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    Shakespeare’s Richard III. Booth joined the Richmond Theatre in 1858, and his career skyrocketed in 1860, with his salary being $20,000 a year. Booth’s career was notable, and he played many successful roles in Romeo and Juliet, The Apostate, The Marble Heart, The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, Othello, The Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet, and Macbeth. However, he never reached the high level of success that his father or brother Edwin

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    the Aegean Sea between mainland Greece and the island of Crete; where marble flourished (Sayre). Marble was extremely beneficial for the Cycladics because it allowed them to commence trade with other areas, subsequently provided a better culture to live in (Sayre). Another reason why I would choose living in the Cycladic culture is because they were the first to compose and utilize the idea of sewage pipes. They constructed clay pipes that led from interior toilets

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    As a part of the WIL Project and the observation team it was determined the dispositions would be split up into groups, the 3 that I will be discussing are as follows; Resilience Persistence Curiosity What is Resilience? *the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness. The climbing tree; helping each other down from a branch when difficulty is shown. For example I climbed the tree with the children and sat on a branch, children continued to come over to the tree and climb over

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    empire, started building new structures and ultimately creating a much stronger empire. When Augustus Caesar passed away in 14 CE he left a very strong mark in history. His quote describing the Roman Empire “ found Rome the city of clay but left it a city of marble”. This quote although short speaks volumes because

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    In history art has always been important because of the message the images bring. Today many of the history is analyzed through paintings and sculptures as a culture and remembrance of what once happened in history. The Greek Slave is one of the many sculptures and images that portray history today. The Greek Slavery reflects historical information of the artist, work of art, culture, values, and media information from that era. To begin with, Hiram Powers was an American sculptor originally from

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    Essay #1      The Palace of Knossos, a Minoan mud brick and timber structure on a shallow stone foundation, featuring a central courtyard, was constructed on an acropolis. It was a place for rulers to reside, shrines for religious ceremonies to be worshipped, the industrial production of objects, and administrative duties. Ample hallways, stairways, chambers, and light wells supplemented the ambitiously built structure. There were plenty of columns to mark he four awe inspiring

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    they used the equation, Density = Mass/Volume, to find the density of the 100 g mass and recorded it onto the table. Table 1: Ruler and Caliper Measurements Object Ruler Caliper Measurement(cm) Uncertainty (cm) Measurement (cm) Uncertainty (cm) Marble Diameter  1 cm  it could be 1.1 cm  1.004cm  it could be 1.005 cm Washer (Outer Diameter)  1.8 cm it could be 1.9  1.503 cm it could possibly be 1.504 cm Washer (Inner Diameter)  .8 cm it could be 0.93 cm .8 cm .812 cm Washer Thickness  .1 cm

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    Although Eichendorff’s story displays religious elements, the pious facets take on a different form than in Psyche. In “The Marble Statue”, Sunday remains a holy day where evil subsides. God and Satan manifest into the metaphysical through characters, settings, and motifs. Fortunato is a pure character directing Florio towards the path of the righteous man while Donati is a sinister man leading the boy into temptation. The seductress is the embodiment of evil while Bianca is the good. The aspect

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    The Art of Water-Based Sculpting Essay

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    chosen to learn how to sculpt with a new clay medium to expand my “tool belt”; the profiles I make would be a good drawing reference, and would also aid me in experience and sculpting figurines with polymer clay. I would also learn the anatomy of the male and female face and head. I will attempt to create a male head because I’m terrible at drawing and sculpting men. This relates to the research topic because I am sculpting the male head out of water based clay. What I know about this topic is that

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    sculpting. They used marble, stone, limestone, and clay to create their sculptures. That has helped us create the base of the materials we use today for sculpting and even with architecture. In modern day architecture, we have almost simplified the way buildings look. Fourunately, ancient Greece architectural influence is still seen mostly at formal banquet halls today. The columns in entry ways, usually the capital is either doric or ionic. The interior well detailed with the use of marble as flooring,

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