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    The Effects of Insects on Carnivorous Plants Digestion process of Venus Fly Trap Siddarth Pillai Hour 3 Honors Biology The Effect of Insects on Venus Fly Traps Research Question: How long does it take for a venus fly trap to digest an insect? I. Introduction: Venus Fly Traps are both heterotrophs and autotrophs meaning that they create their own food and get food from other insects. The Venus flytrap is known as the Dionea muscipula; it is a carnivorous plant native to the swamplands of North

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    Weber ARH2050 Venus of Willendorf: An Annotated Bibliography Witcombe‚ C. 2003. “Women in Prehistory: The "Venus" of Willendorf” http://www.asu.edu/cfa/wwwcourses/art/SOACore/Willendorf_portfolio.htm Witecombe’s article was useful in describing the material the figure was carved from‚ oolitic limestone. He described the material as nonnative to the region‚ which he inferred that the figure must have traveled there from another area. Witecombe also described the method the Venus of Willendorf

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    Sam Bugay Intro to Visual Arts Bryce Speed November 30‚ 2012 Faces of Sexuality Sexuality has been a face of a rt for many centuries. Olympia by Edouard Manet and Venus of Urbino by Titian represent the face for female domination and the ability to lure men. As we look at these two different faces of sexuality‚ we will briefly touch on the artist’s lives‚ and explore the content of the two works. Edouard Manet was born in Paris in 1832. He was considered to be the founder of modern art as

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    human‚ a woman‚ is the so-called "Venus" of Willendorf‚ is a 11.1 cm (4 3/8 inches) high statuette of a female figure‚ discovered at a Paleolithic site in 1908 at a Aurignacian loess deposit near the town of Willendorf in Austria. It is now in the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna. The statue was carved from oolitic limestone‚ and was colored with red orche. It is dated 30‚000 and 25‚000 BC. Her great age and pronounced female forms quickly established the Venus of Willendorf as an icon of prehistoric

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    Nude woman (Venus of Willendorf) and Female personification (Tellus) were represent of the goddess and they came from different periods. Venus of Willendorf was found in Austria‚ discovered by archaeologist Joseph Szomabathy and dated in ca. 28‚000 - 25‚000 BCE. She is really tiny‚ she just height about 412 inches and the carved from limestone. Tellus is a very good work of the artist name Ara Pacis Augustus‚ It was found in Rome‚ Italy‚ dated in 13-9 BCE‚ Marble‚ and high 5’3”. It is the procession

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    Compare and Contrast: Venus of Willendorf vs. Cycladic figures What is the difference between two figures that both represent the same basic idea? Give up? Well don ’t worry‚ by the time you are done reading this paper you will be fully versed in the answer to this interesting and quite debated question. Venus of Willendorf "was found on August 7th‚ 1908 during a systematic excavation in the ninth and highest layer of Site II in Willendorf‚ Austria by Josef Szombathy. The most recent estimate of

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    Venus of Willendorf: The Image of Beauty and Survival The Venus of Willendorf illustrates the characteristics of a woman in a utopian society because her figure demonstrates a society in which there is a stable food supply‚ and her most feminine features‚ breasts‚ hips and buttocks‚ are accentuated as a symbol of beauty and survival. According to PBS‚ “It was discovered on the banks of the Danube River‚ in Austria‚ and it was most likely made by hunter-gatherers who lived in the area.” During ancient

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    The Birth of Venus (1635) ------------------------------------------------- Nicolas Poussin ------------------------------------------------- Sean E. Masih Art History 102 August 25‚ 2013 While the Philadelphia Museum of Art may not house some of the more famous artwork from the Baroque period‚ their acquisition of Poussin’s “Birth of Venus” was nothing short of a savvy purchase. Hungry for Western currency‚ the painting was sold by the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg in 1930 under

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    in the sunrays and photosynthesizing‚ it lures preys in by secreting sweet nectar. This intriguing eukaryotic plant has a unique anatomical function‚ out of the ordinarily expected geographical location‚ and is something that can be grown. The venus fly trap was studied by Carolus Linnaeus and later by Charles Darwin. To figure out how this plant survived or simply operated with its’ sensory hairs was fascinating to them. Though one may think this plant is found in tropical places‚ its’ location

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    Your Name April 21‚ 2013 Venus de Willendorf VS The Barbie Doll Who are they today? Venus de Willendorf and Barbie are two very different representations of women and their beauty. Both are man-made and inspirational‚ both from two very different times. Venus by the homosapiens millions of years ago and Barbie a mere fifty years ago by a woman and mother looking for a doll her daughter could play and grow with. In looking at Venus de Willendorf and the Barbie doll‚ they seem to be related in

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