QED: The Research Annual of the UTA Honors College, 2019
When the Second World War ended in 1945, Germany lay in ruins. Divided East and West, under Weste... more When the Second World War ended in 1945, Germany lay in ruins. Divided East and West, under Western and Soviet occupation, their country devastated, Germans began to rebuild their lives, homes, and country while searching for a way to process their role in the war, their defeat, and its meaning for themselves as a people. One way they began to reconstruct a sense of identity was to highlight historic German cultural creations. Germans, amidst the physical and political turmoil that surrounded them under military occupation, expended extraordinary efforts to preserve and rebuild two churches nearly obliterated by Allied bombing-the Frauenkirche of Dresden in East Germany and the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächniskirche of Berlin in West Germany. The struggle to preserve as much as possible the prewar appearance of these universally recognized architectural landmarks demonstrates how Germans, even in defeat, used links to past glory to help forge a new, postwar German identity.
QED: The Research Annual of the UTA Honors College
The Honors College of the University of Texas at Arlington is a purposefully diverse community of... more The Honors College of the University of Texas at Arlington is a purposefully diverse community of student scholars in all majors dedicated to student success. The mission of the College is simple: to offer high achieving students an extraordinary undergraduate education through special academic programs and opportunities for research, study abroad, and leadership. The Honors curriculum fits with all majors, and complements and advances the goals of students’ academic disciplines.
The Research Annual of the UTA Honors College, 2018
The image of a figure holding two wild animals, often called the "Mistress/Master of Animals... more The image of a figure holding two wild animals, often called the "Mistress/Master of Animals", has appeared across many ancient periods and regions, on artifacts from proto-literate Mesopotamia in the Near East to the Aegean Iron Age. This motif has a demonstrable chain of cultural custody that is closely tied to concepts of both divinity and royalty. Rather than following a linear progression of diffusion with consistent interpretation, the Master/Mistress motif is culturally translated by adopting populations to suit the understandings of the individuals within those populations. Though some concepts such as healing remained constant from culture to culture, the symbol was reinterpreted or modified based on the role it played in adopting populations' cultural schemas. This resulted in the two seemingly separate motifs of the "Master" and "Mistress". This translation demonstrates the close relationship these early cultures had to one another in spi...
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