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Of Famine And Green Beer
360 wordsMany people today feel the celebration of St. Patricks Day is mostly associated with corned beef, cabbage and lots of beer. Some would add that parades including step dancing and music filled with the blare of bagpipes are integral to the festival as well. These characteristics are true, but the celebration is actually a remembrance of the sad and painful history of the Irish. One such event was The Irish Potato Famine, in which a million people died, and over a million and a half fled to Americ...
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Art Of Entombment And Adoration The Paintings
1,869 wordsMan has been creating art for over 30, 000 years. There are cave drawings, sculptures, Egyptian art, Greek Art, Modern Art and plenty more but to many, the Renaissance Art period is considered to be most important. Never had so many geniuses in art lived at one time and never had so many pieces of cherished art been produced. Two examples of Renaissance paintings are Cigoli's Adoration of the Shepherds and Moretto da Brescias Entombment. Both paintings posses the attributes that were popular dur...
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Religious Festivals Multicultural Society
1,503 wordsIdentity is a debate that many Australians are still arguing today. After all these years of living in Australia, the identity of the country is still something that cannot be agreed upon. Though many seem to have their own idea of what an Australian is, there is no clear cut view of this thus the conclusion that an Australian is a myth can be formulated. Thus, many people of Australia feel as if they should aspire to be citizens of the world instead. Its the phrase on everyones lips: Australian...
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Catholic Church Takes Place
1,119 wordsSeville, which is also known a Sevilla, is known as a large historical center in Europe. Seville lies on the left bank of the river Guadalquivir and 60 miles northeast of Cadiz. It is linked to Trial, Los Remedios and other newer areas to the west by four bridges. According to the 1988 census, the population is 663, 000. It is the forth largest city in Spain. The average temperature varies from 60 degrees in January to around 100 degrees in August. Seville is a major port as well as an important...
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Mead Hall Grendel Mother
595 wordsIn the beginning of the book, Beowulf goes to help the Danes out by killing Grendel. Grendel is a ferocious monster that has been killing the Danes in the mead hall. During this time period, warriors will celebrate their victories and tell of their accomplishments by singing. This social gathering has started bothering Grendel because he can hear all the noise and happiness coming from the mead hall. This is making Grendel jealous because he is a descendant from Cain, and knows he will never fee...
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Parable Of The Prodigal Son
408 wordsThe beginning of the parable of the prodigal son characterizes both father and young son. The father, a kind and generous man divides all his possessions equally between his two sons. The younger son then gathers all his new assets and travels to a far away land to live a wasteful and irresponsible life. This reinforces the negative stereotype of younger siblings are reckless and spoiled. The son soon wastes all of his wealth and must take a menial job feeding swine. This is particularly distast...
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Rikki Tavi The War Story
1,249 wordsKiplings Rikki Rikki Tavi has all the necessary parts of a battle story. It is full of battles, war tactics, good, evil, motive, song, and drama. A battle story needs a gripping introduction, one that hints at the battles to come and one that brings the reader in with an exciting anticipation. This story first begins with a poem of the brave Rikki Rikki angrily chasing death with a lust to kill. It right away shows the necessary bravery and strength of the protagonist / hero and the might and ev...
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Net Profit Wonderful Life
597 wordsTodays Christmas is no longer a celebration of Christ and happiness, but is a celebration of a now fake, commercialized, overweight Santa Claus. The idea of eating yet another turkey dinner while watching a forgettable Disney movie on television brings tears of pain, not joy, to ones eyes. The main virtues of the holidays have gone from an idealistic white wonderland, to a migraine-causing festival of greed. The Christmas of the past was once a beautiful celebration of the birth of Christ. Famil...
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Thousands Of Years Western Civilization
910 wordsTo the politically correct, the 500 th anniversary of the discovery of America is no cause for celebration. And even before 1992 began, their protests resulted in a significant victory: the naming of an American Indian as co-grand marshal in the 1992 Rose Parade. Parade officials caved in to critics, who denounced the tournament committee when it first named as grand marshal Cristobal Colon, a direct descendant of Christopher Columbus. But the actual target of those critics was not simply Colon;...
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People Of England Queen Of England
1,850 wordsEngland's Queen Elizabeth: The Protestant Symbol Essay, England's Queen Elizabeth: The Protestant Symbol During her rule, and in posthumous praise, Elizabeth I acted as the symbolic Protestant replacement of the Virgin Mary in the newly converted England. This image of the Christian female deity was only one of the many comparisons made between the Virgin Queen and the many mythological or pagan female deities that symbolized different forms of virginity. Linking of the Queen of England and the ...
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Corpus Christi Hispanic Whites
985 wordsHispanic Heritage Month When Europeans first came to the Americas more than five hundred years ago, there were 60 to 75 million indigenous peoples already inhabiting what we now call Latin America. Most of these Native Americans that were already here came from Asia around forty thousand years ago. They crossed the Bering Straight and fanned out through North, Central, and South America. The dispersion of their geography led to many distinct languages, cultures and civilizations. Two major Empir...
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Julius Caesar Takes Place
807 wordsManipulation in Julius Caesar William Shakespeare's tragic play portraying the life in ancient Rome is one that closely follows many elements that make a drama interesting. The murders and the conspiracies behind the killings add to the plot of jealousy and patriotism. Within Julius Caesar also lies a twisted tale of attempted, actual, and forced manipulation. The first sign of attempted manipulation in this play takes place in the first scene of the first act. The Romans are gathering during a ...
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Great Warrior Main Characters
502 wordsAuthor: Brian Jacques Publisher: The Putnam & Grosset Book Group Date of Publication: December 1991 Setting: The story takes place in Mossflower, a forested area where the animals of Redwall live. It takes place in fantasy times. There are no humans, just animals roam the earth. The Main Characters: The main characters are Mattimeo who is the son of the great warrior mouse of Redwall, Matthias. Matthias is the great warrior of Redwall whose son has been taken captive by Slagar the Cruel. Jes...
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Mayor Of Casterbridge Distracted Gaze Henchard
1,343 wordsMayor of Casterbridge One of the most striking aspects of the novel, The Mayor of Casterbridge, for example, is the role of festival and the characters perceptions of, and reactions to, the festive. The novel opens with Henchard, his wife and baby daughter arriving at Weapon-Priors fair. It is a scene of festive holiday in which the frivolous contingent of visitors snatch a respite from labour after the business of the fair has been concluded. Here Henchard gets drunk and vents his bitterness an...
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Royal Family Rich Man
1,109 wordsMonarchy in the UK Royal: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Robert Lacey Little Brown, pp 492 The Monarchy: An Oral History of Elizabeth II Deborah and Gerald Stroke Hutchinson, pp 550 Robert Lacey's Majesty, published 25 years ago to mark the 1977 Silver Jubilee, made its author a rich man. By obligingly reigning for another quarter century, the Queen has offered Lacey the possibility of becoming a very rich man indeed. His sequel has bestseller written all over it. Royal sidesteps the challenge o...
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Nietzsche Believes True Reality
1,915 wordsMan initially thought that language afforded him a better knowledge of things rather than merely a designation of things. However, this is based on an exact notion of things, and no exactness exists; identity can only be conceptual, for there is nothing in life that is identical. The mythology of language rests in this search for the exactness of things and the schematization of our world. Language evolved simultaneously with consciousness, for we felt the need to communicate. Language fills thi...
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T S Eliot Sylvia Plath
1,690 wordsContemporary British and American Poetry Postmodernism is hard to define, because it is a concept that appears in a wide variety of areas of study including art, music, film, literature, communications, fashion and technology. Postmodernism followed modernism, which is the movement in visual arts, music, literature, and drama which rejected the old Victorian standards of how art should be made, consumed, and what it should mean. In the period of high modernism, from around 1910 to 1930 the major...
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Roman Catholic Church Protestant Reformation
534 wordsThe entire protestant reformation began with the work of Martin Luther, a German monk who had questions about the Roman Catholic Church. He asked a priest about his problems and the priest told him to look for the answer within the bible. Martin Luther looked in the bible and realized all the troubles that were going on in the Church. Knowing its problems Luther nailed a document with the problems entitled the 95 Theses. His document started the whole protestant reformation. There were many peop...
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Childhood To Adulthood High Heels
644 wordsIt has been known that when girls, as well as boys reach a certain age they make a transition from childhood to adulthood. This type of transition may also be called a right of passage, which signifies a person is ready to move into a new stage in their lives. These rites of passages are given special titles that have an enormous symbolic meaning per culture. For example, according to Mary D. Lankford in her book A Latinas Journey to Womanhood, she talks about the right of passage for a thirteen...
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Contemporary Literary Criticism J Alfred Prufrock
1,450 wordsThe so-called Love Song The ironic character of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, an early poem by T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965) in the form of a dramatic monologue, is introduced in its title. Eliot is talking, through his speaker, about the absence of love, and the poem, so far from being a song, is a meditation on the failure of romance. The opening image of evening (traditionally the time of love making) is disquieting, rather than consoling or seductive, and the evening becomes a patient (Sp...
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