MAYAN ART AND ARCHITECTURE Art for the Mayans was a reflection of their lifestyle and culture. For the Mayans art took several forms including: painting paper‚ plaster‚ carvings in wood and store‚ clay‚ stucco models‚ and terra cotta figurines from molds. Metal was very scarce and so it wasn’t commonly used. Mayan Art during the period‚ 200 to 900 has been considered the most sophisticated and beautiful of the New World. There is few remaining Mayan Art‚ which includes funerary pottery‚ ceramics
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What is hydrocarbon? A compound of hydrogen and carbon‚ such as any of those that are the chief components of petroleum and natural gas OR Organic compound (such as benzene‚ methane‚ paraffin) made of two elements carbon and hydrogen and found in coal‚ crude oil‚ natural gas‚ and plant life. Hydrocarbons are used as fuels solvents‚ and as raw materials for numerous products such as dyes‚ pesticides‚ and plastics; petroleum is a mixture of several hydrocarbons
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Leadership is a process whereby a person(leader) influences others(followers) to accomplish an objective and intend changes and outcomes which reflects their common purpose(Clark‚2005). Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad is the fourth prime minister in Malaysia and his reign for 22 years made him the longest serving prime minister in Malaysia which also earned him the longest-serving leaders’ title in Asia. ‚ Mahathir came from a generally modest background unlike his three predecessors known to all
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Yoyo is a toy that everyone has played at some point in their lives. Yoyo is more than twenty five thousand years old. It is the second oldest toy‚ after dolls. The yoyo was first documented to be invented in Greece with wood‚ metal and terra cotta.2 .The disks were decorated with the pictures of their gods. The yoyo moved to the Orient around 1800. The yoyo was used as a weapon in Philippines. Their version was large with sharp edges and spikes attached to a twenty foot long rope for flinging at
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Mircea Eliade’s The Sacred and the Profane analyzes a wide variety of components that are found within various world religions. Eliade uses the history of religion to support his ideas as the the book itself is a brief introduction to religion as a whole‚ particulary the religions of primitive societies. Nonetheless‚ when looking to the past one can see that mankind’s desire to associate itself with the sacred has been occuring for thousands of years. From temples to passages of intiation‚ religious
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Almarai the world’s largest vertically integrated dairy company Almarai Co‚ the greatest dairy association in Saudi Arabia by business division worth‚ lives up to expectations dairy residences and systems support‚ despite publicizing dairy things and characteristic item squeezes. The name Almarai connotes ’green pastures’ in Arabic. Q.1 The principle segments of ALMarai Company are: 1-The merged explanation of Balance Sheet‚ which can be characterized as"A proclamation of an organization’s benefits
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Business “The Art of War” by Sun Tzu is one of the most influential books worldwide and is considered the most important work on military theory. It was written by Sun Tzu‚ more than 2500 years ago‚ possibly in the 6th Century BC. Along with the Terra Cotta army and the works of Confucius‚ The Art of War is one of the best pieces of work in any field to come out of thousands of years of innovative Chinese history. The strategic and philosophical ideas descried within are applied in various fields
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As many know‚ the Great Chicago Fire was a disaster of devastation‚ and most likely the worst disaster of the 19th century. The tragedy killed more than 300 people and left more than 100‚000 people without homes. Not only did the conflagration take a human toll‚ but the fire caused 200 million dollars in property damage and decimated more than three square miles of the city of Chicago. Despite speculation on the true cause of the fire‚ Emily Upton describes natural factors that allowed the fire
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This final paper tackles a psychoanalytic-feminist reading of Budjette Tan and KaJo Baldisimo’s “Trese” comics and its main protagonist Alexandra Trese. The main focus is on the standalone piece “Thirteen Stations” as found in Jessica Hagedorn’s “Manila Noir” anthology‚ with the other 26 issues in the six official volumes already in print as supplements. Alexandra Trese is placed in comparison to DC’s Batman/Bruce Wayne‚ a similar figure in Western popular literature‚ and Nicole Lacson from Arnold
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PYROLYSIS OF SOLID WASTE ABHISHEK BARMAN(1RV11CS004) ABHILASHA (1RV11CS003) INTRODUCTION Pyrolysis is a thermo chemical decomposition of organic material at elevated temperatures in the absence of oxygen (or any halogen). It involves the simultaneous change of chemical composition and physical phase‚ and is irreversible. The word is coined from the Greek-derived elements pyro "fire" and lysis "separating". Pyrolysis is a type of thermolysis‚ and is most commonly observed in organic materials
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