Domes

(1961). Since steel and reinforced concrete was scared due to the trade embargo the U.S imposed on Cuba. The medium consisted of locally produced material, such as salmon-colored bricks for the walls and terracotta tiles for the dome-shaped roofs; inspired by Catalonian domes. Construction began in 1961 however, due to the start of the Cuban missile crisis in 1962; enthusiasm for the school soon faded causing construction to come to a halt in…

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, we must cut the worldwide use of fossil fuels by at least 90% if mankind is to have any chance of stopping global warming. The gases that are released from fossil fuels get trapped in the Earth’s atmosphere like a heated dome known as the greenhouse effect. The condensed heat melts or dissolves all the glacier and ice in the Arctic regions. The sudden change of climate can have everlasting effects on mankind and the Earth. Global warming must be handled…

In 1929 the Morton Salt Works Company purchased all the surrounding salt mines, and began the excavation of the salt dome underneath the town of Grand Saline. With the newly discovered abundance of salt there were plenty of jobs to go around as The Great Depression began to settle upon the market. By the year 1945 there were 950 people employed by the mine in Grand Saline, and that number doesn’t include the transportation jobs that were created by the mine either. The added income in town…

Imagine yourself trapped beneath a glass bowl placed upside down on the kitchen table. Now, imagine that there are other people in there with you trying to kill you while all of your close family and friends are forced to sit around the table and anxiously watch you fight for your life. Those are the appalling images that come into my head when I think of the Hunger Games. When The Hunger Games, based off of the first book in the Hunger Games Saga written by Suzanne Collins, was released in…

weapons can be. We speant about an hour in the museum and read about people who were killed by the atomic bomb and also we heard recordings made by survivours. Many people were affected by the radiation after the bomb and still suffer today. The A-bomb dome is an interesting structure as well, it stands out dramatically in a city that mainly consists of newer buildings. It is especially beautiful at night from the bridge. We were lucky as the flat that we were staying in was just the other side…

build by Abraham and made from stone that fell from the sky. The Kaava has a sacred enclosure in the middle where the people put their weapons in order to prevent fights during trade. The Dome of the Rock is another famous Islamic building. It is believed to be the place where Abraham almost sacrificed his son. The Dome of the Rock was first a church until Muslims bought it from them and turned it into the Great Mosque of Damascus. The Church of Saint John was an incredible building that Muslims…

It was an unforgettable experience because the place is arranged with comfortable and recumbent chairs. The dome shows a beautiful blue sky with clouds around. I felt literality as I was in the sky. The show started with all the lights turned off giving the impression that nobody was there. A lady appeared talking about our universe and turned light on with like a magic ball. Then, in the dome started appear the stars, constellations, the Milky Way, in the process I felt as I was part of it. The…

and Sulleyman. Mehmet became sultan at twelve years old. On April 27, 1453 he took 20 ships to land because the Christians blocked off the channel. It took only one month to defeat them. Sulleyman was a patron of the arts. He even refer bushed the Dome of the Rock. He was also known for having four wives and several mistresses. He had children with many of them, but only his first son tried to overthrow the kingdom, forcing Sulleyman to execute him even though he cared for him very…

No matter where you look in today’s cities, towns, and communities, one can see similarities of the architecture to those of ancient times. Many of today’s building all across the country have similarities to buildings of the ancient world and does not just appear in the realm of religious institutions, banks, or government buildings. Buildings at Colleges, insurance companies, banquet halls, auditoriums, palaces, temples, castles, monasteries, and even convention centers for example are…

Public Financing of Sports Stadiums “Never support public financing of a sports stadium. You as a taxpayer are virtually guaranteed to lose that game.” Over the past few decades, the debate over whether or not sports stadiums should be publically financed has caught more attention with tax payers. Many financial economists have come to agree that publicly financing sports stadiums is a bad investment. The public should not provide financial support of sports stadiums because they have little…