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    Wassily Kandinsky Essay

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    1866. At the age of 30‚ he moved to Munich‚ where he studied drawing and painting. Kandinsky was also a musician and theorist; he was inspired to create art through his obsession with music. As time passed‚ Kandinsky became one of the founders of abstraction in painting in during the early 20th century. Created on 1912‚ Kandinsky’s Skizze 160A (Sketch 160A)‚ expects viewers to respond emotionally and spiritually. He uses colors‚ lines‚ and marks to enact vibration in the viewer’s souls. The artwork

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    In John Gattos “Why Schools Don’t Educate” he addresses the issues of modern education. In his speech for “Teacher of the year” he explains that education is part of a social crisis. Which create students into robots. Due to the amount of control that the education system has. He continues by explaining the lack of time given to learn is irrational. Gattos example was the bell in school. Once you begin to comprehend a material the bell rings. And you must continue to the next. He offers solutions

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    Investigation of problem Design Logical solution Construction Code Software: why is it hard?  Software systems can become extremely complex during the development process  The best methods for controlling this complexity are abstraction and encapsulation: if we use some techniques for building software that is less complex‚ we will get benefits in software that is more flexible: easier to maintain and modify later some opportunities to reuse designs and code Software

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    discuss my results of the Myers Briggs test and the CREAX creativity self assessment exercise‚ both were taken online and both were about 50 questions long. They pertained to subjects such as extravert‚ intuitive‚ feeling‚ judging‚ persistence‚ abstraction‚ connection‚ complexity‚ paradox‚ boldness‚ curiosity and perspective. On the Myers Brigg test my extravert was 11%‚ my intuitive was 12%‚ my feeling was 50% and my judging was 11%. I have slight preference of extraversion over introversion‚ which

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    All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves; and above all others the sense of sight". This is the foundation of human knowledge Aristotle presents us with in Book Alpha of the Metaphysics. The next question which we must naturally ask ourselves is‚ How? How is it that we can have any knowledge at all? We by our very nature desire to know and we love the senses in themselves but

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    In the 2011 Places Journal article “Landscape Is Our Sex”‚ writer David Heymann questions the legitimacy of landscape based design‚ insisting that such designs do not equate to a building that is sympathetic to the landscape from which it was conceived. Moreover‚ he expresses his view that architects apply the ‘site as source’ rhetoric as a means to deliver a convincing sales pitch. Although Heymann provides some interesting points‚ the article is largely biased and rhetorical. Heymann claims that

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    Introduction      Any discussion of the thinking of University of California-Berkeley professor‚ John R. Searle must include an understanding that a machine has the ability to “think” just because it has been fed the “correct” computer program that he calls “Strong AI” (artificial intelligence).  However‚ he points out that “Strong AI” misses the basic point that any software program is simply a framework that designates the ways in which certain symbols are managed.  That manipulation cannot be

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    Wassily Kandinsky became a painter rather late in life. It is only after finishing his studies at the University of Moscow‚ in his early thirties and completely mature that he decides to fully commit to art. This important decision would change his life. However‚ neither himself nor his social and artistic circle‚ could then assume he would encounter a decisive step fifteen years later. The transition to the non-figurative art where he would create his famous Improvisations and Compositions that

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    B. F. Skinner

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    Psychologist”; in which he enumerates various cognitive concepts and mechanisms before providing a behavioral explanation of the phenomena. To illustrate‚ Skinner introduces the subject of abstraction‚ which is considered the cognitive process of expanding old concepts to accommodate new ones (abstraction‚ 2015). As an example he provides a simple experiment in which a hungry pigeon pecks a color-labeled panel based off the color of a miscellaneous object presented to it. While the cognitive approach

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    Equilibrium: Force and Mg

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    The First and Second Conditions for Equilibrium The first condition for equilibrium: The second condition for equilibrium: • • ΣF = 0 ΣΓ = 0 • In when both of these conditions are satisfied in static systems all forces and torques sum to zero. In problems where the first and second conditions of equilibrium are satisfied‚ the best strategy is to create FBD’s for both the first and second conditions‚ derive equations based on these FBD’s and then see what useful information may be gleaned from

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