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Costa Rica El Salvador
1,660 wordsAt the time of the discovery of Central America by Christopher Columbus in 1502, highly civilized Maya and Nasa Indians inhabited the westernmost part of the isthmus. The impressive ruins of Tikal in Guatemala, Copan in Honduras, and Tazumal in El Salvador are relics of that civilization. Panama and most of Costa Rica were occupied by less civilized societies that shared cultural characteristics with the Indians of northern South America. Within 25 years of the discovery of Central America the S...
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Reason For Living Salvador Dali
1,201 wordsGenius or madman? Salvador Dali has been referred to as both throughout the course of his seventy-eight-year career. One who has seen any of his artwork will uncertainly question the sanity of Salvador Dali. Dali is best known for his surrealist works and many consider him the most brilliant Surrealist of his time. But to understand the enigma that is Salvador Dali, one must take a look back into his childhood, his family, and his inspirations. Salvador Dali was born in Figueras, Spain to father...
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Middle East Human Geography Part 1
2,115 wordsMiddle East Human Geography Focus Introduction: With the Cold War having ended, there is a real possibility that countries such as El Salvador that served as Cold War battlegrounds will again be relegated to the back burner of American political scholarship. The central argument of this report is that marginalizing El Salvador's recent political history would be a mistake because this history contains a large number of important lessons for ongoing U. S. peacemaking efforts in conflicts such as ...
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Quot Quot El Salvador
5,073 wordsCarolyn Forche? is known as a political poet, calling herself a " poet of witness" [source]. Growing up in Detroit in the 1950 s, poet Carolyn Forche? recalls discovering photographs from a Nazi concentration camp in Look Magazine. After her mother confiscated the journal and hid it, young Forche re-confiscated it, marking perhaps the beginning of a poetic vocation devoted to exposing tyranny, injustice, and bearing witness to the atrocities of the 20 th century. Born one of seven chil...
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Persistence Of Memory Salvador Dali
1,314 wordsLiving in Dreams, the Story of El Salvador Dali Dali El Salvador Dali was a painter of dreams, making them vibrantly real and true to life. Dali's art will forever be the epitome of surrealist painting. He even said himself, Le Surrealisme cest moi! (Surrealism its me! ) (Bogehold, 182). Dali's career was filled with insanities, love and most of all art. His style was new to the world. His imagination exuberant. From a small art school in Spain all the way to exhibitions all over the world, he h...
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One Of The Most Famous Lysergic Acid
1,234 wordsErgot and its disease ergotism have been a worldwide plague to humans ever since humans have started to harvest and cultivate grains in all their forms. Although outbreaks of ergotism still occur periodically they have all but become nonexistent in the modern era. Ergot has had beneficial effects as well. Ergot has produced medicines, which are vital to the medicine world. Ergot has produced in the worlds eyes an ugly stepsister to its medicines: LSD. D-lysergic acid diethyl amide known to the w...
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Academy Of Fine Arts Salvador Dali
1,155 wordsSalvadorSalvadore Dali Salvador Dali Salvador Dali was born on May 11 th, 1904, at 8: 45 AM at 20 Montreal in Figures, Spain. His Mother loved birds. You may see some of them in his paintings. Nine months before Salvador was born, his brother, Salvador died. Salvador? s parents named him after his brother. This confused Salvador. He always thought he was his brother, Salvador. But he knew he was himself. Three years later his sister, Ana was born. He always wanted to get attention. Once he kicke...
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World War Ii Persistence Of Memory
2,484 wordsIn 1924 a French poet and critic Andre Breton published The Surrealist Manifesto, which lead as a starter to the surrealist movement. Nicolas Pioch, a famous art historian, maintains that the surrealist movement represented a reaction against what its members saw as the destruction wrought by the rationalism that had guided European culture and politics in the past and that had culminated in the horrors of World War I. Surrealism was a means of reuniting conscious and unconscious realms of exper...
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