Essays on Franco

Introduction

Homage to Catalonia is a book authored by George Orwell. The author details his memoirs of the author during the Spanish civil war. The book details the first hand information of the civil war. Orwell did not arrive in Catalonia until late in 1936. Orwell spend tome fighting Franco during the winter of 1936. He made his way to the Catalan capital in 1937 before the commencement of street fighting. His return to the battlefront was interrupted by the injury from a bullet fired by a sniper. The Marxist Party for which he fought had been suppressed which led ...

Abstract

Chunking, the technique of grouping similar concepts together in order to aid memory, has long been associated with better working memory performance. The purpose of this research was to investigate the effects of chunking on the memorization of words. A total of 18 participants were given a list of 18 words to remember, with nine of these being informed about the technique of chunking before attempting the memory task. The results of an independent samples t-test show that chunking has a significant (p=0.05) effect on the word memorization skills of the participants (t=8.390). This supports previous research that suggests ...

Reading is a process through which the reader tries to gain knowledge by deriving meaning from printed or written texts. During reading, the reader tries to retrieve information and understand the meaning of the text. This is called readability. For casual readers, the effort that goes into retrieving information and understanding meaning is lesser than an intense reader. Having a prior knowledge of a subject, or its structure, makes readability easier. When information is provided on a new subject in a way that is difficult to understand, the readability becomes hard. During the process of reading, the person connects ...

Chang, N.-Y., & Liou, T.-Y. (2009). A study of Latino parenting culture and practices: listening to the voices of Latino parents. Hsiuping Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 12, 1-36. Retrieved from http://ir.hust.edu.tw/bitstream/310993100/1599/1/12-01.pdf The article studies culture and practices of childrearing in Latino families. As the authors write, “Traditional Latino parents, in general, may have more rigid parenting values compared to their Caucasian counterparts” (Chang & Liou, 2009, p. 1). The conducted study is based on the qualitative research. First, the authors provide a complete literature review regarding the main values of Latin culture and historical background of their living in ...

Performance measurement is an essential aspect that defines whether an enterprise is successful or no. Through an analysis of the Kohl’s Corporation 10-K, various performance measurement approaches are used. Like in conventional business practice, the performance measures are used to inform the direction that a firm should take (Kellen & Wolf, 2003). As pointed out in the text, there are many perspectives in approaching performance measures. The measures used by Kohl’s Corporation can be categorized into four groups.

Financial measures

Performance measures that take the financial perspective have the goal of looking into whether a company is profitable, and whether ...

Translation science can be defined as a branch of science which aims to develop various interventions and programs that can help improve the health of human beings using the “bench to bedside” approach (Wagner and Kroetz, 2016). The translation science project which will be discussed in this paper is mainly focused on the effect of the implementation of a vaccination screening program on the vaccination rates of elderly Hispanic population aged between 65 and 90 years old in a Community Health setting in Miami-Dade area. Currently, there are numerous evidences that can support the need for various interventions and ...

Compliance data measured by electronic monitoring, permits distinct aspects of patients’ behavior to be quantified over time. Several compliance parameters have been delineated from those data according to aspects of patient behaviors (Lee & Byun, 2008). Preliminary analysis suggests that many clinicians hold strong negative attitude about the validity and utility of standardized outcome data protocol. In addition to qualitative data on the acceptance of standardized outcome protocols, data on collection compliance ensures patients are taken care of while outcome data involve goals archived as well as patient’s ability to get better in their health conditions. An example, in ...

Introduction

Background of the Study Carr defines terrorism as an illegitimate way (through use of violence) of attempting to change the political, social, religious or economic position (Carr, 2007). In the 21st century, this vice has become the single-most threat to the security of many nations. From USA to Nigeria, South Africa to Kenya, the impact of terrorism has been deeply felt. The attacks on the twin towers of America’s World Trade Center and the move by Boko Haram to kidnap students in the name of promoting terrorism activities has led to high-profile discussions on how this vice should ...

Eat and Exercise for Credit!

Justification, Background and Target Population The problem of obesity and overall fitness in The United States is growing more and more hopeless. Furthermore, college students are often too busy to participate in extracurricular activities. In order to change this sedentary way of college life, eating junk food and not exercising it off, each student will be required to take six classes that help teach them how to get quick workouts in. Students will also learn ways of healthy eating that are no harder to prepare than the junk food they have been eating At the beginning of each semester ...

Today, it is estimated that more than twenty-six million animals are being used yearly in the United States for both scientific and commercial research, as they are used in the development of medical treatments, determining of toxic medicines and analyse how safe are products designed for people use among many others. According to Langley et al., “the issue with animal research has been in practice since 500 BC as those who agree with the issue testifying on how it has been of help in developing plenty life-saving medicines for both human beings and animals (270)”. According to the proposers ...

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Developed countries have long agreed that there is a necessity to assist developing countries if the world is to develop continuously without issues. These developing countries have the capacity to compete against developed countries if they are given enough support and education on how they can bolster their development. Today, two regions are currently succeeding in breaking the expectations of the international community and they are East Asia and Latin America. Since the end of the Second World War, countries for both regions launched extensive economic reforms that enabled prosperity to persist in the region. Considering this change within ...

1. Introduction Labor relations deal with the fair, effective, and professional relationship between the management and the employees. The labor relations cover employees union, labor laws, labor history, collective bargaining, settlement, and the contract administration. The labor unions are organizations in which people’s works together to achieve common goals. The unions are democratic bodies of employees. They are legally recognized as representative bodies of workers in many countries. The purpose of these organizations is to maintain and control working conditions in a better way. There are certain goals to organize labor unions that include protection of the rights ...

The Sardinians were eager to evict Australians from their land. Despite the defeat they suffered during the First World War, they did not lose hope. Instead, they were determined to see that their country was liberated from the grip of Australians (Avery). They were under the leadership of King Vittorio Emanuele when they realized that it was tough to fight the Mighty Australian Empire. The King and Cavour decided to find assistance from the other European States. Initially, Cavour had entered into a secret alliance with the Piedmont- Sardinia Kingdom during the War of Crimea. He was on the ...

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Globalization comes up with different challenges and opportunities for a company. The development of technology and innovation through new solutions to make life better and easier has several impacts on the growth of business on a global platform. The case study presents different facts related to challenges of growth through innovation for PepsiCo. PepsiCo is a well-recognized beverage brand across the globe. The case study shows the challenges faced by the company due to innovation. Along with that, PepsiCo needs to face the problem of immense competition due to innovation. The paper will focus on identifying the causes of ...

Hepatitis type B viral infection is a common and serious disease that is caused by the hepatitis B virus (HBV). HBV is a DNA virus with partial double strands and belongs to the Hepadnaviridae family. One-third of the world’s population is believed to have been infected by HBV of which 6% have chronic HBV infection. Depending on the rate of infection and carrier rate, the world is divided into low, medium and high endemicity regions (Franco et al. 75). The HBV resides in the bodily fluids of an infected individual and is transmitted via the same (Aspinall et ...

Compare and contrast courtesans in Renaissance Italy, Japan, and India

A courtesan originally means a courtier, a person who takes care of the powerful people in society. There are two traditions of courtesan, which include honest courtesan and the lower class of courtesan. The honest courtesan was portrayed as an intellectual and was often treated and romanticized almost like the women of the nobility. The art of courtisanerie is mainly associated with honest courtesan. They were well educated even than the upper classiest women, which made them hold careers such as artists and performers. They were chosen depending on the social and communication skills as well as their physical appearance. Therefore, ...

The government of the United States is a federal system of administration with the national and state governments existing independently of each other in the same territory, while controlling the individuals as citizens of both the state and the nation. The states have separate sub-jurisdictions, such as cities, counties, municipalities, townships and special districts, which are independent of the state. The federal government exists in the constitutional, political, fiscal and administrative dimensions. The political parties of America are the Democratic Party, Republican Party, Libertarian, Constitution, Socialist, Green party and many others. Independent candidates and third parties are also a part of ...

1. Balance Sheet

The term Balance Sheet is commonly used in the domain of Financial Accounting. The balance sheet is a statement that makes a declaration about determined financial position of all monetary and finance related input and output of a particular company, organization, or association. According to Northcentral University (2011), “The balance sheet, or statement of financial position, lists the firm’s assets and liabilities, providing a snapshot of the firm’s financial position at a given point in time (p. 20).”

The core objective is to keep track of financial balances related to the organizational activities and maintain awareness about the kind of ...

Imagination is the process of forming mental images about things that are not perceived by the five senses. The mind can build scenes, events and objects that exist in sub-conscious mind. Every human being has some level or sense of imagination. In some people, the level of imaginations manifests itself in a developed form while, in others, it may be weak. The development of imagination can lead to success in career or one’s endeavors. In history, some of the most famous people who believed in the power of imagination include Albert Einstein. Einstein would sit down in his library ...

Politics, beauty and history in art

Politics is the practice of influencing people on the civic and individual level. It has existed since the formation of social hierarchy among humans. Artists mostly did not involve themselves with politics directly with politics but they expressed their views through their art work for example Pablo Piccaso and Thomas Hirschhorn while other were directly involved in politics and also had artistic presentation of the politics for example Jacques Louis David. Beauty is the characteristic of an object or an idea that gives people a feeling of pleasure and is admired. Most artists work is described as a thing of beauty ...

Espionage has a long history characterized with various prominent people, activities, and events. However, the global community has essentially associated the history of espionage with some iconic events and people. The paper analyzes the roles that different people and events played in the History of Espionage and the various aspects of the history from the ancient time to the future.

Based on Sun Tzu’s Art of War, he talked about espionage in the form of spies where he stated that hostile armies could be confronted with each other for years, as they both strive for their own victory that ...

Question 1

According to the available literature, the Spanish language is not as clear as it was intended. This is because numerous languages of the world have influenced the Spanish language accordingly. Moreover, the Spanish language has witnessed radical evolution due to emerging changes in the world. During the initial stages, the Spanish language was pure; however, other languages have systematically influenced the modern Spanish language used in United States of America and Latin America. For instance, the word pensabas has been influenced by American language and changed to pensas (Penny 89).

Question 2

Some of the commonly known cultures that have influenced ...

- There were a number of similarities between China under the Han and the Roman Empire. Why do you think that was so? Was it simply historical accident? Do those aspects of empire imply some sort of empire-building process common throughout the world? Why or why not?

China and Rome were both land empires, based mostly on agriculture, as were all other empires before the industrial revolution over the last 200 years. These two empires developed along similar lines even though they had no contact with each other, given the extremely slow communications and travel times of that era. They all seem to have had very similar caste systems, with slaves and peasants at the bottom, an aristocratic-military caste and an emperor or king at the apex (Adler and Pouwels, 2008, pp. 169-70). Both the Han and the Roman emperors also claimed to rule by divine ...

Introduction and general statement.

The action of applying rationality in handling certain pertinent issues in life and especially in the world of business has proved to be a vital step in ensuring learning and improvement. Exercising a critical analysis of a document, journal or any literary work helps one to come up with varied ideas on top of those presented in the material or materials being reviewed. In connection to the above introduction, this paper shall comprise a critical review of two journals. The journals both handle the same issue or topic but then, they have a considerable amount of differences based on a number of aspects. Such ...

Terrorism is not as much about killing a maximum number of civilians as sending a message about its aims and aspirations. ETA, a Basque separatist, nationalist group has stood for the independence of the Basque province since 1959 deriving encouragement from Marxism, nationalism, and other kinds of ideological influence. To achieve its strategy, the multi-compartmental group with a complex and secret structure of limited interconnections has used a set of tactical approaches like killings, intimidation, and humiliation. While its leadership has been subject to rotations due to it being targeted by the authorities, it has forged multiple ties with similar radical or extremist organizations ...

Ethnocentrism can be defined as using standards and perceptions of your own culture to judge the culture of another person, causing someone to judge different cultures and groups relative to their own, mostly as it relates to language, customs, or religion. This paper will analyze my own culture experience while viewing the Spanish film All About My Mother. Pedro Almodóvar, a Spanish filmmaker, uses his films to address the idea of Spanish identity in regards to family, sexuality, religion, and gender. He tends to have characters that are on the margins of society, and whose genders and sexuality ...

Previously businesses were more concerned with the economic outcome, of the business decisions. However, in today's world business take time to also reflect on legal, ethics and morality issues with regard of the social consequences of decisions they make. The definition of corporate social responsibility no longer means the amount of financial resources a company contributes to society through charity. In addition to being involved in social activities, with the aim of improving the lives of people within the community.

Application of corporate social responsibility: organizations case study of Fedex and Microsoft

In its corporate social responsibility program FedEx believes that new entrants or existing employees should be trained to complete the ...

Both regimes believe in use various criterion for eligibility of benefits and social programs; however, the authority over one criterion over the other differentiate the welfare in each regime. Ideally, the social democrats back all welfare programs and activities including long-term welfare, which aims at ensuring that resources are distributed equally among citizens of a country. This socialism ideology came about because of religious, communal, and occupational groups that considered solidarity and empowerment of the people. Unlike the social democrats, the conservatives do not support welfare activities (Korpi 13). Categorically, they believe that those in need should be given a chance ...

ETA (Euskadi ta Askatasuna) is a leftist group which conducts terrorist attacks with the aim of liberating the Basque state from Spanish authorities. In Basque language, Euskadi ta Askatasuna implies the homeland and freedom of Basque. ETA is an armed nationalist and liberalist organization in Basque. The organization was founded in 1959, with the goal of promoting the traditional Basque culture. The founders were focused on the suppression of the Basque culture and language; perpetrated by Gen Francisco Franco’s administration. Later, the group evolved into a paramilitary organization, which sought to liberate the Basque state. The group initiated a series of ...

(a) Voidable marriages are those marriages which exist in the eyes of the law and shall remain valid until annulled (Lim 18). Under the Section 20B of the MCO, the parties who contracted a voidable marriage will enjoy the rights and the duties of a married couple until a decree of nullity has been made absolute by the court. The difference between a void and voidable marriage is that in voidable marriages, even if there are factors which exist to make a marriage voidable and the parties are allowed to choose to continue with the marriage despite the existence of the factors. However, in the ...

When man was going through social evolution, there were certain factors that contributed in development of this ideologically structured community. Sociology is the scientific study of society and therefore, a lot of concepts of social behavior correlate with scientific hypothesis. Just like a drop of oil won’t mix in a jar full of water, a person is unable to blend in a society that he does not culturally or inherently belong to. People belonging to any society learn normative behavior from interaction with other social beings. For some sociologists, society is the actor and we as social beings learn from society. There are a ...

Michelangelo Buonarroti and Gianlorenzo Bernini are among the best known artist who curved the statue of David. Michelangelo’s Statue of David is thought to come its completion at around 1504 (Lieberman, Ralph, 11). This is the most acknowledge works of the high Renaissance Period. On the other hand Benini’s David is thought to come to its completion at around 1623-1624. This is one of the sculpture that was fourth to be commissioned as life sized statue by Cardinal Borghese. It is therefore worth examining the two statues of David brought by the two artists to find out ...

“Homefront” is an American thriller by Gary Fleder shot in 2013. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Chuck Logan and adapted by Sylvester Stallone. Rottentomatoes.com gives 105 reviews of this movie, among which 44 are positive, and 61 – negative. Its average rating is 42% (4,9/10). According to the audience score, 61% of spectator liked the movie. The negative reviews are all about the banality and obviousness of the plot of the movie. The dialogues are no good, and the whole movie is so predictable, it seems to be out of 80’ ...

Singapore has reinforced its position on the international stage on the basis of being an educational hub of academic which is presented as an attraction of top players in the region as well as around the world in the era of increased competition(Parmar, et al. 2010). The Asian model of liberal art in the contextual comparison of other nations on a global scale is actually held in the admiration and emulation of the increased variation from the humanistic endeavors of Tagore in the case of Indian and Korean models. Enthusiasts of the liberal arts in Singapore have alluded this ...

Art Basel is an art fair that has been in existence since 1970. The event takes place annually in three locations-Basel, Miami Beach, and Hong Kong. The Miami fair takes place at the Miami Beach Convention center. The fair features exhibitions of drawings, films, paintings, installations, photographs among other editioned works from artists around the world. The event takes dots the Miami Sandy beaches with classic Art Deco museums and a glittering nightlife and art lovers congregate to sell, buy of just admire master class art works. The Art Basel Miami Beach (ABMB) attracted approximately 75,000 international visitors in ...

Introduction

It is common knowledge that everyone may not like the same thing. People are born with different traits. The academic trip I made to Connect Hospitality Expo in Vancouver is worth noting. An awareness of global and environmental issues affecting the hospitality industry is necessary for anyone aspiring to be a professional in the field. This necessity demands knowing the nature of consumers as well as other stakeholders allied to the tourism and hospitality industry. Throughout the course, I have gained considerable knowledge in both theory and practice. Initially, these lessons seemed complex for me to grasp. However, the trip ...

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Part 1: A Summary about the Movie, Pans Labyrinth Pans Labyrinth is a Mexican-Spanish dark fantasy movie that is attributed to Guillermo Del Toro as the author and director. The movie was released in 2006 before being distributed and produced by Esperanto Films. The plotline is written against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War or during the early Francoist period. The story revolves around an intertwining of the real and the mythical world in which the protagonist, Ofelia interacts with a faun creature in a huge abandoned labyrinth. In the story, Princess Moanna, daughter of the king of the ...

For the past recent years, there has been domination of the Spanish public sphere by intense debates concerning historical memory and the restoration of the past, centered on the years of the Franco dictatorship (1939-1975) and the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), and the conversion to democracy during the instantaneous post-Franco period. The early years following the new regime brought a silencing of the past injustices in order to simplify the nonviolent transition to democracy with commentators contending that "political absolution" got to be mistaken for "recorded amnesia" for the sake of national compromise. As an outcome, the stories of Republican ...

While Hamlet is one of the most celebrated plays of the literary stalwart, William Shakespeare, it has been adapted in films all over the world owing to it aesthetic quintessence and relevance. One such adaptation of this play is the 1990 film, Hamlet, which stars Mel Gibson. However, there are several differences between the original play and the cinematic adaptation. Delving deep into the two works of art makes the deviations crystal clear to one and all. The director of the film, Franco Zeffirelli, opts to make certain changes in the film. This is done in an endeavor ...

Within Plastec Company, there was registered a high rate of turnover in the production line, especially among women and minorities, which indicated an informal organizational behavior that influenced the former employees to resign. The informal organizational behavior was based on gendered or racist jokes and biased remarks upon these vulnerable groups. In addition to this reason for the high turnover at Plastec, employees also left the company because they felt that the benefits that they received inside this organization were lower than in other companies activating in the same area. These problems require a strategic compensation intervention, needed for addressing the ...

New research shows that most fanatics of live art performances such as youths are put off by the formal concert formats that are embraced by most of the performing arts companies. The ideas leave correspondents questioning whether the immersive experience that is characterized by the theatrical nature is the way to go for the future of the live performance and art industry. Over the last few years, alternative musical experience has been adopted. Alternative experiences in art performances have been found to be popular across the world. Live performance companies such as the OperaUpClose’s production at the Cock ...

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Dooms day for mankind has been one of the most famous themes in science fictions whether in movie or in print. Such themes create interesting scenarios on how society would react when it faces extinction. As depicted in the novel World War Z (WWZ), the threat of human extinction was characterized by an infectious disease that turns normal people into flesh eating zombies. Just like most zombie genres, the infection can only be transmitted through biting and perhaps intravenously. Fear factor is also apparent since zombies can only be terminated when their brain is destroyed. The zombie is a ...

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Revolutions that are of great historical relevance have occurred in the global community. A revolution is essentially a pronounced change in organization structures or power that happens within a relatively short time. The concept mainly regards to changes in the political structure of the society. The human history is defined by various revolutions that substantially changed the global politics and interactions. The identifiable historical revolutions vary extensively in terms of their nature, motivating ideologies and duration. These revolutions have mainly resulted to changes in economic, culture and social-political institutions. In essence, most of the prominent revolutions have resulted to radical changes ...

Charles Gravier comte de Vergennes was a French diplomat and Statement. As a diplomat he served in Constantinople, Trier and Stockholm as ambassador. During Luis XIV’s reign, he was appointed as foreign minister of France in 1774. Charles Gravier was one of the main French supporters of American Revolution. Initially, the support was in secret through Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais who was his secret agent. The French later made their support public after an agreement between the American colonist delegation led by Benjamin Franklin and France. Vergennes role in the Franco-American alliance aided the American cause by providing military, munitions ...

Cocaine Unwrapped Seifert, Rachael (Director) 2011. UK: Dartmouth Films. The film is about 83 minutes and 54 seconds in length.

Introduction

The documentary addresses the most common economic disparity resulting from cocaine trafficking as the issue of war on drug is concerned. The film contributes to a clear understanding of the economic and social effects of the war on drugs on specification in cocaine dealing. The understanding is done through two accounts of the documentary. First, the film shows how the young people in every developed city are linked with the poor peasants in Columbia through cocaine line connection. Secondly, the ...

The Spanish established colonial empire in the Americas in the 16th Century in parts of South, North and Central America; a region that later became known as the Latin America. Its empire was among the first and largest global empires in the world. Its territories spanned the Americas, Asia, Oceania, Europe, and Africa between the 15th centuries until the late 19th Centuries, with several other colonial empires in Africa in the late 20th century (Mills, Taylor, & Graham). In 1492, Spain began as one united monarch after the Iberian Peninsula was Reconquista. A Spanish voyager, Christopher Columbus, commanded and exploratory voyage ...

Business report

Introduction Recently, there have been some complaints raised by the government in regard to our operations. The report seeks to explain the nature of the problem that is being experienced in the company and its symptoms. It shall also critically and comprehensively analyze the problem to come up with effective methods of unraveling the problem and a broader implication of the problem on our management functions and practices. I will culminate the report by coming up with relevant recommendations that if applied will solve the problem that has already manifested itself, any other problem within and without the organization ...

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One of Shakespeare’s remarkable works is the play entitled the “Taming of the Shrew”. It was written as a comedy piece that shares the same romantic feel of his other works. In 1967, director Franco Zeffirelli took Shakespeare’s work into the silver screens with a movie adaptation of the same title. However, classical conservatives were critical about the cinema version of the play because of the perceived differences in the original play and with the screenplay. These differences, changes and other elements between the movie and the play will be evaluated by examining the context of the movie version ...

In what ways is financial statement analysis useful? What are the limitations of financial statement analysis? What non-financial information should be considered as part of analyzing the potential for success of any organization? Financial statements refer to the summary of the monetary data of any enterprise including the balance sheet, statement of retained earnings, the income statement, and the statement of cash flows. The basic purpose of preparing these statements is to conduct the financial statement analysis to be used by the management, labor, suppliers, buyers, the board of directors and even the government. Firstly, the analysis indicates ...

The paper aims to comprehend and document the history of Germany and delve deep into the possibilities and capacity of the nation to dominate the European continent. It requires our understanding that Germany has the potential and power to emerge as the omnipotent force in the continent and an insight into the national history would only reiterate the claim with testimonials and evidences to supplement the view. The country was hit by the March Revolution in 1848 which ended up in being a failed attempt at establishing the German state. However, this called for more liberal state policies, nationalism ...

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European political incorporation is a technique, whereby: political performing artists in a few different national level are induced in enhancing movement of their political requirements to another focus, whose foundations holder request ward over every existing national states. It is the technique whereby countries forego the craving and capability to lead remote and crux residential strategies autonomously of one another, looking for rather to settle on joint choices on setting up of the centermost branches. Arrangement for the Commission of European Economic Condition was regarded as the Plan instituted by Schuman since it was made open by Robert Schuman who ...

On the day Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated on June 28th, 1914 in Sarajevo, it could not have been known to anyone alive at the time how vast the scale of consequences would become. But the balance of power among the European nations had been offset in recent years and decades due to various events that placed various pressures on the nations involved and set the stage for the large European conflict that was to come. While the war was certainly by no means inevitable, the rising pressures within the various nations as well as increasing pressure between the ...

Picasso Weeping Woman As an Image of Suffering

Pablo Picasso’s remarkable oil on canvas painting Weeping Woman (1937) is both a personally and politically significant painting. It is among the series of weeping women paintings that were painted by Picasso in 1937. Picasso addressed the theme of depicting a woman holding a handkerchief to her teary face in numerous other works of art in different mediums (Léal 396), such as drawings, etchings and paintings, all of which were produced with the intention of standing as voiceless but visual witnesses to an inexpressible modern tragedy. In 1937, after the Spanish Civil War had come to an end, members of ...

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The term Pacem is an extremely common figure in the world of Latin music. It is defined as the Latin word for expressing peace through music. This technique has been extremely successful in the delivery for the real meaning of peace in the world. The idea of expressing peace dates back to the reign of Pope John XXII who wrote on Pacem in Terris, which meant peace to the entire world. This was the first address by the people to the entire world although he was used to dedicating his messages only to Catholics. In this work, Pope tried ...

Attack at Mers-el-Kébir The Second World War can be considered one of the deadliest wars in history especially in its early years as both the Allied and Axis Powers tried to subdue each other despite the losses it may incur due to the crossfire from both parties. Despite recovering from the first World War, the Europeans fought the growing fellow European state Germany with the United States while its allies Japan and Italy were also making their own attacks against the Allied Powers. While some of the most notable confrontations had paved the way to the end ...

Introduction The Spanish Civil War is among the most significant domestic conflicts in history that has gained notorious international attention due to its wide-ranging implications. International involvement has become a defining feature of the importance of the war, although more importantly, the war has exposed the political division in Spain at that time – between the Republicans and the victorious Nationalists. This study will seek to inquire more on the essential details of the war, particularly on its historical antecedents and international involvement.

Historical Antecedents

The Spanish Civil War traces its roots on the traditionalist politics of Spain, ...

World War I was undoubtedly one of the most devastating and widespread conflicts in the history of mankind, opening the theater of war across continents and breaking a delicate balance of power that had been in place for centuries. In order to find out exactly what caused the First World War, it is necessary to look back at the factors that led to the animosity between Germany, France, Russia, Britain, and Austria-Hungary, among others (some of these conflicts simmering for at least forty years leading up to the war). It was a complex, interweaving and stacking series of events that eventually ...

Authoritarianism is a form of governance or social organization where citizens submit blindly to the demands of the government or authority and its administration. Much of the 20th century witnessed significant social, economic, and political changes. The changes stretch back to the 1800s during the French revolution. Inspired by the masses opposition to authoritarian regimes, the changes were also witnessed majorly during the first and second world war that saw the rise and decline of fascism in Italy and Spain, and also during the cold war era that witnessed mixed reaction as the Western Powers sought different ways to counter ...

The image above depicts my entire family together. The picture was taken while I was in the Dominican Republic on a holiday; with my family. We are a close family knit family due to the existence of a strong bond amongst our family. The picture portrays all of us in the pool having a good time; one that is shrouded by happiness. The memory is still vivid to the extent that I remember it like it was yesterday. At this time in the pool, the family was preparing to be a game of volleyball. The teams were divided into two; one team comprising of the ...

The notion of unilateral defeat and the leveling of entire cities at a single stroke were unimaginable to the Japanese, a martial society that had not experienced conquest on such a scale in centuries. In that light, it is significant that the initial Godzilla (or Gojira in Japanese) films were made by men who had personal experience with the horrors of modern war. Three of the men central to the making of Godzilla, King of the Monsters (1954), “a stark reenactment of the

Second World War,” had been involved in the Japanese war effort including director Ishiro Honda, who had served in the ...