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    Leonardo da Vinci‚ Virgin and Child with St. Anne‚ 1510‚ oil on panel This piece‚ painted in about 1510‚ was rumoured to have been commissioned by Louis XII to celebrate his daughter’s birth in 1499 but by the time da Vinci had finished the piece and was satisfied with it‚ it was too late. Two women and a small infant child dominate the frame and are all seated in a very idealistic outdoor‚ natural setting. St Anne is seated centrally‚ her body covered by the Virgin Mary who sits on her

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    IS THE LEGEND OF JUAN DIEGO AND THE VIRGIN MARY TRUE? The legend of the supposed sighting of the Virgin Mary by Juan Diego‚ from Britannica Biographies‚ starts of that his first vision of The Virgin Mary was on December 9‚ 1531. When he was visited‚ he was on Tepeyac Hill‚ which lies outside of Mexico City. In Náhuatl‚ the native language of Aztecs‚ asking him to build a shrine on the hill. Juan went to tell the Bishop about the incident but the Bishop did not believe his story and wanted proof

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    end of Problema I‚ Kierkegaard discusses the Virgin Mary to compare the greatness of Abraham to that of Mary‚ and to further emphasize the distinction between tragic hero and knight of faith. He writes‚ “for she was no heroine and he no hero‚ but both of them became greater than that‚ not by any means by being relieved of the distress‚ the agony‚ and the paradox‚ but because of these (Kierkegaard 94).” Mary‚ like Abraham‚ is tested by God through her virgin birth. The indignity put upon Mary resembles

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    to mind: Was Nixon trying to hide anything? Where there any evidence that Nixon had committed a crime? What proof did the detectives have? Did Nixon’s plan end up failing? Richard Milhous Nixon was born in 1913 in Yorba Linda‚ California‚ the second of five sons of Francis Anthony Nixon and Hannah Milhous Nixon (Nixon). Richard Nixon went to a public school in Whittier‚ California. After graduating he went to Whittier College‚ a Quaker institution‚ where he majored in history (Bowmen). Whittier was

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    Virgin and Child Scuplture After several visits to the information desk and walking through about two dozen different galleries‚ I finally found the sculpture of Virgin and Child. She stands on a pedestal totaling approximately 6 feet tall‚ but the sculpture alone is only about half the height. There is a placard on the pedestal citing historical information. The sculpture is French Gothic and is made from marble. She was sculpted somewhere between the years 1325 and 1350. It is also noted

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    Major Richard Winters was the most respected and likeable of men in Easy Company. He wanted to gain the respect of all soldiers within their company. Winters was known as a man who couldn’t cuss and would apologize afterwards. He had all the decency in the world. He had a military mind without the derogatory of it all. People looked up to that‚ though it was seen as weak minded at first. Everyone within the company would respect Winters at the end of all training. Winters had taken action and leadership

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    survey of the Virgin Group’s sustainability report that summarize the Virgin companies’ sustainability strategy‚ evaluating the sustainability report based on the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) principle‚ to comment performance indicators and making recommendations‚ which can improve the sustainability report. Virgin Group’s Corporate responsibility and sustainable development report 2010 emphasizes the range of corporate responsibility and sustainability issues the Virgin companies face operating

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    Indentured Servitude Richard Frethorne‚ an indentured servant‚ wrote a letter to his parents dated March 20-April 3‚ 1623 in which he describes his experience as an indentured servant. Richard Frethorne was a young Englishman who like many other poor 17th century Englishmen were struggling to make ends meet back in England. Frethorne embarked on his journey to the America’s as an indentured servant in order to find a better life. Merchants in England took advantage of these poor people and recruited

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    scenes of both. (50/50) Due: Thursday 16th Shakespeare’s play King Richard III and Al Pacino’s documentary Looking for Richard are two text composed more than 400 years apart that can be linked through their themes and techniques. The influence of these themes or values however‚ is subject to the context of the audience. Both texts explore the characterisation of the main character Richard and how he is presented. They explore the craft of performance‚ presenting two different

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    Shakespeare’s Richard III‚ Richard ingeniously portrays himself as a transparent man through creative wordplay and deceitful actions. As such he is able to effortlessly manipulate Hastings into initiating his own death. Throughout the passage‚ Hastings continuously misreads Richards’s true character and as a result‚ foolishly ignores the many warnings given to him. He was ignorant to the fact that he is but another stepping stone towards Richards’s journey to the crown. Hastings believes Richard to be an

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