Concrete

experiences the fullness of every season. You get to experience the most festive of falls, springs, summers, and winters in New York City. Central Park is a beautiful place to watch the seasons change and is also probably your best option to escape the hot concrete streets and subways in the summer. Los Angeles, on the other hand, generally has “fire, earthquake, mudslide, and drought”. In spite of that, it does have a beautiful seaside year round which is especially convenient if you want…

The Lowdown on Burial Vault USA Laws If you are looking for a burial vault, you will come across different kinds of materials. In the older days, it is usually built out of brick or wood but nowadays, concrete is used to keep the casket well-contained. The modern types of burial vault USA made have different styles which are either lined with bronze, fiberglass, copper or steel. Some can be inscribed with words or images. A burial vault is a lined housing that encloses a casket. It prevents…

new concepts in math. They can provide a concrete representation of a number or mathematical equation. Shaw (2002) states, “manipulatives help students develop conceptual understanding of mathematical ideas by representing the ideas in multiple ways”. With the increase in technology, virtual manipulatives have become just as popular as concrete manipulatives to represent mathematical ideas. Students use the same concepts and strategies practiced with concrete manipulatives, except now on a…

While he was working with Alfred Binet he noticed that children of the same age got many of the same questions incorrect. It was during this time that Piaget theorized that humans develop cognitively in four stages; sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational. As infants we begin in the sensorimotor stage, and chronologically proceed through the stages as we grow and develop with age. Piaget also presented the concept of schemas, which is a way in which we organize…

Respect: an amalgam of admiration, reverence, and regard that can validate people’s dreams and aspirations. Not surprisingly, people intensely desire respect. This intense longing, however, can be wrongly reduced to the fulfillment of a concrete task. For example, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby chronicles its eponymous character’s struggle to gain respect. Ralph Ellison’s Bildungsroman Invisible Man depicts a nameless, black narrator’s similar struggle to earn respect as he…

scope of his work focused on establishing how intelligence and knowledge progresses over the span of one’s life. Piaget purported that there are four ubiquitous, incremental stages of cognitive development: sensorimotor stage, preoperational stage, concrete operational stage, and formal operational stage. These stages map the constructional process of knowledge from the intrinsic, primitive intuition of an infant to the more complex logical processes typically acquired in adulthood. The…

Some variations of the work could lead to the meaning, which is derived visually being lost. This example also shows the importance of exact reproduction of concrete poems over time in order to convey the meanings associated with the poem that the author wishes to communicate, because the poem functions as an entity in space. “40-Love” is a concrete poem, which can function as both a spatial and auditory entity, with each part of this dialectic working together to create meaning. Through the…

Without the Roman Empire we would not have concrete. As much as we use concrete today, this is amazing to know who created this mixture which is actually strong enough to make long-standing buildings out of. This concrete mixture was also used to create the first roads which we again can thank the Romans for. Imagine if we did not have roads at all in this country, wouldn’t travel be difficult? The concrete that we use today has been modified and is a lot more durable and is…

It happened to me Imagine one morning you wake up unable to move. Your arms and legs heavy as if buried in concrete with only your head sticking out Still able to breathe, think, feel the inside of your body, your mind stuck in a groove Disbelief changes places with the realisation that something is seriously wrong Your tears escape from the tomb traveling until they meet your pillow leaving you transmove That happened to me Imagine being a daughter, a sister, a wife, a mother, a manager, an…

growing up. He breaks it down into stages. In this psychology class I had the privilege to study about Piaget and how his work is still relevant today. I will attemp to explore Piaget's stages of cognitive development: Sensorimotor, Preoperational, Concrete Operational, and formal Operational Stage. Sensorimotor is the first stage. It goes from birth to two years old. During this stage, the child is using his senses, and his motor skill to make sense of the world. The child will start…