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    The material cause of this is the bronze‚ whilst the formal cause is it being melted and poured to form the new shape. The efficient cause is the bronze-casting of the statue‚ rather than the individual artisan - Aristotle said that the artisan just had the knowledge to make it‚ so the art itself is the efficient cause. The final cause for the

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    Name: Ho Yee Lam Student ID: 17226643 1. Wen Fong‚ “The Great Bronze Age of China: An Exhibition from The People’s Republic of China”‚ London‚ Thames and Hudson‚ 1980. The Bronze age collections provided by the China’s Cultural Relics Bureau are shown in this book. The catalogue not only displays a wide range of tools and objects in that era‚ many details‚ drawings‚ graphs and maps are also included. 2. Ying Wang‚ “Bronze Age China: Style and Material”‚ UK‚ Cambridge Scholar Publishing‚ 2010

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    The Bronze Age was the time for change and advancement in all things ancient. The use of copper and mixing other metals became a large part of people’s lives. Farming also became large in the bronze age‚ plows and animals help farmers. The new metal materials proved to be good for several uses warfare and movement especially. The society even changed with the rest of the world‚ people became more knowledgeable and civilized. The Bronze Age brought much needed change.     The study and molding of

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    An Encounter with a Bully

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    Dreadful Examination Results Tempts Dad To Take Drastic Measures Mid term results day approached in a flash. Right before my eyes came Thursday. I was already thinking of excuses to escape a flogging‚ for I knew that nothing good was heading my way. The knife cutting tension grew by the minute and nervousness engulfed everyone’s face. Even tears seemed to be struggling out of some children’s eyes. In a matter of time‚ we would be receiving our examination results. Every year‚ the atmosphere

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    Encounter with Alien

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    The night was cold‚ a thick fog hung outside‚ which I could see from my window. In the moonlight‚ the fog appeared like clouds descending on the earth. How I wished I could go out and be amongst the clouds‚ but here I was trying to catch some sleep‚ which was eluding me .My mother had just put me to bed wishing me sweet dreams‚ but sleep was miles away from me. I paced the floor up and down‚ clutching the shawl to myself and switched on the Television to see if there was any interesting programme

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    An Encounter with the Law

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    Friday evening Jeffery decided to go to a party. After all‚ it was his senior year in high school and he hadn’t been to one yet. Upon his arrival to the party‚ the guests were quite perplexed. It wasn’t the typical crowd Jeffery took pleasure in associating himself with. He had no intentions of consuming alcohol‚ although he knew it would be there. He had only planed to mingle with the guests and familiarize himself with the partying atmosphere that so many tried to convince him was "cool". Jeffery

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    The paper is about the book titled The Bronze Horseman‚ written by Paullina Simons (2002). The book focuses on a young adolescent girl named Tatiana and her time living in Leningrad‚ Russia when Hitler begins his invasion. She is 16 when the book first begins. She faces many trials and tribulations‚ many situations in which she has to grow up rather quickly‚ face things as an adult would have to as she becomes of age‚ and even a love interest‚ which doesn’t completely over power the story of her

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    Assignment 5 Part1 Option B Read carefully the following piece of text. What does it tell us about cross cultural encounters? In 1892 the new vice-consul for the Benin river section Captain Henry Gallwey visited Benin and signed a treaty which made Benin a British protectorate‚ but as far as the British were concerned the treaty proved disappointing and by 1896 many British traders and officials were calling for military intervention‚ although the foreign office seemed reluctant to do this

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    James Joyce - An encounter

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    Joyce’s ‚‚An Encounter ” An encounter is a short story and also a part of the collection named Dubliners written by James Joyce in 1914. Dubliners is a great literary work of the 20th Century‚ a real masterpiece. Because of its structure and unity of themes‚ it can be read as a novel. The stories are based on the author’s personal experiences in Ireland. They are stories of desperate lives lived on the margins. Dublin was‚ to Joyce‚ ‘the centre of paralysis’. An encounter describes the

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    Service Encounter Report

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    Service Encounter Report 1.0 Introduction The purpose of this report is to critically evaluate the services encounter using service marketing perspective. In order to do this report‚ I had experience few service industries around Kota Kinabalu area. I had took six encounters service as my journal entries and two of the journal entries will use to develop this report which is the most and least satisfactory service encounter. The encounters that I had chosen will reflect different type of satisfaction

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