The Old Times…

The Old Times…

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Lost interview with Leonardo Da

Vinci in 1481 When those tissues are

Hello, I'm here with the combined they make

world renowned inventor, organs.Any living thing

artist,sculptor,and scientist has organs.From a human

Leonardo Da Vinci. to a plant.Each organ is

Although he’s known for different and performs

many things today we will different tasks. All of the

be talking about his science organs combine to make

discoveries. Well it seems different organ systems,

like you seem to know a lot such as the circulatory

about human anatomy, how and muscular system.

did that come to be? Well if

you weren't aware I dissect

human bodies that are

lifeless. While in the

process of that what did

you notice?Well we have

something all over our

bodies called tissues.

Our body has 11 organ systems nervous, skeletal,
Integumentary,Muscular,Endocrine,circulatory,respirator
y,urinary, immune, digestive, and reproductive system.
All of these make us or in other words Human beings. I
also saw that all of these are all controlled by our
brains.The brain is located in our skull. What are these so
called muscles? Muscles are basically a band of tissue
that help use do many job, including helping you carry
something heavy.Also it pumps your blood to your heart.
There many layers in muscles. You being a sculptor and
an artist, does it help you understand the body more? Yes
because sometimes the bodies I would dissect had
missing heart and brain parts, so I would put wax and
make plaster casts to see what it would look like. Would
you dissect all body parts?

I would mainly do the arms, legs, and muscles but
there were instances where I would do different body
pieces. Are there anymore things you discovered. Well
people consider me the first person to make the most
accurate depiction of the human spine. So people say that
my information on the liver is some of the earliest
documented.

The life of William
Shakespeare

[1564-1616]

His life as a boy and as a man

Studied latin and classical Later in his early 20’s,
literature. His father was Shakespeare shows his
not really a influence to influences from the past
him as for his father being arts, music, and other
a glove maker. He was play writers. He is also
known to be quite an actor himself at one
mysterious and quiet but point and even wrote
his writings was shown to some scripts
show him as a very
curious. Most of his
writing has many
moments of joy and
laughter as he would
rarely show in person.

William Shakespeare’s
Talents and Achievements.

Shakespeare was a very skilled actor but is even
better at playwriting and poetry. He is very
expressive in his writings, showing thoughts and
feelings in memorable ways. Most of his characters
are very vivid and exciting. He has a deep
understanding of human behaviour and emotions
shown in his writings and plays. Both known for
tragedies and comedies. Shakespeare has 38 plays
still in production. Shakespeare has influenced many
other writers.

Breaking News:
New artist El Greco

Have you ever heard of El Greco? He is a new upcoming
painter, sculptor, and he was even an architect of the Spanish
Renaissance. El Greco was born in Heraklion, Greece in the
year of 1541. His full name is Domenikos Theotokopoulos.
He was in the periods of mannerism and the Spanish
Renaissance. He is spanish and greek.

Some things he has worked on is the painting called The
Disrobing of Christ, The Holy Trinity, View of Toledo, and
much more. El Greco is best known for tortuously elongated
figures and often fantastic or phantasmagorical pigmentation,
marrying Byzantine traditions with those of western painting.

A little more about El Greco

El Greco received his The art piece that you see at
Initial training as an icon the top left is a christian art
Painter of the Cretan School, piece created by El Greco. He
the leading centre of created this painting in the year
post-Byzantine art. He of 1590 in the mannerism. This
also may have studied the piece is called Christ on the
classics of Greece, and cross adored by two donors.
perhaps the Latin classics as
well. The non- naturalistic El Greco used a form of
basics of his work showcased humanism by having his own
the talent that would follow, in style of art. This is showing
the many pieces created during humanism because he is
the course of his career. He showing that he can think for
wrote treatises about painting, himself and create things no
and trhe style of work he one else thought of. Since he
created for the art world. created his own style of art you
can tell he is intelligent and
capable for being independent.

No Man Is an Island by: John Donne
Review

John Donne is a Renaissance Metaphysical poet who lives in London, England. John
Donne was raised as a catholic during an anti-catholic period. John Donne studied law
and worked for sir Thomas Egerton of England ( English government).He attended the
schools of Oxford and Cambridge university. Donne’s poems were circulating amongst his
friends.

His poem No Man Is an Island is about how mankind is valued and that everyone on this
Earth is apart of something to make a whole. It is also menseaning how the bells toll for
someone’s death to me that means that everyone will experience death and not to see
who died as the bells toll for one day it will be you the bells are tolling for.

Donne’s writing is rich in figurative language. For example, in the poem No Man Is an
Island on the 7th line he wrote, “ As well as if a manor of thy friend’s”. This is showing the
figurative language of a simile because he is comparing a manor and friends and they
keyword as is found in that line. Another example of figurative language is a metaphor
where Donne says on line 2, “ Every man is a piece of the continent,” since it is comparing
two unusual things such as a man and a piece of a continent. One more example of
figurative language in John Donne’s poem is allision because on line 11 and 12 it says, “
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.” He used a
literary reference about the bells tolling with someone’s death.

This poem is showing a form of humanism since it is talking about the importance of a
human and as a whole. For example in the poem No Man Is an Island in line 2 it says, “
Every man is a piece of the continent,”. This is explaining that every person has a value
and is important to something to make a whole. In conclusion, John Donne uses and talks
about humanism in his poem No Man Is an Island he is talking about the value a person
has to make a whole community and without everyone’s value there will be no whole.

I recommend this poem No Man Is an Island by John Donne. I recommend this poem
because it is explaining the value and importance of a person to make and complete a
whole.

QUEEN ELIZABETH I

BORN IN 1533

HER EARLY LIFE London, England

THE POWERFUL KING HENRY VIII AND HIS SECOND WIFE ANNE BOLEYN NEVER EVEN THOUGHT OF THEIR

CHILD BEING ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL MONARCH IN HISTORY.SHE HAS 4 SIBLINGS AND THEIR

NAMES ARE MARY I, EDWARD VI, HENRY FITZROY, AND HENRY. DURING HER EARLY CHILDHOOD MANY

THINGS HAVE HAD HAPPENED TO HER, INCLUDING THE ONES THAT WERE VERY UNFORTUNATE IN HER

PERSPECTIVE. AS EARLY AS TWO YEARS OLD, SHE WITNESSED HER MOTHER BEHEADED AFTER KING

HENRY VIII ASSUMED SHE WAS CHEATING ON HIM EVEN THOUGH THE TRUTH WAS THAT KING HENRY VIII

GOT TIRED OF HER. SHE OCCUPIED A SEPARATED HOUSEHOLD NEVER TO BE EXPOSED TOTHEM.THE

ROYAL COURT. SHE WAS VERY INTELLIGENT AND SAID TO BE GIFTED SINCE SHE WAS EDUCATED AND

LEARNED LANGUAGES SUCH AS GREEK, LATIN, FRENCH, AND ITALIAN. SHE WAS ORDERED TO HAVE VERY

GOOD EDUCATION BECAUSE SHE WAS EXPECTED TO BE THE FUTURE MONARCH OF ENGLAND WHICH

BECAME TRUE TODAY BECAUSE US TOWNSPEOPLE KNOW SHE CURRENTLY HOLDS THE THRONE. MANY

PEOPLE DESCRIBED HER AS A STRONG MINDED QUEEN AND NOT KNOWN TO BE A STUBBORN ONE. SHE

ALWAYS HAS THE EAR FOR MANY ADVICES THAT IS THROWN TO HER AND IS A DEVOTED RULER OF THE

ENGLAND. AS A KID ALSO BEEN KNOWN AS A BRIGHT CHILD. AS KING HENRY I REMARRIED TO JANE

SEYMOUR, HAD A SON WHiICH WAS PRINCE EDWARD. UNFORTUNATELY, JANE HAD DIED AFTER A FEW

DAYS AFTER GIVING BIRTH TO EDWARD. EDWARD GROWING UP BEING MOTHERLESS AND SO AS

ELIZABETH, AT AN EARLY AGE FORMED A CLOSE BOND.EVEN THOUGH MARY AND ELIZABETH WERE CLOSE,

THE SISTERS WERE NEVER CLOSE DUE TO THEIR RELIGIONS AND THEIR AGES. ELIZABETH BEING A

PROTESTANT, MARY BEING A CATHOLIC AND ALSO HER BEING SEVENTEEN YEARS OLDER THAN ELIZABETH,

THAT MADE A HUGE RIFT BETWEEN THEM.THE ROYAL COURT. SHE WAS VERY

ACHIEVEMENTS

SHE HAD ACHIEVED MANY GREAT THINGS IN HER LIFE THAT WOULD CONTINUE TO LIVE IN
MEMORY. HERE ARE THE THINGS SHE ACCOMPLISHED.

● ENDURED THE QUESTIONING AT THE TOWER OF LONDON WHERE SHE WAS TAKEN AS A
PRISONER BY HER SISTER MARY. SHE WAS ACCUSED OF BEING INVOLVED IN A PROTESTANT
REBELLION.

● KNOWING HOW TO SPEAK MANY LANGUAGES.
● HAS A REPUTATION OF BEING A GOOD AND WISE RULER.
● SHE DEFEATED THE SPANISH ARMADA.
● SURVIVED MANY SCANDALS, PLOTS, AND CONSPIRACIES RELATING TO THE CATHOLIC

RELIGION.
● ADOPTING A MODERATE RELIGIOUS POLICY.
● ESTABLISHING THE POOR LAWS (SUPPORTING THE NEEDY).
● ACHIEVED RECOGNITION OF ENGLAND AS THE LEADING POWER IN EUROPE.
● NOT MARRYING A MAN.

SKILLS

ELIZABETH HAD STARTED TO RULE WHEN SHE WAS JUST TWENTY- FIVE YEARS OLD AND CONTINUES
TO REIGN OVER ENGLAND. SHE NEVER WISHED TO BE MARRIED DUE TO THE FACT SHE FEARED OF
LOSING AUTHORITY OVER ENGLAND TO A HUSBAND. SHE OFTEN SAID THAT SHE WAS MARRIED TO
THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND AND NO ONE ELSE. SHE WAS A CONSCIENTIOUS, STRONG, INDEPENDENT,
FLEXIBLE AND ABLE QUEEN. SHE WANTED TO CHANGE POLICIES THAT WEREN’T ACKNOWLEDGED THAT
MUCH. SHE SHOWED POLITICAL SKILLS TO THE PEOPLE IN HER COURT. SHE WAS ALSO A ROLE MODEL
TO HER SUBJECTS BY SHOWING LOVE AND LOYALTY AND OFTEN CALLED BY THE NAME, “ GOOD
QUEEN BESS.” SHE SHOWED HARD WORK IN STRENGTHENING ENGLAND’S ECONOMY AND MANAGED
TO GROW TRADE AND COMMERCE.

Queen Elizabeth I

I do not want a husband who honours me as a que
if he does not love me as a woman.

Enjoy more magazines from “The Old

Times”

Find more artwork from Leonardo Da
Vinci and more poetry and plays from
William Shakespeare and John donne.

Learn more about how Queen
Elizabeth Maintains the politics.