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    Origin Of Dance Essay

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    Research paper The origins of Dance are unknown but there are evidence of it through most old civilizations. For example, in ancient Egypt, priests, accompanied by musical instruments, would dance to mime important events in a story of whom ever god they worship. In Greece, 8th century BC, important events such as the games in the Olympia, were accompanied by temple priestesses (usually virgins) and danced in a circle to honor the temple’s god. In India, hand movements performed by the Hindu…

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    Peisistratus Power

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    Herodotus in the The Histories Book V, claims,“There is nothing in the whole world so unjust, nothing so bloody, as a tyranny” Greece, in 500 BC was under the rule of one such tyrant, Pisistratus. In order to stay in power, tyrants of ancient Greece created a prosperous society which would please its citizens. Tyrants created a prosperous society by establishing worldly order, redistributing power to the middle class and creating a unified society. To start, tyrants in Athens created relations…

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    to play a bigger role in the arena of Greek politics. The most famous were Athens, Sparta, and Thebe. But it was for Athens to carry the flag of excellence in art, politics, spirituality and even war. Most of the representative figures of antique classical culture (before Roman classicism) were Athenian. In the Vth century, after the Persian wars, there were in Greece two major factions: Athenian Empire and Peloponnesian League, with Sparta in front. Athens and Sparta had some frictions, but…

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    Ancient Greek democracy appears to have ended as a result of both internal and external factors. Like the subsequent Roman Empire, the Athenian state appears to have over-reached in its militaristic ambitions, ultimately weakening it; while the relative strength of other empires enabled them to take Greece over. The imposition of rule by foreign empires finally ended Greek democracy. From internally, Athens moved from being a defender of its own nation to an aggressor though it would have no…

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    The theory being described is operational which was based on how learning can affect the latency of the rats. This theory was measured through the Morris Water maze and the video monitor. Also, the number of annulus crossing showed the operational definition of persistence. Kim and colleagues selected female and male rats from a brewer. The independent variable was the diet of the rat’s mother’s. The dependent variable was the latency for locating the platform. Group PF and C were the controls…

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    Classical Athens today is viewed as the golden age of arts and literature. Even after Greece being conquered by Macedonia, Parthenon still reminded the greeks of their cultural power with its uniqueness (Conelly). Parthenon motivated the Attalids in the 5th…

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    Physics In Car Racing

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    Physics is everywhere. Especially in NASCAR which stands for National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing is a racing sport which the racing cars have motion. “NASCAR is motorsport's preeminent stock-car racing organization. The three largest racing-series sanctioned by this company are the Sprint Cup Series, the Xfinity Series, and the Camping World Truck Series.”(Mukul Bhatia.What is NASCAR?.www.quora.com.) On the rough racetrack nascar cars are made to be driven in extreme conditions. In…

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    Changes affect people every day, and people react to changes in many ways. In Long Day’s Journey into Night, the characters experience many trials and obstacles in their lives that induced a change. In physics, there is the principle known as the Coriolis Effect or Force, which is the effect a rotating object has on the motion of another object. The trials experienced in the lives of the characters are the Coriolis Force in their lives that induced the change in their behavior or lifestyle. The…

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    processed with ease. Music is more meaningful to it than any other sound due to it being organized, repetitive, and harmonious. Various types of music have diverse effects on the brain: classical music increases productivity, rap music exercises the brain, and heavy metal has a calming effect on its listeners. Classical music has been proven to vastly increase productivity. “Stroke patients in one small study showed improved visual attention while listening…

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    The instability of the roller coaster creates a spring constant. This means that as the car travels through the roller coaster, it loses energy because the track shakes and moves. For example, when viewing the videos it became apparent that when the car entered the loop, the track shook violently making it difficult to determine when the car reached each location. As the car went through the track, going up into the loops it grew in height, decreasing in kinetic energy while increasing in…

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