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    art‚ their statues consisted of highly detailed and realistic figures. The Greeks made their ‘ideal ’ male and female‚ Male being in the form of Apollo a very muscular god-like man. The female being Venus‚ however unlike Apollo‚ Venus was not show fully undressed. When creating the somewhat chubby Venus a child bearing stomach was taken into account

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    the theme of the art they create. These are the reasons that might explain their commonalities or differences in the representation of the human figure. For example‚ during one of our earliest cultures‚ the Paleolithic period‚ the Women of Willendorf sculpture portrays a grossly heavy female figure representing fertility and beauty of being heavy. This was at a time when food was not plenty and therefore perhaps they thought this sculpture would somehow magically bless them. (Benton &

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    example‚ women portrayed by Peter Paul Rubens represent the body weight preferences of Europeans at those times. In his paintings The Judgment of Paris (1632) and Venus at a Mirror (1614) all of the women are over-weight or obese‚ which was considered attractive. At the same time‚ Venus portrayed in Sandro Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus (1485) painting‚ is very thin and skinny that contradicts with the well-known common standards of beauty in the Renaissance. So‚ it is hard to say whether Ruben’s

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    Right now we are building the most advanced rocket ever.We are planning to use it to send people mars and to get a sample of an asteroid.We are also working on transformative capabilities to help us drive farther into space than ever before.We are going to mature them and teach they how to save lives and create economic growth.We also have a fleet of robots on Mars exploring it right now trying to figure out where the people should go when they go to Mars and many other things. Donners they influence

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    Although these were false gods‚ the Greek gods played a huge role in greek culture. In ancient Greece these gods were apart of their everyday lives. The Greeks beliefs and traditions were all inspired by the Greek gods in different ways. They held city festivals and sporting and artistic competitions to praise the gods for all they did for them. They built temples for the gods so that they could worship them‚ and surprisingly many of the temples are still up today. Many looked for signs from the

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    ANTH  121   Exam  2  Study  Guide  Outline‚  Part  II   Dr.  Grofe     I.  San  Bartolo     A.  Pre-­‐Classic  Maya  city  discovered  in  2001  –  Northeast  of  Tikal.       1.  Bill  Saturno‚  working  for  Corpus  Project         a.  Looking  for  sites  with  Maya  writing         b.  Led  by  former  looters  to  San  Bartolo         c.  Got  lost  on

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    I chose to analyze setting. I am comparing “All Summer in A Day.” I am also “The Lottery” and “A Jury of Her Peers.” All of their settings compare to each other. They are all different. In “All Summer In a Day” the story takes place on Venus. On Venus you see the sun once every nine years. While Margot and the other characters are waiting for the sun to come‚ it is cold. There is no sun until later on in the story. Margot gets locked in the closet. Then when the sun finally comes‚ the kids go

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    small planet in a tiny part of a vast universe. "This part of the universe is called the solar system‚ and is dominated by a single brilliant star-the sun." (Skywatching 230) The solar system is the earth ’s neighbourhood and the planets Mercury‚ Venus‚ Mars‚ Jupiter‚ Saturn‚ Uranus‚ Neptune and Pluto are the Earth ’s neighbours. They all have the same stars in the sky and orbit the same sun. Scientists believe the solar system began about 5 billion years ago‚ perhaps when a nearby star exploded

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    the happiness and color out of her. It stated that people think she is “an old photograph dusted from an album‚ whitened away‚ and if she spoke at all her voice would be a ghost.” Second‚ she is from Earth and she moved to plant Venus. The other children have lived on Venus all of their lives and they disliked her

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    Speech This story began with Hero living in Sestos and Leander living in Abydos. Now Hero was said to have had Apollo and Cupid try to get her hand in marriage‚ but she didn’t marry either of them. Instead she became a priestess for Venus. One day Hero had to give Venus honor and it was also the day that Leander was in Sestos as well that day. When the two saw each other they fell in love at first sight. Hero’s parents forbade her to see Leander‚ but neither of them wanted that to happen. They set

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