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    during its time, it is no surprise to many to see some similarities between Egyptian art and culture, and other cultures that developed during a younger time period. Specifically Ancient Greece because it is known to share some similarities with Egyptian culture and art, such as a similar belief in polytheism, and a similarity in the meaning and purpose of their art. However, when comparing any two works of art from different cultures it is obviously that we will find some distinct differences that

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    character (most likely the story's protagonist) by a clear contrast between the two characters. To help bring the characters in Romeo and Juliet to life, William Shakespeare creates foils to compare his main characters to and show why they are better or a better couple in the case of Romeo and Juliet. While some of the foil characters are obvious, like in the case of Romeo and Paris, or Juliet and Rosaline, in other cases it’s harder to see the contrast and the significance, as in the case of Romeo and Mercutio

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    Compare/Contrast Essay The Odyssey & O Brother Where Art Thou? Hook? Connection? The novel, The Odyssey, by Homer is about a famous greek hero Odysseus who goes on journey to return home from the Trojan War. Odysseus goes through many hardships in his journey from, facing a terrible cyclops to having the rest of his crew killed for eating sacred cows. At the end of the story Odysseus finally returns home he kill his wife's suitors with his son and completes his journey of a lifetime. In the

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    addresses both the changes and the continuities across all three groups. When a new generation comes their will be a new way to do things like finding food or communicating or they might be the same. 5. What is the significance of the cave art? The Venus figurines? The art in the cave shows what the humans did in there life and the Venus figurines shows sexual features suggested the paleolithic people fasioned such as figurines out of an interest in fertility. 6. How did the gradual transformation from

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    summer reading book for art class. Tracy Chevalier did not only put an amazing plot into this book she also made sure that Vermeer gave us art lessons throughout the book. I love art, but never had a chance to take lessons so this gave me an opportunity to learn a few things. Also, especially admire the time period that this book was set in. The novel and the movie were based on the same story, but in some ways they were very distinct. Given the assignment to compare and contrast the two things I have

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    Compare and Contrast Essay Although these artworks have some minor similarities, the differences between ‘Shadows of Tatooine’ by Raymond Swanland and ‘The Lady and the Tramp’ by Eyvind Earle are very pronounced. Each of these artworks are from different times, made in different ways, and made for different films. Although both of these are from the Walt Disney Company, one feels melancholy like, and the other feels stressful. Both of these are also from different time periods and made by different

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    Comparison and Contrasting Between 3 poems: - The Flea (John Donne), Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day (William Shakespeare), and Jenny Kissed Me (James Leigh Hunt) These three love poems or sonnets were all written pre 1914 but by very different writers. The authors of these poems use different styles of writing love poetry. For instance, John Donny is very clever. His poem, 'The Flea' brings out an angle of smart sayings to get people to have sex. William Shakespeare focuses more

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    References Minnesota State Standards for Language Arts: Grade 2 - Perma-Bound Books. (n.d.). Retrieved September 26, 2013, from http://www.perma-bound.com/statestandards.do?state=MN&subject=language-arts&gradeLevel=2

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    Statue of Memi and Sabu: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/48.111 The Statue of Memi and Sabu shows two people embracing. It is sculpted from limestone and stands 62cm tall.(The Metropolitan Museum of Art (4), 2016) Probably, it is from Memphite Region, Giza, Western Cemetery. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art (4), 2016) From reading the accompanying information, we learn that these types of statues were common in the old kingdom of Egypt. Due to the nature of the work, we presume this

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    Cinderella Compare and Contrast There are many Cinderella stories you haven't heard, but these two you need to know about. Many cultures have a different kind of story, the two that we will be studying will be Yeh-Shen, the Chinese version. Also the Egyptian version Rhodopis. The two stories both have very different cultures. The archetype villain in these story are two completely different things. The archetype that I will be using to compare and contrast the stories is the Villain, which are

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