Chapter 1: New World Beginnings Vocabulary 1. Marco Polo: Marco Polo was an Italian explorer who spent several years in China. When he returned in 1295‚ there became a sudden interest in finding a quicker route to Asia. Polo‚ along with father Niccolo and his uncle Maffeo‚ was among the first westerners to travel the Silk Road. 2. Francisco Pizarro: Francisco Pizarro was a Spanish conquistador and explorer who conquered the Incas located in Peru‚ in 1532. He claimed land from Panama to Peru for
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Character‚ John Leggett Introduction to Character PowerNotes Character chart‚ p. 85 2. “Everyday Use: For Your Grandmama” by Alice Walker pp. 102-109 • “For My Sister Molly Who in the Fifties” handout • “from Hands: For Mother’s Day” by Nikki Giovanni‚ p. 110 • “Lucinda Matlock” by Edgar Lee Masters‚ p. 111 “Everyday Use” 1. Class Starter: Quickwrite‚ p. 102 2. Assign the Reading p. 103 3. Art Transparency “The Sunflowers Quilting Bee at Arles” by Faith Ringgold (See One-Stop Planner for suggested
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(1) Francesco Petrarch (1304-74) As the first of the Humanist‚ he was one of the most influential poets of the Middle Ages. And he is considered by most to be the founder Renaissance Humanism in general. Petrarch was the first and greatest representative of the humanistic phase of the Italian Renaissance. He was the first scholar of the mediaeval time who fully realized and appreciated the supreme excellence and beauty of the classical literature and its value as a means of culture.
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one of the restaurant inside the casino where located in the casino floor. Its provide breakfast‚ lunch and afternoon tea to the gambler and open in 24 hours. Sometimes‚ it has some live dancing performance from the bunny girls. Another outlet is Bellini Lounge‚ its provide cocktail and music live performance. It also attracts some guest who are not aimed to gambling that come inside the casino‚ so that it can enhance more gambler to
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it was not clear to him whether the company should continue to invest in this market. Cafes Monte Bianco’s top management team was all in the room with the exception of Roberto Bianchi‚ R&D manager‚ who was in Colombia. The rest f the team were Giovanni Calvaro‚ marketing director; Paolo Cantara‚ manufacturing director; Dino Bastico‚ financial officer; and Carla Salvetti‚ director of strategic planning. Cafes Monte Bianco‚ located in Milan‚ was a manufacturer and distributor of premium coffee
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on a flat rock and was so impressed with his talent that he persuaded the father to let Giotto become his pupil (Barter26). Modern critics also see the influence of the Roman school exemplified by Pietro Cavallini and of the sculptors Nicola and Giovanni Pisano (Marx). Whatever his training‚ it is certain that Giotto broke with the formulas of Byzantine painting and gave new life to the art of painting in Italy (Eimerl 9). Giotto designed a great number of works‚ many of which have disappeared
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A.P. U.S. History Notes Chapter 1: “New World Beginnings” Summary: 225 million years ago‚ Earth was one supercontinent (Pangaea) and ocean. About 10 million years ago‚ the North America that we know today was formed (geographical shape). The first discoverers of North America were nomadic Asians who wandered over here by way of an exposed land bridge from Russia to Alaska during the Ice Age. Though they were hunters at first‚ by 5000 BC‚ they had become hunter-gatherers with a diet of
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Manhattan and altered it into a foremost trading port for the 13 original colonies. New York City then turned out to be an area of prodigious population and diversity. The New York harbor was first discovered by an Italian man in 1524. His name was Giovanni De Verrazano. There is now a bridge named after this man. After Verrazano discovered the New York harbor‚ the Dutch came as the first settlers. New York was then known as New Amsterdam. The Dutch were followed by the English‚
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the media and the government. All freedoms will be denied. In essence‚ totalitarianism means total control of a people by one individual and the government it has created. First conceptually developed in the 1920’s by Italian fascists‚ primarily Giovanni Amendola‚ totalitarianism has been present in a variety of movements throughout history. Initially‚ the term was spun to be positive and refer to the positive goals of states employing totalitarianism. However‚ Western civilizations most often did
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Exfiltration orders: take the second tunnel to the left ‘That show never really got off the ground‚’ Nero observes to SH as they are being bundled ever further down a winding tunnel. From somewhere the MC’s voice‚ ‘Look‚ we wanted some razz-matazz out there tonight‚ but things are not really working out. You’ve at least discovered that Story Hunter is not dead meat.’ With frustration shining through in voice SH complains‚ ‘Yeah‚ it is all well and good to have found me‚ but now we have lost Buiteboer
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