Maravillas C., Melder E. J. Leonardo da Vinci’s painting, figure 16-18 Madonna on the Rocks (1483), was created during the High Renaissance period, in which he portrays the Virgin Mary as a real human mother, no longer idolizing her as the queen of heaven. While Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun’s portrait, figure 17-25 Marie Antoinette and Her Children (1781) was created during the Rococo period and shows Marie Antoinette, the wife of Louis XVI, as a loving mother, with only her clothing representing her…
Our Lady of Guadalupe, Spanish Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, is the Catholic title of the Virgin Mary who appeared before St. Juan Diego in a vision in 1531. On October 12, 1945, Pope Pius the XII named her “Patroness of all the Americas”. The Our Lady Of Guadalupe Basilica is located in Mexico city and is the most visited Catholic shrine in the world. Fray Bernardino de Sahagún was a Franciscan missionary priest, who helped in the Catholic evangelization of New Spain. He was born in…
of the Tepeyac hill. Using Nahuatl, Juan Diego’s native language, she asked that a church be erected in her honor. Juan Diego attempted twice to convince Archbishop Juan de Zumarraga (Archbishop of Mexico from 1530-1548) of the apparition of the virgin; as well he attempted to convince the archbishop to build a church to Honor La Virgen de Guadalupe. Unfortunately, his first two attempts were unsuccessful. As a result La Virgen de Guadalupe appeared to Juan Diego Again and made colorful roses…
When it comes to texting while driving, only about 1 out of 5 young drivers think that texting makes no difference to their driving performance. The issue concern addressed here is not that mobile devices have become this great widespread readily available communication tooltool, but the consequences that it causes because of the lack of common sense of its use. The primary concern is the results of the use of this device while driving. In 2011, 3,333 people were killed as a result of…
Erica Gibson DeVry University LAS 432/(82) Dr. Scoma 9/9/2014 Environmental Effects of Cell Phones A mobile phone is a contraption that can receive and make calls over a radio connection while moving around a wide geographic zone. It does so by joining with a cell system given by a cellular telephone administrator, permitting access to general society phone systems. By difference, a cordless phone is utilized inside the short scope of a solitary, private base station. Notwithstanding…
Mcdonalds freewrite (5 minutes) So the whole situation happened when I looked at my schedule on 1/3/2016 and noticed that I was working from 8:00am-10:30am on 1/7/2016 Wednesday. It was weird how I was scheduled to work two and a half hours because I have not been scheduled to work that short amount of time in about a whole year. Nevertheless, I was not disappointed because my great grandmother was turning 88 on that day. So I made plans to spend time with her after work. On 1/6/2016 I double…
they bought Virgin mobile and created the UK’s first “Quad play” provider in 2006. In 2007, NTL: Telewest rebranded itself and its products under the name of Virgin media. Virgin media is the UK’s largest telecommunication media, nationwide fibre optic network; its head office is in Hook. Virgin media has sharply improved from few functions to many creative and different products. Nowadays Virgin provides a broadband internet services, TV channels, WiFi, phone calls, SIM cards, mobile phones,…
Mobile phone data transmission has several different ways of getting data from one point to the next. There have been several different standards developed over the years, which has changed the way we communicate. In this paper I will go over the history of mobile transmission, the different cellular access technologies, mobile broadband technologies, the top mobile phone companies, and the future of mobile phone transmission. My goal for this paper is to get a better understanding of how mobile…
Being Distracted by Texting While Driving is a Societal Problem Messages can wait, texting and driving are not the best friends on the road driver’s and other’s life are more important than answering a message. In North America specifically in the United States and Canada a big number of car accidents and deaths occur by being distracted by texting, talking by phone or even using hands-free options while people are driving or by being distracted when walking, causing people to walk into the…
“Currently, 44 states, including the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands make it illegal to text and drive.” (Wallace) Some of the penalties of texting while driving include; hefty fines, licence suspension, raised insurance rates, and even prison time. “You think your auto insurance premium is too expensive now…