Benjamin's thought process is being constantly interrupted with ambiguous Roman numerals which stray from idea to idea. Instead of the paper flowing naturally from thought to thought the Roman numerals act as stopping points between each subject he talks about. ... In the seventh Roman numeral Benjamin said that "Earlier much futile thought had been devoted to the question of whether photography is an art" (Benjamin 85). ...

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It's compiled of numbers, roman numerals, use of metaphors and biblical quotations. ... On the top right and bottom left section of Diaspora, there are the combination of roman numerals and numbers of 1 - 14. Throughout Diaspora, the fact that Tillers adopted "I" instead of "1" and "I" in the roman numerals and numbers appears to intensify the feeling of self and of his family history, making Diaspora more personal than his previous oeuvres. ... In Diaspora, the numbers and roman numbers from Colin McCahon's "Rocks in the sky" series, the four long neck "I"-shaped faces are of a m...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Europe was entering its Dark Ages, nursing its dwindling links to a dead Roman culture. ... They endeavoured to acquire the knowledge of previous civilizations by obtaining Egyptian, Babylonian, Indian, Chinese, Farsi, Armenian, Hebrew and Roman texts and translating them into Arabic. ... Four hundred years later, Fibonacci wrote his groundbreaking Liber abaci to introduce modern (Arabic) numerals and the Hindu-Arabic decimal system to a Europe still muddling with Roman numerals. ...

• Word Count: 695
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• Grade Level: High School