Comares Palace & Royal Baths: A Journey Through Alhambra’s Heart

Comares Palace and Royal Baths

Stilted arches and interior angrelado. Variegated Yeserías. Medallions in prominence. The doors are surrounded by ceramics.

At the top, we have the timber roof, which features a frieze on roll corbels.

The Palace of Comares

Following a narrow corridor with recesses, we find the Patio of the Myrtles, also known as Comares Courtyard.

The palace’s construction began during the reign of Yusuf I and was completed before the year 1354.

It is built upon the palace that his father,

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Technology’s Impact, Lord of the Rings & Restaurant Complaint

Technology: Advantages and Disadvantages

The development of technology and communications during the last decade of the 20th century has had a significant influence on our lives. It has revolutionized the way we work, learn, and communicate. But what has changed our lives the most is definitely the internet. However, there are both advantages and disadvantages.

Advantages of Computing

The main advantage of computing is probably that it gives access to information quickly and easily. It also helps us

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Diaspora Identities: Hybridity and New Ethnicities

Diaspora vs. Migrant Identities

It is more accurate to talk about ‘diaspora identities’ rather than ‘migrant identities’; not all of those who live in a diaspora, or share an emotional connection to the ‘old country’, have experienced migration. All diasporas are differentiated, heterogeneous, contested spaces, even as they are implicated in the construction of a common “we”. Differences of gender, race, class, religion, and language make diaspora identities dynamic and shifting, open to repeated

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The Renaissance: Language and Literature

Week 8/9: The Renaissance

1. Introduction

  • Development of new concepts and techniques: flowering of arts and sciences.
  • Many literary, scientific, and religious texts in Latin.
  • Latin still the language of scholarship and scholarly literature.
  • Thomas More’s Utopia written entirely in Latin.
  • Around 13,000 new loanwords entered the language in the 16th century: 7,000 were from Latin.

2. The Problem of the Vernaculars

In the sixteenth century, the modern languages faced three great problems:

  • Recognition in the
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Phonetics and Phonology: Sounds, Articulation, and Spelling

Phoneme: The smallest linguistic unit without meaning. It’s what speakers intend to produce when speaking. Phonemes are chosen from a set that characterizes the opposition between elements, giving different meanings in the context used.

Sound: The realization of phonemes. Each phoneme can have multiple sound variations depending on the context. Sounds of spoken language form the basic sequence of the phonic chain. All sounds are transcribed phonetically through the International Phonetic Alphabet

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Comares Palace in Alhambra: Architecture & History

The Palace of Comares

Stilted arches and interior angrelado. Variegated yeserías. Medallions brought into prominence. The doors are surrounded by ceramics. At the top, we have the timber roof, which is a frieze on roll corbels.

Following a narrow corridor with recesses, you find the Patio of the Myrtles or Comares. As a whole, it dates from the time of Yusuf I and was made before the year 1354. It is built on the palace that his father, Ismail I, had built before, which this one would later demolish.

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