On June 16, 2008 my family and I took a trip to Pennsylvania. It was an eye-opening experience. On the trip we met an Amish couple that changed the way I will look at life forever. No cell phones, television, music, none of that. Just family and quality time. Things that an average family does not experience anymore. It all started out one afternoon in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. As we were touring the land we noticed the Amish were giving horse and buggy rides. My parents thought that it would…
Personal Narrative Essay #1 I found myself under a full moon, rolling on the ground, desperately trying to put out the flames on my Adidas track pants. Our journey began on a regular Saturday evening, three friends who were thirsty for an adventure. The objective was to head to the local hiking trail and construct a bridge over the river of this trail. We brought the necessary equipment in order to cut down trees to use for this makeshift bridge. This includes a handsaw, a hatchet, and in case…
Nazi medical Experimentation During World War 2 the Nazi Party conducted experiments on prisoners from all over the continte of Europe. The main supply of these prisoners came from their own camps(called Concentration camps) which was constantly receiving Jewish, black, and gays from Germany and the places they concoured. At the time of these experimentations there were no laws in place protecting human experimentation and the rules restricting what could be done. Due to this the experiments…
using a mixture of all of them is usually the best option. The first type of widely used lights is a PAR Can. These lights give a general wash of light to the stage, roughly focused on specific areas of the stage. Many times these are made up of LEDs, or Light Emitting Diodes; this enables the light to be a variety of colors, with the need of any gels. This also means the light can change colors instantaneously. Another kind of stage lighting is a Fresnel. A Fresnel gives a general wash to…
Introduction: IPL, Intense Pulsed Light, is a relatively new medical technology that awards itself of being a source of bright pulsed energy that, is neither one-color nor clear, but rather has got a wide-ranging wavelength spectrum. IPL can be adjusted to different wavelengths to fit all the tones of colors, making it ideal to use on a wide array of different skin tones. These colors are modified by crystal filters that function as trimmers and allow the selection of precise wavelengths for…
1. INTRODUCTION The need for electrical energy and its global impact, ever since it’s being used is phenomenal. Hence, there is an immense pressure on all nation’s for ensuring electrical energy security. In this report, some key aspects of electrical energy statistics, both technical and economical are discussed and then compared between the United Kingdom** and Republic of India. 2. UNITED KINGDOM The United Kingdom is one among the large economies in the world and is also a “pioneer for…
Modern societies throughout the world are dependent on oil and gas. Without these two resources America would have never experienced the Gilded Age that made America the industrial powerhouse that it is today. Not only do these resources supply us with transportation and countless other material items but because of how large the industry is it accounts for tens of thousands of jobs within the three sectors of the industry. Every year oil and gas are becoming rapidly more important. The…
Life, Liberty and the Dispute of Happiness "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" (Lazarus, lines 10-14) This excerpt is from Emma Lazarus’ “The New Colossus” which is on a bronze plaque inside the Statue of Liberty on Ellis Island. The Statue of Liberty represents the welcoming of tens of thousands of immigrants from around…
Train That Brain – Critical Writing Assignment Thomas Edison is considered one of the most famous inventors in American history. His success as an inventor was mainly due to his persistence and hard work which led him to create many successful inventions including the lightbulb. Thomas Edison was quoted saying that “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” In my opinion what Edison was saying is that one can’t receive opportunities by waiting…
Louis and Auguste Lumière, Georges Méliès, and many others. Eadward Muybridge was one of the first to use photographs to capture motion through an experiment to see if a horse ever had all four legs up off the ground at once while in a sprint, and this led to the invention of the zoopraxiscope. Another particularly innovative device was created by Thomas Edison and his assistant W.K.L. Dickinson called the Kinetoscope, which displayed a spinning series of images in a box that appeared to move…