Essays on Raft

Deepwater Horizon

Synopsis The Deepwater Horizon was an offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico owned by Transocean, a U.S owned company that specializes in deep water drilling equipment (Ingersoll, Locke, & Reavis, 2012). The $560 million rig was operated by a crew of 126 people (Ingersoll et al., 2012) roughly 45 miles off the Louisiana coast (Mullins, 2010). On April 20, 2010, the exploratory Macondo well experienced an explosion that not only created one of the most catastrophic environmental disasters in U.S. history but killed 11 people (Barstow, Rohde & Saul, 2010). The environmental effects were devastating. It took 87 days ...

This RAFT Card is designed for ____ grade level.

RAFT Row 1 Objective: Able to differentiate various technological methods that can be used for differentiated learning in a classroom. Audience: Importantly can be used by teachers to enhance their skills in student empowerment. Format: Informative blog report. Directions: Visit the website in search of detailed information about differentiated learning through the use of technology. Resources: https://sunrisestarsschool.wordpress.com/2014/11/10/raft/ RAFT Row 2 Objective: Enhance the skills of various students through technology, especially in understanding a concept. Audience: Students, parents, and teachers. Format: Informative podcast report. Directions: Ask different pupils to identify various channels that they are comfortable to use as a ...

Survival, Resilience, and Redemption” by Laura Hillenbrand

During the US Civil War, the Union’s famous Gen. Sherman once said that war is “all hell.” Many military commanders, as well as the countless victims of warfare, have echoed this sentiment down through the ages. Certainly, warfare reveals humanity to sometimes be far less than humane. The worst characteristics of human kind are often brought to the forefront by the nature of war and its relentless objectives. But as horrible as warfare can be for the average soldier in the trenches fighting next to his comrades, it can be (and often is) even more nightmarish and unimaginably ...

The main work of Mark Twain is "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" written in 1885. This novel has the broadest aspect of the impact: it talks about democracy and humanity. These properties became fundamental for the American literature of XX century, so Mark Twain served as an example for the future writers. "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" has the same characters and the same time as in the "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" . But this novel reveals a more mature attitude of the author, it covers all parts of human experience, and has a more profound importance union. The ...

Burj Khalifa is the world’s tallest building and was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill architects, who have been bestowed with the “Global Icon” award. The design of the high-performance building makes use of cutting edge technology and carries cultural and historical influences. The architects faced several challenges when building a tower of this height such as wind, heat, humidity, gravity and earthquake forces. The essay looks at the advanced technical and engineering skills used to create Burj Khalifa and how a skyscrapers’ design should respect cultural values and make the best use of space utilities and add to ...

TECHNICAL REPORT 2

REVIEW OF FOUNDATION SYSTEM FOR A BUILDING For: Introduction This report outlines different types of foundations and their suitable application areas in construction. In addition, it presents the plan view, design considerations, the elevation and the significant information that are needed from soil investigations and geotechnical design. Soil investigation report outlines the outcome of the geotechnical examination report for the proposed building and complex in Dubai UAE (Peck, Hanson & Thornburn, 1974). The investigations were conducted in accordance with the conformation which is dated 8th April 2016. The aim of the investigation is to determine the conditions of both surface ...

Overview

The Burj Khalifa boasts the accolade as the tallest structure in the world (Baker, 2009). The construction of this building surpassed several construction records that had been set by previous record holder skyscrapers. The recording-holding height is not the only interesting aspect of the structure. The construction of the building took six years. The construction of the building required the input of more than thirty contracting companies and over twelve thousand workers drawn from over one hundred countries. A construction project of this magnitude is faced with various challenges (Baker, 2009). In additional, sound geotechnical, structural, and economic aspects ...

“A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man (Campbell, 23).” The central character in Yann Martel’s, Life of Pi, is not a hero in the traditional sense although he goes through the process or a monomyth quest as defined by Joseph Campbell. Given the anthropomorphism evident throughout Pi’s first story and the realistic, toned down version of the same events ...

Horas Brothers and Bonaparte Visiting the Plague Victims of Jaffa

The painting has the ancient Greek simplicity and details of neoclassicism. Although the crowning ceremony brings magnificence and decorations to mind, I see the plainest and detailed form of the nobility after examining the art. It has been drawn in such detail that every guest there is easily noticed, and the richness of the clothes they wear is so detailed that it creates the feeling that you have taken it into your hands and examined it. At that moment, everyone gathered for a vital coronation and watched it in excitement. This enthusiasm and excitement are one of the signs of ...

The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn is a masterpiece of the American literature. Twain discusses the events in a captivated way and by this; he wins the hearts of human across the globe. The book Huck Finn by Mark Twain bases its story on the aspects of racism, companionship and social criticism as it explains the relationship and way of life of Huck and Jim, the slave. At the beginning of the book, Huck and Jim have a constrained relationship but later on, conditions bond them to great friends. Huck racially discriminates Jim based on color, but it takes long before he accepts ...

When Jacques Louis David created The Oath of the Horatii, in 1784-1785, France was on the verge of the Revolution that would come just a few years later in 1789. David would play a role in it and was its ardent supporter (Tansey and Kleiner, 917). Enlightenment rose as a philosophical ideal that had an impact in art. It suggested that art should have a moral dimension and serve as a lesson to the viewer. At the same ...

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Built as tombs for the Egyptian Pharaohs and their Queens, the three largest examples of pyramids in Egypt are situated at Giza on the west bank of the River Nile. Of those three, the largest of all, known as the “Great Pyramid” was built for the pharaoh Khufu and is the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World that is still in existence. According to “The Egyptian Pyramid” – an article on the Smithsonian website – that pyramid's base covered an area in excess of 13 acres and the triangular side faces were at an angle ...

Analysis of line

Horizontal lines dominate the painting; for example, the artist draws ground, raft, and the sea using these shapes. These lines mean that there is a sense of calmness and comfort in the picture. The lines on the sea and the raft show that these factors are calm and comfortable; the water is still because there are no waves, and this makes the raft stand calmly in the sea. The shape of the ground is horizontal to mean that the place is a plateau. A plateau is a flat land where there are no highlands; they are common near the sea like the ...

Between Thomas Gericault’s Raft of the Medusa and Rosa Bonheur’s Plowing in the Nivernais, beyond its politics is an interest in presenting nature as an expansive force. Nature is not about clouds and hills, but in discovering the tone of a subject. The tone of The Raft is intricate and layered whereas The Nivernais is much more direct and explanatory in its reflection. How lighting is used described the paintings differently in their message ant their ideas about their shared country of France.

Both paintings were composed years after a revolution. The reseating of a monarch inspired The Raft, and ...

The paper has outlined Hannibal's tactical manner of combating its enemy the Romans during the second Punic War (Gabriel, 2008). Punic war was one of its kinds. Enmity and grudges Hannibal and Scipio were the main reasons for antagonism between the two rivals. Hannibal was the commander of the Carthagena while Scipion headed the Romans military. Hannibal was an exemplary military commander and regarded as the most intelligent in history of the Carthaginian military. “Barca” was a title earned by the Carthaginian troop and general which meant lightning (Gabriel, 2008). Scipion as well was an outstanding military commander with robust ...

Twain in his novel, "Huckleberry Finn", have used different characters to reveal how stupid the society is. Throughout the novel, there are con men, tricksters, pranks who use their little knowledge to deceive the townspeople. Tricks seem to be a significant tool that is used to earn living for many of the characters in the novel. This implies that there is a high supply of the gullible and foolish people in this society. Twain reveals that the town comprises of a number of stupid, ignorant, and gullible people of whom hucksters and con men uses their naivety to earn themselves a better life. ...

According to the Council on Tall Building and Urban Habitat, The Burj Khalifa is the world’s tallest building based on height to top, height to highest occupied floor, and height to architectural top. The building is a multi-use Burj Dubai development tower with an approximate total area of 460,000 meters squared. It includes parking facilities, shopping malls, entertainment centers, offices, hotel, and residential (AL-KODMANY 2013, p. 12). The decision to construct this building was initiated by government’s idea to diversify from an oil-based economy to one that is tourism and service oriented. It is 828 meters tall ...

2. Relationship between storytelling and religion in Life of Pi With one voice, logicians and researchers through scholarly history have avowed the key relationships that exist between storytelling and religion. Basing on the relationship exuded between storytelling and religion, Martel wants the readers to emancipate the Life of Pi through a contemptuous perspective, whereby they can decide to have faith in it at the desired rate, almost as one can choose to trust in God because it is a common stance in the society (thesis). The young man, Patel, grasps this motivation in different sectors. He turns into a devotee of ...

The dictionary defines a stranger as “a person whom one does not know.” But what happens when the stranger is oneself? It seems like a contradiction, but this is the theme explored by Albert Camus in his novella “The Stranger.” Through the narrative of the protagonist Camus relates through his characters deep philosophical notions about identity and the self, and what we can fully know about ourselves in the world. The protagonist sees life as arbitrary. He attaches no emotion to the happenings in his life. As a result, he looses his self-identity, becoming a stranger to himself. The story is of importance because ...

Theodore Gericault’s The Raft of Medusa is a canonical piece of art created in the early 19th century – in the wake of Romanticism in France. Romanticism was not a style, nor was it a manifestation of a singular idea. Instead, Romanticism was a movement, characterized by artists’ transfer of personality and mind onto their painting, including social criticism in the best way it could be presented in an art work. French Romanticism closely followed the Neoclassical movement, which explains Gericault’s being strongly influenced by Michelangelo’s work (Durbin). Many critics also stated that the painting was influenced by the work of ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Section: Introduction The growing concern of the world to global warming can be traced back to pollution. One of the most apparent is water pollution which affects three-fourths of the whole world. The ocean is where most of the human waste, be it intentional or unconsciously, goes. This waste is called marine debris. It does not only include human waste, but also the natural waste occurring in the environment which escalates as the degradation of the bodies of water continues. According to (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2011), marine debris is any persistent solid material that is dumped ...

Introduction

The novel “The Life of Pi” by Yann Martel tells the story of one boy’s adventures in the Pacific Ocean with an Orangutan tiger. Pi is an Indian boy who lives with his parents in India. His parents own a zoo and, therefore, according to Indian standards, they are considered to be quite affluent. Being the common religion in India, Pi is brought up as Hindu but during his teenage years, he becomes interested in the other two religions that characterize his nation, Islam and Christianity. It is here that he makes the constant decision to follow all the ...

Journalism

Introduction It is not every day of your life that you have an adventure. Adventures are supposed to be hair-raising and goose bumping, and are supposed to occur once in maybe twenty years. When I had a series of heart-stopping adventures on a short trip to Colorado, I realized that there are exceptions to the rule. As a person, I grew up more rapidly in my trip to Colorado than I have grown at any point in my life.

Thesis

Through my experiences in my Colorado trip, I have come to realize that you cannot keep a good man down. Strength of character ...

“The Ladies Man” is one of the most famous transgressive comedies produced by filmmaker Jerry Lewis in the year 1961. The movie proved to be a great success for Lewis in both technique and ambition. The Ladies Man is an episodic film, which involves script with a series of gags that include everything from crude comedy to a ballroom dance with George Raft. The greatest fame of the film rests not only in the script but in the inventive set, which occupied two soundstages in the Paramount studio . As a director, Lewis presents noteworthy patience as he exposes the magnificent construction to the ...

Jim and Huck Relationship

In the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the character Jim who was a slave of Miss Watson played a vital role in the life of Huck as he accompanies Huck in all his adventures. As story of the novel moves, the relationship between the two became stronger. They had similarities in the situation that made them to exile from the country. Jim escaped from Miss Watson, as he did not want to be sold to the plantation where he might have to meet cruel treatment, while Huck escaped from his father who tortured him like a slave. In the beginning, their relationship started ...

Literature review of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”

“The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” (1885) – is an outstanding novel by Mark Twain. Once Ernest Hemingway stated: "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn All American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since" (Esther, “What Have Writers Said About Huckleberry Finn?”). Hemingway was referring to the broadest aspect of the impact of the Twain`s novel: its democracy and humanity, its versatility, and a new language for literature, simple and as close to the spoken language. All these characteristics became common for American literature of ...

Individual vs. Society: Tracing Huck’s Educational Trajectory in Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

I Mark Twain described Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as “a book of mine where a sound heart and a deformed conscience come into collision and conscience suffers a defeat." The book enacts a struggle betwixt Huck’s conscience, a receptacle of societal ideology, norms, custom and law and his ‘innate goodness of nature,’ wherein the contending factions are equally strong and metamorphose Huck’s experiences from simply being ‘playful adventures,’ akin to that of his comrade Tom, into an understanding of ‘nature’s goodness.’ In delineating this transfiguration, Twain sets about the painstaking task of foregrounding the qualities of Huck, that undergo a refinement/education and mark ...

Introduction

As described by Dunn (n.d.) in his article “A Short Introduction to The Pyramids of Egypt”, the well known pyramids at Giza in Egypt have been one of the most famous man-made objects for many centuries. Although they are just a few (eight in total) of more than a hundred pyramids that were built in Egypt. Most experts agree that they were built as tombs for their kings and queens, but possibly also were connected with the worship of Ra (or Re) their sun god. That idea apparently stems from the resemblance of the pyramid shape to a mound (the Benben) that ...

Reflection Paper

Introduction Working in a group is one of the strategies that the teachers can apply in developing teaching programs for their classes. This method has the obvious advantages that it draws input from a wider resource pool in terms of views and perspectives from the different participating group members. This paper evaluates both the negative and positive sides of working in a group that I personally experienced when we were creating a whole unit of lessons in history, English and science classes with two native students. One of the advantages that one experiences by working in a group is that a group provides ...

Introduction

The goal of the English lessons administered to the students is to understand the use of language in explaining science concepts such as exploration, as covered in the novel, ‘A journey to the centre of the earth’. Further, the application of different writing styles are evaluated and their effectiveness in communicating science narratives considered.

Lesson plan for the novel review, ‘Journey to the center of the earth’

Lesson plan for Monday I. Goals for Monday

Goals during our review of the novel will include

- Prepare to read the novel through by disbursing copies. - Draw on prior knowledge and experiences by considering what they know and need to know about exploration and adventure. - Ask questions on ...

Many scholars admit that the study of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an exploration of the American society. The book revolves at the very heart of the American physical geography, political beliefs, and moral consciousness. In addition, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn probes readers to redefine the meaning of the conventionally held perceptions about civilization, freedom and the concept of right and wrong. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published in 1885 and documents the stories of a pre-civil war society and the controversy over slavery. The central conflict is the permeable idea of freedom is questioned in relation ...

“The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by one of the most famous American authors and satirists in United States history, Mark Twain. This novel is the continuation of a previous work “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.” The latter story was written in Mark Twains voice as the narrator while the former is written in Huckleberry Finn’s voice. Huckleberry Finn is the son of a drunk and as a result he has essentially raised himself. This has led to him being independent and self-reliant and to feel stifled by the kindness of the Widow Douglas who has taken him in and set about “ ...

Mark Peterson

Bank of Florida 9180 Beachview

Miami Florida 88900

Dear Mark The following business plan is in effect a proposal to begin a lucrative and profitable partnership which will enable both ourselves and the Bank of Florida to contribute to Florida’s economy while increasing our involvement with an industry which has recently recovered from recessionary effects and forms a key component in Florida’s economy. The business that has been proposed below involves the retailing of marine safety equipment as well as various services related to marine industry safety. We believe that Florida’s reputation as one of the largest marine economies ...

Often touted as an ‘unfilmable’ novel, Yann Martel’s Life of Pi told the story of a young Indian boy named Pi who, over the course of the story, finds himself on a small life raft in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean with only a dangerous Bengal Tiger (whom he names Richard Parker) to accompany him. Here, he goes on a hazardous journey of survival, during which he explores his spirituality and is taken to the depths of his understanding of life itself. Ang Lee’s 2012 film masterfully adapts these themes into an elegant, fairytale-like story that is alternatingly presentational and ...

Introduction

An original work of American Literature that still orders profound acclaim and still inspires discussion, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is crucial to the comprehension of the American soul. The later finding of the first 50% of Twain's original copy, long thought lost, made front-page news. What is more this exceptional release, which holds despite anything that might have happened before precluded scenes and different varieties display in the first 50% of the manually written original copy, and copy propagations of thirty composition pages, is basic to a full comprehension of the novel. The progressions, cancellations, and increases made in the ...

Philosophy

Essay

Fatalism is believing that all events in a person’s life are preordained. A person holding onto such a faith feels that it is futile to plan for an outcome, or choose to act differently to get a different outcome. Whatever he does, the result would be the same. Some groups of people believe that this predetermination is the plan made by a supernatural entity, for that individual or group or a nation. Man may propose, but it is for God to dispose. Many Hindu, Budhist,Islamic and Christian theologists subscribe to fatalism, and adapt it as an attitude to life. There are ...

Even though it is mostly forgotten today, the ‘long, hot summer’ of 1919 was one of the worst ever for racial violence in the United States, and in Chicago the rioting became so intense that it was in reality a state of racial warfare and a total breakdown in social order. Only the arrival of federal troops after five days of rampant violence, beatings, killings and arson finally restored some semblance of calm to the city. In the end, at least 38 people died, over 500 were wounded and more than 1,000 burned out of their homes, although the true ...

The Compassionate Morality of a Perfect Sap-head

First published in 1884, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was seen as a wildly adventurous novel for children until the pioneering critical work of the American scholar, Lionel Trilling, who saw it for what it is: a bildungsroman that charted the moral and emotional growth to maturity of a young boy exposed to an evil and corrupt society. Throughout the novel Huck’s innocence and especially his naïve, innocent voice constantly subvert the values he observes in the society he comes into contact with on his and Jim’s epic voyage down the Mississippi. The novel’s use of offensive racist ...

1. Introduction

This essay discusses four “landmarks” of Ancient Egypt. As described in the Introduction to David Silverman’s Ancient Egypt (1997), “this land of the past has thousands of familiar visual cues that make it spring to life with a coherent character unequalled by any other civilization of antiquity, yet its full depth and breadth still remain to be discovered.” The time period covered here is from circa 3000 B.C. to 1000 B.C. – a period which included no less than 20 Egyptian Dynasties and saw most of the now famous architectural structures like the pyramids and temples constructed. All this in a land ...

Mark Twain, whose real name was Samuel Clemens, was one of the most noted and popular literary figures of the 19th century. His popularity stems in part from his subject matter, which was primarily about unvarnished Americans, and in part from his writing style, which was natural, humorous and cynical. Critics of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn criticized its "coarseness and bad taste" (Bilyeu 2). Twain had a knack for examining and ridiculing the foibles and stupidity of his fellow human beings. Two of the best volumes to look at when wanting to see these aspects of his writing are ...

Chronologic order of series of events in huckleberry Finn

Huckleberry Finn’s fictional story begins with Huckleberry who will be referred thereof as Huck and Tom Sawyer getting a lump sum of money from a cave some robbers had hid the money. Huck is under the watchful eye of a widow called Douglas. Miss. Douglas and Miss. Watson are trying their best to have Huck be civilized which really pisses him off (Pauline & Twain, 2006). When Huck asks whether he can smoke, Miss Douglas discourages him telling him that smoking is a dirty and mean project despite her taking some snuff. Huck later escapes this confinement with the help of tom who ...

In this exercise, I was required to find a system that would ensure a safe passage of three animals across a river. These animals were a cat, a dog and a mouse. The catch was that the raft could only transport the man and just one animal for each trip time across the river. The problem was that if the cat and dog were left alone on the river bank, the dog would eat the cat. Similarly, if the cat was left alone with the mouse on the river bank, the cat would eat the mouse. This called for a coming up with a way to safely ...

Abstract

This paper will compare and contrast the three named novels: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Emma by Jane Austen, My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok as bildungromans – that is, novels about growing up. Each of the central characters – Emma, Huck and Asher – grow to maturity by the end of each novel, having struggled through various difficulties. The three novels were written at very different times and are set in very different societies, but they are linked by the growth and development of the central characters. This growth is moral, not merely physical and involves a ...

Romanticism, also known as the romantic era, was an intellectual movement, complex in artistry and literature, which emerged in the mid 18th century, and drew much of its strength from its strong reactions against the Industrial Revolution. This era originated and spread from Europe. The reasons for the establishment of this movement were many. One of the reasons for the development of romanticism was to revolt or demonstrate against the norms and the characteristics that came with the Age of Enlightenment. These characteristics were in line with the emerging aristocratic political and social issues.

The movement was also against the ...