Walter Benjamin‚ Jewish philosopher and cultural critic‚ once said‚ “History is created by the victors.” Assuming that this belief is true‚ the question becomes what then happens to the losers? Carlo Ginzburg presents a similar notion in his book “The Cheese and the Worms.” Rather‚ his notion is “history is created by the literate.” Historically‚ the population who could read and write was limited to the well-to-do upper class. This proves to be a problem for historians who seek to know more about
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Johnson & Wales University Providence‚ Rhode Island Feinstein Graduate School WHITEPAPER “The Port Development of Gaza” A Written Paper Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the MBA Degree Course: Global Economic Environments-IBUS 5511 Qiong WU 12/11/13 INTRODUCTION My name is Qiong Wu‚ and I am a consultant of international trade and safety in Gaza. My job is controlling the maritime passage into and out of Gaza thus allowing the safe transport
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References: Nicola Machiavelli information was located on the Internet at http://rhf.bradley.edu/~liberty/mach.html.
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for temperance.” This essay is going to investigate the works of the key minimalist artists‚ simultaneously analyzing the similarities and differences between the minimalist sculptors from 1965 to 1975 and the recent collections of Balenciaga by Nicolas Ghesquiere. Carl Andre‚ Dan Flavin‚ Donald Judd‚ Sol Le Witt and Robert Morris were considered as the main artists that brought about the existence of the Minimal Art‚ ironically they never acknowledged themselves with the designation of the term
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The Importance of Humanities in the 21st century? In this annotated bibliography I will be trying to answer the question of the importance of humanities in the 21st century. I will be using sources from newspapers‚ books and blogs in which I found either in the UEA library‚ internet and other sources of information. I will be making summaries of the content which I read and evaluate the source as a whole‚ for this annotated bibliography most of the sources which I came across coincidently were
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here. Negros Navigation was established in July 26‚ 1932 with incorporators from Iloilo and Negros who were mostly sugar planters namely: Julio Ledesma‚ Vicente Lopez‚ Januario Jison‚ Cesar Ledesma‚ Juan Ledesma‚ Manuel Hechanova‚ Antonio Lizares‚ Nicolas Lizares‚ Carlos Lopez‚ Placido Mapa‚ and Aurelio Montinola. Julio Ledesma became the company’s first Chairman of the Board and President. Eventhough majority of the stockholders were from Jaro‚ Iloilo City and the company’s main office was in Iloilo
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of the Katipunan‚ and played a major role in the Philippine Revolution.She has one son from Andrés Bonifacio and five children from Julio Nakpil. She was born in the city of Caloocan to a Catholic middle-class family.Her father‚ Nicolás de Jesús‚ was a carpenter who later served as a gobernadorcillo.As a young girl‚ she was an exceptional student and a silver medal recipient in an examination organized by the governor general and parish priest. When she became a secondary school
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His thoughts on logic and ethics in science and his ideas on the cooperation and interaction of the various fields of science‚ presented in his work Novum Organum‚ have remained influential in the scientific world to this day. Another person was Nicolas Copernicus. In one of his treatises‚ he presented the heliocentric theory‚ which rested on the revolutionary notion that the Earth orbited the sun. Another person was Rene Descartes who invented deductive reasoning. Johannes Kepler studied the orbits
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Introduction: Island of the Blue Dolphins is a very well written book by Scott O’Dell. Island of the Blue Dolphins is a historical fiction. It took place at San Nicolas Island70 miles from the coast‚ west of Santa Barbara. It’s based on a true story about a 12-year-old girl called Karana who is stranded on an Island and must work out how to survive. Her main enemies on the Island are the wild dogs and she lives in fear of the Aleuts. Summary: One day‚ Karana and Ramo spot red sails while they
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among European nations. As a result‚ many of them traveled to explore the New World in search of resources. These explorations led to the colonization of America‚ which began one year after the discovery of Hispaniola. By 1502‚ the Spanish explorer Nicolas de Ovando established a base in Hispaniola. This represented the beginning of the Spanish colonization in America. With the Spanish empire having control over Europe‚ Asia‚ and America‚ the Atlantic and Pacific oceans served as the main routes for
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