Relic

Trey Hawkins October 17, 2017 Hsia, R. Po-Chia. Trent 1475: Stories of a Ritual Murder Trial. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1992, In Trent 1475, R. Po-Chia Hsia writes about the persecution of three Jewish families. The families of Samuel, Tobias, and Engel were accused, arrested, tortured, and some executed by the local Church of Trent for the murder of a small, Christian boy named Simon Unferdorben, son of Andreas, for the use in a Jewish religious ritual. The corpse of…

it, but the cathedral stands as a monument to human pride: “Fray Ramirez, or some Spanish priest who followed him, was not altogether innocent of worldly ambition…” (p. 101). Now, in Latour’s eyes, the cathedral stands exposed as a “grim” (p. 100) relic of a past conflict between the native experience and the imported. The importance of the past comes to play, where the people who labored as slaves to build a church are expected to believe in the religion and follow its teachings (McCullough,…

Wedding themes are used by more and more couples to turn their big day into an event that is both meaningful to them and enjoyable for their guests. You can always stick with wedding themes that are simple and elegant or go all out and do something that's never been done before to make your wedding truly special. Remember that a wedding is an important occasion for both the bride and the groom, and a wedding theme needs to reflect that. Take the time to sit down with your partner to explore…

When Mark Twain saw the Capitoline Venus it ““prompted him to write a short story, “The Capitoline Venus,” in which he described the statue as the “most illustrious work of ancient art the world can boast of”” and when you look upon the Capitoline Venus it would be very hard to argue. (The Capitoline Venus) The Capitoline Venus and the Esquiline Venus are to statues that depict the Roman goddess of love. Though they are of the same subject they are depicted in too very different ways. The…

architecture started when Buddhism became a popular religion, the Indians needed different buildings that were to the Buddhist way so in about 250 BC the emperor Ashoka built the Sanchi stupa which is a large solid brick dome that was used to store relics and statues of…

The Western Wall is the only remain relic of the Second Temple, and was very sacred site for Jews in ancient times. The reason why only the wall exist is because the Romans had destroyed their temples but have just left this piece. Often Jews go their to pray and talk to god, and maybe asking…

I used to live on Irving Street, right on the border of Queens and Brooklyn. The Mexicanos and Puertorriqueños called it el barrio— the neighborhood. A place where they could hide from white supremacy and racism while enjoying themselves with their people, and, boy, did they know how to party. Coke, pot, meth, whatever your debauchery required. This was the place to get it. It was a paradise, that is, if it was your barrio. If you weren’t a part of them, you were nothing and nothing does not…

Whether in love or war, manipulation is ever present. Manipulation is the art of deception, a way of controlling someone without them knowing. However, the manipulator can just as easily fall into a trap much like their own, becoming the manipulated. William Shakespeare, playwright for The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, demonstrates various circumstances in which manipulation plays a key role in one’s downfall throughout this play. Many characters attempt to manipulate one another throughout this…

The internet is called the highway of information by many people, and funny enough the same man who gave us the federal highway act also gave us the precursor to the internet. It was called Arpanet and was developed and funded by Advanced Research Projects Agency which is now Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. A man by the name of Leonard Kleinrock was the main architect in the internet’s design, a brilliant man who made several contributions to computer science. The goal was to create a…

do exactly what Nelson’s complaints were, though it did focus more on the material and shapes than the potential meaning of the object. Rewriting this section, Nelson might say something like: The Venus of Willendorf is a particularly interesting relic from the Upper Paleolithic. The ways in which people see it show just as much about these viewers as they show the meaning of the object. Instead of imposing meaning on it, try to consider this image as a deconstructed object. The shapes are…