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civilization used to live. This city has numerous captivating locales that will lead me to my disclosures of this ancient human progress. A couple of essential locales in this city that I will be investigating are The Theater, the Bouleuterion, The Temple of Aphrodite, and The Basilica Church. From the little data, I have already gathered I can presume that this civilization worshiped the goddess Aphrodite as well as following the Christian religion, had a legal framework set up, and had a…

Jonestown The documentary/film of “Jonestown: The Life and Death of People’ Temple” was a film about the rise of Jim Jones and eventally the fall of his creation. Jim Jones was born on May 13, 1931 in Indiana which is also the location of where he started his first temple. Jim Jones was the founder of Peoples’ Temple, which became imfamous after the mass suicide of his followers in Jonestown, Guyana. He single handedly got 900+ of his followers from babies to the ederly to commit suicide by…

(中庸), which emphasizes the importance of harmony, and introduces central-oriented idea. From the case in the Temple of Confucius in Qufu, the main structural sections of the complex are arranged on a central axis, which embody the idea of moderation. The Kuiwen Hall is believed to be a rare architecture in the Chinese history. It is the second largest and tallest architecture in the Temple of Confucius in Qufu, ranks behind the Dacheng Hall. The tower is built with timber without using a metal…

Temple College Jazz Combo I attended a Brown Bag Event featuring the Temple College Jazz Combo, on November 29, 2016 from 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM. The recital took place at the Mary Alice Marshall Performing Arts Center in the Jackson-Graeter Backstage Theatre. The combo consisted of four members of the Temple College Jazz Ensemble, who “weren’t getting enough jazz” so the smaller group was put together, per their director, Dr. Benjamin Irom. The quartet is comprised of Jacob Armstrong from Belton…

beautiful and glamorous the Jewish Temple is. Specifically, Aristeas writes, "… the temple had been built in all its splendour… All the buildings were characterized by a magnificence and costliness quite unprecedented…no expense had been spared on the door and the fastenings…"(84-85) This quote illustrates how beautiful and ornate the temple is with words like splendor, magnificence, and costliness. These adjectives were all applied to assist in describing the Jewish Temple and thus describes…

overcome by endurance.”- Virgil Endurance noun en·dur·ance: the ability to withstand hardship or adversity. Endurance is an important factor in everyone’s life and it works in some way or another. There is physical, mental, and verbal endurance. Temple Grandin having endurance to use her abilities to her advantage to prove to the people that didn’t believe in her that they were wrong. During the attempt at integration at the Little Rock High School the African American students need the…

Obedience Jonestown the Peoples Temple Through my research and findings of obedience to authority this ancient dilemma is somewhat confusing but needs understanding. Problem with obedience to authority has raised a question to why people obey or disobey and if there are any right time to obey or not to obey. Through observation of many standpoints on obedience and disobedience to authority, and determined through detailed examination conducted by Milgram “The Perils Of Obedience,” Doris Lessing…

Nick Carraway was offered with insider information by Jay Gatsby and his mentor, Meyer Wolfshiem respectively in two unlinked scene. The underground society, which according to Tom Buchannan, referred as “temple of virtue” was a place where all sorts of banned activities involving renowned authorities were carried out and it was the place where Nick Carraway and Meyer Wolfshiem first met. Noticing that Nick Carraway was with Jay Gatsby, Meyer Wolfshiem mistaken Nick Carraway as one of them and…

As the semester draws to a close, I reluctantly write my final paper for my favorite class of my first ever semester here at George Mason University. For this paper I will discus how my peers and I worked together through out the Deliberative Dialogue project. I’m going to use the Tuckman Model of Group Development because I believe I saw my group transition through these stages more prominently. The Forming Stage, or Stage #1, began the day we got our group assignments and were allowed to get…

Ancient Stories in Popular Culture George Santayana once said that “those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” While Santayana’s quote usually accompanies a discussion about reckless wars and terrible genocides, it can also demonstrate that despite all of our technological and academic advancements, human nature stays the same. Which is why years, decades, even millennia will not change the effect that a great story has on humans. Epic tales of heroism are repeated and…