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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Book 3 China’s treasure ships were part of a fleet that was larger than any in history. Zhu Di‚ leader and prince of the Ming dynasty‚ wanted the fleet of 317 wooden treasure ships all over 400 feet long. The prince wanted nothing but the best. The silk sails were a traditional red. The ships were used to carry cargo for trade. What amazes me is the boldness of the ships. Red silk sails and painted dragons and phoenixes sounds pretty impressive and coupled with the fact that they were so massive
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Arren Quigley Architectural Genius in the Renaissance At the beginning of the Renaissance a problem was apparent in Florence. The city was trying to distinguish themselves from Milan‚ their rival‚ and had built a great cathedral‚ Santa Maria del Fiore‚ with this in mind. The problem was that for 122 years the church had been left open to the elements. No roof had been built. In 1418‚ the town fathers of Florence decided that the time had come to build a roof. The roof had to be grand and tall.
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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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In this essay I will be exploring the contrast and comparison between the way in which the art movement‚ Dadaism and Futurism reacted to the War. It is evident that Dada and Futurism have much in common in terms of their rejection to the past. However‚ one might argue that the Dada movement is anti-war and anti-establishment. It was a response to World War I and the way it destroyed the idea of individualism and mechanized human beings. However‚ Futurism almost revered war and was influenced by machinery
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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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