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The Great Pyramids of Giza, Stonehenge, the Colosseum, Machu Picchu - human beings are responsible for some of the most extraordinary feats of engineering that we still see standing today. Architecture is an art form of a unique category due to the complexity, grandeur, and artistic elements incorporated into the structures. Completely describing the history of architecture would take many books, a couple of doctorate degrees, and a passion for all things related to architecture to encompass the…

Today I will be reviewing the Deep Book The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho How the book changed you in a major way The book opened up my ideas to more complex ideas about The Hero’s Journey, by explaining that everything, wind, sand, even the sun has a Hero’s Journey they need to or at least are supposed to follow. That really made me think about all the people around me, they all have some kind of personal destiny. That’s something really big because there are seven billion people on this earth.…

Did you know that Egypt is the most populated country in the Middle East and has the world’s largest Arab population? Also, Egypt is home to the Great Pyramid of Giza, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. In Egypt, female and male children are socialized differently. In Egyptian society, women are put in a different class that has many restrictions than men. For example, women are forbidden from marrying someone from a different religion because in the Quran it said that when…

Class #1: Geo-Literacy Please 1). The photos of "Map foolery" and the "True Size of Africa" surprised me, since I had never considered that my perception of the continents size could be so skewed. It brings up the question of why maps continue to be presented in the way they are. When presented with this new knowledge we began to get a greater understanding of the world around us and how individuals have to be critical of the information they take in. It's important to begin to understand the…

through so many conflicts to find his treasure, find himself and ends up meeting many people who help him including The Gypsy, The King of Salem, and The Alchemist. All of whom help him in achieving his dream to find the treasure in The Great Pyramids of Giza. In some organized religions, a character from some sort of sacred text, there is a story about a someone finding themselves after going through some tough time. The Bible is a prime example of this. Joseph, a character from Genesis who…

period of time devoted to recovery, making long term effects of a concussion uncommon. However, after an individual experiences one concussion, his or her chances of experience more concussions in the future along with more severe damage increase. Giza and Hovda (2001) believe this vulnerability is a result of the discrepancy between the energy requirement in the hypermetabolic brain cells following a concussion and available energy resources. Long-term effects of multiple concussions in…

binds them and the function which will most likely illuminate their greatest differences. The Statue of Memi and Sabu is described by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MMA) (2015) as, “Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4, ca. 2575–2465 b.c., Egyptian; Probably from Giza, Painted limestone; H. 24 3/8 in. (62 cm).” The statue is made of limestone and has a very light color. Limestone was cheaper and more readily available which is why the common Egyptians used it. It depicts a man and a woman standing next to…

option would be to join the military. It is a risk to join because you might not come back in one piece or at all, but if you do then you get some money and get to go around the world and get to see different things in the world like the Pyramids of Giza, or the Great Wall of China.…

off small, the Pyramids at Giza. However, the only pyramid included in the list of wonders was the Great Pyramid, otherwise known as the Pyramid of Cheops or the Pyramid of Khufu. It still stands today. Other ancient wonders, like the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, may have never even existed. All of the historians who wrote about these gardens had never actually seen them, so their writings were pure speculation. The gardens were supposedly built by…

many of life's necessities provided, the Egyptians started thinking about other things, such as art, government, religion, and philosophy — some of the basics needed to create a civilization. Eventually, pyramids, mummies, Cleopatra, and the Sphinx of Giza became touchstones of this flourishing culture. The Nile River was Ancient Egypt's highway. There were no semi-trucks, no Amazon Prime 1-day shipping offers. There was only water. There was also no bridges. Around 4,000 B.C., the Ancient…