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    sitting by the fire telling stories about past Christmas memories when Mr. Morrison told about his family Christmas in 1876. " 'Burst in on us with their Rebel sabers, hacking and killing, burning us out. Didn't care who they kilt. We weren't nothing to them. No better than dogs. Kilt babies and old women. Didn't matter' " (Taylor 149). White people did not care who they hurt or what they do to black folks in this novel. Many black people at this time of the novel were treated very poorly due to…

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    corn field and they still do today. No one in our family is Irish but some of the people in my family are Scottish and they do some Scottish traditions almost every year. Some of the Scottish traditions that they do are they sometimes go out and wear kilts like most people do in Scotland. Most of our ancestors came from Germany to America to work in the corn field and after they had worked so hard they finally saved up enough money to buy the corn field and they still own it today.…

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    Irish people are Roman Catholics. Ireland is home to some really good food. Most of the food is stews or meats. Some of the mentioned Irish foods are; soda bread, Irish potato soup, barmbrack, and fish cakes. Most people say Irish people all where kilts and play the bagpipes. Although that is true that is not all the Irish wear they also wear cloths made of cotton or wool. Religion is a big thing in the part of Ireland my family comes from. That is probably why my family is so…

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    was carved from a block. The body also could be regarded as a strong body form based on the showing of the basic outline of the muscles instead of the detailed lines which are able to show the strong musculature. The Khafre is also half naked with a kilt covering the bottom part. The style of the feet looks nearly the same. What's different is that the head of Tanwetamani was lost. The head of Khafre with the specific beard and heading with Horus behind are able to show his identity as a ruler.…

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    Isaiah Mitchell Art 1: Prehistory- Medieval Ancient Egypt Artwork in the Ancient Egyptian time period reached a high level in painting and sculpture, and was both greatly stylized and symbolic. Their artwork was very conservative in style with a vivid representation of their economic status and beliefs. Much of their artwork was subjected around their belief in the concept of the human soul and commemorating their gods and kings. Most sculptures and body structures are idealized and look very…

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    tenfold. As we left the air-conditioned car, the heat hit me like a ton of bricks, I was not, I repeat not happy. We wandered the festival grounds which was on a golf course, the crowd of people were catted by the straight row of stalls, filled with kilts, food, and cheap jewelry. There was a mixture of normal people dressed in normal clothes and people who dressed like they lived in the medieval times. The air was a mixture of sweat and beef pastry’s. What followed the smell was the sound, the…

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    the Seated Scribe is outstanding for being around 4,500 years old! The color palette is very simple, black for the hair, white for the kilt and papyrus, and red ochre for the body. All three colors in the piece are heavily saturated, may be why it has lasted for so many years. The statue shows movement by how the legs are carved out from the base and how the kilt has been carved. They have been carved in a way that, give the illusion of movement. It also shows movement in the eyes. The…

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    field. Dundas too had joined the field, but was quite apathetic towards it and therefore commenced his parliamentary career. A proud Scotsman, he replaced the Disarming Act to allow Scottish Highlanders to wear kilts and tartans again—perhaps why the artist decided to dress him in a tartan kilt in his caricature. Three of Dundas’ younger brothers went to India and two passed away there so he felt a personal connection to the land. Unlike Pitt, Dundas is actually wearing the mask, confidently…

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    their living from farming. They grew wheat, barley, grapes, and olives. They also raised animals such as, goats, cattles, sheeps, and pigs. The clothes they wore back then is different from what we wear today. The men wore loincloths, also a kind of kilt . The women’s wore layered skirts and bodices. The Minoans…

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    Hatshepsut was the daughter of thutmose the ll her brother is Thutmose the ll and nephew Thutmose the lll.Hatshepsut died approximately age 40 and was born in thebes in February.Hatshepsut was the 15th pharaoh of the 18th dynasty Hatshepsut means” Foremost Of Noble Ladies’’ she was giving a reign of 22 years or 9 months she was building her pyramid when she was the royal wife of Thutmose the ll but that was for her father so she constructed a new pyramid in 1903 one of her organs were discovered…

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