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    Honoka Suzuki's Legacy

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    Honoka Often seen with a smile on her face, Honoka Suzuki has a bubbly, cheerful attitude. She brings joy to those around her, making Honoka a pleasant person to be with. She feeds on attention, which is why she loves being a Suzuki so much. There is nothing she loves more than performing, be it in broad daylight, or late at night when the sun is gone. She never gets tired of performing-- while other people see performing as working, she sees it as a hobby! Her personality has a downside, however

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    Lyra The Harp Meaning

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    Stargazing 101: Lyra, The Harp Music is a great love of mine, so you can understand that his story means a little bit more to me than many of the others. It is a sad tale of a broken heart, and a man who loved his wife that he went to the ends of the earth for her. This is how the story of Lyra, The Harp, was told to me growing up. The Mythology Orpheus was a poet and musician known for his beautiful voice and ability to play any instrument given to him. He symbolized music to the ancient Greeks

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    (Museworthy, 2010). This was Orpheus’s symbol, if there was a lyre in his hands that figure was most often recognizable as Orpheus. Which may be why he is, to a degree, using it to guide him and his bride, this is his treasured item. In other paintings of Orpheus there is alway the lyre present and his emotional state is clear in each just by the way he is engaging with the instrument. In Orpheus, by Franz Von Stuck of 1891, he is holding the lyre close to him and is playing for the animals in a soothing

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    remembered for my ability to play the trombone, cook, and play basketball. I have chosen three things that represent these and myself. In my time capsule, I have placed a lyre, a whisk, and a basketball. I want to be remembered for my ability to play the trombone. To represent my musical talent, I put in my time capsule, a lyre. A lyre is a piece of metal that extends from the mouthpiece of my trombone to hold my music. I use it so I don’t have to carry a music stand when the band is performing at

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    humans are describes as "forgotten lyres, whose dissonant strings/ Give various response to each varying blast,/ To whose frail frame no second motion brings/ One mood or modulation like the last.” Shelley uses this as a metaphor that expands on the concept of human morality. In this stanza humans are compared to “forgotten lyres” saying that we will be forgotten when we are dead and gone. The different moods of the stanza are created by the different sounds of the lyre. Humans are being compared to

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    tortoiseshell, he crafts a lyre, this is a metaphor for crafting, as gods take the natural world and are able to put it to use. Once confronted by Apollo, Hermes gives a lying speech, he whistles and winks at Apollo making him laugh. Hermes acts like a child and tells Apollo, “I care for sleep, and milk of my mother's breast, and wrappings round my shoulders … I was born yesterday” (263-264). His playful nature allows him to express his musical skills, as he sings sweet songs with his lyre, and manages to trade

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    Apollo was the son of Leto and Zeus and a twin brother to Artemis. In Apollo's story we learn that Zeus was a mischievous guy. While he had his wife whose name was Hera he had a side women who was Leto. Leto and Zeus messed around for a bit and Leto came out to be pregnant. When Hera, the wife of Zeus, found out the Leto was pregnant she was infuriated and she immediately forbade any place under the sun to allow her to have her child. She was so angry that Leto had seduced her husband that she

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    humans are described as "forgotten lyres, whose dissonant strings/ Give various response to each varying blast, / To whose frail frame no second motion brings/ One mood or modulation like the last.” This is a metaphor for the human condition and morality. For example, in this stanza humans are compared to “forgotten lyres.” This comparison between humans and the “forgotten lyres” highlights the perpetual human condition of change. It is showing that like the lyres when humans are gone, they will be

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    The Most Important Characteristics Of A Civilization According to National Geographic a civilization is a “society with highly developed culture and technology.”Every civilization has distinct characteristics in a common. For example, they have organized Central Government /Complex Institution, Job Specialization,Cities, Art and Architecture Technology , and Writing / Recording Keeping. Historians do not agree on how many characteristics

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    to believe and makes an analogy between a lyre and its attunement and the body and its soul to explain his distress. He describes the lyre as “physical, bodily, composite, earthy and akin to what is mortal,” just as the body, while the harmony or attunement is “invisible, without body, beautiful and divine” (Phaedo, 86b), just as the soul. Through that comparison, he makes the argument that just as the harmony cannot exist after the destruction of the lyre, a soul cannot exist after the destruction

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