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- 28391: Dionysus
- ... tragos) (Frazer 20). Thus, tragedy was born at first in the Orchestra of the Agora (ancient market place), and on the northern slope of Acropolis, in an area of 25 m. diameter, near the god s sanctuary which was flattened for this purpose. When tragedy was separated from religion, wooden and later stone scaffoldings were placed for the spectators in 330 BC. The auditorium developed to have two landings which separated ... hero is doomed. Tragedy deals with human suffering and the courage of a hero who resists the inevitable. Pathos, or melodrama, is acceptance submissively or without comprehension of misfortune. These ideas were found in Aristotle s Poetics, the work from which our appraisal of tragedy was found. Aristotle, also notes the tragic flaw in the hero (Patai 5). This defect of character and inability to understand a situation creates his resistance ...
- 28392: To His Coy Mistress
- The speaker in Andrew Marvell s To His Coy Mistress is a man who is addressing a silent listener, who happens to be his mistress. In this dramatic monologue the speaker tries to explain his feelings to his mistress. The speaker ... a basic plea to ones lover, to have a little bit more excitement and fun in what time two people have together. It is the allusions that make us feel the strength of the speaker s feelings.
- 28393: Did the Expansion of the Aztec Empire Lead to Their Downfall?
- ... boys, while the girls were trained in gathering, cooking, and the sewing arts. A centralized bureaucracy looked after the collection and storage of taxes, matters of legislation and punishment. (Peterson, Frederick) Life for the Aztec's was good. Because of the complexity of their government all were happy. Then in 1519 Spanish conquistador, Hernan Cortes, met the Aztec leader Montezuma in Tenochtitlan. Montezuma believed that the Spaniards had come in peace ... Tenochtitlan. The purpose of this report is to answer the question “Did the Expansion of the Aztec Empire Lead to Their Downfall ?” I feel that it most likely did. This is because when the Aztec's were conquered they were the most powerful civilization in the New World. The Spaniards saw them as “the ones to beat” to gain supreme power in the Americas. To understand why the Spaniards wanted to ...
- 28394: ALCHEMY
- ... see Homunculus) THE THEORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF ALCHEMY: The first objects were to be achieved as follows: The transmutation of metals was to be accomplished by a powder, stone or exilir often called the Philosopher‘s Stone, the application of which would effect the transmutation of the baser metals into gold or silver, depending upon the length of time of its application. Basing their conclusions on a profound examination of natural ... and proportion. The entire trend of the metallic kingdom is towards the natural manufacture of gold, and the production of the baser metals is only accidental as the result of an unfavorable environment. The Philosopher’s Stone is the combination of the male and female seeds which beget gold. The composition of these is so veiled by symbolism as to make their identification a matter of impossibility. Waite, summarizing the alchemical ...
- 28395: Elizabeth Arden
- ... the basic formulas of make-up, which allowed her the basic knowledge to open her own cosmetics shop. With partner Elizabeth Hubbard the shop flourished, they had a winning product with their own Elizabeth Arden's youthful complexion to advertise it. Later when Hubbard died Arden took over the company to own and manage with only a group of advisees, which she seldom listened to. Elizabeth Arden was an astute businesswoman ... writing a report on Elizabeth Arden because I really love make-up, especially Elizabeth Arden and Christian Dior make-up. In addition, I believe that her ability to sell make-up and change the world's views of it has a major affect on how things are today. Walk into any mall and there are hundreds of brands of make-up that would not exist if it were not for her ...
- 28396: A Different Mirror
- ... History from the University of California, Berkeley. As a professor of Ethnic Studies at the same university, he wrote A Different Mirror: a History of Multicultural America as a fantastic new telling of our nation s history. The book narrates the composition of the many different people of the United States of America. In a lively account filled that is with personal accounts and the voices of people that were in the past left out of the historical armament, Ronald Takaki proffers us a new perspective of America s envisioned past. Mr. Takaki confronts and disputes the Anglo-centric historical point of view. This dispute and confrontation is started in the within the seventeenth-century arrival of the colonists from England as witnessed by ...
- 28397: History Of Marilyn Manson
- ... at a local music award thing. Singles such as "Dope Hat", "Lunchbox", "My Monkey" had already won the support of the people. 1993 was a very busy year. They got a contract from Trent Reznor's new own label Nothing and got a spot on NIN's 94 tour. The making of their first album, "Portrait of an American Family", was underway. Trent Reznor was the producer of the album. At the end of 93, Gidget Gein, bass, was no more a ...
- 28398: The Death Penalty: a Necessary Evil
- ... include the government. However, the death penalty is not quite the same as murder. It is an exacting of justice. Consequently, the Bible also says, Ran eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.S It could also say a life for a life as well. The government also has rights that we as citizens do not have. As Mayor Ed Koch says in his essay on the death penalty, Rthe execution of a lawfully condemned killer is no more an act of murder than is legal imprisonment an act of kidnapping.S(Koch, p.318) People who are convicted of murder more often than not have more crimes than just that one murder under their belt. Their mental state allows them to commit horrible acts and not ...
- 28399: Preserving Our Earth
- Preserving Our Earth America's endangered areas are deplinishing daily. Natural disasters are a major factor in their disappearance, but the most prominent factor is mankind. Even though procedures are conducted daily to preserve our home, these areas slowly crumble ... easily followed through education of the general population. More people should volunteer their time through river, land, and beach clean-ups. These small measures can save our endangered population drastically. If we loose our world's natural resources, where will we turn?
- 28400: Wells Social Imagination
- ... in which the tale is presented. Wells prefaced his romance by a sketch in the old PALL-MALL GAZETTE, entitled "The Man of the Year Million", a priori study that made one thankful for one's prematurity. After that piece of logic, however, he tried another essay in evolution, published in 1895 in book form under the title of 'The Time Machine' -- the first of his romances. Wells was writing in ... red eastern sky, the northward blackness, the salt Dead Sea, the stony beach crawling with these foul, slow-stirring monsters, the uniform poisonous-looking green of the lichenous plants, the thin air that hurt one's lungs; all contributed to an appalling effect." The prophecy is less convincing than the wonderful sight of the declining earth some million years later. Sinking slowly into the dying fires of the worn-out sun ...
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