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“Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish” – Michelangelo ("Michelangelo, his Paintings, and Sculptures"). This brief phrase from Michelangelo speaks volumes to his ambition and dedication, to which he attributes his success. “Michelangelo was considered the greatest living artists in his lifetime, and ever since then he has been held to one of the greatest artists of all time” (Gilbert). Though known for his poetry and architecture as well, Michelangelo’s renowned…

Death Death is a part of the everyday procedure when it comes to living creatures. When a living creature dies, many feel sad or even disappointed, while others tend to celebrate the life they had with the person or even their own pet. Death can best be described as when the heart and mind stop working and the living is no longer able to take a breath. For many, death can be a traumatic chain of events within their lives as people tend to not know how to handle death or the death came…

One of the famous story of David is his battle scene with giant Goliath (1 Samuel 17:51). There is a violence in war, and to represent the war scene, direct has to put violence scene, but it is not to encourage people to do violence action. He is just showing the historical event. Also, David took Bathsheba, who is a…

The Tenacity of Entrepreneur Scott Adams It is obvious from the personal experience Scott Adams writes about in his essay entitled How to Get a Real Education, that he is the type of person who doesn’t let obstacles get in his way when pursuing a goal. His enticing tenacity is evident in his essay’s two distinct purposes; the first is to persuade the reader that a real education is not necessarily found in the classroom, but many times in practical life experiences. Adams second purpose is to…

The Flood of Gilgamesh was composed before 2000 B.C, while the Genesis story was composed in 400 BC, which was much later then the Gilgamesh surge. Scriptural authors presumably knew of the much more established surge yet amended it so it fit with their own history and perspective. They in all probability expected the first story with their own mythology. In spite of the numerous similitudes between the two stories, the distinctions are uncovered in various diverse subjects that recognize the…

Vinci tells us that this is the first life-sized sculpture completed since Roman era. We then travel back to Florence but 50 years ahead to see Michelangelo’s David and Pieta. David is a 17 ft tall sculpture that represents the David who defeats Goliath with a stone. This sculpture also represents David’s masculinity and perfect form. The Pieta is similar to David. It shows Mary’s grief as she comforts Jesus after he is taken down from the cross. Leonardo then takes us to see our final Italian…

During World War II a movement began. This movement was largely known as the Double Victory or Double V movement. It was used by the African American community who had been downtrodden to gain equal rights. In hopes of gaining equal rights blacks joined the war effort in any way that they could. May that be supply transport or flying a plane, they gave what they had to America through the war. During their enlistment Blacks faced intense discrimination, arguably worse there than back home. Black…

Uber Elevate- Uber plans to take the passengers over the skies with flying cars Since a decade, Uber has made the taxi industry restless by its services. The company is working on the self-driving cars and the testing of the self-driving cars was help at Pittsburgh. Now, Uber is taking steps for the most promising flying cars. Uber is working on the fully electric aircraft which is aimed to take off and land vertically. These are not the flying cars, which mean that, they can fly in the sky and…

Killer Robots Autonomous weapons, commonly known as killer robots has seen their rise in prominence in the last decade or so. The first "killer robots" date all the way back to World War Two, with the Soviet Teletanks and the German Goliath remote controlled mine. Both of these weapons were extremely advanced for their time and both had the same common goal of inflicting as much damage on the enemy with minimal loss on their side. That does not sound like a very promising morally strong back up…

Samuel was Israel’s spiritual advisor a prophet sent by God. There was no king over Israel at the time of Samuel (the priest). The Israelites wanted to be like the other nations with a ruler to govern, guide them, to protect and fight their battles. Samuel sons was not worthy to rule the Israelites, they were drunkards, dishonest, and a no nonsense type of judgement. (“1 Samuel 8:5 5 and said unto him, behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like…