Mort Rosenblum- Chocolate: A bitter sweet saga of Dark and Light pg.3 -Swedish Botanist names Cacao bean Theobroma:Elixer of the gods -Chocolate is 60 million industry -laborers from euatorial jungle picked pods pg.4 -chocolate has been around for 5 centuries pg.6 -In one year the world can produce 3‚000‚000‚000 tons of cocoa beans -much about cocoa remains a mystery -Young trees of theobroma seek dank shadows of tall tropical hardwoods but older like more sun -grow in only 20 degrees
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Renaissance Education DBQ Exercise During the Renaissance‚ scholars became more interested in the humanistic features of society‚ and humanistic educators based their teaching models on Greek and Latin classics. Renaissance education was One apparent purpose of a Renaissance education was to praise the value of useful education‚ through the teaching of the classics‚ mainly Greek literature that was written by Greek philosophers‚ mathematicians and other important figures. Some criticised
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woman was to man as man was to a prince; if a prince were to serve a common man‚ it would be considered damaging to his reputation. As Gadol poses in her article‚ women were no more than an accessory for men (pp. 132-133). In On Wifely Duties‚ Francesco Barbaro lays out a comprehensive “manual” for wives that further explains this relationship. Chapter two of the document best represents how a wife was expected to suppress her emotions and behave for her husband’s benefit where he writes‚ “I therefore
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Humanities 303 Course 1 Project Yolanda Revels Professor Davina Dandridge September 16‚ 2014 I. Introduction of the Dark Ages The dark ages is this tumultuous era‚ when no one actually really knows exactly what happened and really would not like to consider it dark although that was time of the fall of Rome‚ where through the eventual light of progress revealed at the dawn of the middle Ages‚ It was a lot going on an implied judgment being that in that particular period in European history from about
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frustrated at his patrons because they thought he was wasting his time. It was one of Italy’s most celebrated paintings during Leonardo’s lifetime. In 1503 Leonardo da Vinci was going to change the world‚ he was asked by a wealthy Florentine named Francesco del Giocondo to paint a picture of his 26 year old wife‚ Mona Lisa. The Mona Lisa is if not the most famous painting in the world‚ one of the most famous paintings in the world. He studied the shape and structure of hands closely‚ so he could paint
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The women of the Renaissance were denied political rights and considered legally subject to their husbands. Women of all classes were expected to do the first and foremost the jobs of housewife. Peasant women worked in the outdoors with their husbands and controlled the work at there home. The wives of middle class shop owners and merchants mostly helped run their husbands businesses as also. Even women of the highest class attended by servants often engaged in the duties of the household. Some
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hill town of Vinci‚ Italy. He is the son of Ser Piero da Vinci‚ a public notary‚ and Caterina da Vinci‚ a young Florence woman. Although those were his parents‚ Leonardo didn’t spend much time with either of them; instead he stayed with his uncle‚ Francesco‚ a farmer‚ who taught him about nature. Leonardo was very interested in nature and drew his observations that he discovered on sheets of paper that were given to him by his father. This was just the beginning of his studies and art.
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The Medici was a well-known family throughout Florence. They were very wealthy and manifested great power. From the year 1434 to the year 1534 we see many changes occur involving this particular family. One sees everything from the reign of Cosimo the Elder to the exile of the Medici from the city to their great return to power in Florence. Lets focus on the years 1434‚ 1534‚ and everything that happened in between. Cosimo the Elder was a well-respected man among the Florentines. He came from
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DBQ 1: Women’s Suffrage Analyze and compare the major points of view concerning suffrage and the ways in which individual commentators believed woman suffrage would affect the political and social order. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries women were being oppressed by not being allowed to vote‚ this made them less “value” as compared to the male gender. The point of view concerning woman suffrage was greatly affected by the gender role and the political standing of the person in question
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January 13‚ 2012‚ you learn that the Costa Concordia‚ the largest ship in the fleet of Carnival subsidiary Costa Cruises‚ has collided with a rocky reef near the Tuscan Island of Giglio‚ losing power. Although details are still sketchy‚ Captain Francesco Schettino apparently abandoned the ship shortly after the collision‚ imperiling the lives of its 600 passengers and
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