The Greeks believed that‚ when death occurs‚ the spirit leaves‚ then the body prepared for burial. The Kroisos Kouros is a free-standing archaic grave marker representing a male youth. In particular‚ Kroisos is a marble statue used to mark the resting place of a male warrior. The Kroisos suggests the idea of immortality as the statues represent the warrior. Grave markers are primarily dedicated to a person‚ depiction of living family members indicates the necessity‚ for a public display of the
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El otono del patriarca Publicada en 1980 y ambientada en un supuesto pais situado a orillas del Caribe‚ El Otono del patriarca relata la vida de un dictador que muere viejisimo‚ llegando a conserver el poder durante mas de cien anos. A treves de sus recuerdos‚ el lector se entera de que es hijo de una mujer del pueblo‚ Bendicion Alvarado‚ unica persona a quien quiso de verdad; que no supo quien fue su padre; que su primera infancia transcurrio en la miseria y que llego a dictador‚ despues de
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Should Fraternities and Sororities Exist? Stereotypically‚ sororities and fraternities are thought of as hosting extravagant parties and students being entitled to power. Despite that‚ sororities and frats are very beneficial to students‚ because they are more involved with the community therefore‚ leads to great leadership and social skills. (Kokemuller 1) In 1776‚ Greek life on campus all started when a student studying Greek at the college of William and Mary’s‚ by the name of
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Scars‚ both and noun and a verb‚ are a permanent/temporary marking that is a reminder of something or someone. Nikita Gill‚ in this poem‚ is showing that she has had many ingenuine people in her life. People she thought she could count on‚ and then discovered the truth about her “friends”. In America‚ people are big on going through life with their “day one” friends. A “day one” is someone who has been a loyal and supportive person in your life since your beginnings. The problem with this mindset
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When most people talk about ancient Greek civilization‚ they usually think about the humanities (philosophy and literature) that flourished in ancient Greece. They know Plato and his theories about the ideal forms‚ they admire the depth of Aristotle ’s thought. However‚ few people heard about the contribution of the Ancient Greeks in other sciences like medicine‚ which was made by Hippocrates‚ or mathematics and geometry by Pythagoras‚ Euclid and Archimedes and fewer know about technological achievements
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DIGLOSSIA Sociolinguistics encompasses a broad range of concerns including the use of two or more language varieties in distinct social domains within the same speech community. In other words‚ the use of two distinct varieties of the same language for different functions. There are many societies where the official language that is used at schools or media is significantly different from that used at home or in ordinary conversations and often called a “dialect” or “vernacular”. Such a
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The power of English language in the world. The development of English as a universal language is a fact that we cannot deny‚ as we cannot deny that the language is inextricably tied to the culture of the country that it represents and even though it is true that an international language can give small languages a better chance to survive‚ it is also true that in the case of English‚ the language is been used as a weapon‚ something to control other countries and to have advantage over them in
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Riham Ghawali Mr. Imad Jaber Engl 301A 9th Dec 2013 Reorder of Sounds Rules (Metathesis in Arabic) According to a synchronic study of Metathesis in Eastern Arabic by Shadia Banjar‚ Metathesis exists in Arabic language which is a phonological process of transposition of sounds within a word and it involves redistribution of consonants‚ thus a change of the linear order of the word segments takes place. Also‚ Arabic dialects differ from Standard Arabic in that they have a reduced and restructured
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Grave stele of a little girl Stephanie Sjaastad Nancy Catandella HWA 160L 112 18 November 2013 Ancient Greek art is something to be admired; the accuracy of the figures‚ compared to Egyptian art is commendable. The art works show great depths of emotion and detail. The “Grave stele of a little girl” is a beautiful relief of what appears to be a small child holding two birds. The forearm resembles a young child’s arm because it seems that the “baby fat” is still present‚
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1) Cómo es tu ciudad? What’s your town like? Mi ciudad se llamo Blackpool. Esta situada en la costa así que hay muchas playas. Mi cuidad es bonita y hay muchas turistas. Por eso hay mucho trafico y es constemente ajetreado. My city is called Blackpool. It is situated on the caost because of this there is a lot of beaches. My city is pretty and there is a lot of tourists. Because of there is a lot of traffic y is constantly busy. 2) Qué se puede hacer en tu ciudad? What is there to do
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