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Dofasco Acid STSE 1. Summarize this article in your own words. Include all the main points. (4) On September 7, a burst pipe at ArcelorMittal Dofasco sprayed hydrochloric acid mist through the Crown Point neighbourhood, which runs south of the plant. The Hamilton’s public health department is gathering information on this incident and its impact on the neighbourhood from the Ministry of Environment and ArcelorMittal. Evidence of the leak was witnessed across Crown Point neighbourhood. Residents…

Tattooing has existed for thousands of years in places such as Irezumi in Japan, Ta Moko in New Zealand and the Pe'a and Malu in Samoa. The word tattoo originates from the Polynesian word “ta” which means striking something, as well as the Tahitian word “tatau” which means “to mark something”. Contemporary tattooing has evolved from a practice that was initially imported from the islands of Polynesia and later transformed into a form of working-class folk art. Tattooing is a centuries old art…

The infamous event of the Piltdown hoax is one that continues to draw speculative attention over a century after the initial announcement of the paleoanthropological findings. Although many scientists, especially those involved in the field of paleoanthropology, would like to forget the incident entirely, the Piltdown man—otherwise taxonomically referred to as Eoanthropus dawsoni—is perhaps the greatest hoax in anthropological history. Since the exposure of the Piltdown discovery as a forgery in…

Durer was a masterful German artist in the Renaissance era. His precocious talents lead him to become one of the art histories most prominent artists. While Durer has been compared to the Italian master Leonardo de Vinci because of their similar interests in naturalism and environmental perceptions, Durer differed by being able to spread awareness of himself and his work across Europe. Adventuring out as a young gifted apprentice, Durer traveled abroad advancing his gifts, while leaving a…

1. What is graphic design? Graphic design does not have a fixed meaning. In a broad sense it is the production of visual statements. The term was first used by the American book and advertising designer W.A. Dwiggins in 1922. At that time it served the purpose of pointing toward a new profession that was broader than either typography, book design, or advertising design alone. For many years the term “graphic design” held because the range of media that graphic designers worked in did not change…

Goya, “You deserve to be garroted, but you are a great artist so we forgive you”. ("Francisco De Goya." Bio.com) Knowing how risky it was to express his dissatisfaction to Ferdinand V11, Goya still expressed his dissatisfaction through a series of etchings called, “Los Disparates” which were paintings featuring carnival themes, they also featured folly, lust, old age, suffering, and death. With such morbid themes to his work, Goya seemed to demonstrate a level of absurdity at times, some could…

movements of the early 20th century. He was a restless innovator who often set the pace for his younger colleagues. Acknowledged as one of the finest draftsmen of his age, Degas experimented with a wide variety of media, including oil, pastel, gouache, etching, lithography, monotype, wax modeling, and later in his career, photography. He was a renowned painter and sculptor, but he was most well known for his paintings of ballet dancers. Degas was born in Paris, France; the eldest of…

William Blake was born to a middle class family in London, England on the 28th of November in 1757. He had six siblings, and out of the seven of them, he was the third born (Black). Two of siblings died at birth (black). Blake did not have any formal schooling, but instead he was briefly taught at home by his mother (Black). The Blake’s were known to be “Dissenters”, and were said to have gone to a Moravian Church, which was one of the oldest protestant denominations in the world, dating back to…

Abstract: The love poems of Kamala Das usually breathe an air of unconventionality and urgency. Mark the following extract in this connection-“Of late I have begun to feel a hunger/To take in with greed, like a forest-fire that/Consumes, and with each killing gains a wilder,/Brighter charm, all that comes my way.” Kamala Das’s poetry is concerned with both the external and internal worlds, and her response to the external world, in particular despite her inner restlessness, is marked by an…

Moby‑Dick a novel by Herman Melville is a thought-provoking text, not merely due to the topic of whaling, or layers upon layers of symbolic meaning, rather it is the novels attitude concerning literature, where upon every page Melville explores the limitless nature of what literature is and what it can be. This paper will explore the novels status as a somewhat cenotaph by examining the distinctive Chapter seven, “The Chapel”, as well as the opening “Etymology” and “Extracts,” “The Lee Shore” in…