World culture quiz Question 1 2 out of 2 points | | | Why did the arts develop in Mesopotamia?Answer | | | | | Selected Answer: | As celebrations of the priest-kings’ power | Correct Answer: | As celebrations of the priest-kings’ power | | | | | Question 2 2 out of 2 points | | | What did lost-wax casting enable the Mesopotamian sculptors to create?Answer | | | | | Selected Answer: | Larger and more lightweight bronze pieces | Correct Answer: | Larger
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De Profundis Oscar Wilde De Profundis DE PROFUNDIS . . . Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods‚ and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one centre of pain. The paralysing immobility of a life every circumstance of which is regulated after an unchangeable pattern‚ so
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and of man" in the 16th century. The great Swiss historian Jakob Burckhardt‚ in his classic The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860)‚ expanded on Michelet’s conception. Defining the Renaissance as the period between the Italian painters Giotto and Michelangelo‚ Burckhardt characterized the epoch as nothing less than the birth of modern humanity and consciousness after a long period of decay. Modern scholars have exploded the myth that the Middle Ages were dark and dormant. The thousand
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Pregnancy From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia This article is about pregnancy in humans. For pregnancy in other animals‚ see pregnancy (mammals). Page semi-protected Pregnancy | Classification and external resources | A pregnant woman. | ICD-10 | Z33 | ICD-9 | 650 | DiseasesDB | 10545 | MedlinePlus | 002398 | eMedicine | article/259724 | MeSH | D011247 | Pregnancy is the fertilization and development of one or more
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TALK ON ART WORDS AND PHRASES FOR THE TOPIC a) picture — картина drawing — рисунок cartoon [kaː’tuːn] — карикатура engraving — гравюра etching — офорт panel — панно mosaik [mə’zeɪɪk] — мозаика print — эстамп (self-)portrait — (авто)портрет fresco — фреска statue — статуя bust [bʌst] — бюст sculpture — скульптура b) genre [ʒa:nr] — жанр landscape — пейзаж seascape — морской пейзаж‚ марина still life — натюрморт battle piece painting — батальная живопись genre
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DIVINE COMEDY INFERNO Inferno section 1: Dante’s journey through Hell (Inferno)‚ Purgatory (Purgatorio)‚ and Heaven (Paradiso) takes place in 1300‚ at the midpoint of his life. Dante sets himself as the narrator and main character of this epic poem. His flight through Hell begins in a dark and unknown forest. As Dante wanders through the woods he comes to a hill above which shines the first sunlight that he has encountered in the forest. But as Dante begins to climb the hill a leopard blocks
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HIST 100: Part 4 The Middle Ages Dr. Maureen Miller http://chnm.gmu.edu/courses/westernciv/video/miller1.html Introduction The period we are going to study this week is called the Middle Ages. By this term‚ historians generally mean to denote the history of Western Europe from the end of the Roman Empire in the west until the Italian Renaissance: roughly‚ 400-1400 AD. No one living in Europe from the fifth to the fifteenth century‚ of course‚ thought of themselves as living in a “middle age
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Direct Hits Toughest Vocabulary of the SAT: Volume 2 2011 Edition By Larry Krieger Edited by Ted Griffith This copy belongs to: Copyright © 2011 by Direct Hits Publishing All Rights Reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means‚ including information storage and retrieval systems‚ without permission in writing from the publisher‚ except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review. For more information‚ please contact us
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REALITIES OF LIFE Men and women’s ways of thinking‚ behaving In Virginia Wolf’s To the Lighthouse‚ the reality of differences and inequities among the sexes is manifest throughout the book. Mrs. Ramsay’s thoughts about men and their status in society‚ shows the culture of society during that period of time. She is a compassionate woman and has an especially soft spot for young men. “She had the whole of the other sex under her protection…for their chivalry and valor…they negotiate treaties‚ ruled
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1.01 How Did the Roman Empire Expand? Have you ever played an app in which you have to build a zoo‚ city‚ or farm? If so‚ you know that your zoo does not become full of animals overnight. You must raise capital to add animals to your zoo. The more imaginary coins you have‚ the more land and animals you can purchase. Like these imaginary civilizations‚ the Roman Empire‚ too‚ took time to build. It did not just emerge overnight. The city of Rome was founded by a group of people called the Latins
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