object of male desires. The characteristic of the women in the paintings‚ their large breast and bottoms‚ it all appears to be designed for male voyeur. Nudity is a uniform for “I’m ready now for sexual pleasures”[i] In my opinion‚ the nude in European paintings is an expression of beauty and great art. There were reasons for the painter to choose these women as an object. There was something special or unusual about them. It could have been for their beauty‚ power or their social status. In today’s
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The age of exploration‚ which began to flourish in the sixteenth century‚ marked the beginning of an era of European global expansion and cultural discovery. As a result of the new imperialism crafted from the motives of expansion‚ the European conquerors and those they conquered from the New World similarly endured adjustments of cultural significance and demographic fluctuation; however‚ the actual ways in which these fields were impacted and the degree to which they were influenced differed greatly
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the best ye breed -“Rudyard Kipling mockingly wrote in 1899‚ he was describing the aggressive European imperialism that took place in the 1880’s. In 1884 Africa was divided up among European nations‚ only two African countries remained independent. One may question‚ what the driving force behind this European imperialism was. Although technology‚ political and cultural causes were factors in the Europeans imperializing Africa‚ ultimately the primary reason for imperialism was economic benefit due
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EUROPEAN LAW REVISION NOTES BACKGROUND INFORMATION The UK joined the EU in 1973. Originally sent up following World War 2‚ the EU was an attempt by many western European countries to rebuild their economies by working closely together. The idea was that they would be more prosperous when working together. The countries then decided that they would share a common framework of laws in the areas of employment and the trading of goods and services between the countries. Now EU Laws cover other
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the shifts in power from the Europeans to the independence of Latin America. Everything starting with the Bolivar movement‚ when Simon Bolivar wanted to free his country of the Spanish control in Venezuela. These movements showed that the Latin American people had enough of the European control in their land. They wanted to have their own freedom and power over their countries‚ making them cause revolutions in order to remove the European control. The switch from European control to the control of
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European Imperialism started in the early 1800’s; with the goal to prove they had wealth and power. European nations competed with each other to gain territory in Africa. The more they gain the more powerful they thought they would become. Africa was soon bled of it’s human resources. The Europeans induced slavery for the beneift of the Muslim countries‚ from the nineth century to the nineteenth century. The last four centuries of which were regular slave trade to help the Americas and the
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European Technological Advances Countries have always wanted to control the most amount of land that they possibly could. It is in the nature of the people to want more and more. This obsession of wanting to control more land forged a time known as Imperialism. This could not be possible if it wasn’t for technology. Philip Curtin states in his novel‚ The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex that‚ "The pace of change in technology became more rapid than it had ever been in the past‚ and the pace
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Toyota’s European Operating Exposure 1. Why do you think Toyota had waited so long to move much of its manufacturing for European sales to Europe? By 2001‚ Toyota’s operating losses in Europe had reached 9.9 billion Yen. Much of this loss was due to Toyota’s operating exposure which was a result of the sliding value of the euro with respect to the Japanese Yen. Between early 1999 and early 2001 (2 year ~ medium-run time horizon)‚ the euro had fallen by approximately 28% with respect to
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TRADE PRACTICE ASSIGNMENT 2 EUROPEAN ECONOMIC INTEGRATION. CHARTING THE HISTORY OF THE EUROPEAN UNION FROM THE TREATY OF ROME. CARMEL COSTIGAN 7757968J SUBMITTED TO: HELEN DUGGAN DUE DATE: 26/03/2010 DATE SUBMITTED: 18/03/2010 PAGES: 11 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction page 3 The Treaties of the European Union page 4 European institutions page 5 The history of the European Union 1957 – 1972 page 7 The history of the European Union 1973 – 1995 page 8 The
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out today. Most of the cultural differences occurred between the Native Americans and the Europeans that had newly settled in what is known today as America. Some of the most notable differences were those of religion‚ political‚ economic‚ and social. These differences divided the habitants of America in several ways and formed many bonds but also brought them to many moments of conflict. When the Europeans landed in America‚ they sought religious freedom and often tried to convert the Native Americans
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