association of the accumulation of wealth and the dwindling of wealth. When discussed upon the standard accepted definition of economic strength, it suggested Engels was fabricating his personal accounts with the concept of societal separation. The conglomeration of slums in Manchester, for example, represented the filthy lifestyle workers lived on a daily basis. The middle class saw these dwellings as a collection of their “less fortunate neighbors” crumbling livelihoods (1593). The essence of…
Have you ever wondered how industrial agriculture started? What caused the agriculture industry to really start growing? Or even what lead it be the way it is today? It started when Cyrus McCormick introduced the first mechanical reaper just six weeks after he conceived the plans, built, and tested one. Industrial agriculture could well be said to date from the time of 1831. Although there may be others that say different, this one is the first recorded. In this industry there are other things…
Leon Trotsky’s exile from the Soviet Union meant he had to travel to numerous countries while trying to find asylum. He finally found asylum in Mexico. This is a picture depicting his arrival in Mexico with his wife Natalya Sedova. Frida Kahlo came to greet them upon their arrival and let them stay in the Casa Azul (Blue House). Trotsky was later assassinated in Mexico. This photograph depicts how famous Trotsky was at the time. This international fame led Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, prominent…
The most fantastic aspect of the human mind is its ability to retain memories, but it comes at a cost. Humans are blessed everyday with the warmth, joy, and nostalgia of pleasant memories and cursed with regret and shame from the upsetting ones. Humans’ inability to cope with the ramifications of these memories often lead them down a destructive path of correcting past wrongs. Olive Senior’s “The Pain Tree” handles the theme of coping with the past through the protagonist, Lorraine, who in a…
There is no teaching method that works for all students, in all cases, all the time. It simply does not exist. We do not have a one size fits all curriculum; therefore we have to adjust to each situation and generally that is learned not taught. Here is where many people wobble. Pose, wobble, and flow helps us challenge our teaching. Through holding a pose and making new poses toward our practice, we find pose is more than “best practice”. Teachers wobble as we grow, falter, and…
Question 3: a) What is the main use of stepper motors? In essence, stepper motors are applied in motion-control positioning system. For instance in 3D printers, disk drives, intelligent lighting, scanners, CNC machines, printers, camera lenses, plotters and slot machines. b) What are the similarities and differences between a reluctance, a permanent magnet and hybrid stepper motors? The three motors are similar in that, they all have power electronic control that comes with electronic…
“The Husband’s Message” is a tale recounted by a wooden rune-staff that has runes inscribed on it. It tells the story of a man forced to leave his homeland and after time he is able to send an encoded message to his wife requesting her to join him. The poem alludes to the origin of the rune-staff in which carries the message to the wife but exemplifies the failure of communication as she does not understand the runes carved into the staff. The incomprehensible message thus presents the text as a…
a new home in the country, on Cantelou Road, so he could be near his aging father. Our house under construction was on a corner lot next to the thickest grove of trees I’d ever seen. Yes, I’d seen trees before; our city streets had trees. That conglomeration of trees, near our new home, was new to me; there were so many. My young eyes couldn’t see beyond the tree line. Little did I know, that wooded area which I came to know as Stanley’s Pines, would become my playground, my babysitter, and a…
Cultural industries come from the two words ‘culture’ and ‘industry’, and therefore from the term ‘Cultural Industry’. The term culture industry was created by Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno (CITE). The word Culture defines as “the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc.” (dictionary.com). On the contrary Industry could be defined as that refers to consumption, commodification and…
Such sites of cultural mobility where Ali discusses about ‘Bhairavi’ and ‘ghazal’ opens window to rich excavation from the exotic east. In the poem “The Season of the Plains” from his volume The Half Inch Himalayas Ali make mention of the ‘Banaras thumri-singers’. The verbal structure relates to an art form which defines the unique style originated in Banaras. The poet’s language here is referential of a region that relates to its musical tradition. For a western reader ‘Banaras thumri singers’…