Greek people value family‚ church‚ work‚ and children. They have the passion for life and to live life to the fullest. They all wanted to come to America to have freedom and opportunity. Many people of the culture came little to nothing‚ but had big dreams. For example‚ some people would start from the bottom and work hard to end on the top. May business that opened in New York‚ such as restaurants were Greek. They brought their food and ingredients to the American culture to make profits. Furthermore
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The amazingly innovative and revolutionary culture of the Greeks is a very broad subject to say the least. The Greeks have more than enough to brag about‚ but there is one thing that the Greeks did best in my opinion. This is the field of architecture. Architecture is a way of expression that has been used by many cultures and civilizations over thousands of years. The Greek culture is by far the most beautiful and mathematically advanced culture in the field of architecture in the B
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Originating from the same hearth‚ Russian mythology and Greek mythology have so many similarities caused by being in the same cultural tree. The few differences are from the branches splitting off. Although ancient Russia and ancient Greece are thousand years apart from each other‚ Russian mythology and Greek mythology almost mirror reflect each other in the values the gods represent‚ the traits the heroes possess‚ and the notions the myths contribute to modern times‚ just like a pair of “fraternal
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Both Ancient Greek and Ancient Chinese are remarkably magnificent‚ a billion people believe the intellectual from Ancient Greece and Chinese traditional thoughts. The achievements of ancient Greek and Chinese from 2000 years or more before are remarkably different. Those civilizations were formed in different regions and climates with different ancestors. In some parts‚ of course‚ they have similarities. For example‚ both developed with empire. Ancient Greek’s political approach shares some similarities
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A huge part of the spiritual and the intellectual values of today stemmed from combining the ideals of Greek and Norse mythology. By looking at the beliefs held today and those from the beginning of time‚ a lot of similarities can be found. It is amazing that these two vastly different ideals were able to combine in order to help shape society today. Greek mythology was created in order to break away from the horrors of a barbaric world‚ and therefore is more enchanted‚ dreamy‚ and joyous. Whereas
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Greek sculptures always focus on having an accurate representation of the human form. In their culture the adult male body was perfect‚ compared to the body of a child‚ or woman. You can almost be certain that the males in these Greek sculptures had an athletic physique. The physically fit appearance was so important to them that even young children were sculpted with protruding muscles. Another tell-tale characteristic of Greek styling is the positioning of the legs‚ positioning more weight on one
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In the Greek myths‚ the beginning of the world‚ or being that began the world was Chaos who Gaia or Ge sprang from. Gaia then mated with Uranus‚ the sky‚ and the rest of the earthly creations were begot. Amid the Maya creation stories‚ everything came from the
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a central unit of worship in almost all Christian churches‚ but communion has been a source of conflict among Christians. The Eucharist can vary in tradition among the many denominations of Christianity. Because I attended the Catholic Church and Greek Orthodox Church‚ I will be focusing on one difference and two similarities between them. Both of these branches of Christianity do not agree on what the bread and wine actually represent or mean.
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developed their own beliefs about life and death‚ and therefore there is a wide diversity of what cultures value the most. While Greeks value life and glory‚ Egyptians believed in immortality and the soul. The views of these cultures can be appreciated through their art; and their views about death‚ specifically‚ can be seen in sarcophagi and coffins. Both Egyptian and Greek art had different approaches to the building of their coffins‚ and these differences correspond to what the cultures valued most
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There are many Greek influences that still affect us today such as Democracy. The Greeks created the world’s first democracy. Athens started out as a monarchy and then advanced to and oligarchy until it finally reached a democracy. The government consisted of over 6‚000 assembly members all of whom were adult male citizens. The assembly voted on issues throughout Athens‚ and passed laws. The required number of votes to pass a law was simply the majority but in order to banish or exile someone 6‚000
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