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WW I Poster and “I Remember the Last War” Assignment Poster 87 Page 2 - This poster shows two American flags and an all gray bald eagle. Beneath this image is the caption "Are you 100% American? Prove It! By U.S. Government Bonds, Third Liberty Loan." The rhetorical question on the image would immediately attract a person to it. Rhetorical questions get the reader to think, and this one is no different. It would get someone to ask themselves if they are a legitimate American. This question even…

that are painted way out of proportion. He uses techniques like portraying ordinary objects in and unreal way, to make viewers question reality and think deeper about the little things that we have in life. Rene Magritte was a Belgium surrealist painter, born in Belgium, Germany on November 21, 1898. At the age of 18 he left home and attended the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts art school for two years in Brussels. In 1921 he served in the military for one year but then came home and married his…

The Arnolfini Double Portrait an original oil painting by Jan van Eyck, have many titles but mostly knowing as Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride or The Arnolfini Wedding Portrait can be considered as a good example of how historian look at works of art it's also filled with symbols linked to fertility, faith Christianity, loyalty, and love. One of the most significant is the fruit first the oranges placed on the table behind the man which symbolize fertility especially in the first day of…

Wilson’s Fourteen Points included: an end to secret diplomacy, freedom of the seas, trade equality for all nations, reduction of weapons of war, changed to purpose of colonies, evacuation of Russia, Serbia, Montenegro, and Rumania, restoration of Belgium, return of Alsace-Lorraine to France, adjust Italian borders, freedom of Austria-Hungary and Turkey, an independent Polish state, and finally the most important was the establishment of the League of Nations (Snyder and Derwinski, 1958). Russia…

Chapter 2: Empirical Research The two cases that will be used in the empirical research, Bubble Post and Blue Gate Antwerp will be analyzed under the following categories:  Background  Characteristics and Operation  Vehicles  Financial Profile  Social benefits and  Concluding remarks. 2.1 BUBBLE POST As aforementioned material that will be used to analyze Bubble Post are from answers to questionnaire attached in the annex of this document and the following links: [1]…

Throughout life, major events that occur are often a result of a series of built up incidents and a single action taken place can cause immense devastation, yet reversible. Genocide is officially defined by the United Nations as committing an act with the “intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group...” the Rwandan Genocide exemplifies this perfectly. The tension between the majority Hutus and minority Tutsis who are the two most common ethnic groups…

is no question that there are gender norms in our world, but these norms can differ depending on where you’re from. For example, here in America blue is often associated with boys while pink is known to be a “girl color”, but in Belgium it’s the exact opposite. In Belgium, baby boys are put in…

World War II World War II was one of the bloodiest wars ever. Over 400,000 American lives were lost, and I’m not mentioning the millions of soldiers killed from other countries. More than 60 million people died in World War II. That’s 3% of the 1940 population! And if that’s not enough, before WWII even officially started, the Holocaust had already begun, and thousands, even millions of Jews were being murdered. During…

During More’s bureaucratic trip to Belgium, a chance to visit his close friend Peter Giles develops after discussions at Bruges are stalled. Peter then introduces the cryptic character Raphael Hythloday that becomes a main focal point throughout Sir Thomas More’s Utopia. Apparently, Raphael joined the last three of the four voyages made by the famed Amerigo Vespucci to the New World. Raphael was keen to explore the world and was described by Peter to be like “Ulysses, or rather Plato”, one…

Great Britain and Belgium (later known as the Allied Powers); this was the start of World War…