Park happened on Thanksgiving Day in 2009. My roommate and I had just moved to San Francisco in March of that year and this was our first Thanksgiving there. My younger sister had flown out from Minnesota to spend the holiday with me‚ and we all agreed that it might be fun to drive up to Muir Woods since none of us had been there yet. The day dawned bright and clear and rather warm‚ which is unusual for San Francisco in November. Usually it is very cold and foggy that time of year. We were on the
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Abstract Alcatraz Prison was one of the most secure prisons ever built in the United States. Alcatraz was erected in the San Francisco Bay and originally was a military facility during the late 1800s. Alcatraz has housed 1‚576 of the United States most dangerous criminals during its 29 year existence (Williams). Alcatraz has housed well known criminals such as Al Capone and George Barnes (The Rock). The prison was considered escape proof‚ so when prisoners from other federal facilities were causing
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LISA ELLIS ART 2.3 DECEMBER 2‚ 2011 A CRTIQUE OF STOKSTAD AND COTHREN’S COVERAGE OF PABLO PICASSO’S “GUERNICA” Located on pages 1062-1063 of the 4th Edition (Volume II) of our textbook -Art History- are five paragraphs of commentary on Pablo Picasso’s “Guernica‚” perhaps his most well known painting. In those five paragraphs‚ Stokstad and Cothern offer a fairly accurate and concise description of the historical events leading to the creation of the masterwork and a description of some of
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scool because he started to work selling clothe in talca‚ and his his free time he started to host lithe events ‚ because he was a boy withm an amazing personality‚ one of his show was in Club Israelita Macabbi‚ here borned the character of don francisco»‚ he traveled to united estates to study costumer design‚ in usa was where mario fall in love with the television‚ when he was 21 year old he decided that television will be his carrear‚ he came back to chile and whit the sopport of his mam hi wait
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To sum up‚ when I broke my arm was a significant part of my life and I will always remember every detail about that time. The summer of 2010 was the most significant summer ever because we went on two trips‚ to the Wisconsin Dells and to San Francisco. First‚ road trip to the Wisconsin Dells was one amusing event because we rented a car that summer and we drove there. It was the first time my baby cousin left the state; it was pretty cool. My mom was overwhelmed by driving so we stopped at McDonalds
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communist movement divided among followers of the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and his archrival‚ Leon Trotsky. In 1934 there was widespread labour conflict and a bloody uprising by miners in Asturias that was suppressed by troops led by General Francisco Franco. A succession of governmental crises culminated in the elections of February 16‚ 1936‚ which brought to power a Popular Front government supported by most of the parties of the left and opposed by the parties of the right and what remained
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United States Army base starting in 1853 (Davis 21). It was thought to make a great place to put a large amount of cannons on the island to protect the settlers who had moved to California because of the large quantity of gold found around the San Francisco Bay area. The U.S. Army also built a lighthouse which was the first lighthouse that was fully operational on the West Coast and is still on the island to this day. During the late 1850’s guardhouses were erected which became the first jail on the
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Jared Diamond Essay/Notes –Pizarro and the Inca emperor‚ Atahualpa The European nation relationships first encounter was between the Inca emperor‚ Atahualpa and the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro. Francisco Pizarro had come with an army of 108 men‚ against Atahualpa’s army of 80‚000. Francisco Pizarro believed in the same similar concepts to manifest destiny. He (and his army) massacred many‚ by tricking the emperor to come unarmed. Furthermore he confused the Indians with loud noises
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not all art is stale and boring‚ but can tell you a story if you just stop and listen. The two paintings that I have decided to compare and contrast are Saturn Devouring His Son by Francisco De Goya and The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters also by Francisco De Goya. I chose Saturn Devouring His Son by Francisco De Goya because it stood out to me. My childhood drawings were no different from any other adolescent boy‚ monsters destroying cities‚ giants eating cars‚ violence and fiction. When
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before. He took advantage of this fact and also the fact that he was extremely famous‚ to make a few political statements‚ statements that would go down in history. 1936 saw the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. Fascist revolutionaries‚ led by Francisco Franco took hold of Spain and imposed a fascist dictatorship upon the
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