Temple of Jupiter At the northern side of the Forum is the Temple of Jupiter. Built in 150 B.C it was Pompeii’s main temple. A Capitolium in structure and in pure Italic style‚ the temple was constructed on a high base‚ with a double flight of stairs at its front. Inside the temple lay the "cella"‚ accessible only to the priests‚ and which contained three stands at its far end. Theses stands were occupied by statues of Juno‚ Jupiter‚ and Minerva. In 62 C.E.‚ the temple was seriously damaged in an
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As I look around from my where I stand‚ I see many faces; familiar and unfamiliar. We are all gathered here for one reason: to pay tribute to my Baba; Agha Sahib to most of you. I am aware that most of you have travelled long distances just to be here and this sheds light on the kind of man he was. For those of you who aren’t acquainted with me‚ my name is Amir and this is my father. Baba was the most hard-working person that I have ever met. He worked hard at his career‚ at being a good father
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How does Emily Dickinson try to describe a psychological state in her poem “I felt a Funeral in my Brain?” Emily Dickson was born in 1830‚ in the town of Amherst‚ Massachusetts. She grew up in a prominent and prosperous household in which she was raised as a cultured Christian woman. The sixteenth centaury was a very historical period in America. During this time slavery had been abolished‚ women were campaigning for rights‚ gold was discovered and America was going through a depression. Transcendentalism
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read two poems recently‚ “The Last Whale” by Miles Gibson and “The Song of the Whale” by Kit Wright. Although these two poems are written by two different poets‚ they have one thing in common - both are talking about the needless loss of whales. I’m going to share about how I feel about these two poems and compare them‚ to see the differences and the similarities between both. At first sight‚ I think these two poems really look alike‚ you can see the word ‘whale’ in both poems’ title. However when
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murderous act. He claims that Caesar was a tyrant and his place in power was only hurting Rome. However‚ his speech has several flaws: it is delivered in prose and filled with irony. After Brutus finishes‚ Antony harangues the crowd with his famous funeral oration. This oration is said to be some of Shakespeare’s finest writing. The meticulous lucubration that encompasses Rogerian structure and clever word association allows Antony to manipulate the plebeians in opposition of Brutus. To begin‚ it is
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way to live you life‚ and while her family joined the church‚ Dickinson remained unconverted and so this made her ineligible for church membership. Dickinson presents emotional trauma in “I felt a Funeral‚ in my Brain‚” by instantly creating the image of a mental breakdown‚ the idea of a funeral taking place in a person’s brain merges a psychological death with a physical death. The image of the speakers mental breakdown is portrayed through physical means “And then a Plank in Reason‚ broke‚”
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of sea imagery. The story starts off with children playing on a beach and notices something floating about in the sea. When the object eventually floats upun the shore‚ the children immediately starts to play with it. The object is described as a whale‚ a ship‚ and then a nasty sea monster. When Estebans body floated upon shore they removed the seaweed‚ jelly fish tentacles‚ and the remains of fish. We were told that he had the smell of the sea about him. The women of the town used a sail to make
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of ashes. They realize that the car had crashed into Myrtle. When Tom learns this he tells Myrtle’s husband George and he ultimately blames Gatsby. George drives over to Jay’s house and shoots him as Jay is in his pool. Nick throws Gatsby a small funeral‚ he also moves back home when he realizes that the American dream and individualism has turned into nothing but the pursuit of wealth and the life of……. Ishmael‚
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and Hagar (18). Both the biblical character and the narrator are portrayed as spiritual wanderers and outcasts. Ishmael tells his audience‚ “Whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses‚ and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me‚ that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the streets‚ and methodically knocking people’s hats off – then‚ I account it high time
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Sea Imagery "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World" is full of sea imagery‚ from the title on forward. When the dead body first approaches the shore‚ the kids playing think he is a whale; then‚ a ship. He even looks like some sort of funky sea monster: "when [his body] washed up on the beach‚ they removed the clumps of seaweed‚ the jellyfish tentacles‚ and the remains of fish and flotsam‚ and only then did they see that it was a drowned man" (1). And shortly after‚ we’re told that "he had the
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