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    Oracle Of Delphi

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    Freedom in Greece: The rise and Fall of Delphi Delphi was one of the few institutions of the Greek world considered an authority throughout the Greek polis. A temple dedicated to Apollo‚ a god of light‚ truth‚ and divination. Its location was near a Mt. Parnassus and had a female priestess who answered the questions of the petitioner. The Oracle of Delphi being in a unique position was regarded as an arbiter for the Greeks it assisted in decisions such as war‚ colonization‚ and advice. How Delphi

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    that connects Lisa and Jeff. When watching the conversation between the two‚ the viewer goes back and forth between the two. However‚ when going back and forth‚ Miss Torso can be seen because she is below the vector. The reason the vector is created is to get the viewer to notice Miss Torso in the background. Being able to see Miss Torso gives an example of something that Jeff sees. Another key element of this scene is the framing. The edges of the frame show Jeff and Lisa‚ but they also incorporate

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    Classical Myth

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    CLA204 Lecture 1 Notes What is myth? - mûthos (ancient Greek) – “story”‚ “plot” of a narrative - myth – “a traditional story of collective (social) importance” – character‚ plot‚ temporal and special setting - mûthos (story) + logos (account) = “study of myth”‚ mythology - set in distant past or time so long ago when humans did not exist - mythical place – ie. garden paradise‚ world of the dead‚ etc. Circulation of Myth: oral (Orpheus‚ Homer‚ Hesiod) literary (Ovid‚ Euripides) artistic

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    Art Histroy

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    By: Nistha Pithava Nistha Pithava Art History 1 December 12‚ 2012 Take Home Final: Part 1 Section I: Ancient Near East The works of the art that is related to the Near Eastern time period incorporates the arts of Mesopotamia‚ which is ancient Iran‚ Syria‚ and Turkey between the periods of 3500 through 399 B.C. The dates of begin in the Neolithic prehistoric times and end in the historic or dynastic periods‚ which for the most part is prior to the Christian era. Near East

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    goal would be to make front torso contact with the kick‚ while avoiding leaving one’s self open to a counter strike. The movements that comprise the roundhouse kick begin with a fighting stance: both feet on the ground‚ toes pointing straight ahead‚ back foot turned outside up to 22 degrees‚ front foot approximately 1.5 the distance of one step from the back foot‚ both feet approximately one length of one foot apart‚ extension of both legs‚ slight rotation of the torso in the direction of the back

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    Canova And Rodin Essay

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    Short Paper. Both work are from the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. The paper can also be used for Collage. Good‚ But needs to be a little more specific in some areas. Canova Even though both Canova and Rodin were from completely different stylistic periods‚ they both shared somewhat similar views and influences. "Canova and Rodin are probably the only two sculptors of the nineteenth century who escaped the strictures of an epoch that looked on human life as a succession of events whose banality

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    Inovation

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    each guarded by a chthonic enemy. Young‚ brave‚ and ambitious‚ Theseus decided to go alone by the land route and defeated a great many bandits along the way. The Six Entrances of the Underworld • At the first site‚ which was Epidaurus‚ sacred to Apollo and the healer Asclepius‚ Theseus turned the tables on the chthonic bandit‚ the "clubber" Periphetes‚

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    Information theory is a branch of applied mathematics and electrical engineering involving the quantification of information. Information theory was developed by Claude E. Shannon to find fundamental limits on signal processing operations such as compressing data and on reliably storing and communicating data. Since its inception it has broadened to find applications in many other areas‚ including statistical inference‚ natural language processing‚ cryptography generally‚ networks other than communication

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    roughly two feet on each side with a gold distressed frame‚ and is made up of just three objects. Taking up most of the left side of the composition is a wooden framed painting of a classical female sculpture with the arms‚ legs and head missing. The torso is likely meant to represent marble and sits on a deep-red colored ground. In the forefront

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    Diego Velàzquez was called the "noblest and most commanding man among the artists of his country." He was a master realist‚ and no painter has surpassed him in the ability to seize essential features and fix them on canvas with a few broad‚ sure strokes. "His men and women seem to breathe‚" it has been said; "his horses are full of action and his dogs of life." Because of Velàzquez ’ great skill in merging color‚ light‚ space‚ rhythm of line‚ and mass in such a way that all have equal value‚ he

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