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    Known by many different names, including Arnolfini Double Portrait and The Arnolfini Marriage, The Arnolfini Portrait was painted by Jan van Eyck (Figure 1). Van Eyck is known for several pieces, most notably the Ghent Altarpiece. The portrait is an eighty-two by sixty centimetres oil paint on oak panel painting. Though it is not what year van Eyck began this painting, it is dated as complete in 1434. The Arnolfini Portrait depicts Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini and his wife, Costanza Trenta. In

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    The Decline of Danaus Plexippus The Danaus plexxippus, also known as the Monarch butterfly, is spread all throughout North America during various parts of the year. In the summer they can migrate as far north as Canada, and during the winter months they can migrate as far south as Mexico. Because Monarchs cannot withstand low temperatures, they make use of different habitats during summer and cold months. They spend the spring, summer and fall months in various places throughout the United States

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    Jan van Eyck, also known as Johannes de Eyck, was an early Flemish painter acknowledged for helping with the commencement of the Northern Renaissance. Jan van Eyck, most commonly recognized for his role in painting for Philip the Good, Duke of Normandy, has hundreds of finished and unfinished works, all equally complex and intricate. His most well known works include, the Arnolfini Wedding, Madonna of Chancellor Rolin, Portrait of a Man, and the Annunciation. While he frequently painted and portrayed

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    It is tempting to look at Pablo Neruda as a poetic mastermind, however, he struggled as many people do today. He faced adversity that could happen to anyone in our world today. Pablo Neruda was a pen name of a Chilean man named Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto who grew up in a troubled world and broken home. Ricardo showed a passion for writing at the early age. At the age of thirteen he was already contributing to la Manana, a popular newspaper in Temuco, Chile, where he lived at the time

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    Pablo Neruda was born on July 12, 1904 in a small town in Chile. Neruda’s mother died shortly after his birth, leaving him in the care of his father. Neruda began to write at the age of ten. Gabriela Mistral, who would later become a Nobel Prize winner, recognized Neruda’s talents by giving him books and encouragement he did not have at home. In his early teen years, he began to publish his writings under the name of what we know as “Pablo Neruda” in memory of the Czechoslovak poet, Jan Neruda

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    Sharda Steel   Date and Place of Birth Pablo Neruda was Born Ricardo Eliecer Neftali Reyes in Parral, Chile on July the 12th 1904. His father was a railroad worker while his mother was a teacher who passed shortly after his birth. Neruda had two half siblings when growing up. Education He attended Temuco Boy’s School, where he published his first poems at the age of 13 under the name Pablo Neruda to the daily La Mañana. This was because Neruda wished to hide his poetry from his father who was

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    Chilean poet Pablo Neruda who can be seen as the representative poet of the entire 20th century. The poet wrote mostly in Spanish elaborately and passionately about his people , their misery . His Nobel prize in literature

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