Metallurgy

Since the world has entered into the industrial period, the advent of a new version of industrial system in which coal, metallurgy and chemical engineering dominate has not only greatly facilitated people’s lives, but also brought a series of environmental concerns that influence the ecosystem. At that time, air and water pollution have been regarded as two major environmental impacts resulting from the high-volume discharge of chemical toxins, owing to the development of mining industry that is…

also found in the Hobbesian view) and can become perfectible. Rousseau argues that both these notions can be used by a population seeking to leave the state of nature. The author of the “Discourse on Inequality” has also argued that farming and metallurgy, which were on the rise, as a result of the territorial “discoveries” of the time, are other means that allowed an exodus from the state of nature. Rousseau also argued that the growth of societies, due in part to the race for discovery,…

Throughout history, China has been a vast region that has always been very difficult to control. In its earliest periods, the lands were divided and conquered by different lords and rulers. However, this drastically changed as centralized rule became prominent in China with the beginning of the Bronze age (1500B.C.). The power struggle amongst Chinese rulers were fulfilled by warfare; and the bronze age had the perfect conducive environment for this type of militaristic approach. The Shang…

HIS voice and see HIS vision. Thus the Veda is a symbol of Divine Happiness. In my opinion from what I’ve study in ‘The Holy Vedas’’ is basically the benefits of all humanity. It contains the fundamental knowledge about the physics, chemistry, and metallurgy and so on. Vedas are also strongly against the discrimination based on caste and religion and…

will never stop, because, there will always be someone to make an invention better. Animals may use tools and the environment to hunt and complete tasks quickly and efficiently, but monkeys and apes still use rocks. Humans use multiple forms of metallurgy and machines to complete their tasks and can do them faster and better than any chimpanzee. The ability to create leads us to become higher thinkers than the other species in the animal kingdom because with all of the labor saving devices,…

Silkwood Patti Maisner Kaplan University Introduction Karen Silkwood, in her twenty’s, worked for Kerr-McGee Corporation in the state of Oklahoma in the field of metallurgy. She worked with plutonium (a radioactive metal) at her job and noticed after a time of employment, that things were not being correctly, in terms of protecting the workers. She tried to change and implement safety procedures to ensure worker protection, but instead was seen as a ‘whistle blower’. Because…

In the prologue of the book, Guns Germs and Steel, written by Jared Diamond, there is a discussion about a simple, yet difficult question asked by a politician named Yali. According to Yali, “Why is that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?” It is questioned as to why nations develop differently even though everything developed together at the same time. It is true that there are major differences between many…

Have you ever wondered why a storm rolls in, or why any natural phenomena related to the sky occurs? Have you ever wondered about how it would be like when everyone believed the Gods were in charge of everything that happened, such as; if there was a storm, it was their fault, or if there was thunder and lightning, it was their fault? Back in the era of mythology, these were a couple of their beliefs. One God that was really important was Zeus, the God of the sky. Whenever there was a…

Maria the Jewess as Framed by Zosimos of Panopolis The way that we perceive history is eternally limited and there are things that we will never be able to learn. We can only pick up the pieces of the puzzle that remain and hope that that’s enough to understand the entire puzzle. Maria the Jewess goes by many names. Maria the Hebrea, Mary the Jewess, Maria Prophetissa… Each name indicates what the person in question prioritized about her, and how they saw her. The majority of extant…

The true definition of an engineer changes depending on the person defining it. For an infant in the depths of the Saharan desert, an engineer is the person who fixes the pump that brings water to her village; for a teenager hooked on video games, an engineer is the messiah who reboots his virus-stricken computer right back up to normal. Amongst this variety of definitions, however, lies a singular fundamental linking factor: an engineer is someone who makes a positive impact in your life by…