Olympia

Nisqually earthquake hit the southern end of Puget Sound causing damage to the ports of Seattle and Tacoma. Most of the property damage occurred near the epicenter. For example, in Seattle, the Alaskan Viaduct and its seawall were extremely damaged. In Olympia the Fourth Avenue Bridge was damaged. Following the earthquake liquefaction, sand boils,…

The three demigods summon Juno, who tells them to find Nike at Olympia along with Artemis and Apollo, all of whom were banished by Zeus. While at Olympia, Percy, Leo, Hazel, and Frank are forced to be part of the deadly Olympic Games of Nike, whom they are able to capture. She tells them that one of them is fated to die; they need the “Physician’s Cure” for…

effects of music are exhibited throughout the political propaganda films; Olympia by Leni Reifenstahl, Battleship Potemkin by Sergei Eisenstein, as well as in BBC 's nature documentary Human Planet. A direct correlation exists between a viewer 's attentiveness to a scene and their susceptibility to manipulation—successful music directors, such as Olympia 's Herbert Wendt, exploit this connection (Wilson, 2014). The soundtrack of Olympia takes the audience on an emotional journey: a soft,…

How tall is the Great Pyramid at Giza? The Great Pyramid at Giza is “the largest and oldest” of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. It was originally roughly 146 meters tall (481 feet). However it has “lost about 10 meters in height over the millennia.” Now it stands at the height of approximately 139 (455 feet.) https://www.thoughtco.com/how-tall-was-the-great-pyramid-118066 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pyramid_of_Giza 2. How many blocks of stone are in the Great Pyramid? The…

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It was the month of August, a beautiful morning in Olympia, Greece. The sun was shining, flowers blooming, and a slight smell of sweat was in the air. Everyone was preparing for the big olympics. Achilles walks into Olympia, a valley near the city of Elis. Achilles looks around and absorbs everything around him. He sees the people all rushing around, he smells sweat from the athletes warming up, and he feels the excitement buzzing around him. Then he sees the sanctuary of Zeus, and right to the…

and thought that painters were better off painting history or mythology than modern life. Monet and his friends were furious when they heard about this so they decided to post their rejected artwork to the secondary Salon Des Refuses. During the Olympia in 1863, Manet painted another nude portrait of his favorite…

The Korean and Japanese cultures are influential for artists Lee Bul and Yasumasa Morimura. Whether the artist comments on specifically Asian women or blurs the lines between males and females. Both artists, Lee Bul and Yasumasa Morimura, focus on gender issues through portraying themselves to appear indistinguishable and incorporating their culture. However, Bul focuses on the will of Asian women and portraying an emphasis on feminine identity, while Morimura expresses the boundaries between…

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How do we avoid the uncanny becoming just another clichéd trope on the methodological menu? How might we revise ideas concerning the uncanny and explore what it means to us as Fine Art practitioners, keeping in mind ontological ambiguity? Freud described the uncanny as the class of frightening things that leads us back to what is known and familiar (Freud, 1919). Previously Jentsch concluded that the uncanny was a fear of the familiar based on intellectual uncertainty (Jentsch, 1906). The…