painted Saint Agatha from 1635-45; the medium used to paint the portrait was oil and tempera on canvas. This devotional image shows the saint contemplating God while tenderly holding the pincers‚ the instruments of her sufferings through which she achieved her sanctity. The way in which the saint is modeled with soft sfumato (an almost invisible rendering of the transitions from light to shade) and emerges from a dark background is characteristic of Furini’s work. Francessco Furini’s piece Saint Agatha
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Saint Simon Claude Henri de Rouvroy‚ comte de Saint-Simon‚ often referred to as Henri de Saint-Simon (17 October 1760–19 May 1825) was a French utopian socialist thinker. Saint-Simon was born in Paris. He belonged to a younger branch of the family of the duc de Saint-Simon. He claimed his education was directed by Jean le Rond d’Alembert‚ though no proof of this exists; it is likely that Saint-Simon himself invented this false intellectual pedigree. At the age of sixteen he was in America helping
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Saint Nicholas Leaving a pair of shoes out on December 5th may result in them being full of gifts the next day. Saint Nicholas is known for his generosity of gift giving and is the one responsible for the treats in shoes. Although the celebration of Saint Nicholas is intended to recognize his holiness‚ it has been almost transformed into something else. Many children just take advantage of the fact that they get candy‚ and they don’t have any interest in learning the history of Saint Nicholas.
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Saint Monica Saint Monica‚ mother of Saint Augustine of Hippo is most famously known for the conversion of her husband‚ Patricius‚ and Saint Augustine. She was born in Tagaste‚ North Africa and is known to be of Berber origin because of her name. There she was born and raised by her mother and father. As soon as she was old enough‚ her parents arranged her marriage to a Tagaste official. Saint Monica’s marriage to Patricius was difficult in many ways imaginable. Not only was he much older than
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of skills you can develop in the military. I say it’s a skill because college teaches you how to write and organize information. Emails and briefs you may write to your boss is a direct reflection on you and the effort you put into work. I have struggled in the past with this with my officer in charge. Now that I have been in school I can see my briefs become easier to write and read. College is free through the military while you are in. You will not find any other job that will fully pay
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trade-offs ( Mankiw 1-1a). Society must have a proportionate exchange in the way economic conditions are ran. Economically‚ a society must run efficiently‚ but most importantly‚ it must run equally ( Mankiw1-1a). In the text "Brief Principles of Macroeconomics‚" author Gregory Mankiw acknowledged to us that‚ "equality means that those benefits are distributed
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1. What‚ if anything‚ did you learn that you didn’t know before? And why/how does it seem significant or meaningful? After reading “1865-1914: A Brief Overview”‚ I must admit that I already possessed knowledge of the historical occurrences and changes in society that occurred between 1865 and 1914. However‚ because I obtained this knowledge from a United States history course‚ I was not necessarily aware of the changes in literature that were taking place during this time period. From this article
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Saint Joseph There is no certain date when Saint Joseph was born‚ but he was said to be born around 100 BC. Saint Joseph is one of the three people in the Holy Family‚ also including Mary and Jesus. Saint Joseph was the husband of Mary and the foster father of Jesus. Although he was a humble person‚ Joseph came from a royal lineage. His genealogy marks him as a descendant of David. Saint Matthew said that Joseph was the son of Jacob‚ but Saint Luke said he was the son of Heli. He was a carpenter
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The Saint and the Goblin By Hector Hugh Munro Hector Hugh Munro (18 December 1870 – 13 November 1916)‚ better known by the pen name Saki‚ and also frequently as H. H. Munro‚ was a British writer whose witty‚ mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirized Edwardian society and culture. He is considered a master of the short story and often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde‚ Lewis Carroll‚ and Kipling‚ he himself influenced A. A. Milne‚ Noël Coward‚ and P. G
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famous for being beyond complex‚ is a subject which cannot be explained with ease. Stephen Hawking‚ the most famous living scientist today‚ wrote A Brief History of Time in 1988‚ updated in 1996‚ in order to take upon this daunting task of explaining basic theoretical physics to a population who had previously barely studied any science. Within A Brief History of Time‚ Hawking touches upon seven topics in-depth while easily explaining them in a simple manner: our picture of the universe‚ space and
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