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- 951: Buddhist Art--two Periods Of B
- ... Greco-Roman sculpture. While the Gandhara Bodhisattva illustrates how regional differences influenced art of the Kushan Period, the Preaching Buddha of Sarnath illustrates how sculptors from the Gupta period were more concerned with the aesthetic effect of their work. Karl Khandalavala explains Gupta art by stating that, While earlier art was extrovert and concerned with mundane existence, this art is introvert and aims at visualizing the superman endowed with the highest ... are meditative and serene, a body that is subtly modeled and a face that exhibits enlightenment. Rather than concentrating on how a Bodhisattva is dressed as in Gandhara, they are more concerned with the aesthetic effect of the sculpture. Thus, we see soft folds of the dress, the exquisite bending of the hands and the half-closed eyes of the Buddha. The drapery of the figures are transparent and clung to ...
- 952: Effects Of Murcury On The Enviroment
- ... 20 toxic chemical list, mercury rates 3rd. Mercury bioaccumulates in the body and has difficulty eliminating it. It may reach dangerous levels over time and causes sever damage to the central nervous system. Mercury's Effect on the Environment and People Mercury is one of the biggest environmental problems that exist because it is hard to get of once in the environment. In the past, mercury was used to make things ... in a trance." The people in the village developed mental retardation, insanity, and birth defects from eating the poisoned fish. Fifty people died and 150 people suffered from these disorders. Another example of mercury's effect on people and the environment comes from the saying "mad as a hatter." In the 1800's, hats were made with mercury to stiffened the brim. The hatters that made the hats worked with mercury ...
- 953: British India And Revolution
- ... of the Bengal army, but as a reaction of the influential classes of India, which had lost trust in British authority. Still other British saw the overall social situation and British administration as having no effect in causing the uprising. The popular beliefs of officials like Sir John Lawrence believed that the immediate cause of the revolt was the concerns held by Sepoys over the new ammunition for the Enfield rifles ... relations reasons. The term mutiny does not carry the same emotive force as the word rebellion . It would not evoke images of widespread activities of disobedience towards British authority, therefore avoiding any kind of bandwagon effect on the masses. The Indian nationalist view of the events of 1857 is that it was not as the British believe a series of isolated and uncoordinated mutinies. It was a war of independence, the ...
- 954: Addiction Treatment
- ... some form of medical insurance, and insurance companies decide whether or not treatment, and what length of treatment is justified. The largest problem concerning the collection and interpretation of data will most likely be the effect of the extraneous variables mentioned earlier. Even with these variables taken into consideration a positive correlation between length of treatment and the outcome for substance abusers should persist unless there is a strong influence from one, or a combined effect from several variables. Addiction is a powerful disease and if one has other negative influences, or other medical problems, or perhaps even a lack of financial resources, they may not succeed regardless of the amount ...
- 955: Making The Corps
- ... be back at boot camp making good use of the day. -With the feeling of rather being back at boot camp, some new Marines started to have unusual recollections. The boot camp left such an effect on some of the Marines that when they began to partake in an action, they would think before they act. In this thought process an image of Sergeant Carey would appear in their minds, and ... was dismissed of the speeding charge because the police officer saw that he was not only a fellow officer but a Marine -Through out the book it seems as though boot camp had an great effect upon its participants but those were basically the whites, but what about the blacks? One black had a different if at all transformation, and that is Marine Winston. He admits that although things at boot ...
- 956: Bolshevik Revolution
- ... villages. " Another source indicates that " in 1920 industrial input had decrease to only one seventh of that in 1913. " For a party which was based on the proletariat and widespread industrialization this had a devastating effect. Another reason for the desertion of the cities was the lack of food supplies. Under the Government's program, peasants had to surrender their crops to the state. This led to passive resistance, where peasants ... system, which developed during war communism. According to Y. Kushin, "anti - Soviet revolts ceased the new economic policy strengthened the alliance between workers and peasants. " The NEP was continued until 1928 and had a stabilizing effect on the economy, it consolidated the Bolsheviks until Lenin's death in 1924. Lenin, also used other tactics to stop dissidents. Freedom of speech was greatly reduced, and the CHEKA (All Russian extraordinary committee for ...
- 957: Film Score Music
- ... symphony part to exemplify to us the thoughts that were racing through the minds of these two character as they left each other , not knowing if it was to be for the last time. The effect that this music had on those who saw the film was unforgettable as Steiner portrayed emotions so poignantly through his orchestration. Probably the most memorable film score to arise out of the 1930's was ... also be used to foreshadow upcoming events and prepare us for the next scene. The unoriginal score is music that has been written by somebody else but has been placed in the scene to add effect. The music can be a part of the scene as in the scene with Tom Hanks explaining the story of La Mamma Morta to Denzel Washington in Philadelphia. The music in this scene has been ...
- 958: Censorship...Who gives a F**k!!!
- ... a crime for anyone to sell a CD or tape that had an "adult only" label on it to a person under the age of eighteen." The law was passed but was never put into effect because the State Court declared it Unconstitutional, violating the First Amendment to The Constitution of the United States. That is just an example of why restricting the sale of controversial music or video will never ... topics. Many people think it objectionable to have unlabeled CDs available to parents and children. Tipper Gore is the leader of the P.M.R.C and is working non-stop to get censorship into effect in conjunction with the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America). The issue of censorship was pushed constantly by PMRC so that the RIAA, as a compromise, made up a sticker in 1990, that warned of ...
- 959: Andy Worhal
- ... was attempting to lessen the shock of the viewer, recognizing such events for their face value, as everyday occurrences. "When you see a gruesome picture over and over again, it doesnt really have and effect." As in the "Jackies," images of the recently assassinated President Kennedys grieving widow, were repeated to reinforce the obsessive ways that our thoughts keep returning to a tragedy, and "stress the flash of fame ... wallpaper store." His use of background color in the Death and Disaster paintings is mostly extrinsic to the content of the images. In some, such as "Lavender Disaster," the background color seems to intensify the effect of alienation created by the realism of the visual content. In others, such as "Atomic Bomb," the red-orange color serves a supporting role. The images Warhol selected for these paintings were gruesome, though he ...
- 960: Black History
- ... crime was out of control and that the existing laws were "soft on crime." In fact, neither of these things were true. During the 17 years leading up to 1994 (when three strikes went into effect), the California legislature passed more than 1,000 bills lengthening sentences or defining new crimes. Not surprisingly, these same years showed a six-fold increase in California's prison population--from 19,000 to 126 ... the 13-fold overrepresentation for African Americans continues, the current starkly disparate incarceration rate for Blacks will substantially worsen." Four years after the passage of California's Three Strikes law we can see the real effect of the these laws--rising rates of incarceration, extremely long sentences for all kinds of offenses and massive injustice.
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