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    Cause-Related Marketing Pioneers: American Express Restore the Statue of Liberty Goutami Vallala Jasmine Zamora Xiaolin Zhao LIM College Dr. Guendoo MPSM603 Cause Marketing September 4‚ 2014 Objective and Target The objective of this campaign was to transform the usage of cards from a medium of mere purchasing things for an individual needs to a medium of way to do charity for a cause such as restoring the historic monument. Also‚ the efforts to support

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    REDEEMER STATUE. Next‚ Brazil is the home to the World’s biggest Rain forest; Amazon Rain forest. In Addition‚ Brazil has one of the best soccer team in the world because of their successes and support. These three things play a main role in Brazil’s Economy. Brazil is not only home to the world’s biggest Rain forest or the world’s best soccer team it is also the home to one of the Wonders of the World. The Christ the Redeemer Statue is a statue of Jesus Christ. This statue is one

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    The historic and iconic marble sculpture‚ Aphrodite of Knidos‚ sometimes referred to as Aphrodite of Cindus‚ was created by the sculptor Praxiteles. Not much is known about Praxiteles for sure as the only definite dates in relation to him are found at the base of a portrait statue where he inscribed “Praxiteles the Athenian made it” or are written by Pliny the Elder in his monumental work‚ Naturalis Historia (Encyclopedia of World Biography). This work places him during the 104th Olympiad‚ or roughly

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    and beauty. A literary device used in the first segment in which Pygmalion is talking to Aphrodite is repetition due to Pygmalion keeps saying “you.” For example‚ a couple of quotes in Bernard Evslin’s version of Pygmalion in which it displays the literary device of repetition showing Pygmalion’s obsession with utter perfection and beauty are “You‚ Aphrodite‚ queen of beauty‚ lady of delight… Yours‚ Aphrodite. Yours Yours. I love you and you alone”(70). This shows why Pygmalion is obsessed with beauty

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    beauty of the aristocratic culture of Archaic Greece. On the other hand‚ Aphrodite represents the Greek goddess of love and beauty. Kouros is a life-sized sculpture and hands clenched at the sides and one foot slightly forward. In contrast‚ Aphrodite is given larger than real-life scale. The Terracotta Statue of the Diadoumenos is a copy of a Greek bronze statue of 430 B.C. by Polykleitos. The pose of the famous statue of the Diadoumenos by Polykleitos is recognizable in this statuette‚ but

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    Greek period art was not only mare naturalistic and humanistic but also became directly affected by the events going around. Both the Marble Statue of an Old Woman and the Marble Statue of Aphrodite are sculptures that were made during the Ancient Greek era‚ they each tell a story of what was going on during that point in time. The Marble Statue of Aphrodite is the eldest of the two sculptures‚ it was sculpted between the 2nd and 3rd century B .C. During this period Greece was at its peak‚ the people

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    Winged Victory (Nike) of Samothrace and the Aphrodite‚ Pan and Eros‚ the Hellenistic era exposed such expansion with dramatic posing‚ sweeping lines‚ and high contrast of light and shadow allowing artists of this period to explore their subjects from different unique points of view without completely abandoning the Classical Greek concepts. Formal Analysis: As the sculptures of Winged Victory (Nike) of Samothrace (c. 190 BCE‚ Louvre‚ Paris) and Aphrodite‚ Pan‚ and Eros (c. 100 BCE‚ National Archaeological

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    the two names for Aphrodite that are linked with the islands of Cythera and Cyprus? (Spell them carefully.) Cytherea and Cypris According to one tradition‚ Aphrodite is the daughter of Zeus and _____. Dione What is the distinction between Aphrodite Urania and Aphrodite Pandemos? Urania: sprung from Uranus alone ; Pandemos: sprung from Zeus and Dione According to our textbook‚ Aphrodite is the goddess of love‚ beauty‚ and _____. marriage What item does Aphrodite possess that makes

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    Thasos and is approximately 200 cm (80 in) in height. The second is Cult Statue of a Goddess‚ (most likely Aphrodite) South Italy‚ 425 - 400 B.C. made of Limestone and marble. It stands at a height of 220 cm (86 5/8 in). There is some dispute to the authenticity of the Getty Kouros sculpture‚ but assuming it is not a modern forgery it would belong to the Greek Archaic period. Cult Statue of a Goddess (herein referred to as Aphrodite) hails from the Greek Classical period. The identities of both sculptors

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    Metropolitan Museum of Art before‚ I had never really taken the time to really look at the statues that they had displayed. I knew that this time around I had to take my time and I had to make sure I paid attention to art that the museum had to offer. What I was mainly looking for was some type of statue or art that alluded to what I had learned in mythology class. As I walked around I encountered at bronze statue of Eros sleeping. Cupid‚ Eros name‚ which most people call him‚ is a little boy and he

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