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Vincent Van Gogh was an important painter of the 19thcentury. He was born in Holland, but he lived much of his life inprefix = st1 /France. He was a very emotional man, and there was much suffering in his life. His style of painting was very different from classical art. He painted pictures of sunny, hot regions ofFrance. He looked for interesting shapes and exciting colours. He liked to work freely and quickly.

There is a fast movement in many of his paintings. Sometimes the trees look like fire. The sun, the moon, and stars move rapidly in the sky. He also painted pictures of people.

Like his life, his art was always unusual and very emotional.

Paul Gauguin was another 19-century painter. He was French and a friend of Van Gogh. Before he became an artist, Gauguin had been a businessman for many years. He made a lot of money, and he likes to buy modern paintings.

At the age of 354, Gauguin decided to become a painter himself. Gauguin wanted to discover more important things about man. He went to a different part of Franceto live with the farmers. He painted pictures of French country people there. Two years later he went to live in a small place in the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles fromFrance. He wanted to learn about the simple life there. His most famous and interesting paintings were painted at that time.

1. What kind of artist was Van Gogh?
2. What country did he paint?
3. What parts?
4. What appears to be burning in his work?
5. Do his paintings have movement?
6. What moves?
7. At what speed?
8. Did he use people for subjects?
9. Where was he born?
10. Did he stay there his whole life?
11. Where did he go?
12. Did he have a lot of emotion?
13. Did it show in his work?
14. Who was his friend?
15. Was did he do for a living?
16. What did he do before that?
17. How old was he when he started painting?
18. Where did he move to?
19. Then where?
20. Which of his works did he create there?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. a painter
2. France.
3. sunny, hot regions
4. trees
5. Yes
6. The sun, the moon, and stars
7. fast
8. yes
9. Holland
10. No
11. France
12. Yes
13. Yes
14. Paul Gauguin
15. painter
16. had been a businessman
17. 354
18. to live with the farmers
19. a small place in the Pacific
20. His most famous and interesting paintings

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(CNN) -- Before the Arab Spring came the Damascus Spring. When Bashar al-Assad succeeded his father Hafez Assad in 2000, there was the promise of a modern and more democratic Syria.

In his inauguration speech, al-Assad indicated he would be a very different kind of leader to his father. "I shall try my very best to lead our country towards a future that fulfils the hopes and legitimate ambitions of our people," he said.

And for a while that promise was kept. His official website says he has built free-trade zones, licensed more private newspapers and private universities, and fought government waste and corruption. He has also worked on social and economic reform.

But while there have been some changes during his rule, many say al-Assad's promises have largely not been delivered.

Human Rights Watch has called his time as president "the wasted decade" with a media that remains controlled by the state, a monitored and censored internet and prisons still filled with dissidents.

Two former regime insiders -- now its opponents -- recalled their time with the younger al-Assad. Former vice president Abdel Halim Khaddam said Bashar was often the victim of his elder brother's cruelty. "His brother Basil bullied him as a child. His father never gave him as much attention as Basil," Khaddam said.

Al-Assad's uncle Rifaat, who left Syria in 1984 after being involved in a failed coup, also recalled the future president.

"He is very different than his father. Hafez was a leader, the head of the entire regime, while Bashar was never that close to being one and never fell within that framework. He is being perceived as the leader but he follows what the regime decides on his behalf."

1. What came before the Arab Spring?
2. Who succeeded his father?
3. Who was his father?
4. When?
5. Was there a promise?
6. of what?
7. What does his website say he built?
8. Anything else?
9. What kind of reform has he worked on?
10. Have there been changes under his rule?
11. Has he delivered on his promise?
12. What did a group call his time as president?
13. Who said that
14. who is Abdel Halim Khaddam?
15. Who is Basil?
16. Who is Rifaat?
17. When did he leave Syria?
18. Why?
19. Did he say Bashar was different than his father?
20. Does he think Bashar is a leader?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Damascus Spring
2. Bashar al-Assad
3. Hafez Assad
4. 2000
5. Yes
6. A more modern and democratic Syria
7. Free-trade zones
8. He fought government waste and corruption
9. Social and economic
10. Yes
11. Many say no.
12. The wasted decade
13. Human Rights Watch
14. Former vice president of Syria
15. Bashar's brother
16. Al-Assad's uncle
17. 1984
18. He was involved in a failed coup
19. Yes
20. No

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(CareerBuilder.com) -- Co-workers are always a great topic of conversation. You never run out of things to say when it comes to talking about the different types of people you work with, what you love, what you hate and how you deal with it all.

We thought we'd do a little research into some of the best co-workers out there. Not just the different personality types, but real people, who do real good things.

What we found found is that many workers out there are generous, kind people who put their colleagues' lives before their own without hesitation.

Here are 5 of the most heroic co-workers people encountered this year.

The heroes

1. Co-worker helps to save a fellow employee's life

Claude Marlowe, a diabetic, went to work one morning like any other day. When he went to shake a colleague's hand, he had a heart attack and dropped dead -- literally.

That's when Debi Coffman and another co-worker, Larry Garrett, realized that this wasn't a diabetic episode; Marlowe had no pulse. The two performed CPR and chest compressions and revived Marlowe three times before emergency crews arrived. He suffered five heart attacks and was brain dead for at least two hours. He would not be alive had his co-workers not known what to do. (Nascar.com)

2. Chandler worker helps colleague get new artificial leg

For 30 years, Gregory Lewis, a retail maintenance worker, walked with the same prosthetic device on his left leg. As the years wore on, so did his artificial leg. One day, he lifted his foot off the ground to get into his car, and the artificial leg fell off.

1. How many co workers are they talking about?
2. Who is the second one about?
3. What did Gregory do?
4. What was wrong?
5. How long had he had it?
6. Why did it fall off?
7. Who was the first one about?
8. Was he sick?
9. With what?
10. Did he die?
11. Who helped him?
12. What were their names?
13. What did they do to help?
14. How many times did they revive him?
15. Why did they stop?
16. How many heart attacks did he have?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. Two
2. Chandler
3. maintenance
4. his artificial leg fell off
5. For 30 years
6. it fell off while getting into his car
7. Claude Marlowe
8. yes
9. he had a heart attack
10. yes
11. his co-workers
12. Debi Coffman and Larry Garrett
13. CPR and chest compressions
14. three times
15. emergency crews arrived
16. five