Memento

Introduction: The following report provides a comprehensive analysis of the statuette of the Madonna di Tindari shown in Figure 1. Through an evaluation of the significance of this object, this report will demonstrate that the statuette would make an excellent addition to the collection of the Italian Historical Society, exhibited at the Museo Italiano in Melbourne. First, a description of the statuette will be provided. In addition to recording the object’s physical attributes, this description…

kid, however, her adolescence home. It is about the battle to separate between the two and how the home has changed. Didion depicts the setting of where her youth home is. Secured in clean, as her better half calls attention to, overflowing with mementos that have no financial esteem and the outside surroundings she recalls as a youngster. She depicts the family graveyard, where those before her are kept. It makes me think about whether she is worried that she won 't be covered nearby her…

their body parts around his apartment. He also tried experiments to make them into sex slaved zombies by using lobotomies on their brains. Jeffrey Dahmer is similar to many serial killer by collecting trophies from the murders and keeping them as mementos of his kill. His trophies were body parts. He is also like other serial killers who engage in necrophilia. Jeffrey like many other…

The fire not only claimed the air of Chicago, but also a district of Chicago named the “Burned District” for good reason. The “Burned District” serves as a memento for the people of Chicago as part of the great city they once use to live in; the district spanned over four miles by three-quarters of a mile wide, consisting of an approximate eighteen thousand buildings lost estimating to two hundred million dollars…

anyway. And lastly, the style of this artwork is called Vanitas where symbolism are used to remind the viewer of the brevity of life and the inevitability of death. This style of still life has also been greatly affected by the medieval latin theory - Memento mori which means “remember that you must die” which aid the same meaning as Vanitas. On the other hand, “Still Life with Palette” conveys meaning through the white cloth which represents vanity as the silk being the expensive material. The…

“She sells sea shells down by the sea shore”, is a famous nursery rhyme well known by society today. This tongue twister is about the fossil collector Mary Anning. Mary became well known for the discovery of new species of fossil and contributions to the field of planetology . Anning would sell her fossils down by the sea shore to collectors and scientists, as way to make a living . She was not fully recognized during her lifetime for her work because of her low social class and gender. Anning…

He shows fear because his father attacked him with apples and severely damaged him. His fear was justified because of “the grievous wound Gregor had received, which plagued him for over a month – the apple remained lodged in his flesh, a visible memento, since no one dared to remove it” (85). The attack left him damaged to the point of that the “wound cost Gregor some of his mobility, probably for good, and for the time being he required many, many minutes to hobble across hi room like an old…

Have you ever heard of Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)? Well if you haven 't, according to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, “PTSD is a serious potentially debilitating condition that can occur in people who have experienced or witnessed a natural disaster, serious accident, terrorist incident, sudden death of a loved one, war, violent personal assault such as rape, or other life-threatening events. Research has recently shown that PTSD among military personnel may be a…

War is not about the victories and the heroes, but about surviving and carrying the burden of death as a soldier fights for their country and life. In “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien, the author, describes the human side of war and what a soldier really endures when they trudge through the country side of Vietnam or during the horrors of the night while on guard duty; not only are there physical burdens during war, but also mental burdens. Mental burdens are emotions like fear, desire…

which will be pounded and drilled out of them until they become ‘sensible adults. ’Dr. Glas gives his own thoughts on age and its affects on innocence “For youth, the moon is a promise of all those tremendous things which await it, for older people a memento that the promise was never kept, a reminder of all that broke and went to pieces. . . And what is moonshine? Secondhand sunshine. Diluted, counterfeit” (Soderberg 67). The morality lesson taught to girls is not whether the man has piqued…