Stratosphere

While the similarities between indentured servants and slaves are plentiful, such as the conditions of travel and the treatment upon arrival. We mustn’t ignore the differences for example the circumstances of their departure paired with the opportunities available to them in the colonies. This are important because it helped establishing the social/economic hierarchy of the new world. When examining the traveling conditions of indentured servants to say it was uncomfortable would be a gross…

public’s mind in 1970. Supersonic Transport would fly inside the stratospheric ozone layer and that worried scientist because they thought the emission would do damage. The MIT commissioned a major study and released a statement to the state of the stratosphere and the possible impact of of the SST. Scientist at Boeing Laboratories accidently undermined the SCEP argument using a different model. They calculated that the water vapor produced by fleet of 850 SSTs would deplete the ozone column by…

Mount Vesuvius is a stratovolcano, located on the West coast of Italy, on the Gulf of Naples and is the only active land volcano in Europe. Mount Vesuvius is 4,190 feet above sea level and is about 50km around its base (figure 1). It is over 17,000 years old and the last eruption occurred in 1944 which was during the Second World War. The volcano is best known for its eruption in AD 79 that damaged many houses and killed many people in the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Furthermore, it is…

general population does not become more educated. On page 191, Goldstein states, “The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking into the depths of the sea, materials which might make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.” If the war effort did not eat up any excess resources the uneducated population “would become…

elasticity of Jones’ language and the control of Macbride’s gentle snare drumming. The drummer gains preponderance once again in the minimalistic “Trio”, a beautiful poem that easily and softly invades the space around us. Moving in different stratospheres, “I Am An American” carries a more familiar jazz signature as it mildly swings, while “Hola, Amigo” sprinkles a hip-hop flavor in the air and boasts exhilarating solos from tenor and guitar. Combining the thrillingly emotional with the…

it went unnoticed. But how did it go unnoticed? The weather. The weather changed dramatically because when a volcano erupts, it spews tons of ash and gas into the air. When this happens, a ‘haze’ of black gas and ash mix in with the rest of the stratosphere. It takes years for this ‘haze’ to dissipate. How does the ‘haze’ affect the atmosphere? It destroys it. Scientists have studied how the atmosphere in the radius of a recently erupted violent volcano, and the destruction can be similar to the…

As the Sputnik satellite was launched into the air in 1957, the United States was taken by shock as it first entered the stratosphere. The satellite was a small silver orb and weighed just 184 pounds. Even though this was a simple machine that was not able to do more than orbit the Earth and transmit useless radio blips, Sputnik had an enormous and unprecedented impact on the United States (Dickinson). Before the launch, the US had the belief that they were far ahead of other countries in…

endangers all sectors of our society. Human health will be impacted directly and indirectly due to the environmental changes that will occur with climate change. Ozone depletion occurs when manufactured chemicals such as chlorofluorocarbons reach the stratosphere; the UV radiation from the sun causes the release of chlorine atoms that react with the ozone. This chemical cycle causes ozone destruction that depletes the ozone layer. Ultimately, the chain reaction will affect the air quality,…

snowed and in China the frost ended many rice crops, mainly in the north. Throughout the world, the harvests that had been achieved were defended by the authorities to keep them away from the hungry people in rebellion while prices rose to the stratosphere. No one understood why all these calamities were happening. Great sunspots could be seen that year with the naked eye, and they were blamed. No one imagined that the ashes expelled by the voice Tambora had come so far and were giving those…

heart of the valley. As I look up at the street after struggling to untangle my headphones on my way to the bus top, I encounter new faces and wonder where they are going. My destination is seeing the sunrise appear with the silhouette of the Stratosphere Casino on one side of the field and the Downtown skyline on the other as the bus drops me off on 7th Street to complete my long morning routine – only to repeat the same journey the next day. There are days in which I would like to skip out…