between Britain and Greece on whether the “Elgin Marbles”‚ also known as the “Parthenon Marbles” should or should not be returned to the rightful owner. It is important to understand what the Elgin Marbles are and the history of them. I will bring forward a few points on why I think they should be returned back to Greece. Keywords: britain‚ greece‚ elgin‚ parthenon‚ return The Elgin Marbles I think the Elgin Marbles‚ also known as the Parthenon Marbles should be returned back to Greece. These classical
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Amazon Dividend policy Amazon.com (NASDAQ.AMZA) had one of the best performing stocks of the internet era. When their stocks collapse in the early 2000’s along with their peers‚ when the internet boom briefly turned broken‚ Amazon decided to broaden its original scope‚ going beyond the book market and include all things e-retail. The company also went in new directions with initiatives that eventually led to the cloud-computing pioneer Amazon Web Services and a host of other business ideas. The
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Syringe  Glass Flask  Calcium Carbonate  Hydrochloric Acid Variable Factors The factors that could slow down or speed up this reaction are:  The size of the Calcium Carbonate (marble) pieces This will affect how fast the acid reacts with the marble‚ the smaller the pieces‚ the bigger the surface area so the reaction can take place faster.  The amount of Calcium Carbonate The more calcium carbonate there is‚ the more carbon dioxide will be produced
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Tragedy at Wounded Knee Response Indians in America from the beginning of the new world have always been mistreated. Our American government has run them off their lands massacred thousands and taken their means of life. We killed off all their buffalo made them migrate to camps or reservations were the ground was unable to grow the Indians crops. So the Indians no longer had buffalo to live off or land that was sufficient enough to grow food they were not able to survive the way they were able
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christian people that despite not knowing what he actually looked like‚ artists throughout history have erected many statues in his honor. In this essay I will present a comparison of three statues of David. In chronological order we will look at the David statues of Donatello‚ Andrea Del Verrocchio and Michelangelo finding similarities and differences in the various aspects of these statues. Donatello’s "David" was his landmark work‚ the first work of its kind in over a thousand years‚ and helped to
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selected is “Statue of a Lion” and has the accession number AO 19520‚ AO 19824. "Statue of a Lion” originated from Mari; however‚ it is currently housed in The Louvre. Showcased in the piece I have chosen are characteristics that aid classifying this object as a 2nd millennium B.C. Mesopotamian art. Characteristics that support its classification are the physical features‚ purpose‚ and comparanda works. Damaged artifacts can appear to have diminutive value‚ this mind frame is obsolete. “Statue of a Lion”
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When approaching gallery 166 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art‚ I couldn’t help but notice the magnificent sculpture of the “Bronze statue of Camillus (acolyte).” As I began to study some background information on the early Imperial period of Roman culture‚ one would learn that there was an evident revival. The Romans were building at a fast pace and religious sacrifices were becoming more common. Throughout this Roman period‚ a Camillus (male) or Camilla (female) was the freeborn child of the religious
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period of 600-480 BCE statues called Kore‚ which is the female version‚ and a male version called Kouros. One purpose they served which was not as common was they would be placed at the grave of the person who passed away. They would often have a paragraph saying what and
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Society is a glass statue hanging on the edge of a cliff. It is only held on by thin strings that keep it from crashing. If one string was cut‚ society would slip and crack. These crucial strings are held tightly in place by an anchor. That anchor is respect. If respect were uprooted all the strings would fail and the glass statue would topple and shatter on the ground. A bad society is one without respect. Without respect people would do whatever they wanted because they would not care if
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Wounded Warriors continue to pay the ultimate price The charity Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) is a house hold name it seems these days. Everyone has heard of the charity‚ specifically after the 9/11 attacks which ignited a war in Afghanistan and Iraq in 2001. The purpose of the Wounded Warrior Project is stated on their website and quoted below: • To raise awareness and enlist the public’s aid for the needs of injured service members. • To help injured service members aid and assist each other.
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