Cabeza de Vaca: Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca was born in Jerez de la Frontera in the Southern parts of Spain. Cabeza de Vaca enrolled in the Spanish military as a mature man and battled with honor at the clash of Ravenna in 1512 in Italy. Due to his military assistance to the Spanish crown at that time and then well along throughout a short-lived civil war in Spain he earned the promotion as bookkeeper or also known as accountant and a lieutenant in the mission of Panfilo de Narvaez in 1527-1528. Narvaez
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Charles-Louis de Secondat ‚ baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu Born: 18 January 1689 Château de la Brède Died: 10 February 1755 (aged 66) Paris‚ France Family: Jeanne de Lartigue (wife)‚ Jacques de Secondat (father)‚ Marie Françoise de Pesnel (mother) Early Life and Education: Montesquieu was born to wealthy noble parents in southwest France. He attended the Catholic College of Juilly‚ during a time of political change in the British Isles and in the midst of Louis 15th’s succession
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Sustainable development (SD) refers to a mode of human development in which resource use aims to meet human needs while preserving the environment so that these needs can be met not only in the present‚ but also for generations to come. The term ’sustainable development’ was used by the Brundtland Commission which coined what has become the most often-quoted definition of sustainable development: "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations
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Saint Dominic De Guzman (1170-1221) “I tell you‚ whatever you did this for one of the least important of these followers of mine‚ you did it for me” Matthew 25:40 “Do not weep‚ I shall be more use to you after death than I ever did in life” Saint Dominic De Guzman Dominic was born in Caleruega‚ Spain. He is from a noble family who helps poor and victims of war. As a child he was compassionate to others. Dominic was influenced to do good deeds‚ to preach and to help the need by his beloved
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Diamond Industry. De Beers. In the beginning of 1870s‚ the Afrikaner brothers‚ J. N. de Beer and D. A. de Beer discovered diamonds on their farm and unable to deal with the effort of protecting the farm from the diamond seekers‚ they sold the land to the diamond traders. Today‚ the name De Beers represents the world’s largest diamond company‚ which has a presence in 25 countries. The powerful and productive epoch of diamonds began with the establishment of this company. Who knows what role a
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The Life of Agnes de Mille Agnes de Mille‚ born September 18‚1905‚ was the daughter of William Churchill de Mille‚ a famous playwright‚ and Anna George. Agnes’ early schooling was at Hollywood School for Girls‚ a private school. She later attended the University of California Los Angeles where she graduated at the age of nineteen. After her parents’ divorce‚ she went out on her search to become a successful dancer. She was unable to find employment in the theatre‚ so she simply began to compose
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W.H. Auden – Musée des Beaux Arts Auden’s poem ‘Musée des Beaux Arts’ gives us the poet’s philosophy on Breughel’s painting of the ‘Icarus myth’ from Greek history. The poem is based on many different themes depending on a single aspect (the reader would have to assume that Auden is writing about Breughel’s painting - as referenced in the second stanza). In this essay‚ I am going to analyse and identify key themes‚ structure‚ language devices‚ tone‚ and imagery from W.H. Auden’s pre-Second
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De Lacey is the elderly blind man who lives with his son and daughter in a cottage (Shelly 110). De Lacey is from Paris and his family were well respected citizens of Paris (Shelly 117). When his son tried to help out Safie’s father break out of prison the plan was discovered‚ and the Lacey’s were forced out of France and stripped of all their money (Shelly 117-120). They settled down in a cottage in Germany near where Frankenstein’s Monster now calls home. De Lacey‚ to me represents all the positive
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Samuel De Champlain: The land and People Do you ever feel like people should be banned from saying certain things? American Literature is unique in its own way because of freedom of speech and press given to the American people by The United States Constitution. The American people therefore‚ get to share their true beliefs about the land and other human beings as shown in a lot of Samuel De Champlain’s works. Samuel De Champlain was a French explorer and was born in 1574 in Brouage. He started
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