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    Petrarchs journey to the peak of Mount Ventoux was one that sparked a multitude of questions of his inner self. It was due to Petrarchs laziness‚ that he found himself making the mistake of taking the unworthy‚ longer‚ easier path‚ again and again. This path would eventually deter him from his final destination‚ and he would later have to take the steeper‚ more direct path in addition to the first path. Through this trial and error‚ Petrarch was able to contemplate and extend his thought processes

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    especially a Renaissance‚ humanist scholar. However‚ Petrarch turns his journey into an affective allegorical story entitled The Ascent of Mont Ventoux. Petrarch tells a comprehensive story from finding a climbing partner to reaching the summit with all of the challenges presented in between. Though Petrarch often complains of being out of breath or find detours on his path‚ he ultimately succeeds in scaling the mountain. Within himself‚ Petrarch must decide if he is going to reach the top of the mountain

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    Francesco Petrarch

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    	Francesco Petrarch‚ was a man held in high regards of his peers. The life in which Petrarch lived‚ was certainly not one of which many people could have had dealt with. A life of solitude‚ misplaced love and‚ family misfortune that was endured. But‚ through hard workand perseverance‚ loyalty to the churches which lead to good connections‚ he was regarded as one of the most influential persons and authors of his time. 	Petrarch was not a man with greatest of family lives. Born in Arezzo

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    Petrarch and Machiavelli

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    Thoughts on Ruling: Machiavelli VS. Petrarch In the fourteenth century‚ the humanist philosopher Francesco Petrarch wrote a letter entitled How a Ruler Ought to Govern His Sate. Nearly a century later‚ another philosopher by the name of Niccolo Machiavelli wrote a book about governing‚ The Prince. The two documents show many similarities in content and theme. While the two wrote in similar subject matter‚ it is clear that these philosophers possess distinctly different viewpoints on how a ruler

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    Catulla and Petrarch Greg Hendrix The lyric poems of the Roman poet‚ Catullus‚ and the late Middle Ages poet‚ Petrarch‚ both trace the cycle of a love affair‚ but the nature of those affairs is quite different. Catullus depicts a passionate‚ lusty relationship‚ whereas Petrarch describes something more akin to worship from afar. The differences likely reflect not only their different experiences‚ but also the different times in which they lived. Catullus lived in pre-Christian Rome‚ and his

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    Jeff Hateley Acct. 652.43 11/19/2014 The Ascent of Money While reading The Ascent of Money I learned that throughout the history of Western civilization‚ there has been a recurrent resentment to finance and financiers. The resentment is created from the idea that those who make their living lending money are somehow freeloading on the “real” economic activities of agriculture and manufacturing. The resentment to finance and financiers has the following three causes: Debtors have tended to outnumber

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    The Ascent of Money This is a somewhat comical documentary that was made right after the end of the US’s economical financial recession. It explains the history and growth of credit in our world and how one family was the primary family that spread the ‘credit’ worldwide. They were a Venetian Jewish family that left the Venetian Jewish Ghettos and created banks and ten of trillions of dollars in wealth based on their credit system. The Venetian Jews were the only people who were able to add ‘interest’

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    The Ascent of Money - Individual Essay ECO/372 October 10th‚ 2012 The Ascent of Money - Individual Essay The Ascent of Money written by Harvard Professor Nail Ferguson as a way to converse about “The Financial History of the World” (Ferguson‚ 2009). Ferguson describes the increase and development of economics concentrating on insurance‚ financial institutes‚ and the bond market. Ferguson reveals the method in which history can enlighten our comprehension of the existing economic

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    attempt to sell their product. I will evaluate an advertisement of 5 Ascent Gum to better understand why they designed the advertisement as it is‚ if they met certain appeals‚ and if they were able to create a successful advertisement. I will illustrate 5 Ascent Gum’s advertisement. First I will describe the 5 Ascent’s Gum Advertisement details. The 5 Ascent went for a simple bold approach with a white small title of “5 ASCENT GUM” centered at the top of the page. The background is completely black

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    Falling in love at first sight‚ Francesco Petrarch‚ an Italian poet finds himself haunted by the breathtaking beauty of Laura. Laura‚ already happily married‚ refuses to reciprocate Petrarch’s undying love. Petrarch‚ filled with feelings of despair and rejection‚ uses Laura as his inspiration to write his emotions and thoughts in the form of Petrarchan sonnets. In “I’d Sing of Love in Such a Novel Fashion” and “Alone‚ and Lost in Thought‚ the Desert Glade” Petrarch uses symbolism to show that the human’s

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