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Nude Paintings of Peter Paul Rubens

so intricately painted with many hues, becomes iridescent, as if vibrating at so high a frequency it is crossing the bounds into s...

Peter Paul Rubens' Nudes Paintings

(Hombros Que se inclinan, 2003). Otro autor indica de que los?Rubens hacen a su var?n y las figuras encarnaciones virtuales de ...

Freedom and Culture

so evident in official circles before. Individuals adopted rules and standards of behavior designed to serve "appearances." Youn...

Augusto Pinochet III

the legislature and the judicial system as well as the government (Bindman, 1989). When general Pinochet entered England in Octob...

US and the Significance of Being Able to Speak Spanish

right. There is in fact a heated debate between those who think that the United States is losing its culture by becoming bilingual...

Pedringano in The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd

Marshal of Spain. Lorenzo and Horatio captured Balthazar, the son of the Viceroy of Portugal, during battle. The King of Spain has...

U.S. and Having as its Official Language Spanish

as an official language than in taking on English as an official language. Interestingly enough, "One of six official languages...

Impact of Islam on the Pre Crusades Christian Islam

conception of the medieval period is that the Catholic Church was a lone beacon of light, preserving ancient knowledge until such ...

Analyzing An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen

In all honesty, Dr. Stockmann fails to think outside his scientific reasoning. He is, in a sense, blind to those who do not believ...

Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote and Social Criticism

this political cruelty that is shown nearly crushing his characters in every novel has the danger of becoming common place, and th...

Tiempo de Silencio by Luis Martin Santos and La Colmena by Camilo J. Cela

discover hidden truth in the world, he can aim to create his own different world in whatever terms he wishes through the medium of...

Comparison of Juan Cortes de Tolosa's El Lazarillo de Manzanares and Miguel de Cervantes' El Lazarillo de Tormes

cultivated veneer that the monarchy and the church did not want the general public to see. These works, which also incorporated f...

Warfare of Early America and Technology

suited to fast action and hand-to-hand combat. The jineta saddle has short stirrups that cause the rider to bend his knees, allow...

Latin America and Marriage Ceremonial Changes Before and After the Catholic Church Introduction

the wives would remain with their own family. After the Church organized the marriage, couples were encouraged to set up their own...

Holy Roman Emperor Charles V

the Holy Roman Emperor from 1519-1558. He was born to King Philip I of Castile in February 1500 and although he was born in Ghent,...

Spanish Conquest and The Sword and the Cross

that chief Montezuma welcomed them with open arms, welcomed them as gods. Cortes accepted the accolades, the gold, the fine clothe...

Julio Cortazar's Deshoras

back to the past, as the young man obsesses over his mother and his search for identity. And, "Although the narrator begins by den...

The Artistry of Antonio Gaudi

fantastic and organic readily applied to this particular structure, one can clearly understand why Gaudis avant-garde style earned...

Theodore Roosevelt's Early Life and the Rough Riders

area in 1649 (The Archives: Theodore Roosevelt, 2002). His mother, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, was a Georgia native who supported th...

Marquez's No One Writes the Colonel

His wife does not seem to be well and is anxious all the time about what is to become of them. Obstinately refusing to believe tha...

Spanish Connection Between George Orwell and Ernest Hemingway

much of his writings, including The Sun Also Rises and For Whom the Bell Tolls. Orwell, a self-described socialist, was al...

Early West and Settlers from Mexico and Spain

Perhaps the most eye-opening and interesting aspects of the history of the western states, California in particular, is the fact t...

PE and the Effects of the Renaissance

the way people understood the workings of their bodies and the ways in which science was able to respond to issues such as illness...

Holland, Surrounding Countries, and Seventeenth Century Art

land and the pastimes of the Dutch people who were an increasingly prosperous merchant middle class" (Anonymous Dutch Baroque Peri...

TPR Storytelling

which infants learn their first language - through silence, listening and learning to decode the sounds before they speak. TPR is...

Artistic Styles of Spanish Baroque and Flemish

archetypes of the former age. The attention to the spiritual nature of mankind is evident throughout the arts during this time per...

U.S. Foreign Policy and Its Domestic Impact

rallying cry (Drew and Snow, 1990). For example, "Remember the Maine" served this purpose during the Spanish American War. The sec...

Spanish Conquest and Sugar Cane

was shaped by the vagaries of the international sugar market. Spains ultimate goal in the Spanish Conquest, of course, wa...

August 2003 Daniel Bolshoy and Julie Nesrallah Concert Report

in guitar at the Indiana University School of Music where he has developed a course on the history of the guitar (DB&JN). Bolshoy ...

The History of Cuba's Fight for Independence

Cubas position in the Caribbean has made it attractive to non-natives for centuries. The Spanish gave it extra attention in the 1...