Rida Ilyas Mr. Naveed Sheikh Materials and Construction 2nd Semester‚ Architecture April 16th‚ 2013 POINTED ARCHES An arch is an architectural structure which helps support a structure and the weight above that structure. Arches appeared as early as the 2nd millennium BC in Mesopotamian brick architecture. The systematic use of Arches started with ancient Romans. They were the first to have applied the techniques of arch to a wide range of structures. Pointed arch is one of the most important
Premium Gothic architecture Arch
Consumer Ethnocentrism: Gulf Coast Shrimp Introduction This research has been done based on the effects of the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico‚ nearly three years later. Students in an International Business course at the University of Southern Mississippi were asked to survey at least twelve people each to obtain data concerning the consumer ethnocentrism of local coast shrimp versus imported shrimp. The surveys were taken at random‚ and the survey participants were of different age
Premium United States Economics Fish
FOUNDATION OF ISLAMIC FINANCE ISF 1101 SEMESTER 2 2013/2014 DEVELOPMENT OF ISLAMIC BANKING AND FINANCE IN SINGAPORE INTRODUCTION Singapore or officially known as the Republic of Singapore is an island city-state which situated in the Southeast Asia specifically lies off the southern tip of Malaysia peninsular. The total area of Singapore is 716.1 square kilometres or 270 square miles and it accommodates approximately 5‚599‚200 citizens and 823‚082 of them are consists of Muslims
Premium Islamic banking Bank Financial services
Human Rights Study Questions 1. Under the heading “Labour Rights as Human Rights” on page 134 of reading 1 (“Labour Rights as Human Rights in the Age of Globalization”)‚ the authors assert that “there are two principal manners to conceive of labour rights.” In the two paragraphs which immediately follow that statement‚ the authors list different rights that are encompassed under each of these two approaches. Please identify FOUR kinds of labour rights emphasized under the first approach‚ and FOUR
Premium Sociology Scientific method Management
Assignment 3 The Canadian Senate By: Courtney Marie Lester. What role does the Senate play in terms of Canadian democracy‚ and in light of that role‚ should the Senate be retained in its current form‚ reformed in some way‚ or abolished entirely? The Canadian Senate has often been referred to as the sober second thought. The house of commons was originally set up to have two chambers‚ the upper and the lower‚ to carefully decide Canadian laws. The Senate‚ in the upper house‚ reviews proposed
Premium Canada United States Senate United States
American interest in Afghanistan: Drone attacks: The United States government‚ led by the Central Intelligence Agency’s Special Activities Division‚ has made a series of attacks on targets in northwest Pakistan since 2004 using drones (unmanned aerial vehicles). Under the George W. Bush administration‚ these controversial attacks were called a part of the US’ "War on Terrorism" and sought to defeat the Taliban and Al-Qaeda militants who were thought to have found a safe haven in Pakistan. Most
Premium United States Taliban Al-Qaeda
Cindy Buntinx Liqiong Gu Lore Jorissen Omar Hamdy LAFARGE-AGET 1. How can Lafarge-Aget differentiate its position in the eyes of customers? Lafarge-Aget can use segmentation to better understand its customers by stratifying all customers into two groups. The first group is tactical oriented and the second group is strategic oriented. For the tactical oriented customer‚ Aget should develop customer support teams‚ which will aid the customer starting with the project design and materials
Premium Microeconomics Marketing Economics
Vision of future By: Omar Second year of secondary stage We in Egypt must have unique goals to be achieved in the journey of our life‚ those goals have to come as a result of thinking about problems which face each one personally‚ face the whole country and face many people in the world‚ so we have to add something valuable to our community which will change the face of the future in any way possible because the future belongs to the people who prepare
Premium Problem solving Environment Natural environment
mathematician Bhattotpala‚ who realized the combinatorial significance. At around the same time‚ it was discussed in Persia (Iran) by the Persian mathematician‚ Al-Karaji (953–1029).It was later repeated by the Persian poet-astronomer-mathematician Omar Khayyám (1048–1131); thus the triangle is referred to as the Khayyam-Pascal triangle or Khayyam triangle in Iran. Several theorems related to the triangle were known‚ including the binomial theorem. Khayyam used a method of finding nth roots based
Premium Fibonacci number Blaise Pascal
Musab Omar Unit 2 ID No 20235744 Know Discriminatory practices in health and social care Discriminatory practice in health and social care happens for many reasons including some important factors that are normally the cause of discriminatory practice for example a person may be discriminated against because on the basis of their diversity. One important discriminatory practice is because of culture. A person’s Culture is important to them and
Premium Discrimination Sociology Ageism