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palaces which Ashikaga Yoshimitsu erected on this spot in 1394, they were later converted by his son into a temple, the Rokuonji. A slow disappearance of other buildings has left this structure alone, a simple but expensively built hall containing relics in its top floor.” It has burned down numerous times throughout its history including “twice during the Onin War,” a civil war that destroyed much of Kyoto; “and by a psychopathic neophyte monk in 1950, but it has been rebuilt to its original…

Name：Nat Paulsen From：The United States Occupation：Teacher Visiting the Tomb of King Nanyue is like traveling back in time a thousand years Introduction: Nat is from America, but considered a local already by most around him. Nat admires the foreign art that has been transported along the Maritime Silk Road centuries ago while visiting the museum of the Tomb of King Nanyue. After graduating 7 years ago from his university in Los Angeles, Nat came to Guangzhou because of a work opportunity. He…

pattern of stream flow (Blanc 1999, Thom et al). Before people dominated the landscape, the driving forces of nature shaped the topography and the subsequent ecosystems that evolved, leaving behind biological and geological relics from the last glacial period (Nagel, 2010). These relics are seen today in the form of outcrops, caves, and ancient species thriving in the cool crevices of this geography (Nagel, 2010). The topography…

‘Parliamentary sovereignty is a constitutional relic. It has been rendered obsolete, in particular, by the supremacy of EU law and the UK’s statutory recognition of human rights. We should no longer talk about this irrelevant doctrine.’ Parliamentary sovereignty is a principle of the UK constitution, it is legislated by the House of Commons, House of Lords and the Queen; it is usually perceived as the most important aspect of the UK constitution, “The supremacy of Parliament is the…

found out what happened and it is said that they brought his remaining and brought him to Spain and buried him in there town. Although many historians don’t believe that St. James ever visited Spain. The idea of his relics being transported to Iberia is thought by historians is hat the relics must have been a fabrication from the…

Pardoner is all a part of his plan. He preaches about how greed is the root of all sin and as a result, the audience is left feeling guilty. Then, he transitions from the sermon to the presentation of his claimed “Holy” relics. He tells the audience that with offerings made to these relics, miracles or even salvation can be attained. The Pardoner pockets all of the offering and moves on to the next gullible audience. In his prologue, he tells his peers that the whole thing is a scam and that he…

speak out against many social problems, all of which he is guilty of. He preaches about drunkenness, and he is intoxicated while telling the story. Blasphemy and greed are other problems he speaks of. Ironically, he attempts to sell fake religious relics and is incredibly avaricious. In the "Nun's Priest's Tale" we start with the romance, a genre traditionally featuring knights and their ladies, and hardly anyone else at all. The first information we have about Chauntecleer is that "In all the…

In E.T.A. Hoffmann’s “Sandman,” Nathanael falls in love with the object of his desires, the devastatingly gorgeous Olympia. Nathanael worships Olympia for her beauty, her muteness, and her lack of opinion. Eventually though, Nathanael realizes that Olympia is an automaton and has no substances because she is constructed merely to be the most perfect looking woman. Similarly, In Jeffrey Eugenides The Virgin Suicides, The Lisbon sisters are worshipped solely for their bodies prohibiting them from…

Martin Luther Martin Luther was a man that has changed many lives in his time made many people’s lives less stressful by writing 95 theses. Martin Luther was the one that changed the ways of the Catholic Church back in the Middle Ages, which is around the 1500’s. Martin Luther was born into a copper mining family in 1483 in Saxony, Germany. Growing up people knew him as a bright child. In 1505 he received a Master of Arts Degree from the University of Erfurt. However, his father wanted him to…

not a physical chalice, but a woman, namely Mary Magdalene, who carried the bloodline of Christ. The Old French expression for the Holy Grail, San gréal, actually is a play on Sang réal, which literally means "royal blood" in Old French. •The Grail relics consist of the documents that testify to the bloodline, as well as the actual bones of Mary…