Symmetry

world. These eyes act as another barrier between the viewer and the true face of the Priest’s mummy. With the knowledge that this is the face of a spirit free from earthly bonds, the viewer can take the time to notice the delicately painted heraldic symmetry at the foot of the coffin. At the breast of “the inner coffin of the Priest Hor” sits Nut, the goddess of the sky. She spreads her wings across the Priest’s chest as a sign of protection. Her presence, paired with the uniform…

this manner, the spiritual principles of equality, uniformity, and unembellished architecture became the Quaker aesthetic, especially in regards to the focus of space in the room: “From the late 1760s onward, a new meeting house idiom inspirited symmetry, uniformity, and equality in its plan” (Herman 153). Much like the individual in the Quaker community, it became obvious that the minimalism of design in the Quaker meting house reveals the plainness of architectural expression that made all…

Architecture was a means to human satisfaction as well as a way to appease a higher entity. (T) Architecture was often used by civilizations to prove to their occupants that they were powerful and raise morale. (A) The bigger, more elegant or complex the structure, the easier it would be for you to intimidate your enemies and show that your empire was a force to be reckoned with. (B) Through high vaulted ceilings, magnificent displays of engineering and breath taking pieces of art, a religion…

David Suzuki’s, “The Breath of All Green Things,” an excerpt from The Sacred Balance, is a moving piece about life’s most vital resource; air. He causes readers to think twice about how largely air is taken for granted and how we must change our ways if we want to continue to have this precious “substance” (Suzuki pg. 54). Suzuki creates a compelling piece about air by using a very influential writing strategy. He uses three common literary devices to make his factual article sound poetic;…

of his touch. I see out my window into the small wild space I occupy: design, love, care, beauty. Do you ever wonder why things in nature strike a deep longing and sense of peace where human made things do not? Do we not create things with great symmetry, things that perfectly serve our purposes? Should they not give us peace and comfort then? Yet the redwood trees strike us with wonder and a longing for more, not the concrete and steel giants of the cities. God gives…

Sonata-allegro form Introduced during the classical period (1750-1820), sonata-allegro form became vastly used in most compositions. The three-section movement begins with the exposition, which leads into the development. The movement ends with the recapitulation, but often includes a following section referred to as the coda. The first fast movement of a string quartet, classical symphony, or sonata is typically in sonata form. Sonata-allegro form includes a great deal of significant music…

Alan Lightman said “….we are haunted by the suspicion that what we see and understand of the world is only a tiny piece of the whole.” (Lightman, 2013, p. x). What can one say about science? There is so much we can state as fact and more than cannot be. How can a miracle be explained by scientific law? This is something that is touched on in the book The Accidental Universe by Alan Lightman. Lightman puts forth information on several universes that are as thought provoking as they are powerful.…

Race, Gender, and Science in the Atlantic World is by far one of the most intriguing and diverse courses I have ever taken. The course did not change much of my views on the role of races in other regions in the Atlantic. I have learned a lot from the numerous articles and short videos, but many of the topics that were covered were situations and issues I was already familiar with. I have always felt as if gender and race played an important role in a person’s life. Race and sex can affect a…

Bradford County sucks. More specifically, it sucks creativity and growth from its youth. Few of the few successful youth come back to Bradford and do amazing things. Being a historic town, many are bored and feel trapped within the bounds of Starke and its outlying cities. Starke is changing, however. Now is the time to push forward, and what better way is there to push than with the untapped strength of the young academics in school? Minecraft: Education Edition (MEE) is a new version for…

In “The Tyger”, William Blake asks the question “What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry?” (lines 3-4). Blake is referring to the beauty of the of the tyger’s symmetrical stripes. The connection of this beauty directly correlates to the danger and evil of the creature. This theme is also represented in Roald Dahl’s “Genesis and catastrophe:…