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    Analysis of Virginia Woolf

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    The essay “In search of a Room of One’s Own” by Virginia Woolf starts out by asking a simple question‚ what were the living conditions of women in England‚ in the time of Elizabeth? The author wants to understand why no woman had written any literature‚ unlike a man who was capable of a song or sonnet. It was as if the life of a woman was fiction. We must first start out by understanding how women were viewed in the public’s eye and then understand how they could not have been as smart as men; or

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    The Parthenon

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    virgin") which is were the Parthenon’s name‚ derives from. The Parthenon was an architectural masterpiece because of its great size and elaborate decoration. It was constructed between 447 and 438 BCE on the acropolis of Athens at the request of Pericles the leading politician of the time. The Parthenon was built to house the huge gold and ivory (chryselephantine) statue of the goddess Athena (wikipedia‚ 2006)‚ Which was over 30 feet high‚ and portrayed the goddess in battle armor and holding in

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    Dacii si romanii

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    Unit 9 William Shakespeare: comedies‚ historical plays‚ tragedies The Metaphysical Poets I. Types of plays with Shakespeare A. Comedies: they start with a conflict (agon) in a world/space perceived as imperfect‚ the comic brings about chaos that has a potential tragic quality which is sorted out with a marriage ( a return to harmony and togetherness) that suggests the beginning of a better world. Types of humour/comic: language‚ situation‚ character‚ manner‚ gags The mechanism of laughter

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    world‚ the new ideas that developed there were among the most influential in human history.  Ancient Greece had a democracy‚ which is a type of government where every citizen has a say in important decision-making. For example‚ the Funeral Oration of Pericles states‚ “Our constitution is called a democracy because the power is in the hands not of minority but of the whole people.” Democracy

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    The Power of Language

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    The propagandist speaks in an attempt to persuade the audience to believe his way. With the support of the audience‚ the speaker gains power. Propaganda as an art of persuasion has been used for thousands of years. In the fifth century BC‚ when Pericles addressed his fellow Athenians on the merits of their city compared to the tyranny of Sparta‚ he was making propaganda‚ even though much of what he was saying was true. Many centuries later‚ Lenin‚ the Soviet revolutionary‚ realized the value of

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    be spread in many ways through school‚ radio‚ and even television shows. In the end‚ propaganda is just an attempt to sway the audience to believe what the message senders believe. Propaganda has a broad history and dates back to even 5 B.C. when Pericles created propaganda to show Athens was better than the tyrannical Sparta. The actual term “propaganda” only came to the surface in the 1600’s when an organization set up within the Roman Catholic church created it. Totalitarian states‚ popular during

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    ABC s of the Renaissance

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    ABC’s of the Renaissance Architecture  The renaissance places a great deal of its design on symmetry‚ proportion‚ and on geometry. Many beautiful building came from this period for example “Temietto di San Pietro in Montorio Rome in 1502. Books (literature)  Books during the renaissance were very expensive and were passed down from generation from generation. Only the wealthy had books because only one copy could be made at a time and printing presses were very expensive. And example of a

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    In result of Napoleon’s many successes into eliminating negative components of the French Revolution have convinced many citizens of the French nation that Napoleon is the hero of The French Revolution; however‚ due to his despotic intentions‚ inevitable failures‚ as well as other figures of the French Revolution also being considered to be heroic‚ prove otherwise. The French government in the beginning of our French Revolution was in need of a man with military success‚ they were in need of a man

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    Greek Civilization

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    Lecture Notes on Greek Civilization Greece part of the Balkan Peninsula maritime country in Southeastern Europe bounded in the north by Albania‚ Bulgaria‚ Macedonia‚ in the south by the Mediterranean Sea‚ in the west by the Ionian Sea and in the east by the Aegean Sea known as the first “Western” civilization; reached the peak of its advancement in the 5th century BCE had no unified government and consisted of city states 4 Major Greek Tribes: 1. Acheans 2. Ionians 3. Dorians 4

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    English 61: Some Concepts to Consider I Romantic Personae A. Wordsworth: close to Nature ‚ family and friends. 1. Believes we can only hope to retain in middle age some of the energy and enthusiasm for Nature we enjoyed in youth. Nature takes the place of Truth and Beauty in Plato’s philosophy of metempsychosis and anamnesis. Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The Soul that rises with us‚ our life’s Star‚ Hath had elsewhere its setting‚ And cometh from afar: Not in

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