the eleventh. "Then he took off the dress of a Roman emperor and took to wearing a lion skin and carrying a club in his hand." (Herodian XIV.8) The bust of Commodus also contains symbols of achievement that Commodus had acquired. Such as the two kneeling Amazonian woman located on each end of piece depicting the accomplishment of when Commodus defeated enemies of the roman empire from north to east. As well as the globe symbolising three critical points in Commodus’ life. Finally the last way in
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are powerful ( Crosses from stage right to stage left follow the “reading” line in Western culture ( An individual standing separate from a group has focus ( Symmetry connotes formality or ritual ( A dead body tends to be horizontal ( A person kneeling before a person standing is connotative of begging ( A man and a woman holding hands is connotative of lovers ( A man with a pistol or a sword drawn connotes a threat ~ From: A Sense of Direction: Some Observations on the Art of Direction. William
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Helen grew up she would be successful‚ with a nice house and cars (Oates 300). Helen explained that she is happy with what she has. Helen says‚ “Pa‚ let’s go home. Let’s go home” as she grows worrisome of her father’s attitude (Oates 301). As he was kneeling on the riverbank he asks‚ “Why did you leave with that man (Oates 302)? Helen explained that they loved each other very much‚ but she could not explain why she decided to come back
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Erwin Cook asserts‚ “I suggest that the hymn offers a succinct description‚ not only of Herakles‚ but of Greek heroism. The traditional hero thus emerges as a Man of Pain… ” (Cook 149). Being “Men of Pain‚” heroes in ancient literature were known for the violent acts that they committed because it gave them kleos. Whether it be the stabbing of Polyphemus’s eye in the Odyssey‚ or the killing of the Bull of Heaven in The Epic of Gilgamesh‚ these violent actions proved the man is a hero by his ability
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down the person of interest throat”. That would be the case with the speaker in the poem Somewhere I Have Never Travelled by well-known poet Edward Estlin Cummings‚ short for E.E. Cummings. As if the speaker and his beloved are in a trance: he is kneeling down- proposal style‚ takes her hands to his‚ their eyes are fixed on each other. The speaker starts by stating he is in a state he has never been before‚ and he is happily enjoying it. “Somewhere I have never travelled‚ gladly beyond any experience”
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Literature: Now You See Me In Now You See Me: a memoir‚ Nicole C. Kear philosophises about self-awareness. Kear establishes the main character‚ Nicole‚ facing head on with a degenerative eye disease‚ retinitis pigmentosa‚ at only the age of nineteen; she devotes the rest of her life to see and do all the things she can. Kear uses all of her intuitive plans to represent her self-awareness because she tries to live her life in the moment‚ she realizes that she is never guaranteed another day so sight
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movement was gaining more and more momentum‚ because of the creation American Anti- Slavery Society‚ and the feminists empathized with slavery. Women identified with slaves because they both were treated unequally. In Document 8 there is a slave woman kneeling with chains on her wrists‚ with the words “ Am not a woman and a sister” (Doc 8). This illustrates the hypocrisy of a racist feminist because white or black‚ women went through similar struggles. Overall‚ Reformers in the antebellum era were concerned
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The Power of Prayer On the afternoon of June 5th (2011)‚ I was hurrying toward central London in a cold rain. Soon‚ more and more of the people I passed were Japanese people in formal dress‚ a somewhat unusual thing to see in a foreign city. The line of Japanese people crossed the busy road and entered the famous Westminster Abbey. We had come to join in the Great East Japan Earthquake Memorial Service being held in the abbey. When I mention Westminster Abbey‚ the first thing that probably
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quite sincere. Lord MacCartney‚ a British emissary to the Chinese imperial court‚ commented that China was the “true representation of the highest pitch of human greatness and felicity” (3). Likewise‚ a British cartoonist depicts Lord MacCartney “kneeling before Chinese court” (2)‚ hinting that the English looked at the Chinese from a positive point of view. Moving forward half a century‚ the replacement of silver with opium as an export to China despite the fact that the English understand “the
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of Madrid on the following day‚ 3rd of May 1808‚ by executing hundreds of the rebellions along with the innocents. Goya illustrated this horrifying event in his painting The third of May‚ 1808. On the left side of the painting is a man in white kneeling with his arms held up into the air as if surrendering to the executioners. Besides him stand several other rebellions and innocents‚ some covering their faces in fear of death while others stand by the man in white. The ugliness of this particular
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