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    The Presence of “Magical Thinking” within the case studies of The Maori Cannibals & Cantonese Funerals Since the day you were born‚ you have been taught lessons that will help you get through everyday life. There have been the lessons of sharing‚ to always help others‚ and of course‚ to always be kind to your fellow man. Now‚ why is it that if you were to see someone use a dirty dinner plate‚ or drink someone else’s half empty glass of water‚ you deem that person disgusting? Is it in fact

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    The Stela Of Mentuwoser

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    15th October‚ 2014 The Stela of Mentuwoser‚ made during Middle Kingdom Egypt‚ is a powerful piece of funerary artwork that primarily shows the importance of Mentuwoser‚ a steward under King Senwosret I‚ through the strongly worded hieroglyphics and the fine detail of the artwork. The Pharaoh presented the stela to Mentuwoser in appreciation of his services‚ describing him as a loyal and well respected overseer‚ outlining

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    Stela of Mentuwoser

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    An Analysis of Stela of Mentuwoser The Stela of Mentuwoser is a piece of funerary art from the Middle Kingdom period that was given to Mentuwoser by King Senwosret for his loyal services. Mentuwoser had many accomplishments and was thought to be a man of the people. The Stela of Mentuwoser displays the respect people had for him and what he had done for the people of his nation. It also gives us a look into some of the traditions of his time. The Stela clearly expresses the amount of accomplishments

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    Funerary Stela Summary

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    The Funerary Stela was created in the twentieth Dynasty— circa 1190 to 1075 BCE in Aniba‚ Nubia‚ Egypt. The piece was constructed out of painted sandstone for the tomb of Mery‚ a man who oversaw the King’s treasury. An Egyptian story about the sun god Ra as well as hieroglyphics of a hymn to Ra is depicted on the relief. The work of art‚ the Funerary Stela‚ represents the Egyptians fascination with their many gods and the afterlife. Egyptians were polytheistic and worshiped many gods

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    Encyclopedia defines art as the product or process of deliberately arranging symbolic elements in a way that influences and affects the senses‚ emotions‚ and/or intellect.[1] The Metternich Stela‚ an ancient work of art located in the Metropolitan Museum of Art‚ corresponds aptly to that definition. The Stela was carefully carved out of a stone called graywacke with mythological depictions to protect Egyptians against scorpions and snakes—two of the most dangerous threats of ancient Egypt. It was

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    Collection of Cypriot art. Today‚ the museum hosts a huge amount of works of art from a multitude of different cultures. The museum’s building today is over two million square feet long (“History of the Museum”) For this project‚ I will be covering the Stela of Senu‚ located in the museum’s Egyptian wing. Artist is unknown Dated to circa 1390-1352 B.C.E. Made during the reign of Amenhotep III From Middle Egypt (Tuna el-Gebel) Made of Limestone 75 cm

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    Where did it come from? A old‚ wooden chest was placed on a stool. The wood was peeling off‚ revealing an ugly tint of pink. Shiny‚ gold borders decorated the sides and the top of the chest which had a keyhole in the center. Ms. Amber‚ our teacher‚ suggested that for home work‚ we should write where it came from‚ who previously owned it‚ and what it was used for. As I was thinking about my story‚ the chest opened. I turned around to see if any of my classmates noticed‚ but no one did. My attention

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    Magical Realism

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    by Trujillo. By unconventionally using a writing method of magic realism‚ the author Junot Diaz wrote about a real history of Dominican Republic during Trujillo’s dictatorship period and the lives of Dominican people who live in America nowadays. Magical realism allows Diaz to bring supernatural elements to the story. Even though this novel has many magic elements‚ the core of it is trying to express the Dominican Republic’s or Latin American social reality and reality of people’s lives and the magic

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    A Magical Dream

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    A Magical Dream My heart is pounding faster than a drum line during a college football game and I have a feeling inside my stomach as if there is a dancing leprechaun doing back flips. My family and I have arrived! I walk in slow motion with tiny steps through the tall magical gates with my head held high reading the glistering sign that says‚ “Welcome to the Magic Kingdom.” I whisper under my breath “I can’t believe I am here” as if I just stepped into a land of imagination. Before I could blink

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    A Magical Moment

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    It was during the last summer break‚ my husband and I went to hike across the Alps on an ‘inn_ to_inn’ treak starting in the Alpi maritime nature reserve in Italy and finishing at the Mediterranean sea near the stunning town of Menton on the French Riviera. On our way from the mountains to the seaside‚ which is known as‚ ‘Route ‘de sel’ we explored classic‚ high alpine landscapes‚ bronze age‚ petroglyphs‚ and the historical villages and hamlets of the royal valley which boasts exquisite painted chapels

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