favorite part of the exhibit because of how massive and intriguing the giant statue is. I love seeing metaphors within the sculpture such as Medusa’s head adorned across Athena’s shield‚ indication to the old Greek mythology story where Athena slayed Medusa. I feel as if this piece shows great significance to Greek beliefs that the gods protected them. The serpent beside Athena is said to represent the people of Athens and Athena’s shield protects the serpent‚ as she does them. This assumption only further
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Afterwards‚ the notion of “they rock” can be seen as the faster and unshaken movement of the whales because the faster they rock the more they can get the chance to reach the “depth of the seven seas easily which is a metaphoric usage.To illustrate the word “sensual” is important with its sudden intervention as the meaning might get changed because even though the whales are portrayed with the act of rocking‚ their sexual side is demonstrated.In that sense‚the narrator portrayed the whales with
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How could two pieces created in different art movements share similar traits? Salvador Dali’s Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening and Georgio De Chirico’s The Disquieting Muses are surprisingly similar. Both paintings take the viewer into the dream world by using different elements‚ principles‚ and subject matter. Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening was an oil on canvas painting (20 in x 15.9 in) created
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ANIMAL DIVERSITY Systematics • study of biological diversity and its origins Its arms TAXONOMY focus on properly describing‚ identifying‚ classifying‚ and naming of organisms. CLASSIFICATION focus on placing organisms within groups that show their relationships to other organisms. Writing a scientific name. • Kimberlicus beltranus • Kimberlicus beltranus The Protozoans Protozoa Alveolates Ciliates Sporozoans Dinozoans Amoeboids Amoebozoa Cercozoa
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Dante and his Mentor‚ Virgil Dante’s Inferno is the story of a middle-aged man’s journey through the varying circles of Hell where he encounters numerous people including previous popes‚ famous philosophers‚ and former acquaintances receiving the appropriate punishment for their respective crimes. In literature‚ it is common for a hero to undergo a journey‚ whether it is emotional‚ physical‚ or spiritual‚ where his or her battlement of substantial obstacles results in a significant change in persona
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away. He wanted to be honorable and courageous and not take the easy way out and instead he walked all the way to Athens. Perseus is categorized as a great hero of Greece because he was honorable and courageous during his quest to find and slay Medusa to save his mother from being forced to marry the evil King Polydectes. During his quest‚ Perseus was courageous when he went into Medusa’s lair knowing what could’ve become of him. But yet‚ Perseus still proceeded to walk into her lair and use the
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CHAPTER NO-5 KINGDOM ANIMALIA Phylum Porifera (GK: Porous = Pores + Ferro = form) Main characters: 1. They are commonly called as sponges. 2. They are sessile animals. 3. Sponges range in height from about 1cm to 2cm. 4. More than 5000 species of sponges are found. 5. All are marine‚ while some are fresh water. 6. The central body cavity is called spongocoel. 7. A single large opening is called as osculum. 8. They are filter feeders. 9. Body lining is formed by flagellated cells
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slowly‚ ever so slowly‚ they pushed out everyone and everything else in his life‚ until the world was only him and his guitar and his songs. Somewhere in there‚ he lost the girl‚ and he didn’t even realize until it was too late that she was gone. The muses and the music pushed him hard then‚ with nothing else to temper his drive or tie him to the real world‚ and his fame grew. Soon‚ a word of praise from him was enough to pluck an unknown musician from obscurity‚ and they came from everywhere‚ begging
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defense. ("Marine Life Profile: Sea Anemones”) The two basic body forms among the cnidarians are the polyp‚ which looks flower-like‚ and lives attached to the seafloor; and the medusa (jellyfish)‚ which is umbrella-shaped and floats in the water. In some cnidarians‚ the life cycle includes both the polyp form and the medusa form. Although less conspicuous there are more sea animals that are found on the oceans floor. Great gardens of beautiful creatures‚ sea anemones alone are comprised of a large
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John Winthrop’s “Model of Christian Charity‚” Anne Bradstreet’s The Tenth Muse‚ and Cotton Mather’s Wonders of the Invisible World connect and juxtapose world events during the 1600s. Winthrop supposedly presented his “Model of Christian Charity” sermon on the Arabella en route from England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. While the Mayflower Compact was not a sermon‚ it connects to Winthrop’s sermon in two ways. First‚ both are significant to the ships they were presented on‚ the Mayflower and Arabella
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