The Plague is a disease caused by the bacteria Yersinia pestis. It is responsible for killing millions of people in the Middle Ages. However‚ today we have a cure for it. The author Giovanni Boccacio wrote The Decameron to report‚ warn‚ and record the disease. He wanted people to be aware of what happened. The disease spread from place to place‚ animal to human‚ human to human. The people around it were aware that it was spreading and understood that is was “contagious”. As a result‚ they got rid
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market personal care product. ITC ’s shampoo brand‚ Fiama di Wills is in the premium segment‚ that’s growing faster at 44%‚ compared to 21% for the overall market. Interestingly‚ ITC didn’t introduce a new brand name for its shampoo. Instead it has opted for a brand extension of its two year old‚ super premium range of personal care products‚ Essenza di Wills. But unlike Essenza that was available at ITC hotels and Wills Lifestyle stores‚ Fiama di Wills shampoos will be stocked at retail stores across
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SABINA (A Summary) The sad‚ beautiful‚ and tragic story of a young‚ dark‚ and felicitous girl from Kawakan named Sabina‚ began as she met the man whom she believed to be the love of her life. Everyone in the family tends to oppose this girl’s affair with the American merchant‚ Mr. George‚ who is about in his early 30’s. It has been the death of Maria‚ Sabina’s mother‚ the discussion of the entire village and marketplace‚ and that the woman passed away because of the heavy burden that she felt upon
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A striking departure from the thematic regularity of most operas of his time‚ Mozart’s Don Giovanni‚ presented Europe with a brash new outlook of nobility. The opera’s plot‚ based around the licentious actions of Spanish aristocrat Don Giovanni‚ begins with Giovanni’s rape of Donna Anna‚ the future bride of Don Ottavio‚ and subsequent murder of her father. From the commencement‚ it is apparent that Giovanni follows his own set of perverted morals unlike those common to society. His servant Leperello
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Don Giovanni: The Characters and Their Music Giving Character’s character is one of the most interesting challenges in operatic composition; another is composing for all the specific characters. A composer has to distinguish between characters through his music. Jan can’t sound like Fran‚ and Dan can’t sound like Stan. Each character must have his/her own traits. Mozart’s opera‚ Don Giovanni‚ provides us with many different characters to compare and contrast. One scene in particular lends itself
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Giovanni Boccaccio “While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens‚ ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.” A famous quote written by Giovanni Boccaccio in his famous work ‘The Decameron’. An italian poet and scholar that helped develop the foundations of humanism and vernacular literature. Without him‚ the history of Italian Renaissance’s literacy would be unclear. With his famous poems and novels‚ he inspired many future writers like Shakespeare and Geoffrey Chaucer. Giovanni
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today‚ like Giovanni Bellini. Giovanni Bellini is a very well known artist for making many beautiful pieces of art. Most of his art was religious and included many famous holy characters like Jesus and The Virgin Mary. He has a wide background connecting to artists‚ he was born into a family of great artists and painters. This made him strive to be one like his other close family members. Not many people knew much about his artistic abilities until his very first pieces of art. Giovanni Bellini’s
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Rustico and Alibech by Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio The exact details of his birth are uncertain. A number of sources state that he was born in Paris‚ but others denounce this as romanticism by the earliest biographers. In this case his birthplace was possibly in Tuscany‚ perhaps in Certaldo‚ the town of his father. He was the son of a Florentine merchant and an unknown woman‚ and almost certainly born illegitimate. Boccaccio grew up in Florence. His father was working for the Compagnia
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Giovanni Da Verrazzano was an Italian explorer who charted the Atlantic coast of North America between the Carolinas and Newfoundland‚ including New York Harbor in 1524. Giovanni was born around the year of 1485 in Val di Greve‚ 30 miles south of Florence‚ Italy. He began to pursue his maritime career in about 1506 or 1507 and in the 1520’s he was sent by King Francis I of France to explore the East Coast of North America for a route to the Pacific. After returning to Europe from discovered New
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"ALIENATION‚ DISAPPOINTMENT AND REGRET IN HEMINGWAY’S WORK" SUBMITTED TO: MISS SUNDAS MAJEED SUBMITTED BY: NAZISH MADDAH M. PHIL LITERATURE (SEMESTER 1) ROLL NO; 07 MINHAJ UNIVERSITY LAHORE‚ Abstract Earnest Miller Hemingway’s work deal with highly defined themes of war‚ lost generation‚ nada but with these thematic backgrounds Hemingway also brings forth the concepts of alienation‚ regret and disappointment through his character’s sufferings
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