Bliss

reduce storm-water runoff volume and peak runoff flows. They can also delay the time to peak runoff flows by retaining and partially decreasing the volume of water during a rainstorm event (Bliss, Neufeld, & Ries, 2009). According to their research in Pittsburgh, PA from August 2006 to January 2007, (Bliss et al., 2009) the green roof outperformed the control roof in several key areas: total storm-water runoff volumes were reduced; the runoff flow rate was consistently lower; and peak flow…

In the Good Brahmin, Voltaire asks the following question: "would we rather be happy living in ignorance, or frustrated and dissatisfied for knowing the truth?". The moral of the story is basically: "is ignorance bliss?". "Ignorance is bliss" is a very common saying. But is it really? "Would you rather be Socrates dissatisfied or a pig satisfied?". For some people, it may not be easy to answer this question, but for other people like me, the answer is very clear. Voltaire talks about how…

There are a few guidelines that I have found to be especially influential in achieving pure freedom. True freedom is something that everyone deserves to have throughout their life experience. All people yearn to be themselves, free from the fear of how other people will view them. We all have the choice to embark on a journey to our core beliefs. So that we may adjust them and build upon them to create a better version of our own personal version of reality. As humans, we have needs that have to…

The poems War Song by a warrior from the Crow tribe and Song of War by an individual from the Blackfeet contrast courage through the Crow’s views on the eternal bliss of the afterlife, which gives a neutral view on battle and the Blackfeet fear of death and the fate that follows the dangerous risks of war. Song of War is about a warrior who fears going into battle and prays that he will be saved from going, while War Song is about not anxiously anticipating war and death, emphasizing that even…

It is often debated if ignorance is truly bliss. In the novel entitled Flowers for Algernon written by Daniel Keyes, Charlie, a mentally disabled man, undergoes an operation to make him intelligent. As he progresses, his relationships with others change, and he realizes many discrepancies about the world that he did not know about before. Going into this procedure, Charlie did not have the capacity to understand what kind of situation he was putting himself through. The surgery ends up turning…

Pomegranates are used for many different health and medicinal purposes. “For centuries, pomegranates have been shown to eliminate parasites, lower blood pressure, assist in dental issues, [and] prevent cancer” (Bliss). Mental health had a major effect on Amir and Hassan’s relationship throughout the book. In the beginning, when their relationship was strong, they were both happy because they had a friend by their side. However, when Hassan was raped, their mental…

Alarm Fatigue and the Design of the Legacy Way Control Room Introduction The design of a control room is a critical aspect of ensuring the safety in many industries where data and sensors are prevalent, and having pure human monitoring is difficult or impractical. The national energy grid, petroleum refinery facilities, and railways are a few of the industries that rely on a control room to ensure the smooth and safe functioning of the system. In Brisbane Australia, the Legacy Way tunnel has a…

our input and we are supposed to live with it. This is not the first time that this has happened, the same think was done when we had a contractor that wanted to move to APG; they moved the position without any consideration to the impact to Ft. Bliss. I spoke with Jackie Prange and she suggested a contractor or a matrix person; we currently have a core positon, and that is what…

“A Solemn Thing—it was—I said” When one hears the name, “Emily Dickinson,” the image of a famous woman poet holed up in her room writing about death while secluding herself from the rest of the world instantly comes to mind. Contrary to popular belief, Dickinson was actually in-tune with society; she knew of all the politics and social issues that existed in her time period, especially those dealing with women. Her poems are written by the influences in her life, and one could say that “A…

The cave offers comfortability and safety and if a person is happy there, then they are living their version of the good life. However, while ignorance might be bliss, a greater bliss comes from critical thinking. Throughout history there have been a plethora of instances in which those who think outside the box and leave the cave are able to come up with new ideas and inventions that make human life better. For example…