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Construction Technology
Number of Words: 558 / Number of Pages: 3
... full by the Farnsworth house.
The House consists of parallel floor and ceiling planes measuring 29x77 feet, sandwiching a steel skeleton enclosed by a continuous glass-plane skin. This is levitated five feet above ground by eight face-mounted H-section columns extending to the roof edge. A smaller terrace plane is placed asymmetrically to the side. This levitates between the house floor and the ground via six H-section column stubs, two of which are shared with the house. The exterior floor planes are made of gravel filled steel drain pans topped by open-jointed paving. Interior floor and roof are ...
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Pyramids
Number of Words: 1306 / Number of Pages: 5
... of earth
to emerge from the soup of creation (Malek 90).
King Djoser's chief architect for his pyramid was Imhotep. It is
thought that King Djoser's stone tomb started out having the standard shape of a
mastaba. Then, as construction progressed, a concept evolved. Imhotep began to
place one flat-topped stone structure atop another until he had created six
steps by which the king could ascent to the heavens after death. The Egyptians
had a firm belief in an afterlife and viewed their pharaohs as gods. These
beliefs were a strong force that led to the piling up of stones to such a
monumental s ...
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Closure At The Wall An Analysi
Number of Words: 1499 / Number of Pages: 6
... you write and ask him about those firecrackers in your head? And ask him why that pimple on your nose hasn't healed in two months? And why you've got pimples creeping down the back of your neck? He'll say it's Agent Orange, I bet you money" (53-54).
The war mentally upsets Emmett as well. Most veterans returned from the war and readjusted well, but this is not the case with Emmett. "After his discharge…Emmett could not adjust" (23). At first, he lived with his niece Sam, and his sister Irene, who babied him. He attempted to go to college and worked odd jobs, but neither lasted. He is ...
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Cigars
Number of Words: 601 / Number of Pages: 3
... The
only type of tobacco grown is fast-maturing strains they can get to the market
quickly. Careful and attentive raising is non existent. The leaves are
quickly dried and thrown into boxes for shipment to the rolling factory.
Fine cigars are hand rolled, whereas all cigarettes are machine rolled.
Including the type and quality of the leaf, rolling is the ultimate judge of
whether a cigar is good or bad. Cigar companies go to great pains to be sure
they hire only the best "Torcedores" (cigar rollers). If a cigar is
underfilled it will burn hot and harsh; if it is overfilled it is "Plugged" a ...
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Ethnic Diversity In Nigeria
Number of Words: 897 / Number of Pages: 4
... split up into Islamic Emirates that originally comprised a series of centralized governements and their surrounding towns and villages. The Emirs were the spirirtual and political leaders of the Hausa and held a perfect monarchy with no permanent body of advisors. Because they were seen as an assistant to God, their power was unchallenged. They still remain a major feature in local government today.
When speaking of the Hausa in the north, also, the Fulani should be mentioned. The Fulani are a pastoral-nomadic people. Living in Hausaland, they would trade their cattle for the farm produce of the ...
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Love Is Like...the Universe
Number of Words: 524 / Number of Pages: 2
... old stars die, new stars are created. This is like losing the "old feelings" a person used to have. Yet at the same time, new affection develops. Furthermore, changes in the galaxy are very subtle; in the identical fashion, love matures in a delicate, but in a very precise way. It takes a very long time for the universe to change the way it looks from Earth's point of view; as a result, in our lifetime, we can detect very little alteration in the galaxy. With love, it also takes a while for a man to realize this feeling, because, at a conscious level, he may not be paying close attention to all of his ...
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Homeschooling
Number of Words: 791 / Number of Pages: 3
... to children to measure academic progress) than private or public schooled children. Homeschooled children outperform other students by 30-37 percentile points in all subjects. In grades 1-4, children perform an average of one grade level higher. In 5th grade, the gap begins to widen and by 8th grade, they average four grade levels ahead. Family race and income, child’s gender, and parent’s education does not seem to affect the test scores for homeschooled children as it does for public and private school children. Among white homeschooled children, the average reading score percentile was 87 and ...
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Charismatic Leadership
Number of Words: 1170 / Number of Pages: 5
... on our notions of what a charismatic leader is and is not” (Conger 12). Weber stated that charismatic authority derives its legitimacy from not rules, positions, or traditions but rather from faith in the leader’s skilled character. The holder of charisma is “set apart from ordinary men and treated as endowed with supernatural, superhuman, or at least…. exceptional powers and qualities…. which are not accessible to the ordinary person but are regarded as of divine origin or as exemplary, and on the basis of them the individual concerned is treated as a leader” (Weber, 358-359) Weber’s initial thou ...
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The Year 2000 Bug
Number of Words: 2420 / Number of Pages: 9
... Network Associates Inc., Norman ASA, Panda Software, Sophos Inc., Symantec Corp. and Trend Micro Inc., to provide fully functional anti-virus trial software to small & medium businesses and consumers in preparation for the Year 2000. The anti-virus software can be downloaded free of charge from November 1 through December 31. Once downloaded, the anti-virus software will be functional for 90 days.
Microsoft Policies on Software Distribution
Beware of an E-mail Claiming to Contain an Upgrade from Microsoft! Malicious users try to camouflage harmful software in an effort to get others to run it. Se ...
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Modern Television Changing Ame
Number of Words: 1930 / Number of Pages: 8
... decisions. First, The FCC had to decide on a bandwidth for which all television signals could occupy. The FCC had no problem in selecting a frequency at the time, considering the limited amount of signal producing devices that were available to the public. Second, the amount of resolution that the television sets could receive had to be determined. The FCC based this decision on the amount of information that black and white signals transmitted. The amount of resolution that the FCC decided on was and still is 525 lines. These two decisions by the FCC were put into law in the 1950's and all br ...
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