The Caryatids on the Erechtheion of the Acropolis The Erechtheion‚ a temple dedicated to Athena Polias on the Athenian Acropolis‚ is a building that is mysterious in numerous ways. Even though the Erechtheion was one of the most significant of Athena’s shrines‚ relatively little is known about it. Especially when compared to the information available regarding the largest structure on the Acropolis‚ the Parthenon‚ the Erechtheion is to some extent a mystery. Its unique architectural structure is
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Measuring Earthquakes Mercalli scale -measures damage The Richter Scale -magnitude -seismograph-needle and paper The Moment Magnitude Scale -measures energy Comparing Magnitudes -1 point = 32x energy Locating the Epicenter -time the difference between P and S waves -plot time on graph to determine distance -use compass to encircle station -repeat with 2 other stations -epicenter is where all 3 meet The Richter scale measures an earthquake based on the size of the seismic
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Rohit Singh Y8430 Viking Eggeling’s film‚ Symphonie Diagonale‚ was created just out of paper cut-outs and tin foil‚ by photographing patterns made out of them‚ one frame at a time. Axel Olson‚ a young Swedish painter‚ wrote to his parents in 1922 that Eggeling was working to "evolve a musical-cubistic style of film – completely divorced from the naturalistic style." Symphonie Diagonale being a silent movie‚ it is quite evident from the literature and the name itself that music is an important
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Course Title IEQ-05 : Earthquake Geology and Geoinformatics (Dept. of Earthquake Engineering‚ IIT Roorkee) What is an earthquake? An earthquake is the vibration of the earth produced by the quick release of energy. Most often‚ earthquakes are caused by movement along large fractures in the earth’s crust. Such fractures are called faults. The energy that is released radiates in all directions from its origin in the form of waves. These waves are similar to the waves that occur when you drop a
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and tone in her poem Because I could not stop for death. Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst‚ Massachusetts in 1830. Dickinson attended Maint Holyoke female seminary in South Hadley. She had two siblings. Dickinson was never married. According to Gerhard Brand “Her life was one of the richest and deepest ever lived on this continent”. It is a life that has proved a perplexing puzzle to many critics and biographers” (Brand
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References: Fauludi‚ S. (1991). Introduction and Chapter 4: “The Trends of Anti-Feminism: The media and the backlash.” Backlash. New York: Anchor Books. Gerhard‚ J. (2011) “Sex and the City: Carrie Bradshaw’s Queer Postfeminism.” Gender‚ Race and Class in Media‚ Third Edition. California: Sage. Van Zoonen‚ L. (1995). “Gender‚ Representation and the Media.” In J. Downing‚ A. Mohammadi and A Sreberny-Mohammadi
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compounds to treat microbial infections. In 1910‚ EHRLICH discovered the first antibiotic drug‚ Salvarsan‚ which was used against syphilis. EHRLICH was followed by Alexander FLEMING‚ who discovered penicillin by accident in 1928. Then‚ in the 1935‚ Gerhard DOMAGK discovered the sulfa drugs‚ thereby paving the way to the discovery of the anti-TB drug Isoniazid. Then‚ in 1939‚ René DUBOS became the first scientist to discover an antibiotic after purposely looking for it in soil microbes. DUBOS discovered
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Access Card. South-Western Pub‚ 2012. Print. Fishman‚ Charles. The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World ’s Most Powerful Company Really Works‚ and How It ’s Transforming the American Economy. New York: The Penguin Press‚ 2006. Print. Pahl‚ Nadine‚ and Anne Richter. Swot Analysis: Idea‚ Methodology and a Practical Approach. Munchen: GRIN Verlag‚ 2007. Print. Roberts‚ Bryan R‚ and Natalie Berg. Walmart: Key Insights and Practical Lessons from the World ’s Largest Retailer. London: Kogan Page‚ 2012. Print.
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widespread death and injuries‚ building and infrastructure losses‚ major economic downfall and socio-economic loss. The Tohoku earthquake and tsunami struck the coast of Japan at 14:46 local time on 11th of March‚ 2011. It was a magnitude 9.0 on the Richter scale (Shibahara‚
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Friedrich A novel By Hans Peter Richter During World War II‚ about six million Jews were killed. As Hitler came to power‚ he accused Jews as the cause of unemployment of Germans. The Germans treated the Jews with immense hostility for their unemployment. Hans Peter Richer has described the unfair treatment of Jews in a book called Friedrich. He speaks of all the hardships his Jewish friend Friedrich and all other Jews face. The book opens up with Polycarp‚ a garden gnome sitting on the garden. The
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