Milsons Point

Does rock salt effect ice? Rock salt effects the boiling and freezing point of ice. Salt has always helped the roads when it is icy in the winter, but a new idea for the roads may be the use of beet juice. In group A with the little bit of ice and water, that we continued to stir, the temperature decreased from 2°C to .5°C in five minutes. In group B, 10 grams of rock salt was added to the ice water and stirred. The temperature of the mixture decreased from -1°C to -6°C in five minutes. After…

Malcom Gladwell is an award winning English-Canadian, author, journalist and speaker. He is active contributor and staff writer for “The New Yorker” and a bestselling author. In his two well-known essays “Being Nice isn’t really so awful” and “Small changes: Why revolution will not be tweeted”, he argues the impact of the Internet in our social life. While both this essays have in the center the modern civilization and the age of the internet, in the first essay: “Being nice isn’t really awful”,…

("Amusement Park and…”). Florida has 7 of the top ten amusement parks in the world. 6 Flags magic Mountain teamed up with samsung to get a rollercoaster using virtual reality (Yarborough). The Valravn rollercoaster is the newest roller coaster at cedar Point. It has a 223 foot drop. And it go as fast as 75 MPH that makes it the fastest dive drop in the world. Disney owns the top 5 amusement parks in the world (Yarborough). About 290 million people ride roller coasters a year. Normally roller…

Blink Essay Malcolm Gladwell’s book Blink presents a wealth of interesting information about humans and the way we think. Much of this information comes in discrete chunks, each the result of a different social science experiment. Many of these ideas are applicable to the rest of our lives. There are three main sections that have great meaning in this book, "Seven Second in the Bronx," the "Love Lab," and "Blink in Black and White." These sections show the true meaning of why the book Blink…

Consumer Defy Common Sense 1. C=$700+$85x, C= $700+($85)10 You will set this equation up as C=the cost, which is what you are trying to find. Then you will have the 700 plus whatever 85 times 10 equals. I took 85 times 10 because in the readings it says 10 years. That equals $850 and when you add the $700, you get $1550. You could also set this up as C=(85)10+700 and you would get the same value for C. 2. Y=$1000+$25, Y=$1000+($25)10 You will set this equation up as C= the…

-- tight knots. Unfortunately these knots are extremely common. You'd be hard pressed to find anyone who hasn’t experienced a muscle knot at some point. Though they can be problematical, they can also be quite manageable. What exactly are muscle knots? When you say that you have “muscle knots,” you are actually talking about myofascial trigger points. There are no actual knots involved, of course though they do feel like knots.…

Skating My Way When will we get there? I think over and over again while closing my eyes, listening to the noises. Hearing engines flying across the roaring road. For when we get there I’ll be able to hear the loud music and the wheels move across the floor as people skate. Me I can’t skate at all unless you can count hanging onto the walls skating. As we finally get there I see someone that I would’ve never expected to see. A girl my age with a bob-cut and hot pink highlights. “Hey…

does not necessarily provide any advantage. This sparked me to reflect on our society's method of determining intelligence. Gladwell notes that, “The relationship between success and IQ works only up to a point. Once someone has reached an IQ of somewhere around 120, having additional IQ points doesn’t seem to translate into any measurable real-world advantage” (79). Gladwell’s notion that you do not have to be incredibly smart, just smart enough changed the way I thought about our society. In…

In this essay the main topic is going to be the turning points in three different stories. A turning point is when something or something comes to a sudden change. For example, for my birthday my uncle gave me some money for whatever I wanted to buy and I was happy that what he gave me. One reason that someone's life can change is by receiving a gift. For example, in “An American Childhood” Annie Dillard gets a microscope for christmas and when she is playing around with it she finds the…

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, the author explains that a trend is spread by essentially word-of-mouth until it reaches the pinnacle of its popularity, then eventually fading in prevalence. Not only this, but Gladwell likens trends to that of disease epidemics, claiming that they spread in the same fashion. Gladwell defines the tipping point as, “the moment of critical mass, the threshold, the boiling point” (Gladwell), to demonstrate the tipping point as the…