Saturday, December 6, 2008

ROAR! 5.4.3.2.1.

HEYY EVERYONE!! :] i Just went XMAS shopping. x] super crowded and awesomee feeling! ;] ALSO i just got my new sewing machine. YAY! haha though I need to get to my posts for roar book so here we go!


Rigleafing through History: The dynamics of Dress


5.Comments:

1.The next few pages were some more pictures of the elizabethian era and the indians. The comparison of both culture. Real photographs.
2. The greeks were after and then the book was informing how they themself try to dress to be similar as the gods they believe in. I expected that usually because of their sulptures.
3. Next were the Scythians. As explained on how the clothes they had were much more complex coparing to the greeks. That it was usually a man on a horse. The clothing that they should wear while riding on the horse.
4. Back to the greeks, that the thought of human beings are the most perfect creation in nature. Wow I never really thought about that. Really unique to think of ourselves like that. (concieted ahem ahem.)
5. The information about the Golden age and the battles between spartans and athens and the clothes. I


4. Questions:

1. What was the Panathenaic Festival?
2.Who are the Athenian matrons?
3. What country where the scythians from? I'ver never heard of them before.
4. And who was the Dorians and Ionians? How were they similar to the Greeks?

3.Vobaulary:

1. Oriental: of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Orient, or East; Eastern.
2. Pretentious: making an exaggerated outward show; ostentatious.
3. Boisterous: noisily jolly or rowdy; clamorous; unrestrained: the sound of boisterous laughter.

2. Literary Terms:

1. Allusion: To the reference of the battles of the Athens and Spartans.
2.Metaphor: Comparing the way the Athen and Spartans dressed.

1. Overview:
There were many information of the Greeks as a whole. Then it was seperated by the Athen and Spartans. Other culture was also involved and compared because they were similar yet different.

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