The article “On Sale at Old Navy: Cool Clothes for Identical Zombies!” written by Damien Cave explains how as a society we are swayed by the flash of big corporations and in turn are loosing what real culture we have left. Damien Cave starts the article off with a scenario showing a man named “Thomas Frank”. As Frank walks by a heavily decorated Old Navy he shows his disgust saying ”Oh God, this is disgusting”. Thomas Frank is a pioneering social critic, writing articles on how businesses adopted “cool anti-corporate culture”. As the article progresses we find that these businesses offer nothing more than poor quality merchandise at a low price, and the consumer is lured in by the promise of quality for less. Stores such as Old Navy and Ikea use marketing tricks to keep it's customer coming back for more. Ikea sets it's store up like a maze where the exit is placed only at the registers, the room models persuade the consumer they need everything they see. Old Navy hands out extra large shopping bags as a gesture of good customer service but can influence over spending. Damien Cave brings these issues up so that we the reader are aware of such trickery used by certain chain businesses. Society is so accustomed to these marketing schemes we don't realize we are replicating each others homes but in different variations; we can all buy the same sofa and not notice. We are lead to believe that we can find happiness in our belongings but that is far from the truth. This merchandise is poor in quality and can cause us to spend more in the end on replacements and repairs. These companies are scamming the general public into believing they are getting a deal and in return we are getting cookie cutter home…
Huge set of cave paintings with many different scenes. Most of them are of cows, bulls, horses, and deer. Negative handprints are the way of showing signatures. The paintings were made to ensure success in hunts, for ancestral animal worship, and shamanism.…
The caveart at Lascaux reveals the magdelanians beliefs on purpose of life and religion, their values, how they existed, and what they had known about the universe.…
This is the largest and oldest presented in a cascade and has a height of 12 meters. Divided into four sectors, galleries and halls are lined with stalactites, stalagmites and helicities, the latter of whimsical horizontal forms. Designed by nature and by man baptized, tunnel of love are, the chapel of the 12 apostles, the Devil's Throat, the passage of rain, the Salon de las Nieves and San Pedro temples and Gothic. These caves have a rare beauty in the world of caves because many of the formations are resplendent due to the crystal layer that covers them. In the Caves of Bellamar the entrance of the cavity is called Gothic Room, a chamber in a grid-measuring about 80 meters long by 25 meters wide. In the Gothic hall, it has given name to some of the formations; among other is The Garden of carrots, Chapel of the Twelve Apostles, and the famous Doña Mamerta Manto de Colón. But the Bellamar Caves are not only this room, the cavity extends east and west achieving a length exceeding three kilometers long; and it is known to be much larger, with even completely flooded chambers. Other cavities are the Hall of Dos Lagos, the Hall of the Sponges, Dwarf Gallery and the Gallery of Megalocnus east of the Gothic Hall. In the other direction are the passage of Hatuey, the Ladies Room, Lake Dahlias and Bath American. On the latter there is a legend that an American vacationer, many years ago, was lost in that place, when he decided to refresh your body in the clear and cold waters. “They also highlight the Hall of the sponges, a gallery located 25 meters below the Gothic Hall” (Cuba Family).According to scientists is one cave with several rooms, but the custom is in the plural. The breathable air is there, at least where he was allowed to get to the visitor. The temperature is relatively stable throughout the year, remaining at 26. The Caves are also considered as a potential laboratory for the study of the…
cave!" It was excavated originally in the 1930s by Harrington and then excavated twice more before being returned to for the final time in 1978 by David Hurst Thomas for a more in depth excavation.The site dates back to the early Desert Archaic Culture from c. 4000 to 2000 years ago.Thousands of Archaic artifacts have been found here, and the site provides important, if unusual clues about Desert Archaic lifeways.Hidden Cave was not lived in, but used as storage site for goods and tools for…
Most prehistoric humans used caves as a means of protection from the elements of weather. Painting, drawing and carvings may have been a way of passing the time till a storm passed. It may have also been a way of making the cave as property, a “home” in those times.…
The Chauvet Cave revealed, among other things, that art may not have developed linearly as scholars previously assumed. The Chauvet Cave, though at least 10,000 years older than the other discoveries, contains surprisingly sophisticated art, by far the most realistic of all the other examples of cave art discovered so far. The use of modeling, or shading, to give the art the appearance of volume has yet to be found in any other caves. The fact that the art in the Chauvet Cave predates other, more simplistic discoveries seems to suggest that, rather than the level of sophistication paralleling the evolution of man, the use of naturalism, modeling, and illusionism was most likely determined by cultural factors or even varying amounts of skill…
Over the years, conversations of the topics of Plato’s writings arise. The teachings from Socrates of the “Parable of the Sun, Myth of the Cave and Divided Line” have become very popular to the world. So popular that it has an impact on the movie industry, the stories are hidden in some movies. More movies depict the stories” The Divided Line and The Myth of the Cave “ rather than “The Parable of the Sun.” The movie, eXistenZ, is an example of “The Myth of the Cave and The Divided Line”, since the stories are very similar. The movie has many similarities to “The Myth of the Cave”, but can correlate better to “The Divided Line” for more structure.…
Olympic National Park has nearly 3,000,000 visitors every year. One of the most popular sites to visit is Kolach Tree Cave, which is a large tree that stretches across a miniature canyon and forms a cave. This is one of the changes the park as experienced over time. The land of the park has changed on many other occasions due to landslides, erosion, and human interaction. But probably, the most prominent change is glaciers. The park is full of them and they are constantly moving, changing the land behind them. Some of the glaciers include Blue Glacier, Lillian Glacier, and Anderson Glacier. The constantly moving glaciers and other changes in the scenery make the park different every time you go.…
Deep within the safety of The Louvre many of the world’s most recognizable and influential pieces of art are safely kept for the eyes of the art loving public. One of the most mysterious paintings in the museum is a portrait of a beautiful renaissance era woman sitting in front of a landscape of hills and flowing water. She stands at almost three feet tall by two feet wide and her smile is recognized around the globe. The mystery behind her meaning, who she is, and the hidden messages that the portrait is said to contain have captivated people for centuries. She is called the Mona Lisa she is said to be one of the best known, most visited, and most written about works…
This magnificent painting dates back to Lascaux, France 15,000-13,000 B.C.E. It was found on cave walls and it is said to represent one of the earliest examples of artistic expression. We can see that this piece was created during the Paleolithic period because; they are images walls using paint on limestone. We can see that the primitive people used natural rock contours, which suggested the animal’s volumes and portrayed real representations of a major role in their lives, which were the animals. We can see horses, bulls, deer, cows and more animals on the walls of these caves. Furthermore, the images of the animals are overlapping earlier illustrations; this would suggest that what made the people at the time want to paint the animals was the simple act of portraying them, instead of focusing on the effect that their act would achieve. On the religious part of this piece, we know that several of the paintings were situated far from the entrance of the caves. This type of placement followed by the gigantic size and great importance of them would tell us that the secluded rooms were used for ceremonial and sacred gathering places. I would have to agree with this interpretation due to the fact that it is believed that main use of the caves was for worship and initiation rituals.…
In the Allegory of the Cave by Plato, there was a group of prisoners who lived in a cave since they were born. These people could not see anything besides straight ahead from where they were. Behind these prisoners there was a fire and puppets in which they told stories. The prisoners were able to see the shadows caused by the fire and puppets, because that was the only thing they saw they believed that the shadows were the most real things in this world. The shadows told stories about people, trees, men etc. which made the prisoner believe that shadows themselves were the real people, tree, men and etc. Plato uses this to demonstrates imagination itself. One of the prisoners was freed and was forced to look at what was behind them; the fire and puppets causing the shadows. The prisoner was confused and realized what was behind them. He came to realize that there were more real things out there than the shadows themselves. Plato here is demonstrating the stage of belief. Soon after the freed prisoner is taken outside the cave into the real…
Layers of inscriptions, phallic symbols and graffiti drawings have been discovered from of one of the walk-in alleys and traces of red, black and green frescoes that have been obtained from recent restorations point out that the environment was far more colorful than what is perceived today. Currently It provides insight into architectural technologies that were used centuries…
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010) is a documentary created by German director Werner Herzog. The film is shot in 3-D and takes place in the Chauvet Cave found in the south of France. The film speaks of the earliest known cave paintings, as well as other evidence of Paleolithic life. Known to create perplexing and extremely pensive documentaries, Herzog takes his audience on a journey never before seen using 3-D. He transforms what he sees into his own personal view. His way of seeing is unique and together with the 3-D imaging is quit a treat to watch.…
Plato’s Cave conveys ideas that remain true at any time throughout history. There are many ways to view this, such as all people living in individual caves being one possible interpretation of this allegory, as there is knowledge and experience which they do not possess which would allow them to see more of the world. The caves wherein everyone resides can be left freely, though only transfer to a new restricted view of reality is possible.…