...“Summer Solstice, New York City”, by Sharon Olds is a poem that explains a scene in which a man wants to commit suicide by jumping off a building, but in the end police officers make him rethink his decision. The man is described as being on the ledge of a building when officers rushed towards him and prevented him from jumping. The poem portrays many issues including, setting, theme and symbolism that aids in comprehending the author’s purpose. Immediately, the title of the poem gives us a clue of the setting. Summer Solstice means it was the longest day of the year. New York is one of the most populated and busiest cities in the United States, making it fairly easy for one to feel lonely and unimportant like the man in the poem. When the...
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...The Summer Solstice Nick Joaquin About the Author Nicomedes Márquez Joaquín was a Filipino writer, historian and journalist, best known for his short stories and novels in the English language. He also wrote using the pen name Quijano de Manila. Joaquin was conferred the rank and title of National Artist of the Philippines for Literature. He is considered the most important Filipino writer in English, and the third most important overall, after José Rizal and Claro M. Recto. Joaquín was born in Paco, Manila, one of ten children of Leocadio Joaquín, a colonel under General Emilio Aguinaldo in the 1896 Revolution, and Salome Márquez, a teacher of English and Spanish. After being read poems and stories by his mother, the boy Joaquín read widely in his father's library and at the National Library of the Philippines. By then, his father had become a successful lawyer after the revolution. From reading, Joaquín became interested in writing. At age 17, Joaquín had his first piece published, in the literary section of the pre-World War II Tribune, where he worked as a proofreader. It was accepted by the writer and editor Serafín Lanot. After Joaquín won a nationwide essay competition to honor La Naval de Manila, sponsored by the Dominican Order, the University of Santo Tomas awarded him an honorary Associate in Arts (A.A.). They also awarded him a scholarship to St. Albert's Convent, the Dominican monastery in Hong Kong. After returning to the Philippines, Joaquín...
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...THE SUMMER SOLSTICE Nick Joaquin THE MORETAS WERE spending St. John’s Day with the children’s grandfather, whose feast day it was. Doña Lupeng awoke feeling faint with the heat, a sound of screaming in her ears. In the dining room the three boys already attired in their holiday suits, were at breakfast, and came crowding around her, talking all at once. “How long you have slept, Mama!” “We thought you were never getting up!” “Do we leave at once, huh? Are we going now?” “Hush, hush I implore you! Now look: your father has a headache, and so have I. So be quiet this instant—or no one goes to Grandfather.” Though it was only seven by the clock the house was already a furnace, the windows dilating with the harsh light and the air already burning with the immense, intense fever of noon. She found the children’s nurse working in the kitchen. “And why is it you who are preparing breakfast? Where is Amada?” But without waiting for an answer she went to the backdoor and opened it, and the screaming in her ears became wild screaming in the stables across the yard. “Oh my God!” she groaned and, grasping her skirts, hurried across the yard. In the stables Entoy, the driver, apparently deaf to the screams, was hitching the pair of piebald ponies to the coach. “Not the closed coach, Entoy! The open carriage!” shouted Doña Lupeng as she came up. “But the dust, señora—“ “I know, but better to be dirty than to be boiled alive. And what ails your wife, eh? Have...
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...Motions of the Sun – Student Guide Seasonal Motion Work through the explanatory material on Sidereal vs. Synodic and Seasons and the Zodiac. All of the concepts that are covered in these pages are used in the Paths of the Sun Simulator. For each of the following statements respond shorter, the same, or longer. A) If the Earth revolved more rapidly, its sidereal day would be _______________. B) If the Earth revolved more rapidly, it solar day would be ________________. C) If the Earth rotated more rapidly, its sidereal day would be _______________. D) If the Earth rotated more rapidly, it solar day would be ________________. Use the Zodiac Explorer to answer the following questions. A) On May 25th, the sun is in the constellation of ___________________. B) What would be a good time of year to observer the constellation Aries? ________________ C) On July 4th at midnight, the constellation __________________ is on the observer’s meridian. D) At sunrise on Christmas Day, the constellation on the observer’s meridian is ______________________. Daily Motion with Seasonal Effects Work through the explanatory material on Meridional Altitude and Sun Paths. Complete the following table on meridional altitudes. You are encouraged to check your answers with the meridional altitude explorer, but you should make every effort to solve these problems yourself first. Note that part D is completed for you. |Location ...
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...In the poem “summer Solstice, New York City,” Sharon Olds uses similes and metaphors to reveal the humans have a need to protect and preserve life as a community. Olds begins to use literary terms early in her poem to emphasize how protection is an important and recurring aspect in everyday life. When the suicidal jumper threatens to jump off the building, one of the police “put on a bullet-proof vest, a black shell around his own life,” (8-9). The policeman putting on the bullet proof vest portrays how everyone uses the protection that they can get to preserve their life. In addition, the man threatening to to commit suicide leads to the speaker saying “the huge machinery of the earth began to work for his life,” (6). Olds uses this metaphor to express how when the man threatens to end his life, the world comes “turns on” and everyone works together to protect and preserve life....
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...DEC: 7 degrees 24.426’ RA: 5h 14m 32s DEC: -08 degrees 12’5.89’ 19. Left, the equatorial system is nearly the same just mirrored 20.Ecliptic Location: Winter Solstice Approximate date: Sept 22 RA: 0h, 6h, 12h, 18h DEC: 0, 23.45, 0, -23.45 21. The ecliptic is slightly above the celestial equator and crosses at the vernal equinox. The right ascension on the equinox increases by 1h,2h,3h while the ecliptic moves by degrees 15,30,45 etc. 22. RA: 21.3h, 23.9, 2.9, 8.2, 9.2, 12.1, 1.9, 18.1 DEC: -15.8, 0.0, 20.0, 16.3, -0.6, -16.6, -23.4 Latitude of most direct: 15.8, 0.0, 16.5, 23.2, 16.2, 0.0, 16.6, 23.5 Latitude of least direct ray: 74.1 N, 90 N, 66.5 S, 73.9 S, 90 N, 73.6 N, 66.4 N 23. DEC is approximately equal to the latitude of the most direct ray and negative DEC corresponds to south latitudes. 24. The tropic of Cancer is the northernmost point on Earth where the sun’s rays can appear directly overhead at noon. The tropic of Capricorn is the southernmost point where the sun’s rays and appear directly overhead at noon. The tropics do not experience seasons because they receive nearly direct sun rays year round. 25. Some days have 24 hours of sunlight and 24 hours of darkness. 26. The noon sun’s angular height above the horizon ranges from 66.5 degrees on the vernal equinox to 90 degrees on the summer solstice to 66.5 degrees on the autumnal equinox, and...
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...11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 1st Lunar Month Solar Terms Moderate Cold： 5 Severe Cold： 20 2 2nd Lunar Month 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 4th Lunar Month 5th Lunar Month 3rd Lunar Month Spring Commences： 4 Spring Showers： 19 Insects Waken： 6 Vernal Equinox： 21 Bright & Clear： 5 Corn Rain： 20 2 3 4 5 6 8 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 2 2 4 4 6 7 7 9 9 10 8 5 7 3 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 6th Lunar Month 7th Lunar Month Summer Commences： 5 Corn Forms： 21 Corn on Ear： 6 Summer Solstice： 21 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 2 2 4 5 5 7 7 3 3 5 6 6 8 8 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 8th Lunar Month 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 9th Lunar Month 9th Lunar Month 2 3 3 5 5 3 4 4 6 6 Autumn Commences： 7 End of Heat： 23 White Dew： 8 Autumnal Equinox： 23 Cold Dew： 8 Frost： 23 Moderate Heat： 7 Great Heat： 23 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 10th Lunar Month 11th Lunar Month 2 2 4 4 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 2 2...
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...Omelas The short story “The ones who walk away from Omelas” has many symbols in it. A lot of these symbols play a major role in contributing to theme of the story. The symbols are the summer solstice, Colors in the solstice, the birds (Swallows), the flute player, understanding, and of course the child in the cellar. These symbols make the story come together. Without these symbols the story would be incomplete, it would not make sense. When the reader actually takes the time to think about the symbolization in the story, it all comes together. All of the symbols that bring the story together shows that things are not always as perfect as they seem. In this story the author describes the perfect town, the perfect citizens, basically a utopian society. Underneath it all there is evil and things are not perfect. The description of the summer solstice at the beginning of the story symbolizes the light of our consciousness and that it shines more brightly when we are aware of it. The horses symbolize power, grace, beauty, strength, freedom, and nobility. These things could also describe the citizens of Omelas as well. The author describes the people in town in ways that make it seem like they are cheerful people. It talks about the children playing and the people celebrating during the ceremony. This makes it seem like they are happy people. “Their manes were braided with streamers of silver, gold, and green. They flared their nostrils and pranced and boasted to one another; they...
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...the summer was hot From an astronomical view, the equinoxes and solstices would be the middle of the respective seasons,[1][2] but a variable seasonal lag means that the meteorological start of the season, which is based on average temperature patterns, occurs several weeks later than the start of the astronomical season.[3] According to meteorologists[4][5],summer extends for the whole months of June, July, and August in the northern hemisphere and the whole months of December, January, and February in the southern hemisphere. Under meteorological definitions, all seasons are arbitrarily set to start at the beginning of a calendar month and end at the end of a month.[6] This meteorological definition of summer also aligns with the commonly viewed notion of summer as the season with the longest (and warmest) days of the year, in which daylight predominates. The meteorological reckoning of seasons is used in Austria, Denmark and the former USSR; it is also used by many in the United Kingdom, where summer is thought of as extending from mid-May to mid-August. In Ireland, the summer months according to the national meteorological service, Met Éireann, are June, July and August. However, according to the Irish Calendar summer begins 1 May and ends 1 August. School textbooks in Ireland follow the cultural norm of summer commencing on 1 May rather than the meteorological definition of 1 June. From the astronomical perspective, days continue to lengthen from equinox to solstice and...
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...constellations as the earth rotates. Some things that we see regularly throughout the year in the northern hemisphere are the circumpolar stars like the north star and those contained in the big and little dipper. One thing that I find to be quite fascinating is that the earth actually wobbles like a top, although it is unrecognizable to us because it occurs very slowly. I was surprised to learn that the sun was once part of the constellation cancer a few thousand years ago, but now it has become part of the Gemini constellation. Gravity itself is an amazing magnetic pull. Every year we also regularly experience seasons as the earth rotates, but one thing that surprised me was to learn that even in the lower hemisphere it is still called the Summer solstice although it is winter there, mainly because the seasons were named from astronomers in the northern hemisphere. Another irregular thing that we experience on earth is an eclipse. I have always found eclipses fascinating and don’t remember seeing a total solar eclipse since I was in high school. Although they do occur on earth often they are only visible in certain areas of the world depending on moons position and the earth’s rotation. Another thing that I have always found to be pretty neat is when you can see the moon in the sky on a clear...
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...LECTURE 2 Earth-Sun Relationships and Illumination of the Globe I. Earth-Sun Relationships: Why we have to understand? Because by understanding earth-sun relationships one will be able to determine the apparent path of the sun in the sky, the angles at which sun's ray (light) strike, the lengths of day and night, and the occurence of seasons. The earth is turning on its axis at the same time that it is moving in a path about the sun, and because the earth's axis is tilted with respect to the plane of its orbit, therefore, it will be much easier for us to view these relationships in 3-dimension, or to view the earth from space. II. Motion of the Earth: Rotation and Revolution A. Rotation: The spinning of the earth on its polar axis. Direction of Rotation: is from west to east (eastward), eastward rotation of the earth. Looking down upon the North Pole - it is counterclockwise rotation; clockwise movement on the South Pole. Time of Rotation: Mean Solar Day - consisting of 24 mean solar hours, it is the average time required for the earth to make one complete turn (rotation) in respect to the sun. Velocity of Rotation: rate of travel of a point on the earth's surface in a circular path due to rotation. Angular velocity (constant on earth) and linear velocity. Equator: 25,000 miles / 24 hrs = 1050 miles / hr 40,000 km/24 hrs = 1700 km/ hr 60 N & S = 525 miles / hr = 850 km / hr 90 N & S = 0 mile / hr We are unaware of this motion because the...
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...The midnight sun is a natural phenomenon occurring in summer months at places north of the Arctic Circle and south of the Antarctic Circle where the sun remains visible at the local midnight. Around the solstice (June 21 in the north and December 21 in the south) and given fair weather the sun is visible for the full 24 hours. The number of days per year with potential midnight sun increases the farther towards either pole one goes. Although approximately defined by the polar circles, in practice midnight sun can be seen as much as 90 km outside the polar circle, as described below, and the exact latitudes of the farthest reaches of midnight sun depend on topography and vary slightly year-to-year. There are no permanent human settlements south of the Antarctic Circle, so the countries and territories whose populations experience it are limited to the ones crossed by the Arctic Circle, e.g. Canada (Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut), Denmark (Greenland), Finland, Sápmi, Norway, Russia, Sweden, the United States (Alaska), and extremities of Iceland. A quarter of Finland's territory lies north of the Arctic Circle and at the country's northernmost point the sun does not set at all for 60 days during summer. In Svalbard, Norway, the northernmost inhabited region of Europe, there is no sunset from approximately 19 April to 23 August. The extreme sites are the poles where the sun can be continuously visible for a half year. The opposite phenomenon, polar night, occurs...
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...Antarctica The relationship between Temperature and Density à The higher the air temperature, the faster the air molecules move à The faster the molecules move, the more space they will need to move around Warming the air will cause it to expand Cooling the air will cause it to contract General Temperature Variations Uneven surface heating drives atmospheric circulations Caused by: 1. 2. Avg. Surface Air Temperature = Key Idea: Mother nature constantly tries to get to equilibrium. Seasonal Variations in Temperature Summer Solstice: NH spring 23.5° June 21st. Sun’s rays are direct on the Tropic of Cancer (23.5°N) à Most daylight hours Autumnal Equinox: closer NH winter September 21st. Sun’s rays are direct NH summer on the Equator à 12 hrs of daylight and 12 hrs of night Dec 21st. Sun’s rays are direct on the Tropic of Capricorn (23.5°S) à Least daylight hours NH autumn Winter Solstice: Vernal Equinox: March 21st. Sun’s rays are direct on the Equator à 12 hrs of daylight and 12 hrs of night *** The tilt of the Earth on its axis causes the Sun’s rays to become more (or less) direct which concentrates (or disperses) the Sun’s energy throughout the year Seasons: The effects of latitude Why? Winter:...
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...Pleicetocene radioactivity is the act of emitting radiation spontaneously. The half-life of a radioactive isotope is a characteristic of that isotope and is not affected by any change in physical or chemical conditions. Radiometric dating (often called radioactive dating) is a technique used to date materials, usually based on a comparison between the observed abundance of a naturally occurring radioactive isotope and its decay products, using known decay rates. They just divide up seconds, into milli- micro- nano- etc. It's possible that the shortest interval of time is 10 to the -43 power seconds ... if time is discreet. Further details: The smallest.. The orientation of a rocks magnetic field can tell you it's relative age. It depends on the context. In a.c. circuits, 'reverse polarity' describes a situation in which a device, such as a socket outlet, is wrongly wired -with the line and neutral conductors interchanged. The spreading of the sea floor comes from magma oozing up between the cracks between continental plates as lava. This lava subsequently cools rapidly and forms solid rock. The primitive atmosphere was mainly composed of CO2. However, with the emergence of life, this CO2 was reduced in photosynthesis and increased Oxygen. Now our atmosphere is mainly composed of Nitrogen. the tilt of the earth affects the earth's climate by when the north is tilted closer to the sun it is warmer and sunny for six months strait. but when the north is tilted away...
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...for their crops. Normally this dance takes place during the spring planting season and before crops are to be harvested or when they are in desperate need for water. This dance is unique because men and women participate in this dance. Depending on a tribe’s ritual and costumes some may wear large headdresses while others may wear masks. Most tribes include paint on their bodies, beads, animal skins, feathers, and jewelry. This dance was performed in a zigzag motion instead of standing in a circle like most of the Native American tribal dances included. Sun Dance The purpose of the sun dance is to offer personal sacrifice as a prayer for the benefit of one’s family and community. This annual ceremony is normally performed at the summer solstice and can take up to a year of preparations. Even though all tribes has different interpretations of each dance the eagle is a central symbol in the sun dance. The eagle helps bring the body and spirit together in harmony. Another central theme in the sun dance is the use of the traditional Native American drum, praying with a pipe, offerings, and fasting. War Dance The war dance happened on the evening before an...
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