The finished dam contains enough concrete‚ 4.5 million cubic yards‚ to build a two-lane highway from Seattle‚ Washington to Miami‚ Florida.More than 8.5 million pounds of dynamite was used to blast the foundation for the dam and 8 miles of tunnels through the canyon walls. Why did they build the Hoover Dam?The main reason for building the Hoover Dam was to supply the electrical power necessary to transport 4.4 million acre-feet—over
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1. How did the Mongols build their empire? The Mongols rose to power adapting and improving on the existing Steppe political and military structure‚ couple with the incorporation of advanced and innovated conquered societies into the Mongol Hordes. Noticeable changes were‚ where tribal leaders once recruited and assembled groups of warriors through tribal affiliation and familial ties‚ Chinggis Khan assembled units into smaller cross-clan fighting units limited in size. Leadership authority granted
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Keller’s Brand Resonance Pyramid | SONY Brand 2015 | Resonance Behavioral loyalty: This includes regular‚ repeat purchases‚ Sony has a loyal customerbase Attitudinal attachment: Customers have loved SONY for decades and many segments have grown up with their groundbreaking products‚ and see some of the products as a special purchase‚ PS3‚ VAIO‚ XPERIA Judgements Quality: The Customer perception of the quality of the Sony products/services with the SONY brandname is high Credibility: Decreased
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Giza‚ where the sphinx is majestically perched and three great pyramids adorn the horizon‚ is well known through the realm of Egyptian history and in people’s mind in a general sense. When students and researchers are shown one picture of these great monuments‚ it sparks a response saying “Hey‚ that’s Egypt!”. However‚ there is more to Giza than the sphinx and the pyramids. People lived there and built the entire thing. They are normally the forgotten ones. Fortunately‚ there are two men named Mark
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Egyptian Art was once considered to be unchanged‚ when viewing this art as a whole. Egyptian Art seems to be repetitive pattern of images and ideas. Yet all of these images are uniquely different. Ranging from 3000b.c to 50b.c. Taking the same principles through out the entire period. Which consists of Old‚ Middle and New Kingdoms. Each dynasty had a different addition to the basic concepts that were established in the beginning‚ ideas of the artist grew faster and better. Many cultures shared
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peak of their powers. One of‚ if not the greatest empire ever to exist is the Roman Empire‚ it’s rule lasted from 31 B.C. to 476 A.D. and was a major influence on culture‚ especially Western Civilization. In order for Rome to become the powerhouse it did‚ they had to find an efficient way to get clean water to and from the city and anywhere else they may need‚ so they created the aqueducts in order to do just that. Aqueducts are huge stone structures that almost look like a bridge‚ except it carries
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The Egyptian pyramid construction theories range from simply outlandish to impossible. Almost all Archaeologist and some engineers take a stab at a theory sometime during their career. None have been proven and all are simply an educated guess. No one knows how the pyramids could have been built without today’s heavy machinery. It seems impossible for any group of men to move a 2.5 ton block from the quarry to the construction site and then manage to lift into the air to stack it precisely on top
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Week 1 Q1. What’s my understanding of the Sport Pyramid? Give examples. Sports pyramid shows the Structure of Sporting Organization‚ Government Systems in Sports and‚ explain what is sports/sport management. One example to explain the Sport Pyramid is the 2013 Sundown Marathon. It all start from the HiVelocity Events Pte Ltd. HiVelocity is responsible organizer to manage the 2013 Sundown Marathon. But without a corporate sport support they could not run and start to plan the event. So somehow
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Did money make richest men truly happy? The men who helped build the industrial economy in the U.S. had money‚ however they all had struggles and hardships in their lives. They all had mentors who helped them become the businessmen they had become. Money did not buy John D. Rockefeller‚ Andrew Carnegie‚ and John P. Morgan Jr. individual or collective happiness. John D. Rockefeller did not want anyone to be above him or to beat him in the competition between the founders of the industrial
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more than 130 ancient pyramids in Egypt‚ but the three pyramids at Giza dwarf the rest in comparison. Historians and archaeologists have been deeply fascinated by these structures for centuries. Many theories have been proposed in regards to who the people to construct these towering monuments were. A popular theory stemming from the Bible is that Israeli slaves‚ kept in harsh conditions by the pharaoh’s men‚ were forced to haul the giant stones used to construct the pyramids. The scale of the construction
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