The Duc de Guise traveling to his estates stopped in Vassy to hear mass. ... At Orleans, an assassin killed the Duc de Guise. ... The Second War (1567-1568) Even though the Duc de Guise had died, the Guise faction remained powerful and the Cardinal de Lorraine consolidated his power even more. ... They instead escaped to La Rochelle and raised an army to begin the third war. ... However, at Jarnac, under the leadership of the king's younger brother, Henri de Anjou, the Protestants suffered a defeat and the Prince de Conde was killed. ...

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But of all the characters that undertake this search, perhaps it is the story of Jake La Motta in Raging Bull that for many reasons presents the greatest challenge to understanding redemption's role in the narratives of Scorsese's films. Is Jake La Motta a redeemed character at the end of Raging Bull? ... Take for example scriptwriter Paul Schrader who has said: "I don't think it is true of La Motta either in real life or in the movie [that he has achieved redemption]; I think he is the same dumb lug at the end as he is at the beginning....

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We took a taxi to Bedford Hotel which was located on a quiet street in the heart of Paris near the Madeleine, opera and Place De La Concorde. ... After strolling around the Eiffel Tower, we took the metro from the metro station, Charles de Gaulle Etoile, to the station, Bir-Hakeim, as we wanted to see the Arc de Triompe. ... Standing in a direct line between the Louvre and the Grande Arche de la Défense, I could tell that the monument linked the past with the present and offered an amazing view. ...

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Feàring the loss of lànd, sociàl stàtus, rights ànd employment, màny tenànt fàrmers decided to emigràte in the pre 1815 period. ... In the làte 1820s with the kelp industry so poor, ànd the crofters unàble to meet their increàsed rents, most làndlords turned to sheep fàrming to màintàin their estàtes. lthough some of the evicted crofters ànd cottàrs found work in other townships or in the Lowlànds, màny were forced to emigràte. ... In Middle River, the prosperous MàcRàes ànd Càmpbells were, by the 1860s ànd 187...

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They were recruited by Tome de Sousa which was the governor-general and he wanted them to fulfill the crowns wishes for a converted Indian population. ... In Sao Paulo, they came across an enigmatic Jesuit named Ruiz de Montoya he soon became to supreme leader to all the Jesuits. ... Furthermore, the governor of Rio de la Plata province had little incentive to send scarce troops and supplies against an enemy who was nominally of the same nationality. ... The Jesuits traveled into the Rio Grande de Sol region, there they began to set up reductions. ...

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PLACE: La Mancha, Spain. The luminosity of the rocky wilderness of the Sierra Morena in La Mancha serves to separate the various scenes that take place there- Don Quixote's penance, Cardenio's meeting with the curate and barber, Dorothea's story- and it provides, as well as safe refuge from the police force. ...

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The Reign of Terror At the onset of the French Revolution, the revolutionaries who felt that the Monarchy of Louis XVI was tyrannical and could no longer be trusted to protect to people of France exclaimed the tenements of Fraternity, liberty, and equality. It was on these tenets that the Frenc...

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La Blanche: Female slave of mixed ancestry. ... When she looks at her child, then at the quadroon "the son of La Blanche, one of their slaves "her "blood turned like ice in her veins, and a clammy moisture gathered upon her face," the narrator says. ... "As white as La Blanche's, " he says. ... However, conversation between Desiree and Madame Valmonde indicates that he apparently found time for La Blanche, the slave woman whose name (French for white) suggests that she was of mixed heritage, with light skin that made her a tolerable sexual object for Armand. Desiree, speaking o...

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His next step in the process to gain recognition as an individual designer was with De Parisi, Genny which was another established label in Italy. ... And on October 22, in Paris, during the show " Obiettivo Moda", illustrating the professionalism between Versace and internationally renowned photographers (Avedon, Newton, Penn, Weber, Barbieri, Gastel,), Jacques Chirac assigns the "Grande Medaille de Vermeil de la Ville de Paris" to Versace. ...

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He also had an infantry and cavalry corps under Rawlinson and was in close contact with de Mitry by the forest of Houthulst. ... The main attack was on the front lines south of La Basée Canal, where they attacked the British Expeditionary Forces. ... By dawn, the Germans had already damaged or destroyed close by battalions in La Vallée and Ennetieres. ... General De Mitery was informed by his IV corps that the French and Belgian were holding, however, they were continuously attacked by German forces. ... Under D'Urbal's command, he had Grossetti's division on th...

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One of the most noted turning points in American History is the Civil Rights Movement. Almost every aspect of this country today, would not be the same if it was not for the African American leaders that stood up in their communities during the mid 1900's and preached words of a United States that was free from oppression against people of color. These leaders were fearless, dedicated, well-spoken men who advocated African American strength and pride, as well as the unthinkable acts that were made against people of color during their time. Two main groups of the Civil Rights movement were...

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Once Upon a Time, fairy tales weren't written for children... In spite of their name, the popular fairy tales usually have very little to do with fairies. We took the name from the French "contes des fee", and the French literary fairy tales of the 17th century do feature far more fairies than the tales which are best-known today. The Grimm brothers collected the folk tales of the German people to make up their volume, but fairy tales are more than just folk tales. The German term for them is "Mãrchen", a word for which there is no satisfactory English equivalent - it is ...

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The colonists tried to return home, but were met by a relief party led by Lord De La Warr who ordered the settlers back to Jamestown and imposed a strict military regime on the colony. ... However, relations grew tense when the settlers began raiding Indian food supplies. 2. 1610- Relations were even more strained when Lord De La Warr arrived. ...

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From the perspectives of Karl La ¶with and Hans Jonas concerning human orientation to a 'higher' metaphysical dimension, the ancient Greek, eternal cosmic order appears to be normative to human thinking and acting as far as in the ancient-Greek philosophies the cosmos, as an 'eternal jewel', shares goodness, beauty and rationality. ...

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Gang violence is a problem in society today. More and more children are joining gangs every day. Are gangs western societies way of introducing boys into emerging adults (manhood)? It has become evident that gangs made up of young people are causing numerous problems throughout communities. Gang violence and gang activities impact all of those around the gang members. ...

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Tapestry is one of the oldest forms of woven textiles. The word tapestry is defined as a thick textile fabric, in which colored weft threads are woven (originally by hand) into fixed warp threads to form pictures or designs. To give a brief description on how tapestries are woven, the weft threads do not weave between the warp threads all the way across the fabric, but are woven only as far as the particular color is required to produce the integral design. The detail is determined by the closeness o...

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La ilaha illa Allah Muhammad ur rasul Allah. ... "The practice of taqiyya became a crucial element of Shia political doctrine, allowing mainline Shia Muslims to reconcile political idealism with a de facto appearance of the status quo " (Brown 132). ...

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Colonel Wilfried De Brouwer of the Belgian Air Force decided to scramble two F-16 Interceptors that were vectored in by Glons RADAR, and soon detected a positive oval-shaped object on their RADAR. ... ("Les Ovni Et La Defense: A quoi doit-on se préparer?"). ...

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"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." This quotation, by Ralph Waldo Emerson, perfectly describes two opposing forces, conformity and rebellion, and the struggles that one faces between them every day. According to Webster's Dictionary, conformity ...

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INTRODUCTION Regional Policy is one of the most controversial areas of European Union's communal programs. The aim of "economic and social cohesion- - as in the Treaty of European Union it is referred to - has been to bring the lagging regions closer to the average level of EU's economic performance. It is always difficult to appraise the achievements of any incentive scheme since it can be compared to nothing. We must make assumptions about what would have happened if it had been carried out instead of that Therefore, this essay does not intend to announce the final judgment on R...

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(Emmanuel Radnitsky 1890-1976) Armed with his exotic new persona, Man Ray broke from the cocoon of his early life. One day at Stieglitz's he heard about an ongoing series of art classes and lectures sponsored by the Ferrer Modern School, which had just moved to a brownstone building at 63 East 107th Street from downtown headquarters, first at St. Mark's Place, then on East Twelfth Street. Thursday and Friday evening art classes ("with living model") were twenty cents per session. And on Wednesday nights, the popular critic John Weichsel spoke on cultural and aesthetic topics. ...

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1 Let us go then, you and I, 2 When the evening is spread out against the sky 3 Like a patient etherized upon a table; 4 Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, 5 The muttering retreats 6 Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels 7 And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells: 8 Streets that follow like a tedious argument 9 Of insidious intent 10 To lead you to an overwhelming question ... 11 Oh, do not ask, "What is it?" 12 Let us go and make our visit. 13 In the room the women come and go 14 Talking of Michelangelo. 15 ...

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CUBAN SANTERIA Santeria, which literally means, way of the saints', originated in Cuba. Santeria is considered an Afro-Cuban religion. It has roots in Africa, specifically the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria. When Africans were brought to the New World as slaves, they brought with the...

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The 1950s through the 1950s was a turbulent time in history. At the end of the Second World War, many political and international changes came about. The world had to rebuild drastically after such an unstable and deleterious decade. As a result, the Cold War became a topic of much controversy and fear. The "Red Scare,"" or the threat of search and arrest of communists within democratic nations, forced many to conform to a status quo and accept the expectations of society. ...

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This ordering of the chap- ters and of the individual books within each chapter is a detailed and telling product of Jefferson's distinctive imagination at work and has been aptly de- scribed by Arthur Bestor as "a blueprint of his own mind."4 After the books were unpacked and set up in Washington, Librarian George Watterston corresponded with Jefferson about the form the printed 3 catalog that Congress had authorized should take. ...

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