YA is a nebulous term, and scholars are still in the process of defining what it is and who it is for. Campbell (Campbell’s Scoop: Reflections on Young Adult Literature, Scarecrow Press, Lanham, 2010) writes, ‘the central theme of most YA fiction is...
When I first watched this movie, I found listening to many of the characters’ speeches far more frightening to hear than watching the entirety of Schindler’s List. Not because they were filled with graphic violent descriptions (they weren’t), but because of how it profoundly shatters most ...
six major groups, including Chinese (22.8%),Asian Indian(19.4%), Filipino (17.4%), Vietnamese (10.6%), Korean (9.7%), and Japanese (5.2%).Asian Indianssurpassed Filipinos for the first time in the 2010 census, indicating the increase of migration from South Asia over the last 10 years...
It was during those nearly 300 years that the synthesis of Spanish and American Indian cultures took place. Early in that period the Southwest of what is now the United States was added to Mexico. (The Spanish administration founded one of the oldest cities in North America, Santa Fe [now ...
then Hinduism is the oldest living religion on Earth. Its manysacredtexts inSanskritandvernacularlanguages served as a vehicle for spreading the religion to other parts of the world, though ritual and the visual and performing arts also played a significant role in its transmission. From about the...
History of Art Origins and Evolution of Visual Arts. MAIN A-Z INDEX Venus of Willendorf (25,000 BCE). HISTORY OF SCULPTURE For a guide to the chronology of 3-D art, see:Sculpture History. Contents Chronological summary of major movements, styles, periods and artists that have contributed ...
ContactArts-Culture@alpharetta.ga.usfor more information. City of Alpharetta Powered byEsri 1 Alpharetta and Old Milton County History Museum Museum is located inside the Alpharetta City Hall 2 The Jones House The craftsman style home was built for Will Jones and his wife May Jackson Jones at ...
1772 arrival of the Spanish who established missions, killed those who objected in direct warfare and spread diseases that decimated the Tatcan, Seunen and Saclan tribes in horrifying numbers. When the missions were closed in 1863, fewer than a score of Indian descendants in the region were ...
to overthrow British Raj in colonial India. The regiment was one of the very few all-female combat regiments of WWII on any side, and was named after another renowned female revolutionary in Indian history, Rani Lakshmibai, who was one of the leading figures of the Indian Rebellion of 1857...
Mosquito vector discovered by Ronald Ross of Indian Medical Service in 1897. Symptoms: Initially recurrent (“intermittent”) fever, then constant high fever, violent shakes and shivering, nausea, vomiting. Clinical descriptions as far back as Hippocrates in fifth century B.C. and earlier still in...