Velvet fragment
Second half of the 16th century
Turkey, Bursa
Silk, metal-wrapped thread; cut and voided velvet, brocaded; 66 x 52 in. (167.6 x 132.1 cm), Wt. 89 lbs. (40.4 kg)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rogers Fund, 1917 (17.29.10)
Collection Area: Islamic Art
Subject Areas: English Language Arts, Visual Arts, World History
Grades: Middle School
Topic/Theme: Artistic Exchange
In this activity, students familiarise themselves with the concept of a map by observing and describing maps, and drawing a map from an aerial photograph. They understand that any location on Earth is described by two numbers, latitude and longitude. The notion of scale and ratio is also explored.
an overview of Levels of Conversation
Liberté, by Gretchen Angelo, is a first-year college French textbook with a true communicative approach.Each chapter is built around communicative strategies. Clearly dened objectives in communication, culture, and grammar are given at the start of each chapter, and summary exercises at the end allow students to measure their mastery of these objectives. It has been adopted by instructors at over twenty-five colleges and high schools. Gretchen Angelo teaches French language and literature at California State University, Los Angeles.
a video about converting the conceptual representation into a linguistic structure and the "internal levels of "linguistic encoding
How did humans acquire language? In this lecture, best-selling author Steven Pinker introduces you to linguistics, the evolution of spoken language, and the debate over the existence of an innate universal grammar. He also explores why language is such a fundamental part of social relationships, human biology, and human evolution. Finally, Pinker touches on the wide variety of applications for linguistics, from improving how we teach reading and writing to how we interpret law, politics, and literature.
Four-star general Stanley McChrystal shares what he learned about leadership over his decades in the military. How can you build a sense of shared purpose among people of many ages and skill sets? By listening and learning — and addressing the possibility of failure.
This video teaches literary genres of fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry, as well as sub-genres of each. Learners see an example of each genre and sub-genre and practice identifying the genre and sub-genre of several descriptions.
Hannah Brencher's mother always wrote her letters. So when she felt herself bottom into depression after college, she did what felt natural — she wrote love letters and left them for strangers to find. The act has become a global initiative, The World Needs More Love Letters, which rushes handwritten letters to those in need of a boost.
Global exploration in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries radically changed Western science, orienting philosophies of natural history to more focused fields like comparative anatomy, botany, and geology. In the United States, European scientific advances and home-grown ventures like the Wilkes Exploring Expedition to Antarctica and the Pacific inspired new endeavors in cartography, ethnography, zoology, and evolutionary theory, replacing rigid models of thought and classification with more fluid and active systems. They inspired literary authors as well. This class will examine some of the most remarkable of these authors--Herman Melville (Moby-Dick and "The Encantadas"), Henry David Thoreau (Walden), Sarah Orne Jewett (Country of the Pointed Firs), Edith Wharton (House of Mirth), Toni Morrison (A Mercy), among others--in terms of the subjects and methods they adopted, imaginatively and often critically, from the natural sciences.
Focusing on the emperors Augustus and Nero, this course investigates the ways in which Roman emperors used art, architecture, coinage and other media to create and project an image of themselves, the ways in which the surviving literary sources from the Roman period reinforced or subverted that image, and the ways in which both phenomena have contributed to post-classical perceptions of Roman emperors. Material studied will include the art, architecture, and coinage of Augustan and Neronian Rome, the works of Suetonius and Tacitus, and modern representations of the emperors such as those found in I, Claudius and Quo Vadis.
his paper investigates the influence of the initial stress on reflection of plane waves at a perfect interface between an anisotropic thermo-piezoelectric medium and the vacuum in the context of Lord-Shulman theory. The equations of elastic waves, heat conduction equation, quasi-static electric field, and constitutive relationships for the thermo-piezoelectric medium are obtained.An analytical solution based on the wave theory is developed to obtain the reflection coefficients using the elastic and electric continuity conditions across the interface are satisfied simultaneously.The study shows that there exist independent wave modes satisfying the general Snell’s law and propagating along the interface for the incident wave angle, namely quasi longitudinal (QP) wave, quasi shear vertical (QSV) wave and quasi thermal (QT) wave. The expressions for the reflection coefficients of quasi plane waves are investigated where three relations between the reflection coefficients are obtained.A particular model is chosen for the numerical computations of reflection coefficients. Effects of anisotropy and thermal relaxation time, initial stress as well as parameters of electric potential are observed on reflection coefficients. This study is relevant to signal processing, sound systems, wireless communications, surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices and military defense equipment.
Extensive reading and discussion of case studies on educational technology that focuses on three areas: effective media design, relevant educational issues, and the existing and anticipated methods for distribution and the business concepts behind them. The primary case study is Star Festival, a multimedia curriculum about Japan that encourages users to explore issues of cultural and ethnic identity. Students expected to develop a project that shows an understanding of the types of business models that facilitate educational technology in the classroom. Graduate students are expected to explore the subject in greater depth. Taught in English.
A comprehensive exploration of the underlaying forces that influence the content that is projected on the media. Unit 1 aims to define mass communication, mass media, and culture. It also will introduce the core concepts of media literacy and the concept of transmedia, the practice of integrating entertainment experiences across a range of different media platforms. Unit 2 will introduce selected theories that will help in analyzing mass communication and its effects. Subsequent units will explore individual mediums, with final unit focusing on media ethics and the relationship between the media and the government.
What lessons can economics learn from art? Megan Wilkens examines how, historically, trends in the art world have offered a prescient window into wide-ranging socio-economic shifts in society. If economists look closely at art, they might be privy to unexpected changes in cultural behavior.
This video explains the differences between men and women
an explanation of the central components of the lexicon, the ways how the lexicon is accessed and how the information associated with a lexical entry can be structured.
The human eye is a fascinating and complicated device, but how do digital cameras capture images? This unit examines one of the human__machine interfaces that link optical information to the electronic world. You will learn how the components within a digital camera capture images for electronic manipulation.
As online and blended learning spread, more students use the computers to write and submit their assignments and paper. This resource introduces students to the basics of Microsoft Word as it is very common among students. It can be used as a general guide to every learner who uses MS Word and helps CALL students to be introduced to using the computer for promoting writing skill.
Miskitu Aisas! ("Speak Miskito!"), a language course in Wikibooks, is an elementary introduction to the Miskito language, spoken in parts of Nicaragua and Honduras. The course focuses primarily on presenting the grammar basics through carefully graded and didactically presented lessons. Miskitu Aisas! assumes no prior knowledge of the language and no specialised knowledge of linguistics, although at least a general background in "school grammar" will no doubt be helpful, as will any previous experience at learning foreign languages.