The World War I Battle of Verdun (Feb. 21-Nov. 26‚ 1916)‚ an unsuccessful German effort to take the offensive in the west‚ was one of the longest and bloodiest encounters of the war. Total casualties have been estimated at about 542‚000 French and about 434‚000 Germans. At the background‚ on June 28‚ 1914‚ Franz Ferdinand‚ Archduke of Austria and heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne‚ was assassinated in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip‚ a Bosnian Serb nationalist. The assassination soon triggered World
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Vertov believed the camera (Cine/Kino Eye) captures more than the eye is capable of. It can draw attention to the real world by virtue of how images are ‘organised’ The film demonstrates ‘cinema is not about capturing truth but creating a mediated reality that is not least made in the generative process of editing and viewing.’ PARAGRAPH 2 Sequence 2 from Man with A Movie Camera How the sequence is organized - -juxtapositions - editing techniques - fast motion The organization
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Cell phones: Educational Tools or Disrupting Agents ? Cell phones have become omnipresent. Everyone use them everywhere. Specifically‚ they are very popular among students during school‚ where they should be learning and interacting with other students. The allowance of cellphones in school has been on debate during the last years. Although cell phones can be useful tools‚ schools should not opt to allow cell phones in class‚ because they can also have several negative impacts on students‚ such
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Museums are physical manifestations of history. A procurator has the difficult task of selecting which artifacts and works of art will be placed in a museum. The most important things for a procurator to keep in mind when choosing piece are the balance between the profitability of a piece and it’s educational value and by what means a piece is acquired. A museum’s purpose should not only be to make a profit. A procurator should not chose a piece because he believes it will attract customers‚ rather
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Alain Chapel(30 December 1937 – 10 July 1990) was a chef of French origin responsible for pioneering Nouvelle Cuisine alongside other chefs. Professional Life of Chef Alain Chapel Born in Lyon‚ Alain Chapel grew up with an early influence to cooking when his family moved and his father began a bistro known as La Mere Charles in a village called Mionnay‚ 12 miles beyond the city post World War II. Alain began training within the kitchen of the bistro and in a typical chef-training manner
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compositional energies. Most interestingly Lully held a monopoly on Opera in Paris until his death in 1687. Like Monteverdi‚ Lully also specified his preference of instruments in his score. Lully’s specifications were predominately strings. (140) Jean-Philippe Rameau continued composing opera in the tradition of Lully. He was hailed by many as a “savior of French opera” and criticized by others as a “hopeless pedant” (198) How their compositional styles differ is in Rameau’s active use of including the
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whereas other sociologists argue it is a natural biological stage in life that everyone goes through. Childhood being socially constructed means that it is not natural and has adapted to the surroundings depending on the background they are from. Philippe Aries (1962) argues that childhood has changed since industrialisation‚ certain views that modern society have now‚ they did not have during the medieval times. Examples of this key study would be chronological age which didn’t exactly matter before
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Camilo Garcia French II Mr. Perez September 10‚ 2012 Les Églises de Paris – Notre Dame Introduction * Paris is the capital of France. And yet‚ it is much more. It is the home of Notre Dame Cathedral * A very famous tourist attraction. * Over 13 million people visit it a year * Maurice de Sully‚ bishop of París‚ wanted to build a cathedral church dedicated to the Virgin Mary‚ Construction began in 1163 Why it was built * On 12 October 1160‚ Maurice de Sully was elected
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Do you know who set the flag on mount Suribachi on February 23‚ 1945? If not you should watch the movie‚ Flags of our fathers. The director of this movie is Clint Eastwood and our starring actors are Ryan Philippe‚ Jesse Bradford‚ Adam Beach‚ John Benjamin Hickey‚ John Slattery‚ Barry Pepper‚ Jamie Bell‚ Paul Walker Robert Patrick and Neal McDonough. This film was released on October 20‚ 2006. Flags of our Fathers should be shown in class because this historical event has many action‚ drama and has
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embrace the genre‚ and harpsichord preludes were used until the first half of the 18th century by numerous composers including Jean-Henri d’Anglebert (1629–1691)‚ Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre (1665–1729)‚ François Couperin (1668–1733) and Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683–1764)‚ whose very first printed piece (1706) was in this form. The last unmeasured preludes for harpsichord date from the 1710s. The development of the prelude in 17th century Germany led to a sectional form similar to keyboard toccatas
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