Floating point

there an end, but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools: this is more strange than such a murder is.” Another element of magic in the play is the floating dagger. The appears to Macbeth and helps lead him to his crime. The dagger helps to point him to Duncan and he sees blood on it. These supernatural ideas add a sense of evil and darkness to the play The number three is used to represent magical powers adding another supernatural element…

countries, measured the value of one country’s national currency per an ounce of gold, to the value of the other participating countries’, which made it possible to create the exchange rates between the currencies. This allowed for a common reference point for prices across countries, and there was no need to negotiate currency values or payments as part of trade. During the gold standard, the value of currencies was fixed. Nations agreed to limit the amount of currency they would issue, to…

records by some of our biggest influences). I mean, this guy's a wizard or something. I'm watching him record tracks and edit them with speeds unimaginable; and I'm listening to my partner in art deftly weave his voice and thoughts in and around the floating tapestry of rhythm and melody we co-created, and I can't help but be overtaken by a warm sense of appreciation for the dedicated mastery present in this room. The level of respect I have for these behemoth talents and their enthusiastic…

Bob Englehart created an image with an interesting mood which shows some men lowering chewing gum into the ocean. This artist has other images that reflect the same point of view. He is passionate about the subject of water pollution and expresses that in his work. It also shows and oil spill running through the body of water, which is the focus of the artwork. The cartoonist’s stance on this image is how people keep littering into the ocean. Over the years, more and more waste…

Fossil Fuel Responsibility on Ice Sheet Melt Fossil fuels are the most important assets responsible for the humanity survivor. It gives the humanity, oil, petroleum, energy, gas to cook, heat for warm ourselves in the cold nights, production of asphalt, and the production of products like plastic, which we are completely dependent to it. But, the environment is being damaged with the excessive and no controlled harvesting of those fuels. The environment is being damaged, because big…

Countless piles of trash are in sight along shores, and others are floating adrift in foreign waters. Regardless, the trash heap is only growing throughout each nation. A point by Shauna Pettipas in “A Canadian policy framework to mitigate plastic marine pollution,” the global plastic waste became a “national problem” leading to plastic contaminating floating around the oceans (Pettipas). Moreover, Canada has notably been creating more trash across the lands.…

During a banquet in Macbeth’s castle, Macbeth hallucinates Banquo’s ghost. Banqou appears bloody and beaten as a reminder to Macbeth that he had his former friend and ally murdered. These hallucinations show Macbeth’s great guilt over ordering the murder of Banquo and his son. This scene is the climax of the play; it shows Macbeth’s conscience punishing him for his crimes. The hallucinations are very important to the play because they show the overwhelming guilt Macbeth feels. With Macbeth’s…

In the 2014 short film ASMAT- Nomi per tutte le vittime in mare (names in memory of all victims of the sea.), director Dagmawi Yimer illuminates the tragedy of the migrant lives lost to the Mediterranean in experimental form. For the majority of the film, a narrator lists the names of the migrants who died in a shipwreck on October 3, 2013, after opening the film with a partially-sung monologue from a migrant's perspective. Yimer depicts the names that are read aloud as shrouded forms bobbing up…

clean smooth surface. You do not however want to work the concrete too much as it can draw up all the paste to the top of the slab. Paste being drawn to the top will cause your cured concrete slab to crack and break off. Once you have finished mag floating your slab, it is time to edge. A concrete edger does exactly what it sounds like. It establishes the edges of your slab, rounding off the sides. A concrete edger has the exact same purpose as a mag float but for only edges. You put the edger…

Jeremy Allan Hawkins both deal with the idea of being lost. While “Laika” uses space and Laika the dog as a parallel to the narrator’s sense of isolation in the world, “Flotsam” approaches the idea of being lost through the description of a ship floating astray in space. Where they differ, however, is in the use of space in the pieces; while “Laika” uses space as an accessory to the fiction narrative being told, “Flotsam” is completely focused on space itself. This raises questions as to whether…