Angelina Jolie: Model‚ Actress‚ and Humanitarian Angelina Jolie is arguably the most well known actress in Hollywood‚ but her acting/directing career is not what is catching the public’s attention lately. Since the filming of her action adventure movie “Tomb Raider” in Cambodia‚ Jolie has dedicated her life to helping developing countries create more infrastructure. Including her mission work in African countries Jolie has also taken orphaned children from the countries she has visited and adopted them
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acts‚ today’s video games are also infested with many forms of inappropriate behavior. It is not uncommon for young boys to observe scantily clad women representing many of today’s celebrities (take‚ for example‚ a reproduction of Angelina Jolie in Tomb Raider). Often times with this sort of behavior in video games‚ many young boys may learn that disrespect towards women is accepted in today’s society. WASTED TIME Although many of today’s video games are vital learning tools‚ there are also quite
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Explain what Tutankhamun’s tomb and its contents reveal about the role of a New Kingdom Pharaoh. The tomb of King Tutankhamun was discovered in 1922 by British archaeologist Howard Carter. Many secrets were revealed about the life of Tutankhamun and his role as a New Kingdom pharaoh through the contents found in his tomb. As well as being the ruler of Egypt‚ Tutankhamun took on many other roles and responsibilities. The vast amount of treasures and wall paintings in his tomb‚ provide sufficient evidence
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Egypt and providing a link between the Egyptian people and the gods‚ pharaohs were “an essential element in the maintenance of the position of society in the order of creation”. This idea has been substantiated through the various artefacts located in tombs in the Valley of the Kings‚ particularly that of Tutankhamun. These finds have shed light on the role and lifestyle of the pharaoh in ancient Egypt. Through the discovery and analysis of these items‚ historians and archaeologists alike have been able
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El-Medina was home for the artisans who worked on the tombs in the valleys of the kings (A) Tomb 1 The tomb of Sennedjem in the necropolis of Deir el-Medina on the West Bank at Luxor was actually one of the great discoveries‚ found by Italian archaeologists in 1886. Nothing had been disturbed. Today the funerary equipment‚ mostly made by the workers themselves‚ is displayed in the Museo Egizio at Turin. Almost all of the decorations within the tomb‚ painted on a background of yellow ochre‚ are perfectly
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an important site to study when looking at Egyptian culture‚ architecture and workforce as it only represents a small part of Egyptian society and a specialised one at that. Deir el-Medina was a city that was built for the sole purpose of building tombs for the people of the main Egyptian cities. For this reason it is an important site to study when looking at Egyptian burial practices. It is‚ however useful when looking at Egyptian culture‚ architecture and workforce as Deir el-Medina did have a
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Many people wonder how ancient Egyptian civil action came to be. They think about how it was created‚ or what happens to create it. There were many factors that went into the creation of ancient Egyptian civilizations‚ but the Nile River had the largest impact. One of the largest impacts the Nile had on ancient Egyptian civilization was the flood season. The annual flood season impacted the crops that were planted‚ and the jobs of the people. There were three parts to the flood cycle: Akhet
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archaeological data‚ particularly that recovered from Amarna‚ that enable us to restore the ground plans and to some extent the interior decoration of late Eighteenth-Dynasty houses. there exist many drawings and paintings on ostraca‚ in papyri‚ and on tomb walls‚ providing vivid views of house exteriors and interiors. Several models of houses that may be contemporary afford three-dimensional impressions of modest homes (cats. 1 and 2)‚ while a number of texts furnish literary descriptions of ideal country
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it‚ this is a major reason that the Pharaohs contents of the tomb were of such importance. They emphasis on the importance of rituals‚ customs and beliefs as well as funerary architecture can be seen clearly in the discovery of the tomb of Kings and Pharaohs. The planning that went into every Pharaohs tomb was extremely complex‚ as each tomb was significantly different in terms of the tombs layout and wall decorations. The tombs structure and layout had to somehow reflect the formation and
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worship – Lavish tomb burials Tomb construction and tomb contents were an important part of ancestral worship. Because a tomb contained the physical remains of the deceased‚ it was also believed to be the dwelling place for the soul (po 魄). Earth mounds or tumuli were constructed over tombs of the wealthy or the elite during the Zhou period (1027 - 256BCE). During the Eastern Zhou (770 – 256BCE)‚ terraced pavilions were added on top. According to Zhou burial rites‚ the height of a tomb mound reflected
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