The Grid

Rosas excelled in school and continued on to college, earning a chemical engineering degree and is now assisting in renovating the City of Chicago’s electrical power grid. Despite her many achievements, she wakes up every morning to a reality filled with uncertainty. Why should an orderly adult with a constant salary and a dependent family have to face the prospect of being resubmerged into an environment unfit for…

writing skills developed further through using the KEC grid templates for synthesis and critique, as I was able to read through the relevant literature I found, and immediately write down points I wanted to make for easy reference at a later date, when writing my draft and final essay. This skill is important to me as a learner as writing essays will always be expected of me in my coursework, and having a system such as the synthesis and critique grid enables me to efficiently organize my…

While our five senses do give us information regarding our surroundings, they can also easily play tricks on us. In certain situations, sense perception can be untrustworthy. An example of this is the Hermann Grid illusion. “Discovered more than one century ago, the Hermann grid illusion causes the viewer to see grey patches between the black squares. The effect is the result of an optical process called retinal lateral inhibition, which increases the contrast between the light and dark areas”…

Solar Power for Everyone, or a Brand New House on Mars? “Zero to 60 in 1.9 seconds, 250-MPH top speed, 620 mile range” (Siler 1). Those are only a few descriptions of the sleek 2017 Tesla roadster created by the company owned by Elon Musk. Musk is an entrepreneur and businessman born and raised in Africa. He attended numerous schools, the most notable of them being the Wharton School of Business. At a young age Musk was interested in computers and was already learning the skills he would later…

Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences has received much criticism over the years, but has also continued to gain ground in the field of psychology (Hockenbury & Hockenbury, 2018). Although every aspect of these eight intelligences has not yet been explored, Gardner has laid the foundation for recognizing the potential intelligences in everyone. These intelligences are interdependent on each other which is why children are encouraged to study in all of them from a young age. This is…

The Second Amendment Some people in the United States of America feel that the Second Amendment should be removed due to crimes in this country. Others feel that if the amendment was removed, the brutal death rates would increase, creating more harm than good. Although most people believe that guns can be dangerous, we should not amend the Second Amendment because people need guns for home and self defense, guns are a reliable source to help put food on the table, and they are also a way to…

complexities and simplicities of life presented by the artwork. As I walked into the first and main room of the exhibition, the first aspect of it that caught my eye was its layout. The arrangement engendered eight different zones that were positioned in a grid-like manner so that people could fully immerse themselves in the art and walk around each part. After examining, the different zones I sensed the connection; I felt as if I was a visitor in someone’s home. The lights hanging above…

The Mesopotamian city life diffused to Greece by 600 B.C., and modern western urbanization began in Greece. Greece contained five hundred cities, and the cities diffused through the Mediterranean Sea region to Italy, Spain, France, and northern Africa. The Greek empire had two distinct functional zones in Greek cities. The Acropolis are cities that have worship temples, and the seat of political power while Agora was the second city, and it was the province of the citizens. This zone was an area…

The Cell Membrane is one of the most important parts of the cell. If not for the cell membrane it would be extremely easy for things to invade the cell; this is because on of the cell membranes job is to control what come in and out of the cell (i.e. ions, viruses, etc). Also the cell membrane is what helps hold the cell and all of its organelles Endoplasmic Reticulum (AKA the ER), smooth and rough whats the difference? The smooth ER does not have any ribosomes while the rough ER is covered in…

1. Introduction Most nuclear power plants/reactors work in quite a similar way. The power/energy released by the reaction of continuous fission of the atoms (this process is call nuclear fission) from the fuel (this is achieved by using radioactive elements) is use create heat for liquid to turn into steam. This steam is then used to drive the turbines in the power plant, which produce electricity. (World Nuclear Association, 2015) The nuclear power plants on average now have about 33%…