Ovid

What interests you about this position? This position represents a great opportunity for me to put my experience and knowledge amassed over the past few years to good use. I have recently graduated from Curtin University with a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Librarianship and Corporate Information and since 2011 I have been working at the North Metropolitan College of TAFE (formerly Central Institute of Technology). I am keen to be heavily involved in the changing nature of the public library…

I flip back to where I started and I hand Helen the parson's diary. She sits down next to me to read and I become very aware of her presence. It feels as though my little corner of Cold Book Storage just got a bit warmer. I steal a sideways glance at her under the guise of pointing out a good place for her to start. I lean closer, then I move back. Probably safer for me if she wasn’t sitting here, but I don't dare ask her to get up and sit somewhere else. I'm aware of her next to me,…

Over 400 years ago, during the times of the Elizabethan Era, lived the greatest dramatist in the English Language. His great works of playwright and inspiring words of poetry made him one of the most widely known authors in England. William Shakespeare was a man of great talent writing 38 plays and 154 sonnets in his lifetime. He was born on April 23rd in the year of 1564 in Stratford-Upon-Avon and died 52 years later on the same date. Before he decided to spend the rest of his life writing,…

Dante’s profound Imagination The Divine Comedy, one of the most famous work by Dante Alighieri described the poet, Dante himself walk through the inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. Since the artwork was done seven hundred of years ago, does did Dante accurately organize the circles? In other words, are the sins really worse as he heads to the center of Hell? Is greed really worse than glutton or lust? Is fraud really worse than heresy? Combining personal feelings from Dante himself and…

Roman Mythology The great city of Rome, we all know how Rome came to its great fall, but what about how it all began. Greek was very influential on Rome's development and cultures. The Roman have two stories to how their city began. With Rome's various versions of “Romulus and Remus”,the more famous version of how Rome began, this story has everything from Roman culture, wars, and Rome’s very influential way to run a government. The Roman culture has it all, fashion, art, and food.…

The Art of Love in Renaissance Italy: An Exploration of Sensual Pleasure in Architectural Space Xiaoyi Chen FAH335 #1 Exhibition Catalogue Printed Book: Hypnerotomachia Poliphili Date: 1499 Author: Francesco Colonna Location: Venice With elegant woodcutting and hybrid language, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (translated in English as The Strife of Love in a Dream) depicts…

In 2015 the public learned about lead levels that were so high in Flint Michigan’s water that it was causing lead poisoning of many children. Since then there have been many studies that have shown that low lead levels can also poison a child. Prior to addressing the question, one must first define lead poisoning. According to Needleman (2012), lead is a considered a metal that humans have mined and changed to make man made products which has been disperse in the environment and becomes toxic…

In The Bacchae many of the things said and done by Dionysus are similar to Jesus in The Bible. Proof of this is seen in the human way they live on Earth, the unusual ways they were born and conceived, both gods are called twice born, their want of people to believe that they are gods, their ability to turn people and objects into different items, the fear for their lives they had as infants, the lack of struggle when they are arrested, and finally their persecution. Therefore if Dionysus is like…

In the United States alone, one in eight live births occur prematurely, or before the baby reaches a gestational age of 40 weeks. The average hospital stay for these premature infants lasts an average of 35.6 days with the typical cost of their care exceeding $100,000 dollars (Center for Healthcare Researcch and Transformation, 2010). While advances in medicine have increased the survivability of these infants dramatically, they still face many challenges. One challenge in particular is that…

If you had a chance to save up to eight people’s lives, would you do it? If you’re an organ donor, that may be possible. The concept of organ donation is a very important idea, especially in today’s medical community. In this paper I will discuss the history, present and future of organ donation ranging from its beginnings in the 8th century B.C. to modern technology and techniques. I will also discuss the difficulties surrounding awareness of becoming an organ donor, including…