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    Madonna Louise Ciccone was born in Bay City‚ Michigan‚ on August 16‚ 1958. Her father‚ Silvio Anthony Ciccone‚ is a first-generation Italian American (with roots in Pacentro‚ Italy)‚ while her mother‚ Madonna Louise (née Fortin)‚ was of French Canadian descent.[2] Her father later worked as a design engineer for Chrysler and General Motors. As Madonna had the same name as her mother‚ family members called her "Little Nonni".[3] The third of six children from her father’s first marriage‚ her full-blood

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    intentions. Attributes such as religious authority were portrayed within the skilled‚ meticulous manner in which many paintings and sculptures were produced. A sculpture‚ entitled Virgin and Child‚ created by a follower the Master of the Dangolsheimer Madonna‚ exemplifies the popularity of religiously based artwork of the time‚ particularly of the Virgin Mary and the child Christ‚ as well as the shared techniques of the Northern Renaissance. Although much of the art created within the Northern Renaissance

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    Regent Park Olivia Falcone University of Waterloo October 30th‚ 2013 Summary There are many social housing projects in Canada. The first ever to exist is Regent Park‚ which was established in the 1950s in Downtown Toronto. Unfortunately‚ Regent Park was unwell planned. It was a valuable real estate that incorporated the Garden City design concept as well as the concept of Towers in the Park. The social housing community was off the grid‚ inward facing and with time‚ Regent Park was deteriorated.

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    Holden Caulfield‚ the main character in The Catcher in the Rye‚ suffers from a Madonna/whore complex‚ meaning he can only see women in two ways; as perfect and innocent or as dirty whores‚ without any ground in between. According to psychiatrists‚ this disorder may be caused by an excessive bond between one’s mother as a child‚ or conversely a lack of a bond‚ resulting in looking towards the one you love as a motherly figure‚ while nobody else can meet those standards. (Speyer) Holden’s experiences

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    Gosford Park Summary The movie Gosford Park is a story that takes place in an old rich English country house in the 1930’s. Sir William McCordle and his wife Lady Sylvia is a pair of wealthy British socialites. They have their big house‚ a complete staff‚ a butler and everything that an upper class English family would have. One weekend they invite their friends and family up for a weekend shooting party. All the guests are also wealthy and some even bring their own maids. Among the guests

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    By: Brooke McClain Mcclain 1 The Summary Rosa Parks‚ born in Tuskegee‚ Alabama on February 4‚ 1913 in was raised in an era during which segregation was normal and black suppression was a way of life. She lived with relatives in Montgomery‚ where she finished high school in 1933 and continued her education at Alabama State College. She married her husband‚ Raymond Parks‚ a barber‚ in 1932. She worked as a clerk‚ an insurance salesperson‚ and a tailor ’s assistant at a department store. She was

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    Central Park is one of Winnipeg‚ Manitoba’s oldest urban parks which was developed in 1893 after the City of Winnipeg acquired it from The Hudson Bay Company for $10‚000 cash and $10‚000 debentures. Prominent residents developed ornate homes‚ as seen in Figure 1‚ apartments and cottages around the 3.5 acre irregularly shaped park which is located on Qu’Appelle Avenue between Edmonton Street and Carlton Street. As the City began to develop parks and greenspaces they created a Public Parks Board to

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    movie Jurassic Park was created in 1993. The director steven spielberg pulled from extinction the greatest creatures ever known. (the making of jurassic park‚1:39.) Jurassic Park was also known to be one of the most expensive movies ever made in its time( 5 fun jurassic park facts‚1). It was considered one of the best graphical dinosaur films and still is today. Although Jurassic Park is one of the biggest known dinosaur movies of all time it follows up with 3 more jurassic park movies. But

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    In the “Rosa Parks Wouldn’t Budge”‚ there are common approaches that lead readers to find out the main reason why the Montgomery‚ Alabama bus boycott took place. As an individual you learn to realize how many people actual struggled to become the true founders of this historical moment. You apprehend why several of people were eager to help sought out the social discrimination disputes against colored people and the whites. THEME: The uphill of the Montgomery Bus Boycott was well flourished by Janet

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    Madonna in a Church is a small oil panel on oak by Flemish painter Jan van Eyck. Madonna in a church was made between c. 1438-1440. Van Eyck has been traditionally credited with the invention of painting in oils‚ and‚ although this is incorrect‚ there is no doubt that he was the real master of the technique. The use of oil paints is very significant in this artworkʼs luminescent quality and presentation of space. The artist creates a new relationship between the viewer and the picture. There is an

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