Shallow foundation

Journey’s are a recurrent and common theme throughout literary novels, providing a foundation for the rise or fall of a character. Two sample novels were provided for their effectiveness at displaying journey’s and the impacts affiliated with them. The first is titled The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, and the second is The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna. Each story is different in its plot and characters, yet each has striking similarities with each other. Example similarities…

note the differences in the depth of the focus. Shallow-focus earthquakes, those with a focus not deep in the earth are more destructive than deep-focus earthquakes because the distance is not far enough to eliminate the intensity. It is shown that the Chilean earthquake occurred 22 miles beneath the ground, twice as deep as the Haitian quake. The implication is that there are “twice as much earth to absorb the shock before it reached building foundations”(The Week staff, 2010). Intense ground…

Every year, the Earth is rocked by thousands of earthquakes that causes damage ranging from non-existent to severe. These severe earthquakes can cause major damage to the cities ' buildings and infrastructure around the world, but more importantly many innocent people are injured and killed in these disasters. On average, 13 300 people are killed and over 4 million people are affected each year as a result of earthquakes. Also, earthquakes costs the world economy US$12,106,198,000 per year on…

Standardized Testing A standardized test is any test that is administered and scored following a predetermined standard procedure. There are two main types of standardized tests: proficiency tests and achievement tests. Standardized tests predict how well students perform at any subsequent educational level or space. The most common examples are the SAT and the ACT, which attempt to predict how well secondary students will perform in college. However, when assessing the effectiveness of a school…

telling someone else information about oneself. The discussion could range anywhere from a person’s aspirations to what someone ate for lunch. The Social Penetration Theory states that as relationships develop, the interpersonal communication goes from shallow conversations to more intimate ones. (Taylor, Altman, 2002). The Social Penetration theory describes two parts of self-disclosure: depth and breadth. The breadth part of self-disclosure is the easiest part because it can be a range of…

The foundation noted in the book is comprised of “Psychic determinism, internal structure, psychic conflict, and mental energy” (Funder, 2016). Freud explains psychic determinism as everything happens for a reason. Alex wanted to be with Dan from the moment she…

structure and writing style was portrayed in is his most popular play A Doll House, which was written in 1897, a time in which women 's rights was low to non-existent. The play is mainly about the relationship of a couple; the husband Torvald Helmer a shallow businessman that believes in a traditional husband takes care of wife cliché. Torvalds wife is Nora Helmer a calm and naïve housewife who develops to become a strong and independent woman. Nora’s father, who’s name isn’t stated and is also…

Part 1: The natural hazard of Bushfires are a huge hazard in Australia varying from small grass fires to burning hundreds of acres of land bush houses or farms. There are 6 main fire ratings known to the public they are low, high, very high, severe, extreme and code red, there are often sighns in communityies that display these catorgories and tell what the catorgorie rating for the day is. (the fire catorgorie sighn is shown beside). There are also a scale with a type of area and how high and…

false images of blacks. An examples of such is Black Hawk Down, because although in real life Somalis were killing Americans, the movie never gives a reason or why the Americans where in Somalia in the first place. This movie depicts Somalis in this shallow story as faceless enemies, who kill Americans without any purpose. This racism exists in cartoon movies as well like in the movie Avatar, Avatar, a white savior movie. In this film the protagonists get implanted in an endangered culture, they…

asthma. So it’s a little bit of a catch 22. If you have asthma you can’t exercise but if you have asthma is can be difficult to exercise. • Sleep apnea is a very common disorder in the obese population where you have one or more pauses in breathing or shallow breaths while you sleep, in other words you stop breathing in your sleep which can cause other health problems as well. • Strokes caused by being overweight can lead to a buildup of plaque in your arteries. Eventually, an area of plaque…