Essays on Bedrock

Resurrection

Resurrection is a concept that details the return of the dead to life. The most intriguing episode in the New Testament is the death, burial, and the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Resurrection is a dominant theme found in the New Testament. For one, it raised extensive opinions emanating from diverse opinions from the different events and areas of the Bible. The argument calls for a natural form of immortality to the soul and the lack of immortality of the body. The spirit lives forever in magnification of the lord's power and magnificence in His actions, favor, and love for ...

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Sinkholes are a problem across the globe, especially in urban areas. Sinkholes can cause damage to roads, collapse structures, and destroy property. The biggest way to prevent a sink hole is to learn what factors are included in the formation a sinkhole is, how a sinkhole forms, and wheatther or not the sinkhole was naturally formed or if humans created the situation that caused the sinkhole in the first place. While it is not possible to actually prevent natural sinkholes, there are several ways that sinkholes which are created from human activity may be prevented, or at least ...

Constructed from 1935 until 1937, Frank Lloyd Wright’s House on a Waterfall-Fallingwater in Mill Run, Pennsylvania, Edgar J. Kaufmann House is at once highly-functional, and aesthetically-pleasing. Its cantilevered stone slabs lend the house a naturalistic “feel”, as it appears to be a part of the slowly-descending waterfall. Upon initial viewing, it appears to defy gravity because of the cantilevered slabs. Not only does the design echo simple, horizontal Japanese lines and forms, but it supplements the rocky terrain, adding an earthy, harmonizing element to the overall aesthetic (moma, 2004, internet). Functionally, it is somewhat unsettling that the cantilevered ...

- Introduction

Built as tombs for the Egyptian Pharaohs and their Queens, the three largest examples of pyramids in Egypt are situated at Giza on the west bank of the River Nile. Of those three, the largest of all, known as the “Great Pyramid” was built for the pharaoh Khufu and is the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World that is still in existence. According to “The Egyptian Pyramid” – an article on the Smithsonian website – that pyramid's base covered an area in excess of 13 acres and the triangular side faces were at an angle ...

Summary

The town of Quillicom is indeed in need of a land fill. There are three sites that have been selected as potential land fill sites, but only two out of three sites are considered to be environmentally safe. Regarding the third site, there is limited data to indicate whether it is safe or not and whether it can cause environmental risk. The three sited selected are all financially viable but there is one which will be costly to operate because of its distance from the town.

Introduction

The town of Quillicom operates one exiting land fill site: Lot 22 and sub-division ...

Introduction

As described by Dunn (n.d.) in his article “A Short Introduction to The Pyramids of Egypt”, the well known pyramids at Giza in Egypt have been one of the most famous man-made objects for many centuries. Although they are just a few (eight in total) of more than a hundred pyramids that were built in Egypt. Most experts agree that they were built as tombs for their kings and queens, but possibly also were connected with the worship of Ra (or Re) their sun god. That idea apparently stems from the resemblance of the pyramid shape to a mound (the Benben) that ...

Engineering

Abstract Continuous Flight Augers (CFA) require special expertise to construct but done properly they are economical and very successful for areas with inconsistent load carrying capacities. Examples include using CFA pilings for guard rails, highway reinforcement, highway junction improvements and buildings. The CFA pilings are similar to driven and bored piles but offer different advantages when working in good to marginal soils and in projects where the load capacity needs vary. An auger with a hollow tube is used to bore the hole and then when the auger tip reaches the final depth concrete is added as the auger ...

Part 1

There are very low chances for a flood of more magnitude than that of 1990 to occur. The probability of occurrence of the 1990 flood was 0.06. This indicates that probability of occurrence of the flood in the year was substantially low. 6/100 is a substantially low frequency. This means that, probability of occurrence of a greater flooding than this is insignificantly low because it is less than six percent, hence, it is negligible. A flood of a greater magnitude than that of 1990 is unexpected; this is an important point to consider in determining what prevention measures are worth implementing in the ...