Reuse‚ Revival‚ and Recarving: Ancient Granite Columns in Renaissance Rome Michael J. Waters Worcester College‚ University of Oxford michael.waters1@gmail.com Architects of the Italian Renaissance often quoted ancient architectural details in modern designs as an act of reference and revival. While historians frequently note this common method of transumption‚ the creation of all’antica architecture through the use of ancient building materials has gone largely ignored. This paper argues that the
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Despite being produced almost ninety years apart‚ Perkins Gilman’s ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ and Attwood’s ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ present similarly disturbing depictions of female entrapment. To what extent do you agree with this statement? The narrative voice of both Jane and Offred demonstrate the feeling of female entrapment in both texts. This is demonstrated through the setting of both the novels‚ as Jane is trapped in a room‚ which she did not want to stay in: ‘I wanted the one downstairs that
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The female athlete triad is a health condition in which active women experience three inter-related disorders due to unhealthy body weight and eating habits. In the case of the triad‚ the word active refers to females who display moderate to high intensity levels of performance. The rate of performance must be high in order to counterbalance the decrease in calorie intake. Females who perform at a high intensity are at risk for the triad since they do not take in enough calories to fulfill the
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Hills Like White Elephants and The Girls in Their Summer Dresses: The Couples Hills Like White Elephants‚ written by Ernest Hemingway‚ and Irwin Shaw’s The Girls in Their Summer Dresses are quite similar in the fact that they both depict a couple’s conversation. Even though the two conversations aren’t about the same thing‚ they both are the result or the expression of tensions felt by the characters. However‚ the characters’ reactions and the future that we can imagine for the couples are different
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1. As you like it is full of characters pretending to be someone other than themselves. To what degree are the characters aware that they are role-playing? Does their acting have serious consequences‚ or is it merely a game. In the text as you like it by William Shakespeare many characters have alter egos in whom they use to influence and associate themselves with other characters. The two main characters that are pretending to be someone other than themselves are Celia and Rosalind. In act
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keener‚ the old ideas about respectability are fast giving place to new ones‚ yet educated young men are still very slow in appreciating the dignity of labour. They would rather starve than earn their living by honest labour by taking to humble pursuits like dairy-farming‚ poultry farming etc.‚ in which illiterate people have so far been generally engaged. Now‚ when we talk of dignity of labour‚ we mean manual work such as has to be done by the cultivator‚ the artisan or the craftsman. But why should
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co-operative called Kuapa Kokoo was set up by a group of cocoa farmers in Ghana. To gain significant knowledge of the Western chocolate market and to expand their business‚ Kuapa Kokoo farmers voted in 1998‚ which lead to the forming of The Day Chocolate Company. [1] The Day Chocolate Company is a unique North-South partnership which brings premium quality fairly-traded chocolate to the mainstream British market. It works with organisations and individuals in the private‚ public and voluntary sector
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SECTION A - PERSONAL DETAILS OF APPLICANT 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Surname First names Date of birth Place of birth Identity No. SA Citizenship Gender Race Do have a disability Yes Male African Yes If YES‚ describe the nature of disability: No Female Indian Coloured No White 9. 10. Residential address with postal code 11. Postal address with postal code 12. Contact telephone numbers including dialing codes Email address Have you ever been found guilty of a
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to desire chocolate. American and Russian space flights have always included chocolate. American chocolate manufacturers use about 1.5 billion pounds of milk -- only surpassed by the cheese and ice cream industries. Americans consumed over 3.1 billion pounds of chocolate in 2001‚ which is almost half of the total world’s production. Aztec emperor Montezuma drank 50 golden goblets of hot chocolate every day. It was thick‚ dyed red and flavored with chili peppers. Bittersweet chocolate is what is
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representation of female sexuality in Cymbeline‚ the Sonnets‚ and one of the plays: A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ Richard II‚ Hamlet‚ Antony and Cleopatra‚ Measure for Measure or King Lear. Both Cymbeline and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (AMND) are both set in a patriarchal environment where both genders grapple for control. Valerie Traub defines the distinction between gender sex and gender behavior as “Sex refers to the . . . biological distinctions between male and female bodies. Gender refers
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