Giovanni Da Verrazano Nusrat begum SOCIAL STUDIES 711 Giovanni Da Verrazano was one of the many European explorers that explored The New World‚ he explored northern eastern part of the present day U.S which are North Carolina‚ New York‚ Maine‚ Canada. Verrazano was also an Italian navigator who boarded voyages along with He was a Florentine explorer that served for King Francis I of France. Giovanni da Verrazano Giovanni travelled the seas as a pirate‚ or Privateer sailing for King Francis
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Nikki Giovanni: The Princess of Black Poetry Yolanda Cornelia “Nikki” Giovanni is one of the world’s most renowned black poets‚ as well as an author‚ commentator‚ writer‚ and educator. Born in Knoxville‚ Tennessee‚ raised in Cincinnati‚ Giovanni has been an involved activist and writer since the early 1960s. After leaving high school in the eleventh grade‚ she entered the historically black Fisk University where she graduated with a BA in History in 1967. During her time at Fisk‚ Giovanni became
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The painting shows a nude women sitting down‚ combing her hair looking inside of a mirror that she is holding. A lot of Bellinis portraits were based on religion ideas and symbols. In fact‚ the painting “The lady combing her hair” was quite graceful and beautiful and a very refreshing portrait that symbolized something other than religion. This portrait was an image of humanism
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Dying Lord This semester I focused my research on Andrea Mantegna’s painting The Man of Sorrows with the Two Angels and his ability in portraying the meditative importance of the slain Christ. (Next Slide) The history of painting the Lord‚ slain from crucifixion had been a very popular and well exercised practice for many centuries. The iconography of His crucifixion has been dated back as early as the fourth century. But not until about the thirteenth century did we start seeing Christ being portrayed
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Nikki Giovanni Nikki Giovanni has evolved as writer; naturalist and a modernist later. Naturalism was a literary movement that was taking place from the 1880s to 1940s that used detailed realism to suggest that social conditions‚ heredity‚ and environment had inescapable force in shaping human character. Giovanni shows naturalism in her works "Poem (No Name No. 2)"‚ and “[Untitled] (For Margaret Danner)”. Just to give a little background on modernism‚ Modernism is when writers proclaimed a new
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Courage Award‚ National Association of Radio and Television Announcers Award for Best Spoken Word Album‚ and the ALC Lifetime Achievement Award (Giovanni 1). These are a small portion of her numerous accomplishments. But‚ who is Nikki Giovanni and how did she become such a decorated and recognized poet? Nikki Giovanni was born Yolande Cornelia Giovanni Jr.‚ 7 June 1943 in Knoxville‚ Tennessee. At a young age she considered herself a dreamer. She loved reading books and some of her favorite authors
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When Giovanni Pico della Mirandola was twenty-four‚ in the year 1487‚ he decided to hold a disputation. This was a fairly common occurrence in the schools: a question would be stated‚ and a respondent would take up a position on the question and hold it against the arguments of the learned people present. What made Pico’s unusual was that he proposed to hold his own against all comers on no fewer than nine hundred separate points of philosophy. It never happened‚ because the Pope got hold of
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Giovanni Vaccarello‚ a retired machinist form Brooklyn‚ New York‚ never took the safety of his family for granted. He often drove Maria‚ 18‚ and Concetta‚ 17‚ to their part time jobs. John‚ his fourteen year old son‚ was to wear a beeper at all times so that he would never be out of reach. Giovanni routinely walked Cathy‚ his wife of twenty five years‚ one block to her job at the beauty salon. But with all the precautions Giovanni took‚ nothing could stop him from Abraham Meyers‚ a 25-year-old
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Nikki Giovanni Biography Nikki Giovanni is one of the best known mixed poets who has reached prominence in the late 1960’s and 1970’s. Nikki has wrote many poems and books 1970-early 2004‚ most of what she writes is with passion‚inspiration and with lots of feeling. Giovanni’s poetry express strong racial pride and respect for family‚ giovanni has written Creation‚ Love Poems‚ The Collected Poems Of Nikki Giovanni and The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection. She was born in Knoxville‚Tennessee in
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Greek texts that constituted the mainstream of the Italian Renaissance. Petrarch ‚ a key figure in the Renaissance literature is best remembered for the Canzoniere‚ a collection of love sonnets written in vernacular Italian. Petrarch’s friend‚ Giovanni Boccaccio‚ was a pre-eminent writer whose fiction‚The Decameron is regarded as one of the earliest works of prose writing in Italian. Boccaccio was the master of the spoken language and of the swift‚ vivid‚ narrative style which is free from the
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