Francis Drake was born around 1540-1544 in Devonshire‚ England. He was the eldest of 12 sons born to Edmund Drake and Mary Mylwaye Drake. Francis was apprenticed to a merchant who sailed coastal waters trading goods between England and France. He took to navigation well and was soon enlisted by his relatives‚ the Hawkinses. By the 1560s‚ Francis Drake was given command of his own ship‚ the Judith‚ with a small fleet. They sailed to South Africa to buy slaves and then travelled to Spain to sell
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I believe Pope Francis is one of the powerful person in the world. He was born in 1936 and became 266th pope in year 2013. He was born and raised in Bueno Aires‚ Argentina. In the article pope Francis show people that he is not happy with luxuries lives. Pope Francis rejected the clothes that are made by hands and rejected luxurious cars that was offered. Sometimes he rode minibus to went back to his hotel. He decided to act this way because he wanted to be a good model for people who are following
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A Dominant Community’s Attitudes towards the Teaching of Amazigh (Berber) in Morocco di Mina Afkir Abstract Two linguistically and culturally different communities have been living in Morocco since the Arab-Islamic conquests in the seventh century AD‚ namely the Amazigh-speaking and the Arabic-speaking communities. The language policies that were implemented by the Moroccan government from independence in 1956 till 2001 greatly promoted the Arabic language‚ which
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The Saint I choose for Confirmation is Francis of Assisi. He is inspiring to me because of his close connection to God and animals. Saint Francis was born in Umbria as Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone in late 1181 or early 1182. His parents were Pietro di Bernardone‚ a wealthy silk merchant who owned farmland and Pica de Bourlemont‚ a French noblewoman. His father nicknamed him “Francesco” which means Frenchman. He was one of seven children who lived a privileged life with fancy clothes and
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Notes: Questions to consider: -There’s a relationship between Richardson’s ways of constructing a character and Austen’s‚ and perhaps a relationship between the ends he’s seeking to achieve through characterization and those of Austen’s. -With that being said‚ how do we turn it into an analysis? >>> Why not begin with questions about form? -Does it matter that Richardson’s novel is epistolary first-person and Austen’s narrator is a version of third-person omniscient with a great deal of
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With the technology overwhelming our senses‚ will the human relations become a dying art? Before we contemplate over the question that lie before us‚ let us take some time to do a little juxtaposition; to compare and contrast how our lifestyle used to be and how it has ‘evolved’ over time. Those days at school or at work whenever we grab a free time we used to have fun with our clique but nowadays whenever we get a free time all we do is staring at the newsfeed on mobile Facebook. Back in
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In his book‚ Francis of Assisi‚ William R. Cook seeks to provide a better understanding of St. Francis of Assisi as an individual rather than in conjunction with the order he founded. Cook divides the book into six sections‚ each section concentrating on an important aspect or experience in Francis= life and spirituality. The six sections focus on his conversion; his relationship to the created world; the creation of the Christmas crib at Greccio; the role of learning; the relationship between
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Saint Francis of Assisi was born in Assisi‚ Umbria. Which is just north of San Marino‚ the capital of Italy. He was born in 1181 but no one knows the exact date of his birth. His Father returned from France to see he had a son. He had a mother and a father. His Mother was Pica de Bourlemont and his Father was Pietro di Bernardone. Saint Francis of Assisi was one of seven kids. Pietro di Bernardone‚ his father was a wealthy silk merchant. He wanted Saint Francis of Assisi to be a silk merchant
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“Where’s the alcohol?” he screamed at me. “Where is the ice?” I yelled back. We were running around like chickens with our heads cut off because if we didn’t get that alcohol to the perfect temperature‚ nothing would work out right. Once we got the alcohol perfectly chilled‚ we mixed it with the sweet smelling strawberries‚ and our concoction was complete. But we still screwed up. The kid we were trying to impress just ran screaming right out of the lab. Earlier‚ my partner and I explained to the
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Visual Art Awareness Francis Criss Francis Hyman Criss was an American painter. Criss ’s style is associated with the American Precisionists like Charles Demuth and his friend Charles Sheeler. (http://www.in.com/francis-criss/biography-94231.html) The years he is most known for is between 1930 to 1950. His work largely uses images of urban environments. Examples are elevated subway tracks‚ skyscrapers‚ streets. Criss used these abstract styles‚ mostly without human figures‚ in his works. He is
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