...“Flatland” by Edwin Abbott I would like to start out by saying that I’ve never read a book that completely revolves around a mathematical subject; it was different to say the least and it definitely took some effort to pay attention to what I was reading in the beginning. I don’t mean the math part or the author’s use of geometric shapes, I actually found these to be the simplest concepts in the book; simple enough for a child to understand even. I think it was very organized as well, which made it really easy to follow. Abbott separated different subjects in different sections; twenty two sections made up the book and they all had titles explaining what each section was about which made it super easy to go back and reread a certain section without any trouble. So if I wanted to go back and read about the colors that were once used in Flatland to differentiate people of different classes, I would look back to the contents page and know that section nine is where ‘the Colour Bill’ was discussed. It was the social concept that I had to really sit down and think about. “Flatland” takes place in a fictional country where the citizens are geometric shapes; the priests, who weren’t really priest as the author later explains, but the administrators, the scientists, the engineers, and the ruling class of Flatland who oversee all things of merit, are circles. Other men can have many sides; the more sides, the higher up the social class they become. An additional side is given to...
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...What if all we saw was 2D shapes? What f there were no depth in anything we looked at in our everyday lives? That I how things are presented in the book Flatland written by E. Abbott. The book is about shapes in different hierarchy that only see flat things hence the "flat land" part. Besides the fact of everything looking flat to them, there is a hierarchy problem within the shapes and some shapes are more important than other shapes. In the book, the men and women are shapes. The men are polygons and the women are lines. The few the equal sides the person has the lower you are in society and you are more looked down upon. For example sense an isosceles triangle only had two equal sides there for an odd ball and is looked down in society for that. Then you have things like pentagons and squares that are high in society because of there sides, but the circle is the highest of them all because it has infinity sides....
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...I have not ever read anything like this book. It is a book of what a world might look like if it only had two dimensions. The story of flatland begins talking about if the world was in two dimensions. People in this world only have length and width. The rain falls from north to south in Flatland. The houses are made in the shape of a pentagon. Fog is common in this world. In Flatland, the men are all polygons, and the women are lines. Isosceles triangles are the lowest working class and are the soldiers. Equilateral triangles are the merchant class. Squares are lawyers. Pentagons are doctors. The more sides they happen to be, the more educated they are supposed to be. Women are the most dangerous beings in Flatland. Their shape can easily hurt any polygon. However,...
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...It is rare when a book can both entertain and inform. Flatland, however, completes this task exceedingly well. Edwin A. Abbott’s novel is a unique lesson in dimensions. Abbott completes the duties of a mathematician or astronomer in his explanation of the universe’s dimensions, but the lens through which he teaches the reader is an incredibly compelling metaphor. In Abbott’s Flatland, we meet a middle class, square lawyer that lives in a world of second dimensionality. The women of his world are lines, the soldiers are isosceles triangles, and the aristocratic circle class rules over the land, led by the Head Circle. The world of Flatland is cleverly adopted to its second dimensionality, and Abbott spins well-constructed histories and social norms to explain the behaviors and survival of the people of Flatland. After an introduction to this new world, the second half of Flatland boldly goes into its exploration of new dimensions. The square journeys to Lineland, the first dimension, and Spaceland, the third dimension. He even travels to Pointland, a world that is a single point with zero dimensions....
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...Welcome Metric Consultancy Ltd A Group company of Metric Global Measuring Modeling Mentoring The MOSTER System CEM Model that is used in 30 countries Measuring Modeling Mentoring Customer Satisfaction Measurement : What we always believed to be Improved Quality Increased Satisfaction 6.8 7.2 0 10 5 7.8 8.4 0 Decreased Satisfaction 10 Poor Quality Measuring Modeling Mentoring Satisfaction as `experience’ is not one homogenous state Measuring it as just One Number is oversimplification. Satisfaction is a panorama of several shades / states Disgust Dissatisfaction Satisfaction Delight Measuring Modeling Mentoring Customer Satisfaction : what every one does MEAN SCORE 0 10 Dissatisfaction Satisfaction Delight TOP BOX SCORE Measuring Modeling Mentoring Customer Satisfaction is also discontinuous Dissatisfaction Satisfaction Delight Less Satisfied Satisfied More Satisfied Excited Disappointed Measuring Modeling Mentoring Satisfaction : Continuous or Categorical Variable ? Continuous Variable Age in years, Weight, Blood pressure reading , Temperature, Concentrations of pollutants Satisfaction : Rating on a scale Categorical variable (Items can be sorted into categories like sorting into bins) Sex Nationality race/ethnicity favorite pet Dissatisfaction-Satisfaction-Delight Measuring Modeling Mentoring Satisfaction as `Continuous Variable’...
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...Helga Flatland Helga Flatland er en norsk forfatter som ble født og oppvokst i Flatdal, Telemark 16. september i 1984. Der vokste hun opp med sine…… Flatland er Norges eneste landsby, og det er hun stolt av. På videregående gikk Helga musikk, dans og drama ved Skien videregående skole. Det var der hun begynte å skrive og ble interessert til å lære språk. Etter videregående flyttet hun til Bergen for å starte på språkskole. Der lærte hun mye om hele språkstriden, og det ble mye skriving. Da hun var ferdig på den skolen, tok hun utdannelse på Universitetet i Oslo, Westerdahls School of Communication. På den skolen laget hun mye reklame de to første årene. Da jobbet hun mye med å forkorte. Etter de to årene skulle hun plutselig begynne å skrive lange tekster. Da slet hun veldig mye. Det var en stor overgang fra å forkorte til å skrive lange tekster. På Westerdahls fikk hun en skriveoppgave som til slutt ble begynnelsen av Flatlands debutroman Reis hvis du må. Bli hvis du kan. Oppgaven gikk ut på å skrive langt. Men siden hun hadde jobbet så mye med reklame, fikk hun skrivesperre. Da fikk hun råd om å skrive om noe som var kjent for henne og som hun var interessert for. Helga var veldig nysgjerrig på hvorfor så mange meldte seg frivillig til å dra til Afghanistan. En skriveøvelse på skolen Westerdahls ble begynnelsen av Flatlands debutroman Reis hvis du må. Bli hvis du kan. Et kapittel, skrevet i skoletiden, ble relativt snart til romanen som hun fikk Tarjei Vesaas...
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...The 3rd dimension is not one that can be easily imagined without visiting it. I had trouble picturing it until I experienced it myself. It allows for more ways to move and in the way you can see. In Flatland, one can move left and right as well as forward and backwards. Those are the first two dimensions; length and height. However, direction does not stop there. Instead, there is a 3rd dimension; one of width as well. One way to think of this is to imagine stacking planes on top of each other; think of two shapes overlapping each other. This is the theory of width, the 3rd dimension. In the first dimension, crossing over a wall is impossible. In the second dimension, a person can cross a wall by going around it. Now in the third dimension,...
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...Reaction to Cohen's "Adventures In Flatland" I'm posting this as a "note" to make it easier for people to "share" my reaction, in case anyone wants to. This is my reaction to Dave Cohen's article "Adventures In Flatland," or maybe it's "Adventures In Flatland, part I." It's a long, interesting, impressive article at http://www.declineoftheempire.com/2014/08/adventures-in-flatland.html I would summarize it this way: Most of humanity is currently engaged in destroying the ecosystem, and most of humanity is in denial about this. And if that continues, we're all going to die. And a small number of us are resisting, trying to awaken the deniers, in whatever way we can. Cohen tries to analyze the denial, through psychology and philosophy, in hope of curing it. He surveys much literature on what makes up denial, what makes up epistemology, and...
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...The book that has influenced me the most would have to be Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott. This novel tells the story of a two dimensional shape who goes by the name of A Square and discovers the realm of the third dimension. The story has influenced because as a result of having read it I know approach not only science and math problems in a different perspective, but I approach life with a new set of eyes. In the novel the square has a sphere revealed to him, which was a traumatic incident to the square. Now, being a two dimensional shape all he can see in front of him are lines. The closer the object the brighter it is and as a result a shape like a circle would appear to be a straight line who is bright in the middle and gets dimmer towards...
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...Slaughterhouse-Five and Flatland Following in the footsteps of many science-fiction authors that came before them, both Kurt Vonnegut and Edwin A. Abbott employ the use of other dimensional creatures in order to teach the reader a lesson about society. In Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five and Abbott’s Flatland, the authors provide the reader with hope that maybe ignorance and immorality can be abolished and that it is possible for a society to exist without these concepts, before ultimately disillusioning the reader and showing them that it is impossible for a society to exist without this, even in other dimensions. In Flatland this is shown through the sphere who, even as the prophet of the third dimension, cannot comprehend the concept of a fourth dimension. In Slaughterhouse-Five this is shown through the Tralfamadorians who, even as supremely intelligent fourth-dimensional creatures, cannot understand the idea of morality, and are more ignorant than any human being has ever been. By showing how creatures can have such a high level of ignorance and such little morality, the authors are trying to teach a lesson to the human race; ignorance and immorality will never stop occurring, as they are the inevitable fate of mankind. In the novel Flatland, Edwin A. Abbot gives the reader a glimpse into the eyes of a two-dimensional creature who must learn a lesson about the third dimension. A three-dimensional sphere ascends from space and attempts to teach the two-dimensional square...
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...abandoned until this is restored naturally Terrace (noun) - a piece of sloped plane that has been cut into a series of successively receding flat surfaces or platforms, which resemble steps, for the purposes of more effective farming Fortified Sites in Fiji Early visitors to Fiji focused a great deal of attention on the predominance of warfare and the presence of fortifications. Fortifications in Fiji consisted of ring-ditch forts in the sedimentary costal flatlands, as well as ditch and bank fortified sites on the hill slopes and ridges. Oral tradition stipulates the main source for details regarding the basis of warfare and fortifications in Fiji. Most of these trace their origin to around the sixteenth century. A migration of a population from the west of the archipelago carried with them more advanced subsistence skills such as building fortified villages. According to the Fijian researcher Palmer, who conducted field investigations, hypothesized that based on their distribution in alluvial flatlands, ring ditch forts were a post European response to European contact, population increases, and agricultural intensification Upland fortified sites were dependent on shifting cultivation for subsistence. It was concluded that archaeological evidence of continuity in the ceramic sequence, changing social hierarchies,...
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...Brokeback Mountain Annie Proulx Ennis is a man of few words, whose actions often speak for him. When Ennis meets Jack, he is saddled with responsibility, engaged to Alma, and at the mercy of a conservative Wyoming culture that has no place for a gay ranch hand. Yet Ennis has nowhere else to go and no other profession at which to try his hand. An orphaned high school dropout dependent on hardship funds and raised to be pragmatic, he is trapped in a life over which he has little control. Rather than run off with Jack and try to build a happy life, as Jack repeatedly suggests, Ennis considers the reality of it all: the violent opposition that would greet two gay ranchers living together, his marriage to Alma, his love for his daughters. The life he builds, which involves financial hardship and eventually child support, effectively prohibits him from escaping. Ennis is a prisoner of the life he has been born into. Without the financial wherewithal to escape, without any sort of community support for his sexual proclivities, and imbued with the belief that one must bear whatever one can’t fix, Ennis is fated to live out the rest of his life as a man who tasted happiness once but has never again reached that peak. Though it is Jack Twist who, we infer, is murdered by those who oppose his sexual orientation, it is Ennis Del Mar—living in his trailer, confined to a sad life on the broad, flat plains of Wyoming—who is the story’s tragic soul. Jack Twist Jack Twist is the more...
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...administrative Region. Among the activities are the motorcade, fashion show, photo exhibit, TRECON (Tourism Related Extablishment Convention), etc. .First Mass Anniversary Celebration March 31-Butuan City- A commemoration of Magellan’s landing and planting of the cross on March 31, 1521 at Mazau, butuan, signifying the celebration of the 1st Easter Mass in the Philippine soil. 2nd Siargao Invitational Game Fishing Tournament-April 17-19 Pilar, Siargao Island-Surigao del Norte .Renowned anglers from all over the world converge to join the biggest ever game-fishing in the country. This game-fishing tournament is the first ever in Mindanao. .4th Surigao del Norte National Flatland Skimboarding Challenge April 18-20-Tranquility Bay, Municipality of Bacuag, Surigao del Norte .A yearly competition on Flatland Skimboarding with participants from all over the country. .Balangay Festival May 1-31-Butuan City-It is a month-long fiesta celebration of Butuan City. Several activities are lined up for the celebration like Mutya Hong Butuan Pageant, Sportsfest and Santacruzan. .Balik-Butuan 2nd week of May to end-Butuan City .An opportunity for all Butuanons residing abroad and other parts of the country to...
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...society, however, the role that Tennessee contributed to the Nations outcome was an interesting one yet partly complicated. Tennessee found itself engulfed in a war that would largely affect not only the Tennesseans; but the American civilians, Soldiers and the Country that was to come out of the war that no one could win. The Civil war, tore apart the country by North and South, Unions and Confederates, Northerners were known as Yankees and Southerners were known as Rebels. With Tennessee sitting on the border line of the Union and Confederate states it created more of a complication as this forced them to take a side. Tennessee’s geography took a large part in deciding the position of its state. Western Tennessee is widely covered in flatland and is rich in fertile soil. This was just what...
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...Executive Summary: Platinum Beverage Distributors will be a full-service beverage distributor of fine wines and spirits to retailers and restaurants in North America. It will distinguish itself from the competition and capture market share by providing distribution locations in New York, California, Florida, Louisiana and Mississippi. It will follow the best practices of its category leaders, with particular emphasis on excellent customer service, a broad selection of quality wines and spirits, and competitive pricing. Mission: Our mission is to develop into the best beverage distributor in North America, which will be measured by our growth in sales, and in opinions and ratings published in the media. Inventory and sales records will be computerized, to allow the company to identify and exploit best selling products, match volumes and profitability to service levels, anticipate demand, manage cash flows, assist with revenue growth plans, and optimize supplier/distributor relationships. Goals: * Attract salesmen that are highly motivated with a proven track record. * Achieve a profitable return on investment within three years. Competition and Buying Patterns: Competition to a large degree depends on other beverage distributors in the territory. Relationships are cultivated with better customers who may qualify for discounts based on volume purchases. Other competitive factors include breadth and depth of available stock, product knowledge, customer service...
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