ANCIENT ART 200 Was the Mask Of Agamemnon Edited by Schliemann and his Workers? 5/14/2011 Sandra.Baah | Schliemann was a German archeologist who excavated the shaft graves of Mycenae. He found a mask which has been claimed to be the mask of Agamemnon. This has brought up endless debates about the authenticity of the mask. The mask is said to be one of Schliemann’s forgeries. Some scholars claim the mask is too new or does not have any qualities that prove that it is Mycenaean. It is difficult to
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Kindred‚ a Sci-fi novel‚ by Octavia E. Butler‚ is about a young‚ black woman‚ named Dana in the 1970s‚ who time-travels to the past when slavery was prominent. At this time‚ plantations are embedded in society‚ and colored people have almost no rights. In her first experience in the past‚ she ends up saving a young boy drowning in the river. However‚ as she returns him to his mother‚ she learns the challenges that people of color face during this era. Dana realizes that she gained an uncontrollable
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The Tension Displayed in W.B Yeats’ Poetry When one hears the name ‘Yeats’‚ one most likely thinks of the man many consider to be Ireland’s greatest ever poet. However‚ if you were to ask these poets to discuss their favourite aspects of his poetry‚ I am sure that the response would amount to little more than some ‘umming’ and ‘errring’ and the occasional ‘his alliteration’ from those who remember their days at school. I must admit‚ I was the same before I began studying his work. Now‚ however
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A lot of Yeats’ poems about love are linked back to the love of his life‚ Maud. She is represented in many forms in Yeats’ poetry and Broken Dreams is no exception. By using Maud‚ Broken Dreams involves themes such as loss‚ love and time. ‘THERE is grey in your hair. Young men no longer...’ In these first two lines Yeats has set the basis of what the poem will be about‚ comparing Maud to what she was like when she was young and what she is like during the writing of the poem. Yeats switches between
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Judith Butler‚ attempting to bridge gender and feminist theories emphasized the notion of performance as an “analytical category that allows for critical intervention” (Hall‚ 2013‚ p. 112). Viewing identity as different facets of scripted performance‚ Butler saw the opportunity to subvert interpretation of gender and sexuality norms as an effort to destabilize hierarchical traditions‚ like those seen in medical and legal discourses (Hall‚ 2013). J. Jack Halberstam‚ who focuses on a melding of queer
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In the passage of Undoing Butler‚ it shows an interesting point of view in the life of transexual. Often times‚ transgender topics will not go in depth with the process and the thoughts of the person. The passage focused on a David Reimer; his biological gender is a male and it was decided by his parent to raise him as a women after an incident. His parents renamed David to Branda. Brenda tends to enjoy toys that are designed for boys at the age of nine. At her pre-teenage years‚ she decided she
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W.B Yeats overview. Personal response W.B Yeats is one of the most fascinating poets of the 20th century his poems are very linked in with nature. All his poems I have studied‚ Lake Isle of Inisfree‚ September 1913‚ Easter 1916‚ Stares Nest by my window and Sailing to Byzantium show he has a great connection with nature and expresses himself by this. His poems are both public and personal; he discusses matters of his personal private life along with political points or debates. This shows all
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In the fifth sermon‚ Joseph Butler looks at how it is that we are commanded to love our neighbor as ourselves. He argues that that in order to understand how we are to love our neighbor‚ we first need to consider the different meanings that “as thy self” could have‚ such as that we should have a similar affection towards our neighbor as what we have for ourselves. Butler states that our affections toward others should be similar to the affections we have toward ourselves. This means that‚ just as
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It is clear to see that the character Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind precisely symbolizes the main chacteristics of American. In the conversation with Scarlett‚ he responds her suspicion of his politic intention that “Not a change of heart at all. Merely a change of hide. You might possibly sponge the spots off a leopard but he’d remain a leopard‚ just the same.” Through this saying‚ the personalities of Rhett Butler in particularity‚ as well as of American people in generality‚ are partially
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The mask of Tutankhamun is a unique golden mask that was owned by the pharaoh of the eighteenth dynasty known as King Tut. King Tut was a young powerful pharaoh of a family that ruled Egypt. “Although he was just teenager when he died he was one of the last heir of a powerful family that had ruled Egypt and its empire for centuries‚ he was laid to rest laden with gold and was eventually forgotten (Williams).” The mask that was found on Tut when his tomb was discovered is made of inlaid gold with
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