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    School of Athens Fresco

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    Oil painting - The School of Athens (after Raphael) Object: Oil painting Place of origin: Rome‚ Italy (painted) Date: 1752-1755 (painted) Artist/Maker: Mengs‚ Anton Raphael‚ born 1728 - died 1779 (artist) Raphael‚ born 1483 - died 1520 (after‚ artist) Materials and Techniques: oil on canvas Credit Line: Given by the Duke of Northumberland‚ 1926 Museum number: P.36-1926 Gallery location: In Storage Public access description Anton Raphael Mengs (1728-1779) was born in Bohemia now Czech Republic

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    Solon Cassy Franson 1st Hour‚ Mr. Cole Work Cited Page 1.) Gill‚ N.S. "About." About. (2012): n. page. Web. 28 Nov. 2012. <http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/solon/a/Solon.htm>. 2.) ".Greeka." .Greeka. n. page. Web. 28 Nov. 2012. <http://www.greeka.com/greece-famous-people/solon.htm>. 3.) "Jona Lendering ." Jona Lendering . (2005): n. page. Web. 28 Nov. 2012. <http://www.livius.org/so-st/solon/solon.html>. 4.) "Solon". Encyclopedia Britannica. Encyclopedia

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    The first Greek Stoic was Zeno of Citium. He arrived in Athens when he was twenty-two years old and studied with a group known as the Cynics but that does not mean the same as it does today. In Greek it meant doglike or without shame. These people tried to live natural lives‚ using minimal hygiene and clothes and permitting incest and cannibalism. He started teaching when he was thirty-three in the Athenian stoa. A stoa is a long colonnade where there was usually a marketplace. The Stoics preferred

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    it relevant to social work and how have attempts to address the issues associated with it influenced social work practice and its value base? The idea of citizenship conferring rights and privileges and defining boundaries can be traced back to Diogenes of Sinope in 3rd century B.C. Greece (Navia‚L‚ 2005). However‚ the term ‘social exclusion’ is a comparatively new one‚ first utilised in France in the 1970’s. It was used to describe the marginalized population or those that were outcast. It included

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    Sports: Quote: “Sports do not build character. They reveal it.”-john wooden Quote: “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times‚ I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”-Michael Jordan Quote: "The most important key to achieving great success is to decide upon your goal and launch‚ get started‚take action‚ move." - John Wooden Stat:

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    another man. Homosexuality was also a part of the greek art and literature. Greek poets wrote of same-sex love. Famous philosophers and writers such as Plato‚ Xenophon‚ and Plutarch discussed the topic‚ and tragedies on homosexual love became popular. Diogenes Laeurtius wrote of Alcibiades‚ the Athenian general and politician of the 5th century BC‚ "in his adolescence he drew away the husbands from their wives‚ and as a young man the wives from their husbands." The form of homosexuality that was most common

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    Cited: Duclos‚ Denis. "Dehumanization or the Disappearance of Pluralism?" Diogenes 49.195 (2002): 34-39. Expanded Academic ASAP. Gale. Maize High School Library‚ KS. 27 October 2004 . Huber‚ Peter. "Bye-bye‚ Big Brother." National Review. 15 August 1994: 48-51. Expanded Academic ASAP. Gale. Maize High School Library‚ KS. 27 October

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    The Clouds by Aristophanes

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    appreciate.” -- The Clouds by Aristophanes Aristophanes * He was a comic playwright of the ancient Athens. * Eleven of his 40 plays survived virtually complete. * A realist and was against the sophist such as Socrates‚ Anaxagoras‚ Diogenes‚ Protagoras‚ Hippon‚ Korax‚ and Gorgias. * The Father of Comedy and The Prince of Ancient Comedy The Clouds * Comedy * It was originally produced at the City Dionysia in 423 BC and it was not well received‚ coming last of the three

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    Flashbulb Memory

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    References: Ciccarelli‚ S. K.‚ & White‚ N. J. (2009). Chapter 6. In L. Jewel‚ J. Mosher‚ R. Diogenes‚ S. Lesan‚ & A. Bacher (Eds.)‚ Psychology (2nd ed.‚ pp. 222-223‚ 227-230). Upper Saddle River‚ New Jersey 07458: Pearson Education. (Original work published 2006) Dewey‚ R.‚ Dr. (n.d.). Flashbulb Memory. Retrieved April 1‚ 2010‚ from http://www

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    Greek Philosophies

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    The Ancient Greek philosophers have played a pivotal role in the shaping of the western philosophical tradition. This article surveys the seminal works and ideas of key figures in the Ancient Greek philosophical tradition from the Presocratics to the Neoplatonists. It highlights their main philosophical concerns and the evolution in their thought from the sixth century BCE to the sixth century CE. The Ancient Greek philosophical tradition broke away from a mythological approach to explaining the

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