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    Robert Boyle was born in 1627, he was the seventh son of his father Richard Boyle. Boyle was named the father of of chemistry after he created a vacuum pump and found Boyle’s law, became a philosopher, chemist, physicist, and an inventor. He gave the first accurate definition of a chemical element, chemical reaction, and a chemical analysis. In 1641, Boyle went to Florence with his tutor who was French, he spent his winter studying with Galileo Galilei. He was also part of the “Invisible…

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    Each country has the right to preserve its history, that is sensible. From the possible human and logical point of view, the true owners of the great artwork no matter where they are now, are the people who built them. In addition, the natural framework of any work, enhances its majesty, if a piece is Greek it is because speak of Greek culture and the past of the nation, therefore must belong to it, especially thinking that there is a museum on the Acropolis where they will be perfectly…

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    Parthenon Frieze Essay

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    There is one issue that all ancient Greek art historians and archeologist agree on. That issue is that the reason why the Parthenon frieze cannot be correctly solved is that there is no ancient literature or sources that appropriately archives the context of the frieze. Without contextual evidence, the intertextuality of the subject matter corresponding to the Parthenon frieze becomes ambiguous to the modern viewer. Modern academics can only conceptualize and speculate about what the images of…

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    Would anyone ever think it was possible for such a well known author to be a fraud or in reality, be a completely different person? Christopher Marlowe is the true author of William Shakespeare’s plays and poems due to the fact that there is little evidence on the man from Stratford, Marlowe had a reason to fake his death, and the similarities of their work are uncanny. Considering all of the evidence presented, it seems to be highly unlikely that Shakespeare was capable of writing so many…

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    Mark Twain, a prolific American author, once stated, “So far as anybody actually knows and can prove, Shakespeare of Stratford-Upon-Avon never wrote a play in his life. So far as anybody knows and can prove, he never wrote a letter to anybody in his life...” There's a controversy over whether Shakespeare was a actor, a poet, and a playwright or just an actor. Stratfordians believe that William Shakespeare was an actor, poet, and a playwright. Oxfordians believe that William Shakespeare was only…

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    “I have nothing with this answer, Hamlet. These words are not mine,” for which the king would speak to his son in Act 3, Scene 2 of William Shakespeare’s longest written piece, Hamlet (Hamlet from Folger Digital Texts). As it would appear, among many a reputable scholar these words ring true pertaining to its author. The majority of those well-versed in Shakespearean history theorize that Shakespeare was not the true author of the literary works in his name. Evidence corroborating the claim…

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    In Shakespeare’s well-known play, Hamlet, the ghost of Hamlet’s father divulges, “But that I am forbid/To tell the secrets of my prison house/I could a tale unfold whose lightest word/Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood” (Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, scene v). The people who would interpret this as a hyperbolic autobiography of “Shakespeare” are the same people who are convinced that “William Shakespeare” is a pseudonym. There are hundreds of different theories about who really…

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    Shakespeare has been known as one of the greatest play writers to ever apply a quill to the pad however, what if his legacy was nothing but a smeared ink of a lie to us all. For decades the authenticity of this famous play write has been on the tip of the worlds tongue. Many names have come about as the real Shakespeare such as William Stanley, Francis Bacon, and the most famous Edward De Vere. Many books, movies and articles were made trying to justify the real Shakespeare. Decades later, the…

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    Many people and researchers are doubting the authorship of William Shakespeare and his works, such as playwrights, poems, etc. They believe that Shakespeare didn’t write all his works or plays that say and have his name written and printed as the author. Not, many writers left any evidence for those of us who are wondering William’s works and career, not all famous literature writers had a high education or went to a University, and there’s so many researchers and other people who are…

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    Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford. It seems that he was more likely to have written Shakespeare's work than William Shakespeare himself. As a noble, Edward de Vere was highly educated. He received degrees in the arts from Cambridge and Oxford Universities. He's known to have traveled extensively. At age 25, Edward had the opportunity to tour Europe, visiting Germany, France, and Italy. He's also documented to have been a poet and playwright. It has been implied that the Earl of Oxford…

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