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Profile on Antonio Gaudi in Spanish
Hijo de un modesto calderero, vivió una infancia enfermiza en la que
padeció frecuentes dolores reumáticos, los que, en muchas ocasiones,
le impidieron realizar algo tan normal como era jugar con los otros
niños. Estas molestias físicas le acompañaron el resto de sus días. El
lugar de su nacimiento se lo disputan Riudoms y Reus, poblaciones muy
próximas entre sí en la provincia de Tarragona, si bien la mayoría de
sus biógrafos afirman que fue en Reus.
Se trasladó a Barcelona, a los 17 años, con la intención de cursar
estudios de Arquitectura. Por falta de recursos económicos tuvo que
simultanear sus estudios con el trabajo de delineante y proyectista.
Esto le permitió trabajar junto a conocidos arquitectos, como Josep
Fontseré y Joan Martorell.
Cuando a los 26 años obtuvo el título de Arquitecto, estaba a punto de
iniciarse una nueva etapa en la vida de Antoni Gaudí. Mientras
esperaba realizar obras de mayor envergadura, llevó a cabo algunos
pequeños trabajos de carácter decorativo. Entre ellos diseñó una
vitrina para una conocida guantería de Barcelona, Casa Comella, para
la Exposición Universal de París de 1878. Eusebi Güell, importante
empresario del sector textil, quedó prendado de la modernidad y
elegancia de aquella vitrina. Tras conocer al joven autor, se
convirtió en el principal cliente y mecenas de Gaudí.
Gaudí no sólo revolucionó la arquitectura, además fue un creador
prolífico. Diseñó muebles, mosaicos, elementos decorativos, hierro
forjado y cualquier elemento que formara parte de sus construcciones.
Un estilo personalísimo
Gaudí fue el creador de una nueva arquitectura basada en las líneas
curvas. Experimentó estructuras y nuevas formas de una manera
continuada. Por este motivo, prefería desarrollar sus ideas a escala y
en forma corpórea. La tridimensionalidad de sus maquetas en yeso,
barro, tela metálica, o cartón mojado y moldeado, le acompañaron
siempre. Sus ideas "corpóreas", en muchas ocasiones, no fueron
sometidas a la limitación que obligan las dos dimensiones del papel de
dibujo. A veces modificaba las formas directamente en la obra, en el
Guillermo González Camarena was a Mexican electrical engineer who was the inventor of a color-wheel type of color television, and who also introduced color television to Mexico,
The person I decided to choose is a very important family member to me who I care a lot about and is part of my mother’s side family. The person I chose is Silvana Giono, or also known as “Nonna,” meaning grandma in Italian. She is a very brave woman whom I look up to everyday of my life. Silvana grew up in Turin, Italy during the worst circumstances and has many stories yet to be told to me.
A lot of people like to watch scary movies because they like to get scared and because they enjoy watching them. One of these popular and scary stories is La Ciguapa. La Ciguapa is known myth that comes from Dominican Republic.First La Ciguapa is a brown skinned woman with ripped black eyes. Her body looks different, she has her first turned upside down which makes her run faster. La Ciguapa lives in the mountains in caves. Sometimes when she sees a male walkingthere, she attracts them with her beauty. That’s the reason the males disappear. La Ciguapa seduces them and they loose their mind and they end up going with her and she keeps them in the caves.Second, La Ciguapa has a hair that is so long that becomes the only clothes she uses to cover
Gabriel José García Márquez was born on March 6, 1928 in Arataca, Colombia. Born to Gabriel Eligio García and María Márquez Iguarán, the first years of his childhood were spent with his maternal grandparents. In 1936, Márquez won a scholarship to the Colegio Nacional, a school near Bogota, and received his bachillerato in 1946. Choosing to attend the National University of Colombia in 1947, Márquez had his first short story La tercera resignacion in El Espectador, a local newspaper.
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Deemed as Latin America’s Marlene Dietrich, Andrea Palma was a versatile theater, film and television actress in Mexico, Hollywood and Spain. Born as Guadalupe Bracho on April 16, 1903 in Durango City, Mexico, she was one of eleven children. Palma was not the only member of her family to pursue a film career during the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema . Her brothers, Julio Bracho and Jesus Bracho, were a director-writer and set designer working in the Mexican Studio System and her cousins were one of Hollywood’s most well known “Latin Lovers,” Ramon Novarro, and Latin American to Hollywood crossover star Dolores Del Rio.
Sergio Canavero, an Italian neurosurgeon, has long made clear his goal to perform the first human head transplant. But recently, the likelihood of actually removing a patient’s head and attaching it to a donor body has skyrocketed. Canavero has found one man, Valery Spiridonov, willing to volunteer his own head, and a location in which he can perform the risky procedure before the end of the year (Lamont). But is Spiridonov’s consent fully informed, or is an ambitious doctor taking advantage of a desperate man? Canavero is working outside the jurisdiction of any ethical review boards, as he plans to perform the experiment in China. Based on Canavero’s pride and Spiridonov’s own words, I find it disturbingly likely that Canavero has not given
Carroña (Carrion), by Javier Perez, is an Murano glass sculpture installation located at the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York. This sculpture was created in 2011. It consists of taxidermied crows feasting on the remains of a shattered red chandelier made of glass. Carroña is a representational sculpture, meaning that it depicts objects that people can recognize from the everyday world. People can easily recognize the crows and the chandelier which are common objects in today’s world. The sculpture contains many elements of art such as: shape, line, form, texture, contrast, color, pattern and unity.
I started talking to someone named Jorge Salazar. My friend Kristine invited me to get tacos with her mom after school. She invited her friend Jorge Salazar, a guy I've seen in school but never had the chance to talk to until today. Kristines mom sat in a both so me and Kristine sat in between Jorge Salazar. When we left home Jorge found me on facebook and we became friends. I didn't know he lived so close to my house. The next 14 days me and Jorge would text every day and night until on of us feel asleep. Then on October 6,2016 when Jorge was texting me he wanted me to go outside because he wanted to ask me a question in person. He asked me out 3 times and then my moms boyfriend came outside so I had to leave. The next morning I was getting
Había una vez Un chico que nació con cáncer. Un cáncer que no tenia cura.
Historia del Flamenco - Spanish Essay La música flamenca empezó con una voz y unas palmas, y más tarde se incorporó la guitarra. Es sólo en este siglo cuando se introdujo el zapateo. Hoy en día, las tres principales herramientas del flamenco son el cante, la guitarra y el baile. Casi todos los estilos o palos flamencos pueden interpretarse con o sin baile, habiendo bailes sin cante y temas puramente vocales, "a cappela".
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Amongst the several intellectual and artistic Renaissance individuals, this figure “saw the angle in the marble and carved until he set him free.” Artist Michelangelo Buonarroti learned his art while young and under the occupation of Lorenzo de Magnificent; his talent was pooled in different directions, but he applied himself to traditional religious matters with great devotion, although he had been increasingly attracted to the classical legends he heard at home. Michelangelo was born with talents beyond artistry; he is mostly known as being a painter and sculptor, but Michelangelo was also an architect, poet, and engineer.
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