...Darren Estes Professor Addington English 111 04 November 2014 Digging In Seamus Heaney’s, “The Digging” the author tells a story that emphasizes strength and family values to portray that your upbringing and family roots do not have to define your route in life. Heaney also incorporates different rhetorical devices throughout the poem to make the text more vivid. Through this use of language and text manipulation, the reader can grasp the weight of this poem for Heaney, while also identifying with his early background in life. Heaney begins the poem from the perspective of a young man, who has taken a different path in life from that of his family. The son immediately identifies himself as having a different outlook on life by emphasizing the weight of his pen “Between my finger and my thumb/The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.” (Heaney 1-2). This comparison between his pen and a gun shows how powerful he believes his pen can be in regards to the work of his father. We are then shown a scene of his father working outside of his window, which relates to overall theme of the poem and the strength needed to perform hard labor. Through this use of language Heaney shows us the power struggle for the son in this poem, the son sees strength not through the use of manual labor but by other means, while the father values physical strength. Any type of work that requires manual labor can be extremely taxing if done for long periods of time, while visibly showing on the workers...
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...Addreal Harness Anthropology 101 March 18, 2012 Digging for Slaves “Digging for Slaves” Archaeologists have obtained different findings to show the truth behind slavery. They changed the perception that all races have about slavery. The University of South Carolina has information about the slaves’ everyday life and all of the things that they could do. The archaeologist found pottery in the slaves houses that were made by hand. Slaves were pioneers. The men were the hunters and the women would gather any things that the men did not bring home. The slaves also had guns and they would kill any animals that stole their rice, they most likely ate the animals after the shot them. Slavery is apart of our everyday life and it is important that we know the history behind them. Through archaeology we are able to see the importance of slaves because there is no documentation on any of them. This video is related to class because the lives of our ancestors were studied. Ethnohistory consists of studies based on descriptive materials about a single society at more than one point in time. Excavation was used in this video to find artifacts that had been buried in the soil and to record the location of the artifacts with precision. The archaeologist relied on artifacts to tell them different things about the slaves that lived on the Middleburg plantation. Ethics is another factor that was used in this video that relates to our class lectures. Ethics is important to the archaeologists...
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...Men were recruited from all over the United States to come to the West to fight the Big Blowup of 1910, but this hardly put a damper on the blazing fire. By the middle of July alone, there were over three thousand laborers employed to fight fires in Northwestern Montana and Northern Idaho alone (Silcox 1910, p. 635). These men worked hours trying to put the fire out, using any method imaginable in order to extinguish the flame; dirt, water, etcetera. However, what finally stopped the fire was trenches from 2 to 4 feet wide were dug down to mineral soil and all the inflammable brush and debris was thrown away from the fire in order to stop feeding the fire and put it out (Silcox 1910, p. 638). Digging trenches alone is a difficult task, but...
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...Research Ethics Digging Into Unethical Corporate Behavior In the textbook “Business Research Methods”, Cooper and Shindler (2011) define ethics as “norms or standards of behavior that guide moral choices about our behavior and our relationships with others” (p.32). Our culture and believes is what helps define and determine what is considered ethical, and what is unethical. “The goal of ethics in research is to ensure that no one is harmed or suffers adverse consequences from research activities.” (Cooper & Shindler, 2011). In the past two decades, a parade of companies has imploded in the wake of unethical and fraudulent business practices, leaving investors shaken and scorched. Enron Corp. is perhaps most notorious. Executives embezzled funds from investors, and as Enron teetered on bankruptcy, it misrepresented its financials and may have even created a false energy crisis. Investors lost more than $70 billion. The infamous Bernie Madoff, who was a well regarded and trusted financial investor and philanthropist to boot, fooled investors and got the best of the Securities & Exchange Commission. Madoff operated legal and illegal operations. His illegal entity ran a Ponzi scheme, using revenue from new investors to pay existing clients. Shareholder losses from Madoff’s actions amounted to $20 billion. WorldCom and Tyco International have become synonymous with white-collar crime, thanks to unscrupulous behavior by a select few business executives within those companies...
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...Romana Haider ANTH 1400: Digging the Past Chapter three Where? Archaeologists are known for finding the excavating sites because through excavating archaeologists find out important information about the past. Before any field work can begin for an archeologist, he or she must first make a plan. This is called a research design. This design has four components. The first one is called formulation of research strategy, second one is collecting and recording of evidence, third processing and analysis evidence and the last one is publication. In chapter 3 they will be discussing the second component of the research design. In the textbook they used three methods to locate sites using ground reconnaissance. First one is documentary sources, then cultural/resource management and lately reconnaissance survey. The first one is used to locating recent sites, second one is sites that will be destroyed I believe. They locate record and excavate before it is destroyed. And the last one, this can be either unsystematic, where you can search anywhere on the site or systematic where there area is like a grid and you have one square to do your findings in. After that the textbook start talking about aerial reconnaissance. In aerial reconnaissance there are three subtopics....
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...Have you ever been infatuated by a social media account? or even caught yourself staring at your phone screen forgetting that you’ve been on twitter for excessive time? Based on the article, The Psychology of Begging to Be Followed on Twitter, written by Kayleigh Roberts, shows the factual information about teens and tweens being glued to their phones and social media. Roberts states facts about our adolescents being stuck on their phones in awe of the glamour that social media has. One can see this article as effective due to how it creates positive reinforcements to many individuals, the Internet providing the means for adolescents to engage in subcommunities and fan bases giving people new identities. In her article, Roberts exhibits her ethos by stating a quote from Dr. Marion Underwood, clinical psychologist, daughter's friend, “Twitter is the best and Twitter is the worst.”, she uses this quote to display the emotions that adolescents have towards social media. Underwood then adds that her daughters friend said, “I can’t get off of it,” the girl elaborated. “I can’t stop getting on Twitter.”, the reason for this quote is to show the addictiveness of our new generation, and how reliant we are for social media as entertainment. Roberts continues to display an assortment of reasoning behind the matter of our new generations addictiveness to social networks, and how we use social networks to be accepted within our relationships. Throughout the article, Roberts makes the...
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...E N G I N E E R I N G D E S I G N | By | | | | Gun Ken Hon * Gun Ken Hon * Toni Rosinol N1403135F Toni Rosinol N1403135F Zulqarnin U1120101c Zulqarnin U1120101c Muchsin Mohd U1123008L Muchsin Mohd U1123008L | MA4001 | School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering50, Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798, Tel:65 790 5488 Fax:65 792 4062 | Table of Contents Content | Page | 1.0 Introduction | 4 | 1.1 Background and Objectives | 4 | 2.0 Conceptual Design | 5 | 2.1 Function Analysis | 5 | 2.2 Morphological Chart | 7 | 2.3 Design Concepts | 8 | 2.3.1 Design Concept A | 8 | 2.3.2 Design Concept B | 9 | 2.2.3 Design Concept C | 9 | 2.4 Concept Evaluation | 10 | 3.0 Embodiment Design | 12 | 3.1 Stability | 12 | 3.2 Spade Design | 12 | 3.3 Mode of Transport | 12 | 4.0 Detailed Design | 13 | 4.1 Hydraulics Selection4.2 Materials Selection | 13 | 5.0 Detailed Design Calculations | 13 | 5.1 General Data | 13 | 5.2 General Calculations | 15 | 5.3 Lifting | 17 | 5.4 Tilting | 18 | 5.5 Hydraulics Selection | 20 | 5.6 Pump Selection | 21 | 6.0 Cost Estimation | 22 | 6.1 Bill of Materials (BOM) | 22 | 6.2 Purchased Parts | 27 | 6.3 Manufactured Parts | 28 | 6.4 Overall Cost Estimation | 28 | 7.0 Conclusion | 29 | References | 30 | Appendix | 31 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 1.0 Introduction ...
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..."Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests. I’ll dig with it." Digging Seamus Justin Heaney, a contemporary Irish poet who won the Nobel Prize in 1995, is widely considered one of the main twentieth century writers. In fact, many critics considered him the most important Irish poet since W. B. Yeats. Born in a farming family in Northern Ireland, Heaney suffered many divisions in his life – personal, social and political all together. He sat an aim for himself to be like his ancestors, who protected their lands in the face of the English colonization, and become a defender of Ireland in his own way. In 1966, he wrote his famous poem Digging, which defines his mission as a poet, and placed it as an introductory to his collection Death of a Naturalist. A reader of Heaney's works will notice that the analogy of digging is running throughout all of his poems, whether it is a physical excavation or an intellectual one. This image of digging is depicted in his themes and poetic discourse to form an Irish identity that divorces itself from the English rule by combining both earthy roots and airy imagination. To begin with, there are certain features that characterize the themes in Heaney's poetry. In most of his poems, Heaney illustrates the Irish landscape and the rural life of the farmers to show the strong ties between his people and their land. Moreover, he spoke in one of his essays about the influence of the bog lands in which dead bodies were excavated. He believes...
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...I have fallen in love with this poem! This is a free verse poem so there are no specific patterns or rhyming . There are 7 stanzas with 51 lines. The sentence lengths are roughly the same and the number of words in each line are close. While reading the poem I realized that Billy Collins keeps ever begging word in each stanza different from the others. I like this because each sentence sounds different and it’s not repeating the same word over and over again. He keeps this consistent throughout the entire poem. I believe the poem is talking about how much your mother does for you and all you do for her is give her a cheap craft from camp. The more I read the poem the more relatable it is to my life. To me it’s seems like the speaker of the Lanyard poem is Billy Collins himself. I think this because in the first stanza and first line it says,”The other day I was ricocheting…” This led me to believe that he had a throwback to when he was a kid and decided to write a poem about it. A technique Billy uses in lines 1-4 is imagery. Like when he was explaining how he moved to different places throughout the room and ended up looking through a dictionary and came across the word Lanyard. The first stanza writes, ¨from bookshelf to an envelope lying on the floor, when I found myself in the L section of the dictionary.¨This sentence creates a clear picture of what's going on in the reader's mind. In lines 40-42 and 46-48 there is a repeating line. The sentence says how such a small...
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...The Negative Effects of Digging the Panama Canal Several historical events have impacted the world in which we live, and some of those events have impacted history forever. Whether these events prove to be beneficial or unbeneficial for our future, only time will tell, but one event that clearly proves to have a significant effect on history is the digging of the Panama Canal. This paper will examine the negative events that occurred while digging the Panama Canal. In addition, this paper will examine what has been learned based on those negative effects. In digging the Panama Canal, builders and contractors faced many challenges that went far beyond the construction of the Panama Canal itself. The deadly endemic diseases of Yellow Fever...
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...Good writing is clear thinking made visible. A writer has to have a direction and vision. If they don’t, how will they be able to guide the reader? When these tools are in place it will help the direction of the writer and the intended message. As a matter of fact, Proulx’s metaphor of “digging is never done because the shovel scrapes at life itself” relates to good writing. Felt as though you learn as much by writing as by reading. Proulx was all about reading and researching the information that was needed on the matter Proulx’s essay expresses how printed books are basically becoming extinct. As time progresses more people are relying on technology and less on the printed copies. Proulx talked about her distaste of libraries and how it...
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...Naturalist in 1966. Death of a Naturalist included the poem “Digging”; it is the first poem of the collection. “Digging” is a free verse poem written in first person narrative. Digging contains eight stanzas containing two couplets. In Seamus Heaney’s poem “Digging” the narrator is comparing his digging to his ancestors. The theme is heritage; the narrator takes a look back at his heritage to examine his career choice. Heaney shows the theme using symbols. Using digging as a metaphor for writing, Heaney shows the connection of the narrator with his early life on the farm and the lives of his father and grandfather.In the first stanza, Heaney introduces the readers to the narrator’s pen, which the narrator is content to hold as he finds a sense of belonging and comfort. The pen is described as a weapon, “snug as a gun” (L2), this gives the impression that the pen fits naturally in his hands and symbolizes a form of protection from the criticisms about his choice of “being a writer” (Miller). The pen also symbolizes “fate” (“Pen”). Writing is his fate instead of farming like his ancestors. Even though the narrator chooses not to become a digger, he still finds a similarity between the two occupations. The narrator recognizes that his skill with a pen is compatible to his father’s skill with a spade, as he suggests his pen symbolizes a spade to which he can “dig with it” (L 31). The narrator is, in his form of digging, always searching for topics or good materials that can make...
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...HOLES Have you ever been in trouble for someone's actions? Or have you ever been in trouble and digging holes for something you did? In this book by Louis Sachar Stanley is sent to a camp called Camp Green Lake and this camp is not all fun and games it is about digging holes all day for your punishment. The theme of holes is growing up because in the story, Stanley proves he is innocent for not stealing the shoes shows his ambition. And learns how to be responsible and learns responsibility. In the story Stanley is accused of stealing a famous baseball player’s shoe’s at a homeless shelter, and Stanley is sent to Camp Green Lake for digging holes for his punishment. Stanley must find a way to prove his innocence and Stanley is digging holes for nothing because he didn't steal the shoes. ‘‘You thirsty?’’ asked Mr.Sir ‘‘Yes Mr.Sir’’, Stanley said gratefully ‘‘Well, You better get used to it. You’re going to be thirsty for the next eighteen months’’(Sachar,25). Stanley worked and digging 1 hole every day in the hot sun for the warden and if...
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...Personal goals – To learn the basics of volleyball and understand the rules involved. I hope to achieve the correct motor program for both digging and setting. Achieving one successful dig and set is my main personal goal for this week. Stage of learning prediction and evaluation Prediction – To fully understand the rules and able to perform the basic skills of volleyball. I feel that I will remain at the cognitive stage of skill learning. The cognitive stage of learning is where physical movement is slow, having to learn the skill visually and receiving a lot of feedback from the teacher. These are all characteristics that I will show in my first week. Evaluation – the prediction that I made was relatively correct. First I learnt and understood the rule associated with volleyball as well as the basic skills. These included the dig and set. I was given specific instructions on how to perform the skill and gain proper technique. I mimicked what was being shown to me, these are characteristics of a cognitive learner. By mimicking, this increased my proficiency and overall confidence. Digging was the most difficult skill to learn that week, because the motor program was a new skill to learn. A motor program is the set of instructions held in memory that is sent to muscles and results in movement. – Notebook. The motor program for digging was as follows; get feet set, hand position low, contact on fore arm and follow through. As I am sitting down I was unable to achieve full...
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...as joyless, depressive, and lifeless. Billie’s father spends most of the time digging a hole, the hole that Ma once wanted. He might be regretting that he didn’t listen to Ma. His time is killed by digging instead of doing something together with Billie. He digs and digs while Billie studies and sleeps. They don’t have any happiness between them, which is very sad. Once they get together at home, Billie’s father stares at her all the time and Billie gives him her back. Maybe Billie’s father wants to find Ma on Billie, but Billie thinks it’s an unfriendly staring. She can’t forgive her father going out to drink when Ma is suffering from pain at home. They never talk about the misapprehension between them. The unsolved problems make their relationship more and more depressive. Billie’s father wakes up in the morning and leaves his shape in the bed outlined by dust. He does not smell like Ma any more. When he comes back, he is always covered with dust. They are like two insensible bodies to each other. Without talking, understanding, and caring, their relationship becomes cheerless, depressing, and inanimate. In section five, the relationship between Billie Jo and her father can be described as joyless, depressive, and lifeless. Billie’s father spends most of the time digging a hole, the hole that Ma once wanted. He might be regretting that he didn’t listen to Ma. His time is killed by digging instead of doing something together with Billie. He digs and digs while Billie...
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