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    Greek Art History

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    arts. It can be expressed through many different cultures around the world. I have not only learned that the idea of art had started out in prehistoric Western Europe, but also started to spread out in different parts of the world like, Mesopotamia, Jericho, Ur, Babylon, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, and many other regions around the globe. Each place went through different eras, periods, or dynasties as the history of the arts was expanding. Indeed, I will write about the Ancient Near East,…

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    Torture: A Short Story

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    Every man had gone through a different method of torture. One bloody man is strapped onto a chair with an eyeball hanging out of his skull. One man is strapped to a table with all his legs cut off. Another is shackled to the wall with his balls cut off. All of these men seem to have been left to die bleeding in one way or another. They must've been that close to dying because they didn't seem to react to the yelling further down and some of them were even twitching oddly. It wasn't until we were…

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    The 1981 film Raiders of The Lost Ark (Paramount 1981) shows Indiana Jones on the search for the Ark of the Covenant. However, the Ark of the Covenant has been around much longer than 1981. According to the Bible, the Ark of the Covenant has been in existence since the time of Moses and the Israelites' exodus of Egypt. The Bible further explains the Ark was created according to instructions given to Moses by God. After its completion, the Ark was carried by its staves in advance of the people or…

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    Group Members: Amirali Aghnami Zhobin Sadeghi Kevin Rush Wei Qiu Sarah Smurthwaite Art History 1 Professor Meyer 24 October 2014 Peace and Security Art and architecture throughout history has kept alive and allowed expansion of ideas, reality, and emotion. It not only sustained and expanded cultures, but is allowed people to have the freedom to express and honor heroes, religious figures, and the values that societies embraced which were courage, dignity, peace, and security. In art…

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    Early Human Ancestors

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    changed over time. One piece of evidence is that they started to settle communities which led to government, trade, and domestication of animals. Climate change forced people to settled down as a result they built Jericho which was built over 10,000 years ago. When people settled in Jericho they started to domesticate animals for food. Once they learned how to tame them they became a pretty reliable food source. Since different people tamed different animals they started trading animals and…

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    Discuss the major hindrances in the lives of Moses and Joshua and compare them to your own life and experiences. Moses and Joshua had major hindrances when God called on them to led the Israelites to the Promise land and compare the two prophets to my very own life experiences. Studying Moses and Joshua led God’s people to the promise Land had major difficulties. First, Moses began his life as an adopted son to the Egyptian court. But when she hid him no longer, she got him a wicker basket and…

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    violence-focused allusions, line 16 holds a biblical allusion to a more peaceful event, the city, and destruction, of Jericho. Describing the sacrifice of the firstborn son being, “Among the ashes of Jericho.” reveals the past and future events that occur between the Whites and Native Americans. Similar to how Joshua and his men marched for six days in order to surround and conquer Jericho, the introduction of the White population slowly condenses and surrounds the Native Americans more and…

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    Catalhoyuk was a town that developed more than 9000 years ago and was tightly packed with 8000 people. Everyone had to live on top of each other which seems to me could have gotten very difficult at times. With all their houses being piled upon one another they seemed to be very well organized and a have VERY advanced society. They even buried the dead beneath their houses... sounds extremely terrifying to me. Men and women were equal in the labor department and they both had low life…

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    Jerico Meaning

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    JERICO is a name derives from different origin with different meaning To make my very good name is my mother because of her idol jericho rosales and to say something different. Jerico name in Hebrew, Yeriẖo, is generally thought to derive from the Canaanite word Reaẖ ("fragrant"), but other theories hold that it originates in the Canaanite word for "moon" (Yareaẖ) or the name of the lunar deity Yarikh for whom the city was an early centre of worship.Behind the Name: Meaning, origin and history…

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    Joshua, deceit is shown in both good and bad forms when Rahab, the prostitute, helps protect the messengers from not being killed by lying to the King of Jericho. Being a prostitute is considered unholy so Rahab is showing that she can change her faith to help protect the people of God. When Achan stole from the pile after the fight in Jericho, it showed that he disobeyed God and there would be consequences. God killed him and his family and treasures to show that people should trust…

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