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The paper argues that, in spite of his obscure origins, Theophilus Presbyter greatly impacted the course of painting history through his sophisticated treatise, "On Divers Arts". The paper also argues that his work remains the most comprehensive work extant about the methods employed by medieval artists. Particularly, in addition to examining Theophilus's origins and his stature as an impressive cataloguer of the preferred methods of his time, the paper looks at how Theophilus might very well have influenced the development of Jan Van Eyck's impressive body of work. Every bit as importantly, the paper explores how Theophilus's "varnish recipe", his warm embrace of lime and his dissertation on how to produce the "right kind" of pigment tones in painting all influenced the later practices of other artists - from those working with wood in England to Renaissance masters to the notable Florentine painter, Nardo di Cione. The paper asserts that if memorable works like "The Coronation of the Virgin" are any indication, Theophilus ushered in (or at least popularized) a new way of painting.

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"The following paper will argue that, in spite of his obscure origins, Theophilus Presbyter greatly impacted the course of painting history through his sophisticated treatise, On Divers Arts; it will also be argued that his work remains the most comprehensive work extant about the methods employed by medieval artists. Particularly, in addition to examining Theophilus's origins and his stature as an impressive cataloguer of the preferred methods of his time, the paper will look at how Theophilus might very well have influenced the development of Jan Van Eyck's impressive body of work. Every bit as importantly, the paper will explore how..."

Tags:theophilus, presbyter, treatise

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An explication of Thomas Wyatt's poem "Divers Doth Use" that focuses on how the poet uses word choice and structure to reveal a different character for the speaker than the one the speaker sees for himself.

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"Thomas Wyatt. Introduction. In his essay on the concept of truth in Wyatt's works, Hobson maintains that Truth is a crucial term in the poetry of Sir Thomas Wyatt. The word and its derivatives with closely related terms like 'trust' and faith and their derivatives and opposites appear in nearly percent of his poems. Their frequency in Wyatt is an index of the importance of a cluster of ideas truth in its various senses, particularly the value and power of truth."

Tags:Italian sonnet, poem, women, love, gender, rejection, theme, tone

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This ten-page undergraduate paper addresses the effects of various gases like Oxygen, Nitrogen, Helium, Argon, Carbon Monoxide and Carbon Dioxide on divers under pressure. Also discussed would be the concepts of partial pressure and the bends followed by medical problems associated to pressure changes. Laws pertaining to pressure will be discussed too.

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This paper is a business case study of Coral Divers Resort. Revenues and bookings have declined for three years. It has suffered losses for the last two years after generating about 2% profit ($11,800) on $554,000 in revenue.

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Scuba diving is a rapidly growing sport, and one that is beginning to involve the entire family. Coral Divers Resort had a comfortable niche in that industry, one that had been enhanced by its owner, Jonathan Greywell's promotional strategy. According to the case study, "over the years, Greywell had established a solid reputation for the Coral Divers Resort as a safe and knowledgeable scuba diving resort. It offered not only diving, but a beachfront location.

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"CORAL DIVERS RESORT

Introduction
Scuba diving is a rapidly growing sport, and one that is beginning to involve the entire family. Coral Divers Resort had a comfortable niche in that industry, one that had been enhanced by its owner, Jonathan Greywell's promotional strategy. According to the case study, "over the years, Greywell had established a solid reputation for the Coral Divers Resort as a safe and knowledgeable scuba diving resort. It offered not only diving, but a beachfront location. As a small but well-regarded all-around dive resort in the Bahamas, many divers had come to prefer his resort to other, crowded tourists resorts in the Caribbean."

Greywell found this niche by creating short weekend and midweek diving ventures ..."

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This essay looks at how F. Scott Fitzgerald's character Dick Diver from "Tender is the Night" takes on characteristics of both Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway from Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby." The author compares and contrasts the characters and shows that all three men learned that the reality of the past is something that cannot be avoided, only delayed.

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"F. Scott Fitzgerald was a mosaic of the characters he created. Fitzgerald, himself, can be found in Jay Gatsby, Nick Callaway, and Dick Diver. His own personal history reflects those he gave his characters, drinking habits, social status, and affluence (Brief pg). The life style of the 1920's in Paris is one that Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda experienced and is woven into his novel "Tender is the Night." Fitzgerald's stories often reveal the lives of the "have's" and "have nots," the lifestyle and near decadence of the rich compared to the common middle classes (Brief pg). Moreover, Fitzgerald always seems to distinguish between the "old money" and the "new," the aristocrats and the nouveau rich. His writings reflect his awareness of his own middle class status and his struggle to overcome humble beginnings. Fitzgerald seems to model his "old money" characters after Zelda's family and acquaintances, the comfortably rich, accustomed to protocol for all occasions (Brief pg). A theme that rings in most of Fitzgerald's work is one of inevitable truth. That no matter how successful one becomes, no matter how much money one may earn, no matter how well one learns to use the power of money and status, the true self inevitably surfaces sooner or later. Jay Gatsby, Nick Callaway, and Dick Diver all experience this moment of truth when they can no longer deny who and what they are."

Tags:nick, carraway, great, gatsby, jay

Abstract
This paper discusses the impact that Theophilus Presbyter's had on the course of painting history. The paper examines his origins and his stature as an impressive cataloguer of the preferred methods of his time as well as how he might very well have influenced the development of Jan Van Eyck's impressive body of work. The paper particularly explores how Theophilus influenced the later practices of other artists - from those working with wood in England to Renaissance masters to the notable Florentine painter, Nardo di Cione. The paper focuses on Theophilus' treatise, "On Divers Art."

From the Paper
"The importance of Theophilus's treatise can scarcely be exaggerated - at least if one is a scholar of medieval art. Specifically, On Divers Arts is widely regarded as the foremost treatise available on the painting, glass-making and metal-working arts of the Middle Ages; certainly, this the general view of John G. Hawthorne and famous medieval translator and historian, C.S. Smith, who make that bold proclamation on the cover pages of their 1979 text devoted to the path-breaking work of Theophilus Presbyter (for full bibliographic information, please see the reference list at the conclusion of this paper). In that respect, the aforementioned twelfth century work may rightly be described as not only pertinent to any understanding of medieval painting, but as the best resource available to modern-day students and scholars eager to learn more about how the panel paintings, stained glass masterpieces, and canvasses of twelfth century Europe were produced."

Tags:painting, varnish, lime, medieval

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This paper examines how hunting for sunken treasure on the ocean floor depends, as it always has, on reports of shipwrecks written shortly after the fact, old maps, and lore passed down; it sometimes depends on locating the ships with sonar, but usually with divers simply getting in the water, swimming down and out from the search ship as far as they could. In particular, it looks at how, for the past couple of decades, treasure divers have become treasure hunters, sending down robotic "hands", which are capable of working much deeper than a human body, after finding the treasure with a new form of sonar, side-scan sonar.

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"Mel Fisher, in the 1980s and 1990s, was one of the most successful and famous treasure hunters. His Treasure Salvors of Florida had found the Atocha, a rich wreck in 54 feet of water off the Florida Keys. His first find, however, had been engineered with a machine he tinkered together himself. Towed beneath the search ship and shaped like a mailbox, it was metal device that could channel prop wash straight to the ocean floor where the resulting turbulence would lift tons of sediment and reveal wrecks. That find, in the 1960s, was gold doubloons from a fleet of treasure ships that sank in 1715. By the time of his big find in the early 1970s, the Atocha, early side scan sonar was available and Fisher was using it."

Tags:side, scan, sonar, shipwrecks, treasure

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This paper looks at the habits and characteristics of the ichthyosaur, which is a family of marine reptiles that existed during the same era as the dinosaurs. The paper looks at the lifestyle of the species and focuses on various extinction theories.

Introduction
Well-Adapted to Ocean Life
Diet
Reproduction
Locomotion
Deep Divers
Conclusion

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"Ichthyosaur fossils were discovered in the late nineteenth century, before the first dinosaur fossils were discovered, and received little acclaim. It wasn't until the recent discovery a few years ago of a small amount of new specimens in Japan and China that a wider interest in ichthyosaurs was revived. The ichthyosaur is a fish-shaped tetrapod of the diapsid family. Tetrapod means four-limbed vertebrate. Diapsids are classified as having two openings in the skull and is a classification that encompasses reptiles and birds. There is much fossil evidence to support the conclusion that ichthyosaurs were descended from terrestrial, or land-dwelling, reptiles. One such example is that Ichthyosaurs were air-breathers like cetaceans."

Tags:reptile, dinosaur, extinction

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The paper focuses on courage and personal choice in "Protagoras" and in Book IX of "The Republic" by Plato. The paper looks at the curious actions of the diver and attempts to find an explanation for this in the final lines of the dialogue between Socrates and Protagoras. The paper then turns to Book IX of "The Republic" which succeeds in offering a better explanation for the diver's behavior by stressing the actions of the man who is overcome by a desire for glory.

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"Towards the end of the Protagoras, Socrates finally gets Protagoras to acknowledge that a man (or woman) cannot be courageous without being wise. Specifically, he asserts that cowardice is essentially an inability on the part of an individual to distinguish between what is to be feared and what is not to be feared. Proceeding a little further, Socrates maintains that this ability to ascertain what is genuinely deserving of one's fear and what is not deserving of one's fear is best described as wisdom - a quality, again, that is associated with the brave (Plato, 360c5-361d6). Given the exchange between Socrates and Protagoras at the end of the dialogue, it is clear that the subject in our hypothetical situation has experienced a sudden loss of courage."

Tags:virtue, fear, wisdom, ignorance, glory, coward, diving, board