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- 2721: Dolce And Gabbana
- ... sewing and I loved it. I was making miniature clothes as samples." He began studying science at a university but quickly grew bored of the monotony of the subject and dropped out to attend art school. After graduation from the art school Dolce left his native city and traveled to Milan seeking fame and fortune. Stefano Gabbana was born in Venice, Italy on November 14, 1962. Gabbana always had an admiration of clothing, but never fantasized becoming ...
- 2722: Psychological Perspectives
- ... ethnicity groups, and social statuses have many different imaginary guidelines by which they follow, decisions are made based on these different aspects. For example a young child from a minority background may not feel that school is with worth while, one because they do not have any of their own people to observe that choose to do well in school. Or two they may feel that because they are labeled " minority " the fact of ever becoming anything more than that may be unrealistic. There is also the fact many of these children may not see ...
- 2723: Battle of the Bytes: Macintosh vs. Windows 95
- ... make very long file names on Windows 95 instead of short and strange names that leave you wondering about, such as on Windows 3.x I could not name a folder This is stuff for school it must be a lot shorter. The Help system helps you implement its suggestions. A multilevel Undo command for all file operations safeguards your work, something Macintosh does not have. Something that Windows 95 has ... a long time, if ever, that they will decide to make it for a Mac. Plus since of the many people with IBM PC's at home, people can bring their work to and from school. If everyone had the same kind of computer on a network, students could go into the computers at schools all over the world to use programs there. So since now that the quality of computers ...
- 2724: Canterbury Tales - A View Of T
- ... fine foods, and owning several horses. Monks renounced all their worldly belongings and by taking vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, joined a community of monks. Their lives were spent in communal worship, devotional reading, prayer and manual labour all under the authority of the abbot of the monastic house. Particular monks often had particular jobs- the cellarer or the infirmarer for example, and these like every aspect of monastic life ... fortunes of the people in any area were bound up with the spirituality of its monastic house. The monks were on the front line of the spiritual battle-it was they who did battle in prayer for their community, who warded off devils and demons and who prayed tirelessly for the salvation of the souls of those in their community. Rather than being the cowards of Christianity unable to take the ...
- 2725: Beloved By Toni Morrison
- ... that her show of mercy is also murder. Throughout Beloved, Sethe's character consistently displays the duplistic nature of her actions. Not long after Sethe's reunion with Paul D. she describes her reaction to School Teacher's arrival: "Oh, no. I wasn't going back there[Sweet Home]. I went to jail instead"~(Morrison 42) Sethe's words suggest that she has made a moral stand by her refusal to ... saying is that's a selfish pleasure I never had before. I couldn't let all that go back to where it was, and I couldn't let her or any of em live under School Teacher. That was out"~(163) Sethe's love for her children is apparent, yet she still shifts the burden of responsibility away from herself. She acknowledges that it was a "selfish pleasure" to make something ...
- 2726: A History Of The Beatles
- ... date back to Liverpool, England in the late 1950s. Inspired by the growing skiffle craze, John Lennon bought a guitar in March 1957 and formed a skiffle group called the Quarrymen, named after his high school, Quarry Bank. The lineup changed frequently, but by October 1959 it consisted of Lennon, his younger classmate Paul McCartney, George Harrison and drummer Colin Hanton. By March of 1960, Lennon's art school classmate Stuart Sutcliffe joined the band on bass and suggested the name the Beetles, a play on Buddy Holly's group the Crickets. By that summer they were the Silver Beatles, settling on the Beatles ...
- 2727: Charles Darwin
- ... on modern thought in general. Charles Robert Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England on February 12, 1809. He was the fifth child of Robert Warning Darwin. After Char-les had graduated from the elite school at Shrewsbury in 1825, young Darwin went to the University of Edinburg to study medicine. In 1827 he had dropped out of medical school and attended University of Cambridge to prepare to become a cler-gyman of the Church of England. There he met two stellar figures, Adam Sedg-wick, a geologist, and John Stevens Henslow, a naturalist. Henslow ...
- 2728: Alice Walkers Everyday Use: Family Characters
- ... working hands" (72), and Maggie is the daughter who helps Mama in the yard and around the house. Neither Mama nor Maggie are educated," I never had an education myself. After the second grade the school was closed. Maggie reads to me. She stumbles along good-naturedly " (73). However by helping her mother she uses the hand made items in her life, experiences the life of her ancestors, and learns the ... Maggie who is shy and scared, Dee is confident, " determined to stare down any disaster in her efforts" (73) she is beautiful and dresses eloquently. Also she has a higher education having being sent " to school in Augusta " (73). She attempts to connect with her heritage by taking pictures of the house with the family in the picture. She also takes some of the handmade items of her mothers such ...
- 2729: Examination Of Music History
- ... time. When the third and fourth parts were added, the music became truly polyphonic. Sometime after the mid-twelfth century, a new Notre Dame Cathedral was being built in Paris, and with it grew a school of composers. Two names have been preserved from that school- Leonin and Perotin. They stretched the organum to unheard-of lengths and embellished it with flourishes of long melismas, or many notes sung to one syllable. New rhythmic patterns developed, as did repetitions of motifs ...
- 2730: Looking For Alibrandi
- ... learned about sexual activity and relationships. Probably the most important discovery Josephine Alibrandi makes in the novel is about her own multiculturalism. On page 234 she describes the confusion she felt when kids in primary school used to ask her what her nationality was. If she said she was an Italian they would tell her she was an Australian because of where she was born and if she said she was ... Australian than anything". This comment is very similar to what Josephine says about being Australian with Italian blood flowing through her veins. 4. Oral Presentation by Mrs V. - non-literary, visual. Presented at Ukarumpa International School, May, 1999. Mrs. V came to speak to our class. She is an American who had Sicilian grandparents. In her presentation Mrs V described much of her life. Her life was very similar to that ...
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