Aside from clothing being an art unto itself‚ the earliest forms of sculptured art found as early as 500 B.C. in West Africa consisted of distorted human statues and masks. It is speculated that these statues and figures inspired Picasso’s experiments with Cubism. The Yoruba people of Ife also influenced lost-wax cast metal art‚ also known as Benin Art after the people of Benin perfected the art to the highest quality. The Village craft workers had extensive knowledge of pottery and metalworking
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All over the world‚ cultures have myths of a catastrophic flood occurring. The causes and details of the flood differ from culture to culture‚ but the common theme among all these myths is the occurrence of a devastating flood. While there may be few similarities between the histories of past cultures of‚ for instance‚ those that existed in ancient Greece and China‚ a flood myth is a common theme among them. Is it simply a coincidence that this myth is prevalent across the globe? Many researchers
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DIGLOSSIA Sociolinguistics encompasses a broad range of concerns including the use of two or more language varieties in distinct social domains within the same speech community. In other words‚ the use of two distinct varieties of the same language for different functions. There are many societies where the official language that is used at schools or media is significantly different from that used at home or in ordinary conversations and often called a “dialect” or “vernacular”. Such a
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for the prestige in ancient Greece and Rome‚ reflecting their power and status. Those who drank wine often looked down upon beer drinkers. Wine was often shared between guests at a symposium‚ where individuals would participate in intellectual discussions about a variety of subjects‚ ranging from political topics to philosophical questions and rhetoric. The formal atmosphere of the gatherings was a reminder of how civilized the Greeks were‚ and of how wine embodied Greek culture. Originally‚ wine
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Bleach originated from ancient Egyptians‚ Romans‚ and Greek cultures. In ancient European culture‚ there were many different kinds of clothing and each of them portrayed social status (Wircher). Most of commoners who could not afford all the luxuries wrapped around their bodies with handmade two pieces of long garments and made their clothes look more dangling. By making them loose‚ it seemed like they were wearing a lot of layers of clothings which made them look more opulent‚ “The common clothing
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Great west casualty case points The mishaps in this case are due to miscommunications‚ The way that Zucaro found out about these events shows that there is very poor communication in the company. Even though Great West Casualty Company is an independent subsidiary of Old Republic‚ the CEO should have heard about the issue before reading one of the nation’s biggest publications‚ The Wall Street Journal 1. Great West has just one employee for handling their whole communications department. with
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In 1054 the great schism occurred‚ which separated the Church into East and West. The two sides had always had differences‚ but had remained one Church up to this point. There were many factors leading with each side taking different stances on important issues in the Church like the Pope. The Photian schism‚ which included Photius excommunicating the entire Latin Church‚ also drove the two sides apart. The great schism was a very controversial time in the church. Both East and West had points
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ON SAYING PLEASE About the author Alfred George Gardiner (1865–1946)‚ a British journalist and author‚ is highly regarded in the literary arena. From 1915 he contributed to The Star under the pseudonym (pen name) Alpha of the Plough. At the time‚ The Star had several anonymous essayists whose pseudonyms were the names of stars. Invited to choose the name of a star as a pseudonym he chose the name of the brightest (alpha) star in the constellation ‘the Plough’. His essays are uniformly elegant
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Many of the ideas and concepts that the Ancient Greeks thought up are still used today. Only a few examples of these include Sports‚ Myth‚ and Daily Life. There are many examples of how these ideas are still used today in modern culture. Let’s start with Sports. Sports were very important to the Ancient Greeks. They had contact and noncontact sports. Their biggest event that they had were the Olympics‚ because that was where they could show off their skills in the different sports. That is the first
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The culture that influenced my project is the Greek culture. Ancient Greece was a Greek civilization and it belonged to an era of Greek history that persevered through the archaic period to the term of classical antiquity. After this period began it was followed by the early middle ages and the Byzantine era. Contained in ancient Greece‚ better known as the classical Greece period. This period blossomed during the fifth to fourth centuries BC. Classical Greek culture‚ mainly philosophy‚ had a dynamic
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