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Gold, legends have been made about it especially the legend of El Dorado but maybe the city isn’t actually a city just a plot of land that has produced 40% of all the worlds gold ore. Witwatersrand Basin located in Johannesburg, South Africa has been called the richest gold field ever mined. In 1970 it produced 79% of the worlds gold output, but as a mineral that takes hundreds of years to produce it was mined out, by 2009 it produced less that 9%. Gold has been a sign of wealth since the earliest

general laxity of the time, and the absence of a sense of duty toward any part of the community but the individual himself” (Twain 203). Twain’s The Gilded Age, like Wharton’s The Age of Innocence focuses on high society. Yet, the imperfections in the gilding betray the dramatic change of the period. Forces of corporatization, unionization, immigration, urbanization, populism,

In George Orwell’s novel Animal farm he presents his opinion that many revolutions fail in that rather than freeing oppressed people they replace tyrants with new ones. He alludes to this fact in the book by showing the transition of power from the dictatorial owner of the farm Mr. Jones to the even more tyrannical leader Napoleon the pig. However the book also acts as a warning to never blindly trust those who portray themselves as bearers of freedom and scrutinize all leaders. Before we address

From 1789–1799, the French Revolution marked the end of an era, with the artistic styles of the time illuminating the state of affairs in France and documenting the story of an oppressed people. The French Revolution had no single cause, resulting in the overthrow of a leisurely, ineffective monarchy and its supporting aristocracy, hated for their roles in bankrupting a country, causing their people to starve, and yet still prioritizing their own lives of luxury over improvement of the economy and

while the central figure, measures out to be 0.86 m. The three figures are situated on a wooden pedestal, backed by a bronze mandorla, decorated with smaller seated Buddha’s cast in relief. The sculpture has been beautifully preserved, although the gilding on the bodhisattvas has become slightly blackened. The central Buddha figure, Shakyamuni is the original Buddha who can not be spoken or thought of in terms of birth or death, self or other and is the source of all other manifestation of Buddha

Another talismanic visual and material object that aims to protect the individual from the harm of the glance of the eye is this bracelet which bares the depiction of the Evil Eye. The bracelet is made of glass and is richly coloured varying from blue, yellow, and red, with the evil eye painted around the bracelet four times. It is believed that this talismanic object and 32 other bracelets like this one, comes from Upper Egypt and began to be made during the Mamlūk period. This is the only amulet

decay is exampled throughout Stown in a variety of ways, such as John’s dwindling mental and physical health and Woodstock's vile society. Decay in John’s life was shown through his mental and physical inabilities and hardships. For example, fire gilding hurt John mentally and physically and caused him to gradually go insane, little by little, his mental and physical health decayed. He was aging and constantly around dangerous chemicals which extremely hurt him and lead many to believe he had Mad

Shakespeare has been known for the use of old English and deeper meanings between the lines of all of his work. He is most known for Romeo and Juliet, the Tragedy of Othello, and especially his one hundred and fifty four sonnets. Sonnets are a 14-line poem that rhymes in a particular pattern. The sonnet, like any other work of Shakespeare, is very difficult to interpret and even more difficult for the poet to write himself due to the restrictions of length. Sonnets 1-126 start off with the affection

The Minoans were a civilization who flourished from 3000 BCE until 1100 BCE on the island of Crete, were greatly influenced by the Phoenicians, Egyptians, Syrians and the Anatolians (Britannica Encyclopedia). This civilization made major contributions to Western European development in the areas of language, architecture and art. It was the famous archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans who made the astounding discoveries at Knossos in the early 1900’s that introduced to the world the fascinating and wonderful

Use of Darkness and Light by Melville, Poe, and Hawthorne Melville, Poe, and Hawthorne all tend to focus on the darker side of humanity in their writings. In order to allow their readers to better understand their opinions, they often resort to using symbolism. Many times, those symbols take the form of darkness and light appearing throughout the story at appropriate times. A reader might wonder how light functions in the stories, and what it urges the reader to consider. If we look carefully