The Relevance of Culture for Development in Post-Colonial Zimbabwe Written by: Guy Penford on behalf of the Ben Gula Trust 25 August 2010 In the foregoing discussion‚ the extreme marginalisation of Zimbabwe’s Tonga people will be located as an extension of the wider problem affecting African development‚ namely the problem of the development gap between rural and urban areas. In turn‚ this will feed into an explanation of how the only way to remedy the Tonga plight is to forge economic and
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the Hellenistic period‚ but the form of the statue. Some have said that the sculpture has Classical style characteristics. One of the characteristics of Hellenistic is the carving of the cloth draped around the waist of the sculpture. The Winged Victory of Samothrace Artist Unknown 3rd Century B.C. This sculpture is at the Louvre Museum in Paris. It is a sculpture of a woman on the prow of a ship. It looks as though wind from the sea is rippling her dress. This sculpture is also known
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The book Crime and Punishment and its author‚ Fyodor Dostoevsky‚ both came many years before their time. In the book‚ Dostoevsky clearly describes the medical disorders we now know today as schizophrenia‚ bipolar disorder‚ and dissociative identity disorder which is also known as multiple personality disorder. The book was first published in 1866‚ however‚ schizophrenia was first described officially in 1887 by Dr. Emile Kraepelin and not given the name “schizophrenia” until Eugene Bleuler coined
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Arren Quigley Architectural Genius in the Renaissance At the beginning of the Renaissance a problem was apparent in Florence. The city was trying to distinguish themselves from Milan‚ their rival‚ and had built a great cathedral‚ Santa Maria del Fiore‚ with this in mind. The problem was that for 122 years the church had been left open to the elements. No roof had been built. In 1418‚ the town fathers of Florence decided that the time had come to build a roof. The roof had to be grand and tall.
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Naturalism in art refers to the depiction of realistic objects in a natural setting. The Realism movements of the 19th century advocated naturalism in reaction to the stylized and idealized depictions of subjects in Romanticism‚ but many painters have adopted a similar approach over the centuries. One example of Naturalism is the artwork of American artist William Bliss Baker‚ whose landscape paintings are considered some of the best examples of the naturalist movement. Idealism is the attitude that
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Vivaldi: An Almost Forgotten Genius In the 20th century several scholars of the famous Johann Sebastian Bach noticed a composer who kept popping up in their findings. It seemed as if this composer left an impeccable impression on Bach. Who is this guy? Thus the great search for Vivaldi begun. For centuries Vivaldi was forgotten‚ smothered by the fast growing Baroque artist and the dramatic change of the world’s taste in music. Regardless of that fact‚ Vivaldi’s name broke out of the grave and was
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Summary: Through simple actions he had enforced since his title of archbishop‚ the new Pope has begun to change everything that the Vatican had promoted. His name is Jorge Mario Bergoglio and he claims the title as the "first Latin American pope‚ the first Jesuit pope‚ the first in more than a thousand years not to have been born in Europe‚ and the first to take the moniker Francis‚" (Draper 36). But the appearance of the pope is not the only thing he has changed. In fact pope Francis does not
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MONITORING AN INTRAVENOUS INFUSION Definition: __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Indications: 1. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Assessment Focus 1. ______________________
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Summary Analysis: Burro Genius Burro Genius‚ Villasenor (2004)‚ is an autobiography of life experiences that Victor Villasenor had when growing up. The book focused on his years in elementary‚ middle and high school. Villasenor discusses how the teachers‚ students and family impacted the person he was to become as an adult. He explains through story telling how his experiences made his beliefs in who he was as a Mexican form and continually changed to give him the self-esteem he later developed
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ARTH 1001: Museum Formal Analysis Paper The Tiber Muse Winged Victory of the Nike of Samothrace Justinian and Attendants from San Vitale Adrienne Keiser TA- Anna‚ Tuesday Section April 23rd‚ 2013 The Tiber Muse‚ originally discovered in the vicinity of the Tiber River in Rome in 1885‚ is a product of the Graeco-Roman era and is dated around the 2nd-1st century BCE. This date and other formal qualities of the sculpture such as the pose‚ drapery and medium suggest that it was produced
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