Abstract
This paper examines how Ovid's "Ars Amatoria", or "Art of Love", is a long poem that celebrates the ancient world's concept of the good life through the full liberation of the senses. In particular, it looks at how the poem frequently alludes to the sexual act and gives no indication that such acts carry a connotation of "evil". It discusses how Ovid uses the structure of mythology in order to give an air of authority and validity to what would otherwise seem a simple pornographic poem.

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"Dionysus was said to have a following of women known as the Maenads (mad ones), who wore fawn-skins and a thyrsus (ivy-crowned branch). Ovid refers to this as "Bacchanalian fury" (Internet source). Later, another ritual developed where the wives of farmers would venture forth into the woods every two years "where they danced by the light of sacred torches. Many bore snakes twined about them or fixed in their hair, while others passed jugs of wine and played upon the flute or tambourine. ... Finally, at the height of their frenzy, the Maenads (as they called themselves) converged upon a calf or kid, tearing it apart bare-handed and devouring the raw flesh. It was whispered that in days gone by the victims had been human. Many saw visions of Dionysus or fell to the ground, babbling his name. As well they might, for as early as the Iliad, Dionysus is described as the mainomenos (mad or crazed) god, while the root of Maenad also gives us the word 'maniac'" (Luyster 43)."

Tags:dionysus, pornography, gods

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"Archibald MacLeish's poem "Ars Poetical' is an ironic work because it makes declarations about poetry and what poetry "should be," but it contradicts those declarations at the very moment it makes them. For example, we read that
A poem should be wordless
As the flight of birds (7-8).
But, of course, these lines are made of the very words of which the poet says a poem should be free. What MacLeish is saying in this and other declarations of irony and apparent contradiction is that a poem, if it is successful, appeals to a part of the reader that transcends rational, analytical thinking which seeks a linear "meaning" from life, experience and poetry. The true "meaning" of a poem, then, according to MacLeish, is more like a mystery unsolved than an object defined. The object..."

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This paper offers a character analysis of Creon in the play Oedipus the King, with an emphasis on human nature. One aspect of human nature that is explored is what Aristotle referred to as the art of rhetoric. The paper's main focus is Creon's use of the art of persuasion. The paper uses Aristotle's "Rhetoric" as the basis for the analysis, and as a secondary source.

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"Sometimes persuasion is only glorified manipulation, and other times persuasion is truly the heartfelt sentiment of the speaker. Either way, in the eyes of the Greek philosophers persuasion is form of art. While Creon defends himself from the accusations of Oedipus he taints his words with succulent messages of pathos, logos and ethos... When comparing Creon's speech to Aristotle's guidelines for successful rhetoric we can see that Creon speaks in a manor that renders him "worthy of confidence" (17)."

Tags:analysis, aristotle, creon, drama, ethos, greek, king, literature, logos, oedipus, pathos, persuasion, philosophers, play, rhetoric, sophocles, theater

Abstract
This paper discusses the rise of the isorhythmic motet in the fourteenth century, as exemplified in the works of Guillaume de Machaut and John Dunstable. It will also consider the relationship of this motet form to the shift from the Ars Antiqua to the Ars Nova in the fourteenth century.

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"This paper discusses the rise of the isorhythmic motet in the fourteenth century, as exemplified in the works of Guillaume de Machaut and John Dunstable. It will also consider the relationship of this motet form to the shift from the Ars Antiqua to the Ars Nova in the fourteenth century.
The motet was the most important form of vocal music during the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance. It was polyphonic and usually for three voices, although many examples of two- and four-part motets are known (Hughes, 353). Used in both court and church, it also penetrated into the sphere of popular music.

The thirteenth-century motet still bore, to modern ears, a great resemblance to Gregorian chant. Even though the motets are polyphonic and the Gregorian chant monophonic, most motets of the Ars Antiqua move with such solemnity and present such a bland ...."

Abstract
This paper portrays the works of two poets whose subject matter and deliverance are comparable. The writer discusses their style of writing poetry to emphasize the differences between them and their understanding and belief of the art of poetry.

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"Terence immediately lapses into reasons why poetry can never be a substitute for beer: "There's brisker pipes than poetry." Why, if it's false happiness the reader wants, then by all means the reader should get drunk. "Malt does more than Milton can/To justify God's ways to man" refers to Milton's Paradise Lost and typifies Houseman's argument. The poet describes the breweries in England, wondering why anyone would prefer poetry to beer for curing malaise, especially those "fellows whom it hurts to think." Ale is the drink of choice for anyone who wishes to see the world through rose-colored glasses. When drunk, the "world seemed none so bad," declares Terence; but "the tale was all a lie; the world, it was the old world yet." "

Tags:poem, verse, Mithridates, imagery, lyricism

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"This study will provide a summary and critical review of Deborah Gray White's Ar'n't I A Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South.
White in this book is trying to bring into the public consciousness the suffering endured by female slaves in the slavery-dependent South. She says that most studies of slavery focus, either deliberately or subliminally, on the male slave. And those "few scholars who study black women fail to note that black women suffer a double oppression: that shared by all African-Americans and that shared by most women" (23). With respect to slavery specifically, White says many scholars conclude that female slaves were better treated than male slaves. In fact most black women of the time plowed, planted, and hoed, did.."

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The paper points out that both Action Reality (AR) and Dmitri's Baked Goods (DBG) are mechanistic and hierarchically flat organizations driven by charismatic and stable leadership and fixed, conventional goals, however, beyond this point of similarity, the companies part ways in every respect. The paper explains that Dmitri's Baked Goods (DBG) is outperforming Action Realty (AR) because DBG: 1)better monitors its external environment and calibrates decision-making processes accordingly; 2)employs an organizational structure better suited to the nature of its work; 3)communicates more effectively across the organization; and 4)more diligently applies equity and expectancy theory to functionally motivated workers to achieve organizational goals.

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"Both Action Reality (AR) and Dmitri's Baked Goods (DBG) are mechanistic and hierarchically flat organizations driven by charismatic and stable leadership and fixed, conventional goals. However, beyond this point of similarity, the companies part ways in every respect. Dmitri's Baked Goods (DBG) is outperforming Action Realty (AR) because DBG: 1)better monitors its external environment and calibrates decision-making processes accordingly; 2)employs an organizational structure better suited to the nature of its work; 3)communicates more effectively across the..."

Tags:motivation, organization, expectancy

Abstract
"Since AR is defined as the proportion of subjects in each group that is oriented and/ or confused the EER and CER are used to calculate the ARR which is the difference between the EER and CER. The experimental group has a larger oriented population while the controlled group has a lesser oriented population. The relative risk (RR) is the ratio of the risk of one group versus that of another group. The odd ratio (OR) was less for the controlled group and higher for the experimental group. The Number Needed to Treat (NNT) is half the OR."

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Internal and External Design Validity Clinical Significance 1. Hypothetical Situation: +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ambient Lighting | Control Group | Experimental group | |-----------------------+-----------------------+------------------------| | Absolute Risk | 240 oriented/60 | 270 oriented/30 | | | confused | confused | |-----------------------+-----------------------+------------------------| | Bright Light (ON) | .25 CER | .11 EER | |-----------------------+-----------------------+------------------------|

Tags:questions, and, answers

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The paper notes that there is no doubt that air pollution has an adverse impact on Ontario's economy, with the most marked effect being on health care and lost time from work stemming from air pollution caused illness for both the ill person and caregivers. The paper relates that this added burden on Ontario's health care providers increases demand for services which are already placing an excess burden on the supply or availability of heath care. The paper reveals that the consequence is that the Ontarian taxpayer is paying more tax dollars to support the growing health care demand.

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"There's no doubt that air pollution has an adverse impact on Ontario's economy, with the most marked effect being on health care and lost time from work stemming from air pollution caused illness for both the ill person and caregivers. This added burden on Ontario's health care providers increases demand for services which are already placing an excess burden on the supply or availability of heath care. The consequence is that the Ontarian taxpayer is paying more tax dollars to support the growing health care demand."

Tags:business, economics, ontario

Abstract
This paper examines the covered and uncovered interest parity between U.S. dollar and Swiss franc by first using simple summary statistics for the spot and forward rates as the mean, kurtosis, skewness and standard deviation. The paper then presents the covered interest and uncovered parity hypothesis and applies tests to examine its validation, as deviations from covered interest parity, regression analysis, threshold autoregression and exponential transition autoregression. Based on this extensive research, the paper rejects these covered and uncovered interest parity hypotheses.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Literature Review
Data
Summary Statistics
Random Walk
Unit Root and Stationary Tests
Covered Interest Rate Parity
Linear Tests
Non Linear Tests 1
Threshold Autoregressive (TAR) Models
Smoothing Transition Autoregressive (STAR) Models
Uncovered Interest Rate Parity
Vector Error-Equilibrium Correction Model (VECM)
Impulse Responses
Threshold Vector Error Correction Model
Dynamic OLS (DOLS)
Conclusions
Appendix: Program Procedure Routine for TSAY Test of TAR Nonlinearities in winRATS 6.0
Appendix: Program Procedure Routine for AR(1)-TAR Estimation in winRATS 6.0
Appendix: Test for Linearity against ESTAR and LSTAR and Secification Test between ESTAR and LSTAR selection in winRATS 6.0
Appendix: Program Procedure Routine for AR(1)-LSTAR-GARCH(1,1) Estimation in Eviews 6.0
Appendix: Program Procedure Routine for AR(1)-LSTAR-OLS Estimation in Eviews 6.0
Appendix: Program Procedure Routine for AR(1)-ESTAR-OLS Estimation in Eviews 6.0
Appendix: A Different Procedure Routinefor AR(1)-ESTAR-OLS Estimation in Eviews 6.0
Appendix: MATLAB Routines for Grid Search and STAR Estimation
Instructions
MATLAB Routine for Grid Search on STAR Models
MATLAB Routine for STAR Models Estimation with Various Methods

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"Descriptive statistics for the spot and three-monthly and six-monthly forward exchange rates returns are reported in table 1. We observe that in all cases negative mean returns are observed, but one might say that are very close to zero. Also in both three rates returns negative skewness is presented, but kurtosis is very close to three, as is defined by the normal distribution. Based on the Jarque-Bera statistics the hypothesis of normality for spot and forward exchange rates is not rejected."

Tags:stationarity, random walk, models, threshold cointegration relation, vector error correction