Rediscovered Essays

  • Code Of Hummurabi

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    History is the past, which for the most part can not be scientificately proven. The real; goal of History is to rediscover past. A dramatic error happens when past is rediscovered from our own bias that is from the way we see it. Even certain artifacts and works pf literature that we have left from earlier civilizations can be interpreted in several different ways, or misinterpreted to a certain extend or entirely. Usually interpretation or even misinterpretation is affected bu the concept of ethnocentrism

  • Keeping Baseball a Constant

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    Keeping Baseball a Constant Movies are an integral part of American life. They make us laugh and in a blink of an eye make us cry. But above all, movies tell a story, a story about not merely the characters in the flick, but about each and every one of us in the audience. No matter what the plot, purpose or theme of the movie, there isn’t a single person who can honestly say that they can’t relate to at least one element of the movie in the one hundred and twenty some odd minutes of intense

  • Reiki Therapy

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    (http://www.freeyellow.com/members/Reiki/page2.html) explains that about five years ago distinctions for three forms of Reiki were recognized. The three forms are Usui Reiki, Vajra Reiki, and Karuna Reiki. Usui Reiki is the traditional form of Reiki rediscovered by Dr. Usui. Usui Reiki is noted for being a very gentle therapy, and therefore appropriate for adults and children seeking to maintain their good health, for providing energy to those who are lacking it due to illness or treatment, and also for

  • Classic Mayan Architecture

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    Classic Mayan Architecture Mayan culture existed a thousand years ago, in what is now part of Central America. Its ruins were almost entirely abandoned by 600 A.D, and were not rediscovered until the early 1500’s, by Spanish settlers. Mayan architecture astounded the early conquistadors, and continues to be of great interest to modern archeologists as well. These scientists have labeled a certain period of Mayan architectural history as the “Classic” period. This refers to a period when the Mayan

  • Moving Beyond Motherhood in The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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    the Atlantic Monthly, refused the work because he did not want to make others as miserable as he was when he read it. Even as late as 1971, Gilman's work was anthologized under the category of horror (Kennard 75). It was not until the work was rediscovered and republished in 1973 that modern feminist critics recognized the female hero as a victim of society (Kennard 75). However, "The Yellow Wallpaper" is more than a story with a fictional character; it is the story of its creator. Gilman, as well

  • Poulenc

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    vaudeville. While in his early 20’s, Poulenc began to have great success as a composer in several genres: orchestral, chamber music, ballets, concertos, film scores, and opera, as well as powerful choral and sacred music. During the 1930’s, he rediscovered his Catholic faith and began writing religious music, establishing himself as one of the great religious and choral music writers of the century. He endured the German occupation of Paris during WWII, which gave rise to his most impassioned and

  • Jean De La Fontaine

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    prejudices, and nonaesthetic issues. This great poet, has become a "classic". His fables, on which his Reputations rests, are part of the literary canon of French writers and are studied in schools. His other works, however, have been rediscovered and are the object of quite a few recent studies. (Carter, pg.46) Very little is known about the early part of La Fontaine’s life. He was born in Château-Thierry, a small town in the province of Champagne some fifty miles northeast of Paris

  • Free Essays - Tuesdays With Morrie

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    generations. Mitch Albom is an alumnus of Brandeis University, where Morrie Schwartz taught for many years.  Morrie left a lasting impression on Mitch and that impression is what eventually motivated Mitch to return to his wise professor.  Mitch rediscovered Morrie in the last months of the older man’s life.  Knowing he was dying, Morrie visited with Mitch every Tuesday in his study, just as they had done in college days.  Morrie taught Mitch his final lesson: how to live. Morrie and Mitch’s relationship

  • Depiction and Development of the Knight Hero in Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival

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    Introduction Wolfram von Eschenbach’s epic poem Parzival stands as one of the richest and most profound literary works to have survived from the middle ages. Lost in obscurity for centuries until rediscovered and republished by Karl Lachmann in 1833, the poem enjoyed at least as great a popularity when it was first composed as it does among today’s readers: Some eighty manuscripts have been preserved, in whole or in part, from Wolfram’s era (Poag 40). Among the more intriguing aspects of the

  • Process of Creativity

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    appreciating a work of art as it is to making one. Insightful seeing is itself a creative act; it requires open receptivity --- putting aside habitual modes of thought. Studies of creativity have described traits of people who have maintained or rediscovered the creative attitude. These include the abilities to:      wonder and be curious      be open to new experience      see the familiar from an unfamiliar point of view      take advantage of accidental events      make one thing

  • Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping - Beyond Reason

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    Marilynne Robinson gives voice to a realm of consciousness beyond the bounds of reason in her novel Housekeeping. Possibly concealed by the melancholy but gently methodical tone, boundaries and limits of perception are constantly redefined, rediscovered, and reevaluated. Ruth, as the narrator, leads the reader through the sorrowful events and the mundane details of her childhood and adolescence. She attempts to reconcile her experiences, fragmented and unified, past, present, and future, in order

  • Pretties by Scott Westerfeld

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    This book is the second book in a trilogy. The first book is Uglies. You will understand Pretties better if you read Uglies. Pretties was about a girl named Tally who has finally turned pretty. At first she thought that was she wanted, until she rediscovered the truth of becoming pretty. In the first book Tally met David, whose parents knew that truth. And that truth was horrible. Becoming pretty had its disadvantages. When you got the operation to turn you pretty, the doctors gave you lesions in your

  • Essay on Black Readers of Their Eyes Were Watching God

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    Although Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God is a widely read novel today, that wasn't always the case. When her novel was first published, many black readers were enraged. It wasn't until the early seventies when Hurston's novel was rediscovered. What aspects of the novel enraged the readers so that it would be forgotten for more than thirty years? One of the most important aspects of the novel that enraged the black readers was Hurston's portrayal of the white people. Readers complained

  • Charles Kraft Anthropology

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    Reading Donavan’s Christianity Rediscovered revealed a profound problem: I was still a westerner. As Kraft in dry humor would simply say, “The problem is you have the wrong mother”. I had no intention of exchanging mothers. I simply wanted tools for the job; I wanted techniques by which

  • Flippo Brunelleschi Research Paper

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    buildings as well as his artwork. Brunelleschi is so admired that a parade is held for him every year in Florence. His most famous building and final resting place The Santa del Maria del fiore was a great example of Linear perspective which he rediscovered. Another thing contributed to the visual arts was vanishing point perspective. So how did this goldsmith with no architectural training turn into a leading figure of the renaissance. Filippo was born into a Rich family in Florence in 1337.

  • Pompei Mystery

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    The documentary Pompeii: The Mystery of the People Frozen in Time is about the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that happened 2,000 years ago and affected the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Pompeii was a major city for entertainment in the Roman Empire with residents coming from all over and Herculaneum was a small city mostly for the powerful and wealthy. The documentary goes into detail on both cities from resident lifestyles, the volcanic eruption, how long after the eruption before people started

  • Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol

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    to feel forgotten emotions such as joy, remorse and fear. Scrooge encounters joy throughout the novel in multiple ways. Scrooge acquires joy from the pleasant experiences in his past including memories of his old friends and family. Scrooge also rediscovered his lost emotion of remorse. He begins to realize and feel regret for his selfish ways and how they have affected other characters in the novel. Lastly, one of the most memorable emotions demonstrated by Scrooge throughout the novel is fear. Scrooge

  • Their Eyes Were Watching God Analysis

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    the societies she chronicled, and this also positions her, significantly, as the prototypical migrant stranger. Because of her failure to adhere to northward moving patterns of migration, Hurston descended into relative obscurity before being rediscovered by Alice Walker in the late 1970s. Several factors led to this decline into obscurity. First, Richard Wright felt that her major work Their Eyes Were Watching God lacked any real themes and messages that shed light on the social, political, and

  • Guadalupe Fur Seal Research Paper

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    The Guadalupe fur seal is a mammal who is endangered. These seals are very rare and are famous for their fur. Guadalupe fur seals were once considered extinct but have been rediscovered in 1954. This mammal is now fully protected and there’s a slim chance for them to go extinct for a while. Guadalupe fur seals only live on rocky coasts and in caves found along shores. Out of all of the nine species of the seals, the Guadalupe have been the only ones sighted in the northern hemisphere. Meanwhile

  • Stephen Greenblatt's The Swerve: How The World Became Modern?

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    Stephen Greenblatt’s The Swerve: How the World Became Modern is about the controversial poem On the Nature of Things by Lucretius, which was written in first century BC. The book tells of the poem’s loss in the Dark Ages and later rediscovered during the Renaissance. The title, “The Swerve” comes from Lucretius description of the unpredictable movements by which particles collide and take on new forms. The rediscovery of Lucretius poem, it is suggested, was a kind of "swerve" which helped to create