"The Temple [of The Sagrada Família] grows slowly‚ but this has always been the case with everything destined to have a long life. Hundred-year-old oak trees take many years to grow tall; on the other hand‚ reeds grow quickly‚ but in autumn the wind knocks them down and there is no more to be said"1. These words‚ spoken by Antoni Gaudi about his life-long work‚ Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família‚ are a means to justify the extremely long time needed for the construction of the Sagrada Família
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IB Biology HL Y1 15 January 2009 The Effect of Humidity on Transpiration in Plants Problem/Aim How does placing a plant in a more humid location for 50 minutes affect its rate of transpiration? Introduction Transpiration is the loss of water from a plant‚ mainly through the stomata of leaves. Darkness‚ internal water deficit‚ and extremes of temperature tend to close stomata and decrease transpiration; illumination‚ ample water supply‚ and optimum temperature cause stomata to open and increase
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envelop many people gathered in the area. The uncomfortable atmosphere is attributed to the pirate’s ghost thought to still haunt the house‚ with feelings of hatred and revenge. Strange‚ unexplained noises were also heard when standing near the tower’s stairway. It is said that a man hung himself in the tower in the early
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The early Maya villages were formed somewhere between 2600 and 1800 B.C. The first place of the Maya was on the Yucatan Peninsula. The people were farmers that grew crops such as corn‚ beans‚ squash‚ and cassava. After a while‚ the farmers started to move to highland and lowland regions. The early Mayas were also good at building cities‚ constructing pyramids‚ and making inscriptions on stones. The Popol Vuh is the creation story of the Maya. It talks about how the earth was formed from the
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room were placed on this floor. The second floor was the principal floor of the home. There were parlors‚ dining room‚ library and butlers pantry. The top floor had five bedrooms and a bathing room. Wide halls extended the length of each floor and a stairway joined the parlor and bedroom floors. Andrew Lowe bought the land and started building in 1847. While
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ancient Greek historian‚ Strabo‚ state that the "The Garden is quadrangular‚ and each side is four plethra long. It consists of arched vaults which are located on checkered cube-like foundations.. The ascent of the uppermost terrace-roofs is made by a stairway.." 2. The Great Pyramid of Giza The only one of the Seven Wonders still left standing to this day‚ it is also the oldest of the 7 Ancient Wonders. Located in the city Giza‚ a necropolis of ancient Memphis‚ which is now part of Cairo‚ Egypt
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Adderall is an amphetamine based stimulant that targets your frontal lobe to increase productivity in cognitive thinking and learning. This drug was invented in 1986 and introduced into the market of prescription drugs four years later. There has been critical research and deep cross examination of the effects and effectiveness of this drug. This is an extremely sensitive topic for everyone all the way from the users to the top of the corporations that are marketing the drug to our youth including
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The author addresses this article from one main perspective. Davison and Lytle use a social lens to analyze and describe Riis’ life. This is important because if helped to highlight the effects of Riis’ journalism and photography as well as giving insight to the responses of the people to what he had to say. We see this when the author wrote‚ "The quality of living in cities changed‚ too… wealthy fled along newly constructed trolley and rail lines to the quiet of developing suburbs. Enterprising
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Rebecca Thompson March 1‚ 2011 You know that one person in your group of friends that just isn’t “all right” in the head? That you’re always kind of worried about in the back of your head? Well that would describe Holden Caulfield perfectly. J.D. Salinger’s Cather in the Rye is all about a teenage boy named Holden Caulfield in a mental hospital recalling a crazy weekend he had the previous year. It goes everywhere from prostitutes to illegal drinking. In the novel Holden exemplifies a borderline
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------------------------------------------------- Cesar Torrente Legaspi Cesar Legaspi on April 2‚ 1917 in Tondo‚ Manila (1917–1994) is a Filipino National Artist awardee in painting. He was also an art director prior to going full-time in his visual art practice in the 1960s. His early (1940s-1960s) works‚ alongside those of peer‚ Hernando Ocampo are described as depictions of anguish and dehumanization of beggars and laborers in the city. These include Man and Woman (alternatively known as Beggars)
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