North‚ Central‚ & West India BHIMBETKA (8000 B.C.) The Bhimbetka rock are an archaeological World Heritage site located in Raisen District in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. The Bhimbetka shelters exhibit the earliest traces of human life in India; a number of analyses suggest that at least some of these shelters were inhabited by man for in excess of 100‚000 years. Some of the Stone Age rock paintings found among the Bhimbetka rock shelters are approximately 30‚000 years old. MAURYA and
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Historical Monuments When thinking about architecture‚ many visual images come to mind. The works of many are seen everywhere we go‚ from the average home to a New York skyscraper. As these buildings are fairly common to most of us‚ we forget to incorporate the work of our prehistoric man that gave us the foundation of early architecture. Pre-historic monuments provide us with numerous amounts information about our past and how life existed in these prehistoric times. When comparing two great
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Discussion 1: Tombs and Monuments Question: Compare an aspect of the tomb of Emperor Shihuangdi with the burial tombs of other cultures‚ such as Egypt or Mesopotamia. Answer: The Tomb of Emperor Shihuangdi The tomb of Qin Shihuangdi‚ who died 210 B.C.E.‚ lies about 30 kilometers from modern Xian in China. There is a pyramid shaped tumulus over the actual burial chamber which originally was 400 feet high and now stands 165 feet and has a circumference of about one mile. The mausoleum
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In the conclusion of the movie “Monuments Men.” The team finds out that the Nazis are hiding the art in various mines and castles. They also become competitive with the Soviet Union who were seizing the art for reparation purposes. Many artifacts that were looted by the German Nazis were found and returned. Although some of the art was destroyed by Germans or taken as rewards by the Russians‚ in the end though the American army unit reigned victorious and recovered over 5 million different pieces
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Session – II History of Historical Building and Monuments in and around Chennai Dr. G. Venkataraman Chairperson‚ School of Historical Studies HOD of the Dept. of Indian History‚ University of Madras‚ Prof. A. Anne Shanthi Ph.D.‚ Research scholar‚ Dept. of History‚ IDE‚ University of Madras. As you all know every building has its own History and like wise the Public buildings built by the British in Chennai City has now become historical monuments worthy of study. Since it has survived for 100
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ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND COMPOSITION SECTION II Total time--2 hours Question 1 (Suggested time--40 minutes. This question counts for one-third of the total essay section score.) Social networking has become the staple of the internet and the most common way for connecting to other people all over the modern world. Social networking for many is terrifying‚ full of risks and unknowns‚ whereas for others‚ social networking has brought people into healthy relationships with other internet users
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Obesity is a medical condition in which excess fats have grown and accumulated to the point of harm‚ and a shortened life expectancy. Obesity is a problem that has been more prominent in the 20th and 21st century and is now a main concern for both society and the government. It is the citizen’s duty to resolve this epidemic known as obesity in the United States. American society has created the concept of obesity. They identified what the perfect human should look like‚ and has outcasted everyone
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\ Part 1 Society teaches the morally incorrect and socially unacceptable aspects of murder. George Orwell’s “Shooting and Elephant” and Foster the People’s “Pumped up Kicks” address the contrary‚ the instances in which society leads one to murder. Orwell’s switch from first to second person within “He wears a mask‚ and his face grows to fit it” reveals the distance that the murderer puts between himself and his action creating a sense of personal distain; the same sense of detachment is evoked
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Drilling in ANWR The issue of where to get America’s oil from has been an outstanding issue ever since oil was first founded. The major problem is where we get it from: other countries‚ where they are getting billions of dollars yearly but yet we are still preserving our own reserves‚ or our own country‚ where we can save money and create jobs in areas such as Alaska‚ that are rich in oil reserves. Drilling for oil in Alaska‚ especially in the ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge) region‚ has been
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re-scripting of monuments in a democratic South Africa with reference to the Voortrekker Monument as a case study. With the current political affairs of South Africa it is evident that the cultural significance associated to such monuments is constantly changing and adapting. It establishes a basis as to why and how the Voortrekker Monument is re-scripted to be incorporated in a democratic South Africa. This essay compares the discourse of the original guide of the Voortrekker Monument (1954) with the
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