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Event Response: Black History Month Celebration The Study Hour Club and The University of Toledo sponsored the event. They co-sponsored The Black History Month Celebration. This event was February 6, 2016. It was the start of Black History Month. The celebration was a lecture luncheon that celebrated African Americans during the start of Black History Month. Including the lunch and the lecture, the event lasted two and half-hours. The Office of Multicultural Student Success was also a key…

The organization that I showed the most interest in for this assignment was The Independent Collegian Newspaper. My High school that I graduated from, unfortunately, did not have a newspaper to be apart of, and when I found out about this organization on campus, I knew that it would be a great experience that I could learn a lot from. I’ve always had a passion for writing, and I figured that this would be a great opportunity to learn about the process of creating and publishing a newspaper. I…

father managed the great voyage of discovery in 1492, Diego was made a page at the Spanish court. When his father’s died in 1506, he began a long struggle to regain his father’s former privileges in the Indies. Diego’s marriage to María Álvarez de Toledo, niece of the duque de Alba, the cousin of King Ferdinand, worked in his favour, and in 1508 he was accredited governor of the Indies. He arrived at Santo Domingo on the day of July 1509 and succeeded Nicolás de Ovando in that post. He wasn’t…

racism has developed into all sorts of discrimination. Some people discriminate foreigners and immigrants because they speak different languages, practice different customs and have different religious beliefs. Racist laws first started in 1449 in Toledo, Spain. The laws affected Spanish Jews, and made their lives harder. Jews were forced to convert to Christianity and become Catholics, and they were called “conversos”. Spanish Jews weren’t allowed to have many jobs. They weren’t…

“Of all milestones and achievements in medicine, conquering pain must be one of the very few that has potentially affected every human being in the world.” (Daniel H. Robinson & Alexander H. Toledo, 2012). It was in 1846 that one of mankind’s greatest fears, the pain of surgery, was eliminated. In the age before anesthetics, the norm was to perform surgeries on fully-conscious patients that were forcefully held down despite their cries and pleas. Now in the twenty first century it is hard to…

The Andersons Inc. is a diverse company that focuses on grain originations, processing, and brokering. The company’s headquarters is in Maumee, Ohio. The company started as a small independent grain elevator and prospered into a large U.S. conglomerate. The company holds strong values and beliefs in regards to how business should be conducted. They believe in the free enterprise system, fair competition, and compliance with the law, the incentives of profit and personal gain, and the…

Kehinde Wiley: A Twist on Urban Culture Kehinde Wiley’s art work gives a twist to urban culture, and highlights a group of people who is usually persecuted for their beliefs, looks and culture. His exhibit at the Toledo Museum of Art left my mind in “aha,” and in fact, inspired me to dig deeper into his works. My intriguing curiosity led me to his website http://kehindewiley.com/about . The streets of Harlem awakened Wiley’s keen eye to the natural-raw form of the brown skinned man; and…

His obsession with El Greco started when he went to study in Madrid where he was impressed by El Greco’s magnificent heads. As early as 1899 he had filled page after page of a sketchbook with caricatures of Greco-like portraits, often with flamboyant ruff collars, exaggerating their pointed chins, their schematic quality and their hyper-refined tonality. One of his heads even had the inscription: Yo El Greco, yo Greco! Shortly afterwards Picasso’s Blue Period followed and there his pictures were…

Experiencing African Arts Festival African Art Festival is a St. Louis tradition in the city. It’s sponsored by Washington University, Saint Louis Zoo, Saint Louis Art Museum, Office of Minority Health, and Recycling on the Go organization. The festival was located in Forest Park in St. Louis. Over half of the park was filled with African artists, vendors, and african musicians and dancers. The festival was a three day long event. May 28th - until May 30th. Each day the event started at 10 and…

will follow the next-generation Wrangler to the market. Manley’s statement was later confirmed by FCA CEO Sergio Marchionne that day. Marchionne added that the truck will be built alongside the Jeep Wrangler at the company’s manufacturing plant in Toledo, Ohio.…