Monument

A hero. What does a hero actually mean? To me, a hero is someone who does something brave to sacrifice themselves for others. A hero can be the one who saves a specific spot or place where there are a lot of people in the area during an attack or something. What makes a hero is the bravery and the intelligence of one person for themselves or others. First, It takes a brave hero to do tiring things in a rough situation. For example in passage one it states that, “A self-described…

reinforced his importance as a primary Theban god and also reaffirmed Hatshepsut's story that claimed she personally ascended from the god to eventually achieve her divine destiny as the pharaoh of Egypt (Roth 147). Hatshepsut may have also used the monument as a way to establish her legitimacy as pharaoh. Deir-el Bahri is located directly beside the temple of Menhotep II, an eleventh dynasty king was famous for reuniting the land of Egypt and ending the first intermediate period (Roth 147).…

can be proved by three round gaps in the floor. The church was consecrated in honour of St. Francis of Assisi in 1668, three years after its finishing. The consecration was carried out by the Prague archbishop Jan Bedřich of Wallenstein. PRAGUE 1 MONUMENTS CENTRAL Church of St. Francis of Assisi (czech: kostel sv. Františka z Assisi) - interior Interesting facts about the church The dominating feature of the church is especially the mighty, forty meters high bricked cupola. We will find…

chapter Waxman overviews how antiquarianism and Europeans within Egypt had both positive and negative effects on Egyptology. She starts off by looking at Napoleon’s conquest of Egypt and the work his savants took on as they documented the great monuments of Europe. She then goes off to talk about Jean-Francois Champollion and Giovanni Belzoni whose work have both increased in the understanding of Ancient Egypt but have also had negative effects on its preservation. The author finishes the…

Is Iconoclasm acceptable? Today we have encountered numerous situations of iconoclasm. Iconoclasm means “icon-breaking,” which includes the religious as well as the political destruction of images or monuments usually, not always, by those of another group (Džalto). There are many examples in the past and even recently that prove that iconoclasm still exists today. Thus, iconoclasm is the destruction of icons and sometimes it is believed that it is done because of the difference between…

Anxiously, Lord Capulet expedited the wedding, moving it to one day earlier. Juliet drank the concoction. As expected, when her nurse attempted to wake her up the next morning, she discovered that Juliet was ‘dead’. Juliet was delivered to the family monument, where all mourned her inexplicable ‘death’. In Mantua, Balthasar told Romeo that Juliet had died. Having obtained poison from an apothecary, Romeo had planned on killing himself alongside Juliet’s ‘dead body’. Also in Mantua, Friar John,…

India in the mid-eighteenth century, he came after the revolt of 1857, which was a rebellion in India against the East India Company Simpson was one of them and during his time in India he covered a diverse range of fields, like, culture, religion, monuments and rebels. He made over 250 paintings during his period in India for Day and Son, but the things didn’t go as he planned as the publisher’s company went bankrupt and most of his paintings were sold in the liquidation process. “'This was…

not appeared to be the case. Though many times we see a sacred space as being tied exclusively to religion, these are in fact any place that people or society have set aside. The word “sacred” tend to stir up images of centuries-old churches and monuments, but what each person holds as sacred can differ greatly. In modern society many issues have arisen between those who make claim to an area that they considered sacred and those who disagree with this distinction. All religions have places…

considered as one of the most famous prehistoric monuments that are found around the world. It is one of the sites that are visited most often by tourists. The Stonehenge is located in Wiltshire, England. It is found on the southern side of the Salisbury Plains which are 13 km north of Salisbury. The Stonehenge is a basically a large landscape that is circular, with large standing stones. Archaeologists have divided the construction of the monument over three phases. Archaeologists are still not…

unstable. To begin the story, Emily Grierson has died and the “…whole town went to her funeral: the men through sort of a respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house” (Faulkner, pg. 1 para. 1). Readers may ask themselves, why does Faulkner refer to this woman as ‘a fallen monument’ or why are the women of the town curious to know what is inside Mrs. Emily’s house? Mrs. Emily Grierson may be thought of as both a physically and…