Famous Figurines Argumentative Analysis

In the last decades, the repatriation of art and cultural heritage has become a controversial issue. This issue has received great attention from the public, international law and the press. Should cultural object taken by a country or nation remain with that country or should it repatriated? Art repatriation refers to the returning of cultural artifact to their original owners. (Roehrenbeck,2010). Cultural treasures represent the civilization of a nation or group of people which reflect the religions, values and ideologies. (Zhong,2014)

The second purpose is to acknowledge the reverse proposition, to learn from our mistakes. The third purpose is how snap judgments and first impressions can be taught and controlled. The book starts with the example of the J. Paul Getty Museum’s purchase that ended up being a forgery. The museum was approached by an art dealer back in 1983 and said that he had a statue dating back to sixth century BC known as a kouros. A kouros is a sculpture of a nude male youth standing with his left leg forward and his arms at his sides (Gladwell 2005: 1). The officials from the museum purchased the statue after they did a 14-month investigation but had suspiciousness. The museum brought in Greek scholars and just looked at the kouro from a glance. Thomas Hoving looked at the kouro and felt that it was to fresh, Angelos Dontas felt intuitive repulsion, and for Georgios Dontas had a feeling there was a glass between him and the statue (Gladwell 2005: 11). They didn’t know why they had these feelings but they knew it was a

This paper in particular discusses two of the statues exhibited at the Power and Pathos exhibit at The Getty Center in Los Angeles. It analyses and compares the statuette of Alexander the Great on

Many horrible and despicable acts have been committed during wartime. However, some of the worst acts committed are not readily known, such as the destruction and looting of historical areas and heritage sites. Published in Near Eastern Archaeology, an article named “Satellite Imagery-Based Analysis of Archaeological Looting in Syria” tackles this issue. In it Jesse Casana, the author, explains how his team is using satellite imagery (along with ground reports) to track the widespread looting across Syria. Casana is currently an Associate Professor at Dartmouth College, in the Department of Anthropology. He is also directing a survey project in the Diyala River Valley in Iraq. His previous engagement was as director of an excavation at Tell Qarqur in Syria. His specialization is in the development and implementation of geospatial technology and its use in archaeology. The combination of his boots on the ground experience in Syria, along with his specialization makes him a perfect candidate to lead the analysis on these looting sites. There are many reasons that I chose to review this article, the foremost being that it simply sounded fascinating. In addition to that, I wanted to gather more information as to where, why, and to what extent, looting was occurring. /!/

On March 19, 2003 Baghdad was under fire. Three weeks later, American tanks roll into the Iraq capital scenes of triumph replaced by chaos. The US Military wasn’t prepared for citywide civilian crisis and eventually everything went up for grabs—even the treasures of the Iraq museum. The Iraq Museum have object materials from about half a million years ago – carvings, statues, and pottery. All the archaeological data was housed

Children have their imagination and go out on an adventure with it. Kids make their own friends and possibly their own police fight or make themselves fight crime. Ray Bradbury does the same. In both The Veldt and Zero Hour, by Ray Bradbury we have learned that children's imaginations can affect themselves, their attitude and the people around them. They did it for another reason too.

Daniel Solove writes in his article that the “nothing to hide” argument is a terrible argument, because privacy is important to everyone and everyone has something to hide. Solove writes that if you break the argument down to its core the argument means nothing. Solove addresses the argument for the “nothing to hide” belief by stating why some agree with the argument because the argument can be protection against acts of terror, then describing how the government knowing everything on someone can cause plenty of problems as he describes. Solove takes the explanation of privacy to a place that most people ,if not all ,can relate to just to define privacy more than the general consensus. Solove gave a few

“Without doubt these artefacts belonged to Paestum,” said Gabrial Zuchtrigel.” “We don't know which tomb they belonged because the site was raided by robbers – something which is devastating for real archaeology.”

This essay aims to investigate two different time periods in the history of art. It will scrutinize the influence that the respective societal contexts had on the different artists, which in turn, caused them to arrange the formal elements in a specific way. I will be examining an Egyptian sculpture of the god Isis nursing Horus, her son, as well as the Vladimir Virgin icon, which dates from the Byzantine era. Experts vary on the precise ‘lifetime’ of the Ancient Egyptian civilization, but according to Mason (2007:10) it existed from 3100 BCE up to 30 BCE. The Byzantine era, which

In the visual argument that I created I wanted to portray the idea of deforestation and how it affects the animals and the wildlife living in these forests and other habitats.So In my image I included an endangered red squirrel leaving its destroyed habitat while carrying a bindle. This visual argument's purpose is mostly to inform but can also be persuasive so that people may take action in trying to save wildlife.

The dusty, humid heat of a P.E.I summer cast only a chill on the African artifacts quietly biding their time in my Saba’s failing business venture, Africaplace. Two fleeting, fruitless seasons and the artifacts withincarved tusks from the Ivory Coast, gold weights from Ife, and ceremonial costumes from Sudanwere scattered, like seeds from a dandelion’s head, throughout collections across North America. Now, over forty years later, I have to wonder at the fate of those estranged artworks. Have any made the tumultuous journey back to Africa? More significantly, after all this time, is that truly where they belong? As the debate over the repatriation of cultural artifacts reaches a fever pitch, this question’s answer depends entirely upon who

The creator uses their visual argument to persuade their audience of teachers and parents that being tardy doesn’t correlate with bad grades. The author demonstrates this by using color. The author used the color black, bright yellow and red. The artist used the color black to create contrast with the white table to make it become a focal point and stand out more. The bright yellow shirt of the girl on the left and her lighter hair color brings attention to her as well as her surroundings. In addition, Red is an eye catching color which makes the audience notice the late pass and the grades on the papers. The image shows juxtaposition to exaggerate the differences in grades that both girls received. They addressed that the girl on the right

In school there are a lot of students who enjoy painting, or taking photos, or playing music or anything that is arts related. Students who take these fine arts programs love these classes and enjoy being in them, taking them away could falter a student’s school life. Fine arts is a big deal at Central, we have so many talented students at our school, they deserve all the consideration and appreciation that they get. Funding for the fine arts programs should not be considered to be cut because the fine arts can benefit a student’s test performance, they benefit a student’s culture, and can help a student’s future. First off, the fine arts program can actually help students, it helps them benefit their school life and it can actually help test scores, in an article with “The Washington Post” from Tyleah Hawkins, the author, states how the fine

You are likely to encounter a visual argument anytime you come around a magazine, Television, or a photograph. People recognize a visual argument because it tells so many different arguments inform different perspectives. It creates emotion and creates a visual representation about what is being portrait to the audience.

William Shakespeare is considered to be the greatest playwrights of Elizabethan dramatist and possibly of all time. He is known as the world’s greatest playwrights because of his unique style of writing. His works were used as a form of entertainment to escape the reality for the rich and poor. His plays appealed to the masses and survived the hands of time, but little is known about man who wrote so beautifully because his life remains a mystery. In this paper I will discuss who William Shakespeare was, why there are allegations against him, and who could have written his plays.