Valley of the Kings

modifications was changing from pyramids to carved rock tombs, most of them built in the Valley of the Kings. These tombs were decorated with fine paintings and carved with religious texts meant to help the deceased travel through the afterlife. Their concept of art was specifically meant to represent the life of the occupant and the idea of their life after death. After the death of Ramses XI, the country divided again between kings and high priests of Thebes, which began the Third Intermediate…

annually, making it a popular cultivating area. By around 3500 B.C., (timemaps.com) traditional irrigation and farming of the land, carried out over generations upon generations, had begun to reshape the social and physical geography of the Nile Valley. The land near the river became surrounded by thriving self-sustaining villages. Each village was ruled by a chiefdom; where a person is in charge of their town, usually with much power. Within these chiefdoms, the known characteristic feature…

I found “I have a Dream” by Martin Luther King Jr. to be the most compelling class speech because we are all people and don’t deserve to be judged by the color of our skin. To start my essay, King uses very powerful vocabulary to express his feelings in a more powerful way. My first quote, “still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation.” (King 3) He uses tone, to show that he and the other African Americans are still in a way hurt, by the actions of the white men and women. “This is…

According to our book “The Tigris-Euphrates River valley is the earliest place where a complex society appeared, this been “Mesopotamia”, in the area of what is now Iraq and Eastern Syria” (Dunn and Mitchell, 58-59). Egypt developed around the Nile River, the dried climate of northern Africa, made people moved to a much cooler and comfortable climate, for this reason they decided to move into the valley, were water was not an issue anymore. “The Egyptian Nile, originated…

Luther King Jr. Throughout the 1960s, King was in various civil rights boycotts and protests, helping to give real rights and freedom to the blacks in the south. Out of all his civil rights related efforts, the “I Have a Dream” speech, given on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. To this very day this speech continues…

is similar to three of the ancient river valley civilizations, because they were also forced to adapt to their surroundings and environment. They had to create the civilizations nearby a water source, so they were not able to be picky about the rest of the area. They had to get used to the new environment and overcome it to thrive as a civilization. Our civilization today was strongly influenced by ancient civilizations, specifically 3 of the river valley…

Comparing and Contrasting River Valley Civilizations Four of the major river valley civilizations are Sumer, Egypt, the Indus Valley, and China. All of these civilizations have revolutionary discoveries and inventions. They each have invented something or come up with a custom we still use today. For example, Sumer invented the wheel, and China used coins when trading. Each civilization also has their advancements in technology, but I believe that Egypt was the most advanced of these four…

black man and his dreams? What do you do with a black man who dares to articulate his dreams and aspirations? What do you do to a black man who dreams about equality and a reversal of the whole social and political order—who talks about exalting valleys, leveling hills, and straightening out the crooked places? What kind of response do you make to him and to his dreams? Dream on Dreamer. For Joseph’s brothers, they wanted to attack the dreamer, they wanted to kill the dreamer they thought if…

rights activist Shaun King. Shaun King’s lecture surrounded Civil Rights and the Black Lives Matter movement. Shaun King brought up several intellectual philosophical questions to the audience, such as “If humans are getting steadily getting better than why are than why are there 102 unarmed African Americans killed last year?”, which he compared to 1902, when 102 African Americans were lynched. King described human’s progression life peaks and valleys on a line graph. King then brought a line…

Malala Yousafzai, female activist, human rights spokeswoman, and a normal girl who enjoys quality time with her siblings, is known for her human rights advocacy for the education of women and children in Northern Pakistan, where the local Taliban banned girls from attending school, to limited their rights little by little. Malala was only 10 years old when the Taliban dominated her region and influenced her people through the use of Islam in a very drab, murky way. She was taught to stand up for…