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    Easter Island Essay

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    They started doing experiments after experiments to figure how they moved the statues on the island. Once they tried to make the statues ‘‘walk‚’’ and they chanted “heave-ho‚” and that ended up working because the statues were “Engineered to walk.” Another person tried moving them by putting the statues on flat boards‚ and then rolled them over circular logs. They could have moved the statues either way because they were both engineered to walk‚ but due to the deforestation‚ it could

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    THE SEVEN WONDERS [pic] PYRAMIDS OF GIZA [pic] HANGING GARDENS [pic] TEMPLE OF ARTEMIS [pic] STATUE OF ZEUS [pic] COLOSSUS [pic] LIGHTHOUSE OF ALEXANDRIA [pic] THE MAUSOLEUM AT HALICARNASSUS [pic] The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus was the tomb of king Mausolus. Halicarnassus (Modern Bodrum‚ Turkey) was the capital of a small Mediterranean kingdom. In 377 B.C.‚ Hecatomnus of Mylasa‚ the ruler of this land‚ died and left control of the kingdom to his son‚ Mausolus. Mausolus’

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    Fleeting power

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    Power is influence. Power is a virtue and power is a vice. In the poem entitled “Ozymandias‚” author Percy Shelley brings to life a tale of power and how it holds up‚ or fails to hold up‚ through time. The poem describes the wreckage of a stone statue built by a past ruler; “And on the pedestal these words appear: My name is Ozymandias‚ King of Kings” (9-10). Through the following lines‚ “Look on my Works‚ ye Mighty‚ and despair!” (11)‚ it is clear that Ozymandias was a sort of conqueror. However

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    Art Commission Statement

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    Ten Commandments statue for the lobby of the new Christian and Jewish Interfaith Cultural and Historical Center. The commission statement will explain how the Ten Commandments statue represents developments in past and current world events and cultural patterns in Judaism and Christianity. We will discuss the importance of the proposed location and why it is appropriate being placed at that location. This commission statement will discuss our belief of how the Ten Commandments statue reflects the Jewish

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    Feature Article

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    people guarding the statue and ask them to rub them on the statue in anticipation of carrying some of that power away with them. The largest procession The procession of the Black Nazarene or is the largest procession in the country. It takes place on January the 9th and on Good Friday through the streets of Quiapo‚ a small part of metro Manila. The procession dates from the 17th century. Thousands of men parade through the streets with the life-sized‚ black wooden statue of Jesus (of Nazarene)

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    Analysis: JFK Plaza

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    The Ben Franklin Parkway and merges it to City Hall. The plaza itself was designed in 1965 by city planners Vincent King and Edmund Bacon as a visitor’s center. The addition of the LOVE statue came later in 1976 as a symbol in celebration of the country’s Bicentennial commemoration[1]. Two years later the statue was removed from JFK Plaza; the same year‚ the chairmen of the Philadelphia

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    Comparison

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    Kim I have chosen two statues from different eras to make a comparison‚ Marble statue of Dionysos leaning on an Archaistic Female Figure from the Roman era and Bronze statue of Artemis and a deer from Greek or Roman‚ late Hellenistic or early Imperial periods. The reason why I have chosen these two objects are that both of them have one big figure and one small figure which makes eyes of viewers move around. They also depicted gods with smaller figures. These two statues have many differences as

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    OZYMANDIAS

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    antique is defined as “A collectable object such as a piece of furniture or work of art that has a high value because of its age and quality” (http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/antique). A statue that has become an antique could imply that the person was wealthy and powerful. Statues are usually of people with a high social standing due to being wealthy or powerful. I think Pharaoh Ozymandias was a powerful and wealthy person. The sculptor kept the frown (line 4) which might suggest

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    Short Story Manny's

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    seeing it as pornography. Instead he decided to build a fence around the statue so that it couldn’t be seen so easily. As time moved along I think that Manny started to become more fond of the statue and shifted his bridge towards it. When I say bridge I mean that that’s his pathway back to his old self and what he used to be before his wife passed. At first his bridge was the junkyard and selling things but it’s on the statue. It does not say it in the story but you can tell that he see’s his wife

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    opinions on the taking down of confederate statues‚ more importantly the Stonewall jackson monument. Mayor’s Stoney comment claimed that “removal of symbols does [nothing] for telling the actual truth [nor] changes the state and culture of racism in this country today.” The Christian brothers strongly disagree with the mayor’s comment they argue that these monuments represent the immoral past the United States has been through and by removing these statues it mends racial disparities. They claim

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