Clay

creating completely handmade work which creates a more personal connection with her customers. The marks left in the clay, reflect the thought and time Flagella puts into each piece. Handmade pottery is the result of the years of practice and patience spent mastering the techniques on the potter’s wheel and is the direct result of the potters love for ceramics. Flagella mainly uses porcelain clay for her pottery because of its workable creamy consistency. The majority of her works have surface…

The Juicy Salif by Philip Starck is one of the most iconic and obscure designs of modern culture. The shape of the Juicy Salif is what first attracts the human eye, immediately grabbing any onlookers’ attention. An elongated teardrop with three solid tentacles in aluminum casting, resembling a large metal spider, the Juicy Salif is no ordinary lemon squeezer. Futuristic, sleek and unique in design, it screams post-modernism. The disproportionate number of legs juxtaposes to its clean lines and…

Soil Erodibility Factor (K) The soil erodibility factor (K), a measure of the susceptibility of soil to erosion under standard conditions, is a function of the percentage of silt and coarse sand, the soil structure, the permeability of the soil, and the percentage of organic matter. Wischmeier et al. (1971) defined the soil erodibility factor mathematically and Foster et al. (1996) converted the equation into the following SI unit equation: The soil erodibility factor (K) is determined for each…

world, at least it meant that in America. It was 1942, the day Cassius Clay was born, and the country was in the middle of a battle. A vocal expression of anger, sweat, and tears that tore apart people that try to get their rights. With the birth of this child grew a new expression of hope and courage. People believed in him in his later years. This man gave the colored a new chance for the freedom they tried so hard for. Cassius Clay was born in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1942 during a time that…

phrase Clay Shirky uses in his article “Why a leading professor of a new media just banned technology use in class” to argue that with these new sources, students tend to lose track of time, forgetting to eat or sleep even leading them to multi-task. These sources have every motive to capture as much attention as possible, increasing distractions and the lost of focus in class for students. Therefore, making it much more difficult for students to pay attention to class material and leading Clay…

Born on April 12, 1777, Henry Clay was a devoted nationalist.. He was very influential in the United States sectional conflict, economic prosperity, and development of its infrastructure. When Clay was 4 years old, his father died and he was considered an orphan, even though his mother did not die until 1829. Clay only had three years of formal education, yet the Virginian still became a lawyer by self educating himself. At the age of 20 years, Clay migrated to Kentucky to begin his career as…

unity as a national party. They blamed Jackson for the Panic of 1837 claiming Jackson 's Species circular, an executive order requiring gold and silver for land purchases, was the reason for economic collapse. The Whigs decide to do away with Henry Clay and promote Harrison. Similar to Jackson, Harrison was a war hero and was promoted for being a common man of the west. On the contrary, Van Buren was depicted as a wealthy snob who did not relate to the people. After Van Buren took…

As the students walk in the classroom, they will see 2 bowling balls individually attached by strings to the sealing at equal heights. The mass of each ball is 2kg and 4kg. The students will also notice a thick clay disk directly under the each ball. As soon as the bell rings, the students will join their assigned partner and will sit at the tables preassigned to them. I will begin by grabbing two bouncing balls of equal size and mass, and will let them drop. The students will be asked to…

When Lincoln spoke at Clay’s funeral, he compared himself with Clay, in that they cared about human liberty. However, his mentor was actually a slave owner. Author Roy Basler, writes how Lincoln had no solution to slavery and he supported the Clay idea of “Colonization” for all blacks. Clay was a member of the American Colonization Society. The goal of the group was to send all blacks back to Africa. “Lincoln approvingly quoted Clay as saying that, there is a moral fitness in the idea of…

Marilyn Nelson’s “Clay” is a third person observer. The author presents the speaker to us by naming Carver as a character in the poem and referring to Carver by his name, rather than forming the poem from his narrative view. Additionally, you can infer that the poem is narrated by a third person view because Marilyn Nelson’s speaker in “Clay” describes how the Earth’s features appear to Carver. The speaker captures George Carver’s discovery of the true meaning of beauty. Clay has an important…