The Palace of Versailles and Contemporary Art: Takashi Murakami The Palace of Versailles located approximately twelve miles outside Paris‚ France and is viewed as a place to showcase modern art. Much of the art that the palace has put on exhibitions over the years has brought a lot of controversy including the most recent one by Japanese artist Takashi Murakimi. Looking back at the 400 years of history at the Palace of Versailles it was once a home for the French royal family‚ a center for
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Louis XIII‚ Versailles is now a grand palace and a popular tourist attraction. Louis XIII’s son‚ Louis XIV‚ disliked his palace and wanted to live somewhere else. After searching‚ Louis found what he wanted‚ his father’s old cabin. He hired‚ Louis Le Vau‚ a famous architect‚ to build this humble estate of his father into a luxurious palace. Le Vau built much of the modern-day Versailles. Taking many years‚ Le Vau extended this building into a stone and brick palace‚ and added buildings that make up what
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Versailles‚ Hampton Court Palace‚ and St. Peter ’s Basilica as well as looked at numerous pictures of artwork and architecture in and of the buildings. These three places have things in common as well as many differences. They all have the evidence of the baroque era but they each show different values that are most important to their community. It seems to me that Versailles was more concerned with showing their successes in politics‚ economics and the arts. Hampton court palace seemed more concerned
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The history of haunted houses goes back extremely far‚ in fact it goes back to the 1800s. This essay will be about haunted houses and their history. The history of haunted houses is displayed in the form of newspaper articles‚ essays and polls to show that people still love haunted houses due to many reasons. In the article‚ “It’s Just Not Halloween Without a Haunted House‚” it stated that there were many professional haunted houses in just america alone. Meaning people make money off of scaring
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Haunted houses have been a go-to horror location especially around Halloween. These sometimes gorey mazes attempt to freighted visitors with fictitious characters including demons and spirits that pop up out of nowhere. All the same‚ could some of these supernatural entities be real? Could ghosts actually travel through our world with little to know trace of one ever being here? Since young ages‚ people have been interested and excited by the existence of ghosts and the supernatural. Now that these
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In The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark‚ Emmy and Pulitzer Prize winning Carl Sagan takes on all comers in the realm of pseudoscience. Witchcraft‚ faith healings‚ astrology‚ superstition‚ creationism‚ alien abductions‚ ESP and telekinesis are just some of the many celebrated fallacies that have their feet held to the fire. This is not the same fire the ancient Greek god Prometheus ‘brought to mankind’. It’s the fire of science and skeptical thinking. Sagan’s predominant message
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The old barn was gloomy‚ but the light of the sun came gleaming in through the cracks of the barn‚ and made the straw glimmer like little tiny bits of gold. The shingles were in disrepair‚ however‚ the structure was sturdy‚ and the wood that surrounded it was worn with age‚ but it gave it character. Similarly‚ hay covered the floor as if it was a shield from danger. Hulga stood in the middle of the barn with her hands on her hips‚ looking toward the posterior of the barn at the ladder leading up
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The Place of Stunted Ironwood Trees by Dr. David Crandall introduces the world of the Himba living in the country of Namibia. These people have interesting and unique beliefs that are based on an imaginary world or way of thinking. This imaginary world has a foundation in their belief in the god Mukuru and their belief that other supernatural forces play a part in their daily lives. These beliefs contribute to how Himba perceive life‚ judge moral character‚ and react to the world around them. The
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Beowulf: Themes The Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf is the most important work of Old English literature‚ and is well deserved of the distinction. The epic tells the story of a hero‚ a Scandinavian prince named Beowulf‚ who rids the Danes of the monster Grendel‚ a descendent of Cain‚ and of his exploits fighting Grendel ’s mother and a Dragon. Throughout the epic‚ the Anglo-Saxon story teller uses many elements to build a certain depth to the characters. Just a few of the important character elements
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THEME OF DUPLICITY IN THREE SHORT STORIES OF HENRY JAMES: THE LIAR‚ THE REAL THING‚ AND THE BEAST IN THE JUNGLE Nazan Gökay Theme of Duplicity in Three Short Stories of Henry James: “The Liar‚” “The Real Thing‚” and “The Beast in the Jungle” The genius of Henry James
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