designer‚ was hired by the fashion house to uphold and strengthen rather than

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    Cristobal Balenciaga 1 Cristobal Balenciaga “The Couturier of Couturiers” Rebecca R. Alexander Youngstown State University The World of Fashion Merchandising 2625 September 21‚ 2006 Cristobal Balenciaga 3 In the small fishing village of the Basque region of Spain‚ Cristobal Balenciaga was born in Guertaria‚ in the year of 1895. He continued to stay and design in Spain for next 31 years‚ where he opened his first haute couture house in San Sebastian‚ Spain‚

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    Don Cristóbal Colón: Admiral of the Ocean Sea Christopher Columbus is a name that the majority of people are familiar with‚ but when you think of Columbus‚ what comes to mind? Is it tales of valor? Adventure? Well this isn’t the case. Hans Koning brings to light many interesting points that many are unfamiliar with. Koning would tell you that Columbus was an ignorant man with selfish intentions. A man led blindly by greed in an effort to gain great fame and fortune. In grade school we were

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    In “Senior Citizens and the Ability to Drive” author Cristobal Pinedo explains how elderly people should take annual driving exams to ensure the safety of themselves and others while behind the wheel. He states as adults advance into their elderly years they can suffer from at least one basic action difficulty or complex activity limitation‚ which is uncontrollable‚ but can render any elderly person prone to an accident. For example if a senior citizen developed arthritis‚ his or her muscle control

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    Common Assessment Essay Racial Relations throughout history has varied between people‚ time periods‚ and trends at the time. Three very concerverical and different people that had large roles in this matter were Bartolome de Las Casas‚ Andrew Jackson‚ and Helen Hunt Jackson. All of these people had very different approaches to how they handled this and the way they tried to persuade people to believe what they believed. Bartolome de Las Casas (1474-1566) was a Spanish historian who was one of

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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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    Bartolome de Las Casas‚ The Tears of the Indians A particularly eloquent defender of the Amerindians was Bartolome de Las Casas (1474-1566)‚ who spent most of his long life in Spanish America. In The Tears of the Indians‚ also published as A Short History of the Destruction of the Indies‚ Las Casas described in graphic detail the atrocities inflicted on the Amerindians. His account greatly exaggerated the number of Amerindians killed by the Spaniards; disease‚ for which the Amerindians had

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    In A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies‚ Bartolome De Las Casas writes to the King of Spain about the treatment of indigenous peoples by the Spanish conquistadors. Being a Spanish Dominican priest‚ he was appalled by how Christians were treating these people. He writes‚ “The Christians seized all the maize the locals had grown for themselves and their own families and‚ as a consequence‚ some twenty or thirty thousand natives died of hunger‚ some mothers even killing their own children

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    1. A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies The view of Las Casas in relation to the Spanish treatment of the indigenous people of the Indies was humanly considering all of the savagery and horrible acts going on. After the killings of innocent people‚ depopulation of villages and kingdoms-Las Casas went to the royal court of Spain to tell the Emperor about the slaughtering’s caused by the colonizers. Las Casas also published the summary ‘A Short Account of the West Indies’ which in the title

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