Memento

The tradition of honoring 25-, 50-, 65- and 75-year Kappas is captured in four pieces of ritual available for this occasion. The service for the presentation of the 25-year pin award is found on Page 21 of the Ritual Book for Alumnae Associations. The service for presenting 50-year award and the alternate service for presenting the 50-year award are found on Pages 23 and 24. The service for the presentation of the 65- and 75-year awards is found on Page 26. All of these services are also…

In “the Urban Revolution”, Gordon Childe identifies ten specific criteria in a process that he believes transforms villages and defines a city, civilization, or society. It is through this process that we can easily categorize and compare settlements and cities from ancient times. Two of these criteria, social stratification and occupational specialization, address important aspects of any civilization, such as the existence of specialists in fields like politics and religion. These aspects are…

In the story States written by Edward Said there are many textual elements used to help describe the story and how it is a sad story. It is a different type of story with many different conflicts and ends up ending to perfection. More than 25 years Said states that the Palestinian issues have not gotten better. “We are at once too recently formed and too variously experienced to be a population of articulate exiles with a completely systematic vision and too voluble and trouble making to be…

MidTerm Cultural event for Child Development 17 My Husband I visited the Latin American Art Museum in Long Beach, California on Sunday, October 16,2016. We had never visited this museum before, and we had a good time. The building which houses the Latin American Art Museum had been many things prior to what its currently now, and with many re-models the inside still in a way reflects the past. The building dates from 1910 where it was originally Balboa studios which was the first Hollywood…

I looked over at my dad. The face I’d watched age day after day for as long as I can remember. We’d never spoken a word to one another but he was still my father. It was difficult growing up, and would probably be easier if I had pretended he was dead but it was a comfort to know he was looked after here. I’d long given up hope he’d wake up, writing letters to Santa, the tooth fairy, and wishing on every birthday as I blew out my candles that he’d just open his eyes, a smidgeon. He had posters…

In Wilde’s the male speaker walks away with no mentioned reminders of his lover or the harlots, where as this speaker does have a memento. This poem is also influenced by Victorian morality. In one stanza Symons writes, “the mirror that has sucked your face / […] / and there mysteriously keeps / forgotten memories of grace” (lines 5-8). Here the lover is no longer a pure, perfect figure…

The Waste Land invokes a feeling of nostalgia for a time gone by coupled with a sense of dissonance for what the world has become. The last vestiges, like the fragments stand as reminders that we can never go back. This embrace of the fragmentation offers no resolve but rather demonstrates a sort of encumbered acceptance of the world as it is now with ever so brief glimpses of hope, which come and go. Even the structure of the poem itself is as presented as fragmentary, a reflection of the…

Renaissance Patronage: A Study of Motivations in Artwork Commissioning Gombrich says in his famous book The Story of Art that art is not a work of artists but that of patrons. This statement emphasizes the significant role that patrons played in the fifteen- century arts. Patronage was not simply the case of the patrons’ paying on their orders. The commercial relationship between artists and their clients in Renaissance was different from that in contemporary art market, where artists paint…

Tim OBriens story, The Things They Carried, is more than just a war story. It beautifully depicts the shame and guilt that soldiers had to live for throughout the war, and unfortunately, the rest of their lives. Through the stories and experiences of soldiers in Tim OBriens vicinity, the Alpha Company, we get to know them not as mindless soldiers fighting for their country, but as people. Shame and guilt is a recurring theme in the book all soldiers in the story have experienced it one way or…

Authors throughout time have been influenced by their culture, travel, and pieces of literature. These factors have inspired many authors to create beautiful stories that take readers to another place and into another’s shoes. One author that has followed this path is Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hawthorne is known for his amazing stories that take the reader into a different time and place while sharing his own views of society through allegories along with other rhetorical strategies or devices. These…