Thrones

Leadership [Author’s Note: This paper has book and television show spoilers on the Game of Thrones and terminology that may confuse a non-Game of Thrones fan.] Game of Thrones is a fantasy series based on the Wars of the Roses. The Game of Throne’s plot center around the noble families fight for the Iron Throne, threats from supernatural forces, and how the last exiled Targaryen, Daenerys, will retake the Iron Throne. Daenerys Targaryen’s storyline portrays how leadership is learned.…

central figure of this piece, as indicated by the title, is the enthroned Mary. Mary is grasping her son Jesus and is flanked on both sides by a number of angels. Below Mary and the angels is four elderly men, two of whom are divided by columns of the throne. Beginning with Mary, one immediately notices her halo as highlighted by numerous red, white, and darker red stylized jewels. Her face is oddly proportioned, with large football shaped eyes, an elongated nose bridge, and pert lips that do…

Antigone was a fascinating play/story. Oedipus and Jocasta had four children and they are Eteocles, Polyneices, Ismene and Antigone. Eteocles Polyneices were the brothers which were very different Eteocles was very stubborn while Polyneices was fair, loyal and devoted. The two sisters were kind of the same but had slightly different traits. Antigone was determined, stubborn, devoted, loyal, brave, religious, and intelligent, she was also a selfless person. While ismene was considered more…

their life) Henry was born on 28th January 1457 in Pembroke to Edmund Tudor, who had died three months prior, and Margaret Beaufort. Through his mother he had a claim to the throne and when Edward IV gained the throne he had to flee to Britanny with his uncle Jasper Tudor at the age 14. When Edward…

The Proto-Renaissance period began in the early 13th century in Northern Italy, where artists started to move away from the rigid Medieval style towards a more realistic Renaissance style. Proto-Renaissance has more natural light and modelling, leading to paintings that look more realistic. Figures now look heavy and fill out their clothing, rather than just looking like paper cut outs. Paintings are simple, uncluttered and have a spiritual and physical gravity. (Ruf Rice, 2015) Paintings like…

pig falling. Snowball is represented as a king in this ad, and he is falling out of his throne because the throne had lost the platform it was standing on. The “poof!” cloud underneath the throne is supposed to show this. And the reason for the throne losing its balance is the graves on the ground below the throne. The graves are of the executed animals, thus showing that once the animals supporting his throne are gone, King Snowball is doomed to fall down to Napoleon. The text on top of the…

shows the viewer how evil a human can be to get what they want in life. The strategy of Macbeth is because of his ambition of power. Macbeth murders Duncan to take his throne, and gets the most powerful position in the kingdom. After commit the crime, Macbeth can never feel stress about someone might find out about it and take his throne away from him. That is the reason he commits more crimes to cover his first crime. He does not think of the consequences of his action at the first place. He…

complimenting her own husband; rather, the great kindness Macbeth wields is seen as a nuisance in the path for him to claim the throne of Scotland in her eyes. Further in Lady Macbeth’s lines, she then says “That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false…” (Shakespeare). Once again, Lady Macbeth emphasizes the good nature of Macbeth and how Macbeth does not have the will to claim the throne through vile methods, vile methods like murder for example. However, if Macbeth was such a kind and…

the House of Beaufort, which was established when John of Gaunt had his son who was born of a mistress legitimized. The only stipulation to this legitimization was that the Beaufort line would never be able to enter the line of succession for the Throne of England. Sadly, the Yorkists which would oppose the Lancastrians in the Wars of the Roses never came to the realization that an illegitimate child would grow up, and acquire an army powerful enough to eliminate all opposition. Henry goes about…

Tutankhamun 's Golden Throne required more materials than King Tut’s Painted Wooden Chest and it had a valuable component to it, gold. The painting on Tutankhamun 's Golden Throne displayed the affectionate side between King Tut and his wife, compared to the paintings on King Tut’s Painted Wooden Chest that displayed his violence towards animals and…