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reluctant military (who did not like his ideas of officer minimalisation). The next elections were won by the republicans, led by Azana, without too much difficulty. The Republic lasted 8 years before another military coup, led by general Franco, took over the government. The Republic tried to set out major reforms, intending to restructure the whole of Spain. The eight-hour working day was set up, as well as a reduction of officers in the armed forces (by the form of early retirement)

Despite the dominating romance between the two young lovers, as the play progresses, one would realize that the platonic love of those around Romeo and Juliet, though no one can be at fault, is what actually leads the lovers to their ends. In Franco Zeffirelli’s movie rendition of the play, this underlying love is revealed as well and is shown evidently. Therefore, Zeffirelli manages to portray this love clearly, allowing the

film The Spirit of the Beehive is about Ana a girl who lives with her parents and older sister in a manor house in an isolated Spanish village. The film told through Ana’s perspective and takes place in 1940, right after the civil war when Francisco Franco declares victory. Fernando Ana’s father spends most of his time tending his beehives meanwhile her mother Teresa spends her time daydreaming about an ex-lover and writing letters to him. Ana and her sister Isabel watch the movie Frankenstein, Ana

Throughout Spain’s history, the role and image of women have been shaped by the ideals set forth by the traditional and devout Catholic political authority. After the changes that followed the death of dictator Francisco Franco, the female role in Spain has been just as much in transition as the nation’s political system. This time of transition would serve as an opportunity where Spanish women could reclaim their identity and show that they were just as deserving of their individual rights as men

Republican government and fascist forces led by General Francisco Franco attempting to overthrow them. He depicts this in the painting by drawing out a bull and a horse. Although, he uses bulls and horses in many of his other paintings such as minotauromachy, to symbolize life and death rituals of the spanish bullfightings he saw as a child. This painting is a bit peculiar. The bull and horse symbolize republican fighters (horse) and Francos army (bull). In the painting you can see that the bull is

The film The Spirit of the Beehive, is about Ana a girl who lives with her parents and older sister in a manor house in an isolated Spanish village. The film takes place in 1940, right after the civil war when Francisco Franco declares victory. Fernando Ana’s father spends most of his time tending his beehives meanwhile her mother Teresa spends her time daydreaming about an ex-lover and writing letters to him. Ana and her sister Isabel watch the movie Frankenstein, Ana is so fascinated by the story

In a longer historical perspective the Spanish Civil War amounts to the opening battle of World War II, perhaps the only time in living memory when the world confronted—in fascism and Nazism—something like unqualified evil. The men and women who understood this early on and who chose of their own free will to stand against fascism have thus earned a special status in history. Viewed internally, on the other hand, the Spanish Civil War was the culmination of a prolonged period of national political

Francisco Franco directs a successful military rebian to remove Spain’s democratic republic during the Spanish civil war from (1936-1939). His vicious dictatorship had controlled the country for a very long time.He was a soldier who becomes powerful in the mid-1930s. When social and economic of Spain to fell down. A civil war happened because Franco did not get any help from other democratic governments, he got some help from Soviet Russia and also from a large number of foreign volunteers. Franco’s

Bullfighting originates back to 700 A.D. in Spain. It started as an activity for the King’s crowning. It was later turned to a ceremonial event for the upper class. The status of bullfighting changed when King Felipe V thought it brought a negative attention to his family. Because the people of Spain had grown accustomed to the event, the commoners took it on as a sport. This event or sport has special equipment, participants, structure, and purpose. Each piece of equipment used plays an important

Cirque Du Soleil The flips, the dips, the falls, the ropes, the trampolines. These are all qualities of the most popular circus in the whole entire world. They call it Cirque Du Soleil which is French for “Circus of the Sun.” On July 7, 1984, Cirque started by two street performers in Quebec. They traveled to the U.S for the first time in 1967, creating their first permanent show right here in Las Vegas, Nevada; called Mystere, and is still going strong to this day. It also led to even more permanent