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    Function of Art

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    he has the feeling of inspiration. He feels like his values are achievable and within his reach. Conversely‚ when he sees a disjointed picture‚ a mélange of discordant sounds‚ or a tell-all exposé‚ he feels as if his values are in jeopardy or under siege. Art reaffirms one’s values and being. Furthermore‚ art provides instruction in conceptualization. As I outlined earlier‚ art gives the viewer the ability to see concepts at a perceptual level. For example‚ Maxfield Parrish’s Contentment presents the

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    slave and they fall in love with each other. When he arrives at the Spartan palace‚ he is arrested by King Menelaus but Helen helps him to escape. They travel together to Troy and give the excuse the Greeks need to start the war and put Troy under siege for years. The Greeks are unsuccessful in their intents‚ until they listen to the cunning Ulysses.

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    what is a trebuchet

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    Trebuchet Questions 1. What is a trebuchet? It’s an invaluable medieval siege attack weapon that’s similar to a catapult 2. What is it used for? It was used for smashing city and castle walls by hurling giant stones 3. What makes it different from a catapult? Catapults use springs and tension to launch projectiles while trebuchets use a counter weight 4. When was it used? It was used around 500AD during the Middle (or Dark) Ages 5. Why did it fall out of favor? Trebuchets fell out of favor

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    surrender. However‚ Rhodes’ impressive attributes go under cover when he betrays the MASADA‚ by storing resources which rightfully did not belong to him. Rhodes‚ a sarcastic person responded ironically when Danny asked him questions regarding the siege operation. Although Rhodes played a part in the death of Danny’s dad‚ he did not feel sorry for him. Instead‚ he behaved rudely with him and did not even comfort on such a great loss. His cruel personality is proved when he ruthlessly killed Ben and

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    An individual’s response to the drastic changes in their life reveals a lot about their character. In Steven Galloway’s novel‚ The Cellist of Sarajevo‚ the author follows the lives of three distinct characters affected by the siege on their beloved city. In the face of such compelling and often violent circumstances‚ each character learns to adapt their behaviour and attitude to fit their stark surroundings. During such dark times‚ individuals find their survival challenged by showing acts of kindness

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    It would have to be Gettysburg... many people have there own arguments about what battle but if you take into account the damage the battle cost the army of northern virgina it almost is hard to look at other battles without thinking what if something was different on july 3rd? if the rebels won the day or even had a stalemate they were prepared to send a letter of truce to washington dc... if that letter was meet with a stalemate or victory on union soil the war may have ended with America in 2

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    four paragraphs I will explain why I think that is true. To begin‚ Anne Frank lived during the reign of Hitler and was a targeted group in the Jewish genocide that took place between 1938 and 1945. Nadja Halilbegovich was a Bosnian girl living in the siege of Sarajevo‚ which took place in the early 1990s. In the diary selection from the book it is shown that Anne remains an optimist even through enormous strife. Her optimism and faith in humanity is best summed up in her famous quote‚ “In spite of

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    Fort Wagner

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    hand-to-hand combat. When Col. Shaw order his men to go forward‚ they were quickly stopped by bullets fired from the Confederates. “After this bloody repulse‚ Gillmore’s settled into their Morris Island positions for a lengthy and costly siege that finally led to the Confederate abandonment of Fort Wagner on September 7‚ 1863.” Results Total Estimated Casualties 1‚689 Union 246 killed 880 wounded 389 missing

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    Marcus Brutus

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    Marcus Junius Brutus was the son of Marcus Junius Brutus the Elder and Servilia Caepionis. His father was killed by Pompey the Great in dubious circumstances after he had taken part in the rebellion of Lepidus; his mother was the half-sister of Cato the Younger‚ and later became Julius Caesar’s mistress.[2] Some sources refer to the possibility of Caesar being his real father‚[3] but this is unlikely since Caesar was 15 at the time of Brutus’ birth. Brutus’ uncle‚ Quintus Servilius Caepio‚ adopted

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    In two instances‚ Fulcher refers to the groups in succession. He states that “the Turks and the Saracens discovered” the Franks‚ as well as stating that “both the Turks and Saracens” saw their chance to attack during the siege of Tyre (Fulcher 137‚ 264). In both of these cases‚ it would be unusual and counterintuitive for “Turks” and “Saracens” to refer to the same population or for one to be a subset of the other. This distinction is further shown when Fulcher describes

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