Las Meninas

Decent Essays
Improved Essays
Superior Essays
Great Essays
Brilliant Essays
    Page 32 of 46 - About 459 Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Leaving Las Vegas: Have you ever hit rock bottom and wanted just to run away and change your identity? Nicholas Cage did just so when he left his professional career to drink his life away and hide under sorrows of his sadness all in the small town of Las Vegas. While on his drinking binge he becomes desperate for love but could felling in love better him or worsen his alcohol problem? It's all in a matter of being in the right place at the right time. Ben Sanders (Nicholas Cage) a Hollywood…

    • 933 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Steve Wynn Research Paper

    • 1251 Words
    • 6 Pages

    How did the son of a bingo parlor owner turn in to a casino mogul who is credited with bringing Las Vegas in to the new frontier, coincidently the name of a casino he owned? Mr. Steve Wynn has a vision for beautiful things, he always wanted for people to say that place is beautiful in and out. I’ve read 4 bios and watched 3 pieces on him and the statement above is probably the most accurate, besides the fact that it is a business and he makes a lot of money, he wants people to enjoy his casinos…

    • 1251 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Texas Church Shooting "People covered in blood and screaming. It was pandemonium everywhere." A shooting November 5, at a church, occurred at eleven a.m. When the authorities arrived they found twenty-six people dead. The victims ranging from five years old to seventy-two years old. Overall what happened? Beginning at 11 a.m. during a church service at First Baptist Church a man, by the name of Devin Patrick Kelley, came into the church and began firing at innocent people. Later, when he…

    • 490 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Sheldon Adelson is an "American Casino Magnate". He is the chief executive officer, chairman, and founded Las Vegas Sands Corporation. Additionally, the company owns the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore. Adelson was born August 4, 1933 in Dorchester, Boston, MA. He was an active philanthropist and lead the contributor list for Republican Party candidates. Adelson had more of a normal early life, much different than today. He enrolled in the City College of New York and after making this decision he…

    • 540 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Beatriz Milhazes was born in the 1960; her father was a lawyer and mother was an art historian (Ebony 130). In 1981, she earns her degree in journalism but after that year she attended a visual art school called Rios Escola de Artes Visuals do Parque Lage (Ebony 130). In 1993, she started showing her art internationally in countries such as Europe and Latin America (Ebony 130). During the mid-1990’s she showed her work in brazil where she created her set designs for a dance company and her…

    • 1277 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Flamingo Observation

    • 453 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Flamingo Report Markony Alvarado Per.6/8 Abstract: Flamingos like many animals interact with their environment and the others around them. In this experiment we will be observing what a flamingo does on a daily basis when in an enclosure. Five of the most common interactions were used to make a raw data set on what the flamingo did. We then made a chart to better show the data and making it easier to interpret it. In the end we concluded that flamingo #21 was asserting dominance to eat…

    • 453 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Drawing the Line between Classes Class systems have been around for ages. During the olden days people would have the job their parents had. Even if they had other dreams or aspirations they were forced to have the job their parents had. Other countries and cultures had a similar class system in which people could do whatever job they wanted as long as the job stayed in the class there parents came from. Occasionally people would do something honorable or worthy of a great reward, such as…

    • 778 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Drugs and Crime in Mexico Drugs and crime in Mexico has been risen very quickly. Mexico has become the focus of a great attention due to the concern of violence related to drug trafficking. Since the mexican president Felipe Calderon declared “war” on drug traffickers, an estimated of 22,000 people have died in drug-related violence. In the early twenty-first century, the mexican government attempt to stop the activity of drug cartels, but the result has been an uncontrolled violence. The…

    • 1064 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Secrets of Bangkok: Top Must See, Do and Taste Bangkok, the capital of Thailand and its biggest city, fascinates travelers with its splendid palaces, colorful and vibrant floating markets, authentic canals, majestic temples and shrines, and, of course, with its delicious food. Bangkok, widely known as “The City of Angels” is so same and so different at the same time. It welcomes visitors with its hot and wet climate, many colors, smells and sounds – a good cocktail that makes you feel like…

    • 949 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    its doors on 17 February 2011. It is a hotel resort which is a modern architectural design, the look of three towers attached by a sky terrace above, designed by Moshe Safdie that took inspirations from card decks. Marina Bay Sands is developed by Las Vegas Sands, which property worth of 8 billion now. Moreover, it won the proposal to meet Singapore’s economic and tourism goals. Marina bay sands Singapore, its business is mainly hospitality. They possess the world longest pool, the Infinity…

    • 1500 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Page 1 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 46