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the story of the history of their making”. The hereditary traits of Canning’s inheritance of his father’s trade can also be seen in works like “Lithium” (Fig 4-11, 2008), and also in “Conditions of entry” (Fig 4-12, 2010), where these pocks, deep gouges and scars marring the surface are filled and rendered flawless through the workly characteristics and processes of skimming, polishing and buffing (Canning 2015).…

The Age of Enlightenment and the Romantic Movement The age of enlightenment is commonly understood by historians as a period of seminal change in political, philosophical and spiritual attitudes and ideas in the Western World, specifically in Europe. Changes so drastic that they would come to define the world we live in today. Beginning approximately in 1620 and ending around 1780, the Enlightenment consisted of a change from religious faith to reason as a means of understanding the world, and…

foundation for the future centuries to come throughout the world. Among the most influential, whom basically leads the French Revolution, include those whom had titles residing in the Constituent Assembly, Monsieur Dufourny de Villiers, Olympe de Gouges, Robespierre, Pierre Antoine Lesueur and Napoleon. From people, such as those previously stated, ideas and objectives of the men and women who participated in the French Revolution changed very little as time progressed; the ideas and objectives…

one retelling of a theory of destiny, Oedipus Rex, puts into question this notion of preordained fate. Not unlike most other stories, Oedipus Rex opens with a prophecy: that Oedipus is to murder his father, sire children with his own mother, and gouge out his own eyes. In spite of a soothsayer’s foretelling, the cast of Oedipus Rex endeavor to alter the course of destiny, though - with little avail - do their efforts take them off the beaten path, rather, it lead them to their clandestine…

new royal family. Meanwhile, in a moment of insight, Jocasta realizes that she is in fact Oedipus’s mother and that Laius was his father, horrified she commits suicide by hanging herself. Oedipus, too, realizes the truth of his life and in horror, gouges his eyes out and is exiled from…

Planning a plan to have your brother and father killed is not right. For example, Edmund tricked Cornwall and Regan to gouge out Gloucester's eyes and be blind for life. This was all part of Edmund’s plan which is cruel. “...this seems a fair deserving, and must draw me that which my father loses -- no less than all. The younger rises when the old doth falls.” (KL, p.152)…

“Sometimes the blind can "see" more than the sighted”. Blindness is in all people, even if one has the ability to physically “see”. The blind may not have physical sight, but they have another kind of vision. Many people try to avoid “seeing” the truth in any way possible. “Oedipus the King” written by Sophocles was performed in 429 BC and is about the tragedy and irony of Oedipus’ life, having murdered his father and married his mother without any clue. The story focuses on Oedipus’ hubris and…

of animal abuse due to hit beat and mistreating many animals and his wife. One of the cats he had was a black cat named pluto. The author and pluto had a great bond but one night in a drunken rage he thought pluto was avoiding him. In his rage he gouges one of the cats eyes out. Being done with this animal that he had hurt and made utterly scary with its missing eye, he fashions a noose and hangs the animal from the tree…

given to women. Before this change women’s jobs weren’t a lot to choose from. Politically women begin to pursue political movement for their rights. Many feminist and other writer and reformer have sought to protest for women’s right. Olympia de Gouge sought to start political movement for women, as she demanded that women be given the same rights as man in her Declaration of the Rights of Women and of the Female Citizen. Mary Wollstonecraft wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Women to defend…

The Struggles of Wealth & Poverty [Eli Khamarov once said, “Poverty is like a punishment for a crime you didn’t commit.”] In the novel The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, the Walls family is very poor in the start and toward the end until they move till New York, yet the Walls parents were homeless, the Walls kids had their own shelter and had enough money for food, water, electricity, etc. The Walls kids also had paying jobs. *However the Walls family are robust and self dependent.* Even if…