Juan Ponce de Leon was born in 1474 and lived to 1521. He was a Spanish explorer and one of the conquerors of many lands in the New World. Very little is recorded and known about Juan Ponce de Leon’s early life. Ponce de Leon grew up in Santervás de Campos‚ a Spanish town located near the town of Placencia. He is reported to have fought in the Spanish campaign is 1492 that drove the the Moors out of Granada. After that‚ many historians agree on the fact that he then accompanied the prestigious explorer
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How my brother leon brought a wife She stepped down from the carretela of Ca Celin with a quick‚ delicate grace. She was lovely. She was tall. She looked up to my brother with a smile‚ and her forehead was on a level with his mouth. "You are Baldo‚" she said and placed her hand lightly on my shoulder. Her nails were long‚ but they were not painted. She was fragrant like a morning when papayas are in bloom. And a small dimple appeared momently high on her right cheek. "And this is Labang of whom
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Hope Traylor French 150 Professor C. Noland 06.11.09 Léon Gontran Damas and Aimé Césaire on Nègritude In their poems‚ Léon Gontran Damas and Aimé Césaire both explore and expound upon what it is to be black. These men were bedfellows in their heyday‚ and they both wrote around nègritude‚ a term referring to acceptance and celebration of blackness in spite of nationality or culture‚ that they coined alongside Léon Sédar Senghor. Damas’ poetry tends to be blunt and raw‚ yet also very profound;
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Reflection Paper on Emotions In everyday life everyone will go through a constant change of emotions. Usually changes in emotions are from a sort of conflict. It can be a drastic conflict or just a small one. How they react to those conflicts varies from person to person. That is why in this essay I will be discussing types of defenses used during a conflict and a basic conflict management process. For example‚ I remember once reading this women’s story asking for advice. What had happened was
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How far has the importance of Trotsky in creating political change in Russia in 1917 been exaggerated? We know that Leon Trotsky was crucial in creating political change in Russia in 1917. We know that in the 1917 Revolution‚ his great orating skills helped further the Bolshevik cause. This is shown in Source 76 with use of “oratorical talent‚ his organising ability‚ first with the army and then with the railways...” and this led to political change as his involvement sped up the Bolshevik take-over
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Africa (Miller). He is well known as being a sinner turned to saint‚ he became a Christian at age 33‚ a priest at 36‚ and a bishop by 41 (Miller). Enchiridion on Faith‚ Hope‚ and Love‚ also known as Augustine’s Confessions‚ The City of God‚ and On the Trinity‚ was written after 420 C.E. to Laurence as an answer to his many questions. This Laurence is unknown‚ many reference him as a deacon‚ but he was most likely just a layman. Enchiridion‚ which means “handbook”‚ was also written to give a summary about
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. Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) rediscovered and made linear perspective popular. Although the principle of the linear perspective was found first by Fillipo Brunelleschi‚ Alberti disclosed and explained it in the book On Painting. Precisely Alberi explained mathematically what proportions of the objects’ size had to be used in linear perspective. Alberti was born in Genoa in the noble family‚ studied in Padua and Bologna‚ lived in Florence and Rome. Aside of working on linear perspective‚ Alberti
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On painting Summary and Analysis The selection from Leon Battista Alberti’s On painting is mainly divided into 5 paragraphs numbered 25 through 29. Just as the title suggests‚ the text deals with the art of painting and its virtues. It talks about the benefits painting offers to the artist and why they are valuable‚ as well as showing the importance a work of art gives to the object being painted. While referring to many examples in history‚ Alberti also compares painting to the other “crafts”
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African American Literature Irene Gomez-Leon ENG/301 December 8‚ 2011 Nora H. Barber African American Literature Historic stories of African American Writings are outstandingly interesting‚ and informative. The understanding from this assignment is remarkable in comparing and contrasting different texts. The writings exposed terms‚ equilibrium and difficulties that ascended from each second fleeting over the hurting senses of the writers. All black writings observe cultural dealings in related
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CRMJ329: Criminal Profiling Gary Leon Ridgway By: Donna Jamison Born in Salt Lake City Utah in the year 1949‚ Gary Leon Ridgway was the middle child of three sons. Ridgway was raised in a chaotic and underprivileged household with a domineering mother and a father who reportedly despised prostitutes (Prothero‚ 2006). Ridgway wet the bed until his late teens. His mother reportedly bathed him until he was well into his teenage years‚ paying special attention to his genitals (Prothero‚ and Smith
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