Lightning

Benjamin Franklin was a man of many talents. He is known as a printer, inventor, writer, statesman, scientist, and more. Being born in the 1700’s made it relatively easy for Franklin to involve himself in multiple areas of interests. This time period was rich in scientific discovery, political involvement, and controversy over war. In his lifetime, Franklin accomplished a gargantuan number of achievements that benefited society and are still spoken of to this day. He is well known for his…

In the Theogony, gods are shown as beings higher than humans, but still drastically similar to how humans act, in terms of feelings and emotions. While gods do act more dramatically, the similarities are undeniable. This can display how humans give meaning to life because by giving gods similar attributes, mankind can look up to these gods to see what is right and what is wrong, like a guide to life. The Ancient Greeks gathered their own sense of morality by following the Theogony. Hesiod may…

Lucia Iriarte Prof. Andrew DiNicola ENGL 1102 February 16, 2014 Kate Chopin manages to make an extramarital affair appear beneficial to a pair of adulterers' families using a storm as an extended metaphor. Chopin compares the transformation of the characters Calixta and Alcee Laballire, the adulterers, to a storm. A storm has a certain calm feel to it before it begins, hence, "The leaves were so still that even Bibi thought it was going to rain" (Kate Chopin). Calixta, at this point does not…

Ursus in Caveam The wind gusted and rain drizzled as Ursus buffed his bronze chestplate until he could see his pale face in the reflection. Illuminated only by shifty candlelight, he hated that he had procrastinated so much; he should have finished his polishing yesterday. Tomorrow, the legios he was in would be deployed to the town of Cestia, where they would defend it from siege by the invading Tejai force. Battle or no battle, the legios commander was viscously strict when it came to…

by James Joyce. The production was a success, but Carr and Joyce ended up going to court because they had disagreements about clothing and the price for the show tickets. This is the reason why Carr is so resentful towards Joyce in the play. The lightning designer, Naomie Shanna Marie Winch, successfully creates an environmental atmosphere that is supportive of the play’s production concept, sculpted and model the actors,…

According to Geertz, how people deal with suffering in religion isn’t necessarily how to avoid it. Except, it’s how to make suffering sufferable through the use of religious symbols. In the case of Nuer religion, Nuer interpret all misfortunes as from their god, Kwoth. The symbol of cattle, and cattle sacrifice is a way in which they control their suffering. Evidently, in response to new situations and forms of suffering, the interpretation of misfortune and how it is managed evolve. One way…

local communities. For example, the 2011 Slave Lake wildfire had left the town in ashes and caused over 1.8 billion dollars and 4,700 hectares of damage. Wildfires are caused mainly as a result of human impact rather than natural sources such as lightning. Fires should be managed but just to a certain extent, where the landscape can be reestablished and the community would be away from harm. Wildfires can help eliminate a variety of waste, insects, and pests. Wildfires cause dead vegetation to…

physical therapist that they assign her when she gets into her accident. 2. Background: Maisie is out for a run one early morning and while she is running she hears thunder and sees lighting. A couple blocks from her house a tree gets struck by lightning and hits her while she is running. She doesn’t get found till a couple hours later when her dad finds her laying on the ground. 3. Motivation: Maisie just wants to go back to her normal life. She wants to go run and be at school with her…

2000s, I spent four straight days in the Prado; all of it's still within me like some huge, Proustian madeleine. Almost every Bosch, Cézanne, Matisse, Alice Neel, Bill Traylor, Martín Ramírez, and Marsden Hartley that I've ever seen can flash like lightning at will. I spent a day enraptured by Matthias Grünewald's Isenheim Altarpiece in Colmar. (I still wonder if I became invisible that day, when guards silently allowed me to remain in the museum while it closed for its two-hour lunch.) I have a…

some type of energy to make amino acids which would then turn into living things. They claim that lightning was the energy that struck creating the ‘organic soup’. The evidence provided was that the first living organisms were autotrophs, which they had to be. The experiment was when they mixed gases that they thought would be on earth before living things and then shocked them to mimic the lightning. The results were amino acids. The reasoning was that amino acids could be produced from 4…