Throughout this section‚ Tolstoy investigates the origins of patriotism and national identity. Although many of the characters vigorously support the Russian cause‚ their reasoning for doing so are diverse. Prince Andrei hopes to achieve a gratifying career and get away from his wife; dreamy Nikolai glamorizes battle; Ippolit Kuragin wants opportunities to pick up women. None of these characters seem to be moved by nationalist feelings - all of them volunteered for the war due to self-interest or
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I firmly believe that the point of visiting a museum is to educate one on how things once were in the past through its display of artifacts‚ exhibits‚ art‚ cultural objects‚ etc. Its purpose is to let you imagine what it was like during a time you were not apart of or‚ in some cases‚ allow you to look back at a time you were apart of when you were very young. The African-American Museum of Long Island did a great job at presenting some of the many African-American contributions to society. In addition
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You are not mad. Mad is when your cousin ( Bellatrix ) slaughters a hare in front of you‚ eager to see if your resolve would crumble and you’d call her out to be a beast. Mad is when your mother ( Walburga ) wraps her long tapered fingers around your throat and squeezes‚ daring you to spill your bile‚ to oppose her at last just like her failure of a firstborn. Mad is when your betrothed ( Laetitia ) decides to humiliate her sister in front of the Public‚ hoping to see approval glint in two
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The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch is a twisted story full of drama and scandals with each character more complex than the next. It is often simple to pick apart and make assumptions about a novel’s protagonist. In the case of The Black Prince it is clear to see that the main character and first person narrator is in fact a repressed homosexual. Throughout the novel he faces many challenges to his gender and sexuality and although the stories‚ “clown” Francis Marloe suggests this many times during
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The museum I chose to visit for my Cultural Event Report is The Virginia Living Museum. I attended 11/8/2011 with my boyfriend and his daughter. I loved the museum; it had so many different aspects to it and exhibits to see. The two exhibits I was intrigued by were The Virginia’s World of Darkness Gallery and The Virginia’s Underground Valley. The Virginia’s World of Darkness Gallery had a lot of different animals from sharks‚ which scare me but intrigue me‚ to moon jellyfish. It intrigued me because
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Q. Study one louis kahn building and express is principles Kimbell Art Museum Kimbell art museum at fort worth‚ texas‚ is considered the crown jewel of Louis Kahn. The brief demanded for a modern building where natural light should play a vital role and the form to be a work of art of modest scale – not overwhelming the viewer and the artwork. The museum is composed of 16 parallel vaults that are each 100 feet (30.5 m) long‚ 20 feet (6 m) high and 23 feet (7 m) wide (internal measurements)
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Fieldwork assignment #2: Museum Ethnography I have always been interested in Japanese culture and traditions‚ so for my museum ethnography assignment I visited the American Museum of Natural History‚ where I chose the Stout Hall of Asian Peoples for further analyzing. Japanese culture is a very unique one‚ which differs from others; anthropologists refer to it as “a style”. There are a lot of interesting exhibits in the wing I chose; they all have different stories to tell. It was impossible to
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While many history scholars claim that the label has gained a better association over the years‚ others believe that it still has the same bad meaning. The Prince‚ by Niccoló Machiavelli‚ provides many examples as to how the term‚ “Machiavellian”‚ has a negative connotation. To begin with‚ a Machiavellian person is merciless and harsh. In The Prince‚ Machiavelli advises leaders to decide who they need to injure. If they do so‚ they must make sure that they do not receive revenge. He is literally telling
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The 7‚000 ft.² Pennsylvania House Museum had many roles‚ once a local tavern‚ a boarding house‚ a general store‚ a doctor’s clinic and secondhand shop before falling into disrepair‚ The daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) decided to restore the dilapidated building‚ to make it into a house museum in 1939. The museum today is setup as a federal style‚ three story house‚ furnished with 19th-century furnishings and artifacts‚ which were discovered in basement excavations‚ and donated by previous
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Salvador Dali paintings outside of Europe‚ the Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg should be a museum most people should get to know. The museum was first opened in 1982 and‚ it was rebuild and reopened to the public in January 11‚ 2011. The new museum hold 7 of 18 “masterpieces” created by Dali‚ and the private collection of A. Reynolds and Eleanor R. Morse‚ who became great friends with Salvador and Gala Dali. The path in the museum is mostly predetermined but there is always a way to make it
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