include coarse screening, grit removal and in some case combination of large objects. Primary Treatment Primary treatment involves removal of settleable organic and inorganic solids by sedimentation, and removal of materials that float (scum) by skimming. Approximately 25-50 percent of the incoming BOD, 50-70 percent of the total suspended solids and 65 percent of the oil and grease are removed during primary treatment. Some organic nitrogen, organic phosphorous, and heavy metals associated…
This is Miss Rebecca Daisy from Little, Brown publishers! My boss, Mrs. Gowdy, was skimming through some stuff I placed on her desk, and she came across Mr. Ashton’s story and –” Mark abruptly opens the sliding glass door. Looking long and limber, Mark asks who I am talking to. “Miss Daisy,” I whisper, with the phone turned away. Mark chuckles…
An Analysis of Carr’s “Is Google Making Us Stupid” In the last 30 years, a wave of technological innovation has swept over the Earth, blanketing our cultures with Cell Phones, Microwaves, and the peculiar creation labeled simply, “The Internet”. Emerging to the public in the 1990’s, the Internet is a vast collection of databases stored all around the world, allowing anyone with a computer and access to the internet to view virtually anything you might want to learn about. However, even in its…
Jake Mason English 1100 Dr. Gueye September 21, 2017 Is Google Making Us Stupid? Nicholas Carr makes the statement that “Google is making us stupid”. Mr. Carr has taken his personal encounters from Google and incorporated it into an article about its negative effects on society’s intelligence. Google, defined, is a search engine that finds websites related to what the user enters in the search bar. Once you get to the desired website, Nicholas Carr argues that we glance through the…
-What is the lottery? -What dangerous the lottery can be? - What the author was to tell about writing “the lottery” -what the winner of the lottery won? Answer: _ The dictionary said that Lottery means of raising money by selling numbered tickets and giving prizes to the holders of numbers drawn at random. In my country everywhere people are selling tickets of lottery, and everybody if they have money or if they wants. They buy a lottery ticket expecting to win more money even though that they…
Importance of Note-Taking Who knew that note-taking was even an art? Note-taking is so important that there are class courses in college on this subject alone. Well it should be understandable since the years spent in school, one will need to craft his or her skill in the ways of note taking in order to take effective notes during a fast-paced lecture. Note-taking is a valuable skill not only academically but a skill one can inaugurate to everyday life. “Note taking is an essential academic and…
Freeman 1 Skimming the surface:Preliminary Judgment In the book To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee, set in the early 1930’s in the small town of Maycomb County, Alabama. Two kids, Jem and Scout Finch grow up with first-hand accounts of racism and revenge and preliminary judgements that ruin people's lives. These events that happen to those around them are part of the reason that Jem and Scout lost their innocence in other words, how the mockingbird got killed. , Lee uses the act of preliminary…
Ender’s Game and “Is google Making Us Stupid?” Ender’s Game and “Is google making us stupid”, is intertwined with ways author Nicholas Carr describes in his article how technology, is lowering human’s ability to understand how interaction with the, internet affect our ability to decipher what is real and what is not. Ender is so intertwined with Technology, that it is actually making him believe that everything, that happens at the battle school is just a game but in reality real. In…
everyone but only to those unlikely to need care. Driven by the concept of market justice, private insurers provide companies with the incentive to screen subscribers and identify those unlikely to submit claims. Hence, they adopt the practices of “skimming,” accepting only patients who can pay and leaving the government responsible for covering the costs of the impecunious, and “dumping,” transferring emergency patients to government hospitals if they are unable to pay. These methods ultimately…
Fossil fuels are a critical component in the functioning of our society. These resources are staples in maintaining the energized life styles that people have become used to. Fossil fuels are sources of energy derived from animal and plant remains from more than 300 million years ago (U.S. Department of Energy 2013). These remains were then coated with combinations of clay and rock called sediment (Energy Quest 2012). Sedimentary rock effectively protected the hydrocarbons in fossil fuels…