Triumph or Tragedy Pottery Ancient Greece An amphora is an ancient Greek form of a container‚ used as a storage jar and one of the principal shapes in greek pottery‚ a two-handled pot with a neck narrower than the body. There are two types of amphorae. One of the most common forms made in Ancient Greek Pottery‚ was always with two vertical neck-handles and used for storing and transporting oil‚ wine and foodstuffs
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did not make sense at that time in their cultural development. As part of this‚ ancient cultures created deities to help bring understanding to the unexplainable. In many ways‚ these deities also were reflection on the societies themselves. The ancient Greek and ancient Egyptian societies had both developed theocratic cultures‚ with multiple defined deities that each represented an unknown part of the world‚ such as life after death‚ procreation‚ and the sun. In many ways‚ these deities also were reflection
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Physics IN OUR DAILY LIVES “Any sort of technology which we uses IN our daily life is related to Physics.” Physics is the science of matter and its motion‚ space-time and energy. Physics describes many forms of energy - such as kinetic energy‚ electrical energy‚ and mass; and the way energy can change from one form to another. Everything surrounding to us is made of matter and Physics explains matter as combinations of fundamental particles which are interacting through fundamental forces. It will
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The ancient Greece city-states had several different forms of government‚ monarchy‚tyranny‚ oligarchy‚ democracy‚ and aristocracy‚ each with their own strengths and weaknesses. Not all city-states maintained a uniformly way of government‚ and not each city-state maintain a single type of government during that time period. Depending on where you were and when you were determined what government type. A monarch by definition from the website dictionary.com is “a hereditary sovereign‚ as a king
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yours. Too many readers are intimidated and humbled by what they can’t understand‚ and in some cases that’s precisely the effect the writer is after. But confusion is not complexity; it’s just confusion. A venerable tradition‚ dating back to the ancient Greek orators‚ teaches that if you don’t know what you’re talking about‚ just ratchet up the level of difficulty and no one will ever know." "Don’t confuse simplicity‚ though‚ with simplemindedness. A good writer can express an extremely complicated
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’status quo’. It presents the opportunity for evolution and possibly‚ even revolution. So just as there would be as many to embrace it‚ there would an an equal force to deter it. This can even be seen in generational works‚ going as far back as the Ancient Greek tales of Prometheus. Prometheus‚ represented by the works of Aeschylus (Prometheus Bound) and Hesiod (Theogony/Works and Days)‚ is demonstrated in light and dark differences between the two author’s tales. Both bring the world views of their
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In Ancient Greece‚ warfare was predominant war of life. Greeces terrain was very mountainous. Because of this there were many city states. There was constant war between these states for territorial expansion‚ revenge or sometimes just honor. In the early stages of the geek warfare‚ the Archaic period‚ training was disorganized and weapons were pretty bad. Although soldiers were paid‚ they were only paid enough to make them survive the day (enough for food‚ cloth‚ etc.). Soldiers didn’t have any
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Animal testing had been around since the time of the ancient Greeks. In the past‚ animal were only used for researching anatomy and how organs worked in those specific animals. Now animals are used to test pharmaceuticals and cosmetics. Animals were used in the ancient days to study anatomy. Herophilus and Erasistratus‚ two Greek scientists‚ for example‚ examined sensory nerves‚ motor nerves‚ and tendons in order to understand their functional differences(Animal Testing: A Long‚ Unpretty History)
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HELLENIC AGE PHILOSOPHY • Greeks used observation and reason to find causes for what happened • Ethics and morality • In Athens‚ Sophism- success is more important than moral truth o Rhetoric- art of skillful speaking o Socrates- Sophist‚ Athenian philosopher ▪ Socratic Method- pose series of questions to students and challenge them to examine the implications of their answers o Plato- student of Socrates ▪ Emphasized the
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kinds of shapes and their properties in our daily life problems. Plane geometry - It is about all kinds of two dimensional shapes such as lines‚ circles and triangles. Solid geometry - It is about all kinds of three dimensional shapes like polygons‚ prisms‚ pyramids‚ sphere‚ cylinder. The word Geometry comes from Greek which means earth and metron. Geometry used in variousobjects such as surveying‚ astronomy‚ navigation and building etc of daily life application. Geometry is actually called
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