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    Stephanie Cardon: PLATFORM 17 – Beacon As an artist, Stephanie Cardon seeks to stimulate the viewer to create their own understanding of the connections among objects and the intermediary space between them. Beacon, Cardon's first large-scale, outdoor sculpture, articulates this artistic vision. A new commission for the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, the sculpture consists of two 11-foot concrete towers connected by a canopy of two layers of thin, yellow vinyl-coated steel cables. The

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    This shows indirectly that Achilles was inconsiderate because he just played on his lyre while his comrades were dying. ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­Secondly, Achilles also was inconsiderate for another spot in the text. In the text, “Achilles sat on the sand by the Greek ships”(Homer 69). This shows that Achilles was inconsiderate because he would

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    Throughout history, music has been influenced by the different events that transpire across the world. As civilizations rise and fall, cultures combine and change; and with that, new music and musical instruments are brought into existence. From each corner of the world and from all time periods, music has grown. The places that music has dramatically developed the most are in China, Europe, and America. Musical instruments in these locations have gone through a musical “revolution” and have eventually

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    Getting to Know Hermes

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    Hermes is a great ambassador of gods, the guide for human souls to the underworld, and a wise God. Hermes is the messenger of gods, because he has the magic sandals, which provide him the ability to fly. Hermes’s name in Rome is Mercury, meaning moves quickly through the sky. Hermes Greek name means fortune stone. He is an only Olympian who empower to travel through the Olympus, Earth and underworld. Moreover, Hermes is not only son of Zeus, but also known as a great helper for his father, Zeus

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    Evan Holt Phillis Wheatley’s “An Hymn to the Morning” There are plenty works of poetry that have been published, but none that match the intellect and beautiful writing aura like those of Phillis Wheatley’s. Phillis Wheatley was America’s first black female poet who learned to read and write at an age where blacks were either unable to learn or restricted from these opportunities. Most of Phillis Wheatley’s poetry consists of religion, death and the hardships and burdens blacks endured throughout

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    their lives. Music was a part of many events, rituals, and even played huge rolls in education. This essay will look at the treasures of the musical heritage described in Greek mythology and other writings from ancient Greece, the development of the lyre and the kithara, as two of the most widely used instruments during this time, the talented musicians that created

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    represents his abilities as a powerful musician by his creation of a lyre within seconds after he was born. His mother, Maia gave birth to him in a cave on the Mount Cyllene in Arcadia and he was nursed by the nymph Cyllene. The precious baby, became very loved and respected by all the gods in the Mount Olympus. Like Heracles, Hermes showed his abilities as a god really fast, when he escaped from the cave he was born and invented the lyre. He develop a plan as soon as he saw a turtle when he was wandering

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    Aphrodite Allusion

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    Greek Mythology Explanation/Description: Implication (When you see this term in a poem or text, what is the purpose of including this reference?) Aphrodite/Venus Aphrodite is the goddess of love, beauty, pleasure and eternal youth. Ironically she is the wife of the ugliest gods Hephaestus and is the mother of the god of love, cupid. She is one of the twelve gods of Olympus. Aphrodite is notorious for her love affairs with gods and mortals. There are two stories of to the origin of Aphrodite. Some

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    is first found holding the warrior Odysseus captive from his journey home after the Trojan War. Her love for him is so strong that she cannot let him go. Homer introduces Calypso as a beautiful goddess sitting on a tropical island while playing her lyre. Continuing with the stereotypical goddess nature, Homer also reveals how strong emotions can cause goddesses to act irrationally. Meanwhile, he also shows how their beauty plays and important part in their personality and how people treat them. In

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    Portfolio Part B ‘Mutability’ (Greenblatt 752-753) is a poem written by the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1816. The Oxford English Dictionary defines the word ‘Mutability’ as: Liability or tendency to change. (OED Online) ‘Mutability’ was most probably written in order to portray Shelley’s own views that humans do not have control over changes which occur in their own lives. However, it asserts Shelley’s belief that, “Nought may endure but Mutability.” Shelley demonstrates this idea by using

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