Do you salute enemy officers? If you are an enlisted prisoner of war, you must salute all enemy officers. If you are an officer prisoner of war, you salute only enemy officers of equal or higher rank. You render your own salute, not the salute as executed by the enemy. Is it rude to salute […]
What is horizontal picture?
What is horizontal picture? Horizontal photographs are photographs that are wider than they are tall. Vertical photographs are photographs that are taller than they are wide. Cameras are designed to take one type of photograph — horizontal. In photographs, our vision is limited by the edges of the frame so that peripheral vision is eliminated. […]
Is affirmative action an executive order?
Is affirmative action an executive order? Kennedy issued Executive Order 10925, which included a provision that government contractors “take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin.” The intent of this executive order was to affirm the … What […]
What are some examples of material culture?
What are some examples of material culture? Material culture, tools, weapons, utensils, machines, ornaments, art, buildings, monuments, written records, religious images, clothing, and any other ponderable objects produced or used by humans. If all the human beings in the world ceased to exist, nonmaterial aspects of culture would cease to exist along with them. Why […]
What is a antonym for figurative language?
What is a antonym for figurative language? “figurative language” Antonyms: explicit, nonrepresentational, denotative, literal. Synonyms: nonliteral, figural. What are figurative techniques? Figurative language is when you use a word or phrase that does not have its normal everyday, literal meaning. There are a few different ways to use figurative language, including metaphors, similes, personification and […]
Who is the next Bobby Fischer?
Who is the next Bobby Fischer? Previewing the World Chess Championship between 27-year-old defending champ Magnus Carlsen of Norway and 26-year-old Fabiano Caruana of the United States, the New York Times declared in a headline, “Searching for the Next Bobby Fischer, the U.S. Finds Fabi.” iChess.net asked, “Is Fabiano Caruana the Next Bobby Fischer? … […]
What is the masking effect?
What is the masking effect? A large-amplitude stimulus often makes us less sensitive to smaller stimuli of a similar nature. This is called a masking effect. In a sound, a small-amplitude quantization error may not be heard if it is added to a strong signal component in the same frequency neighborhood. What is a masking […]
What does Lund mean in Norwegian?
What does Lund mean in Norwegian? From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Lund is a common surname, principally of Norwegian, Swedish, Danish and English origin. As a common noun lund means grove in all North Germanic languages. What are Viking surnames? According to Origins of English Surnames and A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With […]
Is angst the same as anxiety?
Is angst the same as anxiety? Angst means fear or anxiety (anguish is its Latinate equivalent, and the words anxious and anxiety are of similar origin). The dictionary definition for angst is a feeling of anxiety, apprehension, or insecurity. What does Perfidiousness mean? faithless, false, disloyal, traitorous, treacherous, perfidious mean untrue to what should command […]
What are the 10 branches of physics?
What are the 10 branches of physics? Branches of Physics Classical physics Modern physics Nuclear physics Atomic physics Geophysics Biophysics Mechanics Acoustics What are the basic elements of physics? Basic principles of physics Newton’s laws of motion Mass, force and weight (Mass versus weight) Momentum and conservation of energy Gravity, theories of gravity Energy, work, […]