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    Review for Astronomy 2 Midterm and Final Midterm covers first 70 questions‚ Final covers all 105. MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. Chapter 1 is covered by Q1-3; Ch. 2 Q4-18; Ch. 3 Q19-27; Ch. 4 Q28-34; Ch. 5 Q35-45; Ch. 6 Q46-51; Ch. 7 Q52-63; Ch. 8 Q64-70; Ch. 9 Q71-77; Ch. 10 Q78-82; Ch. 11 Q83-91; Ch. 12 Q92-96; Ch. 13 Q97-100; Ch. 14 Q101-105 1) Which of the following has your "address" in the correct order? A) you‚ Earth

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    The painting includes a focus on the goddess of love‚ Venus‚ as well as other mythological figures surrounding Venus. In the painting the setting it not of human world‚ but also realistic and the figures are to human proportions. The painting also showed humanism by the way Venus is showing the beauty of a woman‚ which is glorifying the body. The painting also shows nature aspect such as the movement of wind on the

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    Portrayal of these classics was found in many pieces including Botticelli’s Birth of Venus. This painting depicts Venus‚ the goddess of love’s‚ birth. She is shown stepping out of a large shell after being born from the ocean. There is an assistant ready to cover Venus and personified zephyrs blowing the goddess to shore. This is the first time someone who is not from the Bible‚ was shown naked‚ and it is an idealism of beauty

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    special goal. In the short story “All Summer In A Day” Margot has seen the sun before and she remembered it very clearly. The kids on planet Venus hated her for this because she stood out from all of the kids. The scientists had said that the sun was going to come out for one hour in a whole day. The kids were very excited for the sun to come out because on Venus it is always raining terribly.

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    defects of character” (1104)‚ he was unprepared for the necessity of love. Lacking this love‚ when he created his ivory statue‚ he “gazed in amazement‚ burning with love for what was in likeness a body” (1104). After his statue was transformed by Venus into a woman‚ his family line continued‚ and his great granddaughter‚ Myrrha‚ would again demonstrate the irresistible nature of love. This time it would not be Cupid‚ but the Furies that would doom the characters‚ as Myrrha found herself tragically

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    style appealed to the Papacy who asked him to travel to Rome‚ Italy to work on the Sistine Chapel with other great Renaissance artists like Michelangelo. The Venus and Mars was painted for the Vespucci

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    Aphrodite of Knidos

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    FIGURE 1 FIGURE 2 FIGURE 3 PRAXITELES‚ Aphrodite of Knidos. Aphrodite (Venus dei Medici) Aphrodite of Rhodes Roman marble copy after an original of c. 350 BCE. copy of a Greek original of (Crouching Venus) Rhodes‚ Greece 1st the 2nd c. BCE century BCE. Roman Marble Copy) Aphrodite of Knidos (Figure 1) was a revolutionary sculpture in terms of Grecian art‚ as it inspired many artists in the future to attempt to capture Aphrodite’s

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    Mrs Whittaker Ancient Greece �� Caitlyn Lynes 7I Greek Gods/ Goddesses Question 1: Who are the Greek Gods and Goddesses? The Greek Gods and Goddesses are mythical people. They were made up by Hesiod‚ a possible contemporary with Homer‚ At the centre of Greek mythology is the pantheon of deities who were said to live on Mount Olympus‚ the highest mountain in Greece

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    myth of Cupid and Psyche also relates a story of amorous pursuit. In Apuleius account Psyche is the most beautiful of all mortals. "The fame of her surpassing beauty spread over the earth…Œand men would even say that Venus herself could not equal this mortal." Out of jealousy‚ Venus commands Cupid to make Psyche fall in love with "the vilest and most despicable creature in the whole world." However‚ dispatched on his errand Cupid is astonished by her beauty and "as if he had shot one of his arrows

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    civilization from prehistoric art to the early Renaissance art. This class taught me with a better viewer of the significant artistic period styles‚ and also how an artwork represent its specific style and culture. The Aphrodite of Knidos and The Birth of Venus stands out among all of these precious of artwork and caught my attention in first glance. Each of them spread their unique artist’s stylistic characteristics and culture context. Although‚ they shows different historical values‚ themes‚ and purpose

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