Following the rest of seven days off after Golden State and Cleveland both quickly wrapped up their series, Curry looked fresh in the opener of the championship series on Thursday, making 10 of 20 shots and scoring a team-high 26 points as the Warriors won in overtime. I chose this article because i love sports and mainly basketball, and i was watching these games as i was doing this currents event project, but i also chose this article because like the team Golden State Warriors and i also like Stephen
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Professor: Dr Moulay- AFTS370-01 3/14/2013 Reaction/Reflection Paper #2 : Lowney, chs. 11 & 12, Menocal, pp. 174-188 We learned that Muslim’s invasion of Spain provided economic, architectural and social developments in this area. In these readings (Lowney’s and Menocal’s) we can see that Muslims also had significant importance in medical and mathematical world.
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Islamic Impact on City/Town Planning Course : Muslim Heritage and its Global Impact (Spring 2013) sec. 02 Date : 3/19/2013 Table of contents 1. INTRODUCTION 2. THE CITY 2.1. PRE-ISLAMIC PRECEDENTS 2.2. FORMATION OF URBAN MODELS 3. DESIGN PRINCIPLES OF THE ISLAMIC CITY 3.1. NATURAL LAWS 3.2. RELIGIOUS AND CULTURAL BELIEFS 3.3. DESIGN PRINCIPLES STEMMED FROM SHARIAH LAW 3.4. SOCIAL PRINCIPLES 4. MORPHOLOGICAL COMPONENTS OF THE ISLAMIC CITY 4.1. THE MAIN MOSQUE 4.2. SUQS 4.3. RESIDENTIAL
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SUBJECT: Art & Architecture TOPIC: Mosaics Introduction A simple form of art, Mosaic uses hundreds of small tile or pottery pieces to build large pictures and images either on the floor or on walls. The tiny little pieces of tile are known as tesserae. This technique has been adopted by many cultures throughout such as in Rome, Greece and in Middle East. The technique used in its cladding is very effective due to which this art form is long lasting Popular belief states that the Middle eastern
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Great inventions 01 Coffee: The story goes that an Arab named Khalid was tending his goats in the Kaffa region of southern Ethiopia, when he noticed his animals became livelier after eating a certain berry. He boiled the berries to make the first coffee. Certainly the first record of the drink is of beans exported from Ethiopia to Yemen where Sufis drank it to stay awake all night to pray on special occasions. By the late 15th century it had arrived in Mecca and Turkey from where it made its way
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One activity i chose was the cooperative learning groups. In these particular learning groups each group is comprised of 4 students. The students are working on a science project. In this particular science project they are to build a model of volcano. These students each has their prospective jobs within the small group. One student will work on how to make it erupt, one works on making the platform, one works on cutting the chicken wire, and one is cutting up newspaper strips. The desks in the
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Anthropological and Accounting Knowledge in Islamic Banking and Finance: Rethinking Critical Accounts Author(s): Bill Maurer Reviewed work(s): Source: The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 8, No. 4 (Dec., 2002), pp. 645667 Published by: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3134937 . Accessed: 27/02/2012 02:27 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available
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NBA Player Dress Code Right or Wrong? At the beginning of the 2004/05 season, the National Basketball Association (NBA) Commissioner David Stern enforced a dress code that requires players to wear particular attire prior to and after their games. This new rule has sparked plenty of controversy amongst the league, with experts, officials, and players all having their say on its intentions. Consequently, questions have been raised about the NBA’s management staff. Also, the link between the league
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0. Introduction TGV Cinemas Sdn Bhd, formerly known as Tanjong Golden Village Sdn Bhd. TGV Cinema was incorporated in Malaysia on 28 June 1994 under the Act as a private company limited by shares under the name Tanjong Golden Village Sdn Bhd. It uses its current name on 1 December 2004. TGV Cinemas Sdn Bhd is a wholly owned subsidiary of Tanjong Public Limited Company. TGV is the second largest cinema chain in Malaysia after Golden Screen Cinema (GSC). These are the two main cinematic giants in
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Muslims got into Spain as Arabs and Berbers in 711 through Gibraltar straits. Thereafter, they established massive control of Iberian Peninsula. They had attacked much of the Northern parts of Spain including Toulouse by 719. This advancement, however, was stopped from central France in 732 by the Christians. The recapture of the Toledo by the Christians made Europe Muslim a special place of interest for what they had accomplished. Umayyad dynasty overthrew the Caliphate immediately after the
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