Not just things we consider "alive", but hills, waterfalls, the air you breathe, all of these had energy. ... The Locus Mundi is the center of all life, where all the energy of all things comes from, and where it will go when it dies. ... Also, there is the simple fact that each pharaoh's tomb was laden with things he was to take with him to the next life. ... The Palette is also relatively small, unlike the Victory Stele of Narma-Sin, which is over six feet high. ... Their king was a god. ...

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(Plut.Pericles, pg.194) Pericles was criticized when he felt that when he sent a small fleet over to help Corcyreans. ... The Athenians blamed Pericles for the things that went wrong. ... Alcibiades wanted things his way or no way and if they didn't go his way he would do things to make problems arise between others. ... It was as if they forgot about the things he did for them. ... In another war with the Peloponnesian, Alcibiades had a plan of hiding his ships so his fleet would look smaller. ...

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The Apology is the only one of these writings that was not written in the form of a dialogue but is instead a speech by Socrates, with the exception of one small part where he is questioning one of his accusers, Meletus. ... His life becomes a mission to try to get the people to question things and not take everything at face value. The youth of Athens were the ones who listened to him the most and began to question things and this infuriated the people in charge (SparkNotes Editors, n.d.). ... An example of this type of irony in the Apology would be when Socrates says that he thinks there is ...

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My view of what Plato is saying is that he is emphasizing that beauty can be seen in all things and that beauty is universal and the same. ... John Ruskin presents a more emotional view I have already noticed the example of very pure and high typical beauty which is to be found in the lines and gradations of unsullied snow: if, passing to the edge of a sheet of it, upon the Lower Alps, early in May, we find, as we are nearly sure to find, two or three little round openings pierced in it, and through these emergent, a slender, pensive, fragile flower, whose small, dark purple, fringed bell hang...

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