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Report From Los Angels County Museum Of Art
779 words
Report from Los Angels County Museum of Art The
Los Angeles County Museum of Art is the premier
visual arts museum in the Western United States.
Its holdings include more than 150, 000 works
spanning the history of art from ancient times to
the present. Moreover, the museum has seasonal
exhibitions, which focus on many different types
of artists every month. The variety of artwork
fascinates visitors and never bores them. I am a
frequent visitor of the museum, and, this time, I
was enchanted by ...
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Jonah Cast Up Jonah Cast Up Jonah Whale
724 words
A collection of marble sculptures called the
"Jonah Group" is now on display at the Cleveland
Art Museum. "Jonah Swallowed, Jonah Cast Up, Jonah
Praying, Jonah Under the Gourd Vine, and The Good
Shepherd, " are the separate titles for each of
the different statues depicting events in the
Bible story. They are part of the John L.
Severance Fund; numbered 1965. 237, . 238, . 239,
. 240, . 241 respectively. The "Jonah Group" was
created in Asia minor, approximately 270 to 280
AD. These statues most...
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Star Crossed Lovers Romeo Juliet
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It is known that in Shakespeare's tragedies main
characters die in the end, and in his comedies
people marry. Since Romeo and Juliet are a
tragedy, Romeo and Juliet are going to die in the
end. Some events have to lead to their deaths, and
someone makes these events happen. The person (s)
who started it all and did something that led to
all the other events that caused the death of "a
pair of star-crossed lovers." The Capulets and
Montague's would be most responsible for the
deaths of Romeo and ...
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Faith In God Owen Meany
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"Watch out for people who call themselves
religious; make sure you know what they mean-make
sure they know what they mean!" (572). In the
novel written by John Irving, A PRAYER FOR OWEN
MEANY, the protagonist, Owen Meany, developed an
unusual religious significance. Owen experienced
visions of future events, he had a unique type of
faith in God that most do not attain, and Owen
spoke endlessly to inform people about God.
Throughout Owen's life he demonstrated the same
characteristics as a prophe...
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Ancient Egypt Peace Treaty
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Ramses II a Egyptian king the third ruler of the
19 th dynasty and the son of Seti I. Ramses was
born some time around 1304 BC and died around 1237
BC. Ramses was one of the greatest rulers of
ancient Egypt if not than the best as Pharaoh
Ramses was the most powerful known to mankind
under him came the high priest and below the high
priests came the prophets. Ramses life remain a
mystery but he always recorded his big
achievements. Ramses II was on the Egyptian throne
for 67 years. Over all thos...
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Oregon Territory White Settlers
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... using white colonization of the Oregon Country
was closing the connections between the Cayuse
Indians and the Whitman mission. With the number
of whites now living in the former Cayuse land
came many diseases that were unfamiliar to the
Indians. Common sicknesses that whites were
accustomed to were killing the Natives. The Cayuse
became unresponsive to the Whitman's because the
couple helped the people who were killing them. In
1847, Narcissa said something about the continued
white settleme...
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Sneer Of Cold Command Sneer Of Cold Ozymandias
639 words
This sonnet is written to express to the speaker
that possessions don't mean immortality -
ironically, the king who seemed to think that his
kingdom would remain under his statue's
egotistical gaze forever teaches us this through
his epitaph. "Look on my works, ye Mighty, and
despair!" becomes good advice, though in an
opposite meaning than the king intended, for it
comes to mean that despite all the power and might
one acquires in the course of one's life, material
possessions will not last for...
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Dont Realize Attending College
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When attending a college or university, students
can either decide if they would like to live on or
off campus. This decision all depends on how far
the college or university is located from home.
This is a major decision the student must make.
Living on campus is a different environment then
living at home. Students who live on campus will
be living with other students, and those students
that decide to live at home must be able to
commute to school. There are many advantages and
disadvantages ...
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Back To The Hotel Fell Asleep
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It was the summer of 98, and my friends had just
graduated high school, and we all decided to take
a trip. Where to go we all thought? We were
thinking where could we all have fun and not have
any age requirements? So Cancun was the place to
be, first thing I did when I got off the plane was
transfer some money to some pesos. When I tried to
get pesos the cashier tried to rip me off, but
there was nothing I could do. So I got my pesos
and picked up a curves. All I knew was how to say
was Canvas ...
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God Or Goddess Greek Architecture
832 words
Architecture represents the time period or culture
for which it was built. The Berlin article
discussed some interesting details concerning the
rebuilding of their culture. There were many
famous architect who had different views on how
Berlin should be built in order restore the
culture of the past. "This is Berlins "Capital
Dilemma" the title of a new book by author Michael
Wise, who examines the quest to develop building
which are fitting to united Germany's new status
in Europe, while stress...
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Ancient Egyptian Beliefs In The Afterlife
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... to compare to the great houses in which the
Pharaoh or other important persons had lived
(Badawy 47). The burial chambers of the mastaba,
along with those of virtually all other forms of
Egyptian architecture, housed paintings and relief
sculptures depicting the actions of everyday life.
The nether life destiny is often associated with
this "everyday life", where the spirit experiences
all the aspects of their mortal life on earth.
Often, mastaba's were arranged in cemeteries
forming a grid ...
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Archaic Period Ancient Greek
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Ancient Greek art can be divided into a number of
different periods, roughly paralleling the eras in
Greek history including: the Metal Age cultures
(Cyclades, Minoan and Mycenaean); the Geometric
Period; the Archaic Period; the Classical Period;
the Hellenistic Period and the Byzantine period.
These divisions are important; they represent
major periods of artistic development and clearly
distinguish various artistic movements within
Greek historical cultural. The earliest Greek
artist were conc...
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Persian Gulf Nile River
909 words
The Egyptians were the first to make bread that is
soft, light and filled with air. They also made
the first ovens, because they need a different way
to bake the larger mass of dough used for this new
kind of bread. The Egyptians used mud bricks that
have been dried in the sun to make houses. The sun
is shining on our backs. In town, we shall be paid
fish for our barley. That was a song of Egyptian
farmers, more than 3, 000 year ago. Wall paintings
in ancient tombs show farmers at work in their ...
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Nazi Occupation Young Boy
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Open City by Roberto Rossellini Open City is a
neo-realist film that followed the movement in
Italy during World War 2. The film is
neo-realistic because it has that reality like
feeling to it by following specific characters
through their daily stressful lives that are
screwed up from poverty and war. It has many
qualities that make it in some ways closer to the
characters. While watching, the viewer is sucked
into the story and immediately feeling emotional
with the families and the other vari...
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Scare His Readers Elements To Scare His Readers Poe
681 words
Literature would not be the same if the author
didnt take symbolism into account while writing
the piece. One of the worlds best writers, Edgar
Allen Poe, is a superb example of this
representation that has intrigued mankind for
centuries. Poe uses various forms of symbolism to
play off the emotions of his readers. Using
elements of nature, dread, superstition, and
legend, Poe can create a world of trepidation in
the minds of the readers; his poems and stories
would not be the same without these...
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Art And Technology Schwartz Moffat
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... ist. Photography is always a wonderful
challenge... Of course now with computer
manipulations the possibilities make you exhausted
even thinking about it. (Tracey Moffat, quoted in
Hentschel 1998: 23) American artist Lillian
Schwartz made many experiments with computer art
during her long career. Computers are being used
by recent artists as tools with which to analyse
and create works of art. Schwartz was one of the
first artists to experiment with computer images
and computer effects on ar...
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Stainless Steel Korean War
634 words
The Korean War Veterans Memorial is located near
the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall in
Washington, DC. It was dedicated on July 27, 1995.
The Memorial commemorates the sacrifices of the 5.
8 million American who served in the U. S. Armed
Services during the three-year period of the
Korean War. Set on 2. 2 acres directly across the
reflecting pool from the Vietnam Veterans
Memorial, the $ 20 million memorial was paid for
largely with private donations and is a dramatic
blend of granite, st...
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Efficient Cause Final Cause
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Aristotle was born in 384 BC and lived until 322
BC. He was a Greek philosopher and scientist, who
shares with Plato being considered the most famous
of ancient philosophers. He was born at Stagira,
in Macedonia, the son of a physician to the royal
court. When he was 17, he went to Athens to study
at Plato's Academy. He stayed for about 20 years,
as a student and then as a teacher. When Plato
died in 347 BC, Aristotle moved to Assos, a city
in Asia Minor, where a friend of his named Hermias
was ...
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Shakespeare In Sonnet 55 Shakespeare In Sonnet Time
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Many gilded monuments of princes have risen over
the ages, but they are swept aside by time.
However, the poems and memories of loved ones
shall shine more [brightly] than any statue in
history, for all time. William Shakespeare in
sonnet 55 uses diction, allusion, and other
significant devices to convey how throughout time,
war, and death the memories of loved ones will
never be tainted or destroyed. These statues of
the princes will crumble because they are tainted
by the spoils and ominous of...
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George Bernard Shaw Upper Class Society
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Pygmalion and My Fair Lady are a modern parallel
of the story of Pygmalion, legendary sculptor and
King of Cyprus, who fell in love with his own
statue of Aphrodite. At his prayer, Aphrodite
brought the statue to life as Galatea. George
Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion is the story of
Henry Higgins, a master phonetician, and his
mischievous plot to pass a common flower girl,
Eliza Doolittle, off as a duchess at the Embassy
Ball. In order to achieve his goal, Higgins must
teach Eliza how to speak pr...
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