For my evaluation essay I wrote about the restaurant Clocked, a small diner located in downtown Athens. Clocked has good food, wonderful customer service, and a sci-fi vibe that will send many people back to their childhood. Athens is a large city, and the University of Georgia is a large school with over 36,000 students. It can be easy to get lost in such a large city. In my evaluation, I spoke about how Clocked can help Athens seem more like a small community. For my paper remix I wanted to send
into radio stations to wish my friends a ‘Happy Birthday’ on the air. When I started driving the radio was a constant presence. Even today on my daily commute to work I turn the radio on and sing along, not once wondering where it had come from. Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio was the documentary I never knew that I needed. It was interesting to learn not only how the radio we take for granted today came to be, but also the intense drama and fighting that the men who made radio went through
Aztec ceremonial center at Tenochtitlan and the significance of the mythology of Coyolxauhqui to the Mexica. The spatial narrative at the Templo Mayor is rooted in the Coyolxauhqui story. Vanquished warriors were ritually sacrificed at the Templo Mayor, and then tumbled down from the top of the Templo to the Coyolxauhqui stone,
pages, while the director condenses the narratives within 14 episodes in the film. By allowing his free play of imagination, the director reshuffled the arrangement of the text as he selected and made several changes in the arrangement and sequence of the 14 episodes TV serial. Besides the form, the narratives and other literary devices of The Jewel in the Crown are also different from those in The Raj Quartet. The essence of The Raj Quartet lies in its narratives and other literary devices like the
Tom Holland’s “Rubicon” is a detailed assessment of how the revered Roman Republic slowly died and became the arguably more greatly revered Roman Empire. He details how the Republic slowly mutated into something so far outside of the original principles that the city-state was founded upon that it was nearly unrecognizable. The first part of the book highlights these principles and lays out everything it means to be a Roman. Chiefly, community and competition were what defined Rome as a society.
of Ottoman Exploration, Giancarlo Casale takes a different approach to the history of the sixteenth century. Instead of focusing strictly on Western European expansion, Casale attempts to display the achievements and accomplishments of the Ottoman Empire and describe how not only Europeans were active players in the Age of Exploration. Casale’s biggest question is why? Why have no other historians have attempted to portray the Ottomans achievements as part of the bigger picture of expansion that was
In order to illustrate the power of the Republic and Early Empire the Romans had designed my artworks, monuments, and infrastructure that not only celebrated Roman power but also created the sense of a real empire. One of the most important works that is a great example of using public monuments as imperial propaganda is the marble statue of Augustus of Primaporta. Julius Caesar’s nephew Octavian had order the work to be created in order to provide with a monument of Caesar. The statue shows Caesar
they can relay how they perceive their own culture related to the subject of their myth. Myths also become a metaphorical narrative of their life. The structure of hero’s journey obviously shows that. The hero’s journey becomes the uniting agent despite the differing perspectives. It shows the universality of human experience no matter what culture. Eric Gamalinda’s Empire of Memory is about two men being assigned to create a book that will trace the history and lineage of Marcos as the fated rulers
Virgil has an interesting narrative within the Aeneid, and creates a hidden subtext that the reader doesn’t necessarily always pick up on unless he is looking for. I also feel that book six, where the majority of the political foreshadowing is done, is a political tool instead of a needed book for the plot of the poem. One of the more prominent examples that is both interesting and important to the Aeneid and its plot is the political propaganda and atmosphere within the opening half of the poem
Narrative Style and Structure of James and the Giant Peach The books that Roald Dahl has written have very interesting narrative styles. In the story James and the Giant Peach, Dahl uses vivid imagination. He uses many imaginary situations but yet at the same time encompasses enough realistic situations that the reader can still relate to it. In James and the Giant Peach, it starts out introducing a boy named James Henry Trotter who lives with his loving mother and father. The narrator
The Mali Empire, a significant establishment in West African history, continues to captivate scholars due to its intricate governance and political structures. Through utilizing primary sources such as the Sundiata Epic, along with other secondary analyses, historians delve into the empire's foundations, administrative regulations, and diplomatic engagements. This essay aims to dissect the governance and political organization of the Mali Empire while exploring its foundational narrative, administrative
Loyalists during the second half of the eighteenth century have produced two brands of scholarship that encompass the broad, disjointed Loyalist narrative. The first juxtaposes the Loyalists in America with the Patriot rebels within the framework of numerous burgeoning American movements increasingly bent on the separation of certain areas from the British Empire and the removal of their communities from the dominion of British Parliament and the Crown. This particular framework places Loyalists in a
relationship between the Islamic Empire of the 15th century and the Eastern Roman Empire. The emphasis is less on Islamic forces acting as a separate and direct antagonist against Byzantines to their fall, but rather a series of circumstances that gradually weakened the empire until it fell in 1453. Within the most recent decades scholars have begun to examine at the international negotiations and cultural exchanges between Byzantines and Muslims to establish both empires were much closer than early historians
The Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus, Rome, Italy, ca. 359 is a sculpture from the Early Christian period. How does this work combine Christian and Roman style and subject matter? VENNESSA LIN JINGYI Question 4 “Such specialization and depersonalization of enquiry led inevitably to a taste for mere erudition and a temptation to eclecticism,” said Arnold Hauser. The Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus is a marble sculpture created for the burial of Junius Bassus, which had occurred in ca. 359, during
have been told to our mothers by our abuelitas who were once told by their mother. And eventually were passed down to us. Narratives have been an essential tool used as cautionary tales. One narrative that is used for the most part by Mexicans and Mexican Americans is the story of La Llorona. This story has several versions for different purposes. One of the ways this narrative is used by parents has been to inhibit children from being out late. It heeds warning to kids not to be out after dark
Explain how Buddhist monks influenced education, literature, and higher learning in India during the Gupta era. The Buddhist monks influenced education, literature, and higher learning in India during the Gupta era. During the Gupta era, science, mathematics, and astronomy rose because of Buddhism. Buddhism had brought a new artistic style in India that was inspired by the religion, and literature that was used and written in Sanskrit texts which is a philosophical language used in Buddhism. People
Ibn Battuta: A Window into a More Diverse World In analyzing the legacy of the 14th century Islamic traveler Ibn Battuta, it is impossible to ignore the impact that his voyages in the 1350-60s had on the social and cultural devlopment of the Mali Empire and its neigbors, but even more so the significance to the upper classes living in his natice Morocco and in the Arabic birthplace of Islam, who would grow to have great power and prestige across Africa and the East. Several decades after earlier
In analyzing the legacy of the 14th century Islamic traveler Ibn Battuta, it is impossible to ignore the impact that his voyages in the 1350-60s had on the social and cultural development of the Mali Empire and its neighbors. But even more significant was the impact of these travels to the upper classes living in his native Morocco and in the Arabic birthplace of Islam, who would grow to have great power and prestige across Africa and the East. Several decades after earlier voyages to East Africa
analogous to America's post 9/11 narrative. Coetzee furthers his analysis of torture in his more recent novel, Diary of a Bad Year, and explores how Americans should respond to the shame and the dishonor of the torture involved in the “war on terror.” The rhetoric of exception within both books displace the ordinary rule of law to justify the actions of torture and the empire or country's colonial goals to vanquish the “barbarians” or “terrorists”. The narratives also question whether exceptional
society. He imagines that history and accounts have fundamentally the same function. One needs to go through narrative to confront the surface of the story just as one has to travel through history to encounter pre-history. He accepts that he has always been enamoured by history. Amitav Ghosh’s novel River of Smoke is associated to the genere of the historical novel. With the use of various narrative strategies, Amitav Ghosh in this novel has re-written history that covers the time of opium trade in Canton