...filter my information intake. I enjoy reading The Washington Post, which is considered a primarily democratic paper, which demonstrates that the information acquired from this newspaper is censored in favour of democratics. The American election displays how we live in a filter bubble because the mediums that are used to stream the election are all filtered as well. 5. In Robert Frost’s poem The Dust of Snow, identify how Stuart Hall might engage in dominant, negotiated, and oppositional readings. What are the key signifiers in this text? In The Dust of Snow, multiple dominant, negotiated and oppositional reading are all prevalent within the text. Stuart Hall would state that the dominant reading within the poem is about a man that is experiencing a bad day, and walks under a tree on which a crow is perched upon. The crow shakes snow onto the man, therefore making his day better. The negotiated reading is that although the man is struggling and in a bad mood, the bird and the tree do not symbolize bad omens. However, the bird lands on the tree which in turn, makes the tree drop snow onto the man, cheering him up. The dominant reading in this text can be interpreted as a depressed man who encounters multiple objects representing death and poison. Although they are negative symbols, they create a positive sensation for the man. 6. Outline four challenges concentrated media ownership poses for democracies. Describe one activist response that relates to one of these challenges...
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...During the Dust Bowl many people were affected by it. Farmers and families had a rough time during this because the Dust Bowl destroyed everything. Farmers during this time could not work on their farms because of the dust. They would not be able to pay off their mortgages because they could not produce anything on their farms. Since most farmers could not work their farms most of them lost business and the price for crops fell below subsistence levels. Farmers slaughtered 6 million pigs because they wanted to reduce supply's and raise prices. The people did not like this because they thought it was a waste of food. Then the government made a Surplus Relief Corporation. This meant that whatever the farmers had leftover they would have to feed...
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...The Dust Bowl and the Great Depression took place in the early 1930s and lasted to the late 1930s or mid 1940s. The Dust Bowl took place around the southwestern Great Plains region of the United States. During this time in history this part of the United States was suffering a huge drought which will cause what is now called the Dust Bowl. The Dust Bowl was mainly caused by the farmers that were growing wheat. This was the reason because the prairie grasses were turned into dry wheat fields which the farms had to plow. Then the wind would start and blow off the top layer of dirt. The winds were so strong that the dust and dirt would come in there homes and cars so there was not a safe place to hide or take shelter. The reason the Dust Bowl happened during the...
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...Robert Frost, a great literary writer found a way to use nature as a tool to express human experiences. Throughout the course of his life he has inspired writers and created a new view on how we as humans view nature and the world around us. Robert Frost has been known to be a complicated poet because he did not focus so much on weather a line rhymed. Frost wrote deliberately to paint a picture or create a story for his readers. He wrote with care to express what he was truly feeling. Most of his poems are written with undertones that would require the reader to look deeper into what was written. When most poems are examined more in depth Frost becomes much more complex, showing that there is a deeper and sometimes darker undertone to the engaging words of the poems. Frost had experienced pain and tragedy, with many deaths of family members, during his life. He finds that his suffering makes the thought of death both fascinating and tempting. Frost considers death but has decided to pursue life and the choices that one faces along life’s paths. Frost uses his greatest inspiration, nature, to tell stories of happiness, tragedy and pain. Nature is the one thing that remains constant. It continues to flow and carry on through good and bad. I feel that Frost noticed this and found a way to connect and mimic nature’s process: the circle of life. In nature this includes life and death. After the cycle of death, nature creates anew and continues to blossom and bloom. ...
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...farmers kept plowing and planting with gradually dreary outcomes. In the years 1930 and 1931, Oklahoma and Texas panhandles were known as the wealthiest states in the country. For plains farmers, the era opened with prosperity and growth. In the summer of 1931, the farmers challenged the most difficult eight years of their lives. The rain was finally over. It took a thousand years for Nature to build an inch of topsoil on the Southern Plains, but it took only minutes for one good blow to sweep it all away. The water level of lakes dropped by five feet or more and the wind picked up the dry soil that had nothing to hold it down. Black clouds of dust started to splotch out the sun. There are some places where dust glided like snow, making the sky dark for days, covering well-sealed homes with thick layers of dust on everything. Dust storms overcame entire towns. The main...
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...Kathleen Muenzen MLA The Emergence: Pueblo Cultural Narrative in Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire According to an ancient Pueblo legend, passed down through generations of oral storytelling, all life emerged at once from the interior of the Earth into the “fifth world,” the habitable Earth, in an event called the Emergence. Leslie Marmon Silko, a nature writer and member of the Laguna Pueblo tribe, examines the natural world through the Native American cultural lens in “Landscape, History and the Pueblo Imagination.” She characterizes the human-nature relationship as one of partnership and integration, justified by the communal Emergence into being, and emphasizes that survival in a natural world rife with danger relies on eternal respect for and connection with all other elements in an environment. The opening and closing chapters of Edward Abbey’s autobiographical narrative, Desert Solitaire, parallel the Pueblo Emergence as they recount the experiences of a man who spends a summer in Arches National Park in Moab, Utah, and finds companionship in a non-human setting. Abbey’s odyssey from a separate world dominated by human civilization, through the metaphorical door of the Earth-worn arches, and into an ancient wilderness controlled by the collaboration of each composing element marks a “re-emergence” into an original state of existence. As Abbey migrates alone between the cold, dark material world that characterizes the human reality and the warm, colorful and illuminated...
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...The Dust Bowl is an area of land where plants stop growing and soil turns into dust, mainly caused by poor farming techniques. In 1931, the midwestern and southern plains began experiencing severe droughts and crop damages. These crop damages were caused by “black blizzards.” A black blizzard is when the soil dried, then turned to dust and blew to the east and south in large dark clouds. Dust storms were caused by drought and overused land. In some places the dust would drift like snow, covering cities and farms. These dark clouds would leave well sealed homes covered in dust. By 1932, there were fourteen dust storms reported. In 1933 when Franklin Roosevelt became president, he declared a fourday bank holiday. During this time, the Congress...
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...Sights, smells and view from the front porch of my parent’s home in Southwestern New Mexico is a memorable place. To this day I will smell the smoke from a chimney or fresh baked cookies and it takes me back home. The heat of summer gives you the feeling after baking something when you put your face in front of the oven as you open the door. That blast of hot, dry air sucking all the moisture from your lungs. It has always made me chuckle when I hear people say, “But it is a dry heat”. The summer time also brings the monsoon season toward July and August. Watching the clouds cross the sky like big balls of cotton, you can make out different shapes if you look at them with the open mind of childhood. As the day wares on they begin collecting, growing into to a huge darkening mass. With the inevitable rain creatures from the hairy tarantula scurrying across the roads, to the local rancher’s cattle chewing her cud, all have a sense of the storm and begin looking for shelter. When the rains does come it is fast and furious, many of the creeks filled with fast moving water, carrying whatever debris along with it. Fall is always a latecomer to my corner of New Mexico, but when it does arrive, it comes in with all colors a-blaze. Brown, reds, yellows, russets, and burgundies vie with each other for places of honor in forest and field. A small orchard of apricot and apple trees my parents have always seems to be ablaze like a formation of match sticks. The mornings are crisp;...
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...Machine Dreams Page 116 1. Dream Mitch- His first dream was him at the war and he dreamed of what I think was little kids dying and him killing them because he talks about seeing “The hands small and delicate like the hands of big children, and the averted faces smooth and beardless.” So this means that he was dreaming about the kids. Then the twist I think he is saying that he is taking the bull dozer and sweeping the bodies somewhere and pretending he is home and that he is just pushing the “earth” so he doesn’t have to face what he is actually doing. Mitch- This second dream I think was a nightmare and a dream combine into one dream. He dreams about I think about dying in the war. When he mentions the girl that he can’t figure out who she is floating on a bed of flowers floating across the sea. Then in church he thinks that he is floating restfully. Or it could be that he dreamt that Kate has died while he was away at war and while he was moving around he left everyone else in the family lost and without him. Jean’s- Her dream was defiantly a nightmare it was about a horrible tragedy. She dreamt that she was a child again and with her mom in a big crowd of people. She then over heard people talking and they were saying that a man had killed his children and wife. Then some man tells her this is history being made here that something this bad could even happen. 2. Machines: “Ava had a fear about her kids getting to close to the trains.” Page 31 “ Most of the...
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...Imagine yourself having to work on a farm with different storms of dust daily. Now imagine having plenty of your belongings covered in piles and piles of dust and grime. When going back to the “dirty 30s,” as people call them, you had to experience all of this. Tons and tons of debris covered all sorts of items which caused a large number of people to die. The Dust Bowl storms were extremely powerful storms of dust that ravaged the farming and grazing lands, mainly in the Great Plains throughout the 1930s. This ruined and affected a fair amount of people's daily lives, health, and fears throughout the years. It affects their physical, personal, and finally, emotional life in many different ways depending on your spot in society. The Dust Bowl...
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...Howard ES 110G The Dust Bowl April, 28, 2014 The Dust Bowl The dust bowl happened in the 30’s. It was a period of severe drought. Severe drought and wind erosion ravaged the Great Plains for a decade. The drought damaged the agriculture and the environment in a detrimental way. Because of the drought and the farmers not using dry land farming methods at the time to prevent wind erosion during the dust bowl. The farmers had plowed the soil before the dust bowl disrupting the grasses that would have normally kept the soil in place during high winds. Excessive cultivation of the land in the 1930s exposed dry soil to the wind. The water that was in the ground no longer soaked in it just ran off because there were no roots to help it soak into the ground. When the winds blew it turned the soil into dust that blew everywhere. The dust storms were called “black blizzards”. Visibility was greatly reduced during these times of high wind and made it very hard for people to see in front of them. The drought and erosion of the Dust Bowl affected many people and a lot of land was compromised. The dust storms greatly degraded the productivity of the soil. People’s health was hindered greatly by breathing in all of the dust and particles in it. The air quality was horrible making it unbearable to live in those circumstances. Families had to leave their homes because they couldn’t breathe with the dust getting into their lungs. They were getting pneumonia from the dust in their lungs....
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...1. All stars and planets in the universe began as small clouds of: A. water and rocks B. ice and snow C. dust and gas 2. The formation of asteroids took place when our solar system was generated. A. True B. False 3. Some craters on Earth’s surface like the one found in Arizona formed through the impact of a planetesimal. A. True B. False 4. A type of rocky meteorite that hasn’t melted completely and has fallen to Earth’s surface is called: A) Chondrites B) Achondrites C) Siderites 5. The _____ meteorite that ever fell to Earth landed in _____ at about _____ years ago. A) smallest, Eastern Europe, 10 million B) largest, Mexico, and one million C) largest, Africa, and 80,000 D) smallest, China, and 100,000 6. Most ______ formed at about ______ years ago at the birth of our solar system. A) photons and 1 million B) of Saturn’s moons and 10 billion C) meteorites and 4.5 billion D) of our moon’s craters and 2.5 million 7. 60Fe is the daughter product of radioactive decay from 60Ni A) True B) False 8. Once you have the makings of a star, the next step in solar system formation includes the development of atmospheres for planets. A) True B) False 9. Since meteorites with supernova dust have been discovered, it is known that a violent explosion rocked our cosmic neighborhood at the time of our solar system’s birth. A) True B) False ----------------------- Planet Earth: Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, spring...
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...In the historical novel, Out of the Dust, written by Karen Smith. The readers are introduced to a family living through the struggles of the dust bowl. Billy JO who is fourteen years old and the protagonist of this novel. According to the novel, Billy JO was a long-legged girl with a wide mouth and cheekbones like bicycle handles. Her dad got a redheaded, freckle-faced,narrow-hipped girl with a fondness for apples and a hunger for playing fierce piano( page 3 ). Additionally, she lives in a panhandled shack .She lives with her dad who is a farmer,and he is dogmatic on the outside and soft on the inside, he relishes his wife and he really wanted another child who was a boy. Also, she lives with her mother who is pregnant after 14 years. She is really beautiful and her husband loves her. She also loves to play her piano and she loves to teach piano. Her mother did not appreciate the way Billie JO's music teacher taught her, it...
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...monoxide, cleaning products, bacteria, and nitrogen dioxide are just a few examples or indoor air pollution. A few examples of atmospheric pollutants would be methane, dust, ozone, and microorganisms. Acid rain can be a result of atmospheric pollution. Acid Rain is a combination of both wet and dry deposition that comes from the atmosphere that contains a higher than normal amount of sulfuric and nitric acids. The precursors of acid rain come from man-made sources, like emissions of nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide from the combustion of fossil fuels, and natural sources, like decaying vegetation and volcanoes (United States Environmental Protection Agency, 2012.) In America approximately 2/3 of the pollution that comes from the burning of fossil fuels are released into the air from the electric power that our generation relies so much on. When these gases mix with the gases that are already in the atmosphere, oxygen, water, and other chemicals multiple forms of acidic compounds are created and that results in a mild form of nitric acid and sulfuric acid (United States Environmental Protection Agency, 2012.) Fog, snow, and acid rain are referred to as wet deposition. This occurs if the acid chemicals or compounds are blown into an area where the weather is wet causing the acids to come down in fog, mist, snow, or rain. This acidic water has direct effects on many different animals and plants as it travels over the ground. Dry deposition occurs in places where the...
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...------------------------------------------------- University of Ottawa School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) ELG 4913 Final Report Project Title: Solar Panel Enhancement System Executive Summary The project is to enhance the functionality of the solar panels. Our project is divided onto three main parts. Snow and dust can prevent the solar panels to receive direct sun light. This can decrease the amount of power received. First part is preventing high voltage by detecting high very high temperature and humidity. Second part is cleaning project that clean what’s blocking the light from the panel by reading power measurement. The last part is detecting damage by reading the power measurement coming from the panel and the battery. Home photovoltaic system must be cleaned regularly to achieve maximum efficiency. To achieve this, surface of the solar panels must be free from dust, sand, snow, and more. Dirty solar panels lower power generation efficiencies and the solution for this is to design and create a brush that can be activated to clean unwanted substance from the panel. Table of Contents: 1- Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 4 2- Design Objectives ....................................................................
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