Reinforced concrete

attended Columbia University School of Law. While he started photography as a hobby, Trager left his legal career in 1992 to pursue photography exclusively. He has published several books and has shown how different subjects, human flesh, and stone and concrete can be complementarily understood if they are filtered through the sensibilities of artists. Unlike other artists, who perceive and treat different subjects differently, Trager’s adoption of human subjects was not a departure from images…

The development of our minds is a complex and complicated process. This long drawn out process starts when we are still in the womb. It is a very interesting process, how are brains develop; how we learn things so quickly, how we adapt to situations around us. There are many different people who have different ideas on how our minds develop. Erick Erickson, John Piaget, and John Watson. For the most part their theories are completely different. The most logical theory is Erick Erickson’s he has…

entrails” (168). He continually emphasizes its mortality by identifying “the massive central-air units that hunkered and coiled on the striving high-rises, glistening like extruded guts” (5) and “pools of blood [that] gathered at the seams in the concrete wall where the brackets held the segments together, a wrinkled skin developing at the edges where they dried...becoming giant scabs” (238). This particular commentary gives the impression that the city is irreversibly hurt by the plague and…

Stoicism is a type of philosophy that declares that the fundamentals of moral values derive from knowledge. Stoics couldn’t effectively teach philosophy to their students because philosophy as a whole is interwoven and blended together making it far too complex to comprehend all at once (De Lacy 1). Epictetus is a philosopher who studied Stoicism in Greece and agreed with the common belief of other Stoic philosophers that in order for students to grasp philosophy they needed to split it into…

What are some of the major issues that almost every adolescent faces? That was the question I asked myself when assigned a project around the topic of media in my psychology of adolescence & early adulthood class at Nazareth College. To begin to answer this question, I first looked back on my own time as an adolescent. A big concern of mine during this time was the way in which I presented myself. This could include several aspects my self-concept of body image, the ways in how I presented my…

Over the years, Flannery O’Connor has produced piece after piece of inspiring literature. Her work has been commemorated on several occasions in addition to her winning awards such as The National Book Award, a grant from the National Institute of Arts and Letters, a grant from the Ford Foundation, a fellowship from the Kenyon Review, and finally several O. Henry awards. Clearly, there was something about O’Connor’s work that caught people’s attention. While there are many aspects of O’Connor’s…

In a racist society, it is unavoidable that programs to assist people of poverty be designed to bring up cultural prejudice. This goes to show how the workforce is organized around racial differences; consequently assistance programs will mirror those divisions. Otherwise the distribution of assistance to culturally minority people would produce a substitute to the low-wage labor to which they are already given, as a result undermining the racial foundation for allocating jobs. American social…

Introduction: Child development involves emotional, physical, sociable, and intellect changes over a period from conception through adolescence. Childhood is a multifaceted process in which many changes occur. To fully understand the changes throughout childhood, one interview and observation was conducted to a toddler perspective, and a second interview and observation was implemented on a school-age child. Vast changes arise from infancy and toddlerhood, jumping to later childhood, and that…

education has not been keeping pace by creating a learning environment for all genders. The typical school educational systems is more geared towards learning styles that work better for boys as abstract or extrinsic ideas are often taught rather than concrete or intrinsic things. (Legewie, 2014, pg.…

Employee Wellness Employee Wellness is an active process of making a conscious effort to ensure the overall well-being of the employees and enable them to be productive in the workplace. YMJ’s Staff Satisfaction Survey (SSS) highlighted that 48%, 70% and 50% of its employees are dissatisfied with their job, agreed on the importance of Staff Wellness and admitted that their stress levels were poorly managed, out of the respective 85%, 90% and 85% who found those areas important to them. Terry Ma,…