Abacus

The internet has become one of life’s necessities in the United States. From shopping at Wal-Mart to high school testing, the digital world has replaced paper and pencil in America. Those who don’t have access to computers and the internet are being left behind and are at a great disadvantage. The author Nicholas Carr sees the dangers of what our world has become. His book The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains describes the negative effects of continuous clicking, online…

A NUMBER OF SOCIOLOGISTS HAVE RECENTLY Stated THAT the High Renaissance was the culmination of the artistic developments of the Early Renaissance. The High Renaissance that flourished over 35 years from the late 1490 until the early 1530 (Encyclopædia Britannica ©2016). The Renaissance started at Florence. Florence called the middle age a “congruence of artistic genius” (Kleiner 2007:577), the beginning of Humanism and “economic prosperity” (Kleiner 2007:577) nourished the beginning of the…

Over the course of history, various developments took place which led to the formation of sociology. The Enlightenment was a period of philosophical enquiry starting around the sixteenth century with the rise of the scientific method. Before this society and the nature of reality had largely been governed by the teachings of the church and was under state control. The enlightenment was based on rationalist principles, values of empiricism and the belief that the world could be better understood…

Development of place value Place value and the ten-base system are important foundations of later mathematical concepts. The development of these concepts takes years and is built upon pre-number and early number development. Therefore, the development of place value and understanding of the ten-base system needs to be understood in relation to early concepts. Classifying and patterning are elements of pre-number development that need to be developed as part of numeracy. Classifying helps…

FOR ALL THE TALK about outrageous tuition costs and zillionaire dropouts, a college education is still one of the best investments most people could make. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York estimates that a bachelor of arts degree typically increases a student’s earning capacity by about $300,000 (in today’s dollars) over his or her working life. That is simply an average. But as with just about any other investment, results aren’t guaranteed. Much depends on the student, of course, but…

The old adage “Hindsight is 20/20” applies perfectly to the study of Greek art. In the modern world, classicists and art historians, in looking back on Greek art, have described, categorized, and grouped ancient works ad nauseum in order to to more easily see progressions in ceramic ware, statues and architecture while still allowing for comparisons between time periods and mediums (e.g. pedimental sculpture and amphoras). With this construct in mind, this paper will analyze one particular…

The Sumerians developed one of the earliest civilizations on earth from 3500 to 1750BC. Their existence and civilization was not even discovered until the middle of 1800AD. Because the ancient Greeks and Egyptians wrote about the Babylonians most people did not realize that the Sumerians preceded the Babylonians. Furthermore, it was the Sumerians who developed writing, religious and agricultural systems which later the Babylonians continued. During the early 1800's it was the British, German…

physical objects to help solve everyday math problems. In Southwest Asia they used counting trays; wooden or clay trays covered in sand that the user drew symbols in as a tally chart. The ancient Romans then modified these to create the world’s first abacus. The Mayans, Aztecs and Incas all had different versions of knotted strings. The first true manipulatives were invented in the late 1800’s, they were maneuverable objects that appealed to several different senses and were designed…

Franklin D. Roosevelt was once quoted saying, “Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds”. Within this world of endless possibilities, nothing is certain but the unforeseen. Every person is given the extraordinary power to compose their course of existence, presuming that the individual can summon up the courage to challenge one’s fate. In Arthur Golden’s novel Memoirs of a Geisha, Sayuri Nitta recalls her experiences throughout her journey of becoming a geisha. Sayuri…

KARNAK TEMPLE Karnak temple is one of the largest religious buildings located at Luxor, south of Cairo, Egypt. (Frederick Monderson, 2007 Page10-Page12) In fact, Karnak temple is the modern name while the ancient name was Ipet-isut and the meaning of this temple is “The most sacred of places”. The temple’s covering is about 200 acres and this huge temple has 2000 years history. The Open Air Museum is at the north of the first courtyard. Next, Karnak temple was separate in three parts…