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The Meanings Behind The Once and Future King The famous tale of King Arthur was widely known as one of the most iconic stories ever told, and set a standard for modern storytelling. Since the original iteration, there have been many adaptations of King Arthur where authors have created new and unique elements of their own in an attempt to enliven the original story. An example of one such novel is titled The Once and Future King by T.H. White which features several interesting and insightful…

The Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition, established in fifteen-forty-two by Pope Paul III (the pontifical incumbent who was also responsible for the authorization of the Jesuit Order), was the primary institution to maintain and implement Papal bulls, in addition to their function of administering legalistic ramifications upon deviants of Catholic orthodoxy within the Papal States, and ostensibly exhibiting proper procedure to Catholic states in the process of…

Carolyn Dean’s article “The Trouble with (the Term) Art” emphasizes the ambiguous nature of the word “art,” especially in regards to ancient and non-Western cultures whose religious and mythological traditions are often embedded in the aesthetics of everyday objects, blurring the line between representational beauty and utility (Dean 2006: 25-32). The Codex Borgia can be seen as one such example of this phenomenon. The Borgia likely originated from the Valley of Puebla, namely the cities of…

Miley was referred to our office today by her manager. The manager expressed concern by things that had happened the previous weekend during Miley’s show. He was concerned because Miley had gotten into a very dangerous position and could have been seriously injured or even died. When I asked him what he was talking about, he replied that she had done the wrecking ball in performance and that he didn’t consider that to be in the best interests for not only her but for the fans in the crowd. When…

In the traditional marketing methods, companies often need to invest much money in media promotion. These ways of marketing are too rigid to get the satisfactory results, therefore with the development of the Internet in recent years, viral marketing has been produced. Compare to the traditional marketing methods, viral marketing won the favor of many enterprises with its lower cost and wider spread. The rest structure of the paper is presented as follows. The second section presents the…

Introduction The Andalusian region in southern Spain has a long, complicated history rooted in the relations between Christians and Muslims. The Great Mosque of Cordoba is one example of these interactions, serving as a visual representation of the political and societal history of the region. The mosque also symbolizes the long cultural dialogue between Islam and Christianity during the medieval period. Construction of the site was “forged out of the interaction of two at the time ideologically…

Overview of the Semantic Gap - What is it? The semantic gap is the difference between human perception of observations, activities, and objects and their computational or machine-based representations(). It is a split between high level features, or semantic information, and low-level features, of which there are many types. High-level features can include keywords, concepts, categories, or ontologies - virtually all things that lead to determining meanings of text-based information and phrases…

I would be prepared to travel in a device that ‘destroyed’ me and built only one copy, because I believe that the persistence of identity over time is implausible in any circumstance. Subsequently, I find nothing so unique about the device that I should fear its usage – it would not ‘destroy’ me in a way that is different from life itself. I shall demonstrate why such persistence is implausible by examining two ‘persistence conditions’ (Olson, 2002, edited Zalta, 2016) used to prove it, namely…

The artistic movement known as impressionism sought to capture events and scenes in order to convey their essence not through exact reproduction but rather through color and light. The goal was not only to reproduce the scene itself but to also reproduce the sensation and life of the scene. The impressionist style with its free and unplanned brushstrokes, bright and vivid colors, and innocent subjects soon became synonymous with modern life and art. Various individuals within the movement would…

dens” (407). The three men live happily in the Inglewood Forest, where they are free from the confines of society. Finally, the forest is extremely important in “A Gest of Robyn Hode”. In this text, Robin lives in the Barnsdale forest, but in other iterations of the tale he lives in the Sherwood forest. Regardless of the specific forest, however, it is clear that the Greenwood is incredibly important to Robin. In the Greenwood, Robin can find freedom from the confines of society's corruption,…