Arch 8011 Research Methods 2013 Jonathan Jordan‚ 1361176 ARCHITECTURE: WORDS OR SHAPES Introduction Architecture can be viewed with two different types of properties. Properties that can be seen like shapes‚ their composition‚ the spaces they create and‚ the colours and textures that make up their appearance. These properties are considered to be visual while other properties are considered to be abstract
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That’s a very long hike. That is like hiking from STL to Seattle and back. For the Ancient Egyptians traveling up and down this long river was a way of life. The Nile shaped Ancient Egypt in ant least 3 ways. The Nile best provided precious water in a vast desert for sustaining crops‚ provided transportation for trade‚ and provided hope in an afterlife. Did you know that if the Nile didn’t flood it could starve the Egyptians? Since the Nile flooded in Akhet (flooding season) it puts down fertilizer
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and controlled the people his way. By this being said the people (the Sumerians) who were slaves to do the hard work were the same people that lived on the other side of the land. Why would I go back in that time period? Well mostly because I always found Egypt and Egyptians really interesting and I think a lot about why we the people judge and undermine other people by how much money we have or how big our land is. My most asked question is why did they build‚ the pyramids and
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Shape Memory Metal The goal of the experiment was to heat the shape memory alloy to see if the metal will revert back to its original shape. In order to do so I needed a hair dryer with a low and high setting‚ and a shape memory paperclip. How I went to test this was I took the paper clip‚ straightened it out‚ and then heated the paper clip with the blow dryer. In order to obtain accurate results‚ I needed to do four trials with the blow dryer on the high setting‚ and one trial with the blow
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a teenager‚ what did you think your career/job would be as an adult? When asking my Grandmother what her first career would be when she was growing up‚ she stated that she had intentions of becoming a doctor. After taking high school courses related to health and science‚ she decided this would be a path for her‚ and then went on to become an accountant. [Q] 2. What was your first paid work experience? Was it during high school or afterward? How many hours a week did u work? What did you get paid
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Religion created a massive barrier between the Native Americans and the English colonists‚ damaging the harmony that could have been established among the two cultures. The English set a goal to fulfil God’s providence and convert the Indians to Christianity‚ though failing caused Christianity to slowly arrive to abrupt halt in the new world. John Smith quotes‚ “What can he do less hurtful to any; or more agreeable to God‚ then to seek to convert those poor Savages to know Christ‚ and humanity‚ whose
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Egypt : The People Approximately 32‚500‚000 people live in Egypt. Peasant farmers called fellahin make up over 60 percent of the population. But less than 4 percent of Egypt’s land is suitable for farming. Before the leaders of the 1952 revolution introduced land reform‚ less than 2 percent of the landowners owned half of the land available for farming. Most of the fellahin were tenants or owned very tiny farms. A man who owned 3 to 5 acres was considered well-off. Now no one is
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Mesopotamia and Harappan societies have long been compared throughout the history of archaeology. Mesopotamia‚ also known as‚ ’the land between the rivers‚’ was named for the triangular area between the Tigris and the Euphrates river‚ (Nov. 7 lecture). In recent use‚ it covers a broader area referring to most of what is now Iraq. This adds ancient Assyria and Babylonia to the scope of Mesopotamia (Schultz and Lavenda 1995:310). Parts of Mesopotamia were not inhabited at all until approximately 8000
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used hieroglyphics that was often expressed through pictographs that are stylized pictures used to express words and subjects. The use of pictographs was a very primitive form of communication that took lots of time and energy to inscribe. They did not describe the subject in great detail whereas in the English language you can describe the subject in great detail with little or no effort. When using pictographs the Egyptians didn’t use connectives‚
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Although Egypt’s effect on European history dates back more than 5000 years‚ at the beginning of the nineteenth century‚ it was still a impossible to understand and unknown place to Europeans. One reason was that Egypt was Muslim and Europe was Christian‚ and the poison produce by the Crusades and subsequent wars hindered open communication. Another reason was that most information of ancient Egyptian society had been lost some time before the Greeks settled the coast‚ so even though many people
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