...In the novel Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse, the main character Billie Jo learns that life is too short to hold grudges. Forgiving causes Billie Jo have better appreciation for things she didn’t value before. The challenges Billie Jo faces provide many opportunities for her to forgive the wrongdoings of herself and others. Billie Jo’s first major challenge begins when a fire starts in her home. The fire occurs when Billie Jo’s mother mistakes a pail of kerosene for water. Billie Jo’s mother and soon to be baby brother died in this fire. After the incident, her father took the emergency money and went out drinking. He leaves Billie Jo to care for her dying mother on her own. In addition, Billie Jo’s scarred hands from the fire make it challenging...
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...Stylistic Analysis of a Novel A stylistic analysis should address questions like these: 1. What is the discourse type? 2. What is the topic? 3. Who is it talking to/for whom and why? 4. How do the stylistic choices relate to these three questions? Here is a sample text: |1 | | |2 |Alex La Guma, Time of the Butcherbird. (a) When the government trucks had gone, the dust they had left behind hung over the plain and smudged | |3 |the blistering afternoon sun so that it appeared as a daub of white-hot metal through the moving haze. (b) The dust hung in the sky for some | |4 |time before settling down on the white plain. (c) The plain was flat and featureless except for two roads bull-dozed from the ground, | |5 |bisecting each other to lie like scars of a branded cross on the pocked and powdered skin of the earth. (d) In the distance a new water tank | |6 |on metal stilts jutted like an iron glove clenched against the empty sky. (e) The dust settled slowly on the metal of the tank and on the | |7 |surface of the brackish water it contained, laboriously pumped up from below the sand; on the rough cubist mounds of folded and piled tents | |8 |dumped there by officialdom; on the sullen faces of the people who had been unloaded like the odds and ends of furniture...
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...environment. The primary objective of this project is to encompass an extensive study of “how the organization is managing its natural environment and what are the main techniques that the organization is using to manage natural environment. This project report has evaluated how the organization (FurnyKids) pollutes their natural environment and what are the methods that they are using to overcome these pollutions. When acquiring the appropriate information we have made use of a very inclusive data system, featuring observations, questioners, and detailed discussions with the members of the organization, specially the owner of the factory. The project report is an effort to analyze on the Environment management of Furykids and detailed analysis of problems faced along with a set of viable solutions that can overcome these problems. Furny Kids Pvt. Ltd. Furny Kids private Limited is a furniture manufacturing company which is situated at the Industrial zone(west) in...
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...Executive (HSE) The initial exposure limits were acquired from these organisations because of the wealth of experience and research that both America and the UK had with occupational exposures. The ACGIH specified exposure limits as Threshold Limit Values (TLV). These values were derived from animal and human research as well as industry knowledge and epidemiology. Safe Work Australia creates exposure standards based on a range of information from work health and safety statistics to continuing formal research on exposures to substances found in the workplace. A significant increase in harmful health effects from a specific substance through statistical analysis prompts SWA to assess the current exposure limit to determine whether it needs to be controlled to protect the workforce. Proposed exposure limit changes are then put out into the community for feedback. Exposure Standards listed under the NOHSC Adopted National Exposure Standards for Atmospheric Contaminants in the Occupational Environment (NOHSC: 1003, 1995) are then used as the limits for exposures in the workplace. Where the government determines there to be a significant risk to workers, exposure limits are drawn up into legislation such as Acts and Regulations. This can be specific such as the...
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...By: Mayra Ramirez, Alyson Voyles, Suzanne Guebara Andrew Buckham, Israel Tijerina Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1 THE CHALLENGE 2 SITUATION ANALYSIS 2 Company Analysis 2 Customer Analysis 2 Competitor Analysis 3 Climate 4 SWOT Analysis 4 MARKET SEGMENTATION 6 MARKETING STRATEGY 7 Product 7 Price 8 Distribution (Place) 9 Promotion 9 CONCLUSION 10 BIBLIOGRAPHY 11 Figure 1 - Competitor Pricing 3 Figure 2 - SWOT Analysis 5 Figure 3 - Locations and Pricing 8 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY WK Investments operates 4 self storage facilities in the Midland/Odessa area. These facilities operate as Loop 250 Self Storage Center and Midkiff Self Storage Center in Midland, and as West County Road Self Storage Center and Grandview Self Storage Center in Odessa. While the company is the market leader in this area, we feel there are certain measures the company can take that will help both maintain a market leader position and possibly attract new customers. WK Investments currently has a strong market position as a leader in the market. They do have higher prices than the competition; however, the current position allows them to be the price setter in their perspective markets and their prices are justified with their superior products/services. In researching the customers that use the facilities most often, we recommend the following market segments to focus on: * Homeowners * Renters * Vehicle Owners * Renters The marketing strategy that...
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...Asthma HCS/245 May 23, 2015 Asthma What is Asthma? Asthma is a chronic disease that obstructs the flow of air, the obstruction is reversible. What is Asthma? • Inflammation (swelling) • Mucous in the airways • Tightening in muscles around the airways Asthma is most common chronic disease in childhood, almost 9 million children in America have asthma, (Over 100,000 in Wisconsin). Children under 6 years old have the highest rates for hospital admissions, this is the #1 reason children are admitted into hospitals and this is also one of the main reasons children are absent from school, children miss about 7 days of school due to asthma. Causes of Asthma: (There is no one single onset of Asthma) • Hereditary • Exposure to or not enough exposure to “triggers: • Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke • Air pollution Asthma is more common in families where someone already has the condition. If one parent has asthma, the chance of their child developing asthma is approximately double that of children whose parents don't have asthma. We also know that a mother has a greater risk of passing on asthma than a father, though the reasons are not clear. Environmental Tobacco Smoke is the #1 trigger of asthma, but also studies have shown that exposure to ETS can cause the onset of the disease of asthma. Having a plan and goals of asthma management is the next step that should be taken for children and adults after being diagnosed with this chronic respiratory...
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...power transformer is very important. By measuring the furan contents in power transformer oil can give a sign of the power transformer health, using this method is more convenient and economical among all the methods. With the aid of UV-Vis Spectrometer, light absorption and transmission with various furan contents of different power transformers with different ages are measured and compared. The measured results are used to predict the furan contents and remnant life of the power transformer can estimate. Copper dusts added into transformer oil in order to investigate the effect on the light absorption and transmission. The measured results show the impact of copper dust on light absorption and transmission characteristics that can provide indication of transformers remaining health condition. This thesis presents the measurement of power transformers oil samples with different furan contents for remnant life estimation. Key words: Power Transformer, Copper Dust, Transformer oil, UV-Vis Spectrometer, Furan, Health Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 Power Transformer Figure 1: A basic power transformer. Power Transformers are critical elements in an electrical power system. It is used to step-up or step-down voltage level as needed to serve the transmission or distribution networks. It is stepped up for transmission over long distances to avoid a huge power lost and stepped down for final use. Transformer is one of the most expensive assets in power transmission...
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...Analysis of a Passage from T.S. Eliot's the Waste Land T.S. Eliot writes very deliberately, including just the right details and organizing the poem so that each phrase and section is arranged in the most effective way possible. The following passage is from Eliot's The Waste Land: There is shadow under this red rock, (Come in under the shadow of this red rock), And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; I will show you fear in a handful of dust (25-30) This passage seems to be strategically placed after several lines that allude to a passage from Ecclesiastes 12 of the Bible and directly before a number of allusions and examples that illustrate the "fear in a handful of dust" (Eliot 1-76). To completely understand the meaning of the passage above, the context in which it is used and the allusions that are employed must first be recognized and understood. First, the several lines preceding the above passage allude to Ecclesiastes 12 of the Bible which portrays feelings of hopelessness and of meaninglessness; meanwhile, the selected passage contains a small sense of hope as well as an invitation to the reader to see what Eliot sees. "A heap of broken images" or "And the dry stone no sound of water" are both phrases included in the preceding lines that lack a sense of hope and that support the allusion to Ecclesiastes 12 in which "Everything is meaningless!" (Eliot 22, 24)...
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...going into the final beans. 1. To protect bean cleaning machine to work normally by bean cleaning machine. Unprocessed grains always contain some hard impurities, such as stones and metal. In grain processing, the hard impurities may easily damage the bean cleaning machine, affect the technological effect and increase maintenance cost, or even cause fire disaster or dust explosion. Besides, if there has impurities with large volume, it may easily block the feeding port, make the feeding quantity reduce or uneven, reduce the technological effect of bean cleaning machine and affect processing performance. Sometimes, the soft impurities, such as rope， scraps of paper, may also easily twine or block the bean cleaning machine. If he dust in the unprocessed grains flies out, it will cause pollution and damage the production environment. To protect normal processing, we should clean these impurities by bean cleaning machine. 2. To ensure products quality by BEAN CLEANING MACHINE. If the grain impurities are not removed, they will be mixed into the end products and reduce end products purity. For example, if dust is...
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...India ABSTRACT This paper presents the results of an experimental investigation carried out to optimize the mix proportions of the fly ash brick by Taguchi method of parameter design. The experiments have been designed using an L9 orthogonal array with four factors and three levels each. Small quantity of cement has been mixed as binding materials. Both cement and the fly ash used are indicated as binding material and water binder ratio has been considered as one of the control factors. So the effects of water/binder ratio, fly ash, coarse sand, and stone dust on the performance characteristic are analyzed using signal–to–noise ratios and mean response data. According to the results, water/binder ratio and stone dust play the significant role on the compressive strength of the brick. Furthermore, the estimated optimum values of the process parameters are corresponding to water/binder ratio of 0.4, fly ash of 39%, coarse sand of 24%, and stone dust of 30%. The mean value of optimal strength is predicted as 166.22 kg.cm–2 with a tolerance of ± 10.97 kg.cm–2. Confirmatory experimental result obtained for the optimum conditions is 160.17 kg.cm–2. Keywords: optimization, compressive strength, fly ash brick, Taguchi method 1. Introduction Economic and environmental considerations play a major role in the rapid increase for usages of mineral admixtures such as stone dust, fly ash, blast–furnace slag and the like to improve the engineering properties and performance...
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...Strategic Marketing & Planning Tapal Tea Private Limited Submitted to Sir Ekhlaque Ahmed Submitted By: Hafiz Sheikh Misbah Ur Rehman - 9363 Mohammad Ali Sheikh - 9229 Saad Ashfaq – 9011 Date: Aug21st, 2010 Acknowledgment We would like to acknowledge a number of people for their support and assistance during our report. Firstly we would like to acknowledge our Course Facilitator Sir Ekhlaque Ahmed for assisting and guiding us in preparation of this report. We are also thankful to ____________ (Brand Manager, Tapal Tea Pvt Ltd, Pakistan) who provided us with priceless information required for the making of this report. Executive Summary Tapal vision is to be a benchmark of Quality, Creativity and Value Innovation, achieve leadership in the beverage manufacturing industry and because of this customer satisfaction has been its ultimate goal. Today Tapal is the market leader in tea industry but still faces some huge challenges that need to be addressed with in order to keep the top position. The report has been prepared after analyzing the information received from the major players in the Industry i.e. Tapal, Unilever, Clover Pakistan and Eastern Tea. We also obtain views about different brands and he distributions opinions on the different brands available. The report will give a detail / indepth review of Tapal Tea, its competitors and the industry in which it operates especially in the light of Pakistan’s economy along with focusing...
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...metals, using cluster and principal component analysis Bhanu Pandey 1, Madhoolika Agrawal 1, Siddharth Singh 2 1 2 Laboratory of Air Pollution and Global Climate Change, Department of Botany, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi–221005, India Environmental Management Group, Central Institute of Mining & Fuel Research (CSIR), Barwa road, Dhanbad–826015, India ABSTRACT Jharia Coal field (JCF) in Jharkhand is the richest coal bearing area in India, which contains large quantities of high grade coking coal. The conventional coal fuel cycle is among the most destructive activities on the earth, threatening the health, polluting the air and water, harming the land, and contributing to global warming. The variations in air quality in terms of sulfur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and particulate matter around JCF were evaluated over the period of 2010 and 2011 at five sites during different seasons. Air pollution index (API), calculated on the basis of suspended particulate matter (SPM), SO2 and NO2 concentrations was highest near the coal mining area. The ambient concentrations of heavy metals (in PM10) also showed significant temporal and spatial variations at different sites around coal mining areas. Pollutants dispersion and spatial variations were explained by the use of cluster analysis (CA). Multivariate statistical analyses were adopted including; principal component analysis (PCA) to identify the major sources of air pollutants in the area...
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...A. A. Raheem and O. K. Sulaiman / International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) ISSN: 2248-9622 www.ijera.com Vol. 3, Issue 4, Jul-Aug 2013, pp.713-721 Saw Dust Ash as Partial Replacement for Cement in the Production of Sandcrete Hollow Blocks A. A. Raheem and O. K. Sulaiman Civil Engineering Department, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Ogbomoso, Nigeria. Abstract This study investigates the use of Saw Dust Ash (SDA) as partial replacement for ordinary Portland cement (OPC) in sandcrete blocks. Some units of sandcrete hollow blocks were produced by partially replacing the cement content with 5% to 25% by weight of SDA, using vibrating block moulding machine. Sandcrete blocks without SDA serve as the control. The blocks produced were tested to determine their density, compressive strength and water absorption rate. The results indicated that compressive strength of sandcrete hollow blocks at 28 days are 2.16N/mm2, 1.94N/mm2, 1.64N/mm2, 1.59N/mm2,1.39N/mm2, and 1.25N/mm2 for Control, 5%, 10%, 15%, 20% and 25% SDA contents respectively. At 56 days, the compressive strength of blocks with 5% and 10% SDA replacement are 2.33N/mm2 and 2.04N/mm2 respectively, both of which surpassed the required standard of 2.00N/mm2 specified by the National Building Code (2006) for non-load bearing walls. It was concluded that only sandcrete blocks with up to 10% SDA replacement can be used for non-load bearing walls. cement will definitely reduce the cost...
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...Term Paper Report On Analysis of Environmental Costing Research Submitted To: Asphia Habib ACT202 Section- Submitted By: NAME | ID | | | | | | | Letter of Transmittal 6th December 2012 Ashphia Habib BRAC Business School BRAC University. Dear Ma’am, We are delighted to present the Report on “Environmental Costing and Analysis” of Square Bangladesh. Your instructions have been strictly followed by us to build up a vivid picture of the company’s Environment issues & cost performance as you have mentioned. Yours Sincerely, NAME | ID | | | | | | | Thank You. Executive summary Premier Cement Mills Ltd is one of the leading cement companies of the country. The company was started off by top ranking businessmen who had long years of experience in the cement business. In this report, we have tried to give a complete picture of the cement industry of Bangladesh. For a background, the history of the cement industry has been included. We have also focused on the various stages of the cement industry in our country hi-lighting on some of the important years and legal situations that took place. The ranking of the top ten cement companies have also been given which is followed by a thorough analysis of the cement industry in terms of different Environment issues. The position of the cement industry and Premier...
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...THE INFLUENCE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY ON PRODUCTION: A CASE OF ZIMBABWE PPC COLLEEN BAWN BY EMMANUEL MAGANGA A DISSERTATION PRESENTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE BACHELOR OF SCIENCE HONOURS DEGREE IN GEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES. MIDLANDS STATE UNIVERSITY MAY 2013 SUPERVISION ACKNOWLEDGEMENT FORM MIDLANDS STATE UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES STUDENT: EMMANUEL MAGANGA (R091941J) The undersigned certify that they have read and recommended to the Midlands State University for acceptance as a dissertation entitled: The Influence of Occupational Health and Safety on Production: A Case of Zimbabwe Pretoria Portland Cement, Colleen Bawn. STUDENT…………………………………………………..DATE ….../……../ 2013 SUPERVISOR……………………………………………....DATE……/……../ 2013 CHAIRPERSON…………………………………………….DATE……/……../ 2013 EXTERNAL EXAMINER………………………………….DATE……/……./ 2013 Submitted in partial fulfillment of the Bachelor of social sciences Honors Degree in Geography and Environmental studies DEDICATIONS To My Parents I dedicate this accomplishment to my parents Mr and Mrs Maganga for to have made me who I am today. May God bless you with long life so that you may be able to see all my successes’ and achievements. I love you ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank the Lord our God for all the knowledge, wisdom, support and guidance throughout my research. This project would not have been...
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