Inigo Jones Mask

Football is not dangerous because scientist has invented new and softer protection for players. Since 1990 they have improve shape, padding, and outside material to prevent concussions. This has improve because in 1970 they invented the full faces mask that came with polycarbonate material to absorb combat. But in 1960 the shoulder pads were improve with plastic shell and foam to protect chest and shoulders.

This is a performance that is intentionally popular that has a sentimental value. The audience for this performance has a small market by the cause of favor and approval by their audience. The market is small because this is not a normally tradition so only a certain audience would know about it.

On the 12 of November, I attended the Nottingham Festival where I saw the Passado Action Theater. The Passado Action Theater had the Artistic Director, Dennis McLaughlin, the Co-Artistic Director, Ri Walton, the Instructor/Choreographer, Elly Calero, the other Instructor/Choreographer Nick Gregory and the last instructor/choreography, Frankie Macedo. All these actors performed The Twelfth Night, Hamlet, and Pyramus and Thisbe.The stage was decorated by volunteers from the audience, such as a lantern, a wall and a dead guy. Each actor was wearing a costume according to the time which was a big shirts, a vest, boots and tights; when it came to play a guy they wore the tights, when it came for them to play a lady Elly Calero wore a long red skirt. Also to get more into character they had a sword belt to place their

What are masks? One usually thinks it is an object the individual puts on and takes off.

Masks have held countless uses and meanings throughout history. Masks have been used in plays, like those of Shakespeare, traditional dances, social gatherings, even as a form of casual or corporal punishment. Although masks have several different uses in different cultural situations, the meaning of the masks is generally the same. Masks are used to conceal an appearance and assume the identity of another. Metaphorically, masks can be used to hide feelings, to protect oneself, and to block out the outside world. Many of these examples are shown in Art Speigelman 's Maus.

Lafayette Louisiana witch is the capital of the Cajun Country. Has the second biggest Mardi Gras celebration. This celebration has lost its meaning. More of a tourist profit to the state this celebration would be a very hard challenge to get the state to bring its meaning back. In the old days, Mardi Gras was not just the day before Ash Wednesday. It was a day that people rode on horseback or in their trucks going to town’s businesses and neighborhoods. Once the owner of the homes or businesses allowed these people to come in the masked people started to sing, dance, play around or even play pranks on the people who allowed them in. Before the masked people left the begged the owners of the business or home for rice or other things. If they gave them something such as money or things to make a gumbo, they allowed that person to a gumbo feast that was held that evening. And if they did not the masked people would destroy their home or business. They might even mock them for years to come.” This group of masked people was known as classed Les Mardi Gras, or in English the Mardi Gras.” (Ware, 2003) Today Cajun’s don't celebrate it this way anymore. Mardi Gras is considered to be paradise, festivals, drinking and getting as many beads as you can. The masked people can still be seen but not asking for things to make a gumbo or money but as a symbol in the

The Celtic people would have huge bonfire celebrations in which they dressed up in costumes and wore masks to mimic and appease the spirits.”

Life isn’t fair, but we all know that. Instead of the athletes sharing in the revenue they create, it’s just the fat cats who benefit. The NCAA has multiple billions of dollars in revenue every year. but the athletes don't see a pretty penny of that. Lots of people believe that college athletes should not be compensated monetarily. by the means of money. They think that a scholarship is enough compensation for the athlete’s work. However, But what people do not know is that not all athletes get scholarships, and not all scholarships include things like food and clothes. So college athletes should be paid extra money for three reasons: the players put in lots of work, the NCAA makes billions of dollars every year, and the NCAA acts as an employer.

The Egyptian Mummy Mask from the early Roman Period is unique and beautiful in every way possible. This mask that is on display in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston is about 3 feet tall to about 2 feet wide. This certain piece of magnificent art is extremely detailed with intricate designs covering it all around. The Museum of Fine Arts makes it easy to pay attention to, because of its detail and how the mask is displayed. The Mummy Mask has it’s own small alter with a spot light shining down on it creating dramatic shadows in a very dim room. The decorations include inlaid glass eyes, a gold leaf and is hand-painted and gilded glass. This mask is not paper maché like the masks that were made in this era; this Mummy Mask had been created out of cartonnage . The Egyptians decorated this masterpiece with bold vertical and horizontal lines representing rows of beads to go along with the story it tells. The Egyptian Mummy Mask from the first half of the first century A.D illustrates a gaze of innocence and acceptance while looking into the bright future of whom the mask was made for. Perfectly painted images covering the mask tell a story of the traditional funerary practices and the after life Egyptians believed in. Egyptians would create these pieces to fit over the heads of the lost lives wrapped inside the mummy. The mask represents the deceased transformed into a God . Although the face of the mask is idealized and emotionless, the decorations say and express more than a

The production of the gas mask happened very quickly., Germans introduced chemical warfare to the war and we were highly unprepared. The soldiers had a total of four breaths to figure out how they were going to escape the toxic gases, At first nNobody knew what was going on, which, in return, made the soldiers react fast to save their lives.

African masks were to establish a different identity for the wearer in order to amuse, teach, or sacrifice.

Undoubtedly, builders of megalithic structures were concerned about the problem of precise astronomical estimation of time intervals less than 24 hours. Not without reason in the center of the Stonehenge there is a stone “gnomon”, the sun-dial obelisk. The most ancient descriptions of sun-dials in Egypt were found in texts dating back to the time of Pharaoh Tutmos III (16th century BCE). Museum collections include a lot of ancient sun-dials, however probably the oldest sun-dial is a carved stone from the time of Pharaoh Mernepht (13th century BCE) found in Palestine. In case of ancient sun-dials they used to tell the time not by direction of the shadow but by the length of shadow. In Egypt many high ancient obelisks have a special marking around

The somber setting of the poem Annabel Lee does a better job expressing his feelings of grief over the death of his beloved wife.

     Masks were created to be placed over the face, on the top of the head, or even over the head. Most masks represent spirits of ancestors (Fetzer 106). Some villages make masks with full costumes and use them with music to dance in ritual performances. They used masks for social control,

Jonson was one of the leading protagonists in the most vibrant period of early English theatre. Jonson’s life spanned the years 1573 to 1637, a period of extraordinary change in English society. Passionate and volatile, he was a man with a clear eye for the world around him. His plays are noted for their satirical view of the modern class relations that were beginning to develop at that period. Jonson is often accused of being constricted in his writing by classical references, but he no way borrowed from the classics. In fact, part of his creative genius was his ability to rework themes and ideas to fit the contemporary setting. He drew directly on ancient mythology in his masques for the royal court. Jonson also drew on the English tradition of medieval morality plays, where actors personified human characteristics. Jonson welded all these influences into a theatre that was purposeful and aimed at playing a critical role in society. His comedies brought a new realism as well as a sharp eye for outlining human character types. He gave a new sense of