Bamboo

work soothing the gorillas and checking their vitals. The average heart rate was 97 bpm, about 17 beats higher than it should be. I immediately help the animals settle down to sleep so the number lowers. Sandy puts out a bowl of water and tosses some bamboo shoots and fruit on the ground. Most of them close their eyes right away, but one persists and continues to pace the habitat. I scratch my head, curious as to why he has so much energy. All of a sudden, the ring on my finger begins to…

They are greeted with the sight of their house. Luckily, the damage to it wasn’t extensive. Their house is a less than adequate, being supported by bamboo pillars, with structures of mud brick walls and a thatched roof. Sunlight can filters in through the edges of the roof, illuminating the inside for hours. The earthquake has left it leaning to the left side a little more, making it look tired. They…

What does that thing mean? Why is it this thing so important? When looking at art or trying to find meaning within oneself one is often driven by, either a curiosity for understanding or by their desire to uncover a meaning, and to explore their own personal analyses and theories. Sigmund Freud 's theories often bank heavily upon the interpretation of dreams. What do they mean? What is their purpose? What do they say about us? Using his interpretation to pull psychoanalytical significance from…

three-dimensional would lose the meaning of the story. However, he painted Bodhidharma as older, full of experiences and enlightenment, comparing to Huike looking younger, no experiences and no enlightenment. Another two-dimensional detail is the bamboo; although it is a symbol of strength, however, it is flat on the side of the cave. Dai Jin depicted both Huike and Bodhidharma’s clothes as three-dimensional because their clothes depict the contrast between a Zen Buddhist monk versus a…

Chris Hurst Professor Hayman Composition 1 12 Dec. 2015 How often do you see someone attempting a “kick flip,” a “pop-shuvit” or “grinding a longboard”? People often ask what the difference is between skateboarding and longboarding. Aren’t they the same? Isn’t one just a longer board that can’t do tricks? Skate- and longboards serve different purposes and those purposes affect the differences in designs. Skateboarding was very big in California and in Hawaii and started in the 1940s. At first…

Without a good night’s sleep, your life can become a nightmare as you fight chronic sleep deprivation, but memory foam mattresses can help you achieve nirvana in the realm of dreamland. Sleep deprivation is not something to be taken lightly. Chronic sleep deprivation inhibits creative thinking patterns and many other higher brain functions. Pressure point arousal is one of the main causes of sleep deprivation, and it occurs when the body is consistently awakened from deep sleep due to minor…

verandas and tiles but the reconstruction involved mostly wood. In large cities such as Manila, there are tall multistory office buildings and they span out until the area becomes more rural with more traditional housing like huts constructed from bamboo and metal. In the U.S., urban cities are characterized as urban cores and are functionally suburban. Like Manila, most big and buzzing cities in the United States serve as some of the centers of the country’s economic, political, social, and…

Some might claim that parks are places where people go to see nature rather than art. It is simply an open space for recreation that normally requires a low level of maintenance for trails, picnic areas, and benches. Art is expected not to be touched and playgrounds are built for children to run and climb all over them. Therefore a combination of art and play areas do not seem to blend well together however, Noguchi’s Playscapes managed to accomplish contemporary art in a regular park space. His…

During times of war prisoners were treated with torture and violence. The medical experiments performed on the imprisoned Jews by the Nazis during World War I affected them physically and psychologically. Prisoners were taken into labs for numerous torturous involuntary so-called medical experiments many times resulting in death, where Doctor Mengele, known as the "Angel of Death" would perform gruesome medical experiments such as artificial insemination, high altitude, freezing experiments,…

After Edison got funding from the Vanderbilt family and JP Morgan, he set up an electric light company. In 1879 Edison came up with a bulb that used platinum filling in the center. In 1880 Edison decided to use carbonized bamboo as a replacement filament to the platinum. From 1881 to 1882 he traveled around the world making light exhibitions. Through all this publicity it did not take long for competitors to emerge. Nikola Tesla was one of Edison major competitors, the…