Granite

Monuments are a way to capture an understanding of an iconic person or event in history and cast it in marble, granite, and bronze, so when erecting memorials, people should research the subject intensively, as well as, gauging the feelings of the citizens so that the ideas it represents will not be disputable or controversial. Furthermore, the location, the medium, and the design are essential elements of a monument, as all aspects represent embedded meanings. To start, before erecting a…

In 1999, the Ministry of Education unveiled what was supposed to be a glowing and innovative advancement in Ontario’s education system. The new policy, Ontario Secondary Schools, Grades 9–12: Program and Diploma Requirement, was meant to update the previous three track system into two streams, Academic and Applied, to keep “options open for all students” so that “students are not required to make binding decisions about a particular educational and career path” . According to the policy, under…

The Great Pyramid is one of the most significant structures in the ancient world. It is the oldest seven wonder of the world and it never ceases to amaze the people that visit it. The Pyramid is said to miraculously heal those that visit it from various ailments. There are also many other reasons people are drawn to the Pyramid, some like historians, have to for work. Some are just your regular joe who is enamored with the astonishing mystery and beauty of it. Whatever the reasons for…

and ticks. The Nazis often beat the prisoners at the camp. They had to bunk with several people, and sometimes no blankets, just cement blocks. "Sometimes at the camp of Weiner Garben prisoner were forced to climb the 186 steps with large blocks of granite on their backs. Sometimes the blocks would fall, crushing limbs and sometimes the bodies of those who were following." (Feig 121) If you were hiding a race that was wanted by the Nazis you too were either taken as a prisoner or…

In Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe he foreshadows the thoughts of how women are used to and are seen in a different perspective. Okonkwo being the protagonist of the novel he appears to have three wives and eight children. Okonkwo in other terms is a loving and kind person, but he also seems to have another side to himself from his past experiences with his father Unoka and from his present experiences with his new life as him being a powerful man with a title. Okonkwo can also be a harsh…

Aboriginal culture after finding her birth mother (Heiss and Minter). Throughout Eckermann’s poem we get this sense that she is speaking about ancestry being about place and land and country; we get a sense of this from the extract ‘my mother is a granite boulder’(Eckermann). Here Eckermann is not just exploring the emotional weight and memory of her mother but that of the country, about country as mother and her own mother as mother and the maternal role and impact they have both played in her…

Qantas House is one of an iconic building of Post-War International Style in Sydney. This masterpiece was designed in 1950, and completed in 1957, by an architect called Felix Tavener of Rudder Littlemore & Rudder, Architects. According to NSW Environment & Heritage, Qantas House is a representative building of the latest technology and urbanised design in Sydney which also showed the ‘moderate’ transitional aspects of 1930s European modernism. It is also a main defining urban space of Chifley…

He further supports his argument with the following quote, “Darkly I gaze into the days ahead,/ And see her might and granite wonders there,/ Beneath the touch of Time’s unerring hand,/ Like a priceless treasure sinking in the sand” (lines 11-14). With this final sentences McKay displays his opinion on the future of America if its people do not change their ways. He knows…

The Parthenon in Athens and the Pantheon in Rome: Comparison Introduction History shows that the Parthenon was built on a raised platform, and consisted, basically, of a cella (enclosed room) surrounded by a peristyle of free-standing columns. The entire building, including the roof tiles, was constructed of white pentelic marble. Large areas, such as the columns, were left white, but most of the details, such as the sculptures, were brightly painted (Hopper 122). The temple had seventeen…

In the studied account of Liu Dapeng life by Henrietta Harrison, The Man Awakened from Dreams takes the reader on a journey through the history of China during the 19th and 20th century through a first-hand account of Dapeng’s writings from the time of 1891 up until his death in 1942. Dapeng was a Confucian scholar and teacher who held onto his Confucian beliefs he had gained during his youth throughout his life while China in retrospect changed drastically. Dapend grew up in the village of…