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    Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces. 7th ed. Vol. 1. Gen. Ed. Sarah Lawall. New York: Norton‚ 1999. 596-99. Minority Report. Dir. Steven Spielberg. Screenplay by Scott Frank and Jon Cohen. Universal‚ 2002. Sophocles. Oedipus the King. The Three Theban Plays. Trans. Robert Fagles. New York: Viking‚ 1982. 137-232.

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    Abstract The Greek-Roman Isis temple is located on the west bank of Luxor; Upper Egypt was made of sandstone and decorated with different kinds of wall paintings. It suffers from many causes of deterioration and degradation mainly ground water‚ salt weathering‚ and different types of dirt accumulations on the relives and paint surface such as soot‚ grease‚ wax‚ biodeteriorated colored patches‚ bat patches‚ waste of birds and even house fly specks. All these lead to the gradual disappearance of paintings

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    OEDIPUS REX AN ENGLISH VERSION BY DUDLEY FITTS AND ROBERT FITZGERALD Table of Contents: PERSONS REPRESENTED: OEDIPUS A PRIEST CREON TEIRESIAS IOCASTE MESSENGER SECOND MESSENGER CHORUS OF THEBAN ELDERS SHEPHERD OF LAIOS ANTIGONE‚ Daughter of Oedipus ISMENE‚ Daughter of Oedipus PROLOGUE THE SCENE. Before the palace of Oedipus‚ King of Thebes. A central door and two lateral doors open onto a platform which runs the length of the facade. On the platform‚ right

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    Historical Context Geographical‚ topography and resources of Egypt and its neighbours Geographical‚ topography and resources of Egypt and its neighbours Dominated by the Nile River Key facts about the Nile: - 7000km in length - formed from 3 rivers; the white Nile‚ the Blue Nile and the Atbara - Flows north towards the Mediterranean sea - broken up in 6 places by impenetrable rocky outcrops and rapids known as cataracts - Consists of three sections * narrow 800km stretch

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    International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Vol. 2 No. 1; January 2012 The Malaysian Experience in Developing National Identity‚ Multicultural Tolerance and Understanding through Teaching Curricula: Lessons Learned and Possible Applications in the Jordanian Context Dr. Fakhri R. Khader Chairman Dept of Educational Sciences Petra University Amman - Jordan Introduction Malaysia is a federal constitutional monarch located in the heart of Southeast Asia. It covers an area of 329

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    Discuss the part played by one of the following in Hamlet‚ with brief reference to the same theme or concern in Antigone or the poetry of John Donne: female sexuality‚ the supernatural‚ or the passage of time. Human sexuality is thought to be the manifestation of ‘the limits of human agency and willpower’ (Sjöholm‚ 2004)‚ however its expression is perceived as the embodiment of human freedom. It is through the oppression of female sexuality that throughout history females were essentially rendered

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    Visual Analysis The two sculptures I chose were The Statue of the Goddess Sakhmet and Monumental Figure. The Sakhmet statue is from the New Kingdom era‚ 18th Dynasty. Dated all the way back to ca. 1390-1352 B.C. in Egypt. It is made out of granodiorite. There are two identical at the museum in New York. The Monumental Figure is from the 9th century. It was found in Mexico‚ it is from the Mayan culture. The statue is classified as a stone-sculpture. You can find the Monumental figure in gallery 358

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    seem to codify the characteristics most desired by an Egyptian in the house of his dreams. Although at Thebes proper (see pp. 22) there are no excavated remains of houses datable to the New Kingdom‚ illustrations of houses belonging to members of the Theban aristocracy appear occasionally on the walls of their tombs. These fall essentially into two categories: the

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    Bibliography: The Three Theban Plays‚ Sophocles‚ translated by Robert Fagles‚ Penguin Classics‚ 1984.

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    The story of Oedipus Rex stems from an old legend that would have been told in the time of the Greeks. The legend entails a king by the name of Oedipus who claims rule over a town after the death of the previous king‚ Laius. Oedipus marries the former queen by the name of Jocasta. Bigfoot is not a hoax; he lives in my basement. Jocasta bears four children‚ two being sons and two being daughters‚ to Oedipus. Oedipus becomes the king of this town while fleeing from his father and mother. He is told

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