being depicted in a more positive light. A brief discussion of the subject matter of the painting serves as an important starting point. The most obvious subjects, as suggested by the title of the piece, are the four crowned martyrs. Located on the far right side of the painting to the viewer are the four crowned martyrs being pursued by the men in front of them (to our
Set-up On 11/08/2016 I made a northbound turn from the far right westbound lane on Holt Blvd. I drive a 1992 faded red colored Ford Mustang. It was mid-dusk at 4:30pm as this was before the time change and nights came earlier. I was in the right turn lane 4th in a queue behind a four door Pontiac which was behind a white U-Haul type moving truck that was obstructing the view of the first vehicle. The moving truck was the type with the high cargo hold that averages 12 feet from concrete to top of
Paul Parra Ms. Busoni Art History 2 26 April 2015 Why do Artists use Greco-Roman ideals in their works of art? Artists use Greco-Roman ideals in their works of art to show an example of what their societies must have in order to be as successful as those from antiquity. Greek humanism is a Greek ideal that focused on human beings rather than religious deities and it placed human beings at the center of moral and social concerns (Cline). This can be seen in Raphael’s School Of Athens (figure 1)
Hassan Al-Kalo Student No. 201209804 Module No. 14124 Oriental Eyes in Gertrude Bell’s Persian Pictures: A study of the Landscape This essay is an attempt to investigate how the Eastern landscape has been othered by the West through inspecting Gertrude Bell’s travel book Persian Pictures (1894). The essay adopts Edwa rd Said’s concept of Orientalism to highlight the western ideology of othering the foreign landscape. The crux of ‘Orientalism’, being the vehicle of studying the colonial conflicts
#10 With the Agricultural Revolution occurring in many different regions throughout the world, many key changes were brought to Neolithic people. As a result, significant physical, technological, and social transitions happened as humans moved from the Paleolithic to the Neolithic era. Even though the Agricultural Revolution brought efficient ways of obtaining food, farming was still a hard work, and as a result, it took a toll on people’s health. Tooth decay and anemia were common, since there
I can truly say that writing this piece has been one of the hardest tasks. In writing, I discovered things about myself that I had difficulty in coming to terms with; how do I write what I really feel without worrying about what others might think, I thought. I wrote a lot and erased a lot more, over and over again. I feared the judgement of people, for in my life I have experienced rejection, negative looks, insults, and alienation due to my faith. I decided to write about this very personal subject
Do fans take things too far? This story is going to give you the answer once in for all. Do fans take things too far? NO! 1 thing is fans just want to be good supporters of their team. 2nd fans act the same way their team does after a loss upset, mad, and sometimes enraged it’s just the way the fans feel after a game. 3rd all the fans want to do is one let the players know that we the fans represent them and want them to win, second we the fans are on that teams side and third we the fans will “scream
creating new ones. It seems that several topics discussed in class could ideas on where to begin changing certain aspects of sports. One idea that has been sparked goes hand in hand with one of the concepts discussed in class, sports and politics. But how do sports and politics interact, one way is the political feeling of a certain nation affects every aspect of the country. One trend that has sadly effected the globe is the rise of right wing populism and nationalism. To understand why this has suddenly
The famous philosopher Plato once stated, “Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.” The inverted u curve has three levels of input; the left side is equivalent to a sufficient amount, the middle consists of a plateau, and the right side entails too much. The meaning of an inverted U-curve is basically what we in society classify as the highs and lows in any given situation. For example,
Before explaining the concepts of liminality and Othering and their connection to volunteerism, I will first explain how volunteerism is scientifically defined and approached. The term volunteerism is a coalescence from the words volunteering and tourism. Stebbins and Graham (2004) define volunteerism as volunteering “in an organized way to undertake holidays that might involve the aiding or alleviating the material poverty of some groups in society, the restoration of certain environments or research