Half Dome

to Find Them’. In the ‘Harry Potter’ universe, there exists a textbook entitled ‘Fantastic Beast and Where to Find Them,’ but who wrote it? And what’s his story? This new spin-off film hopes to answer those questions, and to spark a franchise even half as successful as its source material. Warner Bros. recently held a press release where they confirmed the news that Eddie Redmayne is going to star in this new film. Redmayne is set to play the fictional writer Newt…

Harry Potter, who? Walking through campus, a mall, or even through a park, one will see people reading several different types of novels. However, nowadays it is rare to find a J.K Rowling novel in sight. It is much more common to find the works of Suzanne Collins or John Green being read now since the Harry Potter series ended in 2011. One will even find that it is increasingly common to find people who know nothing of the “chosen one” and would prefer to keep it that way. Due to these things…

Jack Thorne, JK Rowling, and John Tiffany’s playwright Harry Potter and the Cursed Child follows up on the wizarding world and Harry Potter’s life. Throughout this intriguing story, Harry and Ginny’s youngest son, Albus Severus Potter, and his best friend, Scorpius Malfoy, attempt to rebel against Harry and his past. A conversation between Harry and Amos Diggory sparks an idea in the two boys that Cedric Diggory, a boy who was previously murdered by Voldemort, shouldn’t have been killed and…

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is an outstanding movie! There was tons of action, the magical creatures looked very realistic, and the movie had amazing actors! In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry, Ron and Hermione quest to find the heir of Slytherin. For the heir has opened the chamber and muggle borns of Hogwarts are being found petrified, forcing them to close the school. In the end, Harry is able to get into the chamber and defeat the basilisk, who was responsible…

the Half Dome was a chastisement from the Heavens. “The legend tells us that a young married couple was arguing. The wife, Tesaiyac, in her despair threw a basket of acorns at her husband as he was chasing after her. The gods, as punishment, turned them into stone. The husband became North Dome, the basket became Basket Dome, and Tesaiyac became Half Dome. If you look closely, you can see the outlined profile of Tesaiyac on the face of Half Dome and tears running down her face” (Yosemite Half…

If carefully studied, Half Dome would reveal a fair amount of information, leading to one very solid hypothesis. However, I didn’t come this far for a well thought out idea, even if it had a ton of evidence to support it. I knew that in order…

Construction of the Concrete Roof of the Assembly Hall The University of Illinois- Urbana Champaign Assembly Hall has been the home of the Illini men’s basketball team for over half a century and has been one of the greatest engineering and architectural feats on campus ever since its creation over half a century ago. Beginning on May 25, 1959, construction of the Assembly Hall was carried out by structural engineers Othmar Ammann and Charles Whitney, general contractor Felmley-Dickerson Co.,…

Brunelleschi’s Dome Once upon a time in the year 1294, the city of Florence, Italy decided to build a new church. A design was created and an artist’s rendering was made of what they envisioned their glorious new cathedral to be. They were an ambitious, competitive lot and wanted the world to notice them. They decided that their cathedral would have a dome like the great Pantheon in Rome. But their dome would not be any old dome. It would have 8 sides and it absolutely would not have any…

Coliseum. A dome is a vault in the shape of a half circle that rests on a circular wall.They are used to cover sport stadiums and ancient buildings to make them look nicer and protecting things from damage. Domes were built with concrete to help people build much bigger structures.Concrete is mixed to make up the dome with mixed half crushed stones,cement,and water. The capital building in Washington D.C,and the Louisiana super dome are two examples of things that involve the dome.…

Rasha Elabdali Professor Joel Bettridge Ways of knowing June 7, 2016 The Dome of the Rock Throughout its history, Islamic architecture has been strengthened by its spiritual foundation, the Quran. Islamic works of art are connected to ways of confirming and transmitting the messages of Islam and they are inspired by two main elements. The Quran is considered the first work of art in Islam. Most Muslim artists express their faith by writing words that are attributed to the remembrance of God…