Bamboo

Today, you can flip a switch to light a room, watch a video by pressing a few bottoms, and listen to music with a few clicks. Life wasn't always like this. Before Steve Jobs came along with the iPhone, iPad, iPod, Macintosh, or Pixar, there were other inventors who helped slowly build our world today. One of them was Thomas Edison. Thomas Edison didn't live the most perfect life, he was almost deaf, had little actual education and was poor in his childhood, but that didn't stop him from…

This fact; however, does not mean that the book is as old as it is claimed to be. In fact, it is because of the many battles the text assisted in winning that the age of the text is unclear. When the text was found it was written upon bamboo shoots tied together with tassels. These tassels were degraded to the point of decay, and so many of the guidelines of warfare seem to be out of place. The setup of the book is, for the most part, extremely linear. However, multiple times throughout…

Suttee, sati or self-immolation of widows, was one of the most prominent forms of altruistic suicide ancient in India; it required the widow to follow her husband on death by either ascending his funeral pyre and burning along with his corpse, or burning herself after the cremation of her husband (Vijayakumar, 2004). The term sati carries with it several associations and controversies. A woman who immolates herself can be regarded as a victim or a victor, depending on the approach. Still, I…

Memories tend to come and go when something in the present, such as sight or sound, triggers us to recall to the past. In the tragedy, Death of A Salesman by Arthur Miller, the protagonist Willy Loman retreats to memories of both happy and sad times. These flashbacks are related to the present in which the given background knowledge helps readers understand the present-day problems of the Loman family. His interaction with the past interferes with what is happening in the present. Willy mentally…

The 1971 poem, “What were they like?” by Denise Levertov, imagines a world where the Vietnam War escalates into a nuclear war. By writing this poem, Levertov hoped to persuade Americans to protest against the 17-year long war. Through Levertov’s own experience as a marginalized Russian Jewish woman, she is able to provide thoughtful insight into the perspectives of the victims of the war and ultimately show the consequences of war. This essay will be delving into the ways as to how the poem…

“Was America Justified In Their Usage Of The Atomic Bomb On The Two Cities Of Hiroshima And Nagasaki?” “ When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.”- J Robert Oppenheimer. In August of 1945, President Harry S. Truman made the decision to drop the atomic bomb over the two Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively. This…

CHAPTER TWO - CRITICAL ANALYSIS 2.1 Exploration Of Tonality And The Pentatonic Scale Blossoms on a Moonlit River has been written in G major, and this is known from an author’s note written above the stave and the key signature (Fig 2a). It has been written with diatonic numerical notation using the numbers 1 to 7, and the number 0 represents a rest. The piece is tonal centred, and relies on a major pentatonic scale consisting of G, A, B, D and E (Fig 2b) and this is close to the western…

Unit One – Diversity of Living Things How and why might some species benefit from human intervention? Steven Morrell Mr. Roberts SBI3U 3 October 2014 Table of Contents Page 1………………………………………………………………...…Introduction Page 1…………………………………………………………Endangered Species Page 2…………………………………………………………Endangered Species Page 2………………………………………………………….Captive Breading Page 3………………………………………………………….Captive Breading Page 4……………………………………………….Wild Life Population Control Page 5.........................…

The Manhattan Project team tested the world’s first atomic bomb during the summer of 1945, and after its successful detonation, the United States had a difficult decision to make. Japan had unleashed a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, destroying the Pacific Fleet and killing American citizens. The ensuing war against Japan lasted four long years and cost many casualties, and President Truman was resolved to find a way to end it. Two major options were provided, one that would cost a potential…

becoming a more sophisticated means of interacting with a spiritual world/being. Turtle carcasses and bones of this time represent the only durable proof of a written language. Archaeologist believe that scribes during this time likely used silk, bamboo, or wooden tablets to keep additional records. “By late Shang times, Chinese written language had developed where more than 3000 phonetic, ideographic, and pictographic symbols were in use,” representing a relatively slow development of the…