...Marble dust is combined with cement or synthetic resins to make reconstituted or cultured marble. The appearance of marble can be simulated with faux marbling, a painting technique that imitates the stone's color patterns. Ancient marble columns in the prayer hall of the Mosque of Uqba, in Kairouan, Tunisia. As the favorite medium for Greek and Roman sculptors and architects (see classical sculpture), marble has become a cultural symbol of tradition and refined taste. Its extremely varied and colorful patterns make it a favorite decorative material, and it is often imitated in background patterns for computer displays etc... Bathroom marble worktops and surfaces in Bicester, Buckingham, Aylesbury, Kidlington, Oxford, Oxfordshire (Oxon), Buckinghamshire (Bucks), Thame, Didcot, Wallingford and Henley....
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...For several decades, the Ancient Greek and Roman culture and history have been whitewashed throughout media. Between movies and cartoons, the Greco-Roman society had been assumed to be a white majority. Marble statues portraying people from the time period are observed to be pearly, perfect and pristine. Through their marble-like perfection, white supremacists in today’s society have taken the symbol of the marble bust and turned it into a symbol of hate. Supremacists take the idea of the “perfect specimen” and use these marble statues as a poster child for their ideals. Contrary to their popular belief, these statues had originally been painted hundreds of years ago. Art historians and scientists are able to use x-ray to see the layers of paint that have either been worn or scrubbed away over time to see the colors and patterns that once adorned them. Included with this idea of race, Greco-Romans did not have a name for race. In fact, if they had heard society’s portrayal of race today, they would have found it foolish. While people have interpreted these marble statues as a symbol of “white supremacy”, they, in fact, do the complete opposite. Misinformed views can be harmful to the minds of others and can warp historical ideas into something completely...
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...The Elgin Marbles are a set of marble sculptures that were created between 447 and 438 BC. The artist was Phidias and his assistants, together they sculpted this collection of Classical Greek Marble Sculptures that were originally part of the Parthenon and other buildings in Athens. Throughout the years these sculptures went on a journey through the hands of multiple people and eventually made their way to where they are today in the British Museum. After gaining its independence from the Ottoman Empire, Greece started trying to restore its monuments. Many attempts have been made but Britain will not budge. Many think that artwork should be restored to its original owner and or birthplace. If we were to do that many of the museums that we...
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...Have you ever been good at almost anything and terrible at one thing? In the story the marble champ Lupe was really good at everything in school and bad at sports until she tried marbles. Lupe showed me something and that is hard work pays off. First, she squeezed a eraser so her thumb got stronger. Also, she played people that had more experience with marbles. Lastly she practiced for 6 hrs. Lupe taught me that hard work pays off is that she could crack a marble. For example she squeezed a eraser so that her thumb got stronger. She squeezed it so much her thumb got swollen, and had to show her dad. Next she did great in competition. She won the championship. Lastly she made it powerful. If she could crack a marble that is powerful. That...
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...a. The issue being addressed in the paper: “Risk-Based Auditing, Strategic Prompts, and Auditor Sensitivity to the Strategic Risk of Fraud” written by Kendall Bowlin explains how auditors do not anticipate the strategic risk that arises when client managers anticipate auditors’ risk based resource allocations. The conventional auditing approach suggests that more (fewer) audit resources should be focused on higher (lower)-risk accounts. However, according to the paper’s author this idea is causing that low-risk accounts can actually have a higher risk of fraud associated. It is happing because in some occasions management anticipates this audit strategy and focus its audit resources on high risk accounts. At the end, the purpose of this paper is expose the potential threat which is being caused with the traditional risk assessment procedures. b. The paper shows, with a laboratory experiment, how auditors behave according to the conventional risk-based auditing approach (It means, auditors allocate more resources on accounts deemed to be riskier and fewer resources on accounts that seem less risky) and the consequences that it bring. The experiment consist in a group of students who interact in a multi-account audit setting, which reflects the essential strategic tension that exists between real-world auditors and managers. In this experiment, some student participants assuming the role of auditors and the others student participants assume the role of financial reporting...
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...Marble Cluster Strategy February 2006 CCCA OTF Confidential Information — Copyright © 2004 by OTF Group, Inc Afg Marble DGE 01-06 1 Agenda Introduction to the OTF Group & the Afghanistan Competitiveness Project Step 1: Situation Analysis Step 2: Setting Goals Step 3: Understanding Marble Buyers’ & Importers’ Needs Step 4: Articulate Afghan Marble Positioning Step 5: Develop Action Guidelines Afg Marble DGE 04-09-05 2 OTF Confidential Information — Copyright © 2004 by OTF Group, Inc 1 Who is The OTF Group? The OTF Group (OTF = On The Frontier) is a private sector consulting firm that provides cutting-edge solutions to help firms and industries in emerging markets confront the challenge of developing successful business strategies. Confidential Uganda Trade Statistics Analysis Fixed Investment as a Percentage of GDP Uganda’s Fixed Investment as a Percentage of GDP vs. Selected Nations, 1981-1995 Japan Korea, Rep. Tanzania United States Kenya Sudan Uganda Zair e 50% Tension Moral Purpose OTF Client List (Partial) World Bank Group 40% Percent of Nation’s GDP 30% 20% Leadership 10% 0% 1 981 1983 1985 1987 1989 1991 1993 1995 '89 '91 '93 Receptivity Note: Statistics for years not represented on the chart were not reported Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, 1997 XCG-ACM-Uga nda- 4-2 0-98 -JR 4 Copyr ight © 1 998 M onito r Comp any, In c. — Confid ential — CAM ...
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... This study focuses on the effects of emotions caused by video priming on altruism. The experimenters want to know if there is a significant effect between emotions and altruism. Some related articles were gathered and one study by Over H. and Carpenter M. (2009-10) showed that priming by photographs evoking affiliations actually increase altruism for toddlers. The experimenters want to prove the same for emotions but this time, taking into account funny and annoying videos to prime necessary emotions. Subjects were randomly selected and divided into two experimental groups. A group watched a funny video individually and the other group watched an annoying video individually. The experimenter then accidentally dropped a cup filled with marbles after the subject finished watching and observed whether the subject will help or not. A Helping Attitude Scale test was given afterwards. Results were obtained and suggested that emotions caused by video priming has nosignificant effect on the level of altruism of an individual. Explanations for this was gathered and it came out that the subjects, regardless of the videos, did what they felt to do whether to help the experimenter or not. The emotions they felt after watching the video did not in any way contribute to their actions during the experiment. The Effects of Emotions by Video Priming on Altruism among randomly selected Far Eastern University students The experimenters want to figure out if emotions caused by video priming...
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...all related to the measurement of the volume of fluids and solids. In the first task, we had to guess and count how many drops of water it would take to equate a milliliter. Using an eyedropper, we measured how many drops it took to get a ten milliliter graduated cylinder filled with seven milliliters of water to eight, nine, and ten milliliters, After that, we had to find the average of how many drops of water it took to raise the volume of water by one milliliter. We concluded with an average of 22 drops equating to 1 milliliter of water. The next task that my group had to do was to find the volume of three marbles by using the displacement of water. We had to fill a one...
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...I was unaware of its geological history. Admiring the landscape of the state has always been one of my great pleasures. When I traveled around the country I would compare the natural wonders of each state to my own. Besides the rocky mountains in Colorado and the white mountains of New Hampshire few places match Connecticut’s regal terrain. Growing up in Bristol I would hike up to Pinnacle Mountain in Plainville, my friends and I would stand in awe of the magnificent rock structures. In the summer I would go on vacation to Old Lyme, it was there I fell in love with the earth’s most beautiful contrasts, the ocean meeting the rock and vice a versa. But until now I never educated myself on how all this magnificence came about. In this paper I will chronologically describe the eras and events that formed Connecticut’s geologic history. The oldest rocks provide a window through time telling a story of continental collisions so powerful that they raised mountains thousands of feet high. Others reveal evidence of a slow but constant attack from the elements that wore down those same majestic peaks (Mchone 2004). Giant monoliths stand testament to a time when the earths crust was cracked and lava flowed over the state. Beaches and enormous boulders are the remains of when Connecticut was frozen beneath a sheet of ice (Mchone2004). The Archeozoic era Archean period: The story begins about 400 million years ago when the North American continent was...
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...The first challenge most teachers do not appreciate the fact that their culture is not necessary the right approach to situations or even lives. They will endeavor to conform the students or children to their own beliefs, which will inturn the students in a rebellious classroom, full on insuborination and indiscipline. The main perspective article explains by Southern Poverty Law Center in reference to a quote by one high school student which the student quoted by expressing his disappointment of the teacher at his school “think they know what’s wrong with us. But they don’t know. If people want to helpus, they have to see what we’ve been through, not from what their own experiences tell them” (Southern Povery Law Center, 2014). In this paper it says that many schools in the United States that the teaching staff are all middle aged, middle class, and monolingual and that they intend to represent or teach highly diversified culturally. To bring this main point out, the article appeals to teachers, to “reach out to them in ways that are culturally and linguistically responsive and appropriate, and we must examine the cultural assumptions and stereotype we bring into the classroom that may hinder interconnectedness” (Southern Povery Law Center, 2014) In fact Goldstein (2012) agrees that the culture poses a...
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...Saint Anthony. 1. Michelangelo moved from the workshop and moved to the school for sculptures which was setup by Lorenzo. 2. His first work in stone was the Madonna of the Stairs and the Battle of the Centaurs. 3. The Madonna of the Stairs shows and astonishing mastery of marble techniques for a boy not even seventeen at the time. 4. The Battle of the Centaurs was done a year later and demonstrated a great amount of growth. 5. This was the first time that Michelangelo used the plasticity of the human body to express conflict in a dramatic compelling term. In its pulse and thrust in the way that he attached the marble this was a preview of his great works to come. III. The masterpiece of Michelangelo’s youth is the Pieta. 1. The piece is located in St. Peters in Rome. 2. The sculpture is of the Virgin Mary and Christ. 3. Until the 15th century the theme of the pietra belonged almost exclusively to the artists of northern Europe. 4. The northern Europe made the gruesome figures of Jesus and Mary, were mainly in wood, seemed to shock worshipers into the awareness of Christ’s sacrifice. 5. Michelangelo had taken this difficult subject and stripped it of it horrors and bent it into Marble. 6. He did not emphasize the Virgins grief but her acceptance of fate. IV. Two years after the Pieta he then created the...
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...20th century at Los Angeles. From 1985 to 1997, he spent most of his time to work on the Getty architecture. It was an immense project and marked a success in Meier’s career. The Getty Center was his major architecture and inspired him to create many incredible works later including San Jose City Hall. This building was built during the early 21st century and located in the heart of San Jose City. Therefore, this paper is to introduce the speciality and attraction of the Getty Center and its similarities with the City Hall of San Jose. The Getty Center is an accomplishment of the hard work from both Meier and the constructors. The center was constructed on the hilltop site in the Santa Monica Mountains (Architectural Description). The building process was difficult since the workers had to transfer the heavy materials up to the mountain. About 300,000 blocks of travertine and 40,000 aluminum panels were commuted on one road. It was just like a construction that was built on top a pinhead. Furthermore, because Meier wanted to have the tawny colored of marbles to match with his white tradition color, he worked one year in Italy to collect...
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...Taj Mahal – A Hindu Shiva Temple-Palace TEJO MAHAL[pic] Islamic dacoits have looted and raped many countries, but no country can tell a bloodier tale of muslim oppression than India! The muslim dacoits started their rule over India in 712 A.D. with the invasion of Mohammed Qasem and looking at the present situation of our country it still continues on today! During their rule they looted and destroyed hundereds of thousands of Hindu temples. Aurangzeb himself destroyed 10,000 Hindu temples during his reign! Some of the larger temples were converted into mosques or other Islamic structures. Ram Janmbhoomi(at Ayodhya) and Krishna Temple(at Mathura) are just two examples. Many others exist! The most evident of such structures is Taj Mahal–a structure supposedly devoted to carnal love by the “great” moghul king Shah Jahan to his favorite wife Mumtaz Mahal. Please keep in my mind that this is the same Shah Jahan who had a harem of 5,000 women and the same Shah Jahan who had a incestuous relationship with his daughter justifing it by saying, ‘a gardner has every right to taste the fruit he has planted’! Is such a person even capable of imagning such a wondrous structure as the Taj Mahal let alone be the architect of it? The answer is no. It cannot be. And it isn’t as has been proven. The Taj Mahal is as much a Islamic structure as is mathematics a muslim discovery! The famous historian Shri P.N. Oak has proven that Taj Mahal is actually Tejo Mahalaya– a shiv temple-palace. His work...
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...POLITECNICO DI MILANO Muğla Marble Quarry Project Management final work Written by: Assaf Shklar Emre Yağmurlu Ceren Bayazit Vahid Golabi Rodrigo Esteban Perez Muğla Marble Quarry Contents 1.Introduction ....................................................................................................................... 5 2.Project Charter ....................................................................................................................... 6 1.General information ........................................................................................................... 6 2.Project stakeholders ........................................................................................................... 6 3.Charter executive summary ............................................................................................... 6 4.Project purpose .................................................................................................................. 7 a.Business need ................................................................................................................. 7 b.Business objectives......................................................................................................... 7 5.Project overview ................................................................................................................. 7 a.Project description ..............................................................................
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...definition 1979-1982 Quality of Work Life = Everything Sixth definition Quality of Work Life = Everything ORIGION OF THE CONCEPT * After Industrial Revolution, the importance of human factor reduced because of the vast mechanization. Various problems like job dissatisfaction, boredom, bsenteeism, lack of commitment etc came up. * Most management theories give emphasis on production, manipulating the skills of employees. * Tavy stock Institute of Human Relations me research on “workers problems in Industrial world” and they produced a study approach called Socio-technical system in which they gave great importance to “ job design” to satisfy human needs adequately and the need for Q.W.L. in an organization was emphasized. Quality of Work Life plays a vital role in Human Resource Management.QWL creative awareness of workers in successful Organization.QWL in India can be improved through a variety of instrumentalities like education and training, employee, union participation, research projects, and appreciation of changing environment. A good human resources practice would encourage all employees to be more productive while enjoying work....
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