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    The Oxfordian Society

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    The Oxfordian Society Prezi Notes Slide 1: The Oxfordian Theory: The Oxfordian theory: The Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship proposes that Edward de Vere‚ 17th Earl of Oxford wrote the plays and poems traditionally attributed to William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon. The Oxfordian theory proposes that Shakespeare is a fraud and he didn’t write his own work‚ but instead a man named Edward de Vere was believed to have written most of his work. Edward de Vere was a poet and

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    Parthenon Marbles

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    THE PARTHENON AND THE ELGIN MARBLES BY EPAMINONDAS VRANOPOULOS Athens 1985 PREFACE The response to the Greek government’s demand for the return to Greece of the sculptures of the Parthenon‚ now in the British Museum‚ has been so encouraging that it has given rise to hopes that the Elgin Marbles‚ as they have come to be known‚ may indeed one day be restored to their rightful home. The favourable response has come from UNESCO and from public opinion world-wide‚ including Britain.

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    hard “g”)‚ are a collection of classical Greek marble sculptures (mostly by Phidias and his pupils)‚ inscriptions and architectural members that originally were part of the Parthenon and other buildings on the Acropolis of Athens. Thomas Bruce‚ 7th Earl of Elgin‚ the British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1799–1803‚ had obtained a controversial permission from the Ottoman authorities to remove pieces from the Acropolis. From 1801 to 1812 Elgin’s agents removed about half of the surviving sculptures

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    Every type of text‚ whether it is a film‚ song‚ poem or speech portrays a distinctive voice. The distinctive voice is usually a result of how the composer wants to get their point of view across to the audience. John F Kennedy’s Inaugural Address‚ 9th Earl Spencer’s Eulogy for Princess Diana and George W. Bush’s 9/11 Address to the Nation are all speeches‚ which makes it easier to hear the distinctive voice within each one‚ along with the numerous language techniques‚ stylistic features and their structures

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    John Locke “The end of law is not to abolish or restrain‚ but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law‚ where there is no law‚ there is no freedom” – John Locke. What I feel that John Locke is attempting to express in his quote is that society believes that by having laws in place the government is taking away from the freedom they long to endure. However‚ by having laws in place it actually helps to enforce their rights to freedom. I chose

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    British Parthanon Marbles

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    I. Identification 1. The Issue The British Museum‚ located in London‚ England‚ purchased the Parthenon Marbles‚ also known as the Elgin Marbles‚ from Lord Elgin on July 11‚ 1816 through an Act of Parliament (1). The Parthenon marbles consist of 115 panels of frieze and 92 mesotopes of which the British Museum owns 56 panels of the frieze and 15 mesotopes. The museum also owns 17 pedimental figures‚ and thus houses about half of surviving sculptures of the Parthenon while the other half is in Athens

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    prove that William Shakespeare didn’t write the poems or plays we all know and study. The Oxfordian theory proposes that Edward de Vere‚ Seventeenth Earl of Oxford‚ was the author of the plays and poems. However‚ there is the one important fact that the Oxfordians have yet to reconcile and that is the timeline of the plays and the Earl’s death. The Earl of Oxford‚ in fact‚ died in 1604‚ “before about a third of the plays were written.” (David Kathman and Terry Ross‚ 3) Oxfordians argue the chronology

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    Shakespeare or Fakespeare?

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    known as Lord Bulbeck.  He succeeded his father‚ John de Vere‚ as the seventeenth earl of Oxford at the age of twelve‚ when he became a royal ward (Stableford). Both men are from two different places with two entirely different names which would lead one to believe that they are two different human beings. According to ancient Greek

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    another playwright’s. Of the many that argued against Shakespeare’s works‚ Tom Bethell presented evidence in The Case for Oxford that suggested that Shakespeare was indeed not the true author of his plays but rather Edward De Vere‚ the seventeenth Earl of Oxford. On the other hand‚ Irvin Matus‚ author of The Case for Shakespeare‚ strongly believed that Shakespeare

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    Elgin Marbles Debate

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    For over 150 years the marbles of Greece have been placed in the British museum‚ they are recognized as the Elgin Marbles. The Elgin Marbles continue to be the main point of an ongoing debate that will basically determine the historical influence of an important culture. Some of the sculptures that were removed were the marble figures‚ metopes (sculptures in high relief) and friezes. To this day the Greek government has correctly requested the return of the Elgin Marbles a few times while the British

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