...Who were the Monuments Men? In the discussion of The Book, “the Monuments men”, by Robert M. Edsel, one controversial issue has been whether Edsel was successful in portraying the mission of the monuments men. On the one hand, some people may argue that he failed to get his argument across because he failed to create a rhetorical connection with the audience. Others maintain the idea that he wasn’t able to honor the monuments men, the way they deserved to be honored for their altruistic deeds. My own view is that Edsel was successful in informing the audience and creating a legacy for the Monuments Men by establishing logical and emotional connections between the reader and Monuments Men. Robert M. Edsel, was very keen on using logos to inform...
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...soul; he is admitted into the realm of the spirit; and his rejoicing will increase according as he realizes the magnificence of the soul. But the soul can best learn its own greatness from the great works of art; hence he turns to those great works, but in turning to them, he finds that these are by no means mere effigies, or monuments, but things which have souls also; these live in the noblest element of God’s fire, free from all corruption; hence he prays for death, for release from his mortal body; and since the insouled monuments exhibit the possibility of the soul’s existence in some other matter than flesh, he wishes reincarnation, not now in a mortal body, but in the immortal and changeless embodiment of art. There are thus the following terms, one might say, from which the poem suspends: the condition of the young, who are spiritually passive although sensually active; the condition of the merely old, who are spiritually and physically impotent; the condition of the old, who, although physically impotent, are capable of spiritual activity; the condition of art considered as inanimate—that is, the condition of things which are merely monuments; and finally the condition of art considered as animate—as of such...
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...Analysis of G. K. Chesterton’s short story «The Sign of the Broken Sword» «The Sign of the Broken Sword» is a short story by G. K. Chesterton featuring his famous characters Father Brown and former criminal Flambeau. In the centre of a story is a mysterious death of General Sir Arthur St. Clare, who was hanged on a tree with his broken sword hung round his neck. It is a detective story and throughout it Father Brown reveals to us the mystery of General St. Clare. The story starts with the description of landscape and the description of St. Clare’s monument, which is a sort of exposition, where the main hero of the story and the place where the story will begin (or, more accurately, one of the stories) are presented. Then two other characters, Father Brown and Flambeau (who are not presented properly because they are heroes of the cycle thus there is no need to introduce them in each story) appear and the plot starts with Father Brown’s question: “Where does a wise man hide a pebble?”. It is necessary to say that author turns to retrospective, thus creating a framed structure of the story - the priest and his companion are narrator and listener and from Father Brown’s lips we hear the true story of St. Clair’s crime. So, there are two settings also: the past and the present. In both stories the exposition is scattered: in modern times Father Brown mentions he «dug up in holes and corners» bits of evidence that helped him to solve the mystery while Flambeau remembers...
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...Particularly, Faulkner uses two certain elements to accomplish this task. Faulkner successfully conveys the theme of the power of death in “A Rose for Emily” by incorporating the use of the literary elements of foreshadowing and narrative voice. Faulkner’s use of foreshadowing works to reveal the theme of death in this work rather well. The story is divided into five different passages, each detailing a progression towards death – the end of Emily Grierson’s life. Just by listening to Faulkner’s tone in the first sentence and throughout the rest of the work, the reader can easily determine there is a definite presence of foreshadowing: “When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see...
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...Stonehenge is located in the county Wilshire, which is about an hour and forty minutes drive, east of London. Long before the first construction of the monument was built, the Stonehenge landscape already used to contain long barrows, communal burial mounds of people from the Early Neolithic Period, around 4000 BC. The Stonehenge cursus, a 3 kilometer long and 100 meters wide strip of land outlined by two earthern banks found near Stonehenge also comes from about the same time (Ruggles et al). It is important to note that the Stonehenge is built in stages. The circular earthen ditch and bank is the earliest known development in Stonehenge, probably built using the antler of a red deer. It was developed during the Middle Neolithic period, around 2950 BC (Ruggles et al). The monument originally comprised of a ring made of 56 pits, known as the Aubrey holes, named after the antiquarian and scholar, John Aubrey who first discovered and recorded the holes in 1666 (Jack). These holes erected Bluestones that came from the Preseli Mountain in South wales, about 250 kilometers away (Pearson). These Bluestones were around 2 meters long and weigh several tons each (Ruggles et al). It took a lot of effort for prehistoric people to transport the heavy Bluestones from Whales to England; this suggests that the people who first created the monument placed significant importance on the Bluestones. The Station Stones and Heelstone (with a missing companion) were also put at about the same time. The...
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...mastabas for Khufu’s relatives and men. The most northern pyramid belongs to Khufu, this complex is known as the Great Pyramid. The Great Pyramid is the largest piece of evidence to still stand; in addition many people have visited this sight and recorded information on the structure. Further more there is ancient archaeological and written evidence still available King Khufu’s choice in location was the Giza Plateau, he decided on this site because it had many advantages. The benefits were that it is above the river valley and he ground was nearly flat. Lastly there was a lot of local limestone, which they used to construct the pyramids. The structure was originally built 140m tall and 140m wide, unfortunately due to the caliphs stealing he stones to build Cairo in the ninth century Ad the blocks were stolen. Sources speculate that each block weighed between 2.3 tons and 2.6 tons and the whole complex was said to have been built out of 2 300 00 blocks. “Cheops (Khufu) brought the country into all sorts of misery. He closed all the temples, then, not content with excluding his subjects from the practice of their religion, compelled them without exception to labour as slaves for his own advantage. Some were forced to drag blocks of stone from the quarries in the Arabian hills to the Nile, where they were ferried across and taken by others, who hauled them to the Libyan hills. The work went on in three- monthly shifts, a hundred thousand men in a shift. It took ten years of...
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...site was originally a cremation site due to the "cremated bone and some fire-marked stone", while this does not confirm nor dispute my theories, it perhaps adds more depth to them. Did the recumbent stone play a part in these cremations for example? In order to find out more information about the recumbent stone at Sunhoney I need to compare this site to other standing stones within the UK, especially those in the same regions and those with recumbent stones. 3300BC is the date that henges starting noticeably appearing within Scotland, which is remarkably an earlier date than has been identified elsewhere in Britain. These are much larger and more intricate than the previous burial forms such as chambered tombs and would have taken many men, many hours or days. Stone circles with recumbent stones are unique to North Eastern Scotland and Alistair Moffat (2005, pp. 148) believes that there is a specific purpose to...
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...AH 290-2: ANCIENT ROME AND ITS MONUMENTS John Cabot University, Spring Semester 2013 Wednesdays, 9:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m., on location in Rome; rooms for midterm exam and evening sessions to be confirmed 3 credits; 45 contact hours Professor: Lila E. Yawn, Ph.D. Email: lila.yawn@gmail.com ; office hours by appointment NOTA BENE: This version of the syllabus replaces and supercedes the version previously posted on line. Description This upper-level survey course examines the art and architecture of ancient Rome from the traditional date of the city’s founding in 753 BCE to the year in 312 CE, when Constantine the Great captured the city, paving the way for the major cultural shifts of the fourth and fifth centuries. This specific section of AH290 focuses upon art and architecture as evidence for daily life in ancient Rome. Through the direct study of archeological sites, buildings, sculptures, paintings, ceramics, and other objects, accompanied by directed readings of ancient sources in translation, the course assists students in cultivating a vivid vision of ancient Rome and the lives of its inhabitants—their material surroundings, social organization, work lives, religious practices, and leisure activities. All class meetings, except for those for the midterm and final examinations and two in-class sessions (see spreadsheet), take place at archaeological sites and museums in or near Rome. Objectives In this course students will learn to: • Describe...
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...Cat in the in rain My assignment will contain an analysis of the short story: “Cat in the rain” written by Ernst Hemmingway. In my analysis and discussion I will focus on literary modernism and the lost generation, what typical features of the period, of the generation and of Hemingway’s style we see in the text, besides the text in from the 1920’s. The story is written in third person omniscient narrator, who deals with several different characters appearing in the short story. In the story we follow a couple and particularly the woman, and her vision on the relationship between her and her husband. She deals with many different issues, which appears in the way she is described throughout the story, and by the way she interacts among the other characters. The couple is on vacation in Italy, where they are staying at a hotel. The story takes place a rainy day. The American woman is looking outside the window, when she suddenly sees a cat hidden under a table from getting wet by the rain. She decides to go outside, to save the cat. On her way, to rescue the cat from the rain, she comes across the padrone of the hotel. He sends a maid out to help the American girl. When they gets to the table, where the cat were suppose to be, it was strangely enough gone, in proportion to how strange it is for a cat to walk into the rain, when they hate water. When she returns to her room, she is al of the sudden sad and annoyed. Without knowing why, she just wanted the cat so bad. When she...
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...Feather girls - analysis and interpretation The short story 'feather girls' by Claire Massey, from 2010 is a very imaginary and well written story, which leaves you behind with the sensation of unknowing. I believe the text has a very deep meaning to it, which I will try to find. In the short story we meet a man called Bill. We can see from the text, that Bill is old "A collection of regulars cluttered the bar, all grey haired men similar age to him". Bill has a wife, who he does not see very often, as she has "flown off" by herself, as their children were grown. In the village, where the story unfolds it is common to give your wife a feather coat from feather girls, but Bill has fallen in love with a feather girl. The feather girl's name is unknown, but Bill and her have been seeing each other for a long time "All these years of going to meet her and yet still, every time, he felt like a lad. They have been doing the same thing over and over again, meeting each other at a local pub called the Hare and Anchor, eating vinegar crisps with salt "packet of salt and vinegar crisps. Here at the pub we are introduced to the landlady of the pub, Mary. Mary is the most interesting character in my opinion, because her curiosity about the couple is intriguing. Mary is described as stingy "Mary was stingy with the coal, still too early in the year for a fire whatever the chill in the air said". Mary is living in the past, and never throws anything away "Collections of one kind...
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...Basics The African Burial Ground was discovered in the lower part of Manhattan in New York in May of 1991 when the U.S. General Services Administration began construction of their new three million dollar office building. The Burial Ground encloses an area of roughly five to six acres and as archaeologists continued the excavation of this site around 420 bodies of African men, women, and children were unearthed as well as about 500 documented artifacts. Michael L. Blakey, the director of the project, describes how this site offered scholars and archaeologists “one of the rarest opportunities for reconstructing the lives and conditions experienced by our common ancestors” in his article “The New York African Burial Project: An Examination of Enslaved Lives, A Construction of Ancestral Ties”. The African Burial Ground is an African only cemetery that was used in the late 17th and 18th centuries and was begun when the Dutch controlled the surrounding land they had named New Amsterdam. The Dutch were the first...
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...When American schoolchildren are educated about Europe between the years 1936 through 1975, they are taught about the aftereffects of World War I and about World War II. Europe, in high school history classes, ceases to exist after 1945 and the close of World War II unless, of course, one is learning about the Cold War and the Berlin Wall may be mentioned. They do not learn, however, that World War II era Spain—because Spain was neither an ally or a foe during the war—went through enormous conflict of its own. The three-year Spanish Civil War and the fascist dictatorship that followed are largely kept out of the American history books. Yet, the world is privy to much of its legacy through literature, art, film, and personal memory. Spain certainly remembers three hellish years of war and thirty six years of repression under Generalisimo Fransisco Franco, but how is General Franco remembered by the rest of the world? What legacy did he leave internationally? 2 It is a confused and varied one: to those closest to him he was a husband, father, and statesman; to Hitler, he was an obstacle on the road to world domination; to the Jews who fled from Hitler he was a hero; but to the many Spanish minorities and to his opponents in the Spanish Civil War he was a monster. 3 The answers to the questions posed are addressed in a variety of sources. One of these sources is the book Hitler Stopped by Franco, by Jane and Burt Boyar, who write a relatively straightforward book that explores many...
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...He plays a first-rate role in her life. In the City of Jefferson, Grierson’s family had taken into consideration a notable social standing and rich family (Character analysis A Rose for Emily, 2).His overprotected dictatorship conduct causes her emotional frustration. Emily’s woman’s lifestyles turned into obstructed with the aid of her father. Her father, Mr. Grierson constantly idea no young man turned into suitable for her daughter. For this reason, he pushed away absolutely everyone who wanted to close to her existence (Psychological character analysis 2). As a result, she has become single and left alone whilst her father died. Her attitude on that state of affairs hinted her mental decline. Her refusal to believe her father’s death proves her insanity. After her father’s death as a south custom when her community people started showing their condolences, Emily was dressed as usual and standing on the door with no grief. The Narrator points out inside the story as “No trace of grief on her face” (Faulkner, II). She denied all and sundry to bury him. After three days, minister and doctor persuade...
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... and Hinduism. Although times are changing, religion has played essential roles in the creation of civilizations since the beginning of time, even before the existence of the religions we have today. In ancient civilizations, it was believed that rulers were the key to the gods and Ancient Egyptian history is an example of this. Egypt, although primarily known for their pyramids, has much more to its history than it is known for. The deep connection between religion and a pharaoh is the reason why Egypt became such the leading superpower during the Bronze Age. This accomplishment demonstrates why ancient Egyptians held their religion and ruler very high in stature in both daily life, as well as in their societal foundations. Though the analysis of Egypt’s creation epic, pyramids construction, and military conquests, it is easy to understand why the pharaoh as an influential leader and religious figure during this time. Similar to most ancient religions, the Egyptian religion was a polytheistic religion. Due to the practice of seeing the pharaoh as a form of god (Mark, Ancient History Encyclopedia), the ancient Egyptians followed the pharaoh as both a political and religious leader. The pharaoh was seen to be above the priest in ancient Egyptian society, which supported the overall belief that the pharaoh had a more profound and stronger connection to the gods. When a pharaoh became king, he was always associated with Horus, “the god who had defeated the forces of chaos and restored...
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...In the short story, “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner an earnest and forthright tone is present due to several archetypes, numerology, and types of characters presented by the author. However, a few seem to be clearer when establishing the tone of the story. Emily is seen as a vampire archetype due to her corrupt values and dual nature. Numerology is found in order to institute the intense and direct tones. Also, Emily and her father as seen as parallel characters because of their similarities, in return are making the tone even more clear to the reader. Many examples of numerology can be found in this story to help establish the earnest and forthright tone. The number thirty appears several times throughout the story. “So she vanquished them, horse and foot, just as she had vanquished their fathers thirty years before the smell” (Faulkner 30). Thirty as a number can represent dedication to a task after physical or mental maturity. With Emily’s father gone and her having full responsibility for herself, she feels she can do almost anything. Even murder her lover, Homer, in order for him to stay in her life forever. She has an intense and sincere state of mind. The number thirty can also represent the sacrificial blood of Jesus, due to Judas betrayal of Judas for thirty coins. Emily remained single even until she was thirty years old, “So when she got to be thirty and was still single, we were not pleased exactly, but vindicated” (Faulkner 31). Yes, it appeared she was single...
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