Journey there are obstacles to overcome Inner journeys often compel the individual to contemplate challenges faced throughout life through a continual process of self reflection. This process can be seen in the following texts‚ Dante’s Inferno & Kublai Khan by samuel taylor colleridge. Each text reveals self reflection whereby leads the person to question themselves. Secondly they both indicate that there are challenges in life metaphorically or allegorically represented in the imaginative journey.
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Crusades. Due to this strong "Islamic curtain"‚ the Europeans were unaware of the existence of the Mongol empire gradually rising as one of the world superpowers until Marco Polo came back with fascinating stories after his service under the Great Khan.
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Shere Khan the new King of the Jungle. He became a King because His brother died in a fight with men‚ and he had no sons‚ so the next in line was Shere Khan. The season was dry‚ so dry the animals of the jungle made a water truce. When the first sign of water was found Shere Khan was late to the party. He came to the water oasis to sniff out a man cub being neutered by the Pack of wolves. “Akela do I smell a man cub in your pack‚¨ Snarled Shere Khan. ¨Mowgli is a member of my pack‚ and I am sure
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Betrayed and nearly killed by his closely related tribe members and was saved by a family which he had no kinship tie with‚ Genghis Khan dismissed the traditional kinship bonds in the steppe society and relied on alliances with loyal and trusted associates as his essential supporters and followers. He treated people based on merit instead of the kinship‚ or their positions in the family or tribe‚ and honored faithful followers with political power‚ military authority‚ and his unbreakable trust. This
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J. Chandler W. Carraway World Civilization I October 22‚ 2012 Genghis Khan Genghis Khan was both a feared military conqueror ad an intelligent administrative of the empire he created‚ but I think that khan being an intelligent administrative of his empire was the most important of the two of shaping the modern world. Its most his techniques he used as the military conqueror that made me certain. Khan fighting techniques shows that he has leadership skills‚ he was able to the find his enemies
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COLERIDGE: Kubla Khan Coleridge worked out an own theory of imagination‚ which can be divided into a Primary one‚ in other words the faculty by which we perceive the external world‚ and a Secondary one‚ which regards the faculty that a poet has to idealize. Fancy is instead inferior to it‚ because it’s just a logical faculty which enables the poet to associate metaphors or other poetical devices. In fact it’s the imagination that allows the poet to transcend the data of experience
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feasts‚ and banquets reveal tremendous first-hand knowledge of the Mongol court and its policies and tally with Chinese and Persian primary sources”(Rossabi 1). Other critics of Polo’s book say Polo exaggerated many things such as his importance to Kublai Khan because he wanted be well known in Europe and no one could disprove him because he was the only European there at the time. Whether Marco Polo actual traveled to China is still up for debate‚ the significance of The Book of Ser Marco Polo is not
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Sir Syed Ahmed Khan 1. Farsi Maddarsa Muradabad He establised a Farsi Maddarsa at Muradabad in 1859. It was the starting point of Sir Syed’s Educational struggle. In this Maddarsa‚ English is also taught besides English. 2. Victoria School Ghazipur Sir Syed establised first modern Victoria School at Ghazipur (1864). In this school‚ besides Modern Education five languages (English‚ Urdu‚ Arabic‚ Persian and Sanskrit) were also taught. 3. Establishment of Scientific
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Three of the “Four Great Masters” The period of the Yuan Dynasty in China saw an explosion in landscape painting. The reign of Kublai Khan (1260-1294) caused a large amount of the scholar class to leave the imperial court‚ meaning “amateur” artists began to show the skills of artists of the court. At this point four artists became known as the “Four Great Masters of the Yuan Dynasty” or “Four Great Masters of Landscape Painting”. These men were Huang Gongwang‚ Wu Zhen‚ Ni Zan and Wang Meng
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Contrast and Comparison of Wordsworth’s Tintern Abbey and Colderidges’ Kubla Khan When comparing William Wordsworth’s Tintern Abbey‚ and Samuel Colderidge’s "Kubla Khan"‚ one notices a distinct difference in the use of imagination within the two poems. Even though the two poets were contemporaries and friends‚ Wordsworth and Colderidge each have an original and different way in which they introduce images and ideas into their poetry. These differences give the reader quite a unique experience when
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