Essays Tagged: "catalan"

... also have their own languages: Castilian which is the official language, Basque, Catalan and Galician whereas; other minorities include Gitanos, Magyras, Gypses and Jews. Their...

...-dimensional shapes were unique. In 1914 Miró painted a man wearing a Catalan “liberty cap.” (Higdon2) After Miró had completed small amount of his paintings... paint and ceramics enable Miró to express his feelings and depict the Catalan people’s struggle through art.         Surrealism in the 1920s was defined as... and sympathetic artists during the Surrealism periods. Miró was born into the Catalan culture in April 20,1893 in Barcelona, Spain (Munro 288). Having to...

... furious and ordered the royal ministers of the principality to ignore the Catalan constitution since defence of the realm outweighed it. This confirmed to many... a tight schedule where the king would address the Aragonese, Valencian and Catalan Cortes in quick succession from the beginning of 1626. His proposals were... the possibility of co-operation with France. Olivares decided to challenge the Catalans head on by using their boarder in the war against France, bringing...

... for the majority of his life thereafter, it was 1889 and the Catalan Modernist style was just beginning to become widespread during his first few... and accounts on Gaudi that I have read categorize him as a Catalan Modernist, but on further research I saw elements of many other styles... see why this area was such a great influence to him. The Catalan Gothic style is best seen in the beautiful Cathedral found amongst the...

... construction of the church SagradaFamilia in the Eixample district. In 1883 the Catalan architectAntoni Gaudí took over of the construction work and continuedthe leadership until... expulsion of the Moors by the Carolingian waslaid for the foundation the Catalan nation. Barcelona became an independent county, capitalof the Spanish market and important... intensified even more. The Eixample is characterized by the buildings of the Catalan modernism. Some of themost important historical points of interest are the Sagrada...

... protest at the land reform measures passed by the Generalitat, the sovereign Catalan parliament. (Carr, 1982, p. 618)Anarchists also did not support these developments.... Immediate amnesty was granted to all the political prisoners, including the regional Catalan government of President Companys, who had been served a thirty-five year... by the wealthy land owners, and in particular the 1934 revolts in Catalan and in the Asturias. The assassination of Calvo Sotelo simply acted as...

... Marxista [Revolutionary (i.e. anti-Stalinist) Communists]) was ousted from the Generalitat (Catalan Government) by the Communists. 21st December 1936 The Republican submarine C3 was... REPUBLICAN INVASION OF MAJORCA On 9th August a Republican expeditionary force of Catalan and Valencian troops, commanded by Air Force Captain Alberto Bayo and Guardia... 3rd September they mounted a counter-attack on the Republican bridgehead. The Catalan troops rapidly withdrew to the beaches and re-embarked aboard the ships...

... cocaine and 8,000 pounds of marijuana from Pressurized tanker cars. Agent Catalan and her co-workers had everything they needed to bust the people..., we are hearing similar stories from agents all over the nation. Agent Catalan also stated "The U.S customs agency is the only agency that... her report, she discusses the story of former Customs agent Darlene Catalan. Agent Catalans record of service was impeccable, until she became one of several...

... that lasted for two weeks. The army quashed this rebellion whilst the Catalans set up their own government. This demonstrated the incompetence of the government... war were created by two important regions in Spain that wanted autonomy and independence. The Catalans and Basque country wanted their own power after the... especially as they had allowed the Catalan district to set up their autonomy. This led to unrest among the public and the left leaving only...

... proclaimed and bargains are announced the old fashioned way - using lung power. Catalan is the language of Barcelona, but people are quite happy to speak... stall selling cookery books, should you wish to try your hand at Catalan cuisine when you get back. Be warned though... Your trip to Tesco... the bars, and order your choice of tapas. Although tapas are not strictly a Catalan creation, many of the tapas available here will be typical...

... to emerge as a spoken tongue in the province's larger towns. Catalan is another language that enjoys a special status under Spain's constitution... with highly developed literature. Most of the seven million people who speak Catalan are located in El este. It is the official language in the... three communities Catalonia, Valencia, and Balearics. Catalan Speakers also live in the eastern fringe of Aragon, Andorra, southwestern France, and part of Sardinia. Catalonia's...

... instance is the linguoecology or socioecology of languages theorized by Bastardas, a Catalan sociolinguist from the UB. Given the simultaneous nature of these two phenomena... metaphors are still found, especially in reference to minority languages. For instance, Catalan is a minority language which is not considered to be endangered in... bilingual use of a language (endangered or not) within a given country (Catalan) and so forth. Second, to promote the investigation of the parallels and...

... his home. In 1918, Salvador's first drawing was purchased by a Catalan newspaper, the Patufet.         Dali was greatly exposed to many types of art... of the 20th century. Salvador was born May 11, 1904, in the Catalan town of Figueras, near Barcelona, Spain. Dali first began painting at the...

... ambitious General. De Rivera knew the problems of Spain, having experience in Catalan industry, the army and the southern provinces, where the risings occurred in... reinforce the garrison to quell the revolt, so they called in the Catalan Reserves.7 Because Catalonia, a highly industrialized province, was a hotbed of...

... Spain and supported the ETA, which stepped up its terrorist activities. Meanwhile, Catalans pushed for greater control over local affairs, and demanded greater language rights.... The use of Catalan and nationalist sentiments increased in and around Barcelona. The Galicians consistently distanced themselves from Madrid, though ethnoregionalism remained weaker in Galicia...

... brought in by the Azana government. This angered many but especially the Catalans who had their privileges withdrawn. This was a serious error of judgement... as the Catalans and Basques had supported the government in the elections. The way forward for Robles became clear to many - an attack on the...

... que se podia utilizar fue el castellano. Las otras idiomas como el catalan y el vasquo eran prohibidas. Tambien la cultura de esas regiones era... education como Cataluna donde todos los cursos a la escuela son en Catalan. D'autre part, hay comunidas en las que la educacion es una...

...) should be able to be explained through social experiences (Harrison, Everall and Catalan, 1994). This paper will discuss homosexuality in reference to males only, unless...

... in Pascal's triangle that have not been mentioned for example the Catalan Numbers, Natural numbers, Pentatope Numbers, Tetrahedral numbers and many more. The tetrahedral...

... (74%). There are other languages spoken in Spain, some of which are Catalan (17%), Galician (7%) and Basque (29%). Although there are diverse types of...