Pericles’ building program. Reasons and aims for building the program. - Pericles was able to use the Delian league funds however he saw fit. The allies didn’t have say because they didn’t turn up to the conference. - To beautify Athens by restoring the temples that had been destroyed during the Persian wars. - The large scale of the buildings were to reflect the greatness of Athens. “He recognized that the city by enabling the houses of her gods would enable herself and that she could express
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There’s No Place Like Home " The Sculptor’s Funeral"‚ a short story by Willa Cather‚ emphasizes the behavior and idea of parochialism & provincialism. What’s interesting is that this idea is shared by Harvey Merrick‚ the main character‚ as well as the townspeople who resent him for leaving. " Harve never was much account for anything practical and he shore was never fond of work" (Cather par. 56) Why is this? Could there be different levels of parochialism? One person may feel that home
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What Are Little Boys Made Of? In his essay "What Are Little Boys Made Of?"‚ Michael Kimmel describes how America has been so focused on girls and feminism‚ that boys have been forgotten about. "There’s no question that there’s a boy crisis. Virtually all the books cite the same statistics: boys are four to five times more likely to be diagnosed as emotionally disturbed‚ three times more likely to be diagnosed with attention deficit disorder‚ and fifteen times more likely to be victims of violent
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School of Athens Raphael Santi was born in Urbino of 1483‚ he was a painter and architect of the Florentine school in the Italian High Renaissance. He studied under Pietro Perugino; but after leaving Perugino and moving to Florence he soon adopted the styles of Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo (who were the artists who had established the High Renaissance style in Florence). During that time‚ Julius II requested decorations for the stanze (rooms) that Nicholas V had added to the building of the
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civilizations rose: classical Athens in the West‚ and Han China in the East. In Classical Athens‚ around 470- 430 BCE‚ they had the first democratic government‚ the basis for the political systems of many powerful countries today. In the East‚ around 202 BCE- 220 CE the people of Han China accomplished great architectural projects such as the Great Wall of China‚ and the Terracotta Army. These two civilizations had two very different mindsets. In Athens they focused on what the individual could do to
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“Driving to the Funeral” When a teenager at the early age of 15-years-old eagerly wants to drive‚ they are more at risk of losing their lives than a 17-year-old. Adding alcohol to the mix and the numbers of deaths increases rapidly. More teenagers today are driving cars at this young age‚ without their parents having a clue what there are getting into; (Thesis) According to Quindlen’s article‚ “Driving to the Funeral” argues this vital point to its government; That car crashes are the “No
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traditional funeral is basically a ceremony in a church or home where you celebrate and remember the life of a person who has died then proceed to the burial and repast. In New Orleans‚ things are done a little different and by different I mean Jazz Funerals. Jazz Funerals combines elements of African‚ French and early American funeral ceremonies that features a brass band‚ two lines of mourners which includes family and friends of the deceased‚ and many social clubs. Jazz funerals can be the total
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& Athens By: Tony Knuth 12/9/09 Historians have spent a long time attempting to establish what exactly life was like for women in ancient Greece. Like all studies of ancient Greece‚ they focus primarily on the two most powerful city-states in the Hellenic world‚ Athens and Sparta. Since the majority of the primary documents deal with these two cities‚ historians are only able to decipher a fragmentary view of what life was actually like for the entirety of society‚ let alone what life was
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Was Sparta a better place than Athens? Spartans is known for its military training while Athens lives in world of luxury. Each state has its own good or bad and you can’t say something is better at everything than another one. First of all‚ children are mistreated in Sparta like going to military training at the age of seven and killing “weak” babies. Who said they didn’t have the potential to become the next Plato. In order to have a pure race Spartans started to kill the babies who look “weak”
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According to Pericles‚ the Athenian society is exceptional due to their society allowing free will yet‚ in spite of that‚ their people desire Athens to prosper above all else. In addition‚ due to the Athenian belief that the spirit and volition of their citizens is predominant over systematic order‚ the Athenian people fight on the behalf of their civilization because they choose to. Society allows the individual to pursue whatever they desire‚ yet the individual consciously decides to battle for
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