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collection of objects. His sculptural skills came into play whilst creating realistic figurative ‘doppelgangers,’ the idea of the double interested Kelley as it creates a tension and disturbance of suspensions of the human figure between life and death. Gregor Schneider also relates to this idea of the double, as shown in his ‘Die Familie’ series, which presents almost identical photograph comparisons of everyday scenes; these are taken in two adjacent terraced houses in London Whitechapel. This

center of one of history's biggest mysteries; How did he die? Much of his life (and death) is left for the mind to wonder what Ancient Egypt was like. But that didn’t stop egyptologists from inventing theories as to what it was like, to try and prove. Some of the theories range from some sort of death caused by a chariot to him being murdered in cold blood. Nobody can really be sure what his life was like, or his death, but let’s start from the beginning of what is known. King Tutankhamun was born

archaeologist named Howard Carter discovered the tomb of King Tutankhamen after searching for years in the Valley of the Kings in Thebes, Egypt. King Tutankhamun was an 18th dynasty pharaoh from the New Kingdom (ca. 1570-1069 BCE). He became pharaoh around ten years old and died at around nineteen years old. This tomb was an important find because it was one of the only intact royal tombs found in the Valley of the Kings. His tomb consists of the Passageway, Antechamber, Annex, Burial Chamber, and Treasury

Chrysanthemums. “The high grey-flannel fog of winter closed off the Salinas Valley from the sky and from all the rest of the world” (Steinbeck, John uhhhh boneless pizza). As the female protagonist in a historically accurate story in the late 1930s, Elisa is condemned to living in a sort of confinement from the outside world, seeing as her husband would do all of the business on the farm. She has something in common with the Salinas Valley, as she too is closed off from the sky and from all the rest of the

The book Following the Drum Women at the Valley Forge Encampment gave a very good incite to not just what it was like for the men at Valley Forge, but what it was like for the women who were there. “In the winter of 1777-8 at Valley Forge there were about one woman of every forty-four men” (Loane 133). I think book stressed that these women were incredibly helpful in the effort to rebuild this army through the rough winter, no matter what their job were. Although “ Washington did not think much of

In Europe the flower, the chrysanthemums are a symbol of death and is a part of funeral bouquets. The reader may take this fact however they may when reading “The Chrysanthemums”. Applying a formalist lens allows the reader to see the tone, and symbols that John Steinbeck uses to discuss how society has forced Elisa to act and think a certain way. Certain tones can illuminate the true meaning of author’s feelings towards the characters and even the story itself. In “The Chrysanthemums” the narrator’s

Since negative effects of movement are apparent even with a prosthetic hand, a whole robot would magnify the creepiness. And that is just one robot. Imagine a craftsman being awakened suddenly in the dead of night. He searches downstairs for something among a crowd of mannequins in his workshop. If the mannequins started to move, it would be like a horror story. Movement-related effects could be observed at the 1970 World Exposition in Osaka, Japan. Plans for the event had prompted the construction

responsible for the brutal death of Curley’s wife. She was a beautiful woman, in the prime of her youth, who had so many things to accomplish. None of that is possible now. She was a wonderful, vibrant flower ripped from existence. The defense will argue that Lennie has a diminished mental capacity and therefore does not know right from wrong. This however, is not true. You will hear testimony that he did indeed know the difference between right and wrong, life and death.

to disturb the pharaoh’s eternal rest. Steps had been taken by pharaohs to protect their tombs and possessions in the previous millennium, and King Tut was one of them. Victims of the Curse are those who enter his tomb, which is located in Egypt’s Valley of Kings. They supposedly suffer as a result, and accounts of these tragedies led to the popularization of King Tut’s Curse. Recently, there have even been movies and many books featuring his Curse or some variation of it, so now it is very well known

In 1519, the Aztecs were the most powerful kingdom in Mesoamerica. At the peak of their reign, their territory stretched as far as 80,000 square miles over southern Mexico, and had as many as fifteen million people. The Aztecs emerged in the thirteenth century, as a nomadic tribe. They were guided by their chief god, Huitzilopochtli, the war god and representative of the sun. The Aztecs couldn 't find a place to settle in the crowded central Mexico. Eventually, they were taken as serfs and