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    Classical Humanism is described as "a phenomenon that gave the Renaissance"¦.its distinctly secular stamp."� Define classical humanism in its historical context and discuss the values and philosophy that shaped the literature and visual art of the Renaissance. The great intellectual movement of Renaissance Italy was humanism. The humanists believed that the Greek and Latin classics contained both all the lessons one needed to lead a moral and effective life. The intellectual and social movement

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    Select 3 musical examples of Renaissance music‚ and describe their musical form. How do these pieces differ in texture from the Medieval period? In “Greensleves”‚ the musical form would be binary with two parts that both relate to each other such as a statement and a counterstatement also known as the AB form. “Country jig” also has a binary musical form with part A being repeated after part B. “ La girometta” has a ternary form with a statement‚ contrast‚ and return or ABA’. These pieces each

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    Name: Faith Chin Lin T number: T00184784 Title of Modules: Film and Narrative Studies Title of Program: TV‚ Radio‚ New Media Broadcasting Year: Year 1 Total Word Count: 518   Ideology‚ Genre‚ Auteur Robin Wood’s article ‘Ideology‚ Genre‚ Auteur’ suggests that instead of looking at movies in only one perspective‚ one should combine different approaches to assessing the film as a whole. By collectively looking at the ideologies‚ the methods‚ and the director‚ one will get a more accurate sense

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    for business‚ managed by Carlo Barboncini‚ cousin of the Bassetti family. 10 years later‚ a hand waving manufacturing plant is opened in Rescaldina. It’s 1864 when Giovanni Bassetti‚ only 13 years old‚ buys the company for a little more than one hundred thousand liras. It’s a day that will change the history of the textile world. Giovanni Bassetti’s society has in fact a set destiny: to become the most modern plant in Europe for the most ancient art in the world. From the ‘30s Bassetti starts to

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    Italy on business‚ she never would have guessed what was waiting around the corner. In 1846‚ she met Guiseppe Mazzini‚ who would introduce her to someone who would determine the outcome of the rest of her life‚ Giovanni Angelo Ossoli. She goes on to marry Ossoli‚ with whom she has a child. Giovanni also pulls her into a dangerous event‚ the Italian Revolution. Fuller volunteered at a hospital‚ until their side of the revolution saw defeat. Shortly following‚ Fuller and Ossoli decided to move their family

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    Italian Renaissance painter Tiziano Vecellio‚ also known as Titian‚ created one of his most well-known paintings in the year 1538. This work‚ Venus of Urbino (Figure 1)‚ is an oil painting that depicts a nude young woman reclining on a couch or bed in the luxurious surroundings of a Renaissance palace. Created for the Duke of Urbino‚ Guidobaldo II Della Rovere‚ this work commemorated his wedding to Giuliana Varano that took place in 1534. Titian’s work‚ based on his master‚ Giorgione’s Sleeping Venus

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    Chapter One - New World Beginnings - 33‚000 B.C - A.D 1769 America’s fruitfulness began when it developed as a landmass and began to show traits of an area that flourished in riches and abundance‚ this was recognized by the Spanish‚ whom took advantage of the untouched land. The Shaping Of North America MI: Chunks of terrain broke off from Pangaea‚ opening up the oceans‚ and forming the land masses we know today. More continental activity formed mountain ranges‚ but after the Great Ice

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    whether or not the Milanese people would defend them (Martines‚ 17). The men hadn’t planned well. They were simply driven by intense hatred as well as the desire for Milan to return to a Republic that they imagined a miracle resulting (Martines‚ 18). Giovanni Andrea‚ one of the conspirators’s servants was taken and tortured in order to tell who the conspirators were (Martines‚ 18). The members of each family were targeted by the city‚ arrested‚ accused of being apart of the conspiracy (Martines‚ 19).

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    Using your understanding of critical views on these plays‚ compare the ways in which ford and Shakespeare represent women in ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore and The Taming of the Shrew. In the 17th century or in early modern England the man was the head of the household. The man was at the top and the husband’s role as governor of his family and household which includes his wife‚ children‚ wards and servants. In those days they thought it was instituted by God and nature. The family was seen as the secure

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    Hip-hop is the latest expressive manifestation of the past and current experience as well as the collective consciousness of African-American and Latino-American youth. But more than any music of the past‚ it also expresses mainstream American ideas that have now been internalized and embedded into the psyches of American people of color over time. A part of the learned mainstream American culture is sexism and misogyny. Hip-hop culture is frequently condemned for its misogynistic exploitation

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