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- 481: Roman Acheivements
- ... of Art One of the Roman's greatest acheivements was their large amount of art. They created forms of art, fine tuned other existing forms to suit their needs, and created an extensive body of literature. Roman art in it's heyday was a pinnacle of human artistic achevement and it is truely a shame that hardly any of it still exists. The bas relief sculpture form was a completely Roman ... where a painting was directly applied to a wall, often when the plaster was drying so it would become part of the plr and last nearly forever providing it were in the right conditions. Roman literature was also some of the greatest in history. It is often overlooked because it is compared only to Greek literature which the Romans tried to emulate. They did have their masterpieces though. The Ænid is arguably the greatist books in history. It is all to often thrown out as erotic garbage from two thousand ...
- 482: Mexico
- ... the cities both European, particularly Spanish and French, and other North American influences are evident. Most contemporary Mexican artists are striving to produce identifiably Mexican work that blends Spanish, Native American, and modern European styles. Literature Mexican writing in Spanish dates from the 16th century, and many works make use of themes from the oral traditions of the country's indigenous peoples. Noted Mexican writers of the 20th century include the ... Mariano Azuela, Martín Luis Guzmán, Andrés Henestrosa, Agustín Yáñez, and Carlos Fuentes; the playwrights Víctor Barroso and Rodolfo Usigli; and the poets and essayists Alfonso Reyes and Octavio Paz, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1990. See also Latin American Literature. Music and Dance The distinctive folk songs and dances heard from region to region are accompanied by several kinds of guitar-based ensembles. The mariachi, or popular strolling bands, consist of a standard group ...
- 483: Creating the Safest Classroom and Lab Atmosphere
- ... that the semantics behind legal formed the following definition. Le' gal: Pertaining to safety, i.e. anything that will keep Cooper Union out of legal trouble. We worked from there, and researched Uniform Building Code literature, OSHA manuals, and literature regarding the development of labs for chemical and biological use, as well as literature on the disposal of created waste. The following is an overview of precautions, safety measures, guidelines, and precedent which will theoretically create the safest, and most professional classroom and lab atmospheres. Information is presented ...
- 484: Gender and Relationship of Children
- ... have on their sons and daughters, as well as preschool classrooms and teachers have been examined as possible causes of sex differences during play. The aim of this paper is to critically review the recent literature in this field and determine whether or not sex differences occur in play. If sex differences occur, the possible reasons for this occurrence will also be examined. Review of the Research Section Maccoby (1990) summarized ... sex role expectations more, in that older girls' play in the blocks area (male oriented) was less advances than the younger girls' play there. Summary and Comparison of the Research Section All of the reviewed literature agreed in finding sex differences in preschoolers. Sex differences in play occurred in a variety of ways including the toys they preferred, the activity level, and the roughness of the play (Alexander & Hines, 1994). Generally ... cases agree that these findings probably resulted due to the fact that adults tend to treat girls and boys differently and that this is probably contributes to differences in gender development. Discussion According to recent literature, many sec differences occur in play in preschoolers. Sex differences occur in many different aspects of play. For example, the size of the groups that children play in differs with a function of sex ( ...
- 485: Comparing "The Adventures of Huck Finn" and "The Catcher in the Rye"
- Comparing "The Adventures of Huck Finn" and "The Catcher in the Rye" The forthcoming of American literature proposes two distinct Realistic novels portraying characters which are tested with a plethora of adventures. In this essay, two great American novels are compared: The Adventures of Huck Finn by Mark Twain and The Catcher ... flee, and finally a return. There are more parts they do not necessarily fall into the same order, examples of these are symbolic death and motifs. The Cosmogonic Cycle is an interesting way to interpret literature because is Universal or correlates with any time period and any situation. The Call to Adventure is the first of the Cosmogonic Cycle. It is the actual "call to adventure" that one receives to begin the cycle. There are many ways that this is found in literature including going by desire, by chance, by abduction, and by being lured by an outside force. In The Adventures of Huck Finn, Huck is forced with the dilemma of whether to stay with his ...
- 486: The Literary Contributions of King Alfred the Great
- ... better than I, for every man must say what he says and do what he does according to his ability" (Collins 334). But a simple was his aim, Alfred changed the whole front of English literature as we know it. Before him, England possessed in her own tongue one great poem and a train of ballads and battle-songs (Abrahms 2). Of prose the country had none. The large volume of ... beautiful Saxon language than I can imagine; without whom the English tongue in which I tell this story might have wanted half its meaning. Alfred's intellectual activity breathed fresh life into English education and literature. His capacity for inspiring trust and affection drew the hearts and minds of Englishmen to a common center, and began the building of a new England. Never had England seen a ruler who set aside ... of his last words, "I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works" (Collins 343). Works Cited Abrams, M. H., ed. The Norton Anthology Of English Literature. 6th ed. Vol. 1. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1993. Collins, Roger. Early Medieval Europe 300-1000. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. Dickens, Charles. A Child's History Of England. Bureau ...
- 487: Censorship of Books: Freedom of What?
- ... person, and it is unjust to prohibit someone from reading or seeing “inappropriate” material based on the opinion of someone else. Censorship occurs quite frequently in the school system. Books are banned from libraries and literature teachers constantly have to change the material covered in their course as a result of complaining parents. If a child goes home and discusses a topic they learned in school and their parents don't ... the beginning of the school year in the fall of 1994, when Susan M. Kochman, a high school English teacher at Hempfield Area High School was ordered to retrieve the newly distributed text books entitled Literature and Society. The textbook, a 1,500+ pages anthology, was removed from the classroom solely because of one poem. “Women Poem” was written by the award winning African American poet Nikki Giovanni, and contained the ... oppression some African American women feel. When viewed by mature, intelligent readers, the poem is in no way, shape, or form thought to be pornographic. The class using this textbook was a twelfth grade advanced literature class. The students participating in this course felt that they were mature enough to handle Giovanni's poetry. A parent of one of the students called the principal and complained about the vulgarity in ...
- 488: Analysis Of Platos Purgatorio
- ... writing. Dante acknowledges Virgil as "my true master" and places him in a position of teacher and guide. Another prevalent reference to classical tradition manifests in the more than hundred references to Greco-Roman history, literature and mythology. For example, Canto XXVIII alone contains several references: the mention of Aeolus, Proserpine, Venus, the Hellespont, Lethe, Helicon and the Age of Gold - an age where many classical writers have had visions of. Dante's dreams on several of the terraces also contain classical influence: many visions of Christian teaching are accompanied by a portrayal from Greco-Roman literature and mythology. All in all, Dante refers to classical traditions as well as Christian teachings. Dante's Divine Comedy, and specifically Purgatorio, applies to humanity in general and specifically to Christianity. He instills his beliefs ... not only provides aspects of Catholic doctrine in the Middle Ages, but he also renders his view of how the Church should be run. Readers can also infer Dante's love of the traditions and literature of non-Christian, Greco-Roman antiquity. The predominant theme in Purgatorio exists in Dante's expression of the importance of love and compassion. On the whole, Dante's Purgatorio offers an exquisite insight into ...
- 489: The Power Of One By Ernest Hem
- ... a key role in the society, and many times the whole community is based around the sports. No matter where you are from, sports will always play a role in the society. Many times in literature you can tell where the setting is or where the author is from by the way the community or society in the literature view sports. If you look at the literature that authors produce and where they are from, you will notice a common trend in all of their work. The cultural heritage of the writer affects the perspective in which they write from or ...
- 490: Our World Or Brave New World
- ... lack of art and culture. The Controllers in Brave New World suggest that \\"you\\'ve got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We\\'ve sacrificed the high art\\". Without literature like Shakespeare and other classics, people will never think and learn, of course they will live in a stable society where nothing will ever change, but people pay the price of creativity and the ability ... in their minds. The conditioned happiness of Brave New World cuts men off from deep experience, keeps them from being human. Direct stimulation is used as another conditioning technique. Society is conditioned against love, nature, literature, and other forms of expression that are naturally desired by man. To condition babies against nature and literature, they are mildly shocked while encountering books and flowers placed before them. Therefore, this direct stimulation causes them to have an instinctive hatred of flowers and books. According to reservation controllers, \\"A love of ...
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