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    one another. He paints the faces very clear and makes sure the hands are always visible. Bouguereau proportions the hands in front of the bodies usually. He was known for painting beautiful faces‚ hands and feet. His subject matter is female nudity‚ nymphs‚ young children and angels. He painted so many nudes it’s as if he were obsessed with the female body. Bouguereau used charcoal paint and pencil. Many of his paintings are oil on canvas. Bouguereau showed contrast by using a shading technique called

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    French culture - essay

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    Study of French Culture Final Essay Introduction When looking through French history during the Versailles Period‚ there’s something attracts me a lot: it seems that “mistress” plays an important role throughout the history. It’s an interesting phenomenon as the word “mistress” tends to be related with “secret” in many cultures. While in French culture‚ there’s even a word “Maîtresse-en-titre” which means “official mistress” 1. It seems that you cannot speak about a king without

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    makes him to lose sight of who is actually is and has caused him to do things that he would not do if he were home—betraying his wife by sleeping with nymphs and other mystical women. Just because he is away from home for years and is feeling lonely is not necessarily an excuse for him to be unfaithful. Odysseus is held captive by Calypso‚ a nymph‚ for seven years on her island—where she falls madly in love with him but he is not taken by her at first. Over the course of the seven years‚ Odysseus

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    who have your eyeballs vexed and tired‚ Feast them upon the wideness of the Sea; O ye! whose ears are dinn’d with uproar rude‚ Or fed too much with cloying melody‚ – Sit ye near some old cavern’s mouth‚ and brood Until ye start‚ as if the sea-nymphs quired! This poem speaks about the solace and freedom that can be found in nature. The sea is the embodiment of nature here‚ and is presented in great contrast to the artificiality of urban life. As a Romantic‚ Keats was inclined to reject the new

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    on humans accidentally. Deer ticks go through three life stages. The first stage is the larva. The larvae are small and tan colored. They usually feed on things like chipmunks‚ mice‚ and other small animals. Nymphs are a little bit larger than the larva. They are beige with a dark head. Nymphs usually feed on larger animals such as birds and raccoons. The adults vary in color depending if they are males or females. They usually feed on cats‚ dogs‚ and humans. Deer ticks are usually found in grassy

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    Essay On Lyme Disease

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    hard-to-see areas such as the groin‚ armpits‚ and scalp. In most cases‚ the tick must be attached for 36 to 48 hours or more before the Lyme disease bacterium can be transmitted. Most humans are infected through the bites of immature ticks called nymphs. Nymphs are tiny (less than 2 mm) and difficult to see; they feed during the spring and summer months. Adult ticks can also transmit Lyme disease bacteria‚ but they

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    Agamemnon offered to her for the passage of the Greek fleet to Troy; * The giant Orion‚ a close companion of the goddess‚ who was slain by the goddess or her jealous brother; * The Kalydonian boar sent by Artemis to ravage Kaldyon; * The nymph Kallisto‚ a companion of Artemis‚ who was seduced by Zeus in the guise of the goddess. This site contains a total of 15 pages describing the goddess‚ including general descriptions‚ mythology‚ and cult. The content is outlined in the table below.

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    Insects Project 1. Orders Lepidoptera- Examples of this order found in Australia would be Abantiades Barcas‚ Barbifrontia and Callionyma sarcodes. The members of this order have 4 wings‚ which are all completely covered in small scales. All the adults in the Lepidoptera family start off as a caterpillar‚ which resembles a worm‚and grow up to be either a moth or a butterfly. The butterflies have very thin antennas and tend to fly during the day‚ while the moths have feathery antennas and are

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    Keith B. Kofoed Biology 1407 Horizontal Gene Transfer Responsible for Carotenoid Production in Aphids Horizontal Gene Transfer Horizontal gene transfer (referred to as HGT for the rest of the paper) is said to have occurred when an organism successfully incorporates genetic information from another organism into its own genetic makeup when the first organism is not the offspring of the other organism. HGT‚ or lateral gene transfer (LGT)‚ is used to describe both the artificial and natural

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    Women in the Odyssey

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    and Athena‚ but also subtextually in the many female weavers throughout the story. Overall‚ women and feminine power have a very influential role in the plot of the Odyssey. Let us begin with the obvious female powers in the immortal goddesses and nymphs. As far as the Olympian Gods‚ Athena is by far the most involved‚ regardless of gender. This is made very clear‚ for example‚ we see Telemachus preparing for his journey‚ “When they had made fast the running gear all along the black ship‚ then

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