...finely wrought gold, and he wove magic into the filigree. When Aphrodite wore the magic girdle, no one could resist her. Aphrodite loved the glamour and was not happy that her husband was the sooty, hard-working Hephaestus. She had many lovers among the gods and among the mortals, and she had many children, too. By looking at Aphrodite's mythology, we can gather that April might be a good month for spells involving beauty, fertility, acceptance, and self control. Other deities associated with April are Kali, Hathor, Anahita, Ceres, Ishtar, Venus, and Bast. April's full moon has had many names throughout the years. Many of its names come from what the plants are doing at that time of the year such as the "Growing Moon," "Seed Moon," "Planting...
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...Jordan Koch Sociology 101 Research Paper Patriarchy What is Patriarchy? The basic definition is control by men and literally means “the rule of the father”. The term was used to refer to autocratic rule by the male head of a family, however; in modern times it typically refers to social systems where adult men primarily hold power. Males hold primary roles such as political leadership, moral authority, and property control, and fathers hold control over wives and children. Matriarchy is when women have control. Many countries including America are mainly a patriarchy. Throughout the history patriarchy has wiggled its way into the social, political, legal, and economic organization of a range of different cultures throughout the world. Evidence suggests that prehistoric hunter and gatherer societies favored equality for all people and that patriarchy social structures didn’t develop until years after the end of the Pleistocene era. One researcher, Robert M. Strozier, says historically there is no evidence found yet that there was a specific event that triggered patriarchy. Others think that the beginning of the spread of patriarchy had started six thousand years ago when the concept of fatherhood took place. The geographical record shows that there was climate change around 4000 BCE that had led to famines in the Sahara, Arabian Peninsula and the Central Asian deserts. James DeMeo argues that this is the event that occurred and led to patriarchy. This resulted in warlike...
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...Mark Allan S. Bergonia 24 August 2012 BSA-2B I.DEFINITION 5 examples of: INFORMAL&FORMAL 1. Kingdom is a taxonomy rank it is also the biggest and highest or in the most recent three-domain system. 2. Papyrus is an object that is thick paper-like material, repaired from thin strips of the pith of this plant laid together, soaked, pressed and dried. 3. Loneliness a feeling who’s dejected by the awareness of being alone. 4. Title is a transcript that distinguishing name of a book, poem, picture, piece of music or the like. 5. Synagogue is a building it is also a Jewish house of worship, often having facilities for religious instruction. II.DESCRIPTION description of a mechanism 1.what is it 2.what it's purpose 3.what is look likes *A mechanism is a device designed to transform input forces and movement into a desired set of output forces and movement. Mechanisms generally consist of moving components such as gears and gear trains, belt and chain drives, cam and followermechanisms, and linkages as well as friction devices such as brakes and clutches, and structural components such as the frame, fasteners, bearings, springs, lubricants and seals, as well as a variety of specialized machine elements such as splines, pins and keys.The main purpose of it is to produce machines that would contribute to the development of society and of individual. It also opens a slot in globalization and of especially in innovation and in stepping into another level of technology...
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...My research paper is about the Greek Titan Kronos also known in Greek as Cronus or Saturn in Latin. According to pop culture, he is depicted as a monster who was the father of the Olympians. He was also the king of the Titans, who were overthrown by their own children the Olympians in Greek mythology. Today when we read the Greek myths about him, all we really know about him is his ending. We barely know how his life started and what he was like in the middle of his life. The purpose of this paper is to describe the rise and collapse of Kronos, the god of time and King of Titans. The Titans’ timeline was rather brief in comparison to the Olympians in Greek mythology. However, they have a very strong story about their creation. In the...
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...These authors pinpoint some of the difficult obstructions these children have to face while these men are MIA (missing in action). They talk about the adjustment and the adapting to the prolonged and seemingly indefinite absence of a father, and how a relationship between a father and child changes over the long period of time until the veteran returns. Moreover, they collected data from 42 families of returned prisoners of the Vietnam War and attempted to identify a combination of factors that could explain the variability in the quality of the father-child relationship subsequent to the returning from the War. This information from this book will help convey emotional lives that these children have to endure. This book will strengthen my research by pointing out how children are affected when there is a nonattendance of one of the parents for a long period of time. Bowen, L. Gary, Dennis K. Orthner. The Organization Family: WORK AND FAMILY LINKAGES IN THE U.S... New York, NY: Praeger Publishers, 1989. Print. This book depicts how marital relationships get torn apart because of soldiers that come back from the war with post traumatic stress and have the need to have an aggressive and physical attitude towards their wife. The aggression these women have to face forces them to determine if they will stick by these veterans or get a divorce because these men don’t know how to control this disorder. Bowen...
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...-7th Grade Lesson Plan- Greek and Roman Mythology Overview These lessons were designed to meet the global educational goals of making connections, individuality, inspiring creativity, self-awareness and comprehension through observation of the painting by Nicolas-Guy Benet, Sleeping Endymion. Strands and Standards Visual Arts The Arts Disciplines Students learn about and use the symbolic language of the visual arts. • PreK–12 STANDARD 3: Observation, Abstraction, Invention, and Expression Students will demonstrate their powers of observation, abstraction, invention, and expression in a variety of media, materials, and techniques. Connections: History, Criticism, and Links to Other Disciplines Students learn about the history and criticism of visual arts and architecture, their role in the community, and their links to other disciplines. • PreK–12 STANDARD 10: Interdisciplinary Connections Students will apply their knowledge of the arts to the study of English language arts, foreign languages, health, history and social science, mathematics, and science and technology/engineering. English Language Arts Language Strand • Standard 3: Oral Presentation Students will make oral presentations that demonstrate appropriate consideration of audience, purpose, and the information to be conveyed. • Standard 6: Formal and Informal English Students will describe, analyze, and use appropriately formal and informal English. Reading and Literature Strand • Standard...
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...this eroticism talks about a woman who has left her social circle to move to Lydia, and who is deeply missed: “Now she stands out among the Lydian women like a rosy-fingered moon after sunset, surpassing all stars; and its light spreads out over the salty sea and the flowery fields alike. The dew is shed in beauty, and roses bloom…” (Campbell). According to Heirman, roses represent female desire and the transition from the description “rosy-fingered moon” to “dew is shed in beauty, and roses bloom” is clearly an indication of eroticism (Heirman). Roses have held an intimate connotation for as long as many can remember, and this combined with a description of dew points to an evident sexuality in the poem. Due to maximum length of this research paper, there’s not enough room to go in-depth with further examples. However, it’s evident that poetry was not essential to Ancient Greek society. Looking back on this time as historians, much can be gathered from descriptions given in poetry. One could even argue that Ancient Greek poetry is more pertinent to contemporary society than Ancient Greek society. But for now, this argument will go no further than to claim that poetry was another nonessential aspect of Ancient Greek society where botany was...
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...of plastic surgery as mentioned above is introduced. The difference between plastic surgery and cosmetic surgery is that cosmetic surgery is not needed due to a deformity or health issue whereas plastic surgery is. Cosmetic surgery is simply a procedure taken to improve a normal body structure or body feature to make it look better through surgical and medical techniques. Today, due to regular inventions and innovations in science and technology, the field of cosmetic surgery has become safer. However, no matter how good the technological advancements are, there is always the risk of not only the surgery resulting in unwanted outcomes but in some cases death may even occur which still make cosmetic surgery not worth the risk. This paper deals with cosmetic surgery. It states two major reasons why healthy and normal people undergo cosmetic surgery. It also clarifies the physical risks involved such as hematoma, scarring, blood loss, drop in blood pressure, infection, numbness due to nerve damage, unexpected result and death; psychological risks; and financial risks. 2) Two major reasons why healthy and normal people undergo cosmetic surgery There are several reasons why an individual feels the urge to use cosmetic surgery to improve his or her appearance or body feature. The two most common reasons are:...
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...A man named Mark Antony, who was part of the second Triumvirate that took over the Roman throne after Caesar’s death, sent for Cleopatra for questions about her former allegiance to Rome and Caesar. Of course, Cleopatra sees this as an excellent opportunity to seduce another world leader for power! Except this man she ended up actually truly loving with her whole heart and soul. Anyhow, she desired to make a magnificent entrance into Rome to impress Antony. She decided to go wild and arrive in Rome on a ship made of pure gold that was rowed by silver oars and decorated with royal purple sails. Her lady maids gave her an Aphrodite make over and she lay scantily dressed on a white sofa beneath a golden canopy. She also...
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...the aspects of the arts - architecture, calligraphy; aspect of religion is not part the criteria. Is this true? This paper will aim to determine whether the statement above is true. It will also try to analyze the important role of religion and its necessities for the rise of society in general, and in state in particular. This will be done through the review of two important literatures, The Holy Quran and The Muqaddimah by Ibn Khaldun itself. PROBLEM STATEMENT Ibnu Khaldun denies that the divine guidance is a necessary condition for the rise of society (‘umran ) in general, and the state in particular. Do you agree? Why? DEFINITION WHAT IS CIVILIZATION? Dictionary.com defined civilization as: 1. an advanced state of human society, in which a high level of culture, science, industry, and government has been reached. 2. those people or nations that have reached such a state. 3. any type of culture, society, etc., of a specific place, time, or group. Furthermore, according to Ibnu Khaldun civilization is when people start to work together and form a society, just as what is being written in his famous book ‘The Muqaddimah’ : “Several human beings, with their God-given power of thinking, begin to cooperate with each other and to form some kind of social organization, 'umran results.” However, Prof. Dr. Abdullahil Ahsan concluded in his paper that civilization is: “ when a group of people are motivated by certain ideas and beliefs, develop trust with each...
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...Part I Essay For ages we all have craved the body of an Adonis/ Aphrodite`s, some say that this are just genes passed on, some say that you can only get it with intense training at least 4 times a week. But the 21 century, the century of speed, no one has time to lose countless hours in the gym so we started looking for some help. We tried different chemicals but in the end we realized that the answer was still in Mother Nature. And so Raspberry Ketone was discovered. A raspberry ketone is generally described as the aromatic element of a raspberry that one first recognizes when in close proximity of a raspberry. While this ketone clearly affects the scent associated with a raspberry, this is not the only thing that can be affected by a raspberry ketone, though. More specifically, raspberry ketones are now being associated with not only weight loss and fat burning, but they are also being through to aid in reducing the likelihood of having liver cancer and cell damage. Raspberry Ketone represents a new element on the market that helps in the fight for a perfect body, sustaining weight loss and fat burning. Just recently been proven to give individuals who regularly consume this product the upper hand in the battle against weight again and fat retention. This represents part of the sales pitch that the company offers, but what does science say? There is some proof for this product but nothing is certain and there were no human studies recorded...
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...with each other. Its intuitiveness and naturalness have spawned many applications in exploring large and complex data, computer games, virtual reality, health care, etc. Although the market for hand gesture password is huge, building a robust hand gesture recognition system remains a challenging problem for traditional vision-based approaches, which are greatly limited by the quality of the input from optical sensors. In this paper, we use their gesture in order to login or authenticate to the system. And then we introduce a novel method to create a gesture pattern that act as a password. This hand gesture recognition system performs robustly despite variations in hand orientation, scale or articulation. Moreover, it works well in uncontrolled environments with background clusters. Key words: Password Recognition, Authentication, Gesture password INTRODUCTION The advent of relatively cheap image and depth sensors has spurred research in the field of object tracking and gesture recognition. One of the more popular devices used to do this type of research is Microsoft’s Kinect, which has sensors that capture both rgb and depth data. Using similar data, researchers have developed algorithms that not only identify humans in a scene, but perform full body tracking; they can infer a person’s skeletal structure in real-time, allowing for the recognition and classification of a set of full...
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...GMT Autumn 2011 4 GMT interview Graduate employability 2012 with Dr Paul Redmond Discussions on student employability are now more ‘en vogue’ than ever before. GMT explores the issues and challenges brought on by fast changing higher education and technology landscapes with an exclusive interview: AGCAS’s new President Elect, and one of the best known experts and public figures in the field, Dr Paul Redmond, talks to Aphrodite Papadatou about graduate employability in the year 2012 – and beyond.1 AP: The recent higher education white paper reinforces governmental concern for employability. How will this affect the provision of undergraduate degrees? Will some disciplines where employment rates are low become ‘extinct’? PR: I think the sector is going through a phase where it is asking itself big questions like ‘what is higher education for?’ and often answers to these are shaped by instrumentalist concerns – such as all university courses should contribute to the economy. In some ways, this is fairly recent idea, but it has now become so mainstream to be almost ubiquitous. This strikes me as being a pity. Not only does it challenge the idea of the university, even economically, it doesn’t make sense. We need the artistic skills of the arts and humanities to innovate and produce future technology – think for example of the iPad: technology meets art and design. The only reason why early Apple computers offered different fonts was because Steve Jobs, prior to being thrown...
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...Compare and contrast essay: Ancient Egypt and Greece The ancient Egyptian and ancient Greek civilizations are two of the oldest known civilizations in our history. The Egyptian civilization, based in the eastern part of North Africa, is believed to have started around 3150 BC and continued till the end of the Pharaoh rule in 31 BC. The ancient Greek civilization is believed to have been in effect from 1100 BC till about 146 BC. Many similarities and differences existed between these two civilizations, as even though they co-existed during a certain timeframe (1150 BC to 146 BC), they were located in different geographical areas. Because of these differences in geography, both these civilizations were subjected to different kinds of exposure, which included contact with other civilization and cultural inheritance. In the political sphere, we find that the Egyptian civilization had stronger emphasis on central authority, while the Greeks had a more decentralized structure, where powers were distributed over the cities and the states as well. As far as art is concerned, we find that the Egyptians were more involved in creating great monumental and gaudy structures, while the Greeks were more involved in creating smaller, more literary pieces of art. One of the biggest reasons why these two civilizations had these differences is due to their geography. The Egyptians had easy access to large stones that they could bring in to their country and use them to erect such monumental...
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...Nuyens GRIPh Working Papers No. 0901 This paper can be downloaded without charge from the GRIPh Working Paper Series website: http//www.rug.nl/filosofie/GRIPh/workingpapers What is love? A Conceptual Analysis of “Love”, focusing on the Love Theories of Plato, St. Augustine and Freud CONTENTS INTRODUCTION............................................................................................................. 1 1. FORMAL ANALYSIS OF LOVE............................................................................... 3 2. SEMANTIC ANALYSIS OF LOVE........................................................................... 6 3. HISTORICAL ANALYSIS OF LOVE....................................................................... 9 3.1 ANCIENT GREEK PHILOSOPHY: PLATO ..................................................................... 11 3.2 CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY: SAINT AUGUSTINE............................................................ 18 3.3 MODERN PHILOSOPHY: FREUD ................................................................................. 27 4. COMPARATIVE EVALUATION............................................................................ 37 CONCLUSIONS ............................................................................................................. 40 REFERENCES................................................................................................................ 43 Introduction The starting point of this paper is the question: “What...
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