Year 13 Exam Transition

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Year 13 ExamTransition

• You can pursue any of these starting points or
  devise your own.
• Avoid the visual cliché (overused image)
• Ensure that you can access Primary sources for
  your idea.

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Transition. Cheating the inevitable

• The whole universe is in a state of transition.
  Mankind often attempts to cheat this continual
  state of change by building and creating
  structures and objects give the illusion of
  immortality and are designed to be indestructible

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• The Terracotta Army is a collection of 8,099
  larger than life Chinese figures of warriors and
  horses located near the Mausoleum of the First
  Qin Emperor

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Pompeii A city frozen in time.

• Pompeii is a buried and ruined Roman city near
  modern Naples.
• It, was destroyed, and completely buried, during
  a catastrophic eruption of the volcano Mount
  Vesuvius

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• Plaster casts from the holes that were left by
  the bodies
• The volcano collapsed higher roof-lines and
  buried Pompeii under many metres of ash and
  pumice, and it was lost for nearly 1700 years
  before its accidental rediscovery in 1748. Since
  then, its excavation has provided an
  extraordinarily detailed insight into the life of
  a city at the height of the Roman Empire. Today,
  it is one of the most popular tourist attractions
  of Italy and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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A mummy, to put it bluntly, is an old dead body.
But unlike a skeleton or a fossil, a mummy still
retains some of the soft tissue it had when it
was alive -- most often skin, but sometimes
organs and muscles, as well. This tissue
preservation can happen by accident or through
human intervention but, in either case, it occurs
when bacteria and fungi are unable to grow on a
corpse and cause its decay.
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• The "Bog People" are examples of
  victims/participants of prehistoric and
  historical events, variously thought by
  archaeologists to be sacrificial rituals, murders
  or executions. Their bodies, sometimes bound in
  rope or blindfolded and even with the rope that
  strangled them still around their neck, were left
  in the marshy peat bogs of Denmark and were
  thereby preserved over a period of hundreds to
  thousands of years, until discovered by modern
  peat cutters. The "Bog People", provide us
  valuable insights into the culture and religion
  of that time and place (Northern Europe from
  pre-Christian times to the Medieval period).

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The Tollund ManBy Seamus HeaneyiSome day I
will go to AarhusTo see his peat-brown head,The
mild pods of his eye-lids,His pointed skin
cap.In the flat country near byWhere they dug
him out,His last gruel of winter seedsCaked in
his stomach,Naked except forThe cap, noose and
girdle,I will stand a long time.Bridegroom to
the goddess,
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The Tollund ManBy Seamus HeaneyShe tightened
her torc on himAnd opened her fen,Those dark
juices workingHim to a saint's kept body,Trove
of the turfcutters'Honeycombed workings.Now his
stained faceReposes at Aarhus.
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• Fossils

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• During the 18th and 19th centuries, early in the
  development of geology as a science, naturalists
  we re busy discovering, studying, and
  illustrating fossils. Beautifully hand-coloured
  illustrations of fossils made during this time,
  such as those accompanying this article, are
  still considered to be among the most masterful
  and detailed images of fossils ever created.

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• One of the first definitive works on fossils in
  English is James Parkinsons Organic Remains of a
  Former World (1804),
• The debt we owe to early scientists and
  artists, who dared to visually create a new view
  of prehistoric life, is clear. Their work paved
  the way for viewing the study of fossils as a
  kind of time machinea vehicle that allows us to
  step back into deep time.

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• The debt we owe to early scientists and
  artists, who dared to visually create a new view
  of prehistoric life, is clear. Their work paved
  the way for viewing the study of fossils as a
  kind of time machinea vehicle that allows us to
  step back into deep time.

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Peter Randall Page

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• Pere Lachaise Cemetery

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• Père-Lachaise
• Arguably the greatest cemetery the world has
  ever known, and almost certainly its most heavily
  visited, Pariss famed Père-Lachaise has an air
  of unfathomable antiquity about it. Yet it is
  just a hair over two hundred years old. Founded
  in 1804 at the order of the emperor Napoleon
  Bonaparte

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• Theyre strange venues, those cemeteries,
  sometimes creepy, sometimes hauntingly beautiful.
  And venues they are, for the worlds graveyards
  figure prominently on travel itineraries and in
  guidebooks, luring visitors who seek out the
  tombs of fallen warriors, lovers, leaders, and
  heroes of the past and present.

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• There is a saying in Africa that a living dog is
  better than a dead lion. So a famous persons
  grave is still a grave. There is no class
  distinction in the grave. All there is mortal and
  skeletal remains.

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• Highgate Cemetery North London

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• Winchester Cathedral

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• Exeter Cathedral

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• Salisbury Cathedral

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• St. Albans Cathedral

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Often Sculptors working in bronze, such as Henry
Moore, chemically treat the surface to stimulate
the process of ageing, to give their pieces
subtle patinas.
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• Rodin The Burghers of Calais (A tale of
  sacrifice)

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