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CHAPTER ONE The chisel clattered along the polished wooden floor, spinning several times before coming to rest in a corner. Andi buried her face in her hands and let out a groan of despair. She had been working on this fossil for eight weeks, and still felt no closer to finishing than when she started. Every spare moment had been spent meticulously scratching and tapping at the rock, trying to reveal the priceless treasure underneath. Treasure that no living creature had seen in over 100…

Captain Obvious admits that Pop Culture is U.S Culture” Pop culture is U.S culture with some terms and conditions. Pop culture is defined as anything that appeals to the masses. Everyone subconsciously adopts “american” as their norm alongside their own social background. The biggest example of U.S culture turned pop culture is social media; facebook, twitter, instagram and tumblr. All of those platforms spawned in the U.S and now are worldwide commercial entities. The movie industry is another…

His grew up in a five storey house full of imported furniture, unplayed pianos, Chinese porcelains, crystal glasses and family photographs among “positivist men who loved mathematics” but loathed religion and discarded Turkish culture. The family’s sitting-room with its snuff…

It was a world record-holder for the tallest water slide rising up to 130 feet high. Just so you can get an image of it, that’s as high a 14-storey building. While you are up there, you can pleasure yourself with a great view of the Atlantic Ocean. But then, this is not a slide for the faint-hearted and definitely not an option for you if you are afraid of heights. That doesn’t mean you can’t…

Advertisers prey upon the societal pressure to be thin, young, and beautiful. With zero calories and zero grams of sugar, diet soda advertisers have the easy job of marketing their product directly at people who desire being skinny. Even though diet sodas appear as the best alternative to drinking regular sodas loaded with sugar and calories, the artificial sugars within diet sodas have been linked to negative health effects and even weight gain. So before immediately associating a soda coined…

Source and Purpose of Civil Law Historically, civil law is derived from Rome’s Corpus Juris Civilis and France’s Code Napoleon (Emerson, 2009). It is founded on English common law. Notably, civil law systems are founded on legislative codes rather than judicial precedents. These codes are comprehensive and authoritative collections of rules that cover principal subjects of law. Currently, the main sources of civil law include academicians and legislative bodies. According to Schubert (2014),…

Leaman summarizes what neopopulism emphasizes: (i) leadership instead of institutions, (ii) transformative change rather than a gradual one, (iii) politicians’ focus on economic efficacy rather than political representation, (iv) economic liberty more than equality. The first element is a continuation of Perónism, the second one represents a different approach to economic development but the latter two elements are greatly opposed to what Perón government imposed in Argentina. First, apart from…

How Diseases Saved Humanity Survival of the Sickest, a book written by Sharon Moalem, discusses various diseases that have stayed in our gene pool due to the positive influence they had on humanity’s evolution. Despite having bad reputations, these diseases have given different populations a survival and evolutionary advantage over other groups hundreds and even thousands of years ago. Those populations, well in health and being, continued to reproduce and passed on the disease to their…

Abbreviation BMW stands for Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, a German motorcycle, automobile, engine and bicycle manufacturing company. The BMW Group’s history begins with Karl Rapp and Gustav Otto (The designation “BMW Group” includes the Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft (BMW AG) and all its group entities we will see throughout the work). It all begins when the Flugmaschinenfabrik Gustav Otto merged in 1916, on Government demand, into Bayerische Flugzeug-Werke AG (BFW). The Rapp…

It has all got to do with perception. Oxford dictionary definition of perception: The way in which something is regarded, understood, or interpreted. Perception plays a big role in design. When you look at JHB it can be said that it is highly densified leading to unpleasant spaces and movement is very limited, on the other hand JHB can be seen as a rich city with many cultures and historical value and the densification enforces that idea. This is where the designer can use perception wisely by…