how it will affect my life and me. The first thing is to describe the Mona Lisa. The Mona Lisa is one of the most famous paintings in the world. The Mona Lisa is also known as la Gioconda‚ La Joconde‚ or portrait of Lisa Gherardini‚ wife of Francesco del Giocondo (Jules). She appears to be calm. With her folded hands and glowing face she appears to be smiling. The famous portrait was painted by the Italian Leonardo da Vinci. It’s perhaps the most famous piece of art in the world. It is located
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Kevin Lukehart Year Two Confirmation Saint Report April 8‚ 2013 Saint John Bosco Giovanni Bosco lived from August 16‚ 1815 to January 31‚ 1888. Bosco was born in Piedmont‚ Italy. He was the youngest son of Francesco Bosco and Margherita Occhienia. St. John Bosco’s father died when he was only three years old‚ this‚ along with a famine‚ made life very hard for Giovanni’s family. Although strucken by tough times‚ young Bosco still managed to have a positive childhood‚ in which he was a firm believer
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generation after generation of artists. He had also been a leader for all of theses let’s not forget how that he also sculpted many statues like the 16-foot tall‚ bronze‚ Equestrian statue to commemorate the person who began the dynasty whose name is Francesco
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happened just after the Middle ages which is dated from 400 to 1300. It was a method of learning based of reasoning and evidence. Studia humanitatis means humanistic studies‚ which were grammar‚ rhetoric‚ poetry‚ history‚ and moral philosophy. Francesco Petrarca‚ known as Petrarch‚ is considered to be the founder of Renaissance Humanism. He was one of the most important Renaissance poets who applied the values of ancient Greece and Rome to questions about religious Christian doctrines. He believed
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Football Football is a team sport‚ it is one of the most popular sports in many parts of the world. In this sport‚ two teams of 11 players each play against each other. The aim of the game is to score more goals than the opponents by kicking a football in the opponents goal. It is played on a rectangular pitch with a goal at each end; the surface can vary from grass to Astroturf‚ however in professional football the pitch is usually made of grass. Each match lasts 90 minutes made up by two halves
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long time until eventually‚ they found out who the mysterious lady in the painting was. The Mona Lisa was actually believed to have been commissioned by the Giocondo family‚ The painting was actually of Lisa del "Gherardini" Giocondo‚ the wife of Francesco del Giocondo a wealthy silk
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soon spread into the neighboring countries […]” (Capellanus 3)‚ and became an effective and important tradition‚ lasting over 500 years (cf. Hühn 24). A key figure concerning the spread of courtly love convention was the Italian scholar and poet Francesco Petrarcha (1304-1374). He wrote the famous Canzoniere with about 300 Italian sonnets using the convention‚ mostly addressed to a idealized women called Laura‚ whom loved with‚ but who did not respond to his love (cf. Roche 1). The name courtly love
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Name: Marco Yu Ming Chan Date: 6 September‚ 2012 Professor Kate Dimitrova The Work of Art. The Miracle of the Crib at Greccio (Legend of St. Francis- 13. Institution of the Crib at Greccio)‚ Portrait by Giotto Di Bondone‚ 1297-1300‚ church of St. Francis‚ Assisi‚ Italy. Book Resources Cynthia Ho‚ Beth A. Mulvaney‚ and John K. Downey. Finding Saint Francis in literature and art. New York‚ Palgrave Macmillan‚ 2009. The three authors created and edited this book a big collection
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Assignment 2 Wiki Assessment Practice This was my first time contributing to any type of wiki. Although it initially seemed a daunting task I found it simple enough to add and edit content after a quick glance at the wiki. My biggest issue for taking part in the wiki was time management. As I do two modules concurrently and have family commitments I found I had limited time to contribute to the wiki and managed around 60 minutes each week. I had initially hoped that this amount of time would have
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1. Comment / Explain / Answer the following a) Compare and contrast Howard and Sheith model and Nicosa model These different decision making models are approaches the problem of consumer decision making differently. The Engel-Kollat-Blackwell model is essentially a conscious problem solving and learning model of consumer behaviour. This model has a good description of active information seeking and evaluation processes of consumer. The information processed in this model is the stimulus. The consumer¡¦s
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