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Brunelleschi’s Pazzi Chapel at Santa Croce, begun in 1441 in Florence furthers the application of geometric ideals in a chapter house for clergymen. Although not exactly centrally planned due to the additional breadth from flanking barrel vaults, the ordered designs of the primary space and central dome demonstrate Brunelleschi’s ordered design. The chapel’s dome “rests above the center of a rectangular structure,” similar to Hagia Sophia. Its dome is unique from the Old Sacristy in its…

also has his own charity that gives children wheelchairs who are in need. Albert Pujols has a charity that helps families who have down syndrome children (Scherer). Albert Pujols was a baseball player for the St. Louis Cardinals and when the Angels offered him more money, he up and left St. Louis. A city that loved him. Pujols is obviously in the MLB for the money and not the love of the game. The athletes that stay true to their team and truly love the game they play and are not in it for the…

Risk management primarily refers to the risk of life that an organization must account and conduct procedures for, implying that the risk is already present and not created by the organization’s decisions which grants a protective coating for the consequences of the risk to be hidden. Risks can be managed in one of three categories: preventable risks, strategy risks, and external risks; which are categorized based on the level of controllability an organization can take accountability for.…

The Pieta and St. Peter’s Piazza Michelangelo’s, Pieta, and Bernini’s, St. Peter’s Piazza, are all commonly associated with the charm and mystique of Rome. One is a sculpture while the other is an architectural building, making them unique in their own way. Not only are they unique, but they also have several similar aspects. The Pieta and St. Peter’s Piazza are both admiral art pieces. Due to amazing art forms like these, millions of people are drawn to Rome yearly. It is truly like an outdoor…

Kurt Warner is an inspiring football league player with a not average path to success. Not only is Kurt a humanitarian he became an NFL player at the age of 28. Kurt Warner had what some people would call a rag to riches, not starting at the average age of start NFL players. With grit and the 10,000-hour rule helped him get to where he is now. Kurt Warner is an inspiring football league player with a not average path to success. Not only is Kurt a humanitarian he became an NFL player at the…

Bay Packers, he was eventually released thou. Warner was working in a grocery store packing bags until he signed with the Iowa Barnstormers of the AFL. In the AFL he was a star he was getting attention of the NFL, after one season he signed with the St. Louis Rams but was allocated to NFL Europe development leagues, Amsterdam Admirals. He was a star there and then the next season in 1999, an injury to the starting QB and backup QB left Warner as the starter. Warner was once aging a star he lead…

Most individuals around the world know Jackie Robinson by the man who broke the color barrier in the Major League Baseball (MLB) on April of 1947. They do not know everything he faced to get to that day. Jackie had to face more obstacles in his life to get to where he was when he broke the color barrier. Today’s society is much different as it was in the 1900’s era. Jackie Robinson helped change America as he played baseball through the Major Leagues while fighting racism and battling adversity.…

The National Tragedy The Challenger was a horrible tragedy the american public had to witness, but we as a country will not let it get in the way of our future accomplishments. The Challenger was a spacecraft that exploded on January 28, 1986 while its departure to space along with 7 crew members inside. The president of the United States, Ronald Reagan, then delivered the “Address To The Challenger Disaster” to the nation and the crew members families. Reagan crafted the speech to let everyone…

There was a school friend in my village. We were of similar phenotype (height, weight etc) and same age except the fact that we were not twins. In studies we both were average but in sports he was very good in kabaddi and football. I assumed that some super natural powers contributed to his skills. Over the years especially during my years as student of genetics, did I realize that the supernatural power must have been the genes. My school friend, after few years, because of personal reasons…

Nearly everyone recognizes the impact that Jackie Robinson had on Major League Baseball and other professional sports, but not everyone realizes that Jackie Robinson simply stepping foot on a baseball field impacted the world of politics, the entertainment industry and the entire Civil Rights movement. The United States was slowly becoming more racially equal in the mid 1900s. “In 1948, President Harry Truman ordered the armed forces to desegregate, in 1954, the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board…