Analysis of “The Century Quilt” Written by Marilyn Waniek, “The Century Quilt” describes the importance of heritage in the narrator’s life. Using imagery, tone, and structure, Waniek effectively illustrates the importance of her quilt. The quilt represents not only her family’s heritage but also her future heritage. Waniek’s diction creates a nostalgic tone: “I remembered how I’d planned to inherit that blanket” (Lines 9-10) and “my sister and I were in love with Meema’s Indian blanket” (lines 1-2). Her word choices “remembered” and “were in love,” Waniek emphasizes a sentimental memory.
Running right through Egypt was, and still does, the mighty Nile River in all of its 4,184 miles of glory, influencing the kingdom of Egypt in every way imaginable. Egypt’s cities were all along the Nile. Egyptians had three seasons, Akhet (flood season), Peret (planting and growing season), and Shemu (harvest season), all based on the flooding patterns of the Nile. To the north of Egypt, there was the Mediterranean Sea. To the east of Egypt was the Eastern Desert.
Vivi Ann was the type of person that when she walks into the bar, everybody’s heads turn. She’s beautiful, smart, charismatic, and extremely caring. She rescued 5 horses! Then there’s Aurora, she is the peacemaker of the family, if it wasn’t for her, Win and Vivi would never have talked to each other. She’s the responsible one too, she got married to a wonderful (but boring) husband and raised her kids well.
But reading Bourgeois explanation about it, it made sense. All of Bourgeois artwork is based on her life, she quotes, “Everything I do is inspired by my early life”, Bourgeois’ looked up to her mother who was the most important person in her life for many reasons, ‘Maman’ symbolizes her mother; “The friend, because my best friend was my mother and she was deliberate, clever, patient, soothing, reasonable, dainty, subtle, indispensable, neat, and as useful as a spider.” All of these qualities are given out in the sculpture through the material used, shape and texture. For Louise Bourgeois it is very meaningful personally, however she wanted the sculpture to evoke many different emotions for someone seeing it for the first time. For a spectator viewing this sculpture for the first time it creates a
In my older life, and particularly within my job role, this has taught me that I can be emphatic and sympathetic towards people. I have always been interested in history, including my own family history. When I was young, I would sit for hours on end listening to grandmas stories of her own background and where she came from. This has given me a sense of my own self and has taught me how to be a good listener with the people that I care for in my working life. My parents always showed great dignity and respect for other people, their own parents, aunts, and uncles.
The first similarity one will notice about both of the monuments is that they are both located on the west bank of the Nile, in a region called the Necropolis. The Necropolis, which in Greek translates literally into the city of the dead was a separate place where the important people of ancient Egypt were buried. The tombs in the Necropolis were only to be visited by the family of the pharaohs and by the priests so they could continue to perform rituals. Being that they both in the Necropolis, this gives away that both the Stepped Pyramid and The Great Pyramids are examples of monumental funerary architecture. This meaning that they were both used to house the dead bodies of important figures and in this case, like most, the buried were deceased pharaohs.
Housework was a very important task and women were supposed to take great joy in it. Upper and middle class girls were taught from a young age the skills they would need in order to keep a happy, healthy, peaceful home. While the outside world and working force were definitively male, the home was considered to be a feminine place. The outside world was evil and full of sin and wrongdoing, but the home was a moral haven (MacKethan). Husbands went to work in the corrupt world of industry, so they were meant to come home, decompress, and once again become attuned with their compassionate side.
Most of the workers were farmers who worked on building the pyramid during the flood season when their fields were under water. After the first level of blocks was in place, the workers built ramps of mud brick, limestone chips and clay. The workers dragged the large stones up the ramps to build the next level of the pyramid. As they built each level, they also built up the ramps around the pyramid. "The Egyptians began using the pyramid form shortly after 2700 B.C., and the great heyday of constructing them for royalty extended for about a thousand years, until about 1700 B.C."
The calm, sweet, loving of the little baby that has been brought into a new world brings, an unexpected joy and happiness to the couples life. As the lady realizes how one child can bring much joy to their life, she decide that she wants to see a child in every room of their house. The husband surely doesn’t mind having more kids from the lady that he is in love with, though he does start to see and feel how it is to be more responsible being married. Before, it was one lady to care for, now its three ladies and two boys. The caring Arab lady now has the role of raising, not one child anymore, but four.
Marsh Arabs or ‘Ma’dan’ built homes known as ‘mudhif’ without nails, wood or glass in under three days, along with the land these houses are built on, it is made up of compacted mud and rushes (MessyNessy p.2-3). The Garden was a home for escaped slaves and serfs. This area of desert gives home to an oasis filled with reed-beds, water buffalo and 66 different bird species. Most birds migrate between Siberia and Africa by way of the wetlands. For about 5,000 years, back to the Sumerian ancestors there has been a huge wildlife sanctuary and refuge for the human Marsh Arab culture (Richardson p.1).