Essays on Daylight

Book Review: The Village of Cannibals, Rage and Murder in France

Corbin, Alain. The Village of Cannibals: Rage and Murder in France, 1870. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1992.

Introduction

Historian Alain Corbin explores the political and social significance of the killing of a young French nobleman in the remote village of Hautefaye in France. Corbin’s chronicle describes the gruesome event that happened in broad daylight involving the villagers accusing the young nobleman of shouting republican slogans that angered the villagers. What followed in the trail of events is the sparked indignation of the entire country. Rumors of cannibalism have circulated in the country and the author’s fascination of ...

In his August 2016 article for the Guardian, entitled “How getting more sleep could boost your salary”, Imran Rahman-Jones discusses the findings of a 2015 study on, as the title suggests, the effects of sleep on the ability of people to earn more money (Rahman-Jones, 2016). In the article, which us is clearly intended to health conscious, active workers, Rahman-Jones writes that people who get live in regions that get darker earlier in the day are more likely to earn more than those who live in regions were daylight last longer. According to Rahman-Jones, the reason for this is ...

[City and State]

Introduction

Structures such as large buildings can create its own unique internal environment that can significantly impact the comfort and health of its occupants. After many years of investigating and studying building infrastructures, engineers and designers have increased their understanding and knowledge on the environmental conditions that exists within the building in relation to its physical properties. For the same reason, a solid background in building physics is an integral part of a building’s design, particularly in this modern era wherein green buildings are the rising trend. Most modern buildings integrate building physics prior to construction ...

The Pantheon

Moore, David. "The Pantheon." Roman Concrete. (1995). Web 26 June 2016. The Pantheon impresses with its size but it looks peaceful inside it. Solid wall round the perimeter has many niches. The idea of the Pantheon is in harmony with the surrounding world. The height of the building is equal to the diameter of the rotunda. People enter the temple through the lobby, which goes into a portico with 16 columns. Each column looks very massive. Their main parts are made of Egyptian red granite, and base and capitals - from Greek marble. Despite the impressive size of the ...

Human life and survival are connected with the environment. With the changes in the environment, human surroundings appear to undergo an adjustment or modification to continue the life. More probably, some climatic changes tend to interfere with the human life from several corners. These could be lethal or life threatening. For example, climate change might modify the occasional examples and plenitude of irritations and illnesses; in turn, this may influence the use of pesticides, herbicides and fungicides. Reactions will vary in the middle of harvests and between geological areas. There are studies that use of these pesticides within the ...

MEMORANDUM

Re: Sally Reporteur’s News Story on the Reform the Electoral College Movement FACTS Sally Reporteur recently graduated from a prestigious journalism school. Soon after graduation she found a position as reporter for a local news station. Based on her educational background, and the small staff at the news station, her supervisor gave her a fairly significant amount of discretion to find, investigate and write her own news stories. Like many people of her age group, Sally was quite adept at using information technologies for both her work and in her private life. One day, while she was chatting ...

Introduction

There are a number of ways by which the media forms communicate with their audience and tend to convey the underlying themes and ideas using them. Specifically, in the case of films, the use of visual content, sound, construction of a shot and it’s editing, performance, recording, etc. It is obvious that an effective use of visuals aided by supporting multimedia always results in a deeper impact on the audience as the visual has a deeper response generation from the brain. This concept, when strategically used in the making of films results in tremendous changes in terms of ...

List of Figures

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Introduction

Seasons are caused by tilting of the earth around its navigational plane known as the orbit around the sun. Climate change involves the northern hemisphere and the southern hemisphere. When the earth is in the Southern and Northern hemisphere means that the season is at summer. Changes in the tilt of the earth lead to changes in the severity of the seasons, for example when there is more tilt leads to more severe seasons including warmer summers and colder winter and when the tilt ...

Introduction

Energy drives the world today. The energy required today must be easily available, reliable, and affordable. Since the Industrial Revolution, fossil fuels like coal, oil, and natural gas have been the major sources of energy that have driven modern world. However, fossil fuel resources are limited, and continued dependency on them may have severe and adverse effects on the environment. Fortunately, when it comes to energy, there are alternatives. The most important, powerful and significant burns brightly in the morning sky. Solar energy has tremendous potential and its utilization is developing quick, yet in numerous quarters it is still ...

History of dengue

Dengue is described by the World Health Organization (n.d.) as a fast emerging pandemic viral disease with worldwide prevalence. The viral disease was initially traced to the epidemics in Java and in Egypt in 1779. Some literatures trace back the virus and its vectorsto the Chin Dynasty. It was hypothesized that the disease occured in the Western hemisphere in the midddle of the 17th century and believed to originate from tropical America. However, some researchers would point out that the accounts of dengue outbreaks were traced back during the 18th and 19th century in Southeast Asia.The dengue outbreaks in ...

Abstract

Chek Lap Kok Airport was made to replace the former Airport that was built way before in 1925 and cater to the growing traffic in the air. The passenger and cargo capacities were expanding, and there was noise pollution affecting the populations nearby. Today, the Hong Kong International Airport is among the busiest in the world, carrying about 50 million passengers and handling about 4 million tons of cargo every year. The construction of the airport was not an easy task, and there were many challenges. Airports are very expensive to build, and it is even more complex to ...

Overview

Reversed engineering is referred to as the process of producing or creating another object following a detailed specification, construction, composition, and examination of the object’s existing components. Other definitions also include going through the development cycle in backwards and discovering the mechanism of an object by taking it apart and assembling back components with a new or manipulated function.

Project Specifications

For this reversed engineering project, the objective is to Increase the lamp’s current 3.3 voltage to 5.1 volts to brighten LED illumination. The electronic piece of equipment to be sampled for this project is a garden lamp, which is a simple lamp ...

The theme of this scene is neighbor's suspicion and Oskar's protectiveness. There are three characters here, the neighbor, Oskar and Eli. The neighbor understands that there are sinister forces involved in what is happening in the town, and he does not understand that, while Oskar wants to protect the girl he loves. She is a monster for other people, but he develops a special connection with her. They are the same age, at least physically. The music is dramatic and creates mystery. There is also no music during some shots. The setting is adequate being in an empty apartment. Even a stranger ...

Introduction and Background

Remote correspondence has developed as one of the speediest diffusing mediums on the planet, filling a developing "versatile youth culture" that talks as much with thumbs as it does with tongues. His eagerness was scarcely one of a kind. Mobile phone use and, specifically, the ascent of messaging has turned into a focal part of teenagers' lives. They are utilizing their telephones to stay as a part of touch with companions and folks. They are utilizing them to impart stories and photographs. They are utilizing them to divert themselves when they are exhausted. They are utilizing them to micro-coordinate their calendars and vis-à ...

My representations are of two materials that are closely related about the suburbs of St. Louis and as such are from approximately the same period. The first is a picture from 1917 and is named "mob stopping street car". The second is an article from the New York Times called “Massacre at St. Louis." The major theme that keeps reoccurring in these two texts is that of racism in America. Saint Louis is rumored to be one of the most racist cities in the country, and that is no exception to its suburbs. The two articles show in explicit ...

Being an art enthusiast is much easier in the twenty-first century, than it used to be in Johannes Vermeer's time. Imagine Amsterdam without queues near famous exhibitions, almost total absence of private galleries or critical reviews in the newspapers about a new artist and his genuine talent. It seems the Dutch population could not care less about some "Golden Age of Dutch painting" they had during seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Contemporary art lovers love this period, they spend time looking for new paintings, make research about lives of Dutch artists, we know so little about and decide whether a new discovered ...

‘Instructor’s Name’

Vampires Since the advent of horror literature, horror novels were not taken seriously by critics and scholarly reviews were usually not associated with horror literature. Nevertheless avid readers always were drawn like magnets to books categorized under the ‘thriller’ or ‘horror’ sections in bookstores. But the history of literature has time and again reiterated the fact that, there are novels in every genre, that deserves a high place in terms of literary merit and Richard Matheson’s “I Am legend”, is an example to this fact. First published in 1954, this novel is single handedly responsible for the ...

Introduction

Pollutant gases tend to have an impact on both health and environment. Many nations rely on oil for energy use and advancement, hence imports every last bit of its oil and gas needs. Unfortunately, this has brought about dangerous effects upon the environment such as affecting the ozone, causes global warming, acid rain and smog. This may come about when fossil fuels are burnt to form these gases. The formation of toxic gases and their harmful impacts on human health and environment as well as biological effects by thermal pollution that is equivalent to the burning processes are being ...

Abstract

South England is going through a transformative time due to the severe housing shortage that it faces. Southern England is facing such a severe shortage of housing that it will need to create nearly two million residential homes before the year 2016, indicating that there is a serious need for quick action on the part of developers. However, there is also a need for sustainable housing to be created in South England, as global climate change and other environmental problems loom large on the horizon. Determining the ways to maximize sustainable housing solutions while still providing fast, cost-effective housing options that fit the ...

Research Paper Outline

Thesis Statement: This paper tries to find out some general reasons of traffic crashes and also discusses several studies, previously done on this subject in order to understand traffic crashes and why such accidents take place. The paper will elaborate rules and laws formed by government to control road accidents and their impact. - Introduction - Statement of the problem: Traffic crashes claim more human lives than terrorism across the world and also cause damages of more than 400 US billion dollars in US alone. Several steps are taken to minimize the incidents of traffic crash but ...

Transparent Solar Spray-On Film SolarWindow

Introduction There was a time when there were all-green residential buildings. For example, Nomadic Mongolians used to cart their felt-and-wooden yurts around using four-wheeled wagons. Other communities used earthen roundhouses that were made of wattle, straw and mud; indigenous Americans and Spaniards had made perfect the art of adobe dwelling. Therefore, it can be said that prior to the Industrial Revolution, building materials for residential dwellings comprised of straw, mud, timbers, stone and various locally available ingredients. These homes could be described as having been sustainable by default. However, during and after the industrial revolution, residential homes which are ...

Abstract

The number of worldwide issues concerning environmental safety and corporate social responsibility has been on an ever-increasing rate. This is why we can also see a significant growth in the demand for environment-friendly and self-sustaining buildings. The number of domestic and international organizations that monitor and facilitate the standardization by means of a tiered certification of such buildings has also been on an ever-increasing rate. The LEED certification program is one of the most prominent ones in the U.S. and the UC Davis Brewery, Winery, and Food buildings have received platinum grade certification under such program. The objective of this paper ...

Speech

Technological gadgets, like cell phones, are considered contemporary men’s best friends or worst foes. There have been alarming reports and statistics that revealed that the use of cell phones while driving have significantly contributed to an increasing trend of road accidents. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has disclosed that “each day in the United States, more than 9 people are killed and more than 1,060 people are injured in crashes that are reported to involve a distracted driver” (Distracted Driving , 2013, par. 1). The alarming fact is that despite repeated warnings by regulatory agencies, drivers continue ...

Introduction

Literary critical theory is a complicated process - there are many different ways from which one can look at a story. The question remains, however, whether or not these readings are valid. Is the process of literary criticism a means of mental gymnastics, where theorists can force a reading into a text like a child pushing a square peg in a round hole? Looking at the various theorists who make up the most prominently observed members of the literary critical canon, it becomes clear that the act of reading itself is an interactive one, with the reader bringing just as much into the experience of reading as ...

The contemporary society is rife with differences among people on grounds of religion, politics, culture, gender among many others. Differences between two groups affiliating to one or more of these aspects create competing mentalities of “us versus them”. In light of these developments, the question begs, do these mentalities help maintain a fair society? The book Super Freakonomics by Stephen Levitt and Stephen Dubner challenges the way we think. It explores the hidden side of almost everything by asking probing, controversial and seemingly ridiculous questions. Some of the questions raised include, “why are doctors so bad at washing their hands? ...

Esteemed literary critic Vladimir Propp, in his essay "Fairy Tale Transformations," breaks down the essence of the fairy tale into a series of elements and functions, all linked inexorably to religious practices found in past traditions. According to Propp, fairy tales are an amalgam of the functions and roles of religion and culture in various societies; the tropes of fairy tales are reflections of these customs. These functions all exist in some form or another in the vast majority of fairy tales, allowing Propp to organize and codify the structures and natures of fairy tales. "We observe that the actors ...

on the Work Performance of a Nurse

Abstract

Shift work, meaning working in odd hours outside the daylight hours is seen to have significant impact on the health of the nurse as well her performance in the work place. Disturbances in normal circadian rhythm hampers the sleep/wake cycle, thus leading to several health issues including sleep disorders. The nurse may complain of insomnia, awakenings, and continuation of sleep. Lack of sleep and rest may lead to medical errors, a finding which has been reported by many shift workers in several studies. Nurses can help themselves stay fit and reduce the incidence ...

The artwork that I am going to present in this paper is a painting by Dale Nichols “While the Sun Shines” that he created in 1936. It is a classical rural landscape that shows hard work of farmers in the haying season (May, 2012). Before expressing my feelings considering this piece, I want to look into the essence of rural landscape painting. Landscape is a real view of some location, in the visual arts – it is a genre or a single product, in which the main subject of the image is original or to some extent transformed nature. It is not a mechanical reproduction ...

Solstice occurs twice a year when the sun is at the highest or the lowest point as seen from the poles. Solstices mark the beginning of summer and winter in the southern and the northern hemisphere. This phenomenon occurs when the earth’s axis is tilted towards or away from the sun’s rays. The occurrence has an impact on the amount of daylight experienced in different parts of the planet. Solstices occur twice in a year; around June 21 and December 21. These seasons are opposite because Winter solstice in one Hemisphere is the Summer Solstice in the other Hemisphere. ...

I have chosen Five O’ Clock Tea or simply Tea for more scholarly reference of the piece to be my subject for this essay. Tea was an oil canvas painted by Mary Cassatt in 1880. If I am Mary Cassatt this is how I will explain my choice on this piece:

I consider this piece, Tea, as one of my most important piece of my works. On this piece, I was able to capture the honesty of the daily afternoon teatime of every woman during my time. Yes, it may be just an ordinary affair to most people, particularly ...

CEM166 June 2012, Essay

Environmental sustainability and occupant comfort in

The selection of multi-glazed windows

1 Factual Summary Windows play a crucial part in making the work environment of an office comfortable. They contribute to the psychological and environmental well being in the workplace, influencing the productivity, motivation and mood of those occupying the building . The design of a window can not only boost employee job satisfaction, but it also has several other benefits such as reduced expenditure on heating or cooling achieved through optimally glazed windows. Window frames that are made for bio-degradable or sustainable materials such as wood are also considered to be environmentally ...

Environmental sustainability and occupant comfort in

The selection of multi-glazed windows

The purpose of this paper is to provide a thorough critique of the research paper Critique Essay: Windows in the workplace: examining issues of environmental sustainability and occupant comfort in the selection of multi-glazed windows by G. F. Menzies and J. R. Wherrett. The critique with be formatted in the following order: a) Factual summary, b) Contextualization, c) Critique, and d) Conclusion.

1 Factual Summary

The work environment of an organization consists of various factors such as working conditions, interpersonal relationship and the workplace itself. A workplace consists of the physical environment that an employee interacts with ...

Daylight has been used for a long time as a source of light and energy. The science surrounding daylight has evolved over the years. Quite a number of people have ventured into discovering new ways of developing and producing light which could be used any time of the day or night in film and photography industries. Several activities and events take place during daylight. This is mainly because it is considered to be convenient and economical to work during the day than using artificial light. However, as time went by people came up with new methods of producing light which could be ...

The purpose of this project is to analyze the various ways that daylight interacts with our daily lives. It is true that daylight used to be much more important than it is today; for example, the main deity of the ancient Egyptians was the sun god, Ra. If the sun did not rise each day, no one would have been able to see, and there would have been no sunlight to help the crops grow – and to allow the people to survive. For this reason, eclipses were much more frightening to ancient peoples than they are in modern times, ...

Facts and information concerning daylight are not known by many due to the simple reason that light forms part and parcel of our daily operations and as a result we pretend to know everything about it. This has resulted to the assumption of many important facts in relation to light. There area many books, especially the ancient books, which give extensive information on light and early innovations that were associated with it. The use of light for commercial gain began as early as 1770s. It was used especially on photography and film shooting. It is important to note that ...

1. They all are dressed in a casual style; they chose comfortable, everyday-wearing clothes. In my opinion with their clothes they want to show us they are a big family. They are both equal students and teachers. They’re the same. There are no differences between them and every opinion is valuable. 2. The light is usual daylight that comes through windows and glass roof. As for me it’s too dark or too much light in several moments. They haven’t thought about light quality or about light effects when they were making video. It has also very bad ...

Daylight Saving Time

Daylight Saving Time, according to Krause (2009), is a situation where the clock is advanced in order for people to enjoy daylight for a longer period. People are able to enjoy sunlight at their own convenient time during the day, either early in the morning or later during the day.

I think it was a brilliant idea to start this program. It enables people to maintain their normal schedules and still be able to enjoy sunlight. People do not have to wake up early in the morning to enjoy sunlight but can have their own leisure time after work. It also leads ...

A three dimensional film commonly referred to as 3D, has become the in thing in the film industry. Although the technology has existed since 1950s, it only became more successful and popular in the early 2000. Also known as stereoscopic 3D; the technology creates a kind of illusion depth insight or perception. The unparallel success of 3D presentations in Avatar in 2009 and early last year are just but a few examples of the magic in the emerging technology. (Gary, 1996) But how does this concept of 3D woks? Obtained from stereoscopic shooting or photography, a usual motion camera is used ...