Vertical direction Essays

  • An Ekphrasis of John Hedjuk's Drawing 'Study for Wall House'

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    John Hejduk states “you can only get into something if you understand or are willing to.” My first task is not to create a descriptive narrative of the... ... middle of paper ... ...of the “wall-house,” one can integrate with the horizontal and vertical spaces. On the lower left hand corner of the drawing displays another line of text, “the plane of present.” The “wall-house” not only integrates visitors with their surrounding through selective openings and tranquil qualities, it also conveys

  • Formal Analysis of Art Works: Three Examples

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    painting has asymmetrical balance as the elements are equally distributed to balance the top and the bottom of the space. The artwork demonstrates several types of line. There are curved lines used in the tiger’s stripes. There are also diagonal, vertical and horizontal lines used in the background for the grass and the overhanging tree branch. The curved and wavy lines used in the tiger’s body, for example in the shoulder muscles, imply movement in addition to the curve in the tiger’s tail. The color

  • Comparing and Contrasting Euclidean, Spherical, and Hyperbolic Geometries

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    Geometry. The first issue that I will focus on is the definition of a straight line on all of these surfaces. For a Euclidean plane the definition of a “straight line” is a line that can be traced by a point that travels at a constant direction. When I say constant direction I mean that any portion of this line can move along the rest of this line without leaving it. In other words, a “straight line” is a line with zero curvature or zero deviation. Zero curvature can be determined by using the following

  • Storm Tracking Technology

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    they are the anemometer, the wind vane, the hygrograph, and the barometer. Meteorologist use an instrument called an anemometer to measure the wind speed and the direction of the wind. The rotation of a windmill consists of three or four narrow cups. Each cup is attached to the ends of horizontal arms which are attached to a vertical axis. The information is then transmitted into the computer for observations.

  • Vertical Jump

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    Introduction The vertical jump is an incredibly important skill to have as an athlete and as an active human being. Every human being requires full body power, to live and function on a daily basis, and the vertical jump is the best and easiest way to display this. Power (based off of strength) is the basis for all athletic needs including speed, balance and agility. Without the ability to undergo rapid force production, athletes cannot compete at an elite level (Welsh, 2016). It is believed to

  • Organizational Structure Article Review

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    but also it supports employee involvement. Using teams that include people from different divisions can increase communication and perception when pursuing a goal. Implement Information An organization that can make decisions faster, and change direction at the “drop of a hat”, is more versatile and will most likely survive longer. “Old time” decisions that were made by top management or a board of directors, could take a while to trickle down the ranks and actually be implemented in the process

  • Walt Disney Company Case Study

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    production is quite natural. What is not that natural and straight forward, and at the same time significant to the success of Disney, is the way in which Disney started to integrate vertically when they created the Buena Vista Distribution. The vertical integration along with the horizontal diversification has allowed for the exceptional building and exploitation of the huge synergies that exists in Disney, and which has to be regarded as the main reason for the success of Disney. One of the

  • The Importance of Business Growth Strategies

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    into bigger premises, taking on more staff, significant increases of turnover, taking on a new product line or lines, buying another business, and so on” Growth Strategies are important for businesses as they allow the business to move in a formal direction. Businesses can easily be affected by the smallest of changes for example new customers or the arrival of new competitors which could have a negative impact, so planning is very important and takes care of additional effort and resource for faster

  • Measure The Size Of A Tree Lab Report

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    Compass: - A special man made device that would show the direction of trees, pointing in a certain direction. Quadrat: - Another special equipment used in this experiment, which helps identify and clarify the sizes of classified trees and grass. Meter Ruler: - Suggest roughly the sizes of the trees branches and the

  • Personal Essay on Why Writing is Hard

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    I have trouble writing about anything. The main reason why I have so much trouble when writing, is because I don't concentrate on my work enough. Even when I try my hardest to concentrate, my mind seems to wonder around to a different direction towards another thought. After that, I forget all about my work and just think about various things such as people, places, and different times I've had in the past. For example, even while I'm writing this small paragraph, my mind keeps

  • Lucid Dreaming

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    bit misleading. In the literal sense, true control is never actually achieved but the dreamer can influence the course of action indirectly. On a basic level, the dream will take a life of its own but the lucid dreamer is able to subtly alter the direction that it takes. Lucid dreaming is more complicated than this. There are many levels of lucid dreaming and awareness. Awareness that one is dreaming is considered the lowest. Researchers have identified two main types of lucid dreams, referred to as

  • Why Isn't Consciousness Empirically Observable? Emotional Purposes As Basis For Self-Organization

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    have been the same relation. C might even be a 'self-organizing' process, appropriating and replacing its own material substrata. How can this account explain the empirical unobservability of consciousness? Because the emotions motivating attention direction, partly constitutive of phenomenal states, are executed, not undergone, by organisms. Organisms-self-organizing processes actively appropriating their needed physical substrata-feel motivations by generating them. Thus, experiencing someone's consciousness

  • Verbal, Non-verbal and Body Language

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    such as PCs, Radio and TV. These electronic messages are often called mass communication. They can be spoken, written and broadcasted. (Maletzke.G 1972) suggests that in this mass communication, messages are sent publicly, indirectly, only in one direction and to a wide audience. He says this because the information is not directed towards individual people, and theoretically nearly everyone has access to it. Verbal communication sent through electronic media can be picked up by anyone, even those

  • Frogs

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    have. “Where can frogs and toads be found?”, one might ask. They live in all parts of the world, except for Antarctica, but are mostly found in tropical areas. Frogs are small animals with smooth moist skin, and big eyes that can see in almost any direction. Most species have webbed feet and powerful legs making them good jumpers, and excellent swimmers. A frogs tongue is attached to the front of it’s mouth instead of the rear, and most frogs are very vocal, especially the male frogs. As a frog grow

  • Analysis of The World of Wrestling by Roland Barthes

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    turn, necessarily produces the audience. The implications of the spectacle could sensibly be applied to the complete texts of the cycle plays, and perhaps more appropriately to the full range of the pageant and its concomitant festivities. The direction of pseudo-historical criticism, especially of the Elizabethan stage, certainly provides a well-plowed ground for advancing the festive and carnivalesque inherently present in the establishment and event of theater. Nevertheless, my discussion

  • Dealing with Conflict in Work Teams

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    leader who can diagnose a team within stages of team development and choose from an array of effective team leadership skills." (Warren, Jon) Letting the team members get to know each other in forming better a workable group with the support and direction of the leader. There are many stages in dealing with conflict. The start of the conflict is the storming stage which is dealing when the conflict starts, then norming stage will let the team members start to work out there differences and the

  • Elites And The Masses

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    us that power is concentrated among a group of elites who control organizations, and use them as an instrument to gain more power and expand their realm of control. Organizational power is increasingly the most important force that explains the direction of change in both state and society (Alford and Friedland, p.174). Thus, elites are becoming the most important factor that determines our society, and do not serve the full interests of society, but rather attempt to manipulate the masses to better

  • My Philosophy of Education

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    once said, “When you don’t know where you are going, any road will take you there.” There is truth in that statement when we look at the nature of humans today. Today’s society is filled with people who are wondering around with no purpose or direction in life. People today are content with this helpless lifestyle and so generation after generation will continue until the society has no leaders. I attribute this directly to the education of these individuals. As a future teacher, I must look

  • The Physics of Football

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    players are initially standing still until the play starts then the players accelerate. When a player decides to change direction they will apply a force to the ground with there foot to help propel them in a different direction, there is another force that plays a very important part and that is friction. If there is less friction then the player will have a harder time changing direction. Newton’s third law of motion also comes into play in which equal and opposite forces help him accelerate (Craig Freudenrich

  • The Knowledge Explosion

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    , 2000). Curriculum integration has become a way to redirect the aims and purposes of schooling because of its positive benefits for students. James Beane has found evidence that shows that "we have known for many years that movement in this direction benefits both young people and their teachers"(1992). One positive aspect of this curriculum is that students see the relevance of the instruction because of the connections made among subject areas(McDonald, J., 1994). This makes the instruction