...The 10th-century copper sculpture illustrated in this chapter is the work of an artist performing the role of "giving tangible form to the unknown." The unknown, in this case, is the physical form of the deity Correct Answer: Correct Shiva. The famous Neolithic structure in England, made of megaliths that once formed several concentric circles, is called Correct Answer: Correct Stonehenge. Which are methods used by prehistoric painters? Correct Answer: Correct All of these: animal fats and pigments mixed together, the use of reed brushes, and powdered pigments blown through hollow reeds We owe our access to Vincent van Gogh's thoughts and feelings about many of his paintings to Correct Answer: Correct the many letters he wrote to friends and relatives. The function of artists to give tangible form to the unknown is evident in the 10th-century sculpture Shiva Nataraja through images that represent the following concepts EXCEPT: Correct Answer: Correct The sculpture reports a story about a Hindu dancer. Wheel of Fortune was created by Correct Answer: Correct Audrey Flack. Which is NOT a task for artists, according to the text? Correct Answer: Correct to help us see the world in the same way that we see it Theories regarding the purpose of Stonehenge include all listed EXCEPT: Correct Answer: Correct The megalith configuration represented an astrological calendar. No society that we know of has...
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...US Army Uniformity Essay In 1776 the British and the Continental Army, led by; Commander in Chief George Washington, fought over who would control the 13 Colonies and the future of the United States of America. During that time The British was dominating for the main reasons being; uniformity, organization, and overall military knowledge that the Continental Army clearly lacked during the first years into the American Revolution. In 1778 a Prussian Officer, General Von Steuben reported to Valley Forge to turn demoralized and unknowing men into a ready to fight, physically fit Continental Army who would later drive the British out of control over the colonies and let us go on to make the United States of America the land it is today. Even when America fought over itself in the Civil War over slavery where the enemy wasn’t the Taliban, French, German, or British but instead the North and South fighting against one another there was uniformity, military knowledge, and above all discipline still in effect. The Uniform code 670-1, Wear and Appearance of Army Uniforms and Insignia is the code by which a soldier should look. For example, Tattoos, how insignias can be worn, the army’s view on jewelry and many other examples. I believe this regulation falls under, “I will always maintain my arms, my equipment and myself” in the soldier’s creed. While I was at basic training, the first day my company commander had a saying for us to understand during our time there, “Its hard but it’s...
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...Coors 啤酒公司的平衡记分卡：十年经验 作者：Hugh Grove，University of Denver；Tom Cook, University of Denver; Ken Richter, Coors Brewing Company 前言 1997 年底前， Coors 完成了它历时三年的计划项目“电脑联结后勤 （Computer Integrated Logistics, CIL） ”， 以改进其供应链管理。 Coors 把所有有关其从供应商的供应者的产品， 到递送到其顾客的顾客的所有的 作业，都概括称为一条“供应链”。（因为根据联邦法律，Coors 不能直接向顾客出售其产品。Coors 的 顾客是经销商，经销商的顾客是零售商，而零售商的顾客才是消费者。）Coors 的供应链包括了下述流 程：采购、研究与开发、工艺、酿造、调理、发酵、包装、仓储、后勤和运输。 CIL项目是一个跨越若干职能的创举，目的在于再造Coors的后勤或供应链的管理流程。此一再造项 目改进了供应链的流程，并应用信息技术，向参与供应链管理的人员提供及时、正确的信息。此项目 之目的是，通过减少周转时间、降低营业成本、提高顾客（经销商）的满意程度，以增加公司盈利。 为这个项目提供软件的，是德国的 SAP(Systems Applications & Products)公司。该公司提供财务和材 料计划的软件模块。Coors 采用 SAP 出品的用于编制运载计划的软件，该软件用来预计经销商的需求、 编制生产进度计划和编制下周的发运进度计划。CIL 项目纠正了供应链中的下列几个主要问题： 1. 满足了季节性的需求， 2. 满足了因促销活动而引起的骤然增加的需求， 3. 提供了与每年推出三种新品牌相关的辅助性作业， 4. 按顾客（经销商）正常订单发货， 5. 按急件订单发货，和 在啤酒变质之前，把啤酒从生产线通过仓库配送给经销商。（Coors的产品，如系桶装的，其货架寿 1 命 为60天；如系其他包装，其货架寿命为112天。） Coors公司顾客服务部主管Matt Vail，从CIL项目开始时起，就是这个项目的负责人。他在供应链管 理方面积累了充分的经验，遂被一家专门从事与供应链有关的咨询公司聘用。1998年初，在他为Coors 工作的最后一天，他与Coors公司的质量保证部主管Ken Rider作了一次谈话。 Ken当时刚被任命负责Coors公司的新的平衡记分卡(BSC)项目。实施这个项目的最初的动机，是对 是否应该把供应链已作的改进继续保持下去，作出评估。然而，这个项目的范围却被扩大到成为一项 涵盖整个公司的BSC制度。于是，这个项目的远期目标遂变为：1）把注意力集中于持续改进上，2） 鼓励合理的冒有风险的探索和学习以提高业绩，和3）使员工明白提高生产率的机会和报酬。 Matt: 这个供应链管理项目， 确实极富挑战性、 也是回报丰硕的。 我真是不愿意离开Coors公司， 但 是那家咨询公司给了我富有吸引力的待遇，使我难以拒绝。我希望你在继续从事这个平衡记分卡项目 中，也会取得同样的正面体会。 Ken: 这个新项目，将是一项真正的挑战。我们需要把基础建在你负责的供应链项目已取得改进之 上。 Matt: 我这个项目组，读到我们的首席执行官（CEO）在他1997年致股东书中提到供应链项目的内 容，感到非常兴奋。他在致股东书中说，1997年在生产率上取得的重大成就，来自我们这个项目；通 过这个项目，使整个供应链的各个环节（包括采购、酿造、包装、运输和行政管理）的效率大为提高。...
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...region of space where many individual galaxies and many groups and clusters of galaxies are packed more closely together than elsewhere in the universe * Universe (cosmos): the sum total of all mater and energy * Observable Universe: the portion of the entire universe that can be seen from Earth * Universe is expanding, Big Bang occurred 14 billion years ago * Planet: moderately sized object that orbits a star and shines primarily by reflecting light from its star; an object is a planet if it (1) orbits a star, (2) is large enough for its own gravity to make it round, and (3) has cleared most other objects from its orbital path * Dwarf planet: object that meets the first two criteria but not the third, like Pluto * Moon (or satellite): an object that orbits a planet * Asteroid: a relatively small and rocky object that orbits a star * Comet: a relatively small and ice-rich object that orbits a star * Small solar system body: an asteroid, comet, or other object that orbits a star but is too small to qualify as a planet or dwarf planet * Star system: a star (sometimes more than one star) and any planets and other materials that orbit it * Star: large, glowing ball of gas that...
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...The Watering Hole The University of Lethbridge Art Gallery is currently home to a very unique and talented exhibition for the next two weeks. Douglas Walker has transformed a seemingly plain white room into an abyss of blue and white works of art with the introduction of his art exhibit Other Worlds. Walker, a Toronto based artist, has enjoyed an immense amount of success throughout his career ranging from his smaller landscape paintings to his large scale blue tile murals which capture your attention and have the ability to activate your subconscious mind and place you in a unfamiliar world. The limited color palette of just blue and white paints are what sets Walkers work apart from the rest and helps to create an otherworldly experience for the gallery visitor. The overall art gallery experience, the actual works of art themselves, and the work that goes into creating these works of art are all factors that contribute to Douglas Walkers success. The more detail and determination that an artist instills into their work the more powerful their art will be thus translating into a more memorable experience for the audience. A successful artist is not only concerned with the art they showcase in their gallery but also with the experience their gallery presents to the audience inside. Douglas Walker is very effective in grabbing the visitor’s attention and providing them with an otherworldly experience while inside his immersive exhibit. Prior to entering Walkers exhibit Other...
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...THE UNIVERSE When we look up in the night sky we can see the stars and the moon. And because it is natural to be curious, we ask questions and we want answers. When our view was limited by what our eyes could see, the sky was our Universe. Then the telescopes deepened our view, photography enhanced it, and spectroscopy broadened it. The universe grew from a sky of stars to a realm of galaxies, to an expanding universe of galaxies. Many people believe that nature, the sun and moon, the star, even human beings never had a beginning. There is an endless, external cycle of birth, life and death that constantly repeats itself and it never began and will never end. In the Book of Genesis in the Bible, it was written that at first the world did not exist and that God is the only one who existed. So He created the world. The universe is the totality of everything that has ever existed. It is so large that it contains billions of stars, and all of the planets, galaxies and all of space. The study of the universe is called Cosmology. Traditional Views about the Universe 1. Geocentric Universe Greeks believed that the earth was a sphere that stayed motionless at the center of the universe or the geocentric (Earth-centered) view. Orbiting the earth were seven wanderers (planetai in Greek) including the sun, the moon and the known planets, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Greece was centered as the “Golden Age” of early astronomy. Claudius Ptolemy created the book Almagest...
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...Unit 9 Assignment 1: Geology of the Area Maryland’s Geology From the Atlantic coast on the east to the Appalachian Plateau on the west, Maryland has a great variety of geology and landforms. Maryland is part of six physiographic provinces (shown in the figure below). A physiographic province is a geographic area in which the geology (including lithology and structure) and climate history have resulted in landforms that are distinctly different from adjacent areas. An overview of the geology by physiographic province is provided below. Atlantic Coastal Plain The Atlantic Coastal Plain Province is underlain by a wedge of unconsolidated sediments including gravel, sand, silt, and clay, which overlaps the rocks of the eastern Piedmont along an irregular line of contact known as the Fall Zone. Eastward, this wedge of sediments thickens to more than 8,000 feet at the Atlantic coast line. Beyond this line is the Atlantic Continental Shelf Province, the submerged continuation of the Coastal Plain, which extends eastward for at least another 75 miles where the sediments attain a maximum thickness of about 40,000 feet. The sediments of the Coastal Plain dip eastward at a low angle, generally less than one degree, and range in age from Triassic to Quaternary. The younger formations crop out successively to the southeast across Southern Maryland and the Eastern Shore. A thin layer of Quaternary gravel and sand covers the older formations throughout much of the area. Mineral...
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...BLOOD-BURNING MOON by Jean Toomer 1 Up from the skeleton stone walls, up from the rotting floor boards and the solid hand-hewn beams of oak of the pre- war cotton factory, dusk came. Up from the dusk the full moon came. Glowing like a fired pine-knot, it illumined the great door and soft showered the Negro shanties aligned along the single street of factory town. The full moon in the great door was an omen. Negro women improvised songs against its spell. Louisa sang as she came over the crest of the hill from the white folks' kitchen. Her skin was the color of oak leaves on young trees in fall. Her breasts, firm and up-pointed like ripe acorns. And her singing had the low murmur of winds in fig trees. Bob Stone, younger son of the people she worked for, loved her. By the way the world reckons things, he had won her. By measure of that warm glow which came into her mind at thought of him, he had won her. Tom Burwell, whom the whole town called Big Boy, also loved her. But working in the fields all day, and far away from her, gave him no chance to show it. Though often enough of evenings he had tried to. Somehow, he never got along. Strong as he was with hands upon the ax or plow, he found it difficult to hold her. Or so he thought. But the fact was that he held her to factory town more firmly than he thought for. His black balanced, and pulled against, the white of Stone, when she thought of them. And her mind was vaguely upon them as she came over the crest of the hill...
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...don't know You think you own whatever land you land on The Earth is just a dead thing you can claim But I know every rock and tree and creature Has a life, has a spirit, has a name You think the only people who are people Are the people who look and think like you But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger You'll learn things you never knew, you never knew Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon Or asked the grinning bobcat why he grinned Can you sing with all the voices of the mountains Can you paint with all the colors of the wind Can you paint with all the colors of the wind Come run the hidden pine trails of the forest Come taste the sun sweet berries of the Earth Come roll in all the riches all around you And for once, never wonder what they're worth The rainstorm and the river are my brothers The heron and the otter are my friends And we are all connected to each other In a circle, in a hoop that never ends How high will the sycamore grow If you cut it down, then you'll never know And you'll never hear the wolf cry to the blue corn moon For whether we are white or copper skinned We need to sing with all the voices of the mountains We need to paint with all the colors of the wind You can own the Earth and still All you'll own is Earth until You can paint with all the colors of the...
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...On July 20th, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first man to step foot on the moon with the iconic words, “That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” The U.S. moon landing was an immense source of pride for Americans; it occurred during the Cold War, a period of political turmoil between the United States and Soviet Union. As more than 600 million huddled in front of their T.V. screens watching a group of American men made history, they were united under a national identity. Americans viewed the landing as a U.S. victory and the end of the Cold War. Given that consumers make “62% to 90% of their snap decisions about products based on color alone”, the use of color in the moon landing advertisements is very conscious. In the first and second advertisements, complimentary colors red and green are used. The use of complementary colors provide “stark visual contrast” and are considered more “dynamic and pleasing to the eye”. The third advertisement, though not specifically marketing the moon landing, uses red, white, and blue. This creates a patriotic undertone,...
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...The Apollo missions began before man first stepped onto the moon. These important missions began during the early 1960s. These ideas of sending men to the moon took hold and the idea was set into motion. The motivation of this discovery was to send men to the moon. This idea was not created or thought of out of the blue and was created from the work and experiments of others. This idea formed from Project Mecury, and took things much further in regard to space exploration. If it wasn’t for Project Mecury, the Apollo missions would have never come to pass. Some of the questions that had to be asked in regard to the Apollo missions was how can we make it possible for men to survive the trip to and from the moon? Sending men to the moon in the...
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...present on Ganymede, one of Jupiter's Galilean moons. The implications of this discovery are infinite. The presence of water suggests that life may be possible on Ganymede, which helps the search for habitable environments along. The discovery was made using the Hubble Space Telescope which observed the oscillations of Ganymede's aurorae in the ultraviolet spectrum, thus supplying pertinent information regarding the magnetosphere of Ganymede. Due to the numerous similarities between Ganymede and Europa, it may be possible that Europa also has water present or even an underground ocean much like Ganymede's. To come to a conclusion research will...
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...the Earth changed over time? • Most ancient cultures, such as the Sumerians, Babylonians, even Greece , until the 5th or 6th century B.C., believed that the Earth was flat. (Garwood, 2007, p. 16) • The Egyptians believed the universe was rectangular-shaped with four pillars that supported a flat ceiling. Egypt was in the center of a flat Earth which was surrounded by water. (Moore, 1968, p. 16) • Greek philosopher Pythagoras, populated the idea that the Earth must be a sphere back in the 6th century B.C. • Around 330 B.C. Aristotle accepted the spherical shape of the Earth, observing that the Earth casts a round shadow on the moon. • Sir Isaac Newton observed the shape of the Earth to be oblate spheroidal or oval shaped, not prolate spheroidal or spherical. (According to Choi, 2007) • Giovanni Cassini, who discovered four moons of Saturn and estimated the distance between the Earth and Sun to be 87 million miles, maintained that the Earth was flat at the equator. His theory stirred controversy, contradicting Newton’s and others who maintained that the Earth was flattened at the poles. (Burns, 2001, p. 55) What are some discoveries and examples that brought us new knowledge to our understanding of the shape of the Earth? • In around 200 B.C. Eratosthenes determined the size of the Earth through mathematical calculations and empirical reasoning. “He knew that at summer solstice the sun was directly overhead in Syene (now Aswan, Egypt). On that day, vertical sticks...
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...Unit 9 Assignment 1: Geology of the Area Maryland’s Geology From the Atlantic coast on the east to the Appalachian Plateau on the west, Maryland has a great variety of geology and landforms. Maryland is part of six physiographic provinces (shown in the figure below). A physiographic province is a geographic area in which the geology (including lithology and structure) and climate history have resulted in landforms that are distinctly different from adjacent areas. An overview of the geology by physiographic province is provided below. Atlantic Coastal Plain The Atlantic Coastal Plain Province is underlain by a wedge of unconsolidated sediments including gravel, sand, silt, and clay, which overlaps the rocks of the eastern Piedmont along an irregular line of contact known as the Fall Zone. Eastward, this wedge of sediments thickens to more than 8,000 feet at the Atlantic coast line. Beyond this line is the Atlantic Continental Shelf Province, the submerged continuation of the Coastal Plain, which extends eastward for at least another 75 miles where the sediments attain a maximum thickness of about 40,000 feet. The sediments of the Coastal Plain dip eastward at a low angle, generally less than one degree, and range in age from Triassic to Quaternary. The younger formations crop out successively to the southeast across Southern Maryland and the Eastern Shore. A thin layer of Quaternary gravel and sand covers the older formations throughout much of the area. Mineral...
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...If You Forget Me by Pablo Neruda I want you to know one thing. You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log, everything carries me to you, as if everything that exists, aromas, light, metals, were little boats that sail toward those isles of yours that wait for me. Well, now, if little by little you stop loving me I shall stop loving you little by little. If suddenly you forget me do not look for me, for I shall already have forgotten you. If you think it long and mad, the wind of banners that passes through my life, and you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have roots, remember that on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my arms and my roots will set off to seek another land. But if each day, each hour, you feel that you are destined for me with implacable sweetness, if each day a flower climbs up to your lips to seek me, ah my love, ah my own, in me all that fire is repeated, in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten, my love feeds on your love, beloved, and as long as you live it will be in your arms without leaving mine O, Mother Earth by Ernesto P. Santiago O, Mother Earth, O, Mother Earth, you’re so rich, with butterflies’ songs and full of olden lullabies, sung by mountains and valleys while rivers keep flowing through the ever-changing seasons of life. Youspeak the language I hardly know, but...
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