Solstice Essays

Sharon Olds “Summer Solstice, New York City,” is a poem of great relatability, that is, its embedded theme of life and the troubles that occur in it is something everyone deals with at some point. The poem captures the relatable feeling of worthlessness and stress that most people occur or have at least occurred at some point in their life. The poem ends with a somewhat uplifting theme, the man is saved, and will not kill himself by jumping off a building. However, this uplifting and jubilant conclusion

While attending Indiana State University, one of the first sculptures I took an interest in was the Via Solaris. “Via Solaris” is Latin for “the way or road of the sun.” The sculpture is about 20-feet tall and made of bronze and steel. Via Solaris was created by John Van Alstine, an American sculptor living and working in New York State. John Van Alstine is best known for stone and metal abstract sculptures illustrating remarkable balance and elegance. The sculpture is located on the north side

Intro What is the Serpent Mound? The Serpent Mound is an effigy, or a mound made of earth and stone. The formations most often look like animals but some can be human shaped. (1) The effigy measures around 1,417 feet from the tip of the tongue/snout to the tip of the tail. The width is an average 22 feet across. The height has changed over years due to restorations but they measure it today at around 4 feet. (2) The Mound is located in Peebles, Ohio at 3850 State Route 73. The Mound is protected

to life at this highly pleasurable and magical time. The sun god is peaking and is at his height of virility, spreading his warmth, glowing rays and feeding all there is with his much appreciated rays and light. More commonly known as the Summer Solstice, this is a

The Pantheon is a magnificent architectural sculpture located Rome. It was originally constructed by Agrippa in 27-25 BCE under Augustus’s reign but later burned around 80 CE under Domitian and burned again in 110 CE because of a lightning strike. The Pantheon that is seen today was reconstructed in 118-128 ca. a.d. under Hadrian’s rule. It is a temple to the gods Mars, Venus and the Emperor Julius Caesar. Historians know a lot about the Pantheon regarding the architectural structure, but the function

changes in weather as the sun comes closer and moves away from Earth. The book goes over each month of the year and talks about the amount of daylight and darkness they receive in that part of the Earth. As it goes over the months it passes the solstices and equinoxes and gives a brief explanation of what seasons we are going to fall into next. The distance of the sun is discussed in a manner the children are able to understand by saying “the world tilts towards the sun”, which can be understood

Introduction to Nowruz Nowruz is a blend word merging two Farsi words. The word “now” which means new and the word “ruz” which means day are combined to form “Nowruz” to represent the “New Day.” Nowruz is a word carrying the connotation of the time for celebrations among Persian, particularly Iranian, and Central Asia communities. As the spring sets in on the vernal equinox on March 20 or 21, Nowruz begins. The celebrations of Nowruz signal the coming of spring, during which the earth springs into

Tufan Mısır 21101566 Elit 443 Take Home Mid-Term Option B- Question 6 : Cicero defined comedy as ‘an imitation of life, a mirror of customs, and an image of truth’. How helpful is this definition in thinking about The Importance of Being Earnest as comedies? Başlık gerekli Marcus Tullius Cicero is known a great verse writer, lawyer and a philosopher. He has many speech about comedy, art, politics, philosophy, and war. He is not interested in war though in a short time he involves and in a short

Tragicomedy and Meta-theater in The Amphitryon The playwright Plautus was famous for his capability to please the Roman audience, who above all wanted to laugh and have fun at the theater, while forgetting the daily worries. Therefore, the priority for Plautus was to risum movere, to entertain the audience through either the humor of the situation or the humor of the words. The play Amphitryon is about Jupiter who is in love with Alcmene and decides to take advantage of the fact that her husband

The lighthouse appearing currently was rebuilt in 1947 then was inaugurated on 7th August 1949, found a little interior on the peninsula to protect the building from erosion, this lighthouse was placed there to monitor and protect the varieties of vessels entering the basin from the strong ocean currents. The first lighthouse of Cap Ferret was commissioned on 1st November by 1840. Medieval Period of Cap Ferret It was equipped with only one fixed white light and then it was made electric in 1928.

The first month of the Gregorian calender is January. January gets its name from the Roman God, Janus. Janus is distinctly Roman and has no Greek equivalent. The Latin form of January is Januarius means “ of Janus”. Janus is the Roman god of beginnings, endings, gates, transitions, time, doorways, and passages. Janus ruled over the beginnings and ending of conflict and during times of war the doors to his temple were open and during times of peace the doors to the temple were closed. Janus

Samhain is a Pagan Sabbat that falls on October 31st every year. This is the final harvest festival. Many Pagans consider this day to me the beginning of the new year. On Samhain, the veil between the world of the living and the world of the dead is thin. This makes it easier to communicate with the deceased. The following are some craft ideas that Pagans can make to honor this Sabbat. Mini pumpkin lights This is an easy Samhain craft to make. All you need is mini pumpkins, a carving tool, a spoon

William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Lord Byron are the most famous romantic poets who used sublime in their works. Each poet used the sublime in a different way from the other, but for them all, the sublime reflects the effect of Nature on them and they depicted what they felt through their works. Starting with Wordsworth, he defined poetry as “Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility” (263)

enigmatic millionaire Jay Gatsby, and Gatsby's fixation to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan, set in East and West Egg of 1920s New York. The vegetation myth is the cycle of the seasons; the Spring Equinox, Summer Solstice, Fall Equinox, and the Winter Solstice. Fitzgerald manipulates the symbolism of the seasons in the vegetation myth and their corresponding colors, to show the unattainable American Dream and the materialism and

because they existed long before man was made. These eight holidays can be said to be as old as the Earth itself. Solstices happen twice a year - in June and December. The June Solstice happens around June 21, when the Sun is directly overhead the Tropic of Cancer. The December Solstice takes place around December 21. On this day, the Sun is precisely over the Tropic of Capricorn. Solstice comes from the Latin words sol, meaning 'Sun ' and sistere, meaning 'to come to

the pillar" and is for a moment "tied" to the rock. At these periods, the Incas held ceremonies at the stone in which they "tied the sun" to halt its northward movement in the sky. There is also an Intihuatana alignment with the December solstice (the summer solstice of the southern hemisphere), when at sunset the sun sinks behind Pumasillo (the Puma's claw), the most sacred mountain of the western Vilcabamba range, but the shrine itself is primarily equinoctial. Sunlight plays an important role in

shortest night, Litha, Summer Solstice seem very distinct. Although, as different and as random they might appear they all relate or have some connection towards each other. All of these names describe or refer to the setting of Shakespeare's peculiar play “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” The play occurs during mid summer which is formally called the Summer Solstice. In fact, that’s when the whole thing takes place. Moreover, it’s called the Summer Solstice because the word “Solstice” literally means the sun

800 years ago. This site is only available during 2 months around the summer solstice as it is 9,642 feet high and is covered with snow for the rest of the year. The structure is 80’ in diameter and at the center is a pile of stones called a cairn that connects to 28 spoke-like lines of stone. If you place yourself on one cairn facing the other you are able to point out where the sun rises and set on the summer solstice. Other medicine wheels can be found in South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Alberta

all places on earth. After this day, it is autumn in the northern hemisphere where the day is shorter than the night. Winter Solstice On the 21st and 22nd of December the overhead son is over the tropic of Capricorn. It receives the largest amount of solar radiation, and the northern hemisphere is in the winter solstice while the southern hemisphere is in the summer solstice. The angle of the Sun decreases toward the poles. and the length of day in the northern hemisphere is the shortest day of the

tilted neither towards or away from the sun, resulting in nearly equal amounts of daylight and darkness at all latitudes, this occurs twice a year. Solstices also correlate to the tilt of the Earth. Summer solstices refer to the moment in which the Earth’s tilt is at its maximum, making it the longest day of the year, the opposite is true for the winter solstice. The Tropic of Cancer refers to the