The English playwright, John Heywood used the expression “Rome was not built in a day” to make the argument that great things take time to build. In the song “Clique”, Kanye West boasts, “so I just meditate at the home in Pompeii/about how I could build a new Rome in one day” (101-102). In these lines, the always hubris Kanye accepts Heywood’s challenge and plots how he can build a new Rome in one day. There is no question that Kanye cannot rebuild the Roman Empire in one day, nevertheless the real
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The Trojan War The Trojan War is a mythological battle. It was a battle between the people of Greece and the people of the city of Troy. The war has its roots in the wedding of King Peleus and the sea-nymph Thetis. When the gods decided not to invited Eris, she is angered and introduces discord to the banquet hall in the form of a golden apple inscribed with the words "For the Fairest." the vain goddesses argue over who deserves the apple, and the field is narrowed down to Athena, Hera, and Aphrodite
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Athena to have the Pandaros break the truce by wounding Menelaus. During the fierce fighting, Diomedes is wounded by Pandarus and he prays to Athena who gives him extraordinary power. He then kills many Trojans, including Pandarus. He also attacks Aeneas who is Aphrodite’s son. Aphrodite rescues him but Diomedes attacks her and cuts off her wrist. Diomedes goes on to attack Apollo as well. Nestor knows that the Trojans are weakening and urges the Achaeans kill as many as possible. Helenus advises
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-7th Grade Lesson Plan- Greek and Roman Mythology Overview These lessons were designed to meet the global educational goals of making connections, individuality, inspiring creativity, self-awareness and comprehension through observation of the painting by Nicolas-Guy Benet, Sleeping Endymion. Strands and Standards Visual Arts The Arts Disciplines Students learn about and use the symbolic language of the visual arts. • PreK–12 STANDARD 3: Observation, Abstraction, Invention, and Expression
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The Battle of Ants By Henry David Thoreau You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns. I was witness to events of a less peaceful character. One day when I went out to my wood-pile, or rather my pile of stumps, I observed two large ants, the one red, the other much larger, nearly half an inch long, and black, fiercely contending with one another. Having once got hold they never let go, but
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very self-aware, and bring attention to the fact that an actor, expected to act in anguished manner, is almost questioning his own authenticity as a performer. These lines pair with a later scene in act two. Following the first player’s speech of “Aeneas’ tale to Dido,” Hamlet is outraged at the actor’s ability to evoke such passion for a fictional purpose: “Is it not monstrous that this player here, / but in a fiction, in a dream of passion, / could force his soul to
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1. Discuss the exposition to a 4-voice Baroque fugue and how subsequent expositions are connected. Include at least one musical example. 15 pts. What an exposition does is establish a key, introduce the subject, and bring in all voices. It is the opening of a fugue. A fugue is a polyphonic work based on a subject using counterpoint and imitation. A fugue has four parts tonic, dominant, tonic, dominant. A Tonic is the name of the key, or your home base. So, if you are in the key of c major, c is
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Dear Senior: In less than a year, you will be preparing for your freshman year of college. By that time, you should be familiar with a wide range of English, American, and Global literatures. The list of masterworks on the back of this sheet offers a guide for what are considered seminal works in the English-language tradition. We will read and discuss several of the texts during next year’s Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition course. (I AM NOT ASKING YOU TO READ THEM ALL –
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The Divine Comedy represents the mature Dante’s solution to the poet’s task annunciated in The New Life. Its three canticles (the Inferno, the Purgatorio, and the Paradiso) display a nearly limitless wealth of references to historical particulars of the late Middle Ages and to Dante’s life. Even so, its allegorical form allows these to function as symbols. The Pilgrim’s journey through Hell to Heaven thus becomes an emblem of all human experience and a recognition of life’s circularity. The “Comedy”
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The Birth of Venus Roaming through the many halls and floors of the metropolitan museum of art is an interesting and eye opening experience, especially for someone unexposed to the beauty of art. Although there were many beautiful paintings and sculptures waiting to be uncovered by wandering eyes, one painting in particular captured my attention like no other the instant I happened upon it. As if it were entrancing me and calling me towards it, the vibrant colors and elegant aura
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