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Over the course of the last 100 years, the lifestyles of humans have seen drastic changes. This has ultimately led to less exercise as everything has become much easier to obtain, especially things like food. All of this has led to the majority of our population becoming obese while also causing our muscles to become less productive. It is common knowledge that the more you use your muscles, the stronger they become. It also works the other way around. The less you use your muscles, the weaker…

The Statues of David The Story of David and Goliath is a timeless story from I Samuel 17. The Philistine army had come against Israel and was ready for war. The two armies gathered for battle on opposite sides of a valley. A Philistine giant named Goliath that was over 9 feet tall mocked and challenged the Israelites for forty days. Everyone was terrified of him. David, a young shepherd boy heard of this giant and offered to fight him. He went with only a sling and a stone and came back…

Knight. As if a battle were a game, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a poem in which many games are played; serious but also symbolic games. After the battle of Troy, noble heroes set forth to build cities. Romulus was the founder of Rome, Ticius of Tuscany, and Brutus of Britain. Along the many leaders of Britain, it is said the greatest was King Arthur. The poet’s game of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is an “awesome episode in the legends of Arthur.” In essence, Sir Gawain and the Green…

military now operates. The military now have much more powerful weapons along with the tank and they also have a branch called the air force. Leonardo "Lionardo di ser Piero da Vinci” Da Vinci, was born on April15, 1942 in the small town of Vinci, Tuscany near village of Anchiano which is now what we call Italy. He was the son of a peasant girl named Caterina and a Florentine notary named Ser Piero. Leonardo had twelve half-siblings that were much younger than he was. Leonardo’s father…

Leonardo da Vinci Da Vinci was born April 15, 1452, in the hills of Tuscany outside the village of Anchiano. Da Vinci received a small amount of formal education beyond basic reading, writhing. and mathematics instructions when he was young. He learned metalworking, leather arts, carpentry, drawing, painting and sculpting outside his school or even from himself! Parents: Mom; Caterina (Da Vinchi I assume) Dad; Ser Piero Da Vinchi Step Mom; ????????…

Maurits Cornelis Escher, also known as M.C Escher, was a graphic artist between 1898 and 1972. He is most famous for his unique works that incorporated mathematics, specifically the manipulation of perspective and space. He developed an innovative style of both print and engraved art (“M.C. Escher Biography”). Some of his most well-known works include, “Relativity,” “Ascending and Descending,” “Hand with Reflecting Sphere,” and “Metamorphosis” (Gallery, “Most Popular”). M.C. Escher was born…

compared. The subjects of this study included people from central, northern, and southern Italy. The results showed that people from all parts of Italy significantly preferred the olive oil produced in Puglia in comparison to the ones produced in Tuscany and Sicily. This clearly tells us that the quality of the olive oil produced in Puglia is high as no other nation in the world cares more about the quality of their food as the Italians do. This does not mean that the quality of olive oil…

A Critical Review of Giorgio Vasari’s Lives of the Artists Giorgio Vasari’s Lives of the Artists is considered “by far the most influential single text for the history of Renaissance art"[7] and has been described as “an indispensable source of historical information.” In addition to this, the text has played a vital role in the modern understanding of Renaissance art and culture, as well as the development of various historical methods that are relevant to the study of art history. Modern…

Let's start at the beginning. Explorers from Spain had been at the mouth of the Mississippi, but never claimed the land. 150 years later in 1682, some French explorers led by Rene’ Robert Cavalier, Sieur de la salle placed a cross at the river's mouth to claim the land. They named it Louisiana.The Louisiana territory was named after the French King Louis XIV. Louis XIV considered Louisiana “useless”, he only wanted the land so that one of his powerful enemies, Britain, could not settle…

Italian Renaissance (ital. Rinascimento-"rebirth" or "born again") – a period in the history of European culture, which replaced the culture of the Middle Ages and the previous culture of modern times. Renaissance art emerged based on humanism-- currents of public thought, which originated in the XIV century. In Italy, and then during the second half of the XV and XVI centuries spread to other European countries. Humanism is proclaimed the highest value of man and his benefit. The followers of…