Napoleón Isabelo Veloso Abueva (born January 26‚ 1930)‚ more popularly known as Napoleón Abueva‚ is a Filipino artist. He is a sculptor given the distinction as the Philippines’ National Artist for Sculpture. He is also entitled as the "Father of Modern Philippine Sculpture". He is the only Boholano given the distinction as National Artist of the Philippines in the field of Visual Arts. Among the major works of Abueva are as follows: Kaganapan (1953)‚ Kiss of Judas (1955); The Transfiguration at
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Douglas Adams Research Paper “It was one of those beautiful starlit nights‚ and it occurred to me that at some point that somebody should write a hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy. I fell asleep and forgot about it for six years” (Douglas Adams). Douglas Adams was a brilliant‚ well known writer who discovered his gift of writing as a teenager. He was from an educated family who supported his writing through his childhood and into his college years. Douglas Adams shows what he values in and is
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Tommy Douglas (October 20‚ 1904 - February 24‚ 1986) Thomas “Tommy” Douglas was the seventh Premier and CCF leader of Saskatchewan; he amended the province of Saskatchewan and initiated many social reforms in the rest of Canada. Tommy Douglas is considered Canada’s “Father of Medicare” because of his introduction of universal hospitalization in Saskatchewan in 1949 and a Medicare plan for Saskatchewan in 1959. Later after Douglas moved from Scotland to Winnipeg‚ his infected knee got worse and
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The Lincoln–Douglas Debates of 1858 were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln‚ the Republican candidate for Senate in Illinois‚ and the incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas‚ the Democratic Party candidate. At the time‚ U.S. senators were elected by state legislatures‚ in turn Lincoln and Douglas were trying for their respective parties to win control of the Illinois legislature. The debates previewed the issues that Lincoln would face in the aftermath of his victory in the 1860 presidential
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Douglas Noel Adams Have you ever heard of the movie called The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy is. Douglas Adams wrote the movie and book. He came up with the idea drunk laying in a field in Austria. That is how he came up the movie and book. The book and movie gave him the Golden Pan. Douglas Noel Adams who lived a sad life became an author and movie writer who won the Golden Pan. Now I am going to tell you about Douglas Adams birth and Childhood. Douglas Adams was born in Cambridge England on
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Fredrick Douglass The analysis By Justin Ruano 11/14/11 Hist Am Civ 1607-1877 [pic] Have you ever wondered to yourself if you firmly belief in something that you could understand the opposite side of it? Well if you just so happened to believe in slavery and I were to tell you a story about an American born slave that is making his case to abolish I‚ would you listen? In the book Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass‚ An American slave & Incidents in the Life of
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ORMORM Manickavasagam Chetty v TJ McGregor [1933] MLJ 295 Facts: Application by one of the two joint-owners for removal of caveat. One of the co-owner of the land deposit the title with R to secure a loan. Before the deposit of title with R by the said co-owner‚ the co-owners of the land agreed to subdivide the land and later on to execute a cross-transfer. Collector of Land Revenue asked R to deliver to him the title of the IDT so that he can sub-divide the land. R did so. R later enforced the lien
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The Commonwealth of the Philippines was invaded by the Empire of Japan in December 1941 shortly after Japan’s declaration of war upon the United States of America‚ which controlled the Philippines at the time and possessed important military bases there. The combined American-Filipino army was defeated by April 1942‚ but guerrilla resistance against the Japanese continued throughout the war. Uncaptured Filipino army units‚ a communist insurgency and supporting American agents all played a role in
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ones to grant it‚ whether it is an outside party‚ or a personal satisfaction that must be meant in the case of the seeker. For this assignment‚ the concept of redemption as a literary device and/or possible theme of the book‚ Hey Nostradamus! by Douglas Coupland shall be explored and proved that it is indeed a strong aspect of the story. (Coupland‚ 2003) The first key figure to be looked at‚ and as the possible redeemer in the story‚ is Reg. This character is the epitome of what some people
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that will be covered in this essay will be on the film “Wall Street Money Never Sleeps ”. It was directed by Oliver Stone‚ released during 2010 and is the sequel to the 1987 film “Wall Street”. The film starts with the release from jail of Michael Douglas’ Gordon Gekko before cutting to a rather elaborate plot involving Shia LaBeouf as the young trader with (some) scruples‚ who’s rising in a world that just happens to be collapsing at the same time‚ as investment banks run by the likes of Frank Langella
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