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    The Mask of Benevolence was honestly shocking to me and made me rethink a lot. I thought it was interesting and intriguing that it discussed the views of most hearing people and talked about why they aren’t necessarily right. Many of the facts‚ opinions‚ and details of how things had been dealt with in the past completely surprised me. One of the most surprising things for me was how each culture viewed one another; which was almost all negative. Of course‚ not all people in each category have those

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    Hiding Behind The Mask “It is fear which creates the mask‚ and fear which keeps it in place. The mask is hiding our true and most beautiful self from both ourselves and from the world. In its place is a mask of un-beauty.” Nisandeh Neta‚ founder of Open Circles‚ an international center for personal-growth and leadership‚ explains that people have a fear to show their true selves‚ so they go through their lives hiding behind a mask. According to the AP I-Village poll‚ more than half of women polled

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    money and materialism. In their desperate attempt to achieve happiness they become lost in their efforts and their lives end in tragedy. In Daisy’s desperate attempt to achieve happiness‚ she becomes lost in her effort to be loved. Daisy wore many masks to hide her feelings of loneliness’ and her desperate desire to be loved. She often appeared superficial and suspicious towards others. Daisy was deeply in love with Gatsby‚

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    Paola Molina Professor Gurnee Humanities 101 22 April 2014 Funerary Mask Egyptians in ancient times believed in life after death‚ and their death culture was a rather a complex process. For ancient Egyptians death was a right of passage‚ a journey to be endured on the way to after life‚ which they believed to be more or less like one’s earthly existence only better. Death was unpleasant but necessary cycle. After death‚ the dead’s body would have to roam the duat‚ the underworld and search

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    chosen to do a mask on is Benvolio from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. This mask relates to the character Benvolio because the mask is green and the mask has green jewels. The color green is associated with growth and in the play of Romeo and Juliet‚ Benvolio helps guide Romeo and by giving him advice throughout scene one and this advice helps Romeo grow throughout scene one. Benvolio instead of growing as a person himself‚ is helping others grow around him. The blue feather on the mask represent intelligence

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    My mask was based off of the movie “Predator”. In the movie the character hunts aliens. So I thought this would be a good representation for Jack and his hunters in the book the “Lord of the Flies”. I came to this choice not only I’ve been wanting to make a mask like this but because the look and feeling of the mask has a dark and threatening look to it. Just like Jack because at one point of the story‚ Jack kills a pig and thinks that slitting its throat is funny. Showing how dark he is. Each part

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    ANCIENT ART 200 Was the Mask Of Agamemnon Edited by Schliemann and his Workers? 5/14/2011 Sandra.Baah | Schliemann was a German archeologist who excavated the shaft graves of Mycenae. He found a mask which has been claimed to be the mask of Agamemnon. This has brought up endless debates about the authenticity of the mask. The mask is said to be one of Schliemann’s forgeries. Some scholars claim the mask is too new or does not have any qualities that prove that it is Mycenaean. It is difficult to

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    African masks have influenced many well known artists and have been the origins of art. Pablo Picasso was inspired by the diverse art forms of the african mask. The patterns of African masks are unique and different that other types of art. These masks are usually used in ceremonies‚ weddings‚ and more. They represent the spirits of their ancestors and they also represent the bond between nature and mankind. Almost every detail on the African mask is a representation of their belief. The African

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    Bequest of Alice K. Bache authorized The Mask. Alice K. Bache was a 1903-1977 collector throughout New York‚ NY‚ Washington‚ CT‚ and New Orleans‚ LA who preserved ancient art that of Cycladic‚ Pre-Columbian‚ Mexican‚ Asian and Peruvian works. She also began endowing her art collection to the Metropolitan Museum of art in 1967. As a part of her recent donation‚ she granted The Mask in which is now perched there. This work of art is a rustically‚ handcrafted stone mask sculpture made of hard‚ semiprecious

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    Alex Lu 2012/10/24 ENG2100+2150 Professor Lombardi Wearing a Mask‚ Making a Contrast “Under the Red‚ White‚ and Blue then wear the gold hat‚ if that will move her; If you can bounce high‚ bounce for her too‚ Till she cry ‘Lover‚ gold-hatted‚ high-bouncing lover‚ I must have you!’” This beautiful and connotative quote appears at the beginning of the novel‚ The Great Gatsby. Gatsby wearing his gold hat‚ a kind of masks represent wealthy and upper class‚ dream one day he could have Daisy again

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