Greek Snowflake Research Paper

John Ruskin once said, “The first test of truly great man is his humility”. In The Odyssey, an epic poem by Homer, the central character Odysseus learns humility through his failures and growth in obedience making him a hero. Odysseus reaches a heroic status through the lessons learned on his journey, which ultimately taught him the value of obedience and the dangers of arrogance.

“Father Zeus, doesn’t it infuriate you to see this violence? We gods get the worst of it from each other whenever we try to help out men. Why did you have to give birth to that madwoman, your marauding daughter who is always breaking the rules? All the rest of us gods, everyone on Olympus, listens to you. But she can say or do whatever she wants.” (Iliad 5. 930-938). This was spoken by the god of war himself, Ares, right after he was wounded by Diomedes during the war between the Greeks and Trojans. By simply reading the quote, it is gleaned that Ares is complaining to Zeus about how the gods, in return for helping mortals, gets hurt by them. In this instance, Ares argues that he simply wants to “help out men;” to simply show them kindness.

For my research paper, I am going to two about two types of art throughout certain time periods in history. What I am going to compare and differentiate are types of art within the Prehistoric time period, and the Roman time period. Within time periods in general, there are artworks that are relevant throughout their existing time period, and picked up later in future generations, where people can learn about their past cultures and various types of art. For the first time period, the Prehistoric period, it includes the Paleolithic culture and its art. It is divided into three parts. The lower Paleolithic, the middle Paleolithic, and the upper Paleolithic. During this time period, tools were a very essential

Deception and lies both play large roles in Greek mythology. Even Zeus, who is said to punish liars, frequently tricks both mortals and immortals. Although it always has a prominent role in myths, deceit is a powerful factor in the myths of Prometheus, Nessus, and Zeus.

The period between 500 B.C.E to 338 B.C.E is referred to as “Classical Greece” due to the many achievements taken place, as well as the blossoming democracy in Athens, under the leadership of Pericles. One of the major confrontations during this period was between the Greek states and the Persian Empire.

There was once a foreign kingdom in which held one of the most beautiful princesses known to man, but both, her mother and her father were very ill and had only a few days until they perish. The extremely beautiful princess named Jessique prayed to the heavens for if they could not cure her parents illness come up with some other way to help her keep her kingdom stable. One of the gods who heard her prayers found the princess very noble to her people and her face was quiet as well. The god had never seen such a beauty. The god not only felt so strongly for a goddess let alone a mortal. the god listened out for her prayers every time she spoke to the heavens finally the god thought of a way to answer her prayers. The handsome god went down to

Calypso was not thrilled when she learned that her captive was to be released from his seven-year imprisonment upon her island. She aired her grievances very clearly after Hermes informed her of Zeus’ command of freedom for Odysseus. After seven years, it seems that her attachment to him is warranted; however, she also intended on keeping him as her slave for all of eternity. Despite her bipolar, volatile attitude, she contains her emotions and decides to help Odysseus return home, and genuinely seems to present him with good will and her blessing. Despite her goddess stature and ability to have reasonable sway upon fate, she sees Odysseus off saying, “I will never plot some new intrigue to harm you.” (Homer 158). It appears that she keeps her word.

The conversation between Athena and Odysseus in the middle of book 13 reveals how each of them feels and thinks about the other at this stage in the epic. When Athena is first coming to meet Odysseus, after he has landed on Ithaca, she decides not to appear as herself to Odysseus, but first as a “young man… a shepherd boy”, and she then changes back to herself (13.252). She does this to get an honest opinion from him, as if she had appeared as a god, he might not have been honest with her. She also wants to hear his story, and see if he is actually thinking about her. After he does not “recognize” her because of her “endless” shapes, she is angry with him and accuses him of “never getting tired of twists and tricks” (13.340,56,32). She is evidently

Vermont’s Snowflake Bentley was both clever and diligent in photographing a singular snowflake before it faded away. He found that no two were alike, as uniquely individualized as us. As fragile as a single snowflake can be the power of team work is never more evident than when they decide to join forces. And it was all too evident that that was happening now with a Vermont born blizzard and by all accounts my very first one to experience. In fact it was the first for the six of us, my three brothers, two sisters and parents crowded into a well beaten woody station wagon all weary from hours upon hours of difficult driving from the much warmer state of Virginia. It was December 28th 1969, I was fifteen and my Father had just been transferred

It was not a normal day, like any other. The flowers were blooming, the sun shone, but something was happening, on the little, heavenly mountain, Mt. Olympus. It was just the start of dawn, when Zeus had woken up, to a happy mood. He was on the floating clouds, admiring the freshness of the Earth, the pureness of Mt. Olympus, and what could be wrong? No sight of the Olympians, and no grumbling clouds made Zeus smile the widest than ever.

Of all gods and goddesses, mortals and immortals, Apollo and Shade have been the definition of exemplary friends since the beginning of chaos, a whirling mess. Apollo, the god of the Sun, and Shade, the god of Darkness, were completely opposite, yet the best of companions on Mount Olympus. Desiring each other 's presence, the duo, strong and true, were inseparable. Always together, the gods endlessly played their favorite game, “mirror.” Each in awe of the other, their eyes glistened like the sun with tears from uncontrollable laughter as they played the game in which one emulated exactly what the other did; a mirror image, hence its name. This particular game was the only action the two entertained. Apollo and Shade, like long-lost brothers, engaged in play so much that other gods started to grow tired, and perhaps envious, of their obvious

Josh Vazquez Ms. windish English II 3 December 2017 The God of the Skies A lightning bolt, god of the skies, and lots of different women. These are three good ways to describe Zeus the god of the skies and the controller of lightning. Zeus is fond of the humans,

Wow look! As we drove by a house. Look at that snowman. It’s so well built, I wish my snowman can be like that. Frist, if you want to build the perfect snowman of all you need to do is follow these simple directions.

Snowflakes, feathery ice crystals that typically display a delicate six-fold symmetry might be the most distinguished mathematical art in the world, from the center of the snowflake, to the outskirts of their anatomy. When inspected, one notices that the different limbs of the snowflakes are mathematically constructed of fractal triangles. With that said, the aim of my exploration is to generate an equation that will aid me in representing a snow flake of any size, in order to do so I would need to explore specific areas of mathematics such as: symmetry, graphical representations, sequences and series and many more. As a consequence I will be focusing on the mathematical concept of: fractal triangles, in order construct my

The three types of Ancient Greek art were a progression of styles than began in approximately 700 BCE under the Archaic style. The Archaic style was very primitive and can be likened to Ancient Egyptian art and sculpture. The Archaic style would display the human body in very rigid and unnatural forms. Archaic sculptures were also well known for the “Archaic Smile”. Historians believe that the Greeks displayed their human sculptures with a smile to signify that they were representing someone who was “alive”. The Classical style followed the Archaic style and began as early as 480 BCE. The Classical style occurred during the “Golden Age” of Greece and that can be exemplified in its art and sculpture. The art and sculpture represented