Carving

startled me because all three seemed so different, styles and messages all shaped to their own personality and yet they all spoke about the same thing in one way or another. Death is a common thing to think about.We are slowly carving away at the abstract of death, carving it into an object we can understand. I was wondering why we as a species are constantly thinking about it. Mark Tardi began with an obvious reference to death, "Everything ends" and in fact, it does. The universe was born…

Family traditions create good feelings and special moments to remember. When I am older I will keep certain family traditions. On Sunday with my wife and kids I will keep the tradition of eating family dinners on that day. I will always ask my kids how their day went at school. Also I will keep the family tradition of inviting family and friends over for Thanksgiving. On Christmas I will keep the tradition of convincing my kids that Santa Claus is real. I will explain to them that Santa Claus…

Wendat/Ouendat, also various names Wyandot or Wyandotte people of Ontario. They lived along rivers and lakes where they would be most likely find wildlife, fresh water and good soil for crops. Lake Simcoe, Georgian Bay, Lake Ontario and rivers such as Black Creek. The Wendat lived along Black Creek, located in North York. Black Creek flows south to the The Humber River in Toronto ON, Canada. The area is just North of Toronto in the Municipality of York Region. The area development is a…

The play The Piano Lesson by August Wilson tells the story of two siblings and the piano that comes between them. The play explores the lives of an African American family years after slavery is outlawed. Its plot is driven by the two main characters arguing over how important it is to keep a piano that contains the legacy of a family. The play begins with Boy Willie visiting his sister, in the North, with the intention of selling the piano their father inherited them. His plan is to sell the…

In Japan art included porcelain textiles and the most popular woodblock painting.Wood block painting is the carving of wood designs then adding paint and printing them onto canvas. The carving of the wood allowed designers to make multiple copies and sell the copies at markets. This also prospered economic growth because so many copies could be sold.The Carvings depicted everyday life in Japan such as work and trade. In China art was mainly focused on porcelain and textile, they also…

The Mayan Indians: The Largest Indigenous Indian Group in North America Dating back as far as 50,000 B.C. and originally coming from Asia across the Bering Sea and Alaska to the Americas and the Yucatan peninsula during the last ice age, the Mayan Indians are an indigenous group of culturally diverse people. The ancient Mayans lived in present-day southern Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and western El Salvador having a population of eight million at the Pre-Columbian period, and at the…

2.2. Pallava Grantha Script The Pallava rule in the Tamil country bought with it greater influence of Sanskrit culture. They devised a script around the 5th century CE for writing Sanskrit in the Tamil country. The need arouse because the tamil script does not have glyphs to represent a number of Sanskrit letters. The new script came to be known as the Pallava Grantha. Brahmi is the origin for Pallava Grantha, like all other scripts for native Indian languages. There is a lot of closeness of…

Halloween was not always what it is in the world today. It originated from the Pagan religion, and it is now a holiday where kids dress up and go trick-or-treating. The past and the present are quite different in how people celebrate this holiday and what it means to them. This holiday was once strictly a religious holiday for the Celts, however in today’s world it has drastically changed the meaning of the holiday and made it into a holiday where it consists of making money, dressing up and…

The university of North Carolina in Greensboro is always hosting events. From decorate a cookie to the Wildin’ Out show with Nick Cannon. Unfortunately, I was unable to attend any of the Homecoming activities. The Halloween Celebration was the first interesting event I could attend. I attended the Halloween Celebration on October 25th. This event was held in the Maple Room of the EUC building. The Halloween Celebration was from the hours of eleven o’clock till two o’clock. During these hours,…

The next morning, we had went to this trail kind of thing where you would walk and there would be carvings of like cartoon characters in the trees. For instance, there was a carving of Spongebob and Elmo too. It was a pretty cool experience to me, and we also saw a deer. That night, we had went to a steakhouse to eat at for dinner. The morning had come and we were happy for that day because…