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#1. The title of this work of are is Under the Wave off Kanagawa it is also referred to as The Great Wave. The dimensions of this particular work, measures ten and one-eights by 14 and fifteenth-sixteenths inches. The date that the Wave off Kanagawa was created 1830 till 1832. The medium that was used in the creation of this work of art is: Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper. #2. In the Wave off Kanagawa there is obviously a gigantic wave that takes up most of the portrait.…

Have you ever viewed four states from one single tower? Well, if you haven’t, then you should visit the John Hancock Center, in Chicago, Illinois!!!!!!! If you go there, you would be able to see Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin. The architects were Fazlur Rahman Khan and Bruce Graham. The John Hancock Center was made in recognition of John Hancock. Hancock served as president of the Second Continental Congress and was the first and third Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.…

this is very unusual for a mountian, especially a Volcano. There is 5 Lakes that surround the mountain. The first lake is called: Lake Motosuko, Lake Kawaguchiko, Lake Shojiko, Lake Yamanakako, Lake Saliko. The Japanese proverb says, ¨He who climbs Mount Fuji once is a wise man, he who climbs it twice is a fool.¨ The definition of a stratovolcano is a large cone-shaped volcano. Mt. Fuji is made primarily of Basalt, which is somewhat unusualy from stratovolcanos. For almost 300 years the volcano…

“CRASH!”, “BANG!” went Pompeii and everyone living in it. August 24th, 79 C.E. Pompeiiś volcano erupted and sent million lives, to death. Pompeii was a Roman city were tons of people lived and called home, But then, a volcano near the Bay of Naples in Italy erupted, leaving the beautiful city buried under a thick blanket of volcanic ash. In the story “the dog of Pompeii” by Louis Untermeyer, it tells you about a blind boy, bimbo, and his dog, tito, and how it explains that tito was bimbo's…

One of the most infamous natural disasters that has ever taken place would have to be the eruption of Mount Vesuvius and the destruction and devastation it caused those who lived in Pompeii and other neighboring towns. Before this fateful day Pompeii was a prosperous city that rested on the southeastern base of Mt. Vesuvius. In 90 BCE, Pompeii and its Italian allies rebelled against Rome in what is called the Italic War. Pompeii eventually became Romanized adopting many of the characteristics…

On August 26, 1883, a catastrophic natural disaster happened that affected the lives of people near and far. The volcano, Krakatoa, erupted leaving a great deal of devastation in its wake. Krakatoa is a volcanic island located in the Sunda Strait along the Indonesian Island Arc. The island along with two others were remains of an earlier eruption from two hundred years before. Krakatoa Island had three large hill-like or mountain shaped volcanic cones named Rakata, Danan, and Perboewatan. Before…

1944 during WW2. Mount Vesuvius erupted right after noon on August 24th. Pompeii is visited by roughly 2.4 million people a year. Pompeii is the world’s largest excavation site. Mount Vesuvius has erupted over 50 times ever. Pompeii was preserved for almost 2,000 years when it was dug up. About 13% of people who were in Pompeii at the time, died. Before the eruption of 79 AD, the word for volcano didn’t exist. Mount Vesuvius has two craters made from early eruptions. Mount Vesuvius is the…

Ancient times before Christ, Pompeii was a flourishing city. In AD 79, Mt. Vesuvius erupted trapping thousands in the city under ash and lava; preserving the city for approximately 1700 years. Pompeii was one of the largest cities that was buried by Mount Vesuvius. Since then, excavations have begun and the city of Pompeii began to deteriorate. Currently, the big debate is on whether to discover Pompeii or preserve it. Several things come into play, involving financial issues, the historical…

Mount Vesuvius – Italy Hypothesis: The impact of active volcanoes overlooking settlements pose as huge threats. With eruptions of volcanoes comes mud, ash and rocks leading to settlements being buried under the debris. Volcanoes also lead to lava flows and ash-and-gas explosions which damage and destroy many settlements/towns around the volcano. In worst case scenarios, eruptions of volcanoes lead to death of people and wildlife. Therefore we can deduct that a volcano is a geographical problem…

Introduction Within the context of this passage we are faced with the dichotomous pull of the glorious in-breaking kingdom of heaven, where Jesus proclaims the character of kingdom dweller, and the brokenness of the present world, where sin still besets men and women. Perhaps the listeners of the day, as we do today, sat and pondered, “Am I in the kingdom of heaven or am I out?” Scot McKnight rightly identifies that the Beatitudes are a sweeping “manifesto of a kingdom way of life.” In…