Quicksand
Goal: To see if I can make quicksand and to see how it works.
Apparatus: Plastic aquarium, plastic tubing (make sure that a portion of it is able to fit around the output of the chemical lawn sprayer), Plexiglas, cardboard, brass tubing, 2 hose barbs, 2 connectors, chemical lawn sprayer, plastic jug (to hold the same amount that the sprayer will), gas shut off-valve, small plastic cup, silicon sealer, epoxy, marker or pen, razor, wood, tape, scissors or knife, rocks, fine sand, sandpaper, drill, waterproof tape, jigsaw (or another saw that can cut Plexiglas), heavy object, string.
Procedure: First you need the cardboard and the aquarium. Take the aquarium and place it on the cardboard. Then take a marker or pen and trace the shape of the aquarium onto the cardboard. Then cut out the shape and see if it fits tightly into the aquarium. If it doesn't then make necessary adjustments, if it is to big then cut a little bit off, if it is to small then you need to get a new piece. Once the cardboard fits into the aquarium then take it and place it on the Plexiglas. Place tape on the Plexiglas so that when you put the cardboard onto the Plexiglas the edges of the cardboard are in the middle of the tape. Then use a pen to trace the cardboard shape onto the tape. Use a saw to cut the Plexiglas where the line is. Next, take the brass tubing and find a drill bit that is just a little bit bigger than it and use the drill bit to drill holes into the top of the Plexiglas. When you drill put a piece of wood on the other side of the Plexiglas so the Plexiglas won't crack or break. Cut the brass tubing to 2 inches long and fit them into the holes you drilled into the Plexiglas. Now glue the Plexiglas into the aquarium. To do this, place the Plexiglas into the aquarium where you want it, and take a pen and draw around the edges. The epoxy directions tell you to sand the surface you are gluing so it is rough. So take sand paper and sand the pen lines. Use the epoxy and put it on the edge of the Plexiglas, or put it in the sanded part of the aquarium.
Some people go through life thinking they are invincible or a bad until events happen in your life where you find out whether your bad or not. People go through this all the time and this is part of growing up. In "Greasy Lake:" by T.C. Boyle, the narrator of this story undergoes a "character arc;" by the end of the story he has developed more as a character (i.e undergone changes), and is noticeably different than he was at the onset of the narrative.
Since her first album, 19, she has come a strong, yet sensitive icon in pop culture. Her career had a small start in early 2008, but she quickly shot to the top. In October of 2008, Adele was on Saturday Night Live, after which her music made the Top 40 list immediately and the #1 spot by the following day (Biography.com). Adele was a key artist and figure when her album 21 debuted. Over the years Adele has shown that her music tells a story of her background, along with her present and future. The song, “Rolling in the Deep”, holds a meaning that describes not only her own life, but also the life of her audience. The essence of the song is accessible for all of the generations, including future ones. “Rolling in the Deep” could be a modern
The definition of home is: the place where one lives permanently. Home is a place where one feels accepted, loved, and comfortable enough to be themselves completely. In Nella Larsen’s “Quicksand”, main character Helga is a bi-racial woman in the 1920’s who struggles internally with where she feels she belongs and where she can call home. Throughout the entire novel Helga moves to many different places to try and feel at home. In the society that Helga is cursed to have to live in, biracial people are not common and rarely accepted in many communities. Personally I don’t feel like Helga would have ever found a place to call her real home, using the definition where home is a permanent place to comfortably live, where she would chose to stay
The first encounter with Helga Crane, Nella Larsen’s protagonist in the novel Quicksand, introduces the heroine unwinding after a day of work in a dimly lit room. Alone. Or, is she? Although no one else is present in the room, Helga is accompanied by her own thoughts, feelings, and her worrisome perceptions of the world around her. Helga’s anxieties and fears are perhaps some of her most challenging adversaries. And while there are human character antagonists that will soon play a significant role in the novel and in the story of Helga Crane, such as her friends, coworkers, relatives, and ultimately even her own children, there are also enemies that Helga confronts who never say a word. These quiet yet taxing antagonists appear throughout the novel in many different forms. Physical and cultural settings, racial oppression, religious and educational institutions, even the concepts of marriage and childbirth emerge as massive obstacles for Crane. These problems are a substantial source of Helga’s apprehensions and eventually lead to her tragic demise.
The first step is to print three pages to achieve a complete set. These can be printed on any material and glued to a thin cardboard or some other construction
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5. Kellert, S.R. and E.O. Wilson, editors. 1993 The Biophilia Hypothesis. Island Press, Washington, DC
. Cape Hatteras Lighthouse is the 208-foot tall landmark was just hauled more than a quarter-mile back from its former perch, where it was threatened by the encroaching sea. Coastal erosion chewed away about 1,300 feet of beach, bringing the waves to within 150 feet of the 4,800-ton sentinel. When the light was erected in 1870, it stood about 1,500 feet back from the waves. The lighthouse, on the Outer Banks, North Carolina's long barrier beach, was built to warn ships from waters called "the graveyard of the Atlantic." Ironically, the move should serve as a warning about the growing problem of coastal erosion. Erosion is not just plaguing the Outer Banks. Coastal residents up and down the United States are worrying about undermined cliffs, disappearing beaches, and the occasional dwelling diving into the briny. Beaches are constantly moving, building up here and eroding there, in response to waves, winds, storms and relative sea level rise. Yet when commoners like you and me, and celebs like Steven Spielberg, build along the beach in places like Southampton, N. Y., we don't always consider erosion. After all, real-estate transactions are seldom closed during hurricanes or northeasters, which cause the most dramatic damage to beaches. Yet Southampton, like all the barrier beaches that protect land from the sea, is vulnerable to obliteration by the very factor that makes it so glamorous: the sea. And the problem is increasing because the sea is rising after centuries of relatively slow rise, and scientists anticipate that the rate of rise will continue to increase in the next century. Land, in many places, is also slowly sinking. The result is a loss of sand that places the occasional beachside home inconveniently near -- or in -- the water. Still, erosion cuts in two directions. Without the process of erosion, we would not have the beaches, dunes, barrier beaches, and the highly productive bays and estuaries that owe their very existence to the presence of barrier beaches. Erosion of glacial landforms provides most of the beach sand in Massachusetts. A popular destination The beach-erosion problem has many causes. Among them are: · The ubiquitous desire to live near the sea. · A historically rapid ri...
The experiment apparatus consisted of an extra-large egg, 1/10 spoon of salt, olive oil, water, a spoon, a small sized bowl, a Continental Electric egg beater, an 8” flat frying pan, a cooking stove, and a kitchen stopwatch.
literature and writes of the “tragic mulatto.” According to Lamb, in Hughes’s poem, “Mulatto,” [Hughes] draws upon call and response, signifying, and the blues to present the biracial male African American 's struggle for paternal acceptance and a place in southern society” (Lamb 133-34). By saying this, Lamb claims that people of mixed race seek approval from their parents because they know they are not accepted by society. However, like the white and black communities, even the parents cannot understand their mulatto children, which leaves the individual isolated. These individuals are similar to stars because they mar the perfect distinction between white and black.
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Hazardous waste and its proper disposal have become a major sociological problem today due to its capability of contaminating the area in which we live and its potential to be lethal to all living things. In order for the United States and the rest of the world to save itself from a potentially life threatening problem they must fix the causes which lead to the improper disposal of hazardous wastes and like materials. Some reasons that hazardous waste has become a problem in the United States today is due to the breakdown in enforcing laws for the proper disposal of such wastes, a lack of initiative on big companies behalf to spend money on proper disposal, and the ease of disposing of such wastes illegally.
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