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    the design of the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, which combines with stereotomic properties to provide a distinctively memorable structure. The use of both tectonic and stereotomic…

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    Igbo Culture

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    complex social structure of Ibo culture. Taking place in Nigeria during the turn of the eighteenth century, Achebe shows how women were both revered and oppressed. Women were held in high esteem through worship, connection to god, and societal customs. Yet Ibo women suffered under power structures and gender roles. The most revered gods of the Ibo culture were women. As a sign of respect, the Ibo celebrated “[t]he Feast of the New Yam...every year… to honor the earth goddess”…

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    Comparison in which J.R.R Tolkien and Jules Verne have explored different perspectives on the idea of faith and doubt in their respective texts The Hobbit and Journey to the Centre of the Earth. Both texts convey the idea of faith and doubt. The idea that doubt will always affect your journey, but faith may have enough strength to overcome the doubt in anything. Verne looks at both Protagonist one symbolising faithful and the other symbolising doubt. This is metaphorically showing how faith…

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    The World Is-Much With Us

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    expresses his frustration with the materialistic, greed-driven world the earth has become. The speaker insists that nature has more to offer us than what we are seeing, and desires a change of heart from mankind. The speaker uses metaphors to illustrate the divinity of the earth and idioms to describe our lack of noticing the beauty around us. The poem continues to portray the speaker’s weariness as the structure of the poem takes a shift half way through, losing its focus on society …

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    differences. Such as language, structure and so on. As previously mentioned there is something these two texts have in common. They both mention a threat towards the earth. In the first text “Seven Themes for Modern Verse” the author writes about taking shelter from a nuclear rocket strike and what they should do to stay safe, whilst in the adapted version from “The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to The Galaxy” you read about the moment when the vogons declared they were to obliviate the earth in order to…

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    All his creations he aims for them to be meaningful to anyone that enters the structures that he has developed. 1 " Though sustained research into local context and conditions we develop solutions that are unique to their time and place". Peter Rich only uses people of the highest standards during the design progress in developing…

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    Garnet Ferrites Synthesis

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    The garnet ferrites have the general formula RFe5O12, where R is one of the rare earth metal ions (Y, Gd, Dy, Sm, Eu, Ho, Er, Tm, Tb and Lu). The first trail for synthesis of garnet Yttrium ferrite (Y3Fe5O12) was done by Bertaut and Forret in 1956 [39], this trial was followed by another one in 1957 when Geller and Gilleo prepared and investigated Gd3Fe5O12 [40]. The garnet ferrites have complex crystal structure with cubic shape. The cubic unit cell of garnet ferrites R3Fe5O12 contains 8…

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    language There are a lot of field of linguistics have been developed throughout the years as a result of the changes of structures in the world and society. Thus the further explanation of this essay will be on five different fields, there are, Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology, Semantics and Sociolinguistics. The first field that will be explained is Phonetics.…

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    In the poem, Love’s Philosophy, Percy Bysshe Shelley suggests through imagery, personification, speech act, and the structure of the poem that love completes meaning of life since everything in nature pairs, and that without love, everything is in vain. Shelley uses nature to demonstrate the complementary pairings. “The fountains mingle with the river/ And the rivers with the ocean” connect these flowing substances together. Without one of them, there will be a gap, a lay of land separating the…

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    destruction they cause and how powerful they are. Although I have never thought of becoming a seismologist, it something I would want to learn more about. A seismologist studies seismic waves, energy waves caused by rock suddenly breaking apart within the earth or slipping of tectonic plates. There are many ways that scientists are able to study seismic ways and earthquakes. The first way is when seismologist analyze the damaged cause by an earthquake and then study it using a seismograph. The…

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