Leslie Shirkey Christopher Holcom History 112-CO1 Due November 7, 2015 Princess Der Ling I fancy the sweet scent of sandalwood and clove that is lingering in the air. I love when Ma ma lights the censer when Ba ba has left. It reminds me of the time I was living in Paris. It seems like yesterday. We haven’t been in Shanghai very long and it has rained nonstop. Travelling has not been very pleasant. We were greeted by Taotai, stoically as if we were royalty. They offered us the Tien Ho Gung (Temple
Words: 800 - Pages: 4
and how they look. For example, it is probable that many people would perceive a person wearing ratty clothes as uneducated and irresponsible while a person looking pristine in a designer ensemble is assumed to be intelligent and successful. In every city, there are multiple fashion brands with different styles and ranges of apparel and accessories. Every season, new styles and designs are created which influence society. It appears as if more types of clothing exist than the actual number of people
Words: 10625 - Pages: 43
FAMOUS WRITERS & THEIR WORK Old English (Anglo-Saxon Period): writers: Caedmon and Cynewulf. work: Beowulf (by anonymous). 1200-1500: Middle English Period : Geoffrey Chaucer's(1343-1400) : The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde and Book of the Duchess. Other Major Poems The House of Fame, The Parliament of Fowles, The Legend of Good Women. Prose Treatises Treatise on the astrolabe. Short Poems The Complaint of Chaucer to His Purse ,Truth, Gentilesse, Merciles Beaute, Lak of
Words: 1263 - Pages: 6
Introduction The familiarity with the love tradition makes it easily mistakable for a natural and universal phenomenon and even brings a laxity of enquiring into its origins. However, it is difficult of not impossible to show love to be anything more than an artistic phenomenon or construct- a literary per formative innovation of Middle Ages. Courtly love was a medieval European formation of nobly, and politely expressing love and admiration. Courtly love was secret and between members of the nobility
Words: 7340 - Pages: 30
transform their meanings. However, in the case of architecture, these stages take place all at the same site. There is but one site. After the building is constructed, the "represented building" offers its presence and distributes its imagery to the city dwellers constantly through its outer appearance, envelope and façade. Its façade conveys a statement, an aesthetics and an imagery to the people looking at it. It becomes the signifier of the building for the citizen independent of its inner aspects
Words: 1561 - Pages: 7
VALUES Values: Ideas about what a group believes to be good, right and desirable; shared assumptions about how things ought to be They include a society’s attitude to individual freedom, truth, justice, social obligations, the role of women, love, sex, marriage, etc. They are invested with considerable emotional significance; people argue, fight and even die over values such as freedom 2 /3 /2 0 1 6 P a tr ic k F o o n g NORMS Norms are the social rules that govern people’s
Words: 2350 - Pages: 10
Taylor Groenhout Ms. Schaner AP Language 22 May 2012 Two Different Worlds With the “BOORRRUUMMMM” of the big horn on our giant ship, the captain sounded the supposedly great news of our arrival. Although I love traveling, sitting in this musty old coat pocket is quite a bore and our destination on this business trip is less than desirable. “I’m back…” my master droned as he stepped onto the unsophisticated American soil. Whipping me out of his chamber of a coat pocket and handing me to the
Words: 3063 - Pages: 13
believed in the ludicrous idea that for one to attain eternal salvation, one must renounce all physical and sensual pleasure life has to offer them, something that the sisters follow with the most unwavering dedication. Who knew a Stranger from the city could change all that through a 7-course meal. The film centralized on its most prominent image: Food. No image could better fit comparing the joyless austerity of the Lutheran sect of the sisters, Martine and Philippa to what is coming to them
Words: 1417 - Pages: 6
“The Serpent Under’t”: The Manipulation of Gender Performance and the Gendered Body by Shakespeare’s Volumnia and Lady Macbeth In both Coriolanus and Macbeth, powerful women exploit their power over important male figures through their manipulation of gender roles and performance. In “Identity-Formation and the Breastfeeding Mother in Renaissance Generative Discourses and Shakespeare’s Coriolanus,” Victoria Sparey compares the symbolic relevance of breast milk and blood in Shakespearean literature
Words: 2146 - Pages: 9
EVENT: Black Vace newspaper – in the library 2pm on Friday 4/27 Donations to PFAU library. HBCU – groups all over the world to come together. • Mixed races – either intentional or unintentional. o Mulatto – ½ black (this is an offensive term which the root word is mule) o Quadroon – ¼ black o Octoroon – 1/8 black Video – Fisk singers and early white gospel video • Literacy was a problem – acapella singing. • Gospel – “Good news” • Fisk = HBCU in 1866 Video: the history of gospel
Words: 3558 - Pages: 15
