The Niterói Contemporary Art Museum (Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói — MAC) is situated in the city of Niterói‚ Rio de Janeiro‚ Brazil‚ and is one of the city’s main landmarks. It was completed in 1996. Designed by Oscar Niemeyer with the assistance of structural engineer Bruno Contarini‚ who had worked with Niemeyer on earlier projects‚ the MAC-Niterói is 16 meters high; its cupola has a diameter of 50 metres with three floors. The museum projects itself over Boa Viagem (“Bon Voyage‚” “Good
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design originated in the Baroque‚ but extended much further into the eighteenth century in terms of theory. Roger de Piles was the father of this argument based on coloris versus disegno and the Poussinists versus the Rubenists and so on. He joined the Academy in 1699‚ right on the verge of the Rococo and basically formed the argument for color‚ rather than classical design in his Cours de Peinture par Principes in 1708. Up until Rubens artwork‚ the classical style of painting was preferred with a focus
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STRATEGY: INDUSTRY AND COMPETITION Problem Set 3 1. Throughout the 1990s‚ several developments contributed to the loss of market-share of the Central Selling Organization‚ which inevitably led to diminishing profits for De Beers. In 1991‚ the Soviet Union collapsed and this disintegration brought down the exclusivity that the CSO had enjoyed for so long. Indeed‚ the fall of communism made it difficult for the cartel to protect its trading agreements. As such‚ only limited shares of the Russian
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Duchess de Alba (Maria del Pilar Teresa Cayetana de Silva Alvarez de Toledo (1762-1802): -fashioned herself after the fiery maja-serves as a flirtatious role-play emblematic of aristocrats during the enlightenment‚ epitome of spanishness -proactively challenged conventional feminine roles/conduct‚ elevating national dress to the level of high couture to assert her individualism -Jean-Marc Nattier’s Madame AdelaYde-de-france as Diana + Goya’s Duchess of Alba as a Maja feature aristocrates in role-playing
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Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (French pronunciation: [gi d(ə) mo.pa.ˈsɑ̃] ; 5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a popular 19th-century French writer‚ considered one of the fathers of the modern short story and one of the form’s finest exponents. A protégé of Flaubert‚ Maupassant’s stories are characterized by their economy of style and efficient‚ effortless dénouements. Many of the stories are set during the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870s and several describe the futility of war and the innocent
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The Ordovician Period‚ which is best known for its diverse marine invertebrates‚ began 488.3 million years ago and ended 443.7 million years ago. As mentioned‚ this period is famous for its variety of marine life but also for the major Cambrian-Ordovician extinction event and Ordovician-Silurian mass extinction which began and ended the Ordovician Period. These extinction occurred nearly 488 million years ago and 443 million years ago and eliminated many brachiopods‚ conodonts‚ and intensely lowered
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Characteristics of Romantic Period * Rachmaninoff Piano concerto No.2 1stmovement Sergei Rachmaninoff’s piano concerto No.2 is composed in 1900 at the end of the Romantic period emphasizing anti-modernism and representing the older Romantic tradition. The first movement is in sonata-allegro form‚ which is exposition‚ development‚ Recapitulation and Coda‚ preserving and extending the formal structure from the Classical period. The piece is very emotional and expressive‚ containing a lot
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De Morgan’s laws In formal logic‚ De Morgan’s laws are rules relating the logical operators "and" and "or" in terms of each other via negation‚ namely: (A U B)’=A’ ∩ B’ (A ∩ B)’=A’ U B’ The rules can be expressed in English as: "The negation of a conjunction is the disjunction of the negations." and "The negation of a disjunction is the conjunction of the negations." The law is named after Augustus De Morgan (1806–1871) who introduced a formal version of the laws to classical propositional
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A lot of things happened in Simone de Beauvoir’s life‚ most having to do with women and the way they were treated. She was a very observant person‚ and her writing reflects that. Simone de Beauvoir’s writings attempted to deal on paper with the vast emotions conjured by her life experiences‚ particularly women she knew who were "assassinated by bourgeois morality." ("Simone") Simone de Beauvoir was born in Paris‚ France on January 9‚ 1908. She was raised by a Catholic mother from Verdun‚ and a father
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40113810 El Camino de Santiago Cover Photos: Autor: Peter Andren Tourism‚ Society and Visual Culture TSM11109 Rory MacLellan Assessment 2 Student No. 40113810 Word Count: 3‚488 Page 1 40113810 Your own way Page 2 40113810 Table of Contents 1. Appraisal of the impact of the development of tourism‚ over a period of time‚ on El Camino de Santiago. 2. References. 3. Appendices: 3.1. Appendix 1: Historical Overview. 3.2. Appendix 2: Overview of the main authors that examined
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