and the need to create something. The Norse creation is between the dark cold realm of Niflheim, within the emptiness of Ginnungagap, and the fiery realm of Muspell, where nothing can grow. There are nine classifications of creation myths, which most include more than one motif. The Genesis cosmogonies applies both ex nihilo, and deus faber motifs. The story begins with the ex nihilo myth, which God creates the light, the dark, the sun, the moon, the earth, the stars, plants, animals, birds, and
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“Through me you enter into the city of woes, through me you enter into eternal pain, through me you enter the population of loss…. Abandon all hope who enter here.” One of the world’s greatest poets began a legacy that is still influential today. His writings were so powerful that a lot of today’s poets use his work as an idea base. This writer was Dante Alighieri, the man who wrote the famous epic Inferno. Dante began this story in the early 1300s when he was exiled from his own home town, Florence
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a bath of heat. He was clambering heavily among the creepers and broken trunks when a bird, a vision of red and yellow, flashed upwards with a witch-like cry; and this cry was echoed by another. “Hi!” it said. “Wait a minute!” The undergrowth at the side of the scar was shaken and a multitude of raindrops fell pattering. “Wait a minute,” the voice said. “I got caught up.” The fair boy stopped and jerked his stockings with an automatic gesture that made the jungle seem for a moment like the Home Counties
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raised hand, looking around the camp. Children run across the fields, tripping each other with sticks before jumping away again. Women sit in circles around barrels of water, nattering about their husbands while washing their family’s clothes. Their dark eyes flicker to me, and they wave good-morning before going back to their daily duties. I reply in kind before turning away, looking at the men of our troupe. Erik stands at the campfire, turning last night’s hunt on the spit. We nod at each other
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creativity reveals art in a new light, and allows his audience to observe and conclude on their own. Because his work steers his viewers in a direction they didn’t know was there, it is hard to define art as concrete. Jasper Johns showed us a whole new side of art by creating “According To What”. The inconsistency and many imperfections in this work make up the perfection that it is. “According To What” possesses a presence bigger than its physical self. The combination of raw
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Brigitte stood there tapping her pen on the order pad annoyed at this tall, lanky tourist standing there staring at the blackboard and taking up counter space. She thought “how hard can it be? Flat white, cappuccino, mocha?” She also noticed the dark rings under the girls’ eyes. It was not just jet lag that
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prejudice towards a specific type of group. Thus, tests such as the Implicit Association Test (IAT) by Project Implicit bring light to what these prejudices within people may be. The purpose of the IAT, with tests varying from Skin-tone (Light Skin - Dark Skin) to Age (Young - Old), is to see the implicit biases people have in particular situations. According to their website’s
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wrote you into. We loved the way you kissed us for the first time – with a crestfallen expression that overtook your face as we backed away slowly, wanting nothing more than to evade the possibility of losing you to love gone sour, hands grasped tightly and breaths rising slowly together as your lips broke down all our defenses and drew themselves impossibly close. The way we captured that instant forever in our Kodak-moment minds, plunging into a dark-room where futures entwine and develop beneath
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Don`t Kill Us Technology! In life things are constantly changing around us like technology, the people around us and how old we are. However, some things like the lessons learned in short stories like The Pedestrian and There Will Come Soft Rains both by Ray Bradbury will never go out of date. In The Pedestrian a man named Leonard Mead is out for a walk in the year 2053. He is only the only person outside walking, everyone else is inside watching tv, a police car notices this and pull him over
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It was a beautiful July day, one of those days that come only when the weather has been settled for some time. The sky is clear from earliest morning; the sunrise does not blaze like a fire but spreads a gentle blush. The sun is not ignescent or scorching hot as it is during a sultry drought, nor is it a murky crimson as before a storm, but it is bright and affably radiant-peacefully arising beneath a long narrow cloud, freshly gleaming through it and submerged in its lilac mist. The delicate
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