are lofty‚ flowery‚ and even exaggerated. Courtly love - the medieval tradition of love between a knight and a noble woman‚ characterized by chivalry‚ flowery praise‚ and a lack of any real contact/consummation Petrarch Born Francesco Petracco in Tuscany (Italy) in 1304. He grew up in a fairly wealthy family and was forced by his parents to study law‚ though his real interests were poetry and Latin literature. He was a prolific writer‚ traveler‚ and translator/discover-er of ancient Roman and Greek
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Tricky words words in BOLD: beginner/intermediate level words in standard script: you need to learn them now (academic level) words in GREY: learn them if you are going to use them (specific purposes – medicine‚ chemistry‚ technology‚ Old English‚ etc.) rd rd Abbreviations: n – noun‚ pn – proper noun‚ v – verb‚ adj – adjective‚ adv – adverb‚ sing – singular noun‚ pl – plural noun‚ 3 – verb‚ Present Simple‚ 3 person singular A abbreviation abdomen abjure above abroad absurd abyss academia academic
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OTHER RELATED TEXTS Advertising Campaigns Olympic ads – Telstra‚ McDonalds QANTAS ads RTA – No-one thinks big of you Documentary Films Bra Boys (2007) Sunny Abberton Forbidden Lies (2007) Anna Broinowski Growing up and going home (2007) Belinda Mason http://www.filmaust.com.au/guagh/default.asp?content=growingup Spellbound (2002 Not only a documentary about the US National spelling bee‚ but a glimpse into the enormous pressure first-generation immigrant families place
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Key Facts full title · Frankenstein: or‚ The Modern Prometheus author · Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley type of work · Novel genre · Gothic science fiction language · English time and place written · Switzerland‚ 1816‚ and London‚ 1816–1817 date of first publication · January 1‚ 1818 publisher · Lackington‚ Hughes‚ Harding‚ Mavor‚ & Jones narrator · The primary narrator is Robert Walton‚ who‚ in his letters‚ quotes Victor Frankenstein’s first-person narrative at length; Victor‚ in turn
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The role of sport fan community in value co-creation1 Patrizia Zagnoli (zagnoli@unifi.it) Elena Radicchi (e.radicchi@unifi.it) Sport Management Laboratory‚ University of Florence‚ Italy Introduction The new complexity of the sport sector has a strong impact on the implementation of sport products that nowadays are an expression of manifold subjects. Planning‚ production‚ distribution and communication of sport contents involve numerous actors who participate in the implementation of sport with
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Magnitogorsk Technical State University Foreign Languages Department № 2 Report: «The History of Accounting» Done: Izhevsky V. Checked: Gamper E.E. Magnitogorsk 2011 Contents - Introduction -- 1. What Is Accounting -- 2. History --- 2.1. Ancient Accounting --- 2.2. Accounting In Mesopotamia --- 2.3. Accounting In Ancient Egypt‚ China‚ Greece and Rome --- 2.4. Medieval Accounting --- 2.5. Italian Renaissance: Birth of Double Entry Bookkeeping ---- 2.5.1. Luca Pacioli Biography
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The English Renaissance was a cultural and artistic movement in England dating from the early 16th century to the early 17th century. It is associated with the pan-European Renaissance that many cultural historians believe originated in Tuscany in the 14th century. This era in English cultural history is sometimes referred to as "the age of Shakespeare" or "the Elizabethan era"‚ the first period in English and British history to be named after a reigning monarch. "Renaissance" literally means
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9/19/12 Farming and Emergence of Complex Societies * Farming and complex societies are the result of change * One of major changes is reflected in this frieze on a wall in Mesopotamia -reflects domestication of animals and plants – was a monumental change – resulted in a new way of living we know as farming – included pastoralism * Development of farming communities – a major change – started to be accompanied by a wall structure * Between about 12‚000 and 1‚000 BCE – Appeared independently
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nationalism The Vienna Settlement • 1814-15 – Austria and Prussian rivalry prevented unity • Metternich described as peaceful ‘dualism‚’ • Austria gained territory in Italy • Habsburg rulers in central Italian duchies (Parma‚ Modena‚ Tuscany) • Prussia gained Saxony‚ Rhineland‚ Westphalia‚ Pomerania • Rhineland Catholic‚ supported French‚ Prussia
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DIVINE COMEDY INFERNO Inferno section 1: Dante’s journey through Hell (Inferno)‚ Purgatory (Purgatorio)‚ and Heaven (Paradiso) takes place in 1300‚ at the midpoint of his life. Dante sets himself as the narrator and main character of this epic poem. His flight through Hell begins in a dark and unknown forest. As Dante wanders through the woods he comes to a hill above which shines the first sunlight that he has encountered in the forest. But as Dante begins to climb the hill a leopard blocks
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