Relic

In order to understand anything about the world, one must first understand their internal selves. However, one can only find themself through facing trials that test their abilities. Commonly, American Romantic Heroes such as Indiana Jones, Moana, and Rip Van Winkle, must endure this trial through a journey to a frontier. During this expedition through nature, they must utilize their intuition in order to overcome obstacles. Through this journey of self-discovery, one may learn universal truths…

My first field excursion to Kuringai-Chase National Park in early September was a guided tour let by my Anthropology Professor. Preliminary discussions of the tour centered on the retelling of Australia’s dark history to include the injustices inflicted on the marginalized Indigenous populations by their colonial oppressors. Our tour began atop a ledge over looking the bodies of water (Hawkesbury River, Pittwater and Cowan Water) that suround the National Park. Image one represents one of the…

of the most blatant motives in the entirety of The Canterbury Tales. In the General Prologue, Chaucer writes that the Pardoner, “With false flattery and tricks, / he made monkeys of the parson and the people.” (53. 707-708). The Pardoner uses fake relics in order to take money off of the “ignorant people” (511. 64) who attend his sermons. This man knows that he can profit from the pious…

Review Questions 1. What are the Hurrian songs? Why are they important? The Hurrian songs or hymns are a set of fragmentary relics. It was written cuneiform writing on clay tablets. An interesting fact that made Hurrian songs important is because it was the first piece of evidence that there was written musical pieces. For example, it played a large role in the lives of Mesopotamians, they used it for important life events such that as marriages and royal family births. 2. What is the Natya…

The Terracotta warriors were soldiers made by laborers for the emperor Qin Shi Huang. The laborers started building them when he was thirteen years old. The warriors were made to protect him from the afterlife. Villagers that were digging wells discovered them in 1974. When they were digging they first found hands and legs, and told more people, they kept digging and found statues, they had they had dug over seven feet they found blue brick. They were made from terracotta or yellow earth…

The Windows of the East The Great Gatsby is a timeless novel read from generation to generation. It’s tale of the tragic life of Gatsby has been used by many to exemplify the culture of the United States in the 1920s. One fact that we learn is that no one is perfect, and that includes our narrator Nick. Nick acts as our blurry window that allows a hazy access to the story as Nick uses vague descriptions to describe events, adds unnecessary details, and doesn't focus enough on important…

With increasing costs, rising student debt, and employers questioning the workplace readiness of students, American colleges and universities face a crisis of public confidence (Stiglitz). This doubt exacerbates concerns that the academy is a relic of modernity, out of touch with contemporary social and economic needs (Robinson). As universities face these concerns, exacerbated by budget crises, creators of massive open online courses (MOOCs) have position their innovations as the panacea for…

(Here I am exploring sustainability in a different way, one I do not usually advocate for) With more than half of the world's population now living in cities we need to let go of the conventional inferences we make about sustainability. Instead of the common beliefs which claim sustainability comes at the cost of absolute reduction and diminishment of our current ways of life as we know them, we instead need to accept a more modern take on what is more sustainable practice as a species. The pros…

can and cannot do. It protects us. It guards us from ourselves; it protects our government. The Constitution is now under threat by a new leadership. This new leadership does not seem to regard the Constitution at all, almost believing that it is a relic, something to toss to the side in order to secure their selective To-Do-List. Yet, they are sworn to protect the Constitution. What is striking is that rest of our elected representatives, members of our Senate, and the rest of the gang seem to…

destroyed. The Visigoths had preserved Roman power in the monuments and artworks that they had used, but the Muslim power would not allow the polytheistic beliefs of other cultures exist in their kingdom. To eliminate the past religion, the bodies and relics of saints and other holy figures were burned to remove any traces of their existence. The churches were also burned to construct the new Mosques that would become the core place of religious worship. By doing this, Islam erased all Christian…