It plays its role as not only the carrier and form of culture but also the most vital element of transmission and inheritance of culture. Language of any kind is the crystallization of the culture of its own nation. As the cream of the culture, the [translate] aFrench force near Basque ...
The violin is the most common type of fiddle. It comes in different sizes to suit players of different ages, but because there are no distinct differences between violins and fiddles (besides size), many people call all instruments with fingerboards fiddles when discussing folk music. When the...
ahis work changeed ideas about art around the world and to millions of people modern art means the work of picasso guernica (below) which he painted in 1937 records the bombing of that small basque town during the spanish civil war and is undoubtedly one of the masterpieces of modern painti...
aCUFF & BASQUE HEM DEPTH 袖口&巴斯克人吊边深度[translate] aHe has heard rumors that Meregan Kierlic,leader of the Gryphononsword Company,would sell his own mother into slavery,if he could make a few denars on the deal 他听说Meregan Kierlic, Gryphononsword Company领导,将卖他自己的母亲入奴...
The Ethnic Community: Ethnic Media as Mobilizing Forces Ethnic media provide newly arrived immigrants as well as members of more established ethnic communities a kind of social barometer. They offer an under- standing of the current relationship between the ethnic community and the broader society. ...
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What is an example of an allegory? Basically, an allegory is a really long metaphor. Here are some other well-known allegories: in addition to Plato's cave allegory, are C.S. Lewis'sThe Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, William Golding'sLord of the Flies, Frances Hodgon Burnett'sTh...
Four-thousand-year-old rock carvings show that the people who lived in what is now Norway were probably the first to seek out and kill whales in the sea. By around 890 AD, 3,000 years later, the practice had spread to the Basque people of France and Spain, who hunted whales from ...
This is the same kind of infrastructure and landscape we have been seeing on the Medoc Peninsula on the Atlantic Coast of western France.Before I leave this part of the North Atlantic coast, I would like to mention what are called the “New England Seamounts,” that begin at the edge of...
one that would last around 40 years. In 1546, a Basque (ethnic group from Spain) namedJuan de Tolosa, was in the region of the Zacotecas when the locals took him to a rock outcrop. The outcrop, however, consisted of silver ore, and fairly quickly the Spanish founded a mining town, ...