Barcelona

the fighting in Barcelona under Communist order between the CNT and the UGT. While witnessing the increased street fighting in Barcelona during the May Days under Communist order, Orwell claimed: “the last thing [he] wished for was to be mixed up in some meaningless street fight (Orwell 120)” believing that marching through the streets behind a red flag with elevating slogans was not the ideal way to win independence. The danger between parties during the course of the Barcelona May Days was…

painted this work of art in 1903 while working in Barcelona. “The Old Guitarist” was one of Picasso’s most prominent pieces of his “Blue Period”, which lasted from 1901-1904, and was caused by the death of his good friend, Carlos Casagemas. In this “Blue Period”, Picasso’s paintings featured flat expanses of blues, and often-showed figures in pain or sorrow. In “The Old Guitarist”, there is an old, poor, blind man sitting on the streets of Barcelona playing his guitar. The man looks incredibly…

did you come up with that idea? JB: That is known as parking the bus. It’s when one team knows that they really don’t have a chance to play open against the other team. So, the best example was Chelsea vs. Barcelona in the 2009 Champions League finals. Chelsea had no business playing Barcelona and they did that strategy to perfection. One ball squirted out to the guy out on top who went to score and Chelsea won the game 1-0. GD: And that’s what you are hoping to accomplish when you do…

The differences in government structures determine how well a country can govern itself. Germany, France, and the United States, are three countries that have similarities and differences between their branches of government. Due to that, the ideas of maintaining of stable government is different between each of them, but also similar in certain ways. After all, a country is shaped from its government structures. This paper will explain the differences and similarities between each of these…

Every artist has special traits that make them loveable or hateable to some people. The artists that I chose are loveable in my eyes. Their art speaks truthfully and depicts art in unique ways that few understand. The artists I chose are not average artists. They seem to go above and beyond in their work, as well as show their strengths, weaknesses, joys, sorrows, dreams, and nightmares through their work. The first artist I chose was Salvador Dali. I chose Salvador Dali because he was an…

stopping you from getting into it. To see the stadium in person to breathe the air from every continent and meet fans that is like your family. Soccer is bringing people together so much you could be walking down the street and see someone in and Fc Barcelona jersey and instantly have a conversation about it and become friends. Soccer is the greatest sport in the world and there are so many reasons that it isn’t going anywhere and here soon it will…

requires extensive planning, “stimulating local involvement, partnerships and procurement” (Harrison, 2008, p. 854). A trend in this type of tourism involves homeless people giving tours of the impoverished sections of cities. One example is in Barcelona, Spain: ‘Hidden City Tours’ offer tourists an alternative view of the city led by a homeless guide (Arias, 2014). While Vancouver does not currently…

and uses the setting as a means to compare the life or death decision and the topic of abortion as a whole. Hemingway starts off by describing the setting. The couple is sitting at the bar in a train station that is settled between Madrid and Barcelona. On one side if the train station there are hills and the dry brown country. The opposite side of the train station is filled with trees, grain, and has a river in the distance. The dry country side represents the choice of death while the other…

The last century has seen the rapid growth of the urban areas which is likely to be one of the milestones in the current ages. Also known as the urbanization process, this situation is defined by the unprecedented rural population shift to the cities which stems from the Modern period as a result of the Industrial Revolution. However, the key aspect is the universal nature of the issue which has effect on an exceptional transformation in a global scale but on a drastically impact in the social,…

The minute plans start to come together for any vacation, the excitement and counting down the days doesn’t stop until it’s finally time to start the journey. Trips to an unfamiliar, foreign place are invariably my first choice because I am able to explore things that I’ve never experienced in my life before. Getting to see how diverse the buildings and cultures are in peculiar countries is an extraordinary opportunity that not everybody gets to do in their lifetime. My first vacation abroad was…