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    Parvati The Body

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    Montserrat Our Bodies Seminar 100N-01 September 28‚ 2015 The bronze Parvati‚ Consort of Shiva sculpture is a representation of Parvati as a pervasive female force reflecting theological ideals. Parvati is depicted with a sensuous figure and as Shiva’s other half. She represents the active principle and strength of god influenced by Hindu religion and history. The sculptures of Parvati‚ Consort of Shiva and the Buddha are both bronze sculptures created during the Chola period‚ yet there is a clear

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    Ancient China

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    ancient Chinese inventions are used today. The ancient Chinese used characters and symbols as their written language. They invented many things which we still use today. Some of their inventions were: kites‚ silk cloth‚ fireworks‚ compass‚ and bronze. The Great Wall of China was built by Shi Huangdi. He united China and built a strong‚ centralized‚ authoritarian government. His most remarkable achievement was building the Great Wall . The Ancient Dynasties [Picture of Huang Di’s

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    The chemical element copper‚ with Atomic Number 29‚ has been extensively used for thousands of years because of several primary properties that have dictated its use throughout history. Among them we can count durability‚ strength and‚ as a semi-noble metal‚ good resistance to corrosion. With a hardness of 3 on the Mohs scale‚ pure copper is relatively soft and malleable‚ which makes it an easy metal to work with. Analyses of artefacts from lithic civilizations have shown that native copper had not

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    Collins and Wood have referred to the Bible and the times of the Patriarchs and their lives including Abraham‚ Sarah‚ and Lot. However they see these individuals of Biblical history at different times and settings. Wood refers to it as the Early Bronze Age or EBA. He references to the time of Lot and Abraham coming to a point of separation Gen. 13:10-13. Another reference that has been located according to wood is the City Gate that Lot sat at

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    University of Phoenix Material Understanding the Research Process Resources: Ch. 1‚ 2‚ and & 7 of Psychology This required Portfolio assignment will provide you with the opportunity to practice and hone your research skills. It has been designed to help you think scientifically about real world problems and issues and to apply your knowledge of the research process to various topics in Psychology. This assignment accomplishes that goal by challenging you to: • Differentiate between the

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    Greek Archaeology

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    their studies‚ archaeologists attempt to reconstruct past ways of life. In this class we discussed and learned about the evolution of human being culture living in Greece and the surrounding Aegean Islands through the Paleolithic Age up until the Late Bronze Age. We got to see how archaeologists learn about the past through the study of material remains and how the different remains help us to understand the Greek civilization of the time period and how it has developed with the changing of the material

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    Stone Tools

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    StoneTools A stone tool is‚ in the most general sense‚ any tool made either partially or entirely out of stone. Although stone tool-dependent societies and cultures still exist today‚ most stone tools are associated with prehistoric‚ particularly Stone Age cultures that have become extinct. Archaeologists often study such prehistoric societies‚ and refer to the study of stone tools as lithic analysis. Stone has been used to make a wide variety of different tools throughout history‚ including arrow

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    Shiva Historical Context

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    dance that is commonly used in the traditional India culture and art. Comparing to the contrapposto pose‚ Tribhanga means break of a body in three parts; at the “neck‚ waist and knee” (Purana 2006). Shiva Nataraja is a large statue depicted out of bronze. His body is idealized without any fatness and no scars or marks are presented. The sculpture was done in a non-stop movement as his hands reaching towards the space. Shiva’s face is idealized and naturalized. It is smooth‚ handsome face without any

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    transport their resources and trading goods to other local Phoenician city-states that do not have those particular resources in the area (Peckman 2014). Several of the resources and trade goods the Phoenicians merchants traded in the city-states include bronze bowls‚ cedar wood for ship making‚ pottery from local groups in the Levant region‚ perfumes and a purplish dye called Murex (Peckman 2014:68). The Ancient Greeks and Romans referred to the Phoenicians as the “traders of purple” because the main trading

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    Goatman is a suspicious character that thrived as a Demon-like man with bronze horns of a goat and the body of Cerberus‚ The 3-headed dog‚ which was the guardian of the underworld in Greek Mythology “Thick-skulled Goatman” was a character with many anger issues That he took out on the maccaroni warriors of planet Hickombottom Far away in the Snickers galaxy “Taunt me foul beasts (Jello dragons)”‚ “These weakling warriors are of no challenge anymore”‚ After he ruthlessly pummeled the small

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