Bluestone Essays

  • Stonehenge: A Mysterious Landmarks in the World

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    day Archeologists strive to answer this question and many others about Stonehenge. It was built between 1300-1500B.C. According to Archeologists the stones used to build Stonehenge are bluestones. Blue stones originate from Wales, about 25 miles away from where Stonehenge stands today. This means that the bluestones would’ve had to be dragged by rope from Wales to Wiltshire. Each stone was set up in a particular way; two stones would stand horizontally and one stone lies on top of the other two vertically

  • Beloved, By Toni Morrison

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    novel, Beloved, Toni Morrison sets the story in two main places: Sweet Home and 124 Bluestone Road. Sweet Home is the plantation located in Kentucky where the protagonist of the story, Sethe, is enslaved during the years before the Civil War while 124 Bluestone Road is the new home of Sethe and her daughter, Denver, after they escape the slave states of the South to settle in Cincinnati, Ohio. Sweet Home and 124 Bluestone Road share many similarities, but they also have many differences. Some of the characteristics

  • George Bluestone’s Novels into Film

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    written word and the visual picture. It is in the chapter "Limits of the Novel and Limits of the Film," that Bluestone attempts to theorize on the things that shape the movie/film from a work of literature. Film and literature appear to share so much, but in the process of changing a work into film, he states important changes are unavoidable. It is the reasoning behind these changes that Bluestone directs his focus, which is the basis behind the change. He starts to look at the nature of film and literature

  • Stonehenge

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    join and ensure the security of the lintel sections. With this technique, a projecting pin (tenon) located on a lintel fits tightly into a hole designed for it (mortise) on an upright stone. (Stokstad 59) Inside the sarsen circle was once a ring of bluestones. These special stones consisted of various grades of bluish dolerite, which (many individuals conclude) were only found one hundred fifty miles away in the mountains of southern Wales. The inner horseshoe arrangement of five paired lintel-topped

  • Novel Into Films: The Limits Of The Novel Into Films

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    have common intentions. Both are creative artists and both want a receptive audience since they want 'to make us see' their respective arts whether visually through the eye or imaginatively through the mind is left upon us to ponder. Thus states Bluestone that the difference between the two media lies in the perception of the visual and the concept of mental

  • Analysis Of George Patone And His Novels Into Film

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    luestone and his Novels into Film : George Bluestone, a pioneer in critical film studies, barely at the age of mid-20s, began to write about how film-makers, directors and screenwriters turn great movie into a film. He called this artistic process- “the mysterious alchemy”. Novels into Film is his impressive critical work, first published in 1957. Bluestone begins a discussion of limits of both the novel and the film. He presents a radical analysis of the limitations, techniques, and potentialities

  • Stonehendge

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    Stonehendge When you think of Stonehenge, you think of the Ancient Druid Civilization that supposedly built it, this is in fact not true. In this essay, I will show you the building of one of the most amazing art forms in history, as well as give some insight on legend. Certainly the best known of all megalithic sites, Stonehenge stands in isolation on the undulating chalk of Salisbury Plain, west of Amesbury, between the busy A303 and A344 roads. At first sight, this unique and enigmatic

  • Stone Henge

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    are five different types of stone circles. The five types are: outer sarsen circle, outer bluestone circles, inner sarsen trilithons, inner blue horseshoe, and the altar stone. The outer sarsen circle is one hundred feet in diameter. Each stone is about thirteen and a half feet tall and seven feet wide. The space between each of the stones is approximately four feet apart (Chippindale 12). The outer bluestone circle is close to seventy-five feet in diameter. Most of the stones height are six and a

  • Controversial Debate About Stonehenge

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    Stonehenge has been an epicenter for much discussion,confusion,controversy, and debates for many years especially in it’s homeland of the U.K. Stonehenge has puzzled and divided experts for decades. What is Stonehenge? Who built Stonehenge? Why was Stonehenge built? (What is Stonehenge, Abels, Harriete) There are many controversial debates about Stonehenge. Particulary on it’s origins and use. Some of these controversies include Aliens, Glaciers, Merlin the Wizard, the Devil, and sheer man-power

  • Stonehenge

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    the ancient people created a bank of chalk and a ditch, inside the bank there was 56 pits. The second phase was when 82 blocks of bluestone, about 4 tons each, were brought to the site. Using the bluestone the ancient people made a double circle in the bank and they formed an avenue leading to the River Avon. The third phase was the ancient people removed the bluestone and replaced it with sandstone, weighing 25 to 50 tons each.(Stonehenge,1) The main reason for Stonehenge being built by the ancient

  • Stonehenge

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    Stonehenge Stonehenge was a stone structure established a long time ago by civilizations before the Druid age. More than 4,000 years ago, the people of the Neolithic period supposedly decided to build a massive monument using earth, timber and eventually, stones.They placed it high on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England about 137 kilometres southwest of London. The purpose to build Stonehenge still remains a mystery. Stonehenge could have been a temple, an astronomical calendar, or a guide

  • Stonehenge Research Paper

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    “Stonehenge’’ (2800-1500 BC), the prehistoric stone circle is one of the most famous monuments that was found only in South Britain, Cornwall, Devonshire, Dorest, Somerset, Wiltshire. Archeologists believe that it was built 4500 years ago. It was built by Neolithic people who had a slight knowledge of the use of bronze, gold, and copper. But with no knowledge of metal. This monument represents the Neolithic age. It’s an enormous scale confirms that the Stonehenge was very important to the ancient

  • Beloved by Toni Morrison, a Story of Heartbreak

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    is a ghost story among other things. Morrison’s found a way to describe racism and slavery from an African American standpoint without having to completely bash white people. Foreshadowing is a common theme that Morrison uses. Sweet Home and 124 Bluestone are the only places that Sethe has felt to be a home. Morrison’s perspective of white people in the novel Beloved is plausible. She does not try to persuade readers to feel a certain way about whites. Her goal was to allow readers to come to their

  • Stonehenge

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    Stonehenge began in 3000 BC and the completion was in 1520 BC, however it’s still changing ever day (Hayes, 2011). Stage one of Stonehenge was built by native Neolithic people way before any modern things could have been used to help moving these huge bluestones. The Neolithic people dug a circle three-hundred feet in diameter; these ditches were known as Aubrey holes. These holes were discovered in 1666 by a man named John Aubrey. Scientist found evidence that the Aubrey holes that were dug the ditch with

  • Stone Hege's Influence And The Mystery Of Stonehenge

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    seeing at past and compare these pictures with Stonehenge’s current looking, we can easily say that only half of the great sarsens have survived, some of lintels fallen. Most deplorable part about stones is about bluestones; in The Making of Stonehenge Castleden thinks that “Bluestones are more manageable in size, so more of them have been carted away”. (5) ... ... middle of paper ... ...e main purpose and design of Stonehenge is thought to be create a horseshoe and circle. Their builders were

  • Stonehenge

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    Stonehenge On the British Isles more than nine hundred stone rings exist. Most people prefer to call them rings rather than circles for the reason that only two percent of them are true circles. The other ninety eight percent of these structures are constructed in an elliptical shape. Stonehenge in itself is roughly circular. Most of these rings cannot be dated exactly, but it is known that they are from the Neolithic period. In southern England the Neolithic period begins around the time of the

  • Stonehenge Research Paper

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    For many years the moon has been a constant presence in the sky, it has orbited Earth for over four and half billion years. There has never been a time when people weren’t able to look up at the moon, as results it plays a role in historical culture. A number of cultures found their own ways of keeping track of the Moon and understanding how it works. Thousands of years ago, an ancient civilization, put together a massive mysteries stone monument. The purpose of this monument is unknown today but

  • Stonehenge

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    Stonehenge Behind every great structure in the world, there are the people who made them, and who took the time and effort to design them. Those who made Stonehenge succeeded in creating an incredibly complex and mysterious structure that lived on long after its creators were dead. The many aspects of Stonehenge and the processes by which it was built reveal much about the intelligence and sophistication of the civilizations that designed and built the monument, despite the fact that it is difficult

  • St Paul's Cathedral

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    Cathedral is located at the corner of Swanston Street and Flinders Street and it is one of the landmarks in Melbourne. The building is built in 1880 and is opened in 1931. Formally, the site was occupied by St. Paul’s Parish Church constructed of bluestone. It was demolished in 1885 to make way for the present cathedral. The present cathedral was designed by William Butterfield from England but he resigned in 1882 due to distance problem. The project was then continued and completed by Joseph Reed

  • Beloved

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    in rural Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1873. The novel is centered on a woman named Sethe, who is the mother of four children, and an escapee from slavery in a Kentucky plantation 18 years ago. She lives with her daughter, Denver in a shabby house at 124 Bluestone, that they share with the ghost of a dead baby, which haunts Sethe by reminding her of past tragedies. Paul D, Sethe's new lover and a former Kentucky slave man whom Sethe takes in, helps shed light in Sethe's sad life. Also arriving at the doorstep