perspective. Dhouda was born in 804 CE into a prestigious Carolingian family. Her mother was the daughter of the Count of Aragon and her father was prince of Gasgony. In 824 she was married to Bernhard of Septimania and gave birth to her first son‚ William‚ two years later. In 841 her second son was born‚ Bernhard‚ named after his father. However‚ she was not aware of her second sons name until two years after his birth because before he was baptized‚ along with William‚ he was taken from her. Dhouda’s
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n part II‚ chapter eight of Bernhard Schlink’s The Reader‚ the first-person narrator Michael describes reading the account written by a concentration camp who had survived along with her mother‚ the soul survivors in a large group of women who were being marched away from the camp. He says‚ "the book...creates distance. It does not invite one to identify with it and makes no one sympathetic..." The same could be said of The Reader. The book is written in such a way as to distance one from the characters
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The Second Anglo-Dutch War was officially fought between March 4‚ 1665 and July 31‚ 1667. Second Anglo-Dutch War - Dates: The Second Anglo-Dutch War was officially fought between March 4‚ 1665 and July 31‚ 1667. Several incidents‚ such as the capture of New Amsterdam by the English (August 27‚ 1664)‚ occurred prior to the declaration of war. Second Anglo-Dutch War - Key Battles: * Battle of Lowestoft‚ June 13‚ 1665 (Naval‚ English Victory) * Battle of Vågen‚ August 2‚ 1665 (Naval‚ Dutch
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perceive that the language can improve their social status and economic prosperity those are usually strong motivators for people to maintain or make a language shift – sometimes at the expense of their own mother tongue/native language. The St. Lucians speak English‚ French & French Creole. They are taught in schools that English is the superior language‚ it is clear therefore that English has the support of the Government and policy makers in St. Lucia. Linguistic discrimination: is treating
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The historic and iconic marble sculpture‚ Aphrodite of Knidos‚ sometimes referred to as Aphrodite of Cindus‚ was created by the sculptor Praxiteles. Not much is known about Praxiteles for sure as the only definite dates in relation to him are found at the base of a portrait statue where he inscribed “Praxiteles the Athenian made it” or are written by Pliny the Elder in his monumental work‚ Naturalis Historia (Encyclopedia of World Biography). This work places him during the 104th Olympiad‚ or roughly
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one of Africa’s earliest centers of agriculture during the second millennium BCE. The origins of the modern Ethiopia state are found in the Aksumite kingdom‚ which emerged in the first century CE and became an important focus of regional trade. As Lucian declares in his book about astrology‚ “the Ethiopians were the first who invented the science of stars‚ and gave names to the planets‚ not at random and without meaning‚ but descriptive of the qualities which they conceived them to possess‚ still
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Parents should be punished for offences committed by their children. Nowadays hardly a week goes by without another report of some crime appearing in the media. What is more‚ the amount of youngsters under fifteen who break the law is growing rapidly. In terms of this‚ the issue of whether parents should receive punishment for offences committed by their children assumes ever greater importance. No one will dispute that one of the main features of this problem is responsibility. By punishing parents
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Marble Statue of a youthful Hercules The piece of artwork I have chosen to best represent Bloomberg’s ban on oversized sugary drinks is the “Marble statue of a youthful Hercules”‚ which is on display in Gallery 162 in the Metropolitan Museum. The “Marble statue of a youthful Hercules” is a Roman stone sculpture that dates from around 69-96 A.D. during the Early imperial‚ Flavian period. “Restorations made during the early 17th century: head and neck‚ right arm below the shoulder‚ left arm
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Name: Brian Geurts Group: A Student number: 1049771 Date: 09/18/2013 Summary: “The social dimension of globalization: A review of the literature” – 2004 This literature review‚ written by Bernhard Gunter and Rolph van der Hoeven‚ considers the impact of economic globalization on wages and taxes‚ poverty‚ inequality‚ insecurity‚ child labour‚ gender and migration. The intention of the survey is to summarize recent significant articles and publications on the various social dimensions and to
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doctrines force the Church throughout all generations to define what she believes regarding the person and nature of Christ. As metioned above‚ the founder of Arianism was no other than Arius. He studied under Lucian of Antioch who saw Jesus as a semi divine intermediate being. In fact‚ Lucian thought the Logos was not fully God or man. Therefore‚ Jesus has a high status among the creatures even being called “the firstborn of all creation (Col. 1).” Jesus is supernatural‚ but He is not equal to the
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