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    World History H 27 September‚ 2013 Comparing Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece Alexis Windle Mr. Schugsta World History H 27 September‚ 2013 Word Count- 1‚332 Thinking about ancient civilizations is rather puzzling for me. Imagine no technological ways of communicating and not having many people to communicate with anyway. In the simplest ways‚ the first groups of people were able to create rather complex and often successful ways

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    Transcendentalism and Transcendental Meditation "The Transcendentalist adopts the whole connection of spiritual doctrine. He believes in miracle‚ in the perpetual openness of the human mind to new influx of light and power; he believes in inspiration‚ and in ecstasy."(Emerson 196). These two lines written by Ralph Waldo Emerson exemplify the whole movement of transcendentalist writers and what they believed in. Though to the writers‚ transcendentalism was a fight for a belief‚ unknown to them

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    architecture used in the Ancient Greece. The Doric columns were the simplest‚ having the capitol which is the top or crown‚ they are circular with a square on top‚ but they do not contain a base. The Doric was very simple yet powerful architecture. The Parthenon is a good example of simple Doric architecture. On the other hand‚ Ionic shafts were a lot taller than the ones the Doric had. They were slender and they also contained flutes that were carved into the top all the way to the bottom of the column

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    Greek Mythology is made up of several myths‚ legends‚ and many gods and goddesses‚ each attached to a story or myth about how earth itself came to be. Greek gods and goddesses have their own responsibilities and jobs to maintain the earth and keep peace on it. For example‚ Hades‚ the God and Ruler of the Underworld‚ which is often referred to as Hades‚ is also associated with the ideas of death and life after death. Hades is important to the pantheon of Greek Mythology because he not only is the

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    The Palace of Versailles and Contemporary Art: Takashi Murakami The Palace of Versailles located approximately twelve miles outside Paris‚ France and is viewed as a place to showcase modern art. Much of the art that the palace has put on exhibitions over the years has brought a lot of controversy including the most recent one by Japanese artist Takashi Murakimi. Looking back at the 400 years of history at the Palace of Versailles it was once a home for the French royal family‚ a center for

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    01.15.2014 B.C.E. = C.E. B.C = A.D. Form - the visual aspects of art and architecture‚ line‚ shape‚ color‚ light‚ texture‚ space‚ math‚ volume‚ and composition. Style – the combination of form and composition that makes a work distinctive. Content – includes subject matter or meaning and a work of art. School of artists – a group of artist usually working at the same time and sharing similar style influences and ideas Iconography – identify and studying and subject matter and conventional

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    One of the greatest cultural achievements of Ancient Egypt was undoubtedly in their architecture associated with religion. <br> <br>"Temples‚ tombs and pyramids – all have witnessed this earth for thousands of years. What better than to say that these architectural achievements show us that Egypt’s greatest virtue lay in its architecture" <br>(Fumeaux:11‚ 1964) <br> <br>When one travels to Egypt‚ what does he/she see – pyramid after temple after tomb‚ each standing the test of time. One stands out

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    Introduction Historians have oft referred to the twentieth century as the most violent in human history. Indeed‚ it was a period of much turbulence that included two cataclysmic wars of a scope that had never been seen before. In addition to violence‚ it was also a century that bore new ideas about Western society‚ including its philosophy‚ politics‚ and arts. This period of modernism‚ which began in the late nineteenth century‚ entailed great innovation while challenging the ideas and norms that

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    Civilization is a complex way of life that came about as people began to develop urban settlements. The earliest civilizations developed after 3000 BCE‚ when the rise of agriculture allowed people to have surplus food and economic stability. Agricultural populations advanced beyond village life‚ and many people no longer had to practice farming at all. Civilizations first appeared in Mesopotamia‚ in what is now Iraq‚ then in Egypt. Civilizations thrived in the Indus Valley by 2500 BCE‚ in China

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    “Until the middle of the twentieth century‚ historians often referred to the earliest places where writing and cities developed as the ‘cradles of civilization‚’ proposing a model of development for all humanity patterned on that of an individual person” (McKay et al.‚ 2015‚ pg. 34). Civilizations were often thought of as places where writings had occurred since the writings “allowed more permanent expression of thoughts‚ ideas‚ and feelings” (McKay et al.‚ 2015‚ pg. 34). With the different civilizations

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