contrapposto. If you examine the sculpture of David‚ you can see that the body is placing all of its weight onto the right leg‚ while the left leg stays relaxed. This causes the body’s hips and shoulders to rest at opposite angles‚ giving it a slight s-curve to the entire torso. The way the body is positioned gives it a natural and almost human stance. Thus‚ contrapposto was considered the perfect pose for the human figure and is continued to be widely employed in sculpture. If you examine David‚ you
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Introduction to Italian High Renaissance Neoplatonism Renaissance Humanism was the most significant intellectual movement of the Renaissance. It was beginning in Italy and spreading to the rest of Europe such as Hungary‚ Poland by the 16th century. It blended concern for the history and actions of human beings with religious concerns. The humanists were scholars and artists who studied subjects that they believed would help them better understand the problems of humanity. Its influence affected
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In the 1600s‚ when America was a mysterious land inhabited by even more mysterious people‚ a handful of brave souls ventured to this strange new world. These brave souls were known as the Puritans. This special group of people sought refuge in America to practice their religion freely‚ without the ‘corruption of the church’ back in their homeland. Puritans believed that the law‚ economy and social lives of the people should be completely controlled by their one God. These Puritans had a strong developmental
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Best Practices in Implementing Work-Life Balance Programs Srirang Jha Apeejay School of Management‚ New Delhi E-mail: sjha.asm@gmail.com Swarn Kant Mishra Footwear Design & Development Institute‚ Noida E-mail: mishra.swarnkant@gmail.com Abstract Work-life balance programs are important for contemporary organizations not only for ensuring long-term wellbeing and good health of the employees but also to attain long-term competitiveness. There have been a number of researches establishing relationship
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The Roaring Twenties is traditionally viewed as an era of great economic prosperity driven by the introduction of a wide array of new consumer goods. The North American economy‚ particularly the economy of the US‚ transitioned from a wartime economy to a peacetime economy; the economy subsequently boomed. The United States augmented its standing as the richest country in the world‚ its industry aligned to mass production and its society acculturated into consumerism. In Europe‚ the economy did not
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"The struggle for women’s rights‚ and the task of creating a new United Nations‚ able to promote peace and the values which nurture and sustain it‚ are one and the same. Today more than ever the cause of women is the cause of all humanity." Secretary General Boutros BoutrosGhali Iraq continues to show discrimination against women’s rights and gender bias by creating a bill that would lower the age of marriage for girls from age thirteen to age nine.
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DBQ 1: Women’s Suffrage Analyze and compare the major points of view concerning suffrage and the ways in which individual commentators believed woman suffrage would affect the political and social order. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries women were being oppressed by not being allowed to vote‚ this made them less “value” as compared to the male gender. The point of view concerning woman suffrage was greatly affected by the gender role and the political standing of the person in question
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Why did Piedmont become‚ and remain‚ the driving force towards closer Italian unity in the years 1848-61? In‚ 1849 when the Piedmontese army was embarrassingly defeated by the Austrian army at the battle of Novara‚ you could say that Piedmont was the most unlikely Italian state to be responsible for Italian unity. People thought that Piedmont would never really recover‚ especially when Charles Albert abdicated through shire disappointment and embarrassment of northern Italy trying to fight Austria
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Harvard Business School 9-693-028 Rev. September 23‚ 1996 McDonald’s Corporation Whether in Moscow or Massachusetts‚ the same experience would greet a customer in any of the 12‚611 McDonald’s quick-service restaurants worldwide. McDonald’s had distinguished itself in the quick-service industry through its remarkable consistency across all units. To competitors and customers alike‚ the Golden Arches—the corporate emblem that adorned every restaurant— symbolized pleasant‚ fast service and tasty
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From the Medieval times and into the High Renaissance period‚ art went through a long progressive transformation. As art progressed over time‚ it reflected the transformation of societal and cultural values that went along with it. One of the major transformations that can be seen is the social status and perception of the Artist‚ going from mere craftsmen to artistic genius. Evidently‚ this is shown in Giorgio Vasari’s Lives of the Artists where he goes into various in-depth descriptions on the
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