AJANTA CAVES INTRODUCTION Ajanta Caves (Ajiṇṭhā leni; Marathi) in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra‚ India are about 30 rock-cut Buddhist cave monuments which date from the 2nd century BCE to about 480 or 650 CE.[1] The caves include paintings and sculptures described by the government Archaeological Survey of India as "the finest surviving examples of Indian art‚ particularly painting"‚[2]which are masterpieces of Buddhist religious art‚ with figures of the Buddha and depictions of the Jataka tales
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new leaders. A prime example of this is when Squealer‚ who symbolizes propaganda‚ not only alters the seven commandments established by Old Major at the beginning of the revolt‚ but completely changed the laws in the favor of the pigs. “They had thought the Fifth Commandment was ‘No animal shall drink alcohol‚’ but there were two words that they had forgotten. Actually the Commandment read: “No animals shall drink alcohol to excess.” (Orwell 109) The reader is shown here that the pigs have changed
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After World War Two the Korean peninsula was divided into two spheres of influence by the 38th parallel line. North of the line was the Communist North Korean regime‚ supported by communist states like the Soviet Union and China. while the south was supported by the United stated and western capitalist states. on June 25 1950 The Korean war began with the invasion of South Korea by 75‚000 soldiers from the North Korean. Immediately the United Nation countered with security council resolution 83‚
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curiosity aroused by the entrance of a cave. The hunting party ventured across the ravine of the Waghur River. And they discovered several caves‚ against which bush‚ shrubs earth and stones had piled up. Goatherds for shelter were using a few. The Government was informed about this finding and soon the Archaeologists began excavate them. Many experts have been restoring them during the last fifty years. The shock of discovery was worldwide. All the rock-cut caves had paintings on verandahs‚ inner
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the Seven deadly Sins as human beings in this play is what sets Marlowe apart from the original story of Faust. They also represent the three allegories that are found within the play. This engrossing tale of a proud and an inordinately ambitious medieval magician who sold his soul to the Devil is undoubtedly allegorical. The play itself has a moral allegory of universal significance which is shown through the characters Marlowe introduced into the play. \ The presence of the good and bad angels
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teacher Socrates. In this allegory‚ Socrates questions one of his students‚ Glaucon‚ about the ideas behind reason and our senesces. Socrates sets the scene in an eerie‚ dark cave with fire as their source of light. Socrates emphasizes that the men are chained from head to toe and can only see the shadows from the objects that the “marionette players” place in front of the light. The light reflecting from the outside world and the fire are projected on the wall of the cave in front of their eyes. These
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Traditionally‚ masks have been an indispensable part of religious expression‚ the performing arts‚ and the battlefield. The many uses have been adopted to assist in becoming someone other than themselves. In our society the term‚ mask‚ may be used as an allegory to indicate a hidden agenda or to identify a false perception that is given to the world by someone. It may be characterized as our id‚ from Freud’s logic‚ taking over when we unconsciously revert to our defense mechanism of proving that we are
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person decides to take control of something in his or her life. Whether it be good or bad‚ there will be consequences for every decision one makes. Both “Once Upon a Time” by Nadine Gordimer‚ and Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie‚ use allegory to show the dangers of wanting and having control. “Once Upon a Time” shows the power and dominance of control through a real-life situation and a fairytale. Gordimer writes about apartheid‚ a situation going on in her life that she is extremely
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Truman how dangerous the outside world is. Until he discovers everything around him was set up by the director. He saw everything keep repeating again and again. And when he looks at the picture of his wedding‚ he saw his wife did the
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Christian symbolism in Beowulf within the poem Beowulf‚ the poet utilizes the Christian religion to symbolize the elements of good and evil and Heaven and Hell. Beowulf is the oldest known English epic poem. The manuscripts date back to about 1000 A.D.‚ when two scribes wrote it down for posterity. The poem was handed down from the Anglo-Saxon period‚ and through the retelling of the poem‚ it changed a little each time. The poem creates an oral depiction of an epic hero who strived to fight against
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