After hours of walking around the Metropolitan Museum of Art‚ I came across a very interesting sculpture. Failing to find anything to catch my attention in previous parts of the museum‚ I finally came across the Kongo Power Figure. This sculpture was located in the African art section of the museum. This sculpture caught my attention because it has hundreds of nails driven into its body. It also has a giant hole in its stomach. The nails caught my attention because it made me wonder if this sculpture
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Although skating was born in Europe‚ Americans can be proud of the fact that figure skating‚ as we know it today‚ traces its origins directly back to an American - Jackson Haines - who was born in New York in 1840 and died in 1875 in Finland (popular folklore holds that he caught pneumonia during a raging blizzard he encountered while traveling by sled from St. Petersburg to Stockholm; in reality his death was attributed to tuberculosis). Just before the Civil War‚ a skating craze‚ accompanied
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................... 3 Figure I.1 LVDT............................................................................................................. 3 PART I: CHARACTERISTICS OF AN AC LINEAR VARIABLE DIFFERENTIAL TRANSFORMER (LVDT) .................................................................................................. 5 THEORY .............................................................................................................................5 Figure A1.1 Equation .........
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Assignment B – Crime and Crime prevention ICT has greatly contributed to better crime prevention but has also increased some forms of crime. Many Internet criminals are using a number of different methods in order to take what they want from unsuspecting members of the public. There are multiple reasons why criminals commit crime via the Internet‚ however the most common crimes are the theft of money‚ the theft of identities or information and finally the damaging of others computers via methods
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Mere static pictures do not do justice to Lissajous Figures. When the horizontal and vertical sine wave frequencies differ by a fixed amount‚ this is equivalent to constantly rotating the phase between them. The figure produced by this rotating phase appears to be a rotating 3D figure. In addition‚ as in 3D wireframe images‚ the figure can appear to rotate in either direction‚ depending on how your brain interprets it. It can also spontaneously reverse the direction of rotation. (In a real
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Ambiguous Figures Complete the Ambiguous Figures Activity at the My Psyc Lab website and answer the following questions. (1 point for each question) 1. What was the purpose of the experiment? The purpose of this experiment was to test our perception twice by viewing ambiguous pictures. That reflects our first response in a particular way. 2. Describe the experimental procedure. In this experiment I was presented by 14 trials in which I had to identify what I see in an ambiguous figure. Each trial
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Significant Figures Lab Question 1: Which measurement gives the BEST value for the mass of a single paper clip? (BEST value includes both accuracy and precision) Claim: The measurement accepted as having the best value for the mass of a single paper clip was .411493 grams (Where best accounts for both accuracy and precision). This value was achieved by taking the average weight of a total of 30 paper clips‚ all of presumably varying weights. Evidence/Reasoning: The “best” value that maintains precision
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Categories of Computer Crime Smith Strayer University CIS170 Wk2 Professor Masudur Chowdhury July 4‚ 2013 Explain in detail the four common categories of computer crimes and provide at least one example for each. There are many different types of computer crime and multiple ways to categorize them. I will discuss four categories in detail to shine light on how vulnerable people are‚ when we choose to use a personal or publicly used computer to transmit confidential information
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Throughout history the woman figure has been depicted in many ways. One of the most prominent way in which the female figure is seen is as a reference to fertility. Another much more appealing aspect of femininity is its use to represent ferocious deities. This essay will examine the different ways in which the female figure has been depicted by examining four pieces of art. The four pieces I will focus on will be: Female figurine found at Dolni.‚ Innana/Ishtar with Lions and Owls‚ The Gorgon‚ Medusa
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Essay 2 Human’s figures were back to Greece art in eighth century. Archaic period was initiated with Daedalus‚ which lasted from 600 to 480BCE. Kouras is one of the earliest art of this period. This art has adopted Egyptian pose of standing figures. Beside this‚ there was Calf bearer; it was in Greece around CA 560BCE. It has a statue of man with beard bringing calf. Additionally‚ there was Prplos Kore‚ it is anavysos kouros in the statue of women. It is clothes in archaic statuary. The lady in the
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