The city of Nurnberg, in the German state of Bavaria, is famous for its medieval walls and ancient castle, gingerbread cookies, toy manufacturing, Gothic churches, Nurnberger bratwurst and the Christmas market. The city dates back to the year 1050 and for around 500 years, it was the...
Censorship has followed the free expressions of men and women like a shadow through history. In ancient societies, such as those of Israel or China, censorship was considered a legitimate instrument for regulating the moral and political life of the population. In China, the first...
Steven Jobs was born on February 24, 1955 in San Francisco. He attended Homestead High School Los Altos, California. In 1972 Jobs graduated from high school and register at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. After dropping out of Reed after one semester, he hung around campus for a...
Unemployment is the term used when no paid occupation (job) for forces capable and suitably qualified to work. This phenomenon is very well known by the fact that part of the population is in search of a job. When this proportion has serious economic problems in the region or state, by...
Despite the fact that any piece of criticism should start from the opus and not from an external concept, with Henry James it is better to do it vice versa. That's because he is a pioneer of the 20th century fiction in giving to the novel a new dimension: the wide field of human...
The life of the great artist began on the 6th of March, 1475. He was burn in Casentino, Caprese. His parents were Lodovico di Leonardo Simioni and Francesca di Neri di Miniato del Sera. Michelangelo's first teacher was Francesco da Urbino. He had to teach young Michelangelo grammar,...
Elizabeth I, queen of England and Ireland (1558-1603), daughter of Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn. Elizabeth was the longest-reigning English monarch in nearly two centuries and the first woman to successfully occupy the English throne. Called Glorianna and Good Queen Bess,...
At the Hawk's Well is a one act play by William Butler Yeats, first performed in 1916 and published in 1917. It is one of five plays by Yeats which are loosely based on the stories of Cuchulain the mythological hero of ancient Ulster. It was the first play written in English that...
Summary The short story "Cat in the Rain" was written by Ernest Hemingway in the 1920?s. It is about an American couple that spends their holidays in an Italian hotel. It is a rainy day and the American woman sees a cat in the rain, which she wants to protect from the raindrops. When...
A day does not pass when each and every one of us is not bombarded with propaganda. Sometimes it is very obvious, or revealed propaganda. For example, when a clothing manufacturer is placing print and electronic advertisements where teens will see them. Their clothing, it is suggested,...
This article is about Disneyland, a theme park in Anaheim, California USA. For other Disney parks and attractions, see Walt Disney Parks and Resorts or Category:Disney parks and attractions. For the television series originally titled Disneyland, see Disney anthology television series....
Capoeira is a martial art developed in Brazil by enslaved Africans.The true history of the art is unclear, but most people believe the following: In the 1500's many Africans were taken from different areas of West Africa and brought to Brazil to be used as slaves by the Portuguese....
The Achaemenid Empire (Persian: ????????? IPA: [ha??mane?ij?n]) (559-330 BC), or "Achaemenid Persian Empire", was the first of the Persian Empires to rule over significant portions of Greater Iran. It was the famous foe of the Greek city states (See Greco-Persian Wars), and the first of...
A"Marketing Mix" is the set of controllable, tactical marketing tools that work together to achieve company's objectives, they are: product, price, promotion and place. Although some marketers have added other P's, such as personnel, packaging and physical evidence, the fundamentals of...
Society today is under the effect of a wave of stress and lack of free time.In a city like Bucharest people are always busy.The whole life of the citizens is in a continuous run and exhaustion. College and work require a great commitment for those who want to create a successful career...