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Bacillus Yersinia Pestis Spread The Disease Death
549 wordsDuring the fourteenth century a horrible plague spread across Asia, Europe, and Great Britain. This plague is referred to as the black death. Many people are not quite sure why the disease was given the name. The most popular reason why it might be called the black death is because it left purplish, blackish blotches on the bodies of the sick. But if the name of the epidemic had been derived primarily from the appearance of its victims, one would have expected it to have been used at the time. O...
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367 wordsRenaissance was more than just a time period, it was a state of mind. No longer did the world think in turns of conquering, power, and the catholic church. It was a time of change politically, socially, economically, and culturally. The arts were explored, and the minds of many were expanded. The boundaries of mankind have been stretched and it was for the good. The ways of Middle Ages were replaced. The medieval scholars debated the nature of life after death. Renaissance thinkers wanted to kno...
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Three Or Four Fifteenth Century
358 wordsThe strongest composers of the fifteenth century were primarily located in the north. So the best musicians tended to come from countries like France, England, and Germany. Since Florence was an "international headquarters" it had strong commercial links with the north. This made it very easy to trade ideas and because of this a new musical expression made its way to Italy. The frottola was a popular form of music that was primarily developed in Florence. It was a setting of an entertaining or s...
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Battle Of Anghiari Mona Lisa
1,186 words... ten Milan in 1440. His painting showed "a cavalry battle, with tense soldiers, leaping horses and clouds of dust. " In the Battle of Anghiari Leonardo once again rejected the traditional Fresco technique and he used his own creation called encaustic, this did not work either. Leonardo left the work unfinished before leaving for a trip. The paint began to run and he never finished the project. This painting no longer exists but we see what it looked like by cartoons of it that Leonardo had ma...
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Harriet Tubman Florence Nightingale
1,359 words... York Infirmary for Women and Children. With the help of her sister Emily Blackwell, (also a physician, and Dr. Marie Zakrzewska) In 1868 Blackwell opened the Women's Medical College of the New York. In 1869, she helped establish the National Health Society in England. In 1875 she became a professor at the hospital of the London School of Medicine for Women. She was also a part of the anti-slavery society and a member of the Semi-Colon club. She opened the doors for future women who wanted to...
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420 wordsThe Italian painter, sculptor and architect Michaelangelo was brought to Florence right after birth and grew up in the care of a stonecutter's wife. With 13 he became an apprentice to the Ghirlandajor and later was taken into the Medici household. In 1501, he returned to Florence from Rome and received a lot of recognition. During this time he completed "David", a monumental, classicizing, heroic nude in which the body's magnificent structure of bone and muscle is combined with alert, resolute e...
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Interaction With Other People Characters In No Exit Underground
1,460 wordsIn both Notes From the Underground, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and the play No Exit, by Jean-Paul Sartre, we see that the characters have lost that state of comfort with or acceptance of one's self that is apparent only before interaction with other people. The self-doubt that comes from interactions with others has diminished their dignity, and they see themselves as, or are mainly concerned with, what view they want or think others to have of them. They are ultimately uncomfortable with their live...
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Courses Of Action Pope Julius
2,105 wordsNiccol Machiavelli, born in 1469, wrote The Prince during 1513 while living in political exile at his country house outside of Florence. He had served as head of the second chancery of the Florentine republic, but was dismissed after it fell in 1512. The Medici family was again ruling Florence, and a Medici also sat on the papal throne in Rome. Machiavelli tried unsuccessfully to use this treatise to gain an advisory appointment either to the papacy or the court of the Duke. The Prince was publi...
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Golden Carp Early Years
774 wordsAfter reading the book, Bless Me Ultima, I realized the integral importance of religion and need for religion and answers to lifes questions. At first, while reading this book, I thought it was just about relationships and the meaning in them but as the plot progressed I realized the book, is more than that, it questions the structures that decide the rules, morals and values that society is composed of. There were three types of religion that I identified in the book that young Anthony chose to...
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Church Of Saint Pope Gregory
1,621 wordsSaint Catherine, originally named Caterina Benincasa, was born in Siena, a city in west-central Italy south of Florence. She was born on March 25, 1347, the feast of the Annunciation. She had a twin sister who did not live long after her birth. Catherine was the youngest of twenty-five children. Her father, Giacomo Benincasa, was a wealthy dyer. He lived with his wife La, the daughter of a then famous poet, in a spacious house which is still standing today. Catherine is described as having been ...
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Made London Paris
546 wordsEurope was by far one of the best experiences in my life. I felt as we traveled around the 3 Countries everyone had so much to offer. The scenery and way of life was such a contrast to Canada it made it that much more interesting. When we first landed in London my feelings were stirring up inside me filled with excitement and joy. As we drove to the Hotel we saw allot of London from the bus window. The streets, cars, buildings all were so unique and contrasted greatly with ours back home. I was ...
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Twenty Years First Meeting
1,216 wordsI. Plot 1. Setting: Midway of the Ponte Vecchio at Florence, where three arches break the line of the little jewelers booths flittering on either hand, and open an approach to the parapet, Colville lounged against the corner of a shop and stared out upon the river. It was the late afternoon of a day in January, which had begun bright and warm, but had suffered a change of mood as its hours passed, and now from a sky dimmed with flying gray clouds was threatening rain. There must already have bee...
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Political Science States Goals Prince
741 wordsThe Prince, written in 1513 by Niccolo Machiavelli is regarded as one of the most crucial yet controversial works in the field of political science. It holds Machiavelli's observations and reflections on Italian political history. It was written in response to the decay of the Italian states system. This book was designed specifically to captivate and transform its readers to analyze and adopt Machiavelli's perspective as it was initially written and dedicated to Lorenzo De Medici, the ruler of ...
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Seven Deadly Sins Divine Comedy
1,442 wordsDante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy, Purgatory Dantes The Divine Comedy section of Purgatory is a depiction of Dante and his struggle to reach paradise. He is a character as well as a narrator. The purgatory section deals with the seven deadly sins and Dantes task of cleansing himself on his journey to heaven. He confronts many different people on his journey to self-righteousness, which help and guide him to his destiny. Accompanied by Virgil or reason as he is depicted, his quest is a hard jou...
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Leonardo Da Vinci Mona Lisa
563 wordsI chose Leonardo Da Vinci as the greatest renaissance personality. I chose Da Vinci because he made many contributions to the time period. Da Vinci was an artist, a scientist, and a philosopher. A lot of the famous artists and thinkers of the time weren? t recognized as being great for many years after their death. The kings and other important people of the time recognized Da Vinci as a great artist. This is why I chose Da Vinci as the greatest renaissance personality. Leonardo Da Vinci was bor...
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227 wordsOther than the well-known artists Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titan, Leonardo Da Vinci was probably the most famous and influential Florentine artist of the High Renaissance period. Not only did Leonardo Da Vinci create magnificent paintings and sculptures still celebrated today as astonishing and masterful works of art, but he also produced noteworthy innovations in the fields of architecture, engineering, and science. Several of his paintings and sketches deriving from his scientific studies-pa...
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Century B C Ancient Times
1,120 wordsCHAPTER I Life Governed by Religion 1. INTRODUCTION BETWEEN Florence and Rome lies the inviting land of Tuscany. This was in ancient times the home of a civilized people who possessed the art of enjoying life to the full yet at the same time were perpetually conscious of fate, death and change, and showed a strangely submissive attitude towards the powers of the underworld. The Romans called the people who created and maintained this civilization Tuscan and Etruscan, but the Greeks knew them as ...
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World War Ii Bombing Of Dresden
985 wordsExplore the use of " So it goes. " Is it to be viewed as resignation to the horrors of death? Is it Billy's response? Vonnegut's? Yours? ? So it goes? is Billy Pilgrim? s theory regarding death. He is simply saying that death is no big deal. Since he saw so much death in World War II, and witnessed a bombing two times as worse as Hiroshima, he deals with death much differently than others. Because of everything he has gone through, Billy has become numb to death. It has become a regula...
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372 wordsRenaissance wasRennasance Overview Renaissance Renaissance was more than just a time period, it was a state of mind. No longer did the world think in turns of conquering, power, and the catholic church. It was a time of change politically, socially, economically, and culturally. The arts were explored, and the minds of many were expanded. The boundaries of mankind have been stretched and it was for the good. The ways of Middle Ages were replaced. The medieval scholars debated the nature of life ...
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Organised Crime Civil Society
1,046 wordsObserver Review: Italy And Its Discontents By Observer Review: Italy And Its Discontents By Paul Ginsborg Mob rule and dirty money The events of 1992 - 93 lie at the heart of Paul Ginsborg's new history of Italy in the past two decades. And the legacy of those tumultuous years is still the central theme in the peninsulas politics today. Silvio Berlusconi, landslide victor in last Mays elections, is busily trying to sell his version of recent history to Italian, and European, public opinion. Wher...
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