Hello everyone‚ my name is Piero di Lorenzo de’ Medici ‚ eldest son of the late Lorenzo de’ Medici. I’d like to start off by graciously thanking all of you for being here today‚ to celebrate my father’s life and legacy. As I look into this great crowd‚ it gives me joy to see many familier faces who I’ve come to know over the years. My father was very lucky to have an abundance of loving friends‚ family‚ and supporters who stayed with him through the bright and dark times. I would also like to say
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In 1492‚ Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue. Well‚ by the time that Cabeza De Vaca returned with only three other passengers alive‚ everyone knew that‚ in the world‚ there would always be some rough times. Speaking of rough times‚ on October 15th of 2013‚ a magnitude 7.2 earthquake landed in Bohol‚ killing over 175 citizens. The local school for the children was destroyed‚ preventing an accurate education‚ and 50/250 homes were destroyed by the quake alone. Along with the 2211 aftershocks
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2/6/14 Fiction Paper Jewelry at a Cost The short story “The Jewelry” by Guy de Maupassant displays a theme of irony throughout the story through an objective narrator. The story begins by leading the readers to think that the relationship between M. Lantin and his wife is stable and pleasantly upright. Irony strikes after the sudden death of Lantin’s wife. The irony emphasizes hints that are given earlier in the story through symbolism of material and non-materialistic things. Irony is a clear
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Samuel De Champlain (1567?-1635) was a French explorer and navigator who mapped much of northeastern North America and started a settlement in Quebec. Champlain also discovered the lake named for him (Lake Champlain‚ on the border of northern New York state and Vermont‚ named in 1609) and was important in establishing and administering the French colonies in the New World. In 1603‚ Champlain sailed to France on Francois Grave Du Pont’s expedition. They sailed up the St. Lawrence River and the Saguenay
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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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Myth‚ The Legend: Chrétien de Troyes ’ Lancelot The romance of Lancelot and Guinevere has endured for many years and has been told in different languages to different generations. The pure‚ undying love Lancelot carries for his lady seems to spark fascination in people ’s hearts and minds. It is the reflection of courtly love pitted against reason that keeps each retelling fresh. Lancelot is moved from a mere character to a legendary figure because of this. Chrétien de Troyes ’ Lancelot faces many
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De Jure Segregation means separation of people by law. A good example of this is the Jim Crow laws enforced here in the south. It was legal to have separate schools‚ housing‚ transportation‚ etc. for both races‚ black and white citizens. In the Brown case the Supreme Court ruled separate schools to be unconstitutional. However some states still violated the law. In the 1968 case‚ “Green v. County School Board‚ the Court reviewed a freedom-of-choice plan adopted by a small district in Virginia
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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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Chad Wilson ANT112 6 Nov. 2012 Dia De Los Muertos Dia De Los Muertos is a Mexican celebration to honor the dead and past loved ones. This ritual goes back 500 years when the Spanish Conquistadors landed and in Mexico and found them doing this ritual. It’s reported that this ritual has been in practice for over 3‚000 years. It is celebrated in Mexico and other countries as well as America. It’s described as a ritual that practices what seems to mock death. People at these celebrations
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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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