Flip chart and stand and marker pens Pen/Pencil and paper for each participant Instructions Here are 6 word to help re focus individuals during a workshop. PUZZLE 1 Write the following sentence on the flip chart: ’Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz.’ QUESTION What is so unusual about the sentence on the flip-chart? (Aside from the fact that it doesn’t make a lot of sense.) ANSWER It is the shortest sentence in the English language that includes every letter of the alphabet. PUZZLE
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The Egyptians were elegant and exquisite craftsmen. They are also known for their beliefs about life and death. They believed in an eternal life journey after death‚ which is the reason; they were buried with their most valuable possessions. The Egyptians also created a beautiful and mysterious pictographic language “Hieroglyphs” over 5000 years ago. They continued to use this language until about 400 A.D. It is also believe that the Egyptians invented paper‚ which they called “Papyrus” getting
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Kleiner‚ Tansey). Generally‚ most Egyptian art‚ even with today’s technology and expansive research in art history‚ has an unknown maker‚ with very few exceptions. The setting of the piece was intended to be at the burial place of Khafre‚ near the Great Sphinx and the Gizeh Pyramids. The Statue of Khafre was built‚ though an estimate‚ during 2520- 2494 BCE‚ and stands at 5’ 6” high‚ and remains in the Cairo Museum instead of near the Pharaoh’s resting place in the Valley Temple (Gardner‚ Kleiner). The
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buildings and a white statue. 2. Note the large white statue is sphinx and plays a large role in the time traveller’s journey. a.) He leaves the time machine to explore. 3. Prince’s Article:“One way to interpret the sphinx in The Time Machine is to extend this analogy to human evolution‚ as David Lake does when he argues that because the “rise and fall of Man” is the primary subject of the novella‚ the sphinx‚ “this leprous‚ crumbling sphinx‚” “represents the ‘three-legged’ stage‚ the decay of Man in
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University. His studies focus on the founding of the United States‚ giving special attention to the founding fathers. He has written several books focusing on founding fathers such as John Adams‚ Thomas Jefferson‚ and George Washington. His book‚ American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson‚ won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 1997. In 2001‚ Ellis was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in history his book Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation. Ellis is definitely qualified to write a book
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He has been dragged through the mud by historians but he always seems to find a way to bounce back and stay relevant. In Joseph Ellis’ American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson‚ the myth of Jefferson is taken head-on by Ellis who attempts to demystify Jefferson. This biography of Jefferson is unlike the rest of the aforementioned works‚ instead of being all-inclusive in its treatment of
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Africa was a green environment. The problem is there is no evidence of any civilization capable of building anything like the Sphinx at that time. Precipitation may come from thin air‚ but civilizations do not. To estimate the extent of weathering one must first determine how the Sphinx was made and how it originally looked. Instead of being set above ground the Sphinx sits in a hole in the ground created
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Full text search is a technique for searching a document or database stored in the computer. A full text search engine examines all the words‚ in every stored document‚ to find a match of the keyword searched by the user. Many web sites and application programs provide full-text search capabilities. There are quite a few choices when it comes to adding a full text search in a Ruby on Rails application. A choice can be made on the basis of the language the search engine is written in or the scalability
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Architecture leaves monumental footprints for future generations to enjoy. Egypt is known for its massive pyramids and the enormous statues and sculptures that helped shape what the world is today. The land of Egypt is home to one of the Seven Wonders of the World‚ The Great Pyramid of Giza. It is also known for some of the most famous pharaohs of the time such as King Tut and Ramses the Third. Millions of people travel from across the world just to see the brilliant architecture of Egypt which includes
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top of Mount Olympus so he could join the Greek Gods. But‚ Zeus made a fly bite Pegasus‚ and the horse threw Bellerophon to earth. A Sphinx has the head of a woman‚ the body of a lion and the wings of a bird. Sphinx might be the sister to Chimera and Cerberus. There was one sphinx who guarded the road to the city of Thebe. Whoever used this road to travel‚ the Sphinx would ask them the following
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