Dear Michele‚ Lying here in my hospital bed I have not been able to stop thinking about your bravery and all that you have done for me. You risked your life to save mine‚ you were my guardian angel. You gave me hope and something to live for when I needed it most and for that I will be forever grateful. Without your help‚ bravery and compassion I don’t think that I would be alive today. I cannot thank you enough; there are no words for this. As I lay in that dark‚ cold hole‚ naked and emaciated
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in an Alternate Reality‚” Trevor Noah in his piece “Let’s Not Be Divided. Divided People Are Easier to Rule‚” Bob Herbert’s “Hiding From Reality‚” (What’s Up With the American Dream?) as well as Conor Friedersdorf’s “Making Up Is Hard to Do‚” and Filippo Menczer ‘s “Misinformation on social media--can technology save us?” There are many things that play a significant role in making the divide in our country such as politics‚ social media‚ and the different viewpoint of people‚ but also there may be
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Filippino Lippi and Andrea del Sarto were among those who were able to find his message rather than just copying his works. What is the most amazing is he influenced two of the greatest artists‚ Raphael and Michelangelo. At the age of 21‚ Raphael came to Florence
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experience of the modern world‚ Futurist artists threw themselves into the battle against a tame past and a liberating future. During the first decade of the 20th century‚ a group of young Italian painters came together under the influence of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti‚ an Italian poet and writer. They dabbled in every medium of art including painting‚ sculpture‚ theatre and much more. Marinetti launched this movement in his Futurist Manifesto‚ which was published February 5‚ 1909. After it was
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HIST 103: Paper 1 Giovanni and Lusanna: Love and Marriage in Renaissance Florence – Gene Brucker Set against the grindstone of social class‚ Gene Brucker’s Giovanni and Lusanna throws light on fifteenth century Renaissance Florence. The novel revolves around Lusanna‚ a beautiful widow of an artisan‚ and Giovanni‚ her aristocrat lover‚ who she brought suit against when she learned that he contracted to marry a woman representing his own class. Through narration of the clash between artisans and
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Donatello Donatello ‚an artist of unfathomable intelligence ‚was inspired ‚or devilishly driven ‚to play out in stone a spiritual peril inherent in art(web). He is one of the most famous artists in history. He sculpted numerous objects and statues that have inspired other artists. Donatello was an innovator who was influenced by statues he saw in his time and by his teachers. His passion for art made him the great artist he became. He was one of the most influential individual sculptor of
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2/17/14 Nova: The Great Cathedral Mystery The program Nova The Great Cathedral Mystery on PBS was very interesting to watch. I never thought about how the cathedral or the Duomo built by Filippo Brunelleschi was a mystery until I watched this documentary. I now understand how he defined gravity and made a remarkable building in his time period. Brunelleschi was a goldsmith who made jewelry and he was not prepared to build this cathedral and he made one of the biggest Duomo in the world and a huge
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Art Trends in the Renaissance The Renaissance was the first period in human history where people were really aware of their existence in relationship to the past. The people of the medieval era viewed everything in terms of the Bible. They felt that history was created in heaven. The people of the Renaissance were much more enlightened‚ they divided the past according to human achievement rather than the divine plan of salvation. This enlightenment came from an idea called Humanism. Humanism
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Essay The Renaissance was the time period of creativity and change in Europe and during the 1300s to the 1600s in which there were changes in many areas such as political‚ social‚ economical‚ and cultural. The most important change was that of the people and how they saw themselves and their world. Many people showed interest in classical learning‚ especially the culture of the ancient Romans. They set out to change their own age. The Renaissance‚ as they felt‚ was a time of rebirth after the
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1- Historical overview of Olive Oil industry In Spain Olives have been an important agricultural product in Spain for a long time. In "The Olive Industry of Spain‚" published in the April 1936 edition of the journal Economic Geography‚ the author‚ William E. Bull‚ outlines the history of olive oil production in Spain up to that point. The Romans encouraged the planting of olive orchards after their occupation of the Iberian Peninsula in 206 B.C. Although the olive industry decreased in production
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