Canto

A Dark Wood “Midway along the journey of our life / I woke up to find myself in a dark wood, / for I had wandered off from the straight path. / How hard it is to tell what it was like, / this wood of wilderness, savage, and stubborn / (the thought of it brings back all my old fears) / a bitter place! Death could scarce be bitterer” (1.1-6) Dante Alighieri, who was a politician, intellectual, and poet, was born in Florence, Italy under the sign of the Gemini in the year 1265. Much of Dante’s…

From a biological point of view, humans are not plants, fungi, protists, or monera; humans are animals. Believing ourselves to be the pinnacle of creation, the smartest and most capable of all that populate this planet, we face a conundrum that we fall in the same classification with earthworms, flounder, bulldogs, and orangutans. Clifford Geertz, an anthropologist, explained this by asserting “Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun” (Clifford 5). Those “webs…

Misrach's pictures additionally pass on worry with shading, light, and time. In the 1980s, Misrach shot the Salton Sea as a component of a cycle of works titled Desert Cantos. The Salton Sea framed in the mid twentieth century when arrive engineers occupied water from the Colorado River to what was then a dry lake bed. A rupture in the water system channels overwhelmed the Salton Sink with a great many gallons of Colorado…

PART A JOB DESCRIPTION / DUTIES DESCRIPTION An actor interprets the work of a writer, they convey a situation and/or character to an audience through the use of movement, speech and body language. They are usually under the instruction of a director. An actor is also required to learn their lines and be able to embody their character and situation enough to improvise when needed. Work varies from live performances, soap operas, radio work, television, advertising and film DUTIES The main…

To illustrate, Javier Rosas’s song, “En la sierra y la ciudad (La China)” praises Calderon Ojeda for being unique, as she has become self-dependent and powerful: “señoras y señores ahora el canto es diferente/ahora va pa la las mujeres, pa una dama muy valiente/donde llega se respeta, lo que diga/en la sierra y la ciudad, yo soy la China/quien dijo que las mujeres no podían…” (2013). It can be argued that Calderon Ojeda is worthy of recognition…

'Rajagopala Vilasamu'(:), a fine prabandha in Telugu which gives a complete picture of music, dance and literary activities of the royal court of King Vijayaraghava as well as the biographical details of the royal patron. The work describes in five cantos the sportive deeds of Lord Krsna with his Asta Nayikas and vividly glorifies the origin of Manriargudi, which is proudly referred to as 'Daksina Dvaraka' or the Dvaraka of the South. The work also gives a detailed picture of the cultural…

Akshat Seth Prof. Alok Bhalla Romanticism Of Diatribes, Revolution and Pacifism Reflections on the reconcilability of Shelley’s ideas of radical change and pacifism through a look at his first long poem Queen Mab with respect to the socio-political context of the French Revolution and its aftermath. It is somewhat ironic to state that Shelley, ‘the true child of the revolution’1 was also a pacifist. Ironic, since the very French Revolution which is cited by most as one…

Gold margins are standardized because of adornment+ investment factor. However, quest for greater margins is driving diversification from gold jewellery products. Demand for gold jewellery remains very strong because of cultural traditions, Gold jewellery sales - for weddings, in particular - will continue to generate volume growth for jewellery retailers. Platinum and diamond jewellery sales will generate margin growth. The shift to more profitable diamond jewellery has been smooth because…