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At first glance, “You Throw a Stone,” by Juan Felipe Herrera, looks like a piece of found poetry written using the erasure method (a method of found poetry where poets take a piece of literature, usually a poem, and erase most of the words, leaving behind words that form a poem when read in order), but that is not so, Felipe’s words are all his own, albeit written in a creative and unique way. “You Throw a Stone,” is written in free verse, an open form of poetry that allows a poet to write to his heart’s content without restrictions on rhyme, meter, or rhythm. The most compelling and funky part of this poem is the structure, Felipe did not write “You Throw a Stone” like a typical poem: line after line, with correct punctuation and one space…
Creating such a grand statue demonstrated the “wealth and power of the city” in its “tribute to their patron god” (Cartwright). The Parthenon itself, and most notably the sculptures that were taken by Lord Elgin, served as symbols of Greek history and of the Gods that they…
No matter where you look in today’s cities, towns, and communities, one can see similarities of the architecture to those of ancient times. Many of today’s building all across the country have similarities to buildings of the ancient world and does not just appear in the realm of religious institutions, banks, or government buildings. Buildings at Colleges, insurance companies, banquet halls, auditoriums, palaces, temples, castles, monasteries, and even convention centers for example are designed and built to resemble and lay tribute to structures of the past. When exploring the Cathedral of St. Raphael in downtown Dubuque, it is evident that the design and architecture was inspired by ancient structures from the past. The Byzantine period…
Articulate writer, an unapologetic feminist, Susan Griffin in the Chorus of Stones paint a descriptive assessment about the combination of childhood experience, gender, sexuality, inners ambition, and all together combine can play important parts in the duality of causes and effects of war. In this essay, I will describe how Griffin blend cellular biology and weaponry to explain the lives of her subjects and their actions later in life. According to Griffin the nucleus of a cell origin and its significance is the beginning or the core that shape our lives. “Like the stone in a cherry, it is found in the center of the cell, and like this stone keeps its precious kernel in a shell” (p. 404). What Role of RNA and DNA in future life events?…
Idol Gods Of the Ancient World For this paper, I will be comparing and contrasting object pair 5. These objects are The Statue of Osiris, and The Statue of Hercules. Even though they are from Egypt and Rome respectively, I believe they hold much more in common. My hypothesis for why these two objects were paired together is based on their functions.…
Context is Important (Especially with Art) Art throughout history has served many purposes; intimidation, expression, guarding of a sacred space, or a show of power to name a few. But as a piece of art is moved from its original space, whether it be taken to a museum or simply taken, the context and deeper understanding of the piece is somewhat lost on the viewer. This has happened over the course of time with many pieces, such as the Ishtar Gate and Nike of Samothrace.…
The topic of Pompeii was chosen because it is an incredibly interesting example of natural preservation, and it gives the clearest example of how an ancient society functioned at the time. Some of the most notable objects preserved are a loaf of bread, medical instruments, gold earrings, and many statues. Yet, the most iconic and beautifully horrific examples of things preserved are the human bodies that have been found under nine feet of of material. These bodies left a void in the ground to was then then filled with plaster and excavated to reveal the horrific reality of the carnage that occured. Under the layers of hardened pumice and ash revealed human bodies with their faces revealing depictions terror and agony in their last moments of…
Art is an expression of the human condition since the time when men and women dwelled in caves. Creativity is not proprietary to what we consider modern times. This essay will look at two sculptures from the third millennium B.C. Each of these statues tells us something about the motivations of people of that particular era.…
As a temple created for the goddess Athena, the Parthenon is one of the greatest structures of the ancient world and a symbol of ancient Greek culture. In the 1800s after the Parthenon was partially destroyed, Lord Elgin took pieces of the Parthenon back to London and is now in the British Museum. For centuries many people believe that the British Museum should return the Parthenon Marbles aka the Elgin Marbles back to Greece. These Marbles have great historical and cultural significance in Greece and it is where they belong. Lord Elgin had no right to remove the Marbles from the Parthenon to being with, getting permission from the Ottomans who were occupying Greece.…
The Parthenon in Athens and the pantheon in Rome are well described in the essay followed by the similarities and the differences. The two temples have well shown contradictions. The Parthenon and the Pantheon temples reflect the usage of civilization for architecture that appears the aesthetic function that mirrors the power of ingenuity. Not to forget the major difference between the Roman and Greek empire that printed a different architecture style and history around the world.…
The Parthenon marbles, also referred to as the Elgin marbles (After Lord Elgin, ambassador to the Ottoman court of the Sultan in Istanbul (1801-1812) include the collection of sculptures, inscriptions and architectural features acquired from the British government by Lord Elgin in 1816 and now exposed in the British museum in Duveen Gallery (Room 18). Under Elgin’s instructions, the marbles were removed from the Acropolis (the Parthenon, the Erechtheion, the Propylaia, and the Temple of Athena Nike) during his time as ambassador to the Ottoman court of the Sultan in Istanbul (1801-1812). The timeline (see graph 1) demonstrates various stages of the marbles since their creation in the 5th century BC which we consider relevant to the discussion…
There is one issue that all ancient Greek art historians and archeologist agree on. That issue is that the reason why the Parthenon frieze cannot be correctly solved is that there is no ancient literature or sources that appropriately archives the context of the frieze. Without contextual evidence, the intertextuality of the subject matter corresponding to the Parthenon frieze becomes ambiguous to the modern viewer. Modern academics can only conceptualize and speculate about what the images of the Parthenon frieze is communicating. In fact, figuring out the great mystery of the Parthenon frieze sparks an immense amount of academic research, which includes articles like “Parthenon and Parthenon: A Mythological Interpretation of the Parthenon Frieze,” by Joan B. Connelly, Jenifer Neil’s article “Reconfiguring the Gods on the Parthenon Frieze,” and “The Meaning of the Parthenon Frieze” by Jerome J. Pollit. When reading and comparing all of these articles, the thesis from the essay “The Meaning of the Parthenon Frieze” by Pollit is the most compelling and logical because his thesis— that functions more like a counter-thesis—explains that the Parthenon frieze is the celebration and homage of Greek culture.…
Roman and Greeks have much in common. Greeks have amazing architecture and art and religious beliefs and drama. Romans took what they learned from the Greeks, and adapted and improved many things. “Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn't see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order.…
Throughout her stories in “Teaching a Stone to Talk,” Dillard uses juxtapositions, analogies and imagery to demonstrate the raw beauty of the natural world and humans’ lack of awareness of it. Nature, as explained by the author, refers to the natural, physical world, and life that is lived by necessity rather than choice. The word nature itself is derived from the Latin form, natura, which means "essential qualities and innate disposition." A general concept is that all things, biotic or abiotic, are a part of nature, yet Dillard defines the natural world as all, that which is unaltered by human interference. Dillard acknowledges humans as members of the natural world, but makes a clear effort to differentiate actual nature from the artificialness…
De Botton, Alain. The Architecture Of Happiness. New York: Pantheon Books, 2006. Print.…