...SUMMER SOLSTICE Setting: The main events in the story happened in the Moretas residence and at their townsmini plaza and those happened during the night. Characterization: * Donya Lupeng Moreta- long-married woman with three children * Don Paeng Moreta- the highly moral husband of Donya Lupeng * Guido- young cousin to the Moretas who studied in Spain * Amada- the family cook and Entoy's wife * Entoy- the family driver Plot: The story happened during the St. John's Day, Doña Lupeng finds Amada in a state of madness and ecstasy after the latter attended the local ritual of Tadtarin , where the womendance and invoke the spirit to empower them. And then they went to the house of their. * Setting and Conflicts Setting – Since the story takes place in the 1850s, women were repressed and felt shut in. Lupeng may seem to be happy in her routine life, but she also feels angry. You can notice this when she states to the children “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.” It indeed sounds like she feels as though she has a duty that she must carry on but she gets annoyed at her family because of her subdued state of womanhood. Although she tries act horrified when Guido tells of her woman should be adored rather than beneath their husbands, she contemplates and realizes she wants to be the leader of the pack. External and Internal Conflicts – The stereotypes of...
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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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...“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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...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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...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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...1. When does the full moon rise? a. sunset 2. Why do we see different constellations in different seasons? b. 3. What is the reason for the seasons? In other words, why is summer warmer than winter, etc. c. because the Earth’s axis is tilted about 23.5 degrees 4. What are the approximate dates of the equinoxes and solstices? Summer Solstice | June 21 | Winter Solstice | December 21 | Autumn Equinox | September 21 | Spring Equinox | March 21 | 5. What season is the Sun seen highest in the sky at noon? Lowest? d. Highest – June 21st –Summer Solstice- at noon e. Lowest – December 21 – Winter Solstice- (at noon?) 6. Suppose you see a certain star rising in the east at 9pm tonight? When will it rise tomorrow night? f. 4 minutes earlier -8:56 pm – the next sidereal day 7. What does the word sidereal mean? what is a sidereal day? g. Anything relative to the stars – The time is takes for a start to come up in the same position in the sky the next day (approx. 23 hours 56 minutes) 8. Are we closer to the sun in winter or in summer? h. Winter 9. What is the ecliptic? What are the two ways of using it to describe Earth or the Sun seen from the Earth. i. The path of the sun’s motion as seen from the Earth throughout the year j. It’s the plane of Earth’s orbit is space 10. Define heliocentric and geocentric. k. heliocentric- Sun was center of the solar system – proposed by...
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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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...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 Stonehenge is located in the county Wilshire, which is about an hour and forty minutes drive, east of London. Long before the first construction of the monument was built, the Stonehenge landscape already used to contain long barrows, communal burial mounds of people from the Early Neolithic Period, around 4000 BC. The Stonehenge cursus, a 3 kilometer long and 100 meters wide strip of land outlined by two earthern banks found near Stonehenge also comes from about the same time (Ruggles et al). It is important to note that the Stonehenge is built in stages. The circular earthen ditch and bank is the earliest known development in Stonehenge, probably built using the antler of a red deer. It was developed during the Middle Neolithic period, around 2950 BC (Ruggles et al). The monument originally comprised of a ring made of 56 pits, known as the Aubrey holes, named after the antiquarian and scholar, John Aubrey who first discovered and recorded the holes in 1666 (Jack). These holes erected Bluestones that came from the Preseli Mountain in South wales, about 250 kilometers away (Pearson). These Bluestones were around 2 meters long and weigh several tons each (Ruggles et al). It took a lot of effort for prehistoric people to transport the heavy Bluestones from Whales to England; this suggests that the people who first created the monument placed significant importance on the Bluestones. The Station Stones and Heelstone (with a missing companion) were also put at about the same time...
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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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...The poem Summer Solstice, New York City, written by Sharon Olds, is a tension building story about a man who occupies the roof of a New York City building with the stated intention of committing suicide, and the chaos that is created as a result. It is clear from the symbolism placed throughout that it is also a metaphor for man’s voyage from childhood to adulthood. Our ascent from childhood or adolescence is a sort of rebirth, and this poem is loaded with images of that voyage. Our children often lead their existence with little knowledge of the tumult and hazards that lay before them. In many ways they do not know how the rest of us – their parents, teachers, and many others who take a vested interest in their well-being – work behind the scenes to ensure a smooth transition for them. This is familiar to those who read about “the huge machinery of the earth”, which, “began to work for his life”, making reference to the police working to get the man to give up his plan. (Olds 6) Early in the poem, in line five, when the man is approached by police who are attempting to save him, he tells them that if they come any closer, “that was it.” (Olds 5) This behavior is extremely childish in its selfishness. Deep down this individual knows that their threat would physically hurt nobody but himself. The love, caring, and emotional investment of those who are trying to save him is what he is counting on. This is comparable of a threat that a teenager would make. It is a dramatic overstatement...
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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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...their movements • Many ancient cultures built large structures to track the movement of objects in the heavens, which functioned as primitive calendars • The best known of these ancient structures is Stonehenge, a stone circle built in England during the Stone Age, which is believed to have allowed its builders to keep track of dates through observation of celestial events • The alignment of the stones corresponds to events such as the rising of the Sun at the summer solstice, and the rising and setting of the Sun and Moon at other times of the year • Many other cultures built monuments with similar alignments and purposes, such as the Big Horn Medicine Wheel in Wyoming and the Caracol temple in Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula, though the association of these structures with astronomy is more controversial • A more certain candidate for a North American calendar is the Sun Dagger in New Mexico, a rock formation structured such that a sliver of light passes through a carved stone spiral at noon on the summer solstice • There are several sites similar to the Sun Dagger found throughout the American southwest • The ancient Chinese also kept detailed records of astronomical events for astrological purposes; modern astronomers still refer to their records for information on ancient astronomical phenomena • After the fall of Rome, Muslim astronomers kept the knowledge of the ancient Greek astronomers alive during the European Dark Ages, as well as adding their own findings • Many...
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...Glastonbury attract an eclectic mix of visitors as well as the infrastructure required to accommodate them. Perhaps Chidester and Linenthal consider a more pragmatic view of the nature of sacred spaces; that there will be some element of commodity in a number of sacred spaces as a result of our basic needs, and commercial and political interests exploit these factors. Sites deemed as ‘sacred’ or ‘holy’ such as Stonehenge and Avebury, because of their alignment with the rising of the sun at summer solstice, are of great historic significance because they ‘are amongst the most famous megaliths in the world’ (Bowman and Harvey, 2008, p.43), attracting visitors whose interests range from the sacred to the ordinary. Stonehenge and Avebury attract a number of religious actors with which the quality of place is significant to their belief systems. Druids, Wiccans, alternative healers, pagans, arrive en masse to these sites during summer solstice to witness the rising of the sun. The summer solstice festival at Stonehenge also attracts those who come for the sheer pleasure of the experience. For its mysterious past and links with Druidic ritual and the sacred, religious actors at Stonehenge especially, draw such huge numbers that English Heritage felt compelled to take advance bookings, not only for the midsummer festival, but at all times, to date (English Heritage). Glastonbury is host to more natural phenomena for possessing sacred significance. The Druids believe it was a centre...
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