URS1006 – World Cities Summer C 2013 Mid-Term Examination Study Guide Purpose: This guide provides a recapitulation of all assigned material‚ specific areas to review from these readings and/or media‚ questions course participants should be able to answer in an introductory manner‚ and main concepts addressed in respective lectures. Assumptions: All course participants have read and/or watched all assigned material‚ have taken meticulous notes during all course meetings and/or acquired a
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The Golden Ratio Body‚ art‚ music‚ architecture‚ nature – all connected by a simple irrational number – the Golden Ratio. According to Posamentier & Lehmann in their work The (Fabulous) Fibonacci Numbers‚ there is reason to believe that the letter φ (phi) was used because it is the first letter of the name of the celebrated Greek sculptor Phidias (490-430 BCE). He produced the famous statue of Zeus in the Temple of Olympia and supervised the construction of the Parthenon in Athens
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The question that is being asked here is what is the West? The west can be defined as many different things‚ but According to Levack‚ B.‚ Muir‚ E.‚ & Veldman‚ M. (2011) the west is a “place” (p. 2). The west is thought of to be traditionally compromised of certain regions like Europe‚ the Americas‚ Australia‚ and New Zealand. There are in fact many ideas that are evolving around western civilization such as form of governments‚ methods of scientific inquiry‚ religions‚ and languages just to name
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The Golden Lotus Tarnishes Only one unrelenting force lies behind the saga of mankind: Time. It treads wearily along while all the events of history unfold around it; lands are formed and reformed‚ great empires rise and fall‚ countless nations unify and splinter‚ trends come and go‚ and people climb to glory one minute and are overthrown the next the Golden Lotus and its most exalted possessors are no exception. Feng Jicai’s novel‚ The Three Inch Golden Lotus‚ describes a peasant woman’s rise
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"The Real World---Key West". There is John‚ the typical frat boy‚ Svetlana‚ the sexy Russian princess‚ Paula‚ the confused and neurotic barbie doll‚ Zach‚ your typical nice guy‚ Janelle‚ know it all snob‚ and Jose‚ the guy with the biggest heart‚ and Tyler‚ the lone homosexual in the house. By putting young gorgeous people in one house‚ every roommate is attracted to everyone else. This is what the creators edit to show the public audiences‚ because sex sells. The MTV series "The Real World Key West"
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Peasants were at the bottom of the Feudal system and had to obey their local lord to whom they had sworn an oath of obedience on the Bible. Because they had sworn an oath to their lord‚ it was taken for granted that they had sworn a similar oath to the duke. The one thing the peasant had to do in Medieval Europe was to pay out money in taxes or rent.They had to pay rent for his land to his lord; he had to pay a tax to the church called a tithe. This was a tax on all of the farm produce he had produced
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Biology – HSC Online Extract from Biology Stage 6 Syllabus (Amended October 2002) © Board of Studies‚ NSW 9.2 Maintaining a balance: 1. Temperature range Background: All organisms are adapted to a particular environment with its characteristic temperature range. The temperature range allows the organism’s enzymes to control its metabolism by operating at their optimum efficiency within this range. Some organisms are adapted to live at high temperatures (80 - 100oC) and these are called thermophiles
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The Golden Age Like a flower in bloom‚ fifth century Attica is said to be the prime time of ancient civilizations. Much praise is given to the period‚ and it is coined to be the Golden Age of ancient western history. It is claimed that the Athenians of this time period were very successful in many areas‚ being “originators of democracy…art‚ history‚ philosophy‚ and science.” (Discovering 54) Comparatively I support the claim for Attica’s golden status because it was the most successful city state
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Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms‚ including their structure‚ function‚ growth‚ evolution‚ distribution‚ and taxonomy.[1] Modern biology is a vast and eclectic field‚ composed of many branches and subdisciplines. However‚ despite the broad scope of biology‚ there are certain general and unifying concepts within it that govern all study and research‚ consolidating it into single‚ coherent field. In general‚ biology recognizes the cell as the basic unit
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The Golden Number 1.61803 39887 49894 84820 is by no means a number of memorization. However‚ it is a recognizable one. Never will you find a combination of numbers that is more significant than this one. This ratio is known as the Golden Number‚ or the Golden Ratio. This mystery number has been used throughout different aspects of life‚ such as art‚ architecture‚ and of course‚ mathematics. One may wonder where the Golden Ratio came from? Who thought to discover it? When was it discovered? And
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