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- 2491: Greek Architecture
- ... of hillside, meaning that theywere usually one big piece of rock. most theaters could hold about 20000 people! The skene was the backdrop of the stage. It had a picture of the front of a house painted on it. Because of this, all Greek plays took place in front of a house. The skene had windows, doorways, and arches, which allowed many entrances into the orchestra. The rooms located behind the skene were storage rooms for props and dressing rooms for actors. We get the word scene ...
- 2492: Cosequences Of Shame And Guilt
- ... themselves to speak the truth. The first to commit a sin is John Proctor, the husband of Elizabeth Proctor. John is a good man until Abigail Williams comes into his life. John lives in a house feeling empty and thinking his wife does not love him. Lust is a very powerful feeling and it tempts John right into bed with Abigail. He commits adultery and Elizabeth does not forgive him. She ... John feels such pain in his heart. At one point John is fed up with her heartless manner and says, "Spare me! You forget nothin' and forgive nothin'....I have gone tip toe in this house all seven month from there to there without I think to please you, and still an everlasting funeral marches round your heart" (Miller 1203). John is fed up with her convictions. With this his mind ...
- 2493: Utopia
- ... save a little bundle on the side to be used as a down payment for a home. White picket fence, doghouse for rusty, the whole kit and caboodle. I've always dreamt of having a house that I could call my own. No one to tell me how I have to keep the place. By then I think it may be time to settle down. Perhaps I'd ask the woman ... to be my lawfully wedded wife. And in these turbulent times, maybe the marriage would even be a happy one. And if the Lord allows, I might even father a few little kids. In my house, I'd love to have a large screen t.v. and a laser disc player as I am a movie fanatic. A great big leather lazyboy in front of the t.v. would also be ...
- 2494: Reincarnation
- ... to test Jenny's memories of Mary and Mary's children The tests resulted in a 98 percent agreement. Jenny knew what pictures were on the walls of the Sutton home, other objects in the house, and even how the house was built. This evidence further backed up the fact of Mary Sutton being reincarnated through Jenny Cockell. As of today there has been no new evidence found to discredit the fact that Jenny has experienced ...
- 2495: Pablo Picasso 2
- ... him a subtle contrasts of vivid colours but it also brought him back to the solemnity of Spain. There he created 44 variations of paintings in five months. In 1961 Picasso settled in the rustic house at Notre-Dame-de-Vie. Between the Ages of 85 and 92, Picasso produced three series of drawings of extraordinary newness. They include mythological scenes, circus scenes, drinking and party scenes, and passionate scenes (82 ... 1930; Museum of Modern Art, New York); "Guernica" (1937; Prado, Madrid); "Night Fishing at Antibes" (1939; Museum of Modern Art, New York); "Les Primieres Pas" (1943; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conneticut) "The Charnel House" (1945; Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. Collection, New York); "Las Meninas" 58 canvasses (1957). Sculpture: "The Jester" (bronze, 1905; Phillips Collection Washington D.C.); "Woman's Head" (bronze, c 1909; Museum of Modern Art, New York ...
- 2496: Berkeley
- ... and thus the materialists' belief has been reduced to absurdity. Let the reader consider this example to reinforce the point. A ten-story building is erected, and a person who lives in a single-story house in the country sees the new building. To this person the structure may seem quite tall, as he has never seen any building taller than three stories. However, a construction worker comes across the same ... being ruminated upon it does not exist in the realm of knowledge at that particular time. As an example, if I were to move to another country and, after some time, forget about my old house in America, it would not exist to me anymore. In accordance with the immaterialists' view, my actively perceiving mind would be electing not to reflect back upon the past. Thus, only the active mind can ...
- 2497: Cultural Inheritances In Polyn
- ... he teach me the white face of his God and Government. I learnt that. The palagi governor slyly tries to acheive this by giving him gifts, such as the materials to build him a strong house and the following: Then the palagi Governor, he reward / me with a musket. The over-persistence in which the Governor is trying to mould the natives into the shape of the settlers culture is indicated: when he refused / for to leave my house. The natives defiance to the Government trying to shape him into somebody else is indicated: I shot to him / and he is dead. (p108) It is evident in the poetry of J. C. Sturm, that ...
- 2498: The Study of Linguistics
- ... Can it get better? Our perception of phrases can be altered too. As our sense of humor has developed from medieval England, for example, we develop our phrases too. Fred lost a string in the house which was all tied up. What do you see? Fred looking for a knotted string? Or Fred looking at a knotted house? Our perception of this phrase might have been only one, the first one, while today there are millions of possibilities. Language in the form of humor, changes with time. If we were freezed in time ...
- 2499: In Cold Blood
- ... planned road trip was destined to end up at the Clutter residence. This was by design of Dick. He was the one who wanted to kill the Clutters, and whoever happened to be at the house and in the way at the time of the murders. The motive for the murders was that the Clutters were rich, even though they were extremely modest about their wealth and fame. Dick came upon ... miss church. The sheriff was called out to the Clutters from a near-by teacherage by Mr. Ewalt (Nancys father). When the sheriff got to the Clutter residence, he and Mr. Ewalt entered the house. They climbed the stairs to come to Nancys bedroom first. When they opened the door, they were more than shocked. They saw Nancy lying on her bed shot in the back of the head ...
- 2500: Clytaemnestra And Penelope - A
- ... Penelope's suitors suggests what he thinks should happen with her and the estate: (Homer, page 24, lines 204-207) 'Before the whole assembly I advise Telemakhos/ to send his mother to her father's house;/ let them arrange her wedding there, and fix/ a portion suitable for a valued daughter.' She began as the property of her father, became the property of Odysseus; when Odysseus left she devolved onto her ... father, for redistribution. This idea of women as property is held throughout the text. The swineherd offers more support for this notion; his absent lord '...would have pensioned me/ with acres of my own, a house, a wife/ that other men admired and courted; all/ gifts good-hearted kings bestow for service...' (Homer, page 249, lines 76-79). He speaks of acquiring a desirable wife as a gift, a reward from ...
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