Isabella of France

and find themselves asking if women were even allowed to compose music. During the late 1600’s and 1700’s there were many women who were seen as “ahead of their time.” Three prolific women composers from the Baroque era were Barbara Strozzi, Anna Isabella Leonarda, and Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre. Barbara Strozzi was a secular Italian composer who lived from 1619-1677. Her adoptive father, Guilo Strozzi, was a writer and owned a school called Accademia degli Unisoni which means…

one stands out. Isabella Stewart Gardner and the museum named after her shaped and continue to guide the artistic culture of Boston as a whole, but especially that of the Fenway/Kenmore neighborhood where it resides. The museum’s atmosphere of artistic curiosity, patronage of the arts, reflection of the global arts culture, and enrichment of the surrounding…

The rebels had sparked the fire that in the people of France by rebelling against the King that would later help them over throw him for the legacy of the French Revolution. These brave men not only helped their people, they helped them to see what the better way of living is. If you really had to sacrifice…

Isabella Stewart Gardner was one of America’s most remarkable female patrons of the arts during the Victorian era. A leading art collector, she fulfilled a dream to share her treasures from around the world when she founded the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts. Gardner did not conform to the conservative code of conduct expected of Boston matrons at the time and instead, is remembered for having a “zest for life, an energetic intellectual curiosity and a love of travel”…

The Habsburg family was a major power throughout Europe for nearly 750 years. They managed to move themselves up from being just a family with a castle to one of the largest empires Europe has ever seen. Throughout their reign, the family saw some losses of land, but many more gains. They fought battles against their major enemies, the French and the Ottomans. They married nearly every royal family in Europe, until there was no more room left to expand. With hard work and intelligence, the…

HIE301 The Purpose for Conflicts Aboriginal Peoples in Canada: Short Essay Work presented to Dr. Daigle-Hau by NCdt Labrecque, M February 12, 2016 Royal Military College of Canada Discuss the military alliance between European powers and Aboriginals in Canada. Was one side “using” the other or not? This paper will argue that the military alliance between European powers and Aboriginals in Canada was a diplomatic strategy to take advantage of one another’s strengths. In order to…

south. France was declared an open city, when the French government fled from Paris because of the advancing Germans. German forces arrived in Paris on June 14th. Ironically enough, as Hitler insisted, three days later the French government officially surrendered in the same railcar the Germans surrendered in at the conclusion of WWI at Compiègne. “The humiliation of France was complete.” (Sheffield, 2011) Following the successful takeover of Paris and surrender of the French, France was…

INTRODUCTION: India is one of the developing countries in the world. Aviation in India is one of the major economic factors, and aviation industry is enormously growing day by day. Many airlines operate their functions and services in India among them IndiGo is one the best developing carrier which provides it services on-time based and is very particular with its timing and services. IndiGo is a low cost carrier providing low fares and on-time performance. It provides various services with…

British Airways PLC, a British air-transport company, is branded as one of the largest airline in the world carrying approximately 36 million passengers a year. Its headquarters are established near Heathrow Airport in London. In 1935, small UK air transport companies arose together to form British Airways. Later, the British Government joined British Airways with its competing airline firm, Imperial Airways to form British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC). British European Airways (BEA), a…

In 1933 one of the most tragic genocides began. The Holocaust is one of the most well known genocide durning World War II. Jews, gays, and disabled people where often the ones placed in the concentration camps in Nazi Germany. Some may try to deny history, saying that the Holocaust never happened, but there is hard evidence, as well as many survivors, that prove its occurrence. The Holocaust was a devastating genocide during Word War II. It took place under Nazi Germany and lasted…