The protagonist in this movie is Paul Rusesabagina. He is the assistant manager of the 4-star Mille Collines. He has 2 children and his wife is named Tatiana. When the Hutu begin killing the Tutsis‚ the real manager of the Mille Collines fled and Paul was moved up to his position. He reluctantly allows over 1‚000 refugees to stay at the Mille Collines and protects his family at all costs. He is trusted by his neighbors and family and most of the refugees and employees at the Mille Collines. When
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The Bay of Marseille‚ Seen From L’Estaque‚ painted by Paul Cezanne‚ is a very beautiful painting due to its value scale with the complementary harmony of blue and orange. Balancing the cool and warm colors‚ we can make out that the color with the strongest chroma is blue. The value scale shifts from light to dark‚ but the painting does not go completely dark and has gets lighter in the sky with the ocean being the darkest thing in the painting. The color and the value scale of the painting helps
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“Beyond Myth and Legends: A Narrative History of Texas” is written by five university professors. There are twenty essays found within this book. These essays entitled “Myth & Legend’ are located at the end of each chapter. Storytelling is common to every culture. What are the myths and legends? Myths and legends are stories that have been told in the previous hundreds of years‚ and have been exceptionally popular on the planet for quite a while. There are debates of the stories that are told myths
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The Iroquois myth‚ “The World on the Turtle’s Back‚” is a piece that has been passed down from one generation to the next since 1800. It introduces a story of the world; good and bad‚ male and female roles‚ a great god‚ the solar system‚ growth‚ etc. This text not only challenges stereotypical views of gender roles‚ but it also introduces a different perspective on superiority. As the male population is classically seen as dominant‚ fearless‚ and powerful souls; while the female population is seen
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So what do billionaires spend their money on? Paul Allen may not be a household name. but he is one of the world’s richest and most influential men‚ with a wealth of interests and a gift for ideas. Paul Allen is the computer genius who‚ with Bill Gates‚ launched Microsoft‚ the world’s largest producer of software‚ in 1975. Since then‚ he has built up a fortune estimated at the turn of the century to be worth over $30 billion. Allen was Vice-President in charge of research and product development
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Paul Cezanne‚ Pines and Rocks‚ 1896-99 Oil on Canvas Museum of Modern Art This simple painting of a small‚ intimate landscape is a good example of Paul Cezanne’s mastery of the impressionist style. The scene is of a rocky path‚ possibly a hiking trail on the side of a mountain‚ and a few trees that veil the sky in patches of leaves. Cezanne’s method of painting is rather interesting‚ in that he paints each stroke like a plate of color‚ creating an overlapping mosaic. The palette he chose is also
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Paul Allen co-founded the Microsoft Corporation with Bill Gates (1955- ) ‚ adapting existing programming languages such as BASIC‚ which was originally written for mainframe computers‚ into software suitable for personal computers. Such innovations enabled the software industry to become established and expand as a viable business‚ strengthening the American economy and creating new groups of computer entrepreneurs and users. As personal computers became more affordable and accessible during the 1980s
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The early 20th century in France was a cultural moment which artists and aesthetic sensibilities influenced each other‚ especially in costume. The French couturier‚ Paul Poiret (1879-1944)‚ born in Paris to a cloth merchant had the good fortune of being immersed in the traditions of the French couture. As a young boy‚ Poiret was fascinated with color‚ design‚ and fabric. He experimented with scraps of fabric on a wooden mannequin during the first job for an umbrella maker. His first break came when
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Frankenstein and Male Reproduction Mary Shelley ’s character of Dr. Victor Frankenstein in Frankenstein‚ The Modern Prometheus‚ is driven to madness by his envy of women and their ability to reproduce so much so that he tries to reinvent the nature of reproduction without the female with disastrous results. Dr. Frankenstein ’s scientific experiment‚ which produces a deformed‚ human from spare body parts is a commentary on male reproduction and predicts the bioethical consequences of the modern
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Paul McCartney was born June 18‚ 1942‚ in Liverpool‚ England. His work with the Beatles in the 1960s helped lift popular music from its origins in the entertainment business and transform it into a creative‚ highly commercial art form. He is also one of the most popular solo performers of all time in terms of both sales of his recordings and attendance at his concerts. Paul McCartney began his lifelong love affair with music at an early age. Although he took formal music lessons as a boy‚ the future
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