Universität St. Gallen Hochschule für Wirtschafts- Rechts- und Sozialwissenschaften ITM MCM Wahlteil Neue Medien Medienarchitektur Prof. Dr. Beat Schmid FILE SHARING SYSTEME P2P Von Philipp Brunner Hans Geis...

1968-1972 Chevrolet A-Body Production Totals A few years after becoming the owner of a pair of SS El Caminos and a GMC Sprint, I became interested in the production totals for these cars. I soon discovered that Chevrolet did not compile complete production records. There was some data available, b...

The Great Pyramids of Ancient Egypt are the most magnificent and amazing man-made structures to have ever been erected. They are the only ones still in existence from the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The pyramids were created some 4000 years ago, and to this day many still exist. These mon...

The Wright Brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright's contributions to aviation were among the most important in our century. The invention of flight was first thought of hundreds of years ago, but look how long it took us. From 1903, when the Wrights flew an eight horsepowered plane until now w...

Development of Architecture Architecture is the practice of building design and its resulting products, however customary usage refers only to the designs and structures that are culturally significant. Architecture is to building as literature is to the printed word. According to Vitruvius, a 1st...

INTRODUCTION The Hoover Dam, built over sixty years ago, still stands today as one of the world's most outstanding engineering achievements. It has successfully tamed the wild Colorado River by spanning from the Nevada wall to the Arizona wall. As soon as approval was given to begin work ...

How many individuals can name the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World? These ancien, man made monuments were compiled into a list considerable in their enormous size or some other unusual quality (Donovan 325). We should not let these legacies be left behind in the past, because each of these...

Rome The Land Italy is a peninsula jutting out into the Medditerranean sea west of Greece. Italy has poor mineral resources and very few useful harbors, however it is wealty in both fertile land and precipitation. Three - quarters of the peninsula is covered in foothills and mountains....

Construction of the Pantheon commenced in 27 BC by the statesman Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa. It was a building of the classical style, rectangular with a gabled roof supported by a colonnade on all sides. I t was completely rebuilt by the emperor Hadrian sometime between AD 118 and 128, with some alte...

The Aztecs were the last great empire of the native people of Mexico. They had an amazing society that was destroyed and almost lost. Tenochtitlan was one of the most amazing cities in existence during its time, and definitely one of the largest. I would have loved to see Tenochtitlan as it was d...

Table Of Contents Executive Summary 2 Industry Description and Outlook 3 Competition: Foreign and Domestic 3 Emerging and Foreign Markets 13 Market Overview 15 A Brief History of the Major Player 17 Environmental Analysis 25 SWOT Analysis 29 Action ...

Behind every great structure in the world, there are the people who made them, and who took the time and effort to design them. Those who made Stonehenge succeeded in creating an incredibly complex and mysterious structure that lived on long after its creators were dead. The many aspects of Stoneh...

Behind every great structure in the world, there are the people who made them, and who took the time and effort to design them. Those who made Stonehenge succeeded in creating an incredibly complex and mysterious structure that lived on long after its creators were dead. The many aspects of Ston...

The Roman society, like any other, had its humble beginnings. The history of their architecture runs virtually in step with the history of their empire to an extent. As the Empire expanded so did the architecture, and as Romans became more magnificent their architecture followed. Roman archite...

During the early twentieth century architecture took a new turn into the more modern way, with clean lines and a new influence of nature, which resulted in a new era of design as a whole. With this new way of thinking came a line of architects that would take architecture into a revolution, suc...

There are many countries of the world that exist solely for the purpose of living. The people of these countries, cities, and towns may not know the treasures that their beautiful land has to offer. A magnificent example of such a country is Italy. The country of Italy is situated in Europe and at...

TABERNACLE BACKGROUND A tabernacle is like a church, a place to meet God. The tabernacle was the structure that the Israelites built for worship. After the Exodus from Egypt, the Israelite people ended up wandering in the wilderness for forty years. Along with the Ten Commandments, God gave Moses v...

History Love Canal was named after its creator William T. Love and its construction began in the 1890s (http://onlineethics.org/environment/lcanal/timeline.html). The project was never finished and an extremely large, seemingly useless hole was left in the ground in the Niagara Falls area. Almost...

World History Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire Rome went from being a small town in Italy to being the center of a vast empire. This took hundreds of years and many wars. Rome was a lot like the present day United States - their government (for a while) but, most importantly, our attitude Rome: ...

Major Creditors to the History of Rocketry Tsiolkovsky – Konstantin Eduardovitch Tsiolkovsky was born in September, 1857 in the town of Izhevskoye, Spassk District, Ryazan Gubernia. On the merits of some of his early research and related writings, Tsiolkovsky was elected to the ...

CAD on society Before computers there were hands and tools. Before hands and tools there were just hands. Humans have always been designing and throughout human history drafting is what became of it. With new technology in building during the earlier years drafting needed to be changed to accomm...

Talk about irony. Buddhist monks, those shaven-headed figures in gray robes, choose to leave this earthly world (that is, mundane society) in favor of an ascetic existence based on prayer and self-denial. But now their unworldly lifestyle is becoming a tourist product... with the monastics' a...

Fiber-reinforced composites are composed of axial particulates embedded in a matrix material. The objective of fiber-reinforced composites is, to obtain a material with high specific strength, high specific modulus, high strength, and high elastic modulus for its weight. The strength is obtaine...

Tomorrow's Technology Introduction I have chosen the topic Tomorrow's Technology for my I.S.P. I choose this topic because I'm interested in the direction in which our technology is expanding. I find new technologies intriguing and fascinating. The technology of tomorrow is expan...

D-Day Introduction June 6, 1944 will be remembered for many reasons. Some may think of it as a success and some as a failure. The pages following this could be used to prove either one. The only sure thing that I can tell you about D-Day is this: D-Day, J...