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I'm writing a research paper on the blue monkeys of Minoan, Late Helladic-Middle Helladic II Cycladic, and Lower Egyptian wall frescoes. I plan to investigate whether the blue monkeys of the Greek (Minoan, Cycladic) frescoes represent the same themes as the monkeys in Egyptian art, the monkey as servent to the Gods or Pharaohs in the Egyptian Old and Middle Kingdom periods. So ya, do the monkeys in this later Greek art embody these same features, or do they take on a new meaning? There is a blue monkey we have from Xeste 3 at Akrotiri that does appear to be acting as subservient to a goddess of some sort, but some earlier and later monkeys do not appear to be in this same role... we shall see. I also plan to investigate the significance of the 'blue'. In Egypt blue was the colour of 'wisdom'.. so.. why would monkey servents be wise? I find that fascinating. And no, I'm not looking too much into this, every last detail in Egyptian art symbolized something, had a deeper meaning than the purely visible, so yes, the blue is significant. I also intend to discover whether the blue monkeys of Crete and Thera are simply inspired by the Egyptians, or whether the blue also has some sort of further meaning to them as well. We shall see.

Any opinions? Thoughts? Any theories? :)

Blue Monkey of Knossos

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Blue Monkeys of Akrotiri on Thera, from House Beta 6.

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Blue Monkey of Akrotiri, House Xeste 3. (as you can see, this monkey, seen in the middle of the image, appears to be serving a goddess)

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I always get scared when I use semi-colons or colons because I've heard so many people saying to just stray away from them because they're used incorrectly so often, but I was just wondering, is this right?

Classical music: it’s a dying art form here in North America – that is, if it was ever alive.

Perhaps I should even avoid using a dash.

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I always get scared when I use semi-colons or colons because I've heard so many people saying to just stray away from them because they're used incorrectly so often, but I was just wondering, is this right?

Classical music: it's a dying art form here in North America – that is, if it was ever alive.

Perhaps I should even avoid using a dash.

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When I was in highschool there was a website called schoolsucks.com where people uploaded their papers and essays and whatnot for you to download for free. I handed in many reports using that site. A report on acid rain? Easy. An essay on the discovery of the nuclear bomb? Piece of cake. Of course, that was the mid-nineties when teachers and principals weren't so savvy with the interweb (in fact, most people weren't) so it was easy to get away with.

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I always get scared when I use semi-colons or colons because I've heard so many people saying to just stray away from them because they're used incorrectly so often, but I was just wondering, is this right?

Classical music: it’s a dying art form here in North America – that is, if it was ever alive.

Perhaps I should even avoid using a dash.

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I use semi-colons and dashes ALL the time, and, correctly I might add.

There is one use of a semi-colon that many people are not aware of, and that is in a prolonged list. If you are listing things where each item is particularely long and might even contain some of its own punctuation, you can seperate the list with semi-colons. As long as there are at least two of them. So, at least a list of three items.

Example:

Some theories regarding the use of these snake tubes are that they were earlier forms of the faience Snake Goddess with upraised arms; that they were simple clay idols; or that the tubes were simple stands for bowls or cups for worship.

When the tribes were first introduced, ten generals, one from each tribe, managed the army as whole; ten taxiarchs, again one from each tribe, each commanded one tribal unit; two hipparchs each had cavalry units from five tribes under their command; ten plylarchs each commanded the cavalry unit from one tribe; and 420 archons each commanded one of the hoplite classes.

Here is an example of a colon AND semi-colons in the same sentence!

For their service to the Athenian people, Demetrios and Antigones were awarded several honours including: gold statues in the Agora; they were both crowned at a cost of 400 talents; The Altar of the Saviours was constructed in their honour; and two new tribes, Demetrias and Antigonis were established in their name.

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Alright, so I have this really annoying graph I have to do, and I have some crazy numbers to deal with.

3.27 x 10 power of -5

1.55 x 10 power of -4

5.07 x 10 power of -4

1.52 x 10 power of -3

and here's the problem. I have this really ANAL chemistry teacher that makes me do the lab in one page. Those numbers are for the y-axis, and I only have 13 columns left to make that fit.

Anyone have a good ratio for me to complete the graph?

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Alright, so I have this really annoying graph I have to do, and I have some crazy numbers to deal with.

3.27 x 10 power of -5

1.55 x 10 power of -4

5.07 x 10 power of -4

1.52 x 10 power of -3

and here's the problem. I have this really ANAL chemistry teacher that makes me do the lab in one page. Those numbers are for the y-axis, and I only have 13 columns left to make that fit.

Anyone have a good ratio for me to complete the graph?

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Alright, so I have this really annoying graph I have to do, and I have some crazy numbers to deal with.

3.27 x 10 power of -5

1.55 x 10 power of -4

5.07 x 10 power of -4

1.52 x 10 power of -3

and here's the problem. I have this really ANAL chemistry teacher that makes me do the lab in one page. Those numbers are for the y-axis, and I only have 13 columns left to make that fit.

Anyone have a good ratio for me to complete the graph?

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