Counterweight

Internationalization of Higher Education in the United States: History, Trends, and Challenges Ellana S. Black St. Cloud State University Internationalization of Higher Education in the United States: History, Trends, and Challenges Higher education has long sought to prepare students for a successful future. However, as a reaction to the ever-changing and increasingly globalized world, United States’ higher education institutions recognized the need to craft more internationally-minded…

Us humans pride ourselves on our intelligence. We certainly use our brains differently to all other animals, often in unusual and surprising ways. Does being clever make it likely that human beings as a species will survive for a long time? Far from it, Chomsky suggests. The problem is that we look at the world through a set of beliefs and values that prevent us acting in our own long term interests. The US, the world’s most powerful country, is far more interested in projecting its power…

Doctor Russell Kirk, is a name that I never had heard of much less even understood his significance in American history and politics before I started at Emporia. While identifying as a Conservative for most of my life (Please forgive me, but my parents were “New Deal” Democrats and I was young at the time); I never understood the philosophy or the background of the Conservative movement. More importantly, I never connected faith and personal values into what it meant to be a Conservative. I…

people, such as contemporary soprano Christina Nilson. He details actual productions that the opera company had been performing at the time, including Faust. The climactic chandelier crash in the novel was based on an actual event in which the counterweights of the chandelier in the Palais Garnier fell. The novel is considered “faction” by many. While the specific events of the story may not have taken place, the locations and fundamental details Leroux builds his story on are, in fact, real…

La Bilancetta, or "The Little Balance." What Galileo described was an accurate balance for weighing things in air and water, in which the part of the arm on which the counter weight was hung was wrapped with metal wire. The amount by which the counterweight had to be moved when weighing in water could then be determined very accurately by counting the number of turns of the wire, and the proportion of, say, gold to…

What is the relationship between the environment and the body and the importance of the use of materials to embody the environment regarding these two artists Ben Skinner and Orianna Haddad? In this essay I will examine what is the relationship between the environment and the body and the important of the use of materials to embody the environment regarding these two artists Ben Skinner and Orianna Haddad. I will be looking at one piece for each artist and analysing and comparing how these two…