Aechmea fasciata: A plant analyzed Meaning spear tipped‚ in Greek. Its common name is Silver Vase. It is called Silver Vase because it sort of looks like a silver vase with a spiny pink flower. From the family Bromeliaceae. Although the Aechmea fasciata is a widely used house plant the most popular bromeliad is the Pineapple. Some bromeliads‚ such as Aechmea fasciata‚ are epiphytic meaning they grow on other plants. A true epiphyte is a plant driven by demands for light or moisture to seek a perch
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Economic Factors? One of the main factor that made the Euphronios Krater take long before it would be taken back home was the economic factor. The Metropolitan Museum Art argued that the Greek people lacked the economic resources in protecting the artifact from adverse environmental conditions and theft. Again‚ they gained a lot of revenue when people came to see this artifact. Based on its design and unique appearance‚ this crate creates a lot of attraction and revenue and thus the British were
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The Sexton Archaeology team and I utilised the Mortimer Wheel method of excavating the Abbey Museum Site. This Entailed • Dividing the site into 1m X 1m intervals using string and wooden stakes. Each pair would focus on each individual grid. The grids were categorised by A‚ B‚ C‚ D letters and a corresponding number around the perimeter. • One team member would define the Balks about approximately 10cm in width from the edge of the grid. • Subsequently‚ we began excavating the site using a trowel
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and instant messaging. Users begin creating custom and unique “usernames”‚ many of which include a favourite number‚ a particular interest‚ or simply their name. Usernames are already a sign of someone’s persona. For example‚ if someone was an avid vase collector‚ their username could go alone the lines of “ilove_vases‚” so that their friends and family would automatically know who that person is online. They can also put their favourite number in that username‚ making it become “ilove_vases11.”
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the story typically deals in the traditions whether it is mythical or historical of a culture or nation. Mesopotamian mythology‚ an ancient civilization whose history goes back before the famous Greek civilization period‚ has a tale of a king of Uruk named Gilgamesh‚ whose actions lead his people to dislike him. Through actions that spit on the gods‚ he experiences the death of someone close. The death then sets Gilgamesh to pursue immortality to avoid the fate of his friend. In the end‚ the king‘s
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for speedy repair. Like having the picture on the box of a puzzle. You‚ also‚ are pushing the unfamiliar pieces together and seeing which parts click and setting the matches aside. The vases are papers; the pieces are ‘truths’ and points you wish to make. Your grandmother coming along and seeing her shattered vases is your death. The glue is the minor edits you add to a final paper. The box is the life you have
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than metal‚ it was…..iron‚ iron is harder than metal. Metal can be melted down and made into something else‚ many metal sculptures and other metal items were melted down so they could be for other things. The Greeks made many things like bowls and vases‚ cauldrons‚ knives and daggers‚ shields‚ armour‚ decorative drinking cups‚ and lanterns. They also made fine jewellery such as necklaces‚ bracelets‚ earrings‚ pins‚ and rings. Most the jewellery decorative was found on flowers and leaves‚ mythical
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Greek Art No matter how accomplished they might be‚ the works of art we have discussed so far seem alien to us. The ancient cultures that produced them were so different from our own that we find few references in those works to our time. Greek architecture‚ sculpture‚ and painting‚ however‚ are immediately recognizable as the ancestors of Western civilization‚ despite their debts to earlier art. A Greek temple reminds us of countless government buildings‚ banks‚ and college campuses; a Greek statue
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Throughout his film‚ The Lord of The Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring‚ Peter Jackson displayed the effects of adversity on identity through his deuteragonist‚ Aragorn. Adversity shaped Aragorn’s identity in three instances; when Gandalf died‚ when the Uruk-hai initiated an attack against the fellowship‚ and finally‚ when Frodo and Sam departed in a different direction from Legolas‚ Gimli‚ and himself. After defeating the Balrog‚ a vicious fiery dragon-like creature in the Mines of Moria‚
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Gabriel Asturias World History May 22‚ 2015 D-Writing Assignment: Impact of Fertile Crescent Cultures The first civilizations ever to be recorded in History were the Fertile Crescent cultures‚ these cultures characterize for being near sources of water for irrigation‚ which means that they could grow crops for food and farm for animals and their products. All these civilizations where near the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Golf‚ for centuries they were called Mesopotamia. These civilizations
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