appoint captains for navel ships. -Gericault prepared well in advance before creating the final masterpiece. He made many preparatory sketches‚ interviewed some survivors as part of his research‚ asked a carpenter to make a scaled model in detail of the raft‚ surrounded himself with decapitated human parts‚ and went to morgues to observe the appearance of corpses. This wasn’t just to be as accurate as possible but also it was to keep a gruesome frame of mind of death and mortality -this painting’s creation
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When Huck and Jim are on the raft trying to find Cairo‚ a small town on the shore of the Mississippi River‚ so that Jim can be a free man‚ Jim’s excitement about being so close to freedom opens Huck’s eyes to the magnitude of what he has done by helping Jim escape. He does not know
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During the Architectural/Civil engineering work shop we were split into teams and given the task of creating a raft able to cross a water basin‚ whilst supporting a granite block‚ withstanding large waves in the process. This proved to be challenging as most of the teams rafts sank including our team but this motivated me more to think deeply about the design and the construction of the raft and what I could have done to prevent
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species to the world’s markets. Common Aquaculture in the World • Fish aquaculture- raising fish commercially in tanks‚ ponds‚ or ocean enclosures. - carp‚ salmon‚ tilapia and catfish. • Raft culture- aquaculture using floating rafts for shallow-sea farming. -seaweeds and filtering organisms FISH AQUACULTURE RAFT CULTURE • Shrimp Farming- raising of shrimp or prawn in tanks‚ ponds and ocean enclosure. It is the second largest industry in Ecuador. -shrimp and prawn • Eco-friendly Aquaculture- using
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was best for he and Jim to move on from the families‚ “I was powerful glad to get away from the feuds‚ and so was Jim to get away from the swamp. We said there warn’t no home like a raft‚ after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery‚ but a raft don’t. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft” (119). After witnessing the violence between the two families‚ Huck looks to the river for a new beginning to forget about the disturbing death of his dear friend. The river provides
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lost the majority of his men. When the settlers did not find treasures they wanted or needed‚ their main goal was now survival. Cabeza was in charge of one of five rafts that the leader‚ Panfilo de Narvaez‚ ordered be created whenever the goal changed from exploration to survival. After a strong wind blew the rafts into the sea‚ Cabeza’s raft and men landed on what is modern day Galveston Island‚ Texas. Within a year there would only be four survivors‚ one being Cabeza. Upon arrival they met Indians
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Huck and Tom‚ at the beginning of the book‚ tied Jim to a tree when he fell asleep. But later‚ he had a change of heart many times. First‚ when Jim and Huck were on the raft‚ two slave hunters wanted to check the raft for runaway slaves. Right then and there Huck could have turned Jim in‚ but instead made up a story that the raft had his small pox infected dad. This shows that Huck has courage and actually cares for Jim. He was already feeling guilty about taking own slave to freedom and still
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of grass. My tree house was on a tall tree near the beach. Since sometimes I had a hard time climbing up to the tree house‚ I made a ladder out of big pieces of wood and tied them together with vines. Every day I worked on my raft for many hours. The raft was very sturdy so it could sail for many days. When I was collecting food‚ I found a few artifacts that were very weird. They were: a lens that was in a golden box‚ a large piece of crystal that might cost over a million pounds‚ and a
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(Underworld) and Zeus. There were also 3 sisters‚ Hestia‚ Hera‚ and Demeter. Poseidon is usually shown with his wife Amphitrite‚ but he mated with many creatures. Such as water spirits which is why Cyclops are some of his children. Poseidon mated with Medusa when she was still a beauty. Out of their union was born the winged horse Pegasus. Cyclops are Poseidon’s son because he mated with water spirits. The water spirit he mated with were Nerides. Poseidon and Nerides are pretty much the complete opposite
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Greeks compared to the Maya Looking around too all the different ethnicities that can be found in this world‚ two of those most interesting cultures would have to be the Greeks and the Maya. The ancient Greek and Mayan civilizations have many similar characteristics but they also have many differences. The Mayan’s are an indigenous Mesoamerican culture found in present day South America. As where the Greeks are an ethnicity group native to Greece. The history of the Greece can be traced back
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