Essays on Enclosure

In the article, “Principles of Information display for Visualization Practitioners” the author outlines the work on information display by Edward Tufte. It begins by defining the concept of visualizations excellence. According to Dr. Tufte, as the author quotes, visualizations excellence entails the complex ideas, which are communicated with precision, clarity, and efficiency. The author also quotes Dr. Tufte on the things that visualizations should do. Among them include showing the data and making large data sets coherent. The article also highlights some of the classic information designs along with general principles that Dr. Tufte has researched. Specifically, the article ...

“Words/Meanings” from the Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer:

Foer’s article raised many interesting points. It is laid out rather like a dictionary, with a list of words followed by the author’s definitions and feelings around them. Some words were closely related to the topic of eating animals, for example, “Broiler Chickens,” and some more ambiguous, for example, “Desperation.” One of the most interesting words and meanings for me was “Suffering.” Foer discusses possible meanings behind this word and whether it is possible for someone to argue that animals don’t suffer. Suffering is a difficult term to define and to measure. The question becomes even ...

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System theory forms the basis for the Systems-Theoretic Accident Model and Processes (STAMP) (Leveson 2011), and other Accident Causation Models, such as the Accident Causation Management System discussed in Kwon et al. 2006, and the Construction Accident Causation Model discussed in Mitropoulos et al. 2005. These models are compared and contrasted especially with respect to how human behavior is accounted for in each. In addition, a case study is discussed using the STAMP method to demonstrate the basic principles of STAMP. Due to a recent accident and much discussion ...

Part One: Primate Observation Field Notes

The observations of the primate took place at San Francisco Zoo. The following information provides the comments on the field notes made about the two primates – the Colobus Monkey and the Western Lowland Gorilla. The Colobus Monkey – a medium sized monkey of moderate build at San Francisco Zoo is found in the Doelger Primate Discovery Center (DPDC). Together with other species such as the pied tamarins, black howler monkey, siamangs and the squirrel monkeys, the colobus monkey is managed at DPDC under the Association of Zoos and Aquariums’ Species Survival Plans. These plans are designed to protect those species ...

Edgar Allan Poe is one of America’s most famous writers, arguably the prince of horror stories. His oeuvre covers a wide range of work, from poetry to prose, the Arab world to 19th century America, and detective fiction to horror stories. His 1845 poem, The Raven, made him a sensation and is regarded as one of the genre-defining works of American literature. His life and career were deeply troubled, but his legacy has enshrined him along with the greats. Poe’s stories are stylistically unique – displaying a huge diversity of elements taken from all over English and world ...

Satellite has transformed the manner the world is being looked at, and the manner people send information about it. Similar to enormous mirrors in space, they may be employed to bounce internet data, telephone calls, and television pictures from one point of the globe to another at light speed. They are utilized for communication in addition to sensing information. From facilitating military drills during combats to facilitating planes and ships orbit the planet, and from predicting the weather to locating mineral deposits. A homemade satellite can build by persons for research or spy purposes. The following instructions demonstrate how ...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper places a woman into an insane Victorian environment for the purpose of demonstrating the insanity of the insanity of the Victorian Woman. It is an ingenious plan to “show” rather than “tell” the repercussions of a social construct that respected and repressed women at the same time. Charlotte Perkins Gilman is one of the most intelligent of the early feminist writers. Having published over 200 writings, she blatantly blows the collar of Victorian imagery off the necks of women everywhere. When Gilman started writing, the role of women was to act “as ...

Question 1: Medieval art

Medieval art is a combination of both the classical and new classical traditions due to the various aspects of the art especially the elements of both Romanesque and gothic art and architecture in relation to the medieval church. Each of the architectural designs has its own outstanding and unique features that make them stand as original. In this history, we can take note of the Romanesque architecture of the Medieval Europe between sixth and 10th century. Two centuries later, it evolved into Gothic architecture that lasted for four centuries to 16th century (Bony 13). The term Romanesque architecture is used ...

Letter formats

Sooner or later each person faces a necessity to write a letter. No matter what type of letter you are going to write, it has to be effective and correct. From one point of view, it makes a process of writing letters rather tedious. However, it is not exactly so and if you know core rules of writing letters and understand basic letter formats, writing a letter will not turn into a challenge. That is why in terms of this speech, we would like to discuss a variety of letter formats and their peculiarities.

When you decide to write a letter, first of all it is ...

Fire safety engineering

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The primary purpose of this research is to illustrate the best practices which need to be followed in order to minimize the risks of leakages and mishaps resulting from the leakages. As the demand of LNG is on constant rise, the need of the hour is to prevent the leakages which may result either from the technical glitch or lack of adherence to the standard processes to be followed as recommended by the best practices through industrial standard. It is known that the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) is not as harmful as the Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) and ...

The ultimate nutritional value of any food is primarily dependent on its ability to support growth, reproduction and health over successive generations of humans or animals. Farming methods, as well as food preparation techniques, have a significant influence on the nutritional value of food. Some farming methods and food preparation techniques lead to the production of highly nutritious foods while others lead to the production of foods that are not relatively nutritious (Boland et al., 2000). One of the most popular farming methods currently is organic farming. This farming method mainly relies on green manure, compost, crop rotation, mechanical ...

The Tugendhat House is one of the classic examples of Mies van der Rohe’s architecture. The structure fits in with its surroundings in the wealthy suburb of Brno and has a sense of modernism without being too stark and bland. The emphasis on horizontal planes with the ground and the roof supported by vertical elements is an important and crucial part of the whole building. The plan of Tugendhat House actually comes out to create a boundless spatial freedom, obstacle-free space. The uniformed orthogonal grid of supports suggests that the plan ideally projects beyond the limit of the enclosure. ...

1. “I know zoos are no longer freedom plague them both” (Martel 21). Apparently, the above quote reflects how closely relatable the subjects of zoology and religion are, at least in Pi’s mind. He compares zoo animals to people of faith and the animals in the wild to people who have no faith. In both cases, the animals and the people with no religious system of belief are considered “free,” but according to Pi that freedom is nothing an illusion because of which zoos and religion have gotten a bad name. The truth is that animals in the ...

I used two 20th Century sources about the demographic and economic conditions of Ireland at the time Swift write “A Modest Proposal”, and in my opinion these would have strengthened the paper overall by placing it in a more detailed historical context. Neither of the articles would have changed my basic conclusions that Ireland was suffering from extreme poverty, hunger and poverty because of England’s colonial policies. They would have offered further proof of my main thesis that even though Swift’s essay was intended only to be satire, he had a very serious political purpose. In my opinion, during ...

Abstract Stages of fire behaviou from inception to decay have been described. Fire events namely flameover, flashover and backdraft have been described. Their causes and procedures to prevent and protect against them have been discussed.

Stages of Fire Behavior

The development of compartment fires is usually divided into 4 major stages, namely, the incipient or ignition stage, the growth stage, the fully developed stage and the decay stage. The graph in figure 1 represents these stages on a heat release rate vs. time diagram. The descriptions below are mainly as explained in ‘Fire development and fire behavior indicators’.

Figure 1: Stages of development ...

Introduction

A car driving simulator is basically a software product that can be used by anyone who wants to experience simulated driving. That is, driving a car via a computer or a particular controller instead of a car’s steering wheel (Blaauw, 2002). As of now, many software developing companies have launched different simulation software products that are readily available for everyone but very few to none of these companies have come up with an idea to simulate a car driving experience. The objective of this paper is to outline the different requirements to build and operate a car driving simulator. It covers the intended usage, hardware & ...

Goldsworthy as a Scots artist is able to find order between chaos of the world and bridges in his work. One way of bridging individuals is through bringing together their differences and making them orderly. Humanity is bridged by fusing different cultures and making the world less chaotic. When there is harmonious living people are able to bridge east west and nature as is the case in Goldsworthy’s film. Das work exemplifies the aesthetic fusion and vision in his work as well as practice. Bridging is an art that metaphorically symbolizes a step taken to unite and bring order in ...