"Candyman" is the kind of major swing you hope to see from modern horror movies. Building upon the 1992 film's themes of race and class in America (this "remake" is actually a sequel), director Nia DaCosta revisits the same haunted Chicago settings, only to find them gentrified, saf...
Seeing Greece of the Dark Ages (c. 1200-800 BC) as the kind of feudal society pictured in the Iliad, it not hard to imagine the new world of merchants and commerce with the same kind of dynamic that the Italian trading cities of the Renaissance exhibited in starting the process that und...
romantic criolla "La Bayamesa." Everything fell into place at the right time for this album — from the chemistry between the musicians to the rich music history of Havana — to create one of the moments that can only be described as pure musical magic.Buena Vista Social Clubsold more than...
In addition to all this, there is what we can glean about religious attitudes from Machiavelli’s personal sentiments and behavior. We know that he was a military commander, and fought, and killed people. We know that he was what I think of as “averagely promiscuous” for a Renaissance ma...
1.What madeItalythe birthplace of the Renaissance? Because of its geographical position, foreign trade developed early inItaly. This broughtItalyinto contact with other cultures and gave rise to urban economy and helpedItalyaccumulate wealth which was an essential factor for the flowering of art and...
Italy, the once-great region that blessed the world with the Renaissance and gave us people like Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci – arguably the most brilliant individual of all time – now has its own legion of ‘scientists’ who perpetuate the idiotic pro-drug, anti-fat, anti-ch...
These affective theories of well-being have experienced a renaissance since the 1960s. Before that, modern post-Enlightenment science and the rise of behaviorism approaches in psy- chology in the 1930s had excluded many of these approaches and insights from consideration as 'valid evidence.' ...
was therefore one of the first problems to be faced. The Empress Dowager always had reason to fear that the great national renaissance in China might take an anti-dynastic direction. The efforts of high Manchu officials to avoid such a result led them, in 1900, to make common cause with ...
Mayfield Road near Euclid Avenue and adjacent to the Western Reserve University campus, his institutional neighbors were the Cleveland Museum of Art, University Hospital, and Severance Hall, home of the Cleveland Orchestra. The club also bordered the ethnic enclave known as Murray Hill/Little Italy....
In the case of the Shinkansen, that task fell to the man described as "Old Man Thunder."10 Sogo had gone directly to work for the govern- ment railway agency upon graduating from university in 1909 and was appointed head of JNR in 1955. Having spent his entire career in railroads, he ...