Portrait of a Lady

A man dressed in a robe coat, held a large gong, walked in the front, paved the way. Followed by the deceased 's children and grandchildren, who held the spirit tablet and a portrait of the departed, and three steps a kneeling, five steps a kowtowing. Catafalque was afterwards, solemn and respectful. A white hydrangea was placed on the black coffin top. Moreover, "Eight Buddha 's warrior attendants" carried the coffin, all…

The Moral Influence of Literature In an immoral society where technology hypnotizes the people, books are illegal and philosophical thinking is frowned upon; individualism no longer exists, people claim to be happy but feel little emotion, and mistakes are never learned from. However, corruption and immorality remains the result when the obsession of literature and philosophy influence a man’s lifestyle. Philosophy and literature should be learned from, but with reason, adapted into our lives.…

A Discourse Community of an Art Educator A discourse community is a group of people who share a common interest and also have a particular language. According to, “The Concept of Discourse Community” by John Swales a professor of linguistic and codirector of the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English, sets specifics as to what a Discourse Community is. For example, it consists of six-defining characteristics, a community must have participation, communication, a specific genre of writing, a…

was president of the Mill Creek Park Organization that wanted to raise funds to build a community center that would house a large room to host rose shows, a large meeting room, a library, a restaurant and a gift shop. Well, my sister is a phenomenal lady with a gazillion contacts who could get a donation out of Scrooge if she really wanted to do so. Suffice it to say that she and the group were very successful and amassed about 6 million dollars to build the community center. (Did I mention that…

gossiping, and writing love letters. Sandy goes in the bathroom, flustered and overwhelmed by the plethora of questions being pushed on her by the Pink Ladies, and Rizzo begins the iconic song, “Look at Me, I’m Sandra Dee.” The song is funny at the expense of Sandy, and the recognition of being made fun of drives Sandy to a ponderous ballad. As the Pink Ladies ridiculed Sandy in the 1950’s musical, girls in today’s world similarly ridicule their peers; however, the fun is made at the expense of…

beast, / with deer antlers on her head” (Guigemar 90-92). Although the hind is identified as female, and has offspring, it still has the male attribute of antlers. Lee argues that: When we consider how white animals…frequently figure in medieval portraits of women as adjunct symbols of female virtue, purity, nobility, and innocence, it is not so difficult to see how the white hind can here as an extension of (or substitute for) the female body.…

intervention that the seeds of love are sown between them. When Beatrice is informed that Don Pedro and his party are coming to Messina, her first thought is for her 'Senior Mountanto'. Within four spoken lines of his arrival Benedick is quarrelling with his 'Lady Disdain'. From the very beginning then their thoughts and speeches are occupied with each other. The attraction between the lovers manifests itself in a show of hostility. "Their professions of dislike are inverted declarations of…

significant piece from the Etruscans is the Capitoline She-Wolf, which became a mascot of Rome due to their belief that Romulus and Remus, descendants of the gods, were raised by wolves before founding Rome. The Lid of a Funerary Urn was the model for portraits of the Roman rulers, such as the Bust of Cicero. The alter of Ares Pacis Augustae effectively combines the mythology of Romulus and Remus with Augustus and his rule. It also provides a visual for Vergil’s Aeneid, which described the…

A few years before mid-twentieth century marked one of the world’s greatest historical wars; this war consisted of one major aspect that is most commonly known as the holocaust. The objective of this scene was to weed out all the “racially defective” individuals so that the target to purify the human race could be succeeded. After this gruesome event, blossomed a world of reactions, whether considered respectful or not, one of these renowned reactions is the artwork of David Olère. One…

filled of endangerment. “Escena De Un Asesinato” leaves many people with questions as in what is seen in the picture? what symbolic meaning does the object have? who is el roto and lastly, what strange thing happens after people buy the image? Many portraits were being displayed at an exhibition for travel photography. Mr. Turrand was displaying a print he took a few years ago in…