Bruce Chatwin

Legal Ownership of the Parthenon Marbles The controversy began almost one hundred years ago. Between 1801 and 1812, Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin and British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, removed several sculptures from the Parthenon in Athens and shipped them to England, where he sold them to the British Museum in 1816. 167 years later, Melina Mercouri, Greek Minister of Culture, requested that the “Elgin” Marbles be returned. This request sparked one of the greatest debates the

Works of art are an amazing way to piece together the past and should be protected. In the passage “The Lovely Stones”, Christopher Hitchens argues that the parthenon sculptures be united in Greece. The Parthenon was created by the ancient Greeks and is an intricate and beautiful piece of art, however throughout the years it has been destroyed and pieces sent across the globe. Christopher Hitchens uses emotional appeal and reasoning to persuade his audience that the original Parthenon sculptures

the early 1970s the English traveler and writer, Bruce Chatwin, reached the peak of his nomadic journeys when he decided to experience a huge change of lifestyle to spend several months discovering and knowing the remote Patagonia. The book In Patagonia shows a journey which was Inspired by concerns of his childhood, when he found a piece of dinosaur skin in his grandmother’s cabinet and by a nomadic spirit he carried since he was little, Chatwin, leaves his job in the famous newspaper Sunday Times

TITLE Sanjana Satish H2P Paper 1   The word “community” is usually defined as a group of people living together in the same area and having some common characteristics, such as language, physical appearance and religion. In The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin, the common characteristics that form the Aboriginals’ tribal communities are familial ties and their culture (similar form of lifestyle, similar beliefs and similar traditions); while in Gilgamesh it is the city-state they belong to and their settled

thinkers and artists over two centuries ago. Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh, Bruce Chatwin and Ernest Hemmingway are to name a few. The object had no name but, it was a masterpiece on its own. The artistic and legendary people over centuries ago were the buyers. The notebook was their close companion, holding their stories, notes, ideas and sketches. In the mid-1980s, the book suddenly vanished from the scene. Chatwin nicknamed the notebook ‘Moleskine’

“Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly sin.” These are some of the words uttered by Bruce Chatwin, the famous author of the book, What Am I Doing Here.? International tourism is one of the fastest growing industries in the word, and brings over 111 billion dollars annually in the U.S.A., and employs 1 out of 9 people in developing countries. However, despite the fact these are impressive statistics, and benefits, International tourism isn’t without drawbacks. While many problems are associated

Maggie Quigley, a 29 year old Asian/ White Actress, told Associated Press that competition for roles in Hollywood is like a battle. Even with her roles beside many top tier actors and actresses, she believes that "It 's a struggle. You got to win roles. You really got to fight for them. When I left Asia and went to the U.S., essentially I was starting over. It 's very hard...The first part of it is going into a room (for an audition) and trying to quell this stigma that people have about Asians only

If you 'd like to connect with an entire community of writers, see the photo accompanying this column, and, possibly, win a paperback book, you 'll want to read this column on my blog. I have a neighbour who often drove her three kids to school. I’m too polite to have told her off for this, but they lived a 10-minute walk from both grade school and high school. What was she thinking? This kind of attitude — as well as the one that sees city officials failing to put sidewalks on all of their streets

Compare and contrast the ways the three texts present how war changes the perception of masculinity and challenges the typical masculine stereotype. War does not change the perception of masculinity, nor can be said to challenge the typical male stereotype because war only exploits these inherent masculine traits, and helps the transition from ‘boy’ to ‘man’. This is seen in ‘The Yellow Birds’ with ‘Bartle’, where he “felt like a coward until he screamed in my ear “shoot those hajji fucks.”’ The

In “It’s A Nomad Nomad World”, Bruce Chatwin explains the value of travel in a human’s life and how one can benefit from it. A thesis to take away from the text is that humans are travellers at heart. When humankind is presented with a challenge, they are not prone to shying away; furthermore, once humans have started a journey they are admirably resilient to quitting, and finally; humans are constantly searching to experience new sights and sounds. Because of these traits, it is evident why humans