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her last present before he died. She was only seven years of age at the time. What a journey this little box and Nanna had been on together. Somehow she 'd kept them both safe. They 'd survived the London Blitz and post war England. By May 1961, they’d made the sea voyage…

work; but the great number were merely covered with flat beams which supports a roof of straw, dried leaves or brances of the tree and grass. Baths There were about fifty baths in Baghdad at early time and later its number increases to 10,000, which were also very inferior in their accommodations to those in the other large towns of Mesopotamia. Canal System In the hub of the city only Caliph can ride on the horse back everyone else should walk to reach the…

heavily influenced by the art and writings of the classical age {400 B.C.-A.D.400} that proceeded this movement. The word Renaissance which means a time of rebirth, artistic intellectual and spiritual revival. Uncovered knowledge of ancient Greek and Roman civilization was causing people to question the rigid religious attitudes of the mid evil world. The time of the Greek and Roman empire had a massive influence on all aspects of the Renaissance, works including sculpture, painting and how the…

as dust, mold, pollen, grass, you name it, it makes me itch or sneeze, and it used to be routine for me to go through a box of Kleenex in less than 3 days because I would have to blow my nose constantly. I can clearly remember my mother saying. "I did not give birth to a seal!", because I would produce such loud, honking noises. During college exams, I was always the person in the back of the room making awful and distracting sounds. I didn't like any of this one bit, but there didn't seem…

Sexism: Ancient, Existent, and Persistent Every ten minutes a woman in India reports assault and every 21 minutes one of them reports a rape by a man. These incidents occur as a punishment to women for pursuing education, equality, or simply for being a woman. In India and many other countries men are considered superior to women, therefore they have more rights and privileges. Women are discriminated against by being beaten, stoned, gang raped, or even have acid thrown on them for harmless…

resides over the fiery underworld called hell. The problem with their description of the devil is that the people before the first century a.d did not believe in a devil who was all-powerful and evil; they would have described him as either an angel who did God’s dirty work or a demon ruling over the cold hell with black features. The question then becomes, how did the devil transform in to the beast that the modern world knows him? The earliest reference of the devil is in the Old Testament.…

To Create or to Not Create When I look back at the different periods of art, there are some that I admire. In those periods, I find artwork that is astonishing both in size and in artistic ability. I believe that I could have created Starry Night, by Vincent Van Gogh in 1889, because it is a piece that I enjoy to look at. I feel as though it speaks to me, and portrays somethings that I feel. However, I could never have created the sculpture St. Mark, by Donatello in 1413, because it was so…

The Beast The feeling of being lost can be a horrible experience, especially in darkness. This stress is magnified when you realize you’re the prey of an unknown beast you cannot see; only hear its footsteps as it closes in. Author H.P. Lovecraft, in his short story “The Beast in the Cave” takes the readers through a tale of darkness and horror in which a man ends up disconnected from his tour group, lost in a cave, and then realizes he’s not alone. He then goes on to kill a beast with the…

first recorded in “Ancient Greece as formal sports, with the first Olympic games in 776 BC” (Bellis). These games were originally used to train soldiers and hunters to defend and hunt for their communities. These sports have been long standing in human culture that hunting and attacking became…

Southwest, Native American tribes were here hundreds of years before America was discovered. And during that time of isolation, these tribes had time to develop their own culture. And each tribe was different from the other. But the most memorable of these tribes was the Anasazi. This tribe was one of the oldest and largest in North America, stretching from before 1000 C.E to modern times. During this time, the Anasazi have evolved from a nomadic culture to a sedentary, agricultural based…