The Shape of Things

painted an abstract piece, and it does not contain a straightforward or well known subject. There are a variety of curved lines that create oval-like shapes that originate from the bottom right corner of the canvas. Your eyes tend to be drawn right to the center blue oval and follow the piece outwards because of the way it was arranged. These shapes overlap to create a layering effect. There are a wide range of colors used as well. In the center there is a dark blue, and that oval is surrounded…

environment that we are in. We are most influenced by our family, friends, and school. Our family shapes our identify in how our behaviors are, depending on how our parents have raised us. Friends shape us by the choices of friends that we associate ourselves with. Friends tend to have a big influence in our identity. Last but not least, school is a big party of how our identity is shaped. School shapes us because of the students are teachers that you are around. Many students, including…

Media is like air;it surrounds you in such a way that you don 't even notice it. Media is television, the internet, newspapers, magazines and radio, you 're swimming, or maybe you’re drowning in it. Media shape the way we all think. News, for example, is the most powerful tool to do so. The definition of news, according to dictionary.com is: "A report of a recent event; intelligence; information". It can suddenly change your mood, but what is news? Have you ever thought about what comes along…

reliable. He begins this journey with an argument called the ‘cogito’. Descartes realizes that since he is capable of doubting- which is what he has been doing- then he must exist. Although he doubts everything else about the existence of other things, Descartes knows he himself must exist. Descartes furthers his argument by saying it is absurd to say something does not exist if they can think. After establishing that he does in fact exist, Descartes is not sure what he is…

A tessellation of a flat surface is the tiling of a plane using one or more geometric shapes, called tiles, with no overlaps and no gaps. In mathematics, tessellations can be generalized to higher dimensions and a variety of geometries. A periodic tiling has a repeating pattern. Tessellations have several historical and geographical connections. In Isfahan, Iran there are examples of mosaic tilework and tilework incorporating calligraphy within their architecture. In Spain and Islamic…

exist in the minds of the perceivers and exists as the building blocks of the reality. And leads to yet another dualism where only mind and spirit comprises the real world. The Core Argument: P1: “Things are not dependent on mind , esse is percipi”.(by George Berkley) A1: Things in…

energy from falling into potential energy and back into kinetic energy again with little loss of momentum. They are used in many classrooms because they can easily demonstrate conservation of momentum through a highly elastic collision. Like many things made out of rubber, bouncy balls have very high elasticity, meaning they rapidly return to their resting state after being stretched or squashed. If a bouncy ball is dropped onto a hard surface, it flattens some as it contacts the surface, and…

communities of living things. They are known as the “rainforests of the oceans.” This is because there are sea slugs, oysters and many other creatures living there. Corals are animals related to anemones and jellyfish. They extend their tentacles to sting. A polyp is an individual coral consisting of a stomach with a tentacle-bearing mouth. Thousands of them live together forming a colony. Sponges are one of the earliest animals in the coral reef. They appear in a lot of different shapes and…

scale. On the upper right, there is two abstract shapes that are white, red and gray. Pouring from these irregular shapes are blue dots with a touch of orange in them. On the bottom right, there is an area of a teal color. On the top right, there is a large yellow dot. Around that dot, it fades from black to white like on the bottom left. Over the entire piece there are red zig-zagged lines. The elements most obvious in my work are color, line, shape and value. The principles most obvious in my…

One group was taught the name and shape of an object over an eight week span, while the other group was left out of these lessons. The lessons consisted of the children being taught four names, and each name was matched with two objects that had different features other than its shape. As these children were trained they were told and shown what objects to retrieve by an experimenter. The children had three…