Giovanni Da Verrazano Nusrat begum SOCIAL STUDIES 711 Giovanni Da Verrazano was one of the many European explorers that explored The New World‚ he explored northern eastern part of the present day U.S which are North Carolina‚ New York‚ Maine‚ Canada. Verrazano was also an Italian navigator who boarded voyages along with He was a Florentine explorer that served for King Francis I of France. Giovanni da Verrazano Giovanni travelled the seas as a pirate‚ or Privateer sailing for King Francis
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Greek texts that constituted the mainstream of the Italian Renaissance. Petrarch ‚ a key figure in the Renaissance literature is best remembered for the Canzoniere‚ a collection of love sonnets written in vernacular Italian. Petrarch’s friend‚ Giovanni Boccaccio‚ was a pre-eminent writer whose fiction‚The Decameron is regarded as one of the earliest works of prose writing in Italian. Boccaccio was the master of the spoken language and of the swift‚ vivid‚ narrative style which is free from the
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The Plague is a disease caused by the bacteria Yersinia pestis. It is responsible for killing millions of people in the Middle Ages. However‚ today we have a cure for it. The author Giovanni Boccacio wrote The Decameron to report‚ warn‚ and record the disease. He wanted people to be aware of what happened. The disease spread from place to place‚ animal to human‚ human to human. The people around it were aware that it was spreading and understood that is was “contagious”. As a result‚ they got rid
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Inspiration Over the past 30 years‚ Nikki Giovanni has brought the eyes of the world on her as a poet‚ writer‚ activist‚ and professor. (Project) Being one of the most widely read poets she takes pride in her culture and background as a black American. She was born June 7‚ 1943 in Knoxville Tennessee. While she was still young‚ she and her family moved to an all-black suburb in Cincinnati‚ Ohio where she was raised. She had an upbeat family life‚ and the strong-minded Giovanni was particular close to her
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Rustico and Alibech by Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio The exact details of his birth are uncertain. A number of sources state that he was born in Paris‚ but others denounce this as romanticism by the earliest biographers. In this case his birthplace was possibly in Tuscany‚ perhaps in Certaldo‚ the town of his father. He was the son of a Florentine merchant and an unknown woman‚ and almost certainly born illegitimate. Boccaccio grew up in Florence. His father was working for the Compagnia
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A striking departure from the thematic regularity of most operas of his time‚ Mozart’s Don Giovanni‚ presented Europe with a brash new outlook of nobility. The opera’s plot‚ based around the licentious actions of Spanish aristocrat Don Giovanni‚ begins with Giovanni’s rape of Donna Anna‚ the future bride of Don Ottavio‚ and subsequent murder of her father. From the commencement‚ it is apparent that Giovanni follows his own set of perverted morals unlike those common to society. His servant Leperello
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Don Giovanni: The Characters and Their Music Giving Character’s character is one of the most interesting challenges in operatic composition; another is composing for all the specific characters. A composer has to distinguish between characters through his music. Jan can’t sound like Fran‚ and Dan can’t sound like Stan. Each character must have his/her own traits. Mozart’s opera‚ Don Giovanni‚ provides us with many different characters to compare and contrast. One scene in particular lends itself
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today‚ like Giovanni Bellini. Giovanni Bellini is a very well known artist for making many beautiful pieces of art. Most of his art was religious and included many famous holy characters like Jesus and The Virgin Mary. He has a wide background connecting to artists‚ he was born into a family of great artists and painters. This made him strive to be one like his other close family members. Not many people knew much about his artistic abilities until his very first pieces of art. Giovanni Bellini’s
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How power is the Black women? In Nikki Giovanni’s “Ego Tripping” she examines multi-facets of the Black empowerment. The poem was published in the 70’s during the Black Power movement. During this time period the Black communities were focused on the uplifting and cultivation of Black culture. The Black Panther Party played an essential role in the development for civil liberties for Blacks. The theme of this poem is Black empowerment which is the building and uplifting of the Black community. One
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Umer Rehman Professor : Boisson English:200 Adulthood Nikki Giovanni wrote many peoms ‚ basically between the time of 1960s and 1970s. At the time of depression. Adulthood is one of the peoms written in the same time as well. Adulthood is a short story about a girl and which shows her childhood and gradually coming into adulthood. In this peom the Narrator tells us at many places about the economic status of the little girl in different ways. In the beginning "when i was a little girl in
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