Geometry

choose Architecture: Brunelleschi's design of the dome for Florence's cathedral. I remember watching this on NOVA back in 2014, and was intrigued by it then too. This is a feat of modern engineering technology at a time when it shouldn’t have been possible to construct. The Florence cathedral had been constructed as an icon to the world of the power and majesty that Florence was trying to project. Unfortunately, the cathedral had been constructed but the dome to cover it had not, and was…

as a whole. Through the use of syntax and diction, the author efficiently drives the mood and portrays the meaning of the poem. The scene begins as the hawk “appears out of a black angularity of shadow” “from plane of light to plane” into the “geometries”…

River Valley Civilizations’ Contributions Past civilizations have contributed many things that have influenced future, or present, civilizations. To look at a few in specific, ancient river valley civilizations such as Mesopotamia, Egypt, and China have each contributed their own systems/inventions. Mesopotamia brought a writing system and a set of laws. The Sumerians of Mesopotamia created cuneiform, the world’s first written language (Doc 1). According to Doc 1, they used this…

documentation of a lesson taught during my two-week internship in Alabaster City Schools. The internship was with an ESL Summer Camp, pertaining to third-grade students. The focus of this ESL Summer Camp for third grade was architecture around the world geometry in buildings, drawing shapes with tools such as (protractors, rulers, compass) Construction, design, planning, building. This artifact displays the use and need of culturally responsive classroom materials. I was able to obtain…

What we can know about the past is that art took on a realistic form back then. There is nothing abstract about this piece. Viewing other famous art from 1487 will confirm my theory because the human form was most often accurately represented. Art work from artists such as Raphael Sanzio and Sandro Botticelli confirms that bodies and faces of humans were true to form. Often noted as the Renaissance master, Leonardo Da Vinci was born in Italy in 1452. He started painting at the age of 15 and is…

To what Extent did Leonardo da Vinci Contribute to Math, Art, and Science? The Renaissance was a rebirth of Greek and Roman ideas, that took place in the late fourteenth through early seventeenth century. The rebirth of human reason began in Italy and particularly in Florence. Italy had been rapidly moving away from the medieval era. The Renaissance movement had begun on a scholarly level, with humanists writers, but was clearly linked with the scientific developments, change, and growth of…

I interviewed Dawn Hofsted, a high school math teacher at the Forest Grove High School. When I first walked into the school, the environment felt very different from what I was used to. I went to a private school all my life, the Forest Grove High School felt very big, the hall ways was triple the size of my high school’s hall way; When the kids got out of class, everyone was talking to each other and walking in different directions and the big hall way became very packed and busy. When I got…

semester, I have learned what it takes to be an excellent, and successful, SSL. Of my first days in Mrs. Pfaltzgraff’s class, I was pretty much nervous, but excited: I was actually going to help my fellow classmates! The subject of the class was Geometry, something I have learned a few years back when I was a sophomore. However, there was catch to this job: most of the students…

Philosophy: The Pursuit of Truth, in the Company of Nous Socrates, as presented in many works of Plato, makes inquiries about the garnering of knowledge and truth. In the platonic dialogue, Meno, Socrates attempts to answer Meno’s paradox: if you don’t know what you are looking for, how can it be found? Meno’s question allows for the assertion that inquiry is impossible, for how do we know what to ask, if we don’t know, or have knowledge about, what we are asking. This perplexity brings up the…

Essay Question Visuality (Renaissance and Baroque) The design of St Peter’s cathedral in Rome underwent a significant evolution from the time it was begun by Bramante at the beginning of the 16th century to the construction of Bernini’s monumental colonnades and oval piazza in front of the cathedral in the middle of the 17th century. During this time a series of significant architects oversaw the evolution of its design in a changing religious context. Maderno’s façade epitomized a key idea of…