Romania and the Casa Poporuluii: Past and Future Identities Sitting prominently on the top of a small hill‚ at the end of the Bulevardul Unirii (Unity Boulevard)‚ in central Bucharest‚ Romania‚ lays one of man’s great architectural achievements‚ Casa Poporului (House of the People). Casa Poporului is the second largest administrative building in the world‚ behind the Pentagon in Washington‚ D.C. (Nae‚Turnock‚ p 207). With over 1‚000 rooms‚ and made almost entirely of Romanian resources‚
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are shaped majorly by the media and written material. The media influences us to believe who is right and who is wrong in relation to the events in the 1800’s between the natives and the whites and written material like novels and movies give us different views on certain events and help us analyse the events from an objective view. White Man’s Burden‚ Secret River and Rabbit-Proof Fence are three examples in which the composers have looked at the same event and analysed it in different ways. They
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resources’ illustrations on the hardships Native Americans faced‚ proves the unethical values whites pushed on the Natives. By forcing the Native Americans into reservation camps while stealing their land from beneath them‚ the Natives were expected to erase their own culture and teachings and adopt the culture of the whites. Being Native American back in western times meant the migration of home‚ upbringing‚ and religion. The effects on the Natives made them despise the whites who had forced
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La popularización de la fotografía: invención de la placa seca Consigna: Análisis de la trascendencia de la invención de la placa seca‚ tomando como eje la importancia del documentalismo como denuncia‚ información o conocimiento. Placa Seca La placa seca‚ también conocida como gelatino-bromuro‚ es el primer medio fotográfico exitoso económico y duradero. Fue inventada por el Dr. Richard Leach Maddox en 1871‚ y en 1879 estaba tan bien introducida que la primera fábrica de placa seca se había
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Before contact with Europeans‚ Native Americans developed an effective system of informal education call aboriginal education. The system included transmitting knowledge‚ values‚ skills‚ attitudes‚ and dispositions to the next generation in real world settings such as the farm‚ at home‚ or on the hunting ground. Native American educational traditions passed on culture needed to succeed in society. Education was viewed as a way to beautify and sharpen the next generation and prepare them to take
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Response Paper: The Mona LisaRachel McRill The Mona Lisa; also known as La Gioconda or La Joconde‚ is a famous work of art by Leonardo da Vinci. He created this piece by using the sfumato‚ the technique of blurring sharp outlines by blending‚ chiaroscuro‚ contrasting light and shade boldly‚ and atmospheric‚ the perception of depth in nature enhanced by haze‚ perspective. The subject is a young woman sitting with a half-smile on her face. Painted in 1503‚ her name is Lisa Gheradini‚ and she was
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Digital Natives‚ Digital Immigrants: Some Thoughts from the Generation Gap by Timothy VanSlyke | | | | | | | | | In a two-part series entitled "Digital Immigrants‚ Digital Natives‚" Marc Prensky (2001a‚ 2001b) employs an analogy of native speakers and immigrants to describe the generation gap separating today’s students (the "Digital Natives") from their teachers (the "Digital Immigrants"). According to Prensky‚ the former are surrounded by digital media to such an extent
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Discrimination and Class Conflicts Seen from Richard Wright’s Native Son 【Abstract】Richard Wright’s Native Son is a brand-new page of the Black literature which is one of American “protest novels”. In this novel‚ the author uses the writing techniques of realism to reflect the fierce racial and class conflicts between the whites and the blacks. So this novel is very important for us to study American history in the 1930s. 【Key words】Native Son；Racial Discrimination；Class Conflict I. Introduction
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Las Desaparecidas De Juarez Located in the state if Chihuahua‚ Juarez is the 5th largest city in all of Mexico with almost two million people (Juarez-Mexico). The population of Juarez is not the what people from Mexico and all over the world talk about but instead they talk about the mass murders of young women‚ and female children which rose in numbers since 1993. From the years 1993-2003 there was a reported 265 murders or femicides of women; and an estimate of around 460 to this date (Casa
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1. La música cubana La música cubana tiene dos grandes influencias: los ritmos traídos a la Isla especialmente por los colonizadores españoles y por los negros esclavos procedentes de África. También‚ en menor medida‚ hay una cierta influencia asiática‚ con la inclusión de la corneta china‚ un hecho que comenzó a finales del siglo XIX con la llegada de los primeros inmigrantes chinos a la isla. Según el origen de sus influencias‚ podríamos diferenciar entre la música euro-cubana y la afro-cubana
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