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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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    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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    Alvin Ailey - Cry

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    YEAR 12 DANCE APPRECIATION ASSESSMENT TASK CRY – ALVIN AILEY Select TWO contrasting movement phrases. For each phrase: Describe the main motif identified Discuss the purpose of the motif within the context of the work Describe how the motif is manipulated and varied to create the phrase with respect to the elements of composition (space‚ time and dynamics) Analyse how the phrase contributes to the context of the work and why the choreographer selected this phrase to portray the intent of

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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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    I believe that the Archaic Indians were the most important of the pre-historic Native American groups because they learned how to adjust to their surroundings. For example‚ the Archaic Indians invented tools like axes and adzes to help build permanent base camps and places to live. This helped increase the population growth of their culture. They would now be able to form a community instead of always moving around. When climate changed it caused the Archaic Indians to adjust to their environment

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    Mircea Eliade on Religion

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    on “timeless forms.” He says they reoccur in religions all over the world‚ but he ignores their specific context and dismisses them as irrelevant. He also ties religion to archaic people whom he defines as‚ “those who have lived in the world of nature‚” (Pals 198) or those who have hunted‚ fished‚ and farmed routinely. Archaic people want to live life in the model of the divine because they have a deep longing for paradise‚ and to be close to God. Also‚ Eliade is an admirer of how myths tell the

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    Greek Progression

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    progressed through four main periods of art‚ Archaic‚ Early Classical‚ Late Classical‚ and Hellenistic. Each period was distinct from the rest and typically was influenced by the events unfolding during the time. Sculptures were represented in all four major period but differ from each other in their stances‚ faces‚ and in the emotion that they represented. The Greek Archaic period art started around 700 BC and ended around 480 BC. Common elements is Archaic art consist of animated faces‚ motion‚ long

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