Reflection Paper/ Jake Helpern In all honesty‚ prior to reading Jake Helpern’s articles and meeting him in person‚ I thought he was some older white guy with a slightly boring style of writing as well as being even more boring in person‚ but somehow everyone else finds his work fascinating. But since I needed some extra credit points‚ I took on the challenge of the assignment. Glad to announce my notions of Jake Helpern were totally wrong. Reading Jake Helpern’s articles were like reading a well
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The Five Platonic Solids The five platonic solids are the tetrahedron‚ cube‚ octahedron‚ dodecahedron‚ and a icosahedron. They are named for the greek philosopher Plato. Plato wrote about them in the Timaeus (c.360 B.C.) in which he paired each of the four classical elements earth‚ air‚ water‚ and fire with a regular solid. Earth was paired with the cube‚ air with the octahedron‚ water with the icosahedron‚ and fire with the tetrahedron. The fifth Platonic solid‚ the dodecahedron‚ Plato says that
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If I could travel anywhere‚ I would go to... Egypt. The reason I would choose Egypt is to get a first-hand experience on the ancient method the Egyptians used to engineer structures. Their work was so exquisite and astonishing that it is crazy to think modern engineers find it nearly impossible to replicate them. Pyramids were the beginning of architecture and are considered to be the most precise structures know today. They had no modern technology and would generate the most precise masterpieces
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THE GREAT PYRAMID OF KHUFU For generations now‚ people have been wondering how the Egyptians could have built such impressive monuments as the pyramids. Thjere are many different theories as to how they were actually built. in my opinion‚ alternative #3 by Joseph Davidovits and Margie Morris is the strongest argument because it presents the most convincing evidence about what really happened. They also point out weaknesses in the other two theories. In the first viewpoint‚ Erich von Daniken believes
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INTRODUCTION: The Citadel of Buhen was built on the west of the Nile spread over 150 meters. Buhen Fortress had a mixture of interesting features‚ including “moats carved three meters deep into bedrock‚ revetments‚ drawbridges‚ bastions‚ buttresses‚ ramparts‚ battlements‚ embrasures‚ loopholes‚ and catapult stations” (Craig‚ Alan Sherman‚ William R.Will‚ Jeffrey D.‚ 2009‚ Introduction Section‚ p.227‚ para.1). The citadel was built along the Nile‚ and each built was near enough to be seen by a human
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The ancient Egyptian relief that is housed in the Mandel Center is called “Limestone Relief in Three Sections.” It is dated to be from the Ptolemaic Period‚ 332-250 BCE. Three people can be seen depicted on the relief. The bottom half of the head‚ neck‚ chest‚ and arms can be seen on the middle and left person‚ but only a small portion (a shoulder and arm) of the rightmost person can be seen. The person in the center is holding two pots/vases and appears to be showing them to the person on the left
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The Babylon Ishtar Gate There are many wonders of the ancient world that have been found by archeologists. Of these treasures found‚ one of the greatest and most beautiful has been the Ishtar Gate of Babylon. Babylon was the capital of a city in Mesopotamia‚ in the current day Iraq.(Hirst‚Archeology.about.com) Babylon was damaged by weather‚ age and wars (the Iraq and USA war) but still archeologists managed to find the gate. (Hirst‚Archeology.about.com) The Ishtar gate was built in the reign
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The stepped pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara‚ Egypt was one of the oldest‚ most extravagant royal tombstone structures in the early dynastic period of Egypt. It was the great tomb built for the pharaoh Djoser of the Third Dynasty by the master builder Imhotep‚ who was also the high priest of the sun god Re. The stepped pyramid consisted of large mastabas with each face pointed toward one the cardinal points of the compass. It was constructed as a series of six stacked mastabas assembled one on top of
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Sphinxes “Sphinxes represent the immense power of the Egyptian king. The human head of this sphinx (sphinx of Taharqa) is adorned with two uraei‚ the symbols of kingship. The mane around the neck is characteristically carved with care.” It was found in Temple T at Kawa‚ in upper Nubia (Sudan). The sphinx of Taharqa which is made of granite goes to the twenty-fifth dynasty (c.747-656 B.C). The sphinx has an Egyptian form; however‚ his facial features seem to be African. The name of Taharqa appears
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Question 1: Shelter The Great Pyramid‚ Khufu was a symbol of homage to the body that dwelled inside. Khufu rises four hundred and eighty one feet above the ground and covers thirteen acres of land. The higher the tomb the better chance they would get to connect their Sun God to the Earth or the afterlife to the living presence. The length of the pyramid was originally set at seven hundred and fifty four feet‚ however hundreds of years of human and natural damage has left it at seven hundred and
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