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    an actual point or goal of a human’s life? 3. If there is, by what means can a person gain understanding as to why they are alive.   2) List the six characteristics of civilized societies and of civilizations. According to the text in order for a society to be considered civilized they have to possess certain characteristics

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    Greek and Roman civilizations have created some of the most inveterate and meaningful images in history. The art of building that arouse on the shores of the Aegean Sea and flourished at the ancient world .Greeks were governed through democracy while romans were republicans .the Romans borrowed and adapted the Greek style. They sanctified the same Greek Gods but gave them different names. They both concentrated on using their structural concepts that match their ideal ratios. And as any two consecutive

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    greatly influenced by Greece, but there was a lot of differences as the Romans also diverged to form a separate uniqueness. The both cultures used three special orders of columns in temples building. The Doric order, the Ionic order and the Corinthian order . These was the Greece orders, but the Romans added another two types, Tuscan order and Composite

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    that have been incorporated and appropriated for the building of this church. The first and foremost noticeable feature would be the columns, architrave, and pediment. The columns are classic ionic columns, starting from the ornate base and leading up to the capital, all the elements of the classical ionic columns are present, creating an almost life-like appearance to the columns as they grow and support the architrave, a characteristic that can be traced back to Egyptian columns in temples and

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    The Wondrous White House Have you ever wondered about the white house? The construction of the white house took eight years to finish. The White House has lots of details. One of many is that the White House takes over three-hundred gallons of paint to cover it. Fun Facts about the white house consists of random things. One random thing is how on average six-thousand people visit the White House per day. Presidents also have a huge impact on the White House. Our presidents all make their own moderations

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    Many different cultures relied upon the form of the stele (stelae) to visually communicate significant information. I would like to compare and contrast the architecture of the Parthenon, which can be found in Chapter 16 to the architecture of the Court of the Lions, which can be found in Chapter 19. It may seem surprising and mysterious to the Western and Christian viewers when first looking a the works of art. However, the works of art are not strange at all because there is so much in common with

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    The Greek architecture, especially public commemorative building usually are single-storey and simple rectangular form. According to the number and arrangement of the building column to made different building form. The temple of the Pantheon was surrounded by columns and the columns of Temple of Athena Nike are placed in the front and back of the building. Therefore, the column, basic and entablature are the key to decide the level of art and style of the building. Moreover, Greece is designed buildings

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    Essay On The Parthenon

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    of the Peloponnesian War. Similarly, it stands for the power and influence of the Athenian politician, Pericles, who advocated for its construction. The Parthenon was designed in the Doric style of architecture but also have some features from the Ionic and Corinthian style. All four sides of the temple reflects clarity, reverence, balance, and harmonious proportion. The Parthenon is made up of freestanding columns on the outside which are thirty-four feet tall, with two additional rows of columns

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    Ancient Greek Influence

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    inspired by the columns seen in various buildings in Ancient Greece. There are different types of columns that were utilized in architecture in Ancient Greece; the styles that are most commonly seen in modern buildings include Corinthian, Doric, and Ionic column styles. Out of the three, the Corinthian style is the

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    major point that shows a huge difference between those two artifacts is the pediment wherein the temple of aphasia there is no top there is one on the top of the Maison Carrie, second the columns, the columns in the temple of aphasia are in Doric order which is well known to be a Greek type of column, on the other side looking at the columns in in the mason career they are more of a composite type of columns linking it to the roman ages. Last but not least a huge way to determine which artifact is

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