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Augustine, also better known as St. Augustine or even Aurelius Augustinus, was born in North Africa around 354, in the town of Tagaste. He was a fourth century philosopher, with Christian doctrine based on Neoplatonism, a theologian and a bishop. Raised by his Christian mother, he initially took a mild interest towards Christ, but surprisingly more towards the “attractions of sex, fame and pride in his own cleverness.” However, the fact that he was raised as Christian immensely affected him when…

Massimo Vignelli: New York Subway Diagram. Communication is an essential part of graphic design. Public signs, utility signs, and road signs are examples of how a design communicate the information with the use of graphical elemtns. As up in coming graphic designers, it is important for us to understand how we should approach informative design; creating something that is just aesthetically pleasing won’t be an effective tool for the public to utilize in everyday life. A perfect example of how…

Religion has always been a topic of discussion because everyone identifies themselves with one or none. The religion everyone identifies with is the guide for their morality and how they should live their life. The most known religions are Catholicism, Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, and Judaism. Although they are different, they all sprung up from similar teachings and ideas. Christianity is one of the most popular religion today, however, it had a rough start like many other religions…

Task 2- Multicultural Empires Part A. A1 (Rome). There are many geographical factors that impacted the development of Rome but the one geographical factor that had a significant impact on the development of Rome was the Tiber River. Just like the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, and China, the Roman Republic, and later empire, developed and flourished alongside a river. The Tiber river allowed the people of Rome to grow crops of wheat and barley that they not only used for…

1. How reality is seen by First Order Cybernetics and Second Order Cybernetics. For one to understand how reality is viewed by first and second order cybernetics, one first has to define what reality is. Reality is defined as a real existence or actual being as opposed to imaginary, idealised or false. It is something that actually happens in real life and is comparable with fact (Rooney, 2001; Brandford, 1987). With this given definition, it is safe to say that reality is something that we can…

became a volunteer ambulance driver in Italy during World War I. Hemingway was soon sent to the battlefield where he got a fatal leg wound. Hemingway met and fell in love with a nurse named Agnes Von Kuroki when he was sent to an American Hospital in Milan (Magnum). Hemingway returned…

Many pieces of art and treasure were lost during the time of the Holocaust. Losing art and treasure is like losing a piece to your culture. Up to 200,000 art works are thought to have gone missing during WWII. Luckily, a group called the Monuments Men saved or discovered more than five million works of art in Nazi hiding places. Without them many famous pieces of art known around the world wouldn’t be here today. The Monuments men didn’t save every treasure or piece of art, but there are some…

couldn’t even compete with them, it was too weak. Another aspect was that Henry didn’t and couldn’t have a lot of victories, this was due to England being poor. Instead, the 20 year old French successor, Francis I invaded northern Italy and recaptured Milan from the Habsburgs. Francis, like Henry, wanted to be the centre of attention and he could afford to. Another person who made Henry look weaker, was Charles V who became the King of Spain, The Holy Roman Emperor and the Duke in the…

They have two children: son, Eliahu Jordan and daughter, Addison. In 1982, he joined Starbucks as the Director of Marketing. While on an official trip to Milan, Italy, he noticed that every street had coffee bars that served as meeting places apart from espresso. On his return, he persuaded the owners of Starbucks to launch a pilot café project of serving espresso beverages in addition to the whole bean coffee…

The Biography of Shakira Introduction Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll is a colombian singer and dancer. She was born to a lebanese father and a colombian mother. She has many arab and latin influences in her music due to her different heritages. She also has millions of supporters and fans and continues to do what she does best. Childhood An important part of her dancing started out when she was a child. She was went to eat and when she began to sit down she noticed a belly dancer, without a…