Virgin and Child Enthroned Giotto di Bondone This Virgin and Child Enthroned is dated from 1305-1310‚ and is from Florence‚ Italy. It is made of tempera and gold on a wood panel. The piece uses hieratic scale making the Virgin and Child much larger than the surrounding saints and religious figures. It also enthrones images and has a flat‚ gold background. Giotto was one of the first artists to use 3D beings‚ and shows this in his piece. He shows the subjects as full‚ plainly draped bulky bodies
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American and English literature whose major area of research interest is the Black Atlantic diasporic culture. As a scholar of Cultural Studies and Sociology‚ he has done significant studies on race‚ racism and culture which have been greatly influential in the recent times. Gilroy’s book The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (published in 1993) marks a landmark in the study of diasporas. In The Black Atlantic‚ which is a critique of cultural nationalism‚ he applies a cultural studies approach
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Strategic Management of British Airways Company Introduction Transportation plays an essential role to the success of many businesses and organizations. Without efficient transportation‚ many supplies and raw materials will not be brought from one place to another. It has been reported that humans have always needed to get around from place to place‚ making the act of walking a limitation on the distance traveled and the things they could carry. Consider the innovations that help
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would say Virgin Mary. Our Lady Guadalupe is definitely a part of Raza race history. The Virgin of Guadalupe is literally intertwined with both the History of the Catholic Church in the new world and of Mexico itself. To mention a few events‚ the great floods of 1629 claimed 30‚000 lives and threatened the destruction of the valley of Mexico‚ until the waters abated when the image was taken in solemn procession from Tepayac to Mexico City. (?Ch?vez?) The Virgin of Guadalupe
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INTRODUCTION British Airways is one of the fastest growing airlines in the world. It has grown by its own leadership qualities and unique culture. Bob Ayling‚ Chief Executive implemented changes in the organization without getting support from its employees. He thought a change is necessary‚ even when BA was making record profit‚ because in the long run some decision has to be made. On one side he tried to raise staff morale by reinventing training programmes and by building a hotel at Heathrow
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Cult of the Virgin in the Gothic Era: Was there another side to the Virgin’s image? In the Gothic era‚ when it was popular for artist to create images and symbols of the Virgin Mary‚ began the Cult of the Virgin. Many artists focused on the Virgin Mary with Christ as the main topic in their art work. Did all the creations made of the Virgin portray her as good? Could some of the artists want to give a negative interpretation of the Virgin that could have only been seen through the artist’s eye
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The Virgin of Mary has taken up thousands of different forms in Christianity. Each form of The Virgin of Mary has its own story but one quality remains consistent: the purity and chastity of The Virgin Mary. In Our Virgin of Guadalupe a somber and heart rending version of The Virgin Mary can be seen as she is depicted as a pregnant woman‚ looking down and being in sorrow because of her son’s death as she sees the crown of thorns on the ground. Through the use of composition that highlights The Virgin
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SWOT Analysis of Virgin Media Virgin Media is an innovative new media company that was formed as a result of a merger between NTL and Telewest and then a re-branding as Virgin Media. Its main strength lies in the branding and the innovation that the name Virgin offers. Internally‚ Virgin Media is the only company in the United Kingdom that offers all four of the main media services‚ i.e. digital television‚ broadband‚ fixed line telephone and mobile phone packages. The ability to offer these products
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STUDENT: | Louis-Claude ROUX | PROFESSOR: | Philippe René Gillet | CASE: Virgin Mobile USA “Pricing for the first time” | DATE: 20/02/2012CLASS: MBS-Entrepreneuriat | PART I) ANSWERS BASED ON MY “GUT FEELINGS” Virgin Mobile targets the 14 to 24-year-olds market. The case lays out three pricing options. Which option would you choose and why? I would go for option number two for several reasons. The first one is that I think offer number one is not sufficiently different from the rest
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the best places to come and visit would be my hometown Atlantic City‚ New Jersey. This is somewhere that you will never run out of things to do. A lot of people know Atlantic City for the Casinos‚ but it is so much more to it than just that. There are so many different activities that can be done in the city‚ such as the boardwalk‚ Beaches‚ shopping‚ restaurants‚ Casinos‚ etc... One of the first stops that you may like to make is the Atlantic City Boardwalk. There are a number of things that you
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