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    450 - 440 BCE he made Spear Bearer or The Canon (Doryphoros)‚ it’s a sculpture of somebody perhaps Achilles. The sculpture depicts the human body of a male in the high classicism period of the Ancient Greece and the expounded of physical male beauty along with the athletic nude art that is contemplate

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    WHAT DID THE MOVIE‚ “ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT”; TELL YOU ABOUT WORLD WAR 1 AND WARFARE IN GENERAL‚ USE MOVIE EXAMPLES. Gunshots and bombs blowing up all around you‚ blood and guts flying everywhere‚ as you dodge bullets‚ and listen to the low guttural sounds and high pitched screams of men dying all around you on both sides. In the movie‚ I really learned about war and warfare. You really can’t understand just how heart wrenching and scary it can be while ducking bullets and watching

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    Minor Canon Case Study

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    purpose of the Griffin coming to the town in the first place anyway? | What is the motive for the Minor Canon to leave town and travel to the Dreadful Wilds? | What would be a result if the people would have been as nice as the Minor Canon to the Griffin? | Answer | The purpose of the Griffin’s arrival is because he wanted to see the statue of himself above the church’s door. | The Minor Canon doesn’t really have a motive to leave he is forced by the townspeople who don’t want to get eaten. | The

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    Hamlet Quote on Madness

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    O‚ that this too too solid flesh would melt Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix’d His canon ’gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! How weary‚ stale‚ flat and unprofitable‚ Seem to me all the uses of this world! (1.2.5) From the play’s beginnings‚ Hamlet is distressed. Here‚ his desire for his "flesh" to "melt" and dissolve into "dew" registers his anguish over his father’s death and his mother’s remarriage to his uncle. Clearly‚ Hamlet’s thoughts here are

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    The History of the Common Law of England by Matthew Hale 1713 I. Concerning the Distribution of the Law of England into Common Law‚ and Statute Law. And First‚ concerning the Statute Law‚ or Acts of Parliament The Laws of England may aptly enough be divided into two Kinds‚ viz. Lex Scripta‚ the written Law: and Lex non Scripta‚ the unwritten Law: For although (as shall be shewn hereafter) all the Laws of this Kingdom have some Monuments or Memorials thereof in Writing‚ yet all of

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    he warns against locating a homestead near swamps:… and because there are bred certain minute creatures that cannot be seen by the eyes‚ which float in the air and enter the body through the mouth and nose and they cause serious diseases.[22]In The Canon of Medicine (1020)‚ Abū Alī ibn Sīnā (Avicenna) hypothesized that tuberculosis and other diseases might be contagious[23][24]In 1546‚ Girolamo Fracastoro proposed that epidemic diseases were caused by transferable seedlike entities that could transmit

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    In All Quiet on the Western Front‚ Erich Maria Remarque progressively shows the brutality of war through the eyes of soldiers claiming their innocence‚ and also the effects of war on the people in the home front . In this essay I will be discussing the effect of war on both the combatants and non combatants in this novel. Remarque cleverly illustrates what men at the front go through in war‚ he describe how quickly soldiers realise the reality of war. “We march up‚ moody or good-tempered

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    The Sorrows of War and the Glorious Lies Is it really worth it? Is the simple order by a superior officer enough for someone to spill the blood of innocent soldiers? In All Quiet on the Western Front‚ a novel by Erich Maria Remarque‚ a group of soldiers learn the hard way about the realities of war. They encounter trench warfare and hand-to-hand combat and slowly see how horrible the war is. Using the book‚ the author expresses his hatred towards war and how only evil comes from it. The emotions

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    Canon 1063 Section 1

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    to “the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of children” as described Canon 1055 and unity and indissolubility as essential properties of marriage as detailed in Canon 1056. This understanding is essential in light of Canon 1101 §1: “The internal consent of the mind is presumed to conform to the words and signs used in celebrating the marriage.” Canon law uses the word “personal” in Canon 1063 §2: “personal preparation to enter marriage.” The New Commentary on the Code

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    Describe the development of New Testament Canon in period of time studied (35 marks) The New Testament Canon is described by Princeton Online Dictionary as‚ “a collection of books accepted as Holy Scripture - the books of the Bible recognized by any Christian church as genuine and inspired.” Basically the Canon is a selection of books used by the Church for public worship and also the books which the Church acknowledge as inspired scripture normative for faith and practice. The term (the Greek

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