Stone Age

young adults, the MTV Video Music Awards comes to mind. But who could have imagined that in 2013 roughly 10.1 million people would tune in the watch the “public sexual blossoming of Miley Cyrus”. (Deadline, 2013) “About five million of these viewer ages ranged from 12 to 34” which is a time when many people are still forming their identity. (Deadline, 2013) This was not the only shocking display from a female artist. Singers Lady Gaga and Katy Perry also performed in very revealing outfits, but…

Finishes for Marble Floors Selecting the right finish for your marble flooring is a critical factor when deciding on the look and feel of the floors throughout your home. Overall aesthetics are important to your design, but the finish for your natural stone may be more appropriate for certain areas of the home depending on traffic and nature of use. Marble is a fantastic choice for floors. In addition to its natural beauty, resistance to moisture and durability, it is particularly good in…

Kidney stones are made from mineral and acid salts (Mayo Clinic). Kidney stones are often formed in our kidneys, usually because of urine becomes highly concentrated, which allow the minerals and salts to stick together and form the stone (Mayo Clinic. The picture below from the New York Times, shows where kidney stones are usually formed, in the major calyces, where they then travel down the ureter, where it usually becomes painful (NYT). There are several objectives to this experiment:…

This seemed like the most realistic outcome for the long-lived language until french soldiers and engineers uncovered a large stone that is now commonly known as the Rosetta Stone. This stone is significant because it bore the same text in three different ways: in hieroglyphs, in the demotic script, and in ancient Greek. Because Greek had been translated by this time, they were able to translate the Greek…

Being an omnivore comes along with a couple of benefits like being a high-quality source of protein, collecting important minerals, and vitamins that are needed throughout our bodies; however, being an omnivore can also lead to health problems, a large amount of wasted resources, and can create pollution. Each person can identify themselves by the certain types of diets that are dispersed all around us; there are a variety of diets that even seem unorthodox, yet the ones that we hear about the…

It is evident that the era of rock and roll greats such as Guns N’ Roses, AC/DC, and Led Zeppelin are fading. However, the passionate fans these legends created are still hungry for fist pumping guitar solos and rhythm driving bass drums. This desire for rock in roll in the twenty-first century is being adopted by the most popular radio music format in the United States: the country music industry (Kelly & Hunt 2016). In the words of Steven Tyler from Aerosmith, “Country is the new rock ‘n’ roll…

Mousterian Tradition (O’Neil). There are four steps involved in the Levallois technique (Michaels and Smith). The first and second steps are, a large stone is selected, then the stone is percussion flaked around the outside, which prepares the core (O’Neil). The third step is, one side of the stone is percussion flaked and then lastly, one end of the stone is struck which removes a large flake that is flat on one end and then convex on the other end (O’Neil). The flakes that were created from…

rich; children play with it in the streets. The meek and uneducated esteem it highly, but the privileged and learned often throw it away. When rejected, it lies dormant in the bowels of the earth. It is the only thing from which the Philosopher's Stone can be prepared, and without it, no noble metal can ever be created.” This is an on going riddle that an alchemist left behind and a ginormous debate all over the internet, personally I believe that this riddle is trying to say that love is the…

is a part of our human nature to strive for, go after, and achieve, a life of freedom. In the novel The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart, a handful of characters experience an unfortunate life without the freedom which they endlessly seek for. They experience a life with no freedom, which leads to the burning craving to sense what being free is like. Consequently, in the poem “Sympathy”…

At the turn of the century, women’s roles in the United States were very different than today. Back then in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, women had one role, which was getting married and having children. Women were basically slaves, they lived in a home with their husband and children, and were expected to raise their children and do whatever their husbands desired. After getting married, women would give up many of their rights. They were not allowed to own property, keep their own wages,…