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One People, One Building, One Belief
Introduction During Mexico’s time as a Viceroyalty, the Spanish encountered a significant challenge: the cultural divide between themselves and indigenous groups. Uniting these diverse populations required fostering deep connections. The religion needed to be spread, ...
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A Stronghold of Faith and Reason
«New Haven is a time machine». Those were the initial words of Dr. Charles Mercier, my professor of Music and Classical Language, before our class began the architectural tour of New Haven. The best part ...
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Hans Zimmer’s Life Must Have Its Mysteries and William-Adolphe Bouguereau’s Dante and Virgil in Hell
“Midway this way of life we’re bound upon, I woke to find myself in a dark wood. Where the right road was wholly lost and gone.(1)” In this essay, I seek to compare Hans Zimmer’s ...
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Libertad en El Principito.
«Lo esencial es invisible a los ojos; solo se ve bien con el corazón.» Introducción En este trabajo escrito sobre El Principito, escrito por el autor francés Antoine de SaintExupéry en el año 1943, vamos ...
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Amor adolescente en El Camino por Miguel Delibes
Introducción Elegí esta obra de Miguel Delibes por la profundidad que hay detrás de una despedida del lugar que se considera hogar, no solo por el lugar en sí, pero también por las personas, experiencias, ...
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New Zealand Celebrity in Modern Art
Sam McKinnis, Lorde (Melodrama), 2016. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut Some faces are meant to be seen, but others are intended to be felt. I was walking into the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum when I ...
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Rachmaninoff’s Vocalise and Alexandre Cabanel’s The Fallen Angel
For this comparative essay, I have chosen Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Vocalise Op. 34 No. 14, published in 1915, and Alexandre Cabanel’s The Fallen Angel, painted in 1847. Firstly, Cabanel’s work is a blend of emotion and ...
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The Greatest Showman, a Treaty of Humanities
INTRODUCTION “Story” is a powerful word, a good story can make you cry, laugh and fall in love. In a good story the nights are covered with magic, and the endless days are full ...
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