...degrees. Thus, at any given time during summer or winter, one part of the planet is more directly exposed to the rays of the Sun. This exposure alternates as the Earth revolves in its orbit. Therefore, at any given time, regardless of season, the northern and southern hemispheres experience opposite seasons. The effect of axis tilt is observable from the change in day length, and altitude of the Sun at noon (the culmination of the Sun), during a year. Summer: Summer is the warmest of the four temperate seasons. Summer is the warmest season of the year when the sun shines directly on one half of the world. Usually, July and August are the hottest months of the summer season. Crops, trees, and other plants reach their full maturity in summer. Summer is traditionally associated with hot dry weather, but this does not occur in all regions. Summer is one of the seasons of a year which is the warmest. It falls between the seasons of spring and autumn. Summer is generally known to be the season which has the hottest and longest days in a year. The summer nights are usually smaller than those of winter. It is a very good season for outdoor activities like vacationing, swimming or simply lazing on the beach. Various tropical summer fruits like pineapples, watermelons, mangoes, berries, melons, and vegetables are abundant in summer. Construction: In higher latitude locations, summer is the time for road resurfacing, as winter ice and snow leaves potholes behind in the pavement...
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...An Analysis on Seasonal Affective Disorder and the effects of Climate and Lighting on Emotion Brain, Mind & Behavior "Seasonal affective disorder also known as winter depression, winter blues, summer depression, summer blues, or seasonal depression, is a mood disorder in which people who have normal health throughout most of the year experience depressive symptoms in the winter or summer, spring or autumn year after year." In the DSM-IV, it is not characterized as a unique mood disorder but considered a 'specifier of major depression'. (Stephen, 2007) Is it not more than a convenience that the year’s most joyous holidays occur on the onset of the winter solstice? The impact of light on emotion has been shown and linked by numerous surveys and tests in the past. Low or dark lighting has been shown to cause eye fatigue and headaches. Absence of natural daylight triggers depression and poor immune defenses. Insufficient lighting is linked to emotional stress and to physical ailments. Bright light stimulates emotions, while low levels of illumination quiet the senses. On the other hand, an excess of unnatural light does not replace the calming effects of natural daylight. Too much artificial light and overly-bright rooms hurt the eyes and make one feel jittery. (Fisher E. , 2004) The impact of lighting on mood and cognition has been difficult to demonstrate because people in industrialized countries, on average, spend 93 percent of their time indoors, making them largely...
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...The desirability of Whistler Blackcomb and Sochi as winter and summer destination resorts. We can think of Whistler Blackcomb and Sochi as winter and summer destination resorts by having in our mind one historical event for the year 2010 when the Vancouver Olympic Winter Games started in the westernmost province of British Columbia and recently launched the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics. It makes sense to organize Olympic Games on the territories that can serve as winter and summer destination resorts. Why? To answer this question let’s consider the geography and all necessary infrastructures needed and designed to carry out the whole bunch of sport venues. Host country’s Organizing Committees are responsible for installing necessary infrastructures for organizing the Olympic Games such as Olympic Villages, air-supported domes, stadiums, training ice rinks and other facilities for competing during the games. It also assists with medical services, lodging facilities, means of transportation for the athletes and officials. For organizing Winter Olympic Games which includes alpine skiing, luge, ski jumping host county’s geography should provide mountain chains, and for Summer Olympics that include canoe sprint, canoe slalom or sailing, geographically the country needs ocean, seas and lakes. As it is mentioned in our case, Whistler is a resort town with nearly 10,000 permanent residents and has two million visitors annually. It served as the designated site of Olympic events. To attract...
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...13 January 2016 Winter Interim Classes Reading Area Community College has added a new academic path for students who enjoy fast paced learning. These classes are offered between the larger breaks that are taken throughout the semesters. A winter, spring, and summer interim class are offered as an online or lecture class for about four weeks at a time. During these four weeks, a lot of information is covered. However, being a winter interim class, it still needs to meet the requirements for an average 15 week semester. Winter interim classes are beneficial for the academically fast paced students, who are highly motivated, eager to learn, and want to get a head start on their goal of graduating. All college courses are stressful but winter interim classes are especially stressful. Every other day in the course is a new week, with a new load of work, and a new assortment of questions. As progression happens throughout the course, students begin to notice that everything mentioned or taught, is valuable. There is no time for “fluff” information. As the semester shortens everyday students become motivated to do their work in a timely fashion. Students learn the consequences of procrastinate on their work, and start to develop more effective time management skills. One of the most beneficial factors that can be valued for fast paced class, is the skill to time manage. Time management is realistically practiced in the real world and taking a winter interim class prepares...
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...Robert Hayden’s “Those Winter Sundays” is a poem describing typically Sundays during the winter season. Hayden begins the poem with the father's getting up in the early morning making the necessary adjustment warming the house for his family to start the day after a long week of work. The element of figurative language that enriches imagery and sounding are an essential element of this poem contributing to the message of “Those Winter Sunday”. The element of figurative language with the use of metaphor and personification enriches the imagery of the temperature of the house. Hayden help illustrates the coldness of the house by stating: “fearing the chronic angers of that house, (2. 9). This metaphor helps explain the reason for the son of wanting to not leave his warm cozy room and he mentally not prepares to embrace the cold temperature of the rest of the house. The line also shows personification by giving the house, human characteristic in which also enhances the imagery. “Chronic angers” show's emphasis on the cold temperature of the house and conflict among the family....
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...so hard to get anyone to do them. Doing extras will not only make your customers happy, but it can earn you a lot more income. How many times have I asked a lawn mowing company to get rid of weeds or move things only to be told I just mow lawns. Get a gardener if you want that. To me, that is a red flag and time to try someone else. I do not want to be following a lawn mowing contractor around moving things for him so he can mow. This is how your customers feel if you are just a lawn mower. For those who are happy to do a little more, think of this as an opportunity to take work from the ‘just a lawn mower’. Even if you are ‘just a lawn mower,’ there are ways to get things done without doing them. Read on. 72 Landscape Manager AND MAKE YOUR CUSTOMERS SMILE. It’s The Little Extras That Make A Good Landscape Maintenance Company. Why would you want to do more than mowing? Firstly, it gives you more opportunities to do more work in winter. It also allows you to charge more for those extras and make more money. Most importantly however, it makes your customers happier. If you are a larger company, it can get you more work. Like anything, doing extras can benefit from planning. Now, if you want to be ‘just a lawn mower,’ then plan to make this possible without getting under your customers’ skin. To be just a lawn mower, you will at least need to move things around to mow correctly. For example, move that hose or trampoline. However, the extras can be done by others, and you can...
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...Organ of Halloween and all saints day Halloween dates back to over 2,000 years ago in what is now United Kingdom, Ireland and Northern France would hold a festival commemorating the end of the year. The festival was call the Samhain, which mint the end of the year signaled the end of summer and the harvest season which would spark the begging of a land and harsh winter to come next year, this harsh winter would cause a number of death to the people and there livestock. They would kill there livestock during the festival because they knew that they would not survive the winter anyway, in these event they thought the night before new years that a wall between the living and spirit world would open allowing spirits good and bad to mingle with the living and they would believe that they would cause trouble, ruin crops, and search for a way back for the after life. The Samhain was considered a magical holiday, no one knows how the Celtics practiced or believed while they held the festival, some say that the spirits who were unleashed are those that had died in that year, food and water was use to aid them or scare them away. Others say that the Celtics would dress in costumes and make noise to scare the spirits away. All saints day saints day is on November 1, it is the day the church remembers the martyrs who gave there life for what they believed in. Back before the date was official, they would tell stories of the heroic men and women of faith for the witnesses to Christ...
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...THEME: “Winter” LESSON TOPIC: ”Winter Apparel” OBJECTIVES: Language: •. Students will be able to identify various pieces of winter apparel. Content: •. Students will be able to describe each piece of winter apparel’s use (dependent on student levels). LEARNING STRATEGIES: Students will be presented multiple times with the vocabulary of winter apparel, therefore using the strategy of repetition. Students will also have a hands on experience, by being able to touch and try on the winter clothes. This allows for students to make the connection between the object and the English word, as well as the students native word for the clothing item. Students will also discuss the use of each clothing item, allowing for multiple levels to be targeted. KEY VOCABULARY: Glove, Mitten, Scarf, Hat, Coat, Boots, Snow Suit, and Earmuffs MATERIALS: A Snowy Day Coloring Page, Caps, Hats, Socks and Mittens: A Book About the Four Seasons by Louise Borden, Crayons, Various winter apparel (gloves, mittens, scarves, hats, coats, books, snowsuit, ear muffs, etc.) Bingo boards with pictures of winter apparel, stamps MOTIVATION: This is a first grade ESL class with a certified teacher and two assistances. There are 3 levels of ESL learners, beginners, intermediate, and advance. As with any ESL class, students are from a variety of different countries and cultures. Some of these students may come from a place where it does not get cold enough to wear any winter apparel....
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...Robert Hayden 1913-1980 Those winter Sundays Sundays too my father got up early And put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, Then with cracked hands that ached From labor in the weekday weather made Banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him. I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking. When the rooms were warm, he’d call, And slowly I would rise and dress, Fearing the chronic angers of that house, Speaking indifferently to him, Who had driven out the cold And polished my good shoes as well. What did I know, what did I know Of love’s austere and lonely offices? Poem “Those Winter Sundays” is wrote by Robert Hayden, generally seen as a crafted lyric on a universal theme---paternal love, describing a past day and showing a present reverence for author’s father. The title “Those Wither Sundays” emphasizes the time background. It is Sundays, not Tuesdays or Fridays. Sundays are days at home, days completely belongs to ourselves, days that we see our families the most. Hayden recalls the past and realizes how much he had to thank his father. It was a normal Sunday in winter when the author was a little boy; his father got up early, made the fire with his “cracked hands”, woke him up and polished shoes for him. The theme is presented directly and explicitly through every rich physical detail. The poem doesn’t use a masculine pronoun; it sounds more like a woman’s. Through the choice of the gender of voice, I can see the speaker is a soft and sensitive man...
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...Introduction The purpose of any classification system is to obtain an efficient arrangement of information in a simplified and generalized form. Thus climatic statistics can be organized in order to describe and delimit the major types of climate is quantitative terms. Obviously no single classification can serve more than a limited number of purposes of satisfactory and many different schemes have therefore been developed. Some schemes merely provide a convenient nomenclature system, whereas others are an essential primarily further study. Many climatic classifications, for instance are concerned with the relationship between climate and vegetation or soils but surprisingly few attempts have been made to base a classification on the direct effects of climate on man. General classification related to plant growth / vegetation. Numerous schemes have been suggested d for relating climatic limits to plant growth or vegetation growth rely basically or two basic criteria the degree of aridity and warmth. Aridity is not simply a matter of low precipitation but of the effective precipitation i.e. precipitation minus evaporation. The ratio of rainfall/temperature has been used as such an index of precipitation effectiveness or the ground that higher temperatures in cease evaporation. W. KOPPEN CLASSFICATION A prime example of this type of classification is W. Koppen published between 1900 and 1936. The key features of Koppen’s final classifications are temperature criteria and...
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...enzymatic reactions correspond directly to temperature. As seen in fish, body temperatures adjust to changing water temperatures by adjusting overall storage and function of enzyme-catalyzed metabolic processes. In freshwater turtles, enzymatic activities were slowed during winter months compared to warmer summer months. Thermoregulation along with control of enzymatic activity allows for maintenance of body temperature within a narrow range. Researchers looked for a correlation between body temperature in different seasons compared to the activity of lactate dehydrogenase, citrate synthase, and c-oxidase. Researched tested these variables in alligators located in the wild at Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge. Researchers used a sample of 14 males and 16 females in the summer and 17 males and 14 females in the winter in this experiment. Tissue samples were collected from each member of the summer and winter group. Body temperature records were obtained by seven members of each season. Experimental assays were determined using duplicates at temperatures of 15 and 30 degrees Celsius for summer samples, and 15, 22.5, and 30 degrees Celsius for the winter samples. Data was collected from these groups for 10.3+-1.3 days....
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...It is that time of the year to when we start bringing out our layers and heavy coats because it is winter and it is cold! But unfortunately, there are tons of families around the country that have to battle through the severe weather without the comfort of warm clothes or jackets. I cannot imagine going through the winter without security of a warm coat because what is better than bundling up and getting cozy with a heavy coat? Therefore, I had an idea to start a jacket drive that starting from the twenty-third of November to the ninth of December, for some of those families that need the security, they drive the same streets as me or sit right next to me in class. Texas weather is very unpredictable, and at most times, it is necessary to...
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...as they were free and of Greek origin. Women were not allowed to participate, and only unmarried women could watch. Winners of the first Olympics had their name announce and received a palm branch while he was cheered for. Red ribbons would then be tied on his head and hands to symbolize his victory. Later, at the end of the games the winners would again be honored, this time at the temple of Zeus by being announced and receiving a sacred olive tree wreath to be placed on his head. Originally the Olympics took 1 day, but it 684 BC it was changed to 3 days. In 5th century BC they were again changed, this time to 5 days. The games originally included running, long jump, shot put, javelin, boxing, equestrian events, and pankration. The events eventually expanded so much that the Olympics was split into two events....
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...world, South Koreans have their own food culture to suit their unique history and climate. Not only has the geographical boundaries which separate it from its neighbors impacted on the food culture of the nation, but the four distinct seasons have also influenced what South Koreans eat. There are various type of traditional food in South Korea such as Ttok Kuk, Ogokbap and Kimchi. Ttok kuk or rice cake soup is a typical Korea traditional food they eat on New Year. Ttok kuk contain several meanings. First of all, it means when you have a dish of ttok kuk you are one year older. They do not count the age on the basis of their birthday but on the basis of every New Year’s Day. Nowadays they eat ttok kuk any day of the year they like other than New Year’s day but in the past it was only on New Year’s Day. Older people would ask, how many dishes of ttok kuk you had, “2 dishes” definitely will not be the answer. Because one soup is equals to one year of life, the more you eat, the more you age. Second, another name for ttok kuk is “byung tang”, which means broth made of ttok. Ttok kuk also a dish that wish for a year you won’t get ill after ate this dish. They wish to live with strength as the ttok, round and long. There is a profound meaning in this dish. Third, the round shape of ttok like a coin symbolizes the rising sun. That’s why when they cutting the ttok, it must be cut in a round shape and in no other way. Ttok is made with rice powder beaten with a special hammer without...
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...Question 7. The highest temperatures within the day are usually recorded at around 2 o clock in the afternoon. Can you explain why this happens? Hot air rises, the land heats up and the air comes up, ground holds heat, heating up through conduction. If you touch a hot sidewalk in the summertime that sidewalk will retain the heat late into the night, the most absorbed heat occurs by 2 P.M after the sun has shone the highest transferring heat. Question 8. Trends since 2004 the overall average temperature has increased from 54.8 to 58.8. Although the temperature may be higher one year such as 2006 57.3 to 2008 55.8 overall the temperatures are still higher than the start temperature in 2004. July temperature has increased significantly since 2004, each year has seen fluctuations ranging from 2 degrees to over 8 degrees in 2010, heat...
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