Roman de la Rose

When the story of “Diana and Actaeon” is mentioned, one’s mind most commonly recalls the episode in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, in which Actaeon accidentally stumbles upon the goddess Diana naked in the woods during a hunting trip, and she metamorphoses him into a deer; therefore, his hunting dogs devour him (Ovid 55). “Diana and Actaeon” is a very well known episode from the Metamorphoses; it is where Ovid first delves into a discussion of whether the gods are just in their punishments towards…

The film opens up at the point where Santa Anna has gained victory in defeating the American/Texan Army at the Alamo. Sam Houston is then shown being told what occurred at the Alamo. From this point we see the film transitions into a flashback a year before the battle to introduces us to the important people of the battle and show us how it lead to it. We are shown that Sam Houston is at a party where he is talking to people about Texas and how they should immigrate to it. At the party Houston…

report and appeal for aid where he continues to express how limited he is in resources and how fruitful the enemy is in resources and still expecting more. They are trying to keep good spirits at the camp but it is getting difficult. In Jose Enrique De La Pena, “The Fall of the Alamo,” March 6, 1836 it was stated that many thought that Travis would surrender when supplies ran low but he did not.…

and reclaimed the other cities the rebels had captured. Eventually, they reached Chilpancingo. Morelos was forced into the countryside. A year later, he was captured and executed. He is defeated by the royalist forces of the mestizo general Agustin de Iturbide and the revolution’s leadership is passed to Vicente…

have never been written at all, on the basis of the author’s sex. Her experience with same-sex relationships, her feminist ideals, and her will for learning contribute to Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz’s defiant nature, which shines through her writings. To start, the experience and support that Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz had with…

to folly and sin. Chaucer appears to be inspired by the Fals Semblant character of the famous poem Roman de la Rose by Guillaume de Lorris, another deceitful character who uses society’s foibles for his own gain. It is the gullible, willfully ignorant and ambitious people they con that enable their duplicity in their eyes.The Pope, the lords of the peasants, and the mercantile class emerging are all…

Gothic cathedrals and Greek temples are both considered sacred architecture. Scared architecture (or religious architecture) is dedicated to the design and structure of places of worship. This beautiful type of architecture is developed in its own unique way that has spanned over years and years of time. Creative minds, hard working people, and the people of the time helped contribute to these magnificent buildings, and even today these structures are an important part of human history.…

the Republic of Colombia was established; when three countries emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia. Forty six million people make up the population of Colombia, made up of mostly Mestizo ethnicity. In most cultures, the national religion is Roman Catholic with the national language being Spanish. Considered as a republic that follows a democratic structure; though, the governments known to be corrupt from the influence of the drug cartels that essentially control the elections. In this…

The Medieval period was a time of firsts, the first Crusade, the first census, the first manifestation of the modern-day perception of knights and kings alike. The fourteenth century was also full of literary firsts, the most predominant being the shift from scholarly reading to a more universal style of tales written in Middle English, introduced by Geoffrey Chaucer, a timelessly renowned poet. The Canterbury Tales, considered the most important literary piece of the Medieval period written in…

the city of Pompeii? By: Josh Scabarozi Screaming, crying, your mother screaming, telling you “It is going to be okay”. These are all things you would hear if you lived in the Roman city of Pompeii in 79 AD. The eruption of Mount Vesuvius affected Pompeii in many ways. Pompeii was very modern and most of the wealthy Romans would go to it as a vacation spot. The eruption caused lots of damage by covering the whole city with layers of rocks, ash, and toxic fumes. The first official excavations for…