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    yours. Too many readers are intimidated and humbled by what they can’t understand‚ and in some cases that’s precisely the effect the writer is after. But confusion is not complexity; it’s just confusion. A venerable tradition‚ dating back to the ancient Greek orators‚ teaches that if you don’t know what you’re talking about‚ just ratchet up the level of difficulty and no one will ever know." "Don’t confuse simplicity‚ though‚ with simplemindedness. A good writer can express an extremely complicated

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    Striving for Better If you were a petroleum engineering student at ULL‚ you could find a unique figure. That’s Bitao Lai‚ a very young assistant professor while most of the other petroleum engineering instructors in ULL are elder. Bitao Lai is from China‚ and she is about 30 years old. However‚ she has worked for ULL as an assistant professor for almost two years. When you get to her office‚ which is a compact room‚ the first impression is tidiness. Two shelves are erected near the wall and

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    ’status quo’. It presents the opportunity for evolution and possibly‚ even revolution. So just as there would be as many to embrace it‚ there would an an equal force to deter it. This can even be seen in generational works‚ going as far back as the Ancient Greek tales of Prometheus. Prometheus‚ represented by the works of Aeschylus (Prometheus Bound) and Hesiod (Theogony/Works and Days)‚ is demonstrated in light and dark differences between the two author’s tales. Both bring the world views of their

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    because they’ll think it’s the only way they can become important to others eyes. They will do everything and anything to be liked by everyone‚ reaching their goals‚ they’ll start acting superior. So‚ striving for popularity leads students to negatively alter their real personality. Students striving for popularity start having a dominant attitude over their peers. They want attention from others‚ so they begin to do everything to make others admire them and follow them. But then what happens in

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    Religion In Ancient Greece - Ancient Greek Culture and Civilization Excerpts taken from: http://www.biblestudytools.com/encyclopedias/isbe/greece-religion-in-ancient.html http://www.leadershipclassics.org/AncientGreekCulture&Civilization.html GREECE‚ RELIGION IN ANCIENT || I. THE GREEK GODS 1. Greek Myths 2. Mythology Distinguished from Religion 3. Local Shrines 4. Epithets of the Gods 5. Nature of the Gods of Worship 6. Relation of Greek Gods to Nature 7. The Greater Gods

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    In Ancient Greece‚ warfare was predominant war of life. Greeces terrain was very mountainous. Because of this there were many city states. There was constant war between these states for territorial expansion‚ revenge or sometimes just honor. In the early stages of the geek warfare‚ the Archaic period‚ training was disorganized and weapons were pretty bad. Although soldiers were paid‚ they were only paid enough to make them survive the day (enough for food‚ cloth‚ etc.). Soldiers didn’t have any

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    Carol Nguyen Phil103: Ancient Greek and Medieval Philosophy Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics Reading Questions (1) In the Meno‚ Plato argued that it was impossible for us to learn something genuinely new: if you know x‚ you needn’t inquire about x‚ and if you don’t know x‚ you won’t recognize it when you find it. Thus‚ Plato argued‚ all learning is really recollection. Aristotle is trying to give a different answer to the Meno problem‚ one that doesn’t involve reincarnating or Platonic Forms

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    Ancient Greek Architecture The Stone Sculpture from the Greek era of 300 B.C. is a beautiful fluted ionic column that stands proudly in the center of the Greek and Roman Art Room in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of- /26.59.1/ allows you to visit the virtual museum to view the stone column. The column is believed to be from the Temple of Artemis‚ from an interior room due to the elaborateness of the restored column. The delicate leaf like motives

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    The ancient Romans are famous for many things. One thing is their adaptation and development of architecture. From the Etruscans and early tribes the Romans found most of their basic architectural skills. From the Greeks some components of Roman architecture were adapted. Which gives some early Roman architecture some characteristics of oriental architecture because of Greek contact with the Orient. The heart of Roman architecture was the Roman forum‚ which was really being constructed under the

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    customs and policies of Greek religion and how did the gods fit in? Background Greek religion spans from the Minoan and Mycenaean periods to the days of Hellenistic (ending in 31 BE) Greece‚ when the Romans invaded and took over Greece. The Greeks primary way of worship was through cult practices. However there were so many variations dependent on the area in which a person comes from that it can be said that there were Greek religions. When talking about Greek religion though we must keep

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