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Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. a professional boxer, idealist, social activist, and philanthropist born January 17 1942 in Louisville, Kentucky. Cassius Clay Sr. and Odessa middle class citizens gave birth to giant who would impact the world greatly. The Clays were not wealthy but were not living in poverty. Muhammad Ali would go on to embody the soul of an American during the late twentieth centuries. As an African American boxer, world figure, minister, humanitarian, and the spokesman he would…

of Gilgamesh, translated by N. K Sanders is an ancient book written by an unknown author lost to time. This “book” is really a series of clay tablets found in Mesopotamia, which was located in modern day Iraq. These clay tablets contained the entire Gilgamesh story and were written in cuneiform with a stylus, which means that characters were pressed into a clay block to create language. Cuneiform was the main form of documentation during that time period and all of the twelve tablets that were…

Though shy in real life, Jane Austen’s personality and wit shines through her heroines in her novels. Her works provide an inside perspective of her world and her mind. Her last completed work, Persuasion, challenges and also defends the status quo of class structure in early nineteenth-century British society through the character of Anne Elliot. Anne Elliot provides the reader with a sense of pride concerning her birth and rank, which was expected from a woman of her standing at that time.…

lips are cold, are clay”. (130: 4493- 4494)This is more metaphorical in nature and appeals to the emotional side of the reader by comparing the lips to clay which allows the reader to develop a more imaginative side while reading. In contrast, in the Norton Anthology it states, “Oh your lips are cold as stone! And dumb!” (563: 91- 92) Here the translator uses the word dumb to describe the way Faust’s lips felt. The word dumb is more scholarly in tone in comparison to the word clay in which one…

The movie The Shawshank redemption was produced by Frank Darabont and based off of the Stephen King book The Shawshank Redemption. The film is based around figures of hope for the inmates as a sense of relief to help them by the difficult times. The theme hope is portrayed throughout the film as objects, and in the protagonists Andy Dufresne and Ellis Boyd ‘Red Redding’. The major moments where hope was developed was scenes with music, specifically the scene of the warden’s office and the record…

think that everyone should be prepared and coordinated. However, people will choose to make different decisions because of their viewpoints. Another example of diction in the poem is when the child insists that he “scarcely even notices” the clay on the wall. The clay on the wall does not bother the child because he does not care about it. Individuals assumably will not notice or…

Many theories have been borne about the origin of the Greek Geometric art. One theory unravels it as an expansion of the Mycenaean art, another theory agrees that it had a popular background origin. While others argue that Geometric art was settled due to Doric effects, it still has not given a suitable solution to the setback. Geometric style of ancient Greek art was primarily of vase painting. It began around 900 BC and denotes the last purely Mycenaean-Greek art form that initiated before…

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was a painter, architect, inventor, and student of all things scientific. He is known as the “Renaissance man.” Today he is best known for his art, including a couple of paintings that are still a few of the world’s most famous and admired, The Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. Art, da Vinci believed, was connected with science and nature. Self-educated, he filled dozens of secret notebooks with inventions, observations and theories. The concepts expressed in his…

more blackheads. It can be a vicious cycle. Therefore, do not use facial Scrubs or pore strips more than twice or three times a week. Fortunately, there are some easy natural remedies available to get rid of those annoying skin problems. Bentonite clay is a smart product to use when trying to…

Humans, by nature, have the desire to expand their knowledge to extents greater than they can believe. Specifically the desire to create an artificial man has been expressed since the old ages. As technology and thought advances the desire to learn can be put into action, as seen by the character Victor Frankenstein in Frankenstein. Another figure related to Shelley’s Frankenstein, Prometheus from Greek mythology, also expressed his desire to create an artificial man and both characters…