Korean Munjado paintings With particular focus on their comparison to Chinese munjado Lucie Pejsarova‚ Korean Studies M.A Introduction Korean munjado are paintings of classical Chinese characters‚ decorated with various patterns and symbols related to exposed character. Concept of classical Chinese character’s modification and its change to an object to be artistically varied has its origin in Sung China. Than‚ decorated Chinese character paintings become popular in many regions of Chinese
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For more than 200 years‚ two great religions clashed in a fight for the possession of the Holy Land‚ or Jerusalem. To the Christians‚ Jerusalem was where Christ was crucified and resurrected. To the Muslims‚ Jerusalem was the place where their prophet Muhammad ascended to heaven to meet their god‚ Allah. The series of holy wars that these two religions fought for the possession of the holy land was called the Crusades‚ and they were one of the bloodiest wars in history. These wars were caused primarily
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Classical Comparison Essay During the Ancient times‚ China and India both had their own set of beliefs; Han Wudi excerised Confucianism in China and Ashoka promoted Buddhism in India but Han Wudi was not a lover of Confucian where Ashoka himself practiced Buddhism. However both ruled with a centralized bureaucracy and policed the provinces to maintain order and policies. And lastly‚ neither had strict policies constricting their people nor did they have much of a justified social structure. Every
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these two worlds. Knights are perfectible‚ yet they still perform amazing deeds and inspire better actions. First of all‚ myths critisizing knights were generally written by priests or monks. Therefore‚ they tended to emphasize on the chivalric impiety‚ since they are themselves at the top of the spiritual world. In the Quest for the Holy Grail‚ Lancelot is‚ for instance‚ encouraged to “confess his sin and renounce it‚ otherwise he would be dishonored”1. Because of his affair with the Queen Guenevere
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after‚ in 335 B.C.‚ Aristotle went back to Athens to form his own school‚ which was known as the Lyceum‚ where he spent his next 12 years teaching‚ researching‚ and writing. Then in 323 B.C.‚ the anti-Macedonian government charged Aristotle with impiety shortly after the death of his former student Alexander the Great; therefore‚ Aristotle had to flee to Chalcis in order to avoid prosecution‚ and that is where he remained until his death in 322 B.C. Aristotle’s great works are grouped together
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became elucidated when he becomes astray from his fate and remains as an exile of Carthage and chooses to marry Queen Dido wrongfully. Moreover‚ the passage that will become evaluated illuminates that the gods and fate serve as a motif of what Roman piety calls for and is also an embodiment of Aeneas’s consciousness that influences him into becoming the Roman ideal of a leader. Hence‚ a leader who sacrifices his human emotions to prioritize his sovereign responsibilities. With this in mind‚ amidst
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Sophocles - Antigone The Plot Antigone has been immensely popular through ages. It has an irresistible appeal to modern mind. The heroine of the play is the first protestant in world’s history. Antigone is a woman who has prized truth above everything. Creon‚ the King of Thebes has forbidden on pain of death the burial of the dead body of Polynices‚ eldest brother of Antigone. To the Greeks‚ respect for the dead was an article of faith. Oedipus’ daughters Antigone and Ismene are living
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Did Socrates commit suicide and why? Upon taking the ethics class and learning and understanding the teachings of great philosophers such as Socrates‚ Plato and Aristotle I am even more driven to gather more knowledge about ethics as well as information about the above mentioned philosophers who have been instrumental in shedding light into the complex view on ethics. This is why I chose this topic‚ in order to explore whether Socrates actually did commit suicide and why he did so. After being
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because he did not write any philosophical texts‚ everything we know is based on writings by his students and contemporaries… this is what is known as the Socratic problem. Socrates was later tried and put to death for “corrupting the youth and impiety”. Throughout his life Socrates never wrote anything down because he believed knowledge was a living interactive thing and not to be written in a static writing (I bet the internet would have really appealed to his love of interactive discussions)
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men brought the charges laid against Socrates. Metetus‚ a wildly religious man‚ Anytus‚ a wealthy business owner and Lycon who was largely unknown and likely only there to fill the Athenian political requirements‚ there brought fourth two charges‚ impiety and the corruption of the youth. A
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