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abundance of ornamentation and richness of statuary, surpassed every ancient or imperial tomb.”(Vasari 324). This quote explains that the pieta can be compared to the ancient fascinating tombs. This include the great pyramids at Giza, the burial mound of Newgrange in County Meath, Ireland and the Terracota Army of Qin Shi Huangdi. All of these tombs have a unique aspect that makes them magnificent in their own way however, Michelangelo’s Pieta is different because it is basically an art piece…

table saw and carefully cut two pieces of wood. He then turned the boards and added two careful notches on the separate pieces of board so that they could fit together, making a cross. The smell of the cut wood did not bring relief to me, nor did the mounds of sawdust. He took the rough, jagged edges of the sand paper and smoothed the edges and sides. I watched through tearful eyes as my dad neatly glued and hammered the two pieces of board together to create the large wooden cross. He…

Harper Lee was a white women who grew up in the South during the Great Depression. Growing up in the South exposed Lee tp large amounts of racism. Her father was a lawyer and verbally spoke against the Scottsboro Boys Trial. In the Scottsboro Boys Trial 9 colored boys were accused of raping 2 young white girls. Even with no evidence showing that the boys are guilty, they were found guilty. Some people believe that Lee’s novel To Kill A Mockingbird is about her childhood. In Harper Lee’s novel To…

Fairy cupboards, a finishing school for girls and a ‘beck of beer,’ can all be found during this scenic walk. There are a couple of short climbs but nothing too strenuous. Cotherstone is an elegant village situated near the confluence of the rivers Balder and Tees. It is a long straggling settle­ment with a small green at each end, giving the impression that it may have started out as two independent communities. Standing near the centre of the village is St Cuthbert’s Church which was built in…

Each Sweat lodge may have a different door open or all the doors open. In the center of the roof of the sweat lodge is a star and on the ground in the center there is a pit. With the dirt they dug up from the pit they make a mound or belly button, outside the sweat lodge and further down east. A few feet away from the belly button they build a home fire, the home fire should not have any garbage or unwanted things thrown into it. Over the home fire they build a table and place…

The evergreen trees trapped under a pile of ashes, sweat, blood, guarded the aftermath of the winds, the fire, the storm, from them. It’s not easy to pick out what buildings were houses­–that people once lived in–or where those thousands had gone. After a while, the excitement of the cameras and flashes faded into a wave of heat choking out the last bit of life, the thousands left to walk into the invisibility of the air. The strong, invincible forest, evaporated into its vulnerability. By this…

A group of people that inhabited much of Great Britain regions of what is now France, Belgium and the Netherlands, the Anglo-Saxons were a group of people from Germanic tribes that took control from the 5th century to about the 8th century. Their culture survives in many regions today and they are associated with the re-establishment of Christianity in Europe. Emerging from medieval Europe during the end of roman rule, the massive migration of the Celts, Picts, and Scots from the North allow…

common type of abuse. Some type of trust abuse can be excessive abuse of substances like alcohol or money spending like gambling. Many might say they only spent only a little in gambling or alcohol. Yet over time the money spent on gambling and alcohol mounds up and become an addiction that may become hard for some to leave behind. In some case the abuse expands from disrespect, and that leads to abusive verbal treatment of people around and the significant other. Unfortunately there are some…

I was hungry, my feet wanted a rest. Finally, we came to the last obstacle. It was a steep hill. My feet ran part way up, then walked the rest of the way. We were up! We settled down for a snack on a plateau. After snack, we climbed a rocky mound. From the top, I saw the village, the landscape was beautiful. Mr. Macmillan took a picture of my class, and I. Then, we descended down, then the other class went up. We took another class picture at the bottom. To past the time, we threw rocks. The…

Many people do not see what I do when they walk upon the archery shooting range. Why would anyone stand there for hours in the blazing hot sun shooting bows? For people who do not shoot archery it is just an empty field that has different distances marked off. To me it means everything. Archery is a very demanding activity, both mentally and physically, and the whole season leads up to one important night. The archery shooting range is an open field full of bright green grass and lots of heavy…