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    The Venus Flytrap The Venus Flytrap is one of the most well known carnivorous plants out there. Although it is well known, there are many things people may not know about them. For example, people may know the basic description of the plant, but will not know about Its habitat, diet, and pollinators. Many may not know that there are also conservation challenges the venus flytrap is facing. The venus flytrap is native to North and South Carolina. The venus flytrap likes wet areas to grow. Their diet

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    The “Black Venus” has many visual elements. Some of the elements apparent to are line, shape, colors, texture, balance and symmetry. Lines form shapes on the bathing suit worn by the Black Venus. Shapes that appear in the figure are hearts and flowers which contribute to the intended message of this piece of art. Colors that also contribute to the artwork are yellow, orange, white, blue, red and green. All of those selected colors are very lively, giving the solid black figure a live mood. The figure

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    The Venus Fly Trap The Venus Fly Trap, Dionaea muscipula, is a carnivorous plant native to the bogs and swamplands of North and South Carolina(Halpern 2). It preys on insects with its uniquely shaped terminal portion of its leaves. Each leaf has two primary regions: the leaf-base and the trapping mechanism(Souza 3). The flat typical leaf-like region is called the leaf-base and it is capable of carrying out photosynthesis and grows out of the ground. The trapping mechanism, called the leaf-blade

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    For centuries, sexuality and nude figures has been a face of art. Venus of Urbino by Titian and Olympia by Édouard Manet represents the faces of female domination and their ability to lure any men. In this essay we shall talk about the two artists, Manet and Titian, and also compare and contrast between the two painting based on their cultural and structural significance. Manet was born in 1832 in Paris. He was considered as the founder of modern art and a master analyst of visual arts. His artworks

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    The Birth of Venus (Nascita di Venere) is a painting done by Florentine artist Sandro Botticelli in 1486. The painting depicts the moment the goddess Venus first emerges from the waters of the sea and prepares to step onto the shore. Through linear techinques and artistic symbolism, the painting not only depicts the story and narrative of the goddess Venus’s birth but also seeks to exhibit the many different types of love and adoration which surround the creation of life. The painting was a commissioned

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    The Vigil of Venus: Annotated Bibliography Anonymous. "The Vigil of Venus". The Portable Roman Reader. New York: Penguin Books.1979. Linotype Caledonia. Hankins, John E. “Chaucer and the Pervigilium Veneris”. Modern Language Notes 49.2 (1934): 80–83. Web. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2912741. 22 April, 2016. Various. "The Vigil Of Venus." Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine -- Volume 53, No. 332, June, 1843 (1843): 25-29. Literary Reference Center. Web. 23 Apr. 2016. The Latin

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    The Birth of Venus is a book based during the 15th century Renaissance time period, during a time where women had many restrictions set on them. In this book, art and history had a huge impact on the characters lives. Alessandra Cecchi, the daughter of a wealthy, prominent cloth merchant in Florence seeks for the freedom of marriage in order to paint. Alessandra was born with an unstoppable curiosity for the artistic world. However, being born during a time where it was unequivocally inappropriate

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    Venus of Urbino and Olympia are oil paintings from two different schools of painting, but the world is often used to compare these two paintings. Venus of Urbino is an oil painting created by the Italian Renaissance painter, Titian, in 1538. Titian was a representative painter of the Venetian painting school in the late Renaissance, one of the most talented painters in Italy. He is good at portraits, landscapes, myths and religious themes. He was a student of Giovanni Bellini. Under the auspices

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    concentration in soil on the behavior of venus flytraps. The experiment focuses on plant biology, with the incorporation of different levels of nitrogen in the soil as the independent variable. The venus flytraps’ behavior will change constantly throughout the experiment, which will then be the dependent variable. The plants’ behavior will be measured through observations to see the reactions that the fly traps give off in response to the different levels of nitrogen. The venus flytrap with no fertilizer is

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    research article the researchers Christopher R. Hatcher and Adam G. Hart studied the Venus flytrap’s seedlings capturing prey and researched the effect of the nutrient acquisition while the plant was maturing. The growth of the Venus fly trap was also studied and they observed the plants that had access and those that didn’t have access to invertebrate prey. The researchers also provided information on the Venus flytrap’s juvenile stages on prey capture. Lastly, they studied the spectrum of the prey

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