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    All Summer in a Day

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    she lived in the earth. And in the story‚ she transfered to the planet Venus. The Venus has strange weather that is rainy‚ no sunny during seven years. The children who lived in the Venus had no memory of the sun. Only one child who had lived in the Earth in the past‚ Margot had the memory of the sun. Other children hated her because she had frail body‚ pale face‚ ghost-like voice and the memory of the sun. One day‚ in the Venus The scientists predicted that the sun would arise during two hour. In

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    Manet

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    Harold Shaw Hum314 November 12th‚ 2012 A comparison on Venus or Urbino and Monet’s Olympia As the upper class Renaissance movement took pace in Italy during the 14th century many different originally theories and beliefs became relevant in Greeks and Roman life. Mainly the importance of the individual was held higher then before. This lead the way for artist such as Giovanni Bellini to express their art‚ religious beliefs‚ and ideas through paintings of landscapes and portraits. They used bold

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    “All Summer In A Day” “All summer in a day” is a short story by Ray Bradbury about people living on the planet Venus and the weather conditions they live with. One might ask for the purpose of why Bradbury would write such a depressing and saddening story. The reason for that is to stress his audience of the importance of the little things in our everyday lives. We tend to take things for granted and lose our appreciation for them but do not stop to notice how important they are and how big of

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    Serena Williams

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    the age of five. Serena and her older sister Venus began daily two-hour practices with her father. Her father home-schooled Serena and her sister Venus and to this day‚ Serena Williams remains coached by both her parents. In 1995‚ when Serena was in the ninth grade‚ her father pulled both Serena and Venus out of school‚ and began coaching both of his daughters at their home. Subsequently‚ Serena turned pro that same year‚ and‚ along with her sister Venus‚ enjoyed a run of prestigious victories. Two

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    THE IDEALISED BODY

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    MOSINYIEMANG OTHUSITSE OTHMOS001 THE IDEALISED BODY This research seeks to compare and contrast the following paintings by; Titian’s‚ Venus of Urbino. 1538‚ Edouard Manet’s‚ Olympia. 1863 and Lucian Freud’s Naked Portrait (Kate Moss). 2002 by looking at “The Idealised Body” in relation to the issues of “gaze‚ looked-at-ness‚ voyeurism‚ objectification as well as notion of the woman as an object of pleasure for a male viewer by the male artist. These works are all painted on different times‚ Titians

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    how his body is formed and how his clothing sits. The birth of Venus 1. Introduce the artist’s name‚ painting title and the mediums used in a ‘ show stopper’ sentence The painting of the birth of Venus painted by sandro Botticelli; the medium used to illustrate the comperission is tempera on a canvas. 2. Introduce the subject matter of the artwork. In the Birth of Venus‚ by Sandra Botticelli‚ the classical Goddess Venus is emerging from the water on a shell‚ held up by the Zephyrs‚ symbols

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    Social Changes

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    Prominent theories of social change Basically‚ change comes from two sources. One source is random or unique factors such as climate‚ weather‚ or the presence of specific groups of people. Another source is systematic factors. For example‚ successful development has the same general requirements‚ such as a stable and flexible government‚ enough free and available resources‚ and a diverse social organization of society. So‚ on the whole‚ social change is usually a combination of systematic factors

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    Theorizing the male gaze

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    Velazquez’s Rokeby Venus was used to try out this theory as is one of the most complex ‘exceptions’ in all Renaissance. The painting makes us to reconsider everything we think we know about “the gaze” and its positioning in desire. As compared to Carracci’s work Venus at her Toilet‚ the Velazquez may seem different as to be almost “about” different things not adornment but disencuberment not self-centeredness but solitude; the body not as object but span. Another painting “ Venus at her mirror” by

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    Ugly or Beautiful? It is well known that beauty and ugliness are opposites. If that is so‚ how can art be ugly and beautiful at the same time? Some pieces of art are ugly to the eyes but beautiful mind. The Venus of Willendorf (Venus of Willendorf: 1-3) is an example of such. It is a small figure of a large woman. She has very large breast with skinny little arms rested on top of them. Her breast lay on her even larger stomach‚ which hangs down to just above her pubic area. Her pubic area and

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    Dylan Negri Ren. through 1855 Compare & Contrast 6/21/11 Titian made his Venus of Urbino in Italy 1538 during the Venetian Renaissance. Titian has domesticated Venus by moving her to an indoor setting‚ engaging her with the viewer‚ and making her sensuality explicit. Titian’s composition is and use of color is a common indicator of his Venetian Renaissance style. The frankness of Venus’s expression is often noted; she stares straight at the viewer‚ unconcerned with her nudity‚ making it

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