Clockwise

celebration site. One end of a rope is tied to the top of the tree and the other end is held by a participant or to a rock. And elder than stands near the tree holding a live chicken. The elder then chants while the people circle the tree three times clockwise and four times counterclockwise. The chant is intended to call out good fortune. The evil fortune is believed to gather in the chicken. After the circling of the tree the chicken is taken into the forest by the elder and killed, believing…

Commitment to Reflective Practice: In Word their Way it stated that students placed in the Emergent Late group should receive a zero on the spelling inventory. When grouping the student’s I wanted to make sure that each student had a firm grasp of understanding and that there was no holes in the student’s understanding. Spelling is an important tool that student use and as a teacher, I do not want my students to have a weak understanding of phonemes. Frustration can cause a lot of students to…

Magnets are one of the fundamental items in physics. This paper is meant to provide a general overview of magnets and their uses, as well as an in depth look into certain aspects of magnetism and how they relate to everyday life. Most images of a magnet come to mind as a tiny object used for hanging things on a refrigerator. But other applications are much more useful in our society in general. They are used in all kinds of speakers, in many computer parts including hard drives (for recording…

When it emerged in the sixties among the crush of several other art movements (Pop Art, Minimalism, among others) Land Art came to be an anti-gallery artistic offshoot that straddled the domain between architecture and sculpture. It had no manifestos nor schools nor leaders and it was not quite a movement; the artists who were involved with it were also involved in other types of arts. Land art was labelled as modern ‘sculpture’ but its versatility and introduction of new concepts and visual…

Experiment #6: Polarimetry Resolution of (∓)-Racemate: (∓)-ɑ-Phenylethylamine OBJECTIVE All chiral molecules have a mirror image of themselves. While they have the same physical properties, they interact with other chiral molecules completely different. Since there are many chiral molecules in organics, this can lead to the need to make optically pure products. If the chemist does not, it can lead to many problems including death. In this experiment, the separation of two enantiomers was…

Time Between Times. I lounged in the same spot, an old patio chair minus the cushions on my back deck, and watched my kids come and go. They are a flurry of youthful exuberance. Fighting, screaming, yipping, laughing, and talking a mile a minute-- bare feet, bug bites, and snack-hungry tummies—they demanded and took but also gave kisses and breathless hugs. The sun shifted and changed as I watched. Shadows engulfed the yard. The sun and the moon faced one another. The time between times fell,…

Stereochemistry 5. Introduction In this experiment, stereochemistry was explored by the isomerization of dimethyl maleate and the analysis of carvones. The isomerization was accomplished with the use of bromine, which broke the double bond to allow bond rotation. Free bond rotation allowed molecules to shift into the trans state before the double bond was reformed to create dimethyl fumarate. Weight and melting point of the crystals formed were taken for further analysis. Enantiomeric carvones…

The text “Gateways to Art: Understanding the Visual Arts”, introduces and discusses a lot of information that has to do with spirituality and religious art. Many architectural works that have been created as an art form also function as sacred spaces. It should be known that although there are many sacred spaces across different belief systems, that they actually have many architectural features in common. In Greece, we have the Parthenon and the Acropolis. Besides the Greeks not only…

Discovering a new world below the ocean intrigues me. I have never been one for loving ocean creatures, but I do enjoy learning about the world below us. I found several facts interesting as I read the articles including: how osmosis and salinity functions, how seawater cells move, how pH affects the ocean, how decomposition works in the environment, how upwelling stirs up nutrients, and how water temperature affects organisms. One of the interesting facts discusses why osmosis and salinity…

The Black Death, as it was most commonly called, was renowned as the most devastating pandemic to have even swept over the Eastern Hemisphere during the fourteenth century. It was the cause of over tens of millions of deaths throughout Europe and Asia and went by many names, including the “Great Mortality,” and “Universal Plague.” The widespread plague originated in Central Asia and was most likely variants of the bubonic and pneumonic plagues. The bubonic plague, which was the most common…