Josephine de Beauharnais Josephine de Beauharnais was the first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte. Josephine was born on June 23rd 1763.She was the daughter of wealthy sugar planter Martinique‚ in the West Indies. At the age of 17 Josephine married Vicomte Alexandre de Beauharnais. With her marriage to Vicomte Alexandre‚ Josephine gave birth to a son‚ Eugène‚ and a daughter Hortense. During the Reign of Terror Vicomte Alexandre was accused of poorly defending Mainz and was considered an aristocrat‚ and
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This assignment will focus on the life of Robert de Niro. Robert de Niro he is American and was born 17.08.1943 in New York. He is an actor‚ director and producer. His father was Italian and Irish and his mother was of English‚ German‚ French and Dutch ancestry. De Niro’s parents divorced when he was three years old. De Niro attended PS41 a public elementary school in Manhatan through the sixth grade and then went to the private Elisabeth Irvin High School. For the seventh
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Madres de Plaza de Mayo is a social movement that emerged in Argentina military dictatorship between 1976 and 1983 also known as (La Guerra Sucia) Dirty War. Madres de Plaza de Mayo started in Buenos Aires when after their children were suddenly kidnapped by the government military who never admitted of this crime. Madres de Plaza Mayo is an example of new movement formed mostly by women‚ who struggle fight for human rights abuses. Majority of Las Madres were housewives that had to step into the
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De Beers‚ the so-called cartel in the jewellery industry‚ is a company that dominates diamond industry. The core operational of De Beers includes diamond mining‚ diamond shops‚ diamond trading and industrial diamond manufacturing sectors. De Beers is active in every category of industrial diamond mining: open-pit‚ underground‚ large-scale alluvial‚ coastal and deep sea. The company’s headquarter located in Johannesburg‚ South Africa. As the vertically integrated diamonds producer‚ De Beers
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Willem de Kooning is considered one of the best American painters to ever live. He is compared to one of the Greek Sea Gods‚ Proteus‚ and is called "a master of a liquid realm who is gifted with prophecy" (Kertess).De Kooning is a highly intellectual‚ analytical artist with the courage to reject all assumptions and to take up an issue at its "most difficult formation" (Hess 16). One of de Kooning’s good friends was the poet‚ art critic‚ and MOMA Curator‚ Frank O’Hara. O’Hara considered de Kooning
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Hernando De Soto Tours Hernando De Soto sent out on an expedition to find an empire abounding in gold and jewels. He had six hundred troops‚ 213 horses‚ a pack of fighting hounds to aid him in his search‚ and his heard of swine. He landed in Florida May 28‚ 1539 in Tampa Bay in search for his gold. Shortly after arriving in pursuit of Indians his men were surprised to hear one of them shout in Spanish‚ “Do not slay me‚ cavalier; I am a Christian!” They were lucky to find a survivor of the Narvaez
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Lee De Forest Lee De Forest was born Aug. 26‚ 1873‚ Council Bluffs‚ Iowa. De Forest was the son of a Congregational minister. His father moved the family to Alabama and there assumed the presidency of the nearly bankrupt Talladega College for Negroes. Excluded by citizens of the white community who resented his father ’s efforts to educate blacks‚ Lee and his brother and sister made friends from among the black children of the town and spent a happy although sternly disciplined childhood
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De Facto Relationships 1. Identify and describe an alternative family arrangement you have chosen and how or why it is considered an ‘alternative family arrangement’. A de facto couple is an unmarried heterosexual or same sex couple. The Family Law Act 1975 –section 4AA defines a de facto couple as ‘persons who are not legally married to each other‚ persons not related by family and having regard to all circumstances of their relationship‚ they have a relationship as a couple living together
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Wallace and de Botton David Foster Wallace informs a graduating class that in order to succeed‚ they need to learn how to think. Wallace gives examples of selfish thinking; he asserts‚ “We rarely think about this sort of natural‚ basic self-centeredness because it’s so socially repulsive. But it’s pretty much the same for all of us” (Wallace 201). Wallace argues the fact that people have a tendency to not think about being in someone else’s shoes. His speech states the importance of awareness thinking
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Ferdinand de Saussure Ferdinand de Saussure (/sɔːˈsʊr/ or /soʊˈsʊr/; French: [fɛʁdinɑ̃ də sosyʁ]; 26 November 1857 – 22 February 1913) was a Swiss linguist whose ideas laid a foundation for many significant developments in linguistics in the 20th century.[1][2] He is widely considered one of the fathers of 20th-century linguistics.[3][4][5][6] One of his translators‚ Emeritus Professor of Linguistics (Oxford University)‚ Roy Harris‚ summarized Saussure’s contribution to linguistics and the study
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