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    At the Cathedral of Saint Bavo in Ghent‚ Belgium‚ an enduring masterpiece of an altar decoration comprised of wood and oil stands three meters tall. The great Jan Van Eyck‚ a maestro in the demanding oil technique‚ completed the Ghent Altarpiece in 1432 (Stolkstad and Cothren‚ 576-577). Approximately 16 hours away in Rome‚ The Last Judgment‚ a fourteen-meter high fresco‚ ornaments the altar of the Sistine Chapel. The unrivaled Michelangelo Buonarroti‚ known for his breathtaking sculptures and paintings

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    John  N.  Pasmore   Essay  TED  Talk  of  Auret  van  Heerden     Working  out  Poverty     Auret  van  Heerden  is  a  compelling  speaker.  He  currently  serves  as  president  and   CEO  of  the  non-­‐governmental  organization  (NGO)‚  Fair  Labor  Association  in  Geneva‚   Switzerland.  In  a  video-­‐taped  TED  Talk  (http://ow.ly/rWoZR0)  he

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    Background/origin/history Land van de Dood is located between Japan and Indonesia near the equator‚ at Latitude 14.604847‚ Longitude 155.039063. Starting in the late 1800’s‚ the still existing dutch speaking viking descendant clans sent criminals to this abandoned island to die. They called this island ‘Land van de Dood’ meaning ‘Land of the Dead’ in Dutch. However‚ due to their ancestry‚ the exiles were somewhat abnormally tall and muscular. This strength allowed their survival on the island. They

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    Explain what is meant by ‘upwardly mobile’. (Item A‚ line 6). Upwardly mobile means when someone or a group of people move or aspire to move to a higher social class or to a position of increased status or power. Suggest three criticisms of ‘new vocationalism’. It is a cheap source of labour meaning that it should not be up to the education system to train employees for companies. It creates a lack of jobs – young employment is due to lack of jobs and not vocational skills. Working class students

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    Final Notice is a book written by Van Fleisher. It is a realistic fiction book that takes place in the United States. It addresses a pressing issue the United States is faced with presently. A group of scientists invents a device that resembles a watch for monitoring heart rates during exercises. It turns out this device can do much more than that. The device can give full medical diagnostics. It has a feature called the final notice that can tell when the wearer is going to die. This device initially

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    I don’t remember how I got here. There was a promise of money and shelter‚ a van and a brown paper bag. The van they transported me in smelled sour‚ the children they took before me must have pissed themselves. I think I was scared enough to. I lie here in a bed with an IV in my arm. I know I’ve been drugged into compliance but it’s hard to shake the fog. I hear other children in the area beyond curtained off section of the room my bed is in. The curtains were once white with speckled with blue

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    Reading: van Wensveen 1. What is the primary ways that Van Wensveen Siker views the relationship between Christianity and business? A: Van Wensveen Siker reimagines five ways or types of viewing the relationship between Christianity and business. These five types are - Christ against business‚ Christ of business‚ Christ above business‚ Christ and business in paradox‚ and Christ the transformer of business. For the readers enrichment I will provide a brief summary of the five types. First‚ Christ

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    A great example of a tragic hero is a man by the name of Ludwig van Beethoven. Beethoven was born into a dutch family of nobility in the field of music on December 17th 1770 in bonn. He was named after his grandfather‚ a bass singer. Beethoven’s father‚ Johannes‚ was a court Tenor and pianist and was the first person to instruct young Ludwig in music. He taught him the piano‚ violin‚ and also possibly the viola. He went to elementary school in the Neugasse until his first public performance at the

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    In the painting The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh you see a dark blue sky filled with enormous stars swirling throughout it imposing an immediate sense of peacefulness. The small town underneath is dark and even looks to be at rest. The stars are so bright and the moon seems to just pop out almost as if it were right in front of you. It even seems to shine some sort of life into a gigantic dead tree stump protruding into the sky. It seems as if the only movement at all is the spiraling light emanating

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    created and either replicates‚ builds upon‚ changes in some form or completely opposes it with works of their own. Painting http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/gogh/starry-night/gogh.starry-night.jpg The Starry Night‚ Vincent van Gogh (ibiblio.org) Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night‚ c.1889 is a painting of a night sky filled with clouds‚ blazing stars and a bright crescent moon. All of the features

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