BASIC MATERIALS FOR CONSTRUCTION : STONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION Stone has been used as a construction material for thousands of years. It has long been recognized as a material of great durability and superior artistic quality‚ the foremost choice for buildings associated with status‚ power and religion. 2.0 TYPES OF STONE Building stone‚ also called dimension stone‚ derives from one of three naturally occurring rock types: Igneous - Hard and non-porous rock formed from the slow or quick
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StoneTools A stone tool is‚ in the most general sense‚ any tool made either partially or entirely out of stone. Although stone tool-dependent societies and cultures still exist today‚ most stone tools are associated with prehistoric‚ particularly Stone Age cultures that have become extinct. Archaeologists often study such prehistoric societies‚ and refer to the study of stone tools as lithic analysis. Stone has been used to make a wide variety of different tools throughout history‚ including arrow
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The Family Stone: Elements of Conflict Conflict Management Resolution/HBD 6771.E1 May 4‚ 2011 Dr. Barbara Hollingshead The Family Stone: Elements of Conflict Conflict‚ according to Wilmot & Hocker (2011)‚ is defined as an expressed struggle between at least two interdependent parties who perceive incompatible goals‚ scarce resources‚ and interference from others in achieving their goals. At the core of all conflict analysis is perception (Wilmot & Hocker‚ 2011). In
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Sly and the Family Stone | Sly and the Family Stone in 1969. Clockwise from top: Larry Graham‚ Freddie Stone‚ Gregg Errico‚ Sly Stone‚ Rose Stone‚ Cynthia Robinson‚ and Jerry Martini. A similar photograph was used as the cover of Rolling Stone #54 (March 19‚ 1970). | Background information | Origin | San Francisco‚ California‚ United States | Genres | Funk‚ soul‚ rock‚ psychedelic soul | Years active | 1966–1975‚ 1976–1983‚ 2010-present | Labels | Epic‚ Warner Bros. | Associated acts
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Gina Berriault’s "The Stone Boy"‚ a narrative story‚ mainly portrays the tragedy committed by a nine-year-old boy‚ Arnold‚ who has a big family of six people accidentally kills his older brother‚ Eugene. This pair of brothers has a pretty good relationship because they just act like typically brothers getting along very well. One night they went duck hunting but all out of blue that Arnold accidentally shoots Eugene with a gun which his father gives him‚ so that leaves Eugene dead and his responsible
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THE ROSETTA STONE The Rosetta Stone was the key to understanding Egyptan hieroglyphs and is one of the most precious and valuable treasures of British museum now. The Rosetta Stone is a stone which has writing on it using three scripts. The Stone was written in three scripts because when it was written‚ all three scipts were being used in Egypt. So the priests‚ government officials and rulers of Egypt could read it. The first was hieroglyphic which was used for documents about religion. The second
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Hillary Sayers Sayers 1 ENG 3U Mrs. DeLorenzi May 9‚ 2010 The Stone Angel: Significance of the Title The Stone Angel‚ published in 1964‚ is one of Margaret Laurence’s best known novels. Throughout the novel‚ Laurence reveals how life was in Western Canada during the 1930’s. In The Stone Angel‚ the ninety-year-old protagonist reflects on her life attempting to understand herself. During the recollection of her past‚ the audience discovers that Hagar had a rough life as she had to endure the
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A stone floor‚ whether it’s marble‚ limestone‚ granite‚ slate‚ or another material‚ can be an attractive addition to any home. But to keep your floor looking great long after it’s been installed‚ you need to make time for some basic maintenance‚ including stone floor cleaning. Cleaning your stone floor requires special techniques because stone is a natural material that can be easily damaged. So read on for 5 tips on safely cleaning your stone floor from the tile cleaning expert. 1. Follow the retailer
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progress of Stone Age technology and hunter gathering. The crucial part of life‚ food‚ cannot only exist but it must be retrieved. Therefore‚ if it wasn’t for the technology and the evolution of hunter gathering‚ then humankind wouldn’t exist. There is plenty of evidence to show how the advancement of gathering food was allowed by the existence of certain stone tools and by the realization to gather food. Paleoanthropologists have done great amounts of research to find out the different stones tools
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1. The Stone Age: The Stone Age‚ Bronze Age‚ and Iron Age Most art in pre – Christian Ireland is abstract. It reflected the technical‚ social and intellectual developments of the time. The pace of change in art and technology was slow at first; it took 5‚000 years from the arrival of the first stone age people for metal technology to be developed in Ireland with the introduction of copper and bronze. It took 1.500 years for iron technology to arrive and 500 more years for the major social and
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