One of Diego Velazquez’s last painting and maybe the greatest one‚ Las Meninas Spanish for “The Ladies in Waiting” is an oil on canvas baroque style painting which measures approximately 10’5”x 9’(318 x 276 cm)‚ currently displayed in The Museo del Prado in Madrid‚ Spain. Las Meninas was painted in 1656 in the Cuarto del Príncipe in the Royal Alcazar of Madrid‚ which is the room seen in the work. (Museo del Prado‚ Antonio Palomino.1724). The setting is one of the most credible spaces depicted
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The County of San Bernardino is one of the 58 counties of California. With an area of 20‚105 square miles‚ it is considered to be the largest county in the United States. It is even said to be larger than the four smallest states combined. But in spite of its great area‚ San Bernardino is only 5th most-populous county in California‚ and 12th most-populous in the United States. This is because of its numerous wilderness areas that are hardly occupied by citizens. San Bernardino is populated by over
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crack in the ground called the San Andreas Fault. What is the science behind this fault? why should people fear it? and what could be the result of another devastating earthquake? The San Andreas Fault is a place where two massive tectonic plates‚ specifically the North American and Pacific plates. The small split in the ground extends more than 800 miles and is roughly ten miles deep. The SAF is located in Northern California‚ and extends to Cajon Pass in the San Bernardino Mountains. The SAF was
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San Vitale Ravenna‚ Italy The Church of San Vitale remains one of the earliest and most prized structures of Byzantine Art. Built in the Etruscan and later Roman city of Ravenna‚ Italy‚ San Vitale stands to be one of the city’s most celebrated possessions. Two-hundred years after Constantine‚ the creator of Byzantium‚ Ostrogoth ruler Theodoric the Great made Ravenna the capital of his kingdom. Theodoric was of Arian faith where Christ was seen as a creation of God the Father and was subordinate
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Marketing Communications Memo Jason Murray June 17‚ 2013 PSY/ 322 University of Phoenix Instructor: Chawn Williams Military Veteran’s Foundation 12345 Canyon Edge San Antonio‚ Tx. 78133 MEMORANDUM FOR DISTRIBUTION SUBJECT: Marketing Communications for Fundraising Policies. The intent for of this memo is for employees to understand the perimeters in which they are authorized to perform fundraising efforts on order to support the Military Veteran’s Foundation. The Military Veteran’s
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this piece‚ novelist and journalist Jack London offers an extraordinary first-person account of the fiery aftermath of the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco. London’s report originally appeared in Collier’s Weekly‚ May 5‚ 1906. After you have finished reading London’s narrative (a classic example of creative nonfiction)‚ visit our Reading Quiz on "The San Francisco Earthquake." And then compare London’s account of the disaster with the one offered by William James in his essay "On Some Mental Effects
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Robert Browning’s quote “A man’s reach must exceed his grasp‚ or what’s a heaven for?” is very relevant to Dale Wasserman’ s play‚ Man of la Mancha. Characters are portrayed along the continuum with the realist as one extreme and the idealist as another. Browning speaks to the issue of these extremes and favors the idealist who has the capacity to perceive their reality as a temporary existence and allows for growth driven by imagination. A man’s reach should go beyond that which he can physically
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The Battle of San Jacinto San Jacinto is known as the birthplace of Texas freedom. San Jacinto is considered one of the world’s definitive fights. Sam Houston and his battered band of 910 pioneers steered Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna‚ President‚ and Dictator of Mexico and so-called "Napoleon of the West‚" with his glad armed force‚ and changed the guide of North America. This story that has excited Texans for over a century. An account of high courage and initiative; of horrid hardship‚ disaster and
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La Mujer Barbuda play was written by Cristina Luzárraga who is a graduate student whom getting a Master Fine Art at Ohio University and she is considered a Playwriting Student and a Graduate Teaching Assistant. Miss. Cristina wrote the La Mujer Barbuda to presents some characters based on their true stories. This play was written with two main characters presenting two women who are both have to share some common features. These two women‚ Magdalena and Maggie‚ do not know about each other or they
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La Hacienda Musa1 La Hacienda Musa was a long way from Leuven‚ Belgium. But for Maria Keller‚ the transition was as natural as it could be. She had spent twenty years in Leuven studying banana genetics at the Catholic University of Leuven’s Laboratory of Tropical Crops‚ the world center of banana research. She had learned about the challenges the banana-growing industry faced from a variety of diseases‚ why bananas seemed to be especially susceptible‚ and how difficult it is to develop new strains
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