In Shelley's poem Ozymandias statue has the inscription, "Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair" yet there is nothing but san
d and ruins. How much control do we have over how we are remembered in the future? What could Ozymandias have done while he lived that might've helped towards the preservation of his statue?
1. The poem shows that we have no control over how we will be remembered in the future. This is because Ozymandias wanted to be remembered with grandeur and ostentation that he possessed when he was alive, however, his statue makes him remembered as a boastful and unimportant, since both the sculpture and the surrounding environment are in ruins.
2. To preserve the statute, Ozymandias could have commissioned the sculpture with a more durable material and provided something that would protect it from environmental aggressions.
1. rederick Douglass was born in slavery to a Black mother and a white father. At age eight the man who owned him sent him to Baltimore, Maryland, to live in the household of Hugh Auld. There Auld's wife taught Douglass to read. Douglass attempted to escape slavery at age 15 but was discovered before he could do so.
2. Separated as an infant from his slave mother (he never knew his white father), Frederick lived with his grandmother on a Maryland plantation until he was eight years old, when his owner sent him to Baltimore to live as a house servant with the family of Hugh Auld, whose wife defied state law by teaching the boy to read
<span>I believe the correct
answer is the second statement – that anyone can understand and enjoy the books.</span>
In the second paragraph
of “Preface to Buddhism and Buddhists in China”, the idea that author is trying
to convey about the book, using descriptors like "not textbooks,"
"impressionistic," and "introductions" is that everyone can
enjoy and understand books as the purpose of each volume in this series is
impressionistic rather than definitely educational.
