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    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

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    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

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    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

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    wanted a new government and Juan Carlos I was loosening his own personal power of the monarchy in order to transition Spain into a democracy. The Bunker political party at the time, however were still supporters of the fascist regime of Francisco Franco. The dictatorship supporters would probably disagree with the left, believing that Carlos was acting unethically. Carlos took over the monarchy as “Franco’s heir,” and was expected to continue on the dictatorship after Franco’s death. Juan Carlos

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    The Spanish government and establishment were possibly the Franco regimes strongest tools in asserting the regime's authority over the Spanish people. A new government was established after the Spanish Civil War with a new main state party, new laws, and a new political system. Franco was so well-established at the end of the Spanish Civil War that no political opposition stood a chance, including the Falange. In order to create a stable system of political power in Spain, the Falange was fulfilled

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    Utilising, “The Study Diamond: effects, techniques, context and meaning” (The Open University, 2013, p. 76), this essay will argue through close visual analysis from an art history point of view that Picasso’s Guernica is a form of protest. The essay will also argue that Guernica’s meaning has changed to include becoming a symbol of peace and continues to fulfil its purpose as a form of protest. A large mural, Guernica is an example of Synthetic Cubism painted by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973). Created

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    Civil War Poetry The American Civil War and the Spanish Civil War were primarily wars of principle. The conflicts represented a critical point for each respective nation, a time of either death or continuation for the countries. Both Whitman and Neruda exibit a key shared element in the poets' works of the concept of a cosmic rebirth illustrated in their poetry through a celebration of the perpetual cycle of life and death fostering optimism. This mutual philosophy is manifested in Neruda

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    Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teodulo Franco Bahamonde, or more commonly Francisco Franco, was born on December 4, 1892 in Ferrol, Galicia, Spain. Franco was born to Nicolas Franco y Salgado-Araújo, a Spanish Naval Officer, and María del Pilar Bahamonde y Pardo de Andrade, an upper middle class Roman Catholic. Until the age of 12, Francisco attended El Ferrol’s Roman Catholic School of the Sacred Heart, a small private school run by a priest; he would then attend a naval secondary school. His family

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    America throughout the three-year war. Although the Spanish Republican government had been democratically elected and the Nationalist side was allied with and receiving support from Mussolini’s Italy and Hitler’s Germany, who guaranteed a Franco victory along as a result of their support rather than supporting the Republic, the American government approved an official Act of Neutralityi. US diplomatic officials in Spain were even told to refrain from any interference with the unfortunate

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    Napoleon) and Francisco Franco of the Spanish Civil War (hereafter Franco) came from similar backgrounds with a heavy influence on education and military training. Both men fought with a primary motivation of forming a military dictatorship under their rule. One notable area that where they differed is in their leadership: Franco led through fear and intimidation whereas Napoleon led by gaining the respect of his people. With respect to their backgrounds, Francisco Franco and Napoleon Bonaparte

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