Learning Log 1: Observe‚ Connect and Reflect on Your Learning PART I – Concepts in Symmetry To gaze is to think. Salvador Dali Period Focus Image Question Your Observations Complete at the end of Week 1 Image 1 Describe the symmetry of the Viking shield. (20 - 30 words) (2 marks) This Viking shield has 4 mirror lines and 4 but it has only two unique mirror lines.(4mm) What was the most surprising or interesting fact you learnt from Week 1 lectures (20 - 30 words)
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The reasons for stalemate on the Western Front? WW1 started as a war of quick lightning thrusts and high mobility‚ but degenerated into an astonishingly protracted war of static battle lines. The Western Front was the name given to the line of trenches stretching from the Belgium coast to Verdun. Following the Battle of Marne and Aisne of 1914‚ both sides dug in believing trenches to be temporary. The Front stretched for hundreds of miles‚ meshed with complex trench systems and barbed wire. Why
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Morning” by Maya Angelou are very similar but also very different in many ways. All three of the poems talk about equality‚ diversity‚ pride‚ and hope for the future. Whitman talks about various working people “singing”. I think that he is trying to tell his readers that each person contributes to the life and culture of America. The mechanic‚ the carpenter‚ the mason‚ the boatman‚ the shoemaker‚ and the woodcutter all join in the chorus of the nation. The singing of the mother‚ the wife‚ and the
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Introduction of the Novel Graham Greene wrote The Quiet American in 1955. The book is a novel based on Greene’s experience traveling and reporting on the war which the Vietnam were waging against the French colonial army in Vietnam in the early 1950’s. (Donaghy‚1983) The Quiet American Summary Vietnam is only understood by living there‚ it is very beautiful until something happens that you might have expected to happen. Not many care about the death of a US citizen for they are causing most
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important than the Western Front” When many people think about World War 1‚ they imagine trench warfare with machine guns and tanks. They just think about the Western Front and men conquering bits of land bit by bit to win the war. This was certainly the more publicised part of the war. But what many people missed was the war at sea. What did the ships do to help win the war? Could we have won the war without our navy? And was it even more important than the war on the Western Front? Now even thought
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quote was said by the famous American inventor and scientist Thomas Alva Edison. Planning had played such a huge role in this man’s success in life. Because he planned in his life‚ today we have the electric bulb‚ video camera and 2330 other devices‚ all invented by him. In today’s highly competitive world‚ the keyword‚ ‘success’ has become the parameter to measure and judge a person. Great renowned successes like Edison‚ Madam Curie‚ Einstein and Venkatraman Ramakrishnan worked diligently‚ recording
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The Quiet American: Choose a novel which explores in an effective way a theme which is important to you. A novel of which explores a certain theme‚ the abusive corruption of American power is Graham Greene’s “The Quiet American”. Greene’s novel is set in the French colony‚ Vietnam‚ which is soon to be lost to the Communists. His narration and description of characters such as Alden Pyle the titular “Quiet American” of whom is proud to be American and is working for the Economic Aid Mission of which
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The Quiet Revolution The purpose of this paper is to analyze the aspects of The Quiet Revolution on Quebec‚ and how the changes implemented by Lesage made Quebec the province it is today. The Quiet Revolution was only quiet at name; it triggered many conflicts that appeared in Quebec. The province began to move away from Catholic Church with the help of nationalists‚ leaving Quebec reformed and quite different from how it was before the 1960’s. Before the Quiet Revolution‚ Quebec was majorly
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This front was characterized by brutality‚ as shown by battles like Verdun and the Somme‚ which caused great suffering for both sides. Early battles‚ including the crucial Battle of the Marne in September 1914‚ greatly influenced the course of the war. The Schlieffen
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Cold fronts occur when a colder air mass replaces a warmer one. At a cold front‚ the cold air is behind the warm air. Because the cold air is denser‚ it pushes the warm air out of its way‚ forcing the warm air to rise into the atmosphere. * The slope of a typical cold front is 1:100 (vertical to horizontal). They would affect smaller area than a warm front. * Cold fronts tend to move faster than all other types of fronts. Cold fronts can move at up to 20mph faster than a warm front. They
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