Vasco da Gama was born around 1460 in Sines‚ Portugal. Vasco’s father was a knight and an explorer. When he was old enough he decided to join the navy‚ where he was taught how to navigate. Vasco later followed in his father’s footsteps and began to command ships in the king’s name. Little is known about his early life but‚ in 1492‚ Vasco solidified his reputation as a sailor when King John II of Portugal sent him to Lisbon and the Algarve to seize French ships as a sign of vengeance against the French
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prevalent in capitalist society. While other theories emphasize the exploitation of one individual by an organization (or vice versa)‚ the Marxist theory is primarily concerned with the exploitation of an entire segment or class of society by another. In Das Kapital‚ Karl Marx argued that greater the freedom of market‚ there will be greater the power of capital and hence will result in greater scale of exploitation. The main problem is related to structural context in which the free markets operate. And
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at Pietro Perugino’s art workshop‚ which inspired him to pursue a career in the arts. When he was twenty he moved to Florence‚ which was where he was exposed to Da Vinci’s and Michelangelo’s work. Although Raphael learned from both men‚ and made use of their exploration of the human anatomy‚ it has been said that unlike Da Vinci and Michelangelo‚ Raphael added sentiment to his paintings. His time in Florence proved to be a very productive period of time in his career. Five years later
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ETE Caçadores – Cambé da Sanepar Informações iniciais: O esgoto é levado para as estações de tratamento geralmente por gravidade para que não haja gastos adicionais com estações elevatórias‚ as quais exigem elevado custo de manutenção. A ETE Caçadores recebe e trata o esgoto predominantemente do município de Cambé‚ porém é menor que as estações Norte e Sul de Londrina. À princípio‚ uma estação de tratamento de esgoto‚ deve estar situada nas proximidades de um corpo receptor‚ que pode ser um
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Giovanni Da Verrazzano was an Italian explorer who charted the Atlantic coast of North America between the Carolinas and Newfoundland‚ including New York Harbor in 1524. Giovanni was born around the year of 1485 in Val di Greve‚ 30 miles south of Florence‚ Italy. He began to pursue his maritime career in about 1506 or 1507 and in the 1520’s he was sent by King Francis I of France to explore the East Coast of North America for a route to the Pacific. After returning to Europe from discovered New
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will mention about ’’The Last Supper’’. The last supper picture is late 15th century mural painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the refectory of the convent of ’’Santa Maria Delle Grazie‚ Milano ’’. It is one of the most famous paintings in the world. Topic of picture is the last meal which organized by prophet Jesus for his disciples. In 1495‚ the picture was drawn by Italian painter Leonardo da Vinci who was born in 1452. On the other hand‚ he was also a polymate whose areas of interest included invention
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Have you ever been to Viet Nam??? If you haven’t‚ I advice you to go there because VN is such a great destination for you to go on holiday! Vietnam is a country which situated in the South East Asia. Vietnam geography shapes S-letter and devides into three parts: Northern part‚ Middle part and Southern one. Now let me tell you about each part : #1.Northern part: -Ha Noi is the capital of Viet Nam. Throughout the thousand years of its eventful history‚ marked by destruction‚ wars and natural
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Why do Organizations Exist? INTRODUCTION Background: Cooperation‚ by Karl Marx Karl Marx’s Das Kapital: Volume 1‚ remains to be his greatest achievement and contribution to socio-economic study. First published in 1867‚ the works critically analyzes the political economy of the nineteenth century. In studying the Marxian view of ‘Co-operation’ we are able to gain insight into why organizations exist. Marx proposes that “the end aim of capitalist production‚ is to extract the greatest possible amount
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In Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man‚ he created the art piece to find the geometrical properties to determine the perfect human proportions when it comes to drawing them out. The original piece has a square and a circle inscribed in the ink piece that tells how the human body is able to fit perfectly in a mathematical way. da Vinci never really had the intentions to create such a mathematical art piece‚ but it somehow came along to stay. In this project‚ I re-created the famous piece‚
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Leonardo da Vinci was naturally curious about how things worked. He examined plants humans and animals he drew them and coupled them with notes of his findings. He created a universal system of proportion in reference to humans. Leonardo da Vinci was one of those special humans that come along once in a lifetime. He was a scientist and an artist. Combining the two talents was a match made in heaven. I responded to the piece because Leonardo da Vinci is such a great icon during
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