Beeswax

working on her contemporary art. In 1992, she created a series simply known as Gnaw. She gnawed on two 600lb slabs of chocolate and lard. After gnawing and chewing, she made 45 heart shaped chocolate packages and 400 tubes of lipstick made from beeswax and…

Anna Coletti Adrienne Hollifield AP English IV 15 October 2014 The Evolution of Audio Recordings From the crude beats of an ancient drum to the electronic sounds of a modern synthesizer, music has evolved over millennia. Since the invention of the audio recorder, people have been able to document the evolution of music so that history can actually be heard. Recording devices have developed from tinfoil and hand cranks to complex computer systems. When music was first being recorded, musicians…

have been around since the paleolithic age. Although, we know for sure that the Ancient Greeks made a type of gum called “mastic gum”. They called it that because they made it from mastic trees. The Italians used frankincense, and the Arabs used beeswax. The colonists adopted chewing gum from the Native Americans, and they used one popular ingredient,spruce sap. Of all these colonists, John Curtis and his son,John Bacon Curtis were the very first to market chewing gum. In 1869, William…

One man, one women, both face challenges, but only one comes out a hero. During The Odyssey, Odysseus has to fight many monsters and steer clear from many tempting situations to get back to his home town of Ithaca. In Antigone, Antigone has been arrested for breaking their king, Creon’s rule of not giving Antigone’s brother Polyneices a proper burial and is set to be executed. Odysseus’s is not a hero because he is self obsessed, while on the other hand Antigone is a hero because she is…

cheaper materials. Matrices were mass produced they were easy to make so that an owner would have several different seal matrices within his or her lifetime. A seal was created when the matrix was pressed down into sealing wax, which was made of beeswax with some dye to make it appear red or another color. The seal was pressed onto the hanging part of the document. When the seal wax hardened, the seal was formed and was attached to the documents to authenticate…

Introduction: In 1888, William Flinders Petrie excavated different parts of the sprawling oasis area of Fayum in Alexandria -Egypt- (SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE, 2012). Petrie directed his attention to excavations done in the Pyramid of Amenemhet III (Tour Egypt, n.d.). In the pyramid, hundreds of mummies were found with fascinating portraits of the mummified bodies (SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE, 2012). The funeral portraits are know as the Fayum portraits and were later found all around Egypt (SMITHSONIAN…

Jillian Wain Mrs. Adams Composition 101 9 November 2015 Critical Conversation Think back to when you were a child, whether you are a boy or girl you more than likely owned a Barbie doll or a G.I Joe action figure. They were what society considered the perfect male and female physic with their unrealistic bodies. Now imagine you are walking down the street and see someone who looks like a walking, talking, life sized doll. It sounds crazy but not impossible because there is in fact a real life…

It cannot be denied that almost all entertainment is a form of escape. Watching movies involving many senses can easily take the viewer on the real adventure. However, reading books demand healthy imagination because a reader is forced to think, create, and produce the world by using the author’s words. Therefore movies tend to attract us more rather than books. When great books are converted into movies, their themes of the stories and plots are altered to give the audience a new version of…

“The Judge’s Wife” is set in a rustic Latin-American town that’s just large enough to have a town square, but small enough so that none of the town’s inhabitants are ignorant to the drama this story entails. Allende gives no explicit details about the town besides the fact that there is a courthouse, a bank, and a corner shop owned by a Turkish woman. Instead, she uses her adept skill of imagery to paint a picture of this town, a place that modern time has seemingly passed by. Modern time, that…

he is telling them that at one point in their journey home, they will all die, and that is loyalty. He did not have to tell his men that they all were going to die but he did. As Odysseus was approaching the Sirens island, he told his men to put beeswax in their ears so that they would not hear the sirens song. He then told them to tie him up because he has to listen to the sirens song. This is smart but at risky at the same time because he could pop the rope and stare to the sirens. As they…