religions, all of which have are unique and contain rich and amazing history. A few religions predate the founding of Christianity, but the one of the oldest and most interesting is Buddhism. Buddhism was founded by Buddha Shakyamuni. He was born as a royal prince in 634 B.C. in what is now Nepal and was given the name Siddhartha. While reliable information is scarce, it is believed that when he was born a holy man prophesied that Siddhartha would either be a great king, a military leader, or a…
Petersburg. Her mother, Inna Erazmova Stogova, was a part of an almighty group of landowners. Her father, Andrei Antonovich Gorenko, accepted his royalty from his father who earned a hereditary noble for his service in the royal navy. Anna began to write while she was a teen but her literary career had a huge jumpstart when she published her first book of a collection of poems and verses called “Vecher” (Evening 1912). According to www.poetryfoundation.org “Vecher…
Kasia Szpakowska’s book takes a look at what the life of a middle-class inhabitant of the settlement of Hetep-Senusret, better known as Lahun, would be like in the Late Middle Kingdom. Although this book is a nonfiction informative text, Szpakowska uses a fictional family constructed out of what were once real people as a model to recreate the daily life of an Egyptian living in ancient times. Szpakowska focuses on the character of a young girl named Hedjerit, who serves as a virtual example of…
Stage for the Witches: Thunder is noted in all of the scenes featuring the witches. The witches themselves refer to the murky weather conditions. They foreshadow the death and blood shed the story consists of Language and style: The witches always appear as a group and are never differentiated between. They are almost like one being with multiple personality Greek gods vs. Roman gods Each witch speaks a line, the the next witch continues the line creating a continuous…
the creation of women characters. Russian theatre and other playwrights were his inspiration. Chekhov excelled in creating complex characterization of women. He possessed a multifaceted distinctiveness with a range of themes and subjects, voice and style. His plays combine popular appeal with credibility Russia produced literature and actors of its own towards the end of the nineteenth century. Tolstoy and Maxim Gorky, Stanislavskh and Danchenko contributed to the development of realism on the…
Leighton’s idealized characterization of a reclining female figure in Cymon and Iphigenia (1884) and Henry Moore’s sculptural rendering Reclining Figure: Angles are all encapsulations of the worlds in which the were made. Through the manipulation of style and media, all works communicate a social understanding of the artist – individual products of social values that have influenced their depiction of women.…
On Emperor’s instruction, it was planned and built by the well- known Iranian architects Ali Mardan Khan and Mulla Ala-al-Mulk Tuni. 197 Chashma Shahi Bagh(چشمہ شاہی باغ) Chashma Shahi Bagh(چشمہ شاہی باغ) or also famous as The Royal Spring Garden at Kashmir was built in 1632 A.D. attributed its construction to Shah Jahan himself. But its Iranian features seem more likely that the actual builder was Ali Mardan Khan, at that time as Governor of Kashmir, working accorrdingto the…
Title Oedipus the King Writer & Nationality Sophocles Nationality: Greek Publication Date & Literary Period 429 B.C.E, Athens, Greece Literary Period: Classical Setting(s) The royal house of Thebes in Ancient Greece Structure/ Organization Follows guidelines of classic tragic drama. Point of View Third person objective Major Characters & Brief Descriptions Oedipus (King of Thebes): Main character/protagonist. Taken away from home as young boy and left with his feet bound…
If left up to the text of the 16th century the fall of the Aztec Empire would be accredited only to Cortes, but as Kevin O. Collins stressed in The Fatal Flaws of the Aztec Empire we see that we must look past the conquest and look more to the political, and religious view of the Aztec. Writers, such as William Prescott saw the flaws in the manuscripts written by those under Cortes and stressed that it was the mismanagement of Tenochtitlan that caused its fall. Unfortunately for this paper I…
isolation, and poverty. The Allegory of the Spring is one of the most prominent works of the Renaissance, and its true meaning still eludes many scholars today. It was originally intended to be a wedding to Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de'Medici from his royal cousin Lorenzo the Magnificent ("La Primavera 1"). The painting is also called the Primavera which means "spring" in Italian (renaissanceart.org 1). It is believed to have been painted between 1477-1482, and it is currently displayed at the…