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    Effects of the Spanish Civil War From 1936 and 1939‚ the Spanish Civil War had taken place. As a consequence‚ about 500‚000 people died‚ and the Nationalist had taken power with Francisco Franco as the new Spanish leader. The 17th of July of 1936‚ war had erupted in Spain rising tensions between the Republicans and the Nationalists‚ leading to military conflicts through out Spanish territory. Consequently‚ foreign aid had been provided to both sides‚ including countries such as Germany‚ and the

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    Franco-Prussian War

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    Franco Prussian War: July 1870-January 1871 • Louis Napoleon surrenders to Prussians in September 1870 • Sept4: Parisians declare 3rd Republic o Government Of National Defense instituted • Government flees Paris to Bordeaux • Offers no help for Paris • Siege of Paris begins by mid-September o Most well to do have left city • Servants and workers are a majority---Unusual o Public meetings legal again o Starvation Increases o Economy falters o Cold and Disease o December: Bombardment

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    BEN QUILTY Ben Quilty is an Australian artist producing rich visual images which have earned him a national reputation. Acclaimed as a portraitist‚ Quilty creates thickly impastoed canvases using vibrant coloursand broad brush strokes that build up layers of paint. He works in a wide range of genres‚ including portraits and still lifes‚ but also landscapes that reflect his fascination with Australianness‚ a passion which has its origins in Arthur Streeton’s edict that Australian artists should

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    When the Nationalist uprising began in Spain in 1936‚ General Francisco Franco wrote to Hitler and asked for help in transporting his troops from Morocco to Spain. This request was at first denied by the German foreign minister Constantin von Neurath‚ who believed that helping Spain would bring on another European war. Hitler disagreed‚ and sent word to General Franco that Germany would support the rebellion. In July 1936‚ Hitler succeeded in transporting Franco’s +/- 15 000 troops (known as “The

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    San Francisco

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    SAN FRANCISCO Fwanyanga W. Mate & Ibrahim Akinola SAN FRANCISCO Fwanyanga W. Mate & Ibrahim Akinola San Francisco is one of North America’s most vibrant and robust cities. Located on the west coast of the United States of America‚ and only about a six to seven hour flight from Calgary‚ San Francisco is well-known for its great climate‚ lively culture‚ and outstanding world-renowned landmarks. With the above in mind‚ there are two basic reasons of why one should visit San

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    Spanish Civil War

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    influences of foreign countries that were involved in the Spanish Civil War‚ the war wouldn’t have gotten as far as it did. 1 L.E Snellgrove‚ Franco and the Spanish Civil War‚ (New York‚ New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company)

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    Guernica Pablo Picasso

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    During the early 1900’s‚ in the times of World War I‚ Spain had been under the rule of Miguel Primo de Rivera. Primo de Rivera went into power on September 13‚ 1923‚ and his dictatorship lasted for seven years‚ until his death in 1930. (Shlomo 65) And‚ in 1931‚ Spain “attempted to establish a parliamentary republic whose governments would reflect the outcomes of honest election.” (Jackson 272) And‚ through this republic‚ the government tried to establish democratic reforms to help the county deal

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    earning bad reputations for extreme exploitation of women and children‚ which Rosalia Mera avoided and even condemned). The first Zara shop opened (and is still open) in the Galician city of La Coruña on 15 May 1975‚ the year that the dictator Francisco Franco died. Most of Spain was longing for colourful‚ modern‚ well-cut clothes to accompany their new democracy. In 1973‚ Mera had returned to school. She qualified as a primary school teacher and received a diploma in health and later on studied

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    LISA ELLIS ART 2.3 DECEMBER 2‚ 2011 A CRTIQUE OF STOKSTAD AND COTHREN’S COVERAGE OF PABLO PICASSO’S “GUERNICA” Located on pages 1062-1063 of the 4th Edition (Volume II) of our textbook -Art History- are five paragraphs of commentary on Pablo Picasso’s “Guernica‚” perhaps his most well known painting. In those five paragraphs‚ Stokstad and Cothern offer a fairly accurate and concise description of the historical events leading to the creation of the masterwork and a description of some of

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    The Spanish Civil War

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    July 1936 and ended on 1 April 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalists to wrest the dominated power. When progressive Popular Front government was elected in February 1936‚ Nationalists gathered to plan resistance and they were led by Francisco. The rebel force predicted that the war would end with a victory quickly and take the entire country. However‚ that was their miscalculation; the war spent much time than their expectation‚ and they got the Republicans’ withstanding strongly and

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