Land

“The Waste Land” is a wonderfully complex work by T.S. Eliot. In this work Eliot illuminates ideas in “The Waste Land” by comparing and contrasting events happening there to events that have happened in the past. One of the myths we see echoed throughout the story as a reoccurring, central theme to the work is the myth of Philomela. Eliot depicts an image of human stagnation in his work, which can be compared to the unfruitfulness that comes from the rape Philomela story and the loveless central…

The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot is a poem that explains how people have become disconnected. Whether it be that mankind has become disconnected with nature, with a spiritual force, or with time, we have drifted away from having connections with others and the world that we live in, instead people are focusing more on themselves. Even though The Waste Land was written in 1922 it still holds some truth about how we are disconnected with time in today’s society. Time is an essential part in everyone’s…

it emerged in the sixties among the crush of several other art movements (Pop Art, Minimalism, among others) Land Art came to be an anti-gallery artistic offshoot that straddled the domain between architecture and sculpture. It had no manifestos nor schools nor leaders and it was not quite a movement; the artists who were involved with it were also involved in other types of arts. Land art was labelled as modern ‘sculpture’ but its versatility and introduction of new concepts and visual…

Strange Land, written by Robert A. Heinlein, is set in a future United States where organized religions are politically powerful. The book opens up with a ship returning from a trip to Mars with an interesting passenger, Michael Valentine Smith, the son of crewmembers from a previous voyage to the planet. He was born on the ship twenty-five years ago and raised by Martians until he came to Earth. The story focuses on Michael’s adaptation to humans and their culture. In Stranger in a Strange…

own classes but also opened up the doors for higher education for women and African Americans. The turning point in this educational reform came when the Land Grant College Act was passed in 1862 allowing many of the new age colleges to be built. This act granted each congressional…

of The Waste Land is really a religious one. The Waste Land illustrates for us the concrete image of a spiritual plan with the help of analogy. Religion in The Waste Land is taken from many different areas. Elements from Christianity,Hinduism, and even fertility rituals can be seen interspersed throughout the poem. Eliot is cited to be a christian but references to Hindu holy books in The Waste…

The story Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein describes the life of a modern day “prophet” who is born in a spaceship during an expedition to the planet Mars. His name is Valentine “Mike” Smith and although his life was short it was extraordinary. When he is 25 years old he is returned to his people on Earth and begins to live a life unlike any other. He learns how normal humans act and discovers how horrible humans truly are and believes that he can cure humanity using his martian…

disruption in the principles of registered land.’’ the absence of any evidence of an unregistered interest on the register challenges the” mirror principle” whereby the register should reflect everything that is material to the title” Thus distorting the simple idea of this principle in which should initially reflect every right and interest existing over the property. Land law in the modern 21st century originally came about during the Norman Conquest in 1066. All land was under the rule of the…

Anisfeld, Moshe. “Why was Moses barred from leading the people into the promised land?: a psycho theological answer” Jewish Bible Quarterly 39, no.4 (October 2011): 211-220. Anisfeld’s article is a, psycho-theological answer about Moses. He believes that the reason Moses was barred from leading the Israelites into the promise land was not that Moses committed sin however because he “failed to counteract the peoples slide into blasphemy”, about God. The traditional view is that Moses was…

control over water, land, and oil has economically and socially changed the world. They have been used to secure power because of how important they are to society. The consequences for wrongly abusing these resources have shown to be a lot more trouble then it was worth. Where natural resources are not at the heart of the conflict, their availability can compound the problems created by political, social, and economic conflict. Water is a necessity of life,…