Light

Introduction How does temperature affect the time glow sticks stay lit? Glow sticks are fun, safe, and interesting to kids all around the year. These light sticks were made for military purposes which were patented in 1973, but Edwin Chandross of Bell Labs’ oxalyl chloride and hydrogen peroxide glow stick was patented in 1960’s. Chemiluminescence is a luminescence resulting from a chemical reaction which is how glow sticks work. A glow sticks has a glass vial, a small glass or plastic bottle…

Randy Scott gazed out of the filthy window near his cluttered worktable on the fourth floor of the Leather Works, watching the clouds pass by, and wondering what a new year would bring. It was March of a new decade, 1860, and he was hopeful for a better life than he had had so far. July 9th would be his fourteenth birthday, and most boys his age were on their own by then. He dreamed of the day when he could get away from the orphanage and away from the Leather Works. The Armstead and Sons…

There are many different methods for developing latent fingerprints. Some work better on non-porous surfaces, while others work best developing prints on porous surfaces. Some are destructive preventing testing the object for other forensic evidence while others are non-destructive. In order to make prints visible on porous surfaces, forensic scientists use one of three methods; Silver Nitrate, Ninhydrin and Iodine fuming. These three methods are known to be the most effective ways for…

Assignment Part 1: Denotative and Connotative Meaning Kismet Diner is a collection of Cornetto Cupidity Love Stories, and it is a short film about following one’s heart and encouraging the youthful experience of love. Mark Nunneley directed this short film in September 2013, and it was nominated for the Los Angeles Shorts Festival and won a Manhattan Shorts Festival award and a Cannes Silver Lion. Kismet Diner is a heartwarming short film, describing a shy young diner waitress named…

by stark instances of darkness conflicting with the individual, ivory tarp that contributes the bulk of the framed works’ detail. These primal entities keep a lone sophisticated device with them amongst their ruins and lack of shelter, a method of light transportation; a motorcycle. Questions immediately arise in an observer’s mind, such as the identity of the shaded…

from the luminous light above the doorway and the lamp on the desk. This symbolises the darkness of the joker as the lamp casts a light which shows the Jokers' face but possesses the space behind him hidden in darkness, the significance of this is that the Jokers' face is seen but the meaning of such an act is that it is displaying the character’s inner darkness and evil. The scenery of this scene is an interrogation room with marked white walls, a dirty floor and fluorescent lights. The only…

How does it feel to know that your purpose is rightful, yet be criticized? How should one feel? One is convinced of one’s purpose for doing something for the general good, yet, instead of receiving support from those who are closest to one, one receives rejection, criticism, and judgmental responses that change the spectator’s opinion negatively towards, whatever it is that one is rightfully doing. This is a social problem that has become a trend throughout time. When members of society see that…

The story mentions "Light" quite a few times and progressively gets darker as the story goes on. The use of light indicates and describes how the couple’s relationship is going from the beginning to the end of it. In the beginning, it says, “Early that day weather turned.” (Carver) Being early in the day, theat is an indication that there is light outside. The next line claims," it was getting dark on the inside too." (Carver) This…

A day on the horse farm I’ am frightened out of a deep sleep by someone calling my name in a rambunctious voice, and a light gleaming through my eyes. Dazed, I peel my eyes to see my father fixed in the doorway to my chaotic room. He yells that I need to get in gear that it is 4:00 a.m., and I’m wasting daylight by dragging around and taking my time. I rumble around disoriented to find my clothes and get dressed. The whole time I’ am wondering in my head why I get up this early to visit the…

One way of measuring IRE values is through a waveform monitor, which is a sort of light meter that follows what is happening on the camera screen from left to right. It again is on a scale of 0-100, and any vertical slice has light and dark areas on it. A particular IRE value in a scene appears in the form of zebras, which are diagonal lines seen in the viewfinder. A value of 100 IRE represents pure white…