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but it had to be rebuilt after the British attack in 1814. After that all the new presidents developed personal touches to the residence. The president Thomas Jefferson for example, installed two water closets and worked with architect Benjamin Latrobe add bookending terrace-pavilions. The white house was built at cost of $233.000 and today holds 142 rooms on six floors, the floor space totaling approximately 55,000 square feet. Part III – Topical…

Pietá is an Italian term for “pity” or “mercy;” Pietá is a theme in Christian art that depicts Madonna holding Jesus in her lap and looking at him with lamentation after he has been crucified. This theme of art work became popular with paintings and sculptures in Northern Europe in the fourteenth century and lasted through the nineteenth century (Anthony, Maas). This format was the norm in France and Germany until the sixteenth century, when artists started to place Jesus at Mary’s feet with…

On the day of November 6th, 1869 the first game regarded as a game of football was played. The two collegiate teams participating in the game were Rutgers and Princeton, two Ivy League rivals trying to revolutionize collegiate sports (www.nfl.com). Although if a person were to have watched this game they would have a hard time believing this was football at all. This is because the game played on that day very closely resembled the game of rugby. Teams still consisted of 20 players on each side,…

When looking over Chapter 5 and the powerpoints one line stuck out as having major importance: “Curriculum content should focus on the demands of adult life and not sequences of normal development, basic academic skills or elimination of inappropriate behavior.” This reinforces the need for naturalistic milieu teaching because individuals on the spectrum need to be able to acquire new skills and generalize them across new environments to be independent adults. Every book that I have read on…

That’s more than half the cases of domestic violence in the US. Although certain drugs are illegal and alcohol is not; alcohol is a drug and can be as detrimental to your health as illegal drugs. LaTrobe University in Australia did research which states that it’s the timeliness of how we drink that increases our likelihood of causing domestic violence rather than how much you drink. Research on women’s experience of domestic violence showed that husbands…

There were also many higher-ups in the U.S. government who tried to ensure that the Mexican clergy would not be disrespected along with not offending the religious feelings of Mexico (130). Opponents of Mexican Catholicism included author Joseph Latrobe, who…

Students in the Moe area are usually from a low socio economic family, the statistics show that 13.6% of families in the Latrobe Valley area are from low income families and 7.2% of families have food insecurity (Victoria state government, Latrobe (2014) p5) this shows how this can effect children and their schooling and how an area such as Moe needs to implement plans within the school curriculum in order to support and care for their…

Reza Aslan Challenges ‘the Muslim Stereotype’ With extremism on the rise, the insinuation of Islam promoting violence and aggression is more and more common. Reza proves why “painting with a single brush” can be so wrong. The Friday night preceding this interview, comedian Bill Mahar equated the extremist group ISIS to the greater majority Muslim countries of the world. Reza Aslan appeared on CNN to discuss Mahar’s comments with two of their anchors and to respond to their over-simplified…

competition on the designs of the Capitol and the President’s Mansion. An amateur architect named William Thornton won the competition and his design was approved and was the first Architect of the Capitol. The design was later modified by Benjamin Latrobe a famous British-American architect and then Charles Bulfinch. The capitols was partially burned after the British torched it in the 1814. The reconstruction began in 1815 led by George Bomford and Joseph Gardner Swift who are military…

Johna Laubach Mrs. Campbell Speak and Research 15 February 2017 History of Football Evolution occurs in all aspects of life. Everything does not just stay the same; it is constantly evolving in many ways either to improve daily life or to make life easier. The history is important to learn how to evolve into what there is now. Such as sports, technology and even clothes, they cannot evolve without the history of them. The history of football is important to athletes, because the evolution of…