In 1834‚ when P. T. Barnum drew up his carnival‚ he imagined a place filled with freaks‚ exotic animals‚ and jaw-dropping performances (“P. T. Barnum‚ American Shoman”‚ 2018). Spectators paid a small fee to enter the festivities‚ often screaming with delight while watching ridiculous stunts and acts. On the other hand‚ Russian literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin pictured a different version of the carnival‚ more like that of the Renaissance times (Chan‚ 1). He envisioned a place where literary characters
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Filippo Marinetti The Italian writer Filippo tomas Marinetti (1876-1944) founded the Futurist movement in 1909 and like many other movements of the early twentieth century it was born from a publication. Marinetti published his “Founding Manifesto” in “Le Figaro”‚ a French newspaper‚ on 20th Feb. 1909. It documented Futurism’s ideology with a desire to create a new perspective. Futurism glorified contemporary concepts‚ speed‚ technology and modernization. It embraced virtually every artistic
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building designs were influenced by Roman culture such as the Pantheon. Architects took pilgrimages to Rome to better understand their ancient buildings and to discover ways of how they could put that in their own designs. A famous architect was Filippo Brunelleschi who focused on the proportionality of
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Michele’s experiences see him journey from an innocent child to a perceptive‚ wiser and more intelligent young man. The systematic destruction of his childhood innocence is a direct result of the cruel actions and betrayals by the people around him. With each action and betrayal more damaging than the last. It is not until the final moments that whatever remains of Michele’s innocence is finally destroyed by the cruelty of his very own father. The one person he trusted and loved the most‚ the
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Human Resource Management MGT5A3 Tutor: David Greenshields By: Victor Berencreutz‚ Filippo Toti‚ Stanislas Emsens Word Count: 4409 Contents Terms of Reference 3 Executive Summary 3 Introduction 3 Mentoring - 4 Counseling 5 Coaching 5 Comparative analysis 6 Findings – Our Program 7 Mentee Evaluation 9 Ahmed Al Sabbagh 9 Zenya Kwan 9 Mentors 10 Victor: 10 Filippo 10 Stanislas 11 Conclusion 11 References 12 Appendix 1 – E-mail exchanges 13 Appendix 2 –
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WK - The Italian Renaissance was a time of rebirth in the arts. An abundance of new styles were explored‚ building on classical traditions but also breaking away from them. This cultural explosion was made possible by the liberal distribution of florins that characterized the artistic support of leading banking and commerce families. These influential families were patrons sometimes as a Machiavellian exercise of their power‚ often to atone for religious sins‚ and sometimes because they loved
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Introduction from: Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste by Pierre Bourdieu ©1984 Introduction You said it‚ my good knight! There ought to be laws to protect the body of acquired knowledge. Take one of our good pupils‚ for example: modest and diligent‚ from his earliest grammar classes he’s kept a little notebook full of phrases. After hanging on the lips of his teachers for twenty years‚ he’s managed to build up an intellectual stock in trade; doesn’t it belong to him
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philosophers‚ writers and artists‚ from the Pre-Raphaelites and Marcel Proust‚ through Henri Bergson and Umberto Boccioni‚ to Jean-Paul Sartre and Francis Bacon have been greatly preoccupied with time. Background Information The Italian writer Filippo Tommaso Marinetti was its founder and most influential personality. He launched the movement in his Futurist Manifesto‚ which he published for the first time on 5th February 1909 in La gazzetta dell’Emilia‚ an article then reproduced in the French
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Inferno‚ which is Italian for “Hell”. Unsurprisingly‚ the main character‚ Dante‚ runs into more than a few figures from Florentine history‚ some of which are cast in an unpleasant view. Some of the most straightforward slights in the book are against Filippo Argenti‚ a member of the Black Guelph party‚ and Pope Boniface VIII. “Who are you‚ who have become so brutally foul?” “You see me: I am one who weeps‚” he answered. And I to him‚ “In weeping and sorrow remain‚ cursed soul—for I have seen through
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Although I enjoy every aspect of psychology‚ my interest in psychology first ignited through reading and learning more about brain disorders‚ deviancies in the brain structure‚ and how these different conditions can impact human behaviors. Therefore‚ my long-term research interests revolve around these subjects. However‚ I understand that studying brain disorders on an undergraduate level is a realistic scenario. Thence‚ my possible research interests for the Psychology Honors Program are studying
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