Stone has been used as a building material since ancient times because of its compressive strength, which is the __________
A. ability to support pressure without breaking
B. ability to press down and become solidly fixed in the ground
C. relative weight of a block of stone to its size
D. force a block exerts on the blocks around it
A
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a. ornamentation b. integration with the natural environment c. undecorated rectilinear planes d. organic shapes
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integrate and analyze the visual components of contemporary culture. a. deconstruction b. semiotics c. structuralism d. visual culture
Like Debussy's oeuvre, Ravel's works are fairly homogeneous in style
Indicate whether the statement is true or false