Eleanor of Aquitaine was an outstanding woman who lived from 1122 to 1204 CE‚ contributing greatly to politics and the arts. She was a queen and duchess who influenced the faces of England and France for centuries to come. Few women of her time were able to maintain control over their personal choices‚ especially the wealthy‚ as they were often married off as teenagers. Women were a means for men to achieve greater control over more land. However‚ Eleanor of Aquitaine had power over her life and
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16. Discuss four characteristics of Romanesque art. Give examples. The Romanesque art period started from approximately 1000 AD to the rise of the Gothic style in the 13th century‚ or later‚ depending on region. The preceding period is known as the Pre-Romanesque. The term was invented by 19th century art historians‚ which retained many basic features of Roman architectural style. Mostly round-headed arches‚ as well as barrel vaults‚ apses‚ and acanthus-leaf decoration but had also developed
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Underground Railroad‚ William Still‚ was born in Burlington County‚ New Jersey on October 7‚ 1821. He was a an African-American abolitionist‚ conductor on the Underground Railroad‚ writer‚ historian and civil rights activist. His parents‚ Levin Steel and Sidney Steel‚ parents to four children when they became runaway slaves were fortunate enough to be able to escape from slavery. Unfortunately‚ the Steel family was unable to escape slavery together. Levin‚ Still’s father escaped slavery in Maryland and was
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Listening Station label in 1998. The songs that I will use for my discussion are: “You Can Depend on Me” a tune written by Charles Carpenter‚ Louis Dunlap and Earl Hines. “Mama Don’t Allow It” by Sammy Cahn and Charles Davenport. “Petite Fleur” by Sidney Bechet.
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Rene Descartes was born on March 31‚ 1596 in La Haye‚ France. His family connections lie south across the Creuse River in Poitou‚ where it was controlled by Huguenots. His father owned farms and houses in Chatellerault and Poitiers‚ and worked as a councillor in the Parlement of Brittany‚ passing on the rank of nobility to Descartes. At one-year-old‚ Descartes’s father left him in La Haye to re-marry ‚where he and his two other siblings were to be raised by his grandmother and then his great
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England used the longbow to win many battles and it did. England was the first country in the world to deploy the longbow. It was deployed in many battles and was the main reason why England defeated France. Many famous battles like Agincourt‚ Poitiers‚ and Crecy were won by an outnumbered English army which more than half of which were longbow men. It was highly effective because of its ability to pierce platemail at more than 100 yards. Also it was very effective because of the ability of the
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functioning as a third-party intervention‚ thus allowing the employees’ views to be lawfully voiced by negotiating with management. The primary approaches of collective bargaining are proposed by Beatrice and Sidney Webb (1902)‚ Flanders (1968) and Chamberlain & Kuhn (1965) [1]. Beatrice and Sidney Webb (1902) proposed the initial ‘economic’ theory. The Webbs contrasted collective bargaining to individual bargaining‚ stating that rather than individually selling their labour services‚ a “group of
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Bibliography: Works Cited "Freedom." The Oxford English Dictionary. 2nd ed. 1989. Hook‚ Sidney. The Paradoxes of Freedom. Berkeley: University of California Press‚ 1962. Malinowski‚ Bronislaw. Freedom and Civilization. Westport: Greenwood Press‚ 1944. Governmental Issues
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Structural Analysis In their essays‚ both authors Sidney Callahan and Deborah Tannen discuss strategies for a possible improvement in society’s ways of arguing. In “Fight Fierce but Fair: Practice at Home‚” (1994)‚ Callahan claims “if you learn to fight well and fairly at home‚ you can contribute to the civic struggle necessary to keep a pluralistic society moving.” With a set of guidelines and rules composed through personal experience‚ Callahan successfully uses this technique to give readers
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which was influenced by the work of labour MP Sidney Webb and that of Booth and Rowntree‚ challenged the conservative political assumption that economic markets could meet the welfare needs of all was challenged and argued that policy intervention by the state was needed to provide those forms of support and protection which the markets failed to provide. Social Policy was then recognized as an academic discipline of importance when The Webbs – Sidney Webb and his wife Beatrice Webb‚ both prominent
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