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asymmetrically arranging the limbs so there is a sense of vitality through the contrast between the two legs. This new concept was utilized in Diskobolos to enhance the scope of realism in the work. When creating the sculpture, the artists, Myron, focused on the rhythm, composition, and symmetry during his work. Although he was very attentive to the sculpture’s bodies, he displayed facial archaisms that did not express emotions. The Sleeping Satyr was created during the Hellenistic period and was acquired in Rome by Barberini, who was a nephew of Pope Urban VIII. The artwork was found in Hadrian’s Mausoleum, but the satyr’s right leg and left arm were missing. Scholar suggests that this is because besieged Romans threw statues at the Gothics in 537 B.C.E, which may have been the cause of the limbs falling off. Fortunately, these body parts were restored by artists such as Bernini and the sculpture became extremely coveted. In Myron’s statue, Diskobolos (Discus Thrower), a marble man is seen with his left arm raised as if he is about to swing his arm back down and throw the discus in his hand. Since the artwork is a little over five feet tall, it has an intimate scale that capture the viewer’s attention because it is around the height of an actual human. Myron captured the climax of the man’s motion of throwing the discus, which increases the intensity of the sculpture’s context. The preciseness of the dramatic movement in the sculpture helps create anxiety in the…

Myron Colburn Chapter One For most soldiers in the Civil War it was a horrible scary time. There was hardly any sanitation and absolutely no knowledge infectious disease. It wasn’t quite as bad in the Navy. Since the boats were close to the river shores and on coastlines, there were ports where they could restock their food more easily than ground troops. Myron Colburn was a Union Naval Sailor in the Civil War. He was born and raised in New Hampshire, but later he moved to Vermont. Myron had…

Myron Cope, Pittsburgh native and inventor of the terrible towel, was a well-rounded, respected man in the eyes of the city’s residents. He was also a hard-working man who loved his job as a radio broadcaster for the Pittsburgh Steelers. I remember listening to some of Myron’s broadcastings and he would always show great enthusiasm during the games, yelling catchphrases such as “yoi!”, which means “yikes” in the Pittsburgh language. Myron Cope always had a great passion for the city of…

The Black-Scholes model is perhaps the most famous and widely used options pricing model in the world. The model was first founded by Fischer Black and Myron Scholes in their 1973 and was further developed by Robert Merton who expanded the mathematical understanding of the options price model. In order to honor their contributions in finance, they were awarded the 1997 Nobel Price in Economics. People have been trading stock options for a long period of time, and the Black-Scholes model has…

choice; but “Aaron's Gift,” written by Myron Levoy, tells a story about a boy who found a pigeon and wanted to give it to his grandma for her birthday. However, a club leader was about to “sacrifice” Pidge and Aaron saved the bird before it was in any harm. Levoy answers the question, “What would you do for your family?” by portraying Aaron as a courageous and generous boy willing to do anything for his family. Two examples from the text are when Aaron rescued Pidge, and when a gang threatened…

Jervand Asatrjan 1)summary of the major theme regarding the ability of quantitative financial models to consistently earn abnormally high returns? Why or Why not? Two risky positions taken together can eliminate risk idea stems from the Midas formula. The reason this was an important concept due to the discovery from a blind test that prices moved at random. Scientists made a conclusion that prices are not predicted by the investors rather it is by chance that some investor makes a very…

In “Messy Realities”, Myron Weiner believes that illegal immigrants should have a double standard when it applies to the laws and rules of the United States. He states, “There is a complex set of rules to the rights and benefits for each of the categories of persons entering the country” (Weiner 1). This shows that Weiner believes that illegal immigrants have to righteously follow a set of complicated laws to obtain rights and benefits in a country. Moreover, Weiner shows that he has a strong,…

Myron is my best guy friend who I have known since first grade, and we still talk on a regular basis. Myron describes me as, loyal, hard working, funny, and a good advisor, and believes my strengths are school, especially English, and shopping. Myron thinks that my talents are golf, writing, presenting, and style. As an example of my strengths, Myron thought of the speech we wrote together for Model UN. According to Myron, I stayed on top of things and kept our paper in order, which shows my…

Aside from its importance to me, the terrible towel has a rich history that makes it important to every person who is a fan of the Pittsburgh Steelers and the city. This importance begins with the towel’s creation in the mid-1970’s. The Pittsburgh Steelers played the Baltimore Colts in 1975 for the divisional championship game. It was a home game for the Steelers and Myron Cope met with WTAE, Pittsburgh’s main radio station, to voice his opinion about promoting an object that would raise…

Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World is a biography by Vicki Myron, which tells the story of her library cat, Dewey, and how he had helped shape not only herself, but a whole town. One winter morning in small-town Spencer, Iowa, a small kitten was shoved into the local library’s drop box, where Vicki at the time worked as a librarian. With help from the library staff, the kitten is nursed back to health, and the community of Spencer chooses to name him “Dewey” during a contest…