Burial

palace with the perceived intention of one day picking one of them to marry. However, Penelope tells them that she needs to finish making a burial shroud for Ulysses. She works hard on making the shroud during the day, but is “studious of delay” as “by night [she] [reverses] the labors of the day” (The Odyssey p.g 31). In other words, she’s been making the burial shroud for nearly three years and it has taken her so long because she keeps undoing her progress each night, i.e.…

I will be talking about Greco and Pablo Picasso. They are two amazing artists. Greco was born in Heraklion, Crete in 1540. He was a painter,sculptor, and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. In 1570 he traveled to Rome where he built a workshop and executed a series of work. When he was in his twenties he traveled to Venice and studied under Titian, who was the most famous painter of his day. At the age of 35 he moved to Toledo, Spain where he lived and worked for the rest of his life and…

The Indian civilization that once lived at the Cahokia Mound historical Site is believed to have reached a population of over 22,000 people. Archeologist and scientist have speculated on the purpose of each mound located on the site. Some are thought to have been used to build residences upon. The taller the mound the greater your status was in the society. Others are thought to have been used to mark changes in the seasons and important occurrences though out the year. The once…

a more pleasant topic for the audience is when she likens the burial place to an abode; she says “We paused before a House…” (17). Here, the audience imagines a youthful woman being let off at her residence by her spouse. Conversely, as the poet goes on to say next, “A Swelling of the Ground-” (18), it serves as a reminder to the audience that it is in fact a burial place that the woman is being carried to. Further, her place of burial is described as a house where Dickinson says that “The Roof…

After becoming a popular movement, partially through the community-based newsletter Ground Truth, the excavation of the “African Burial Ground” attracted numerous opinions from academics and researchers. Those primarily tasked with the excavation were mostly white, which presented a problem. Some believed that African Americans should be the ones to manage an action so closely linked…

a lot of the traits seen in his poetry today. He moved to England with his wife in an attempt to get published because there were more media sources and his plan paid off. In his poems “Fire and Ice,” “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” “Home Burial,” and “Mending Wall,” there is a usage of a perfuse amount of imagery, a common setting in New England, and the use of everyday language. These poems also include themes of loss and mystery. Robert Frost's life experiences influenced his work…

bury him. To me it’s fine to die performing such a day” (Sophocles 69-71). Antigone understands the importance of her actions, but she knows that others may only see them as reckless. To the Ancient Greeks, a proper burial is necessary for passage to the Underworld. By denying his burial Creon is denying Polynices the chance to reach his final rest. “They say that this is what good Creon has proclaimed for you and me-yes me as well!- and that he’s coming to make his proclamation clear to those…

• Architectural Design St. Peter’s in Rome was rebuilt in the 16th century, and it replaced a very old basilican structure. St. Peters was built under the supervision of two different Popes, Nicholas V and Julius II. Very little was accomplished under Nicholas’s reign, but the work was completed under Julius’ reign. The work began on Aril, 18, 1506 and the work continued through a succession of architects: Bramante, Raphael, Peruzzi, and Sangallo which all made huge changes to the design. Then…

Antigone, the contrast and comparison of Anouilh and Sophocles Antigone, the modern version of Sophocles original play was written in France during World War II, by Jean Anouilh to reflect the situation in France at the time and is different from the original in several ways. While Jean Anouilh was writing Antigone (1943), the Germans were occupying the country of France, which seemed to fit the story of Antigone, because a revolution had taken place. The original play, written by…

a balanced relationship that has “reached a state of rest and equilibrium” (M457). Thus, the duties of the siblings in the brother-sister relation are ethical. It is the sister who has the highest ethical duty to see that her brother gets a proper burial. This duty that the sister has to her brother is an intuitive knowledge. She is not conscious of her duty as ethical. As Hegel writes, “the feminine, in the form of the sister, has the highest intuitive awareness of what is ethical. She does not…