Immortal Jellyfish In the history of alchemy‚ the only way to achieve immortality is to drink the elixir of life‚ or to create the legendary philosopher’s stone. For centuries‚ many alchemists searched but failed to find the secrets to immortality. But‚ surprisingly‚ one organism already obtains immortality without the elixir of life or the philosopher’s stone. Turritopsis nutricula‚ otherwise known as the immortal jellyfish‚ is a type of jellyfish that can revert back to a younger stage after
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Major work of the composer’s early style. It is also a landmark piece of XX.th century piano music. Premiered in 1950 by Yvette Grimaux this Sonata is stupefying by the accomplishment of a young composer aged 23. Even though molded in the classical Sonata model it also displays an amazing novelty in its discourse. Showcasing a high rhythmical complexity‚ probably inspired by Messiaen’s researches it also distinguishes itself by its departure from the Schoenberg concept of the tone-series. Sonic
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Elizabeth Elizalde AP Literature 10/28/15 Allusions Study (Mythical and Biblical) Mythology (Greco-Roman) Icarus and Daedalus This classic ancient greek myth is about an exceptionally clever inventor named Daedalus who uses his talents to escape the island of Crete with his son Icarus. Before the conflict began King Minos asked Daedalus to build him a maze to imprison the Minotaur‚ years later Daedalus helps Theseus navigate through the labyrinth which infuriated King Minos. Desperately needing
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Romanticism and Rationalism Romanticism began in the mid-18th century and reached its height in the 19th century. The Romantic literature of the nineteenth century holds in its topics the ideals of the time period‚ concentrating on emotion‚ nature‚ and the expression of "nothing." The Romantic era was one that focused on the commonality of humankind and‚ while using emotion and nature; the poets and their works shed light on people’s universal natures. Romanticism as a movement declined in the late
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Notes for the ppt of Neoclassicism & Romanticism Slide 2 The Neoclassical Movement During the late 18th and early 19th centuries in the Western Europe‚ several artistic style competed for the primacy. Paris and Rome has become the centers of Western art world. Since the king at that time is Louis XIV‚ who has a classic flavor‚ the Neoclassicism arose out of several artistic styles. Neoclassictism is a revival of the ancient styles and spirit inspired directly from the classical
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Everybody in college hates papers. Students hate writing them so much that they buy‚ borrow‚ or steal them instead. Plagiarism is now so commonplace that if we flunked every kid who did it‚ we’d have a worse attrition rate than a MOOC. And on those rare occasions undergrads do deign to compose their own essays‚ said exegetic masterpieces usually take them all of half an hour at 4 a.m. to write‚ and consist accordingly of “arguments” that are at best tangentially related to the coursework‚ font-manipulated
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The Hot Zone Reading Guide PART ONE: THE SHADOW OF MOUNT ELGON Something in the forest: 1. Describe three ways the Kinshasa Highways quickened the spread of the HIV virus. a. Drivers were the carriers of this disease and spread it when they traveled from town to town b. Prostitues and truck stops c. Drivers often enter different towns 2. In what ways can a deadly virus be spread to humanity? AIrborne‚ in water‚ direct contact‚ through blood. Jumper: 3. Monet has "crashed" and
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Athena cursed Medusa‚ a once beautiful priestess devoted to a life of celibacy‚ for marrying Poseidon and violating Athena’s temple. Ugliness and deformity challenged the Greek ideal (Pelasgos‚ 1981). Quasimodo‚ as the Hunchback of Notre Dame‚ was a deformed and pitiable
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Promiscuous‚ Testosterone‚ Who knows. Since Bk times‚ Women have been sexually harassed by their beauty or the attire they wear. Women feel it is their fault when they ponder to themselves that if they encouraged the men to do the actions towards them. As a woman‚ if you are abandoned by the victimizer‚ you tend to feel weak and perceive men as predators and ourselves as the bait. Women encourage men to harass them by their beauty and the way they dress--unknowingly making it their own fault.. Ovid
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Immortality Immortality Immortality: The ability to live forever; an eternal life. Immortality‚ the longest endeavour man has ever dared‚ from the Ancient Egyptians to the Monarchs of the Dynasties of China‚ to even now we still are trying to become Immortal. In my opinion there never will be full immortality‚ but many people do in my opinion this quote by Harriet Martineau is more to the truth; “We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it‚ but we try to prove it because we cannot
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