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    What Is Askatasuna?

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    terrorist group that existed in the Basque region of Spain and in the southwestern part of France. Founded in 1959, it originated as a group that promoted the traditional Basque culture. What started as an organization that wanted to spread Basque pride, ended with a terrorist group that had a goal of getting independence for the Basque Country. While the ETA terrorist group was in action, they killed an estimated 857 people, 576 of which were located within the Basque region (Martin-Peña). The ETA developed

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    the cultural differences between its Spanish and Basque inhabitants. The 2.1 million people of Euskadi, the Basque area of Spain, speak a different language than typical Spaniards, have a separate culture and society from that of Spain; and have a history of their own. Throughout the decades, these major cultural differences contained within the borders of Spain have continued to cause conflict between the Spanish people and the people of the Basque area. Many within la comunidad autónoma del país

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    Picasso 's World War II

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    after the War. There is one painting in particular that I am referring to. This painting is none other than, famous artist, Pablo Picasso’s painting of Guernica. Guernica is a famous piece of artwork created in 1937. It depicts the bombings of a Basque Country village in northern Spain by German and Italian warplanes during the Spanish Civil War. The attack was unsuspected and unavoidable. Nearly three-quarters of the people’s homes were demolished and a large number of their population perished. In

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    Basques Social Structure

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    The Basques are people who inhabit a region spanning over parts of north-central Spain and southwestern France. Some people are still confused as to where they have originated from. Basques are now mainly found in an area traditionally known as Euskal Herria, which is located around the western end of the Pyrenees on the coast of the Bay of Biscay. The Basques language is also called the Euskera. The Basque language is an extremely complex language which has no close relatives anywhere else in the

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    Adjusting to the monetary and other economic policies of an integrated Europe - and further reducing unemployment - will pose challenges to Spain in the next few years.      Political tension in the Basque Country has eased tangibly since the mainstream Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) achieved its greatest ever victory in the

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    F. Works Cited 25 A. Introcution Spain 's powerful world empire of the 16th and 17th centuries ultimately yielded command of the seas to England. Subsequent failure to embrace the mercantile and industrial revolutions caused the country to fall behind Britain, France, and Germany in economic and political power. Spain remained neutral in World Wars I and II, but suffered through a devastating Civil War (1936-39). In the second half of the 20th century, it has played a catch-up role

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    national language of his home country. However, a notable number of people speak a cultural language as well. The salience of these languages on the north vs. south side of the Pyrenees Mountains is substantial. Catalan, spoken in northeastern Spain and southeastern France, and Basque, a language isolate spoken in northern Spain and southwestern France, are minority languages. Both are distinct from Castilian Spanish with their own literature, people, and culture. While Basque and Catalan are prevalent

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    Many countries and people from different parts of the world established individual identities throughout the course of the twentieth century which greatly impacted globalization. Identity relates to self-image and is crucial for the development of culture. “A person's identity is defined as the totality of one's self-construal, in which how one construes oneself in the present expresses the continuity between how one construes oneself as one was in the past and how one construes oneself as one aspires

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    Reflection Of The Camino

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    we strolled down the narrow streets. A parade was commencing when we were wandering around that was celebrating the Basque Region’s heritage. They were dressed in their traditional clothes and were waving the Basque flag. I didn’t know about the Basque Region’s fight for independence before then but Mr. Mccormack explained it to me. To greatly simplify it, the citizens of the Basque Region believe they shouldn’t be members of France and Spain because they have their own traditions, customs and lifestyles

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    #######poorly written######Pozzo's Triumph of Saint Ignatius of Loyola is on the ceiling of the Church of Sant'Ignazio in Rome, and was painted from 1685-1694. It is approximately 56 feet by 115 feet across the ceiling, and uses a quadratura perspective to create an almost three dimensional effect. While the effect makes the center look much higher, it is actually painted on an arched ceiling called a barrel vault. This is a fresco painting, a type of coloring that made the painting integral to the

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