Reinforced concrete

The Bluest Eye explores many elements of race one of the main being the idea of whiteness as the only way means of being beautiful. Morrison tells the narrative of an eleven-year-old black girl named Pecola who was taught to believe that she was ugly and taught to believe that the only way she could be pretty and beautiful is by having blue eyes. Throughout the book we see examples of the way beauty has always been established in terms of whiteness for her, and the people around her including…

taught these societal views is through the use of gender stereotypes. Gender stereotypes are oversimplified notions regarding how people of a certain gender think and act. Although these concepts seem abstract, their effect on individuals is very concrete and has profoundly shaped the way I present and view myself. As I have developed, my society has displayed its view towards femininity both proudly and subtly with the same underlying conclusion: femininity is generally disadvantageous. On…

Species And Why it Matters If They Become Extinct According to the famous definition by Ernst Mayr, a species is said to be “a group of interbreeding natural populations that are reproductively isolated from other such groups (Ridley)”. This quotation defines the biological species concept that is a largely accepted definition of a species. The human population is increasingly becoming a reckless civilization with no regard for the actions we follow therefore the concept of a species becoming…

footings are provided individual spaces. Columns must not be very closely spaced. This increases tensile strength of soil. Fig 2 Raft foundation; It is a thick concrete slab reinforced with steel which covers the entire contact area of the structure like a thick floor. Sometimes area covered by raft may be greater than the contact area depending on the bearing capacity of the soil…

sleeping outside. They were also concered with the type of materials were used to build the housing. It was important that the houses there were built in sturdy and dependable materials. For example, “Houses should be built solidly, out of reinforced concrete and brick, so that our children and grandchildren can live in them.” (pg. 52, doc.6) Khrushchev thought about the long term effects of his country rather than the short term effects. Another important fact about the Soviet Union is that…

Conventional gender roles are reinforced within Lysistrata as the women desperately want the men to come home from war. This discourse places emphasis on women as wives, mothers, caregivers, but not as inherently valuable beings. Lysistrata rallies women from various cities to persuade…

through the meagre observation of behaviour modelled without precise shaping through extrinsic reinforcement with cognitive activities” (Bandura, 1969, 1971). The weakness of classical conditioning is that it was far too simple and naive to be a concrete explanation of complicated and complex human behaviour. “There is no free will involve in all experiments using classical conditioning. It is also limited in explaining and describing behaviour in nature and nurture terms” (McLeod,…

musical to describe the basement. After Caroline and Noah fight about the 20 dollars, Caroline says, “Noah, hell is like this basement, / only hotter than this, hotter than August” (Kushner, 104). The idea of heat and the basement the continues to be reinforced throughout the musical. Furthermore, when examining when the basement is first compared to purgatory the dryer also say the line, “time has come to suffer the heat.” This shows that heat is mandatory in the cleaning process for Caroline.…

cohesion between faculties. Collaboration across faculties has a significant value as highlighted in the Australian Curriculum where '... the foundation for numeracy (is built) primarily in mathematics. However, both literacy and numeracy must be reinforced and strengthened through learning in other contexts, including science, history and geography.' (ACARA, 2012) Furthermore, as highlighted previously, mathematics learning should be relatable to students' everyday life and therefore cross…

The story of the Royal Festival Hall and the Queen Elizabeth Hall begins after the end of the Second World War. With the allies victorious, the British Government is determined to restore London to its full glory, after it had suffered a tremendous amount of destruction due to bombing Raids, leaving much of london in ruin and in desperate need of reconstruction. From the year 1947 to 1948 the British government planned the Festival of Britain, which was to be held across the country, but…