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The Iliad itself is described as a living memory whose purpose is to preserve a shared living memory for people to observe.
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Observation
Shakespeare develops themes by combining known legends with direct observation of actors, audiences, customers, and human emotional diversity.
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Shakespeare develops themes by combining known legends with direct observation of actors, audiences, customers, and human emotional diversity.
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Da Vinci's Last Supper forces investigation because Judas is not obviously isolated; the viewer must read faces, hands, light, coins, and bodily tension to discover betrayal.
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Jiang assigns students to photograph Beijing by looking for unnoticed things and contrasts, adapting Talese's attention to New York into a local observational exercise.
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"into the Iliad okay but because these people are living in the universe they're still alive in the universe okay so it's impossible that..."
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"...them together okay he takes these legends and he takes his observations of human individuals and combines them together to create Shakespeare in other..."
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"get you get a lot of interesting psychology all right so let's imagine you become Hamlet and you become Othello and you were in..."
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"It's much too thin, right? So what your eye believes is this table is expanding outwards. And so you are part of this picture...."
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"if you look at previous medieval Christian art okay below first of all it's much more static it's much more organized there's not that..."
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"stands out from the rest and so that signals him as the betrayer but in da Vinci's work it's not obvious who is the..."
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"each of the faces da vinci was first and foremost an astute observer of emotions okay how emotions are expressed through the face through..."
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"They are very disciplined. They are very patient. So you can spend days and days in this room just working on a topic. This..."
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"New York is a city of contrast. I want you to do the same thing for Beijing. Take your camera and take pictures of..."
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"...Bible to understand the Bible. And he wrote a book called Observations Upon the Prophecy of Daniel and the Apocalypse of St. John. Okay?..."
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"...the hypothesis and then you have data and then you make observations and then you refine the hypothesis okay and this is what we..."
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"...class and I teach. How do I teach? I watch your observations, I watch your facial expressions, and based on your responses, I then..."
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