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Technology has been with us for a very long time. From Stone Age tools to the phones we have today. When technology started to advance, people from the Han Dynasty and the Roman Empire didn’t know whether it was a good thing or a bad thing. They weren’t familiar with Technology so they were skeptical about it at first. Some people grew to like technology and found it useful, while others found technology to be a total failure and not useful at all, then there were some people from the Han…

how to make a "turn" with the roads. The Romans built their roads with layers of stone, sand and gravel. Their techniques set the standard of road building for 2000 years. They dug a foundation, used boulders and sand first, then covered that with mortar and gravel and lastly, put down large, flat stones. Roads were crowned (higher in the middle) to allow water to drain off. Roads were originally built to transport troops and for trade. The Romans needed an efficient way to get troops from place…

Rhonda owns three scrapbooking stores located in Melbourne known as Rhonda’s Scrapping Emporium. It is a “small family business” in the form of a brick-and-mortar organisation (Information Systems for Business 2017) that sells all scrap booking related materials. The stores are situated in suburbs that are well known with a small loyal customer base with limited passing trade. Competition in the form of eCommerce businesses has arisen with much cheaper prices, creating an issue for Rhonda to…

Big Bertha was a terribly powerful gun during WW1. Big Bertha was also known as the howitzer and was the biggest gun at its time. Anyone that was an enemy of the germans were devastated by its sheer power. Big Bertha demolished whole forts with single shots breaking the courage of the enemies. The shells that were fired were the biggest at the time (12 caliber.) This was all possible because of a man named Friedrich Krupp. Big Bertha has created many events that have changed war today as we…

Introduction This paper examines six peer-reviewed articles addressing the concept of sustainable construction. Sustainable construction is the creation and responsible management of a healthy built environment based on resource efficient and ecological principles (Mokhlesian & Holman, 2012). These resource efficient and ecological principles make changes to the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of the structure. Topics discussed in the articles include, but are not limited to,…

these early societies used shifted to be of greater power and technological advancement. This is once again seen within the Natufian culture. According to Christian, “grain was also subject to far higher levels of processing than before. Standard mortars and grinding stones were supplemented by higher-volume bedrock…

fiber festival. The yarn truck selling colorful fibers was all the inspiration Robin needed. She was hooked. “A yarn shop on wheels, how cool is that?” Robin excitedly told her husband. She had toyed with the idea of having a traditional brick and mortar shop, but wasn’t too thrilled about the overhead costs of maintaining it. “I wanted a food truck and I kept pitching the idea to my husband,” she explains, “but he kept coming back to an RV. “Robin’s husband was convinced she wouldn’t be…

Huan Tan, an upper-class Han philosopher, not only supports technology by speaking highly of the mortar and pestle, but also sees an improvement in the mortar and pestle over time, seeing the change of the mortar and pestle from being used with the whole body, to being used with the power of animals, to being used with water power (Document Three). The writer of Document Three, Huan Tan, is biased towards…

in the past situations. A Han government official wrote to local officials concerning flood prevention and suggested that they build walls along rivers would help flood control and it did. Another invention was the pestle and the mortar. Later the pestle and the mortar improved so that the whole body weight could be used, this increased the efficiency in the majority. Then the power of animals, donkeys, mules, oxen, and horses was added. Also, water power applied and increased in hundredfold.…

like Wal-Mart and JC Penney’s that use EDLP pricing models may lose sales due to lack of extra fashion carriers. Nordstrom keeps their competitive advantage through three key components: assortment plan, customer service and its growing brick-and-mortar presence. Nordstrom’s unique assortment plan…