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    Sculptors Funeral

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    There’s No Place Like Home " The Sculptor’s Funeral"‚ a short story by Willa Cather‚ emphasizes the behavior and idea of parochialism & provincialism. What’s interesting is that this idea is shared by Harvey Merrick‚ the main character‚ as well as the townspeople who resent him for leaving. " Harve never was much account for anything practical and he shore was never fond of work" (Cather par. 56) Why is this? Could there be different levels of parochialism? One person may feel that home

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    Sculptors in the Philippines Submitted by: Boquiron‚ Karl Christian De Vera‚ Joshua James Mendoza‚ Lady Lavenie Salagubang‚ Shiena Kate Submitter to: Prof. Galang Napoleon Abueva Napoleon Isabelo Veloso-Abueva (born January 26‚ 1930)‚ more popularly known as Napoleon Abueva‚ is a Filipino artist. He is a sculptor given the distinction as the Philippines National Artist for Sculpture. He is also entitled as the "Father of Modern Philippine Sculpture". He is the first and only Boholano given

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    Greek Sculptors

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    of motion (cf. "Discobolus)‚ and for capturing a wide range of human emotions and moods.  Some sculptures are comic‚ others very serious. The Greeks sculptors could inspire patriotism and the love of liberty--and some of the subtleties of individual personality and character.  Greek sculpture inspired the Romans and (indirectly) the great sculptors of the Renaissance.  One tribute to how much one could learn from such works came from Rodin‚ one of the finest

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    Funeral

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    Introduction A funeral is a ceremony for celebrating‚ respecting‚ sanctifying‚ or remembering the life of a person who has died. Funerary customs comprise the complex of beliefs and practices used by a culture to remember the dead‚ from interment itself‚ to various monuments‚ prayers‚ and rituals undertaken in their honor. Customs vary widely among cultures‚ as well as‚ religious affiliations within cultures. Funeral services in LA TERESITA in Gapan City are the most common funeral homes that offers

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    The Angel of Death and the Sculptor‚ sculpted by Daniel Chester French‚ pays tribute to a fallen American sculptor‚ Martin Milmore‚ and challenges the usual representation of Death as the horrible gruesome presence that it has been represented to be ever since the Christian era. Through a combination of high-and-low relief and in-the-round sculpting‚ French makes you feel almost complacent in the company of death. The benevolent face on the angel of death and the intrigued look on the face of the

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    FUNERAL

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    Funeral Assignment I would want my funeral to not be something that everyone comes to and cries at. I want them to remember all the good things I did in life. The songs I would like to be played would have to be “I’m going off to yonder”‚ “crossroads”‚ “it’s all God”‚ and any other song that people know I love. And I would want the songs sung by the people they were wrote by and if those people are not alive then someone from my family could do it. I would want Pastor Marvin Sapp or Pastor Marvin

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    The Sculptor's Funeral

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    The Sculptor’s Funeral A major theme in this story is the effect that close-mildness can have on an individual’s life. This story is set in the small town of Sand City‚ Kansas. Most of the people in the town are greedy and materialistic‚ but above all they are very close-minded. The story centers on the funeral of Harvey Merrick. There were very few people in the town who actually understood Harvey Merrick‚ and because of this very few people liked him. Harvey Merrick did not measure up to the

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    Dan Flavin was an American Sculptor who worked on a series of minimalistic installations of pre manufactured light fixtures. His work which began in the 1960’s used predetermined space in which his light interacted. Using brightly fluorescent colors Dan Flavin and geometric forms he set out to create a three dimensional interaction between the viewer‚ area‚ and the installation itself. This focus on light‚ color‚ and physical surroundings placed him among other minimalist of the time. Although

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    Our simplest words are often the deepest in meaning: birth‚ kiss‚ flight‚ dream. The sculptor Constantin Brancusi spent his life searching for forms as simple and pure as those words—forms that seem to have existed forever‚ outside of time. Born a peasant in a remote village in Romania‚ he spent most of his adult life in Paris‚ where he lived in a single small room adjoining a skylit studio. Upon his death in 1957‚ Brancusi willed the contents of his studio to the French government‚ which eventually

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    Funeral Food

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    In Jill Conner Browne’s “Funeral Food” she implies a message to the readers. The message she implies is that even when someone when someone dies and you go to a funeral there is always a better side to everything. Her humorous approach to death and the mourning process that follows is one of her many ways to make her essay more effective. She uses her sense of humor to lighten the mood and distract the reader from the funeral aspect. Her distraction comes from her sarcastic jokes about food being

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