...2012: Studied Poetry: 2 (b) Explain why you found the work of your chosen poet impressive Seamus Heaney – “Mid-Term Break” and “Mother of the Groom” |Point |Quote from “Mid-Term Break” |Quote from “Mother |Explanation | | | |of the Groom” | | |Universal and personal themes – family, loss of a loved |“At ten o’ clock the ambulance arrived with the corpse” |“hands in her voided lap” (loss) |Engaging poetry, the reader can relate to Heaney’s | |one |(loss) | |experiences as they are likely to have experienced them in| | | |“kicked when lifted and slipped her soapy hold” (loss) |some form themselves | | |“I met my father crying” (family) | ...
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...Compare and Contrast how feelings of fear and confusion are conveyed through the use of imagery and other poetic techniques. I am going to compare the use of poetic devices to portray fear and confusion in 3 different poems, they are; Patrolling Barnegat by Walt Whitman, On the Train by Gillian Clarke, and Storm on the Island by Seamus Heaney. These poems all portray a feeling of confusion, often it is linked with the theme of war. In Patrolling Barnegat, Walt Whitman uses repetition to enhance the power of the storm he is describing. "Wild, Wild the storm, and the sea high running" The repetition of wild in this line helps to enforce the power of the storm and nature. Whitman also uses personification in this line where he compares the movement of the sea to a person running, as if he is saying that the sea will move for nobody. He is also making it sound as if the sea is rushing to get somewhere as if it is on a mission. Whitman also incorporates rhyme in his poem. This gives his poem a strong rhythm and this rhythm ties in with the image of the rolling sea, and gives this image more effect. In Storm on the IslandSeamus Heaney also describes a vivid, powerful storm. He describes the storm like he has learnt from past experience. He describes preparing for the storm as if he has gone through it many times before. "Can raise a tragic chorus in a gale" Here Seamus Heaney is comparing the storm to a tragic chorus, which ...
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...Parallel Evolution and Inheritance of Quantitative Traits Hypothesis: * Do the similarities in the lateral armor plates of the Threespine Stickleback indicate parallel evolution in a species? Methods: * The differences in plate number and body shape were examined in two populations of threespine stickleback in both a stream in Canada and a stream in Japan. Both populations were feral and completely independent of the other population. The researchers made three hybrid crosses by breeding the Canadian species with other Canadian sticklebacks, Japanese sticklebacks with other Japanese sticklebacks, and one strain of a Candian/Japanese generation. After hatching, the fish were raised separately from each other. They would then kill the fish at 18 months so they could accurately measure the fish’s lateral armor plates. * The lateral armor plates where then measured on each side of each fish. They then took digital picture of each fish using a ruler for reference in each photo. They found that each fish had similarities in the number of lateral armor plates, each differing by only about two or three plates on the left side. Results: * Parallel evolution was shown heavily between the Canadian and the Japanese strains of the stickleback. The number of lateral armor plates were very similar to start with and the number that the amount of plates was reduced by almost the exact same amount on the next generation in the two different strains. * They also noticed...
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...Seamus Heaney Seamus Justin Heaney was born in Castledawson, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland in 1939 and died in Dublin, the Republic of Ireland in 2013 at the age of 74. Seamus was born into a typical Irish farming family, and later had nine younger siblings to look after. His father, Patrick Heaney came from a farming family as well, and his mother Margaret Heaney came from At the age of 12, Seamus received a scholarship to attend the boarding school of St. Columb’s in Derry and after school he studied English at the Queens University, Belfast and graduated in 1961. He worked as a schoolteacher before becoming a collage lecturer in Oxford University and then eventually a freelance scribe in the early 70’s. In 1965, he married a fellow writer Marie Devlin and they had three children, and from 1976 onwards they lived together in Sandymount, Dublin. A lot of Seamus’s poems “tend to revolve around several common themes” and “are all interconnected”. His memories of his childhood and death are two major themes, which make an appearance in many of the poems he has written. Due to where, and in that certain time period, he grew up in, a lot of Seamus’s poems also focus on nature, farming, his homeland, war, family and religion. There are many critics that suggest, Heaney’s poems on the Northern Irish troubles which he liked to write about had an “overcautious approach, aesthetically and politically, and [gravitated] instinctively towards Parnassian inoffensiveness”...
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...Hogarth Blake Presents: Wonderful Ethiopians Of The Ancient Cushite Empire By Drusilla Dunjee Houston First published in 1926 This e-book was edited by Hogarth Blake Ltd Download this book and many more for FREE at: hh-bb.com hogarthblake@gmail.com ‘Wonderful Ethiopians Of The Ancient Cushite Empire’ by Drusilla Dunjee Houston Reproduction & duplication of this work for FREE is permitted. Refer to the terms & conditions page for more details. Terms & Conditions Scanned at sacred-texts.com, October, 2004. John Bruno Hare, redactor. This text is in the public domain in the United States because it was not renewed at the US Copyright Office in a timely fashion as required by law at the time. These files may be used for any non-commercial purpose, provided this notice of attribution is left intact in all copies and subject to the sacred texts Terms of Service at http://www.sacred-texts.com/tos.htm Hogarth Blake presents this e-book FREE of charge; it may be used for whatever purpose you see fit. The only limitations are that you may not decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer, modify, create derivative works based upon, sell, publish, license or sub-license the work or any part of it without the express written consent of Hogarth Blake Ltd. The work is provided as is. Hogarth Blake Ltd. makes no guarantees or warranties as to the accuracy, adequacy or completeness of or results to be obtained from using the work via hyperlink or otherwise, and expressly...
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...Hogarth Blake Presents: Wonderful Ethiopians Of The Ancient Cushite Empire By Drusilla Dunjee Houston First published in 1926 This e-book was edited by Hogarth Blake Ltd Download this book and many more for FREE at: hh-bb.com hogarthblake@gmail.com ‘Wonderful Ethiopians Of The Ancient Cushite Empire’ by Drusilla Dunjee Houston Reproduction & duplication of this work for FREE is permitted. Refer to the terms & conditions page for more details. Terms & Conditions Scanned at sacred-texts.com, October, 2004. John Bruno Hare, redactor. This text is in the public domain in the United States because it was not renewed at the US Copyright Office in a timely fashion as required by law at the time. These files may be used for any non-commercial purpose, provided this notice of attribution is left intact in all copies and subject to the sacred texts Terms of Service at http://www.sacred-texts.com/tos.htm Hogarth Blake presents this e-book FREE of charge; it may be used for whatever purpose you see fit. The only limitations are that you may not decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer, modify, create derivative works based upon, sell, publish, license or sub-license the work or any part of it without the express written consent of Hogarth Blake Ltd. The work is provided as is. Hogarth Blake Ltd. makes no guarantees or warranties as to the accuracy, adequacy or completeness of or results to be obtained from using the work via hyperlink or otherwise, and expressly...
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...ARTS TEACHERS’ GUIDE Grade 9 ARTS Teacher’s Guide Unit I WESTERN CLASSICAL ART TRADITIONS GRADE 9 Unit 1 ARTS TEACHERS’ GUIDE GRADE 9 Unit 1 WESTERN CLASSICAL ART TRADITIONS LEARNING AREA STANDARD The learner demonstrates an understanding of basic concepts and processes in music and art through appreciation, analysis and performance for his/her self-development, celebration of his/her Filipino cultural identity and diversity, and expansion of his/her world vision. key - stage STANDARD The learner demonstrates understanding of salient features of music and arts of the Philippines and the world, through appreciation, analysis, and performance, for self-development, the celebration of Filipino cultural identity and diversity, and the expansion of one’s world vision. grade level STANDARD The learner demonstrates understanding of salient features of Western music and the arts from different historical periods, through appreciation, analysis, and performance for self-development, the celebration of Filipino cultural identity and diversity, and the expansion of one’s world vision. CONTENT STANDARDs The Learner: demonstrates understanding of art elements and processes by synthesizing and applying prior knowledge and skills demonstrates understanding that the arts are integral to the development of organizations, spiritual belief, historical events, scientific discoveries, natural disasters/ occurrences and other external phenomenon ...
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...Assignment 2: Goddess Essay Hera Adam Smith 24th April 2012 Hera is undoubtedly one of the most complex goddesses portrayed throughout history. Unlike many other goddesses who have kept relatively stable images, Hera has been tossed out and about being perceived on entirely different ends of the spectrum as both the Great Mother Goddess and the nagging and jealous wife of Zeus. She is the perfect example of a matriarchal deity that was taken over and transformed by patriarchal culture. It was in “Old” Ancient Greece that Hera was the primary divinity of a matriarchal culture, until the “New” Ancient Greece was founded by the Indo-European Hellenes from the north. It was the Mediterranean pre-Hellenic Greeks that worshiped Hera, and their culture was based around women (Morgan, 2006). Hera was portrayed in the three stages that women experience: the maiden (youth without children or responsibility), the mother (women with children and families in the prime of their lives), and the crone (past mothers who live for themselves once again). There was actually a competitive festival that happened every four years (like a sort of female Olympics) in which women of all ages were divided into three age groups (representing the three stages of Hera) and participated in 160-yard races, bare-breasted and with their hair unbound. There were three winners (one for each age/life stage category) and each winner had the honour of placing a statuette of herself in Hera’s shrine, received...
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...DBRAE200D Professor Daily 28 October 2012 Position Essay: The Necessity for the Explanations of Weather in Ancient Greece The complex, but plausible circumstances surrounding the explanations for different forms of weather in ancient Greece were necessary due to the lack of technological and intellectual advancements it took to really explain the origins of wind, thunderstorms, and rain. “The economy of the ancient Mediterranean world was agriculturally-based. Given the importance of weather to agriculture, it should not be surprising that there was a good deal of interest in the explanation and prediction of weather in the ancient world” (Taub). The mortals of ancient Greece were “normal” people. They worked for a living, served the gods and feared Zeus’ wrath. More revolutionary explanations for the weather in their world would not come around for hundreds of years, leaving a haze of uncertainty and a flurry of stories. The ancient Greeks had many explanations for and references to natural occurrences such as rain, wind, and thunderstorms. The thoughtful myths and the reasoning behind them made these curious occurrences suddenly logical and rational. It was through the descriptions of these events that the mortals of Greece realized that the actions of the gods were out of their control. Taking into account the simplistic lifestyle that Greek mortals led in a society sustained by growing crops year-round, they needed to know-or think they knew why their crops would die...
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...Ancient Egypt Love Poems Ancient Egypt literature and poetry foundation and growth were religious basses and beliefs. In a short amount of time, poetry evolved to deal with people ordinary lives and had a great place among Ancient Egyptian civilization. They wrote religious hymns, plays, dramatic poetry, songs, and in particular love poetry. Ancient Egyptians started and utilized strong literature in order to efficiently communicate their feeling that it affected other cultures, yet these master pieces lack names and titles. These master pieces are originally written inside tomb walls, papyrus and limestone which celebrates the pleasures of food, music, dance, and love. Ancient Egypt Love Poems are significant in our literature because they are one of the first recordings of human literary works and sure enough the earliest example of love poetry. It took them a long time to create these magnificent pieces of literature in writing, but before that oral poetry was part of their tradition; composition of Hymns, stories, and prayers that were passed down from a generation to another orally. The reason was that only a few could read and write in a city and they were more likely royals and merchandisers. Egyptian invented hieroglyphic writing to help their trade system for recording their merchants; later on, they used this writing in tombs in order to compose biographies, narrative poems, and songs. Soon after, Egyptian came up with a new system of writing, hieratic script, which...
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...UYO AKWA IBOM STATE, NIGERIA. FEBRUARY, 2012 1. INTRODUCTION All human societies have medical beliefs that provide explanations for birth, death, and disease. Throughout history, illness has been attributed to witchcraft, demons, astral influence, or the will of the gods. These ideas still retain some power, with faith healing and shrines still used in some places, although the rise of scientific medicine over the past millennium has altered or replaced mysticism in most cases. The ancient Egyptians had a system of medicine that was very advanced for its time and influenced later medical traditions. The Egyptians and Babylonians both introduced the concepts of diagnosis, prognosis, and medical examination. The Hippocratic Oath, still taken by doctors today, was written in Greece in the 5th century BCE, Horstmanshoff et al (2004:7). In the medieval era, surgical practices inherited from the ancient masters were improved and then systematized in Rogerius's The Practice of Surgery. During the Renaissance, understanding of anatomy improved, and the invention of the microscope would later lead to the germ theory of disease. These advancements, along with developments in chemistry, genetics, and lab technology (such as the x-ray) led to modern medicine, O'Leary (1939:65). 2. PREHISTORIC MEDICINE Although there is no record to establish when plants were first used for medicinal purposes (herbalism), the use of plants as healing...
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...of Khufu and some say Djedefre, also Khufu’s son was the immediate successor and Khafre followed his rule. Either way Khafre is known to have ruled during the 4th Dynasty of the Old Kingdom. During his rule he was married to two queens, Khamerenebty I and Meresankh. He had a son with Khamerenebty who was named Menkaure and became king after Khafre’s death. When Khafre became king seems to be lost in history. Sources I have come across believe his rule to roughly be between 2558 BC and 2532 BC. Our book however, (Art History Vol. 1) states his rule to be from 2520-2494 BCE. What I get from this is that little evidence is available for a reliable time of rule. Khafre’s pyramid which will be the main focus of my paper is one of the Ancient Egyptian Pyramids of Giza located in the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt. Khafre’s pyramid lays roughly a few hundred meters to the southwest of his father Khufu and Menkaure’s pyramid lays a few hundred meters further southwest of his father. (Pyramids by Joyce Filer) It only seems natural to first discuss the creation of the pyramid temple of Khafre. To build such a monumental structure thousands of workers would be needed including stone cutters, surveyors, carpenters, mortar makers, and general laborers. These worker would work year round and would stay on site whether at the build site or in the quarries. The stones they used at the bottom of the pyramid are very large and decrease in size to twenty inches thick at the top. Larger...
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...Our Lady of Guadalupe World History 3rd year Name: A. Read the sentences carefully. Write C if the statement is correct. W if it is wrong. ………1. Julius Cesar became famous because of the reforms he implemented for the welfare of the people. ………2. Octavian was a member of the first Triumvirate. ………3. The expansion of the territory and the power of the Rome resulted to political, economic and social problems. ………4. Julius Caesar united the domains of Rome in 45 BCE. ………5. Octavian won over Mark Anthony in the battle of the Rubicon River. ………6. Tiberius wanted to limit the Latifundia and to awards to the farmers. ………7. Julius Caesar defeated Sulta in a civil war. ………8. The reign of Octavian as emperor in 27 BCE was the end of the Roman Republic. ……….9. Julius Caesar failed to conquer Gaul. ………10. The owners of the land claimed the fields left by the soldiers and this expanded their control over the lands called latifundia. B. Identify what is being described in the following items. Choose your answer in the box. Write the letter of the correct answer in the blank. Aqeuduct Pax Romana Colloseum Circus Maximus Danube River Rome Gladiator Latin Augustus Caesar Nero Trajan Latin Livy Cicero Virgil Pliny 1. ………….Period of peace and prosperity in...
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...town stood. The town government was led by a lord mayor and a council, whom usually were among the wealthiest of the tradesmen and craftsmen. A town was usually surrounded by big stone walls. People lived in tall, narrow wooden houses, usually with more than one floor. The ground floor normally was used as the owner’s shop or area to practice his profession. The other floors were the living spaces of the household, and also the place where they kept their animals. Roads in the towns were narrow and long. Before the 13th century, streets were the responsibility of each household. Later on when the council started taking more responsibility, new roads were often built over the previous ones, without bothering to clean them. In London ancient Roman ruins are found at 20 feet below today’s street level. Even though people were supposed to be responsible for the part of the street in front of their house, they never showed much concern and never tried to keep it clean. The only exceptions were during an outbreak of the plague or a royal visit. This wasn’t the only problem for sanitation in the medieval cities. Main drains ran along the side of the streets and people threw dirty water out in their general direction. Stables opened into the streets and livestock like pigs were left to roam. Many people had pigs because they were...
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...Sculptures fulfilled a publicity role, as they had no newspapers or photographs these sculptures were a way to communicate to the public. Realism, hair gains volume, beard appears, Chiaroscuro effects First, that sculpture in this text functions as a kind of mapping device, as a means of constructing or imagining a sacred territory. Second, that the resulting “sacred map” is actually more about locating self than the sacred, about negotiating identity within a particular place and time, and in the face of a variety of socio-politico-cultural forces, in this instance, Flavian Rome. (Ehrenkrook 2008) Among the social institutions of ancient Rome, public baths were unique for their inclusive rather than exclusive policy and their vast appeal to the masses regardless of sex, color, creed, or wealth. Roman baths . What is more interesting, although we have considerable evidence for social segregation in many other institutions of public entertainment, such as the theater, the amphitheater, the stadium and the circus where sits or blocks of seats were formally and rigidly reserved for certain classes or groups, the same groups in mentioned in their benefaction charters appear to have mixed in public baths without restrictions. (Yegul 2010) when fine polished stones are carved, the strong light and reflections conceal the carving. The carving could best be seen by turning the carved part against a strong light." In alerting us to the importance of light, Ghiberti...
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