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- 23231: Mixed Messages In Greek Theatr
- ... the ancient artists "were not at work to provide visual aids for textbooks and lectures. We can, with care, use them in that way as aids to a modern imagination" (Green 1995, p.13). Green's statement brings to light the importance of cautious research into this area of history, especially keeping in mind the context in which the vases were made and used. Certainly, vases exist which are, as Green ... Toxotides. On it, Actaion is being attacked by dogs. The presence of Zeus and Lyssa is evidence relating the vase to the play. The other data used for this linkage are the tragic costuming, Aktaion's special horn mask, and the inscriptions over the actors, including one that identifies the main figure as Euaion, the son of Aeschylus. The reverse side shows two women and a youth conversing, but neither the ... little suggests a theatre scene at all. The reliance on the costume evidence is put into question because the lower half of all the figures was lost and restored by a contemporary scholar. Here, Trendall's argument is weakly supported. Another vase with vague theatrical elements is pinned to something more concrete by Trendall (Trendall 1971 p.63). The Attic red-figured pelike (450-440 B.C., Boston 63.2663) ...
- 23232: Martin Luther King Jr.
- ... arguably one of the most inspired creators in the history of art. As a sculptor, architect, painter, and poet, he had a tremendous influence on his contemporaries and on following Western art in general. Michelangelo’s father, a Florentine official named Ludovico Buonarroti with connections to the ruling Medici family, placed his 13-year-old son in the workshop of the painter Domenico Ghirlandaio. After about two years, Michelangelo studied at ... marble Pietà. One of the most famous works of art, the Pietà was probably finished before Michelangelo was 25 years old, and it is the only work he ever signed. The high point of Michelangelo’s early style is the gigantic marble statue David which he made between 1501 and 1504, after returning to Florence. David, Michelangelo’s most famous sculpture, became the symbol of Florence and originally was placed in the Piazza Della Signoria in front of the Palazzo Vecchio, the Florentine town hall. With this statue Michelangelo proved to his ...
- 23233: Pregnancy, Lactation, And Infancy
- ... at conception. Organ system develop rapidly, and nutrition plays many supportive roles. A placenta is the organ that develops inside the uterus early in pregnacy. Maternal nutrition before and during pregnancy affects both the mother's health and the infants growth. As the infant develops through its three stages- the zygote, embryo, and the fetus. Its organs and tissues grow. Time of intense development are critical peroids that depend on nutrients ... grams per day higher than a nonpregnant women. Pregnant women in the United States receive 75 to 110 grams of protein in a day. The RDA during pregnancy is set slightly above the nonpregnant woman's RDA for thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, anf vitaminB. New cells are laid down at a tremendous pace as the fetus grows and develops. The requirements for folate increases dramatically during pregnancy. Daily multivitamin-mineral supplements are ... illicit drugs, smoke. The infant drinks only breast milk or formula, but later begins to eat some foods. Growth directly reflects nutrietns intake and is imprtant parameter is assesing nutrition of infants. A healthy infant's birthweight doubles by about five months of age and tripes by one year. No single nutrient is more essential to growth than protein. All of the body's cells and most of its fluids ...
- 23234: The Effects Of Marijuana Use
- ... effects of marijuana usage. The plant Cannabis sativa is the source of marijuana, the leaves, flowers, and twigs are crushed to produce marijuana. The drug is usually smoked but sometimes eaten. Marijuana has different usage’s and different effects depending on how its used. First of all, in the early 1900’s Marijuana started to be used as a pleasure inducing drug and by the 1960’s and 70's its usage became wide spread among young adults making marijuana the second most popular drug after alcohol. Many users describe two phases of marijuana intoxication: initial stimulation, giddiness, and euphoria, followed ...
- 23235: Video-psychology-past, Present
- ... and internal such as genetics, attitude, and personality. Situational factors are those that come from the environment such as sensory stimulation, rewards, and punishments. Emanuel Donchin studies the effects of situational factors on the brain s activity. Donchin showed a list of names to various individuals and recorded their brain signals. The list consisted of all men s names, but ocassionally a woman s name was inserted. Different brain patterns were generated when females names showed up than males names. He noticed that p300 waves were generated by the brain when an unexpected situation occurred. Body language can ...
- 23236: Veterans People To Remember
- ... and say "thank you" to those who serve in our Armed Forces. On this Veterans' Day, Americans across the country will honor and remember their family members, friends, and neighbors who served in our Nation's military. No act of citizenship is more worthy of respect than service in our Armed Forces in order to protect and defend our ideals -- and because the tradition of the citizen soldier is deeply imbedded in our Nation's history. Most Americans are privileged to have friends, family members, and colleagues whom they can personally thank, on this significant day, for their military service. Since the birth of our Nation, American soldiers, sailors, Marines ... us of the sacrifices they have made on our behalf. Veterans' Day is also an opportunity to recognize the challenges faced, and sacrifices made, by those who serve during what passes for peacetime in today's, and tomorrow's, ever-changing the unstable world. The men and women who serve in our American Army are among our best and our brightest. The many soldiers who have risked their life toward ...
- 23237: Creative Writing: Life as A Basketball
- Creative Writing: Life as A Basketball I started out as a brand new shiny basketball. But since then I have gotten old and worn. I have had a hard life. You don't know how cruel kids can be. I have been through everything. Once I was nearly ran over by a car. One day they left me outside, it was okay for a couple of day but then it started raining. Not just sprinkling we're talking major downpour. Then the next day the kid sees me and just kicks me in mud. How rude, kids just don't respect their stuff. So I'm just sitting in the mud and the other kid comes, so I'm thinking come on kid please just take me inside. But oh no he had to use me and then after all of that he just had throws me back in the mud, some kids have alot of nerve. As if things can't get any worse it just had to snow. Oh I get cold from even thinking of that night. So when the kids are out building snowman and having snowball fights, I was slowly beginning ...
- 23238: Julius Caesar: Brutus’ Character Flaw
- Julius Caesar: Brutus’ Character Flaw Brutus, the tragic hero in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, possesses a character flaw that is both good and bad. His character flaw is his noble blindness, which causes him to trust easily. His noble blindness has its good and bad traits and contributes to his downfall as well. By trusting people easily, his noble blindness ultimately brings Brutus to his death. Easily giving his trust is a good quality because he gains other’s trust just as easily. This is shown throughout the whole play because Caesar never expresses a feeling of mistrust towards Brutus. Cassius knows this and that is why he believes Brutus would make a good ... all actuality, the main reason Cassius uses Brutus in his plans is for an “insurance policy.” The people know Brutus’ nobility to Caesar and they will think that there was a good reason for Caesar’s assassination since Brutus was the one that committed it. Cassius declares, “Brutus shall lead the way, and we will grace his heels with the most boldest and best hearts of Rome.”(III, I, 120). ...
- 23239: Death Of A Salesman 2
- ... many other problems arose that forced economic difficulties on him and his family. He was determined to live by ideals that placed him above everyone else. It was with these lies and illusions that Willy's life began to lose its' air of reality. He lost his identity, courage, and dignity throughout New England as a salesman. And as he explained often, "I have friends...They know me up and down ... general." (P.P Sharma, critical analysis) He spent hours on hours dreaming of the past. Thinking of himself and his son Biff who had potential, but did not take advantage of it. Biff was Willy's inspiration as a father. He had the determination to become a great football player, not to mention make something with his life and the Loman name. However, Biff flunked math and threw all of his ... of trade and commerce, he nevertheless nurses the dream of getting the better of everybody else. And this leads him into an alienation from himself, obscuring his real identity." (P. P. Sharma, critical analysis) Willy's life would have been more satisfying had he engaged himself in more physical work that would occupy his mind. His life was situated on a dream for success and prosperity. When it never arrived, ...
- 23240: Allegory Of The Cave
- A report I had to do on Plato's Allegory of the Cave. Plato was born 427 B.C. and died 347 B.C. He was a pupil under Socrates. During his studies, Plato wrote the Dialogues, which are a collection of Socrates' teachings. One of the parables included in the Dialogues is "The Allegory of the Cave". "The Allegory..." symbolizes man's struggle to reach understanding and enlightenment. First of all, Plato believed that one can only learn through dialectic reasoning and open-mindedness. Humans had to travel from the visible realm of image-making and objects ... not possibly comprehend another dimension without beholdin! g it themselves, therefore, they label the enlightened man mad. For instance, the exact thing happened to Charles Darwin. In 1837, Darwin was traveling aboard the H.M.S. Beagle in the Eastern Pacific and dropped anchor on the Galapagos Islands. Darwin found a wide array of animals. These differences in animals sparked Darwin on research, which lasted well up to his death, ...
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