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    (Elgin Marbles) Art 1010 “It may be unfair‚ but what happens in a few days‚ sometimes even a single day‚ can change the course of a whole lifetime...” ― Khaled Hosseini‚ The Kite Runner As an educator‚ I spend more time than I ever would like to count. Specifically dealing with issues of property seem to take more time than teaching math facts. When teaching human language‚ the words Mom‚ No‚ and Mine must be a global phenomenon that has been impacting generation upon generation. All the

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    10 December 2014 Youth in Sculpture Marble sculpture resurfaced as one of the primary forms of media in Greek art around the middle of the seventh century B.C.E.. The advent of monumental sculpture was a huge development. “The Marble Statue of a Kouros (Youth)” or “The Metropolitan Kouros” towers with immense strength at six feet four inches. This Greek kouros‚ a term given to free standing sculpture representing the male youth‚ is one of the earliest marble statues of a human figure created in

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    except Learning Activity 8 The “Elgin Marbles” are Ancient Greek art from The Parthenon in Greece‚ named this after Lord Elgin. The ancient art was acquired by Britain‚ initially through Lord Elgin’s removal from the Parthenon during his time as an Ottoman ambassador in Athens‚ Greece. He somehow convinced the Ottoman emperor to allow him to take the ancient art‚ beginning in 1805. The British government purchased the ancient artifacts from Lord Elgin and placed them in the British Museum‚

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    Claim: The construction industry would crumble without rocks. Rationale: Marble is a renewable resource‚ which means it doesn’t run out‚ that’s one of the reasons of why it is used a lot. it is used in buildings for mostly interior uses‚ but sometimes also exterior uses. It is also used in sculptures. Marble flooring is very popular around the construction industry‚ this is because marble conveys a good visual appearance and has good durability. Though‚ like every material it should be take care

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    The Elgin Depot Museum wants more local visitors The American Orient Express‚ a luxury passenger train‚ offered travelers a ‘cruise on wheels’ experience‚ from 1989 to late 2008. Passengers traveled in lavish train cars from the 1940s and 50s‚ and dome cars were added in the mid-2000s allowing passengers to travel in style with panoramic‚ breathtaking views as they traveled throughout North America. Trips ranged from seven to ten days‚ traveling to and through continental destinations such as

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    space occur randomly. Selected Answer: TRUE Correct Answer: TRUE Response Feedback: This is the definition of theoretical probability.  Question 9 2 out of 2 points A bag contains 5 white marbles‚ 4 black marbles‚ and 1 red marbles. Find the probability of picking a black marble? Selected Answer:      Correct Answer:      Response Feedback: P(event) =      Question 10 0 out of 2 points What is the probability of rolling

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    viscosity will affect the time it takes for a marble to flow through a liquid. Hypothesis: If a marble is dropped into dish soap and corn syrup‚ than I predict that the marble in the dish soap will travel faster than the marble in the corn syrup because I know that the viscosity of the corn syrup is thicker than then the viscosity of the dish soap. Also‚ the particles in the corn syrup are more compact than those in the dish soap. This makes the marble sink faster in the dish soap than the corn

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    During the nine years of construction‚ new precision construction techniques were used and applied to the marble construction‚ with the end result being a structure so large and so beautiful to the eye‚ unlike any other ever constructed before. One of the key points of the documentary was how precise the Greeks were in their construction and skill when it came to shaping and assembling the marble used in the Parthenon. It’s made very clear that while it did take nine years for completion‚ a product

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    very tall statue made out of marble with an off white color. It comes from the Roman culture for the duration of the 2nd-century A.D copy after a Greek original of about 360 B.C. The sculpture has curly hair with a calm and kind expression on her face and a broken nose. She is posed standing straight with a serpent across her shoulder holding a bowl‚ and she’s wearing a long robe with a head covering. According to marble sculpture on the website wikipedia says‚ “Marble is a metamorphic rock derived

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