1. Which of the following is not one of the advantages of iron over bronze? [A] Iron is easier to obtain. [B] There are many potential sources of iron ore. [C] Iron is more decorative. [D] Iron is a single metal. [E] Iron has a harder edge. 2. The Late Bronze Age in the Middle East was a “cosmopolitan era” because [A] it was primarily an urban-based society. [B] different groups of people remained isolated. [C] people traveled so often‚ getting to know each other. [D]
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English literature Medieval Drama The variety of Dramatic forms of medieval drama Form classical Greek times‚ and in many other cultures‚ theatre has maintained strong religious connections. The origins of English theatre are religious too. 1- Forms of Medieval drama: The first forms of medieval drama are related to Religious form‚ i.e. all related to different festivals mass and holidays. It was prominent during Easter and Christmas. For instance‚ Tropes is a dramatic performance‚ in
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Cameron Payne Leann Pinkerton 11 May 2009 Symbolism In The Inferno In the divine comedy The Inferno Dante uses endless symbolism to bring a deeper meaning to his thrilling adventure through hell. Nearly every aspect of the book contains a symbolic meaning. This is apparent in the punishments that Dante sets down from a wrathful God to the sinners. For each of the many different categories of sinners‚ Dante creates a punishment that fits the specific sin perfectly. There are also
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Ancient Rome was an Italic civilization that began on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 8th century BC. Located along the Mediterranean Sea and centered on the city of Rome‚ it expanded to become one of the largest empires in the ancient world[1] with an estimated 50 to 90 million inhabitants (roughly 20% of the world’s population[2][3][4]) and covering 6.5 million square kilometers (2.5 million sq mi) during its height between the first and second centuries AD.[5][6][7] In its approximately
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The Manipulation School: André Lefevere On every level of the translation process‚ it can be shown that‚ if linguistic considerations enter into conflict with considerations of an ideological and / or poetological nature‚ the latter tend to win out. (André Lefevere) One of the criticisms that has‚ sometimes‚ been levelled at the polysystem theory is that it tends to disregard the ideological factors‚ which have a considerable impact on the translators’ decisions. It is true that they are mentioned
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Characters Raina Petkoff Raina‚ the heroine of the play‚ is the only child of Major Petkoff and Catherine Petkoff. She is a "romantic" and had romantic notions of love and war. Catherine Petkoff Catherine Petkoff‚ Raina’s mother‚ is a middle-aged affected woman‚ who wishes to pass off as a Viennese lady. She is "imperiously energetic" and good-looking. Louka Louka‚ a servant girl in the Petkoff household‚ is proud and looks down on servility. She is ambitious and wishes to rise in life. Nicola
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BOOK 9 ANALYSIS Milton begins Book IX as he began Books I and VII: with an invocation and plea for guidance‚ as well as a comparison of his task to that of the great Greek and Roman epics‚ the Iliad‚ Odyssey‚ and the Aeneid. Milton explains by way of this invocation that Adam and Eve’s fall is the major event that occurs in Paradise Lost. Their fall is the poem’s climax‚ even though it comes as no surprise. By describing the fall as tragic‚ Milton conveys the gravity and seriousness of this catastrophe
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3A. What’s wrong with the younger son’s request for his inheritance in Luke 15:12? Of what does his inheritance consist? Why/how does the younger son leave with his inheritance? Offer at least six specific examples with citations illustrating the agricultural background and the perspective of the in-text audience of this parable. Critically discuss the cultural values behind the son’s request and the in-text audience’s perception of that request‚ as illustrated by Jesus’ "Parable of the Prodigal
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Introduction: It is difficult to date or define the Renaissance. Etymologically the term‚ which was first used in England only as late as the nineteenth century‚ means’ "re-birth". Broadly speaking‚ the Renaissance implies that re-awakening of learning which came to Europe in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The Renaissance was not only an English but a European phenomenon; and basically considered‚ it signalised a thorough substitution of the medieval habits of thought by new attitudes
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Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s Stairway to Heaven‚ originally titled A Matter of Life and Death‚ captures a distant interpretation of traditional views of Heaven‚ Hell‚ and Judgment. The directors do this by reshaping standard images of Heaven‚ eliminating Hell and restructuring Judgment. All together this created a vastly different afterlife than was constructed by classic artists such as Dante‚ and Michelangelo. Death is uniquely contradictory in Stairway to Heaven. Death seems to
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