They’re desperate for a sun fix. They spend hours incarcerated in hi-tech coffins. Cayte Williams meets the “tanorexics” You’re lying in a big plastic cocoon. Weird blue light beats down at you through hi-tech glass and there’s a strange humming noise. You’re naked and sweating profusely. Have you been abducted by aliens for experimental tests? No‚ you’re lying on a sunbed and if you’re doing it more than once a week then you could be seriously addicted. The Imperial Cancer Research Fund
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Journal – A Raisin in the Sun/ A Dream Deferred This poem resonated with me more so than any other so far. It starts out with a simple question about a dream that gets put off and the raisin is a metaphor for the dream or idea that is perished in the blazing sun. The writer uses such vocabulary to ignite all senses to describe the raisin as decaying‚ festering and stink like rotten meat. IT seems as so the dream is the source of pain for the writer and the ills that accompany the chasing
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Donne’s “The Sun Rising” Through the use of language‚ a new world is constructed in John Donne’s poem “The Sun Rising”. The speaker of the poem creates a new world wherein he and his lover are the centre of the universe. Most of the text is about how the sun is told by the speaker to shine on his perfect world‚ a fabrication made out of dreams and desires. Therefore‚ the sun is of great importance in the poem. John Donne certainly has a fondness for metaphors and he calls the sun: “Busy old
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Lab 4 – Energy Sources and Alternative Energy Experiment 1: The Effects of Coal Mining Table 1: pH of Water Samples Water Sample Initial pH Final pH (24-48 hours) Pyrite 6.9 6 Activated Carbon 6.9 7 Water 6.9 6 POST LAB QUESTIONS 1. Develop hypotheses predicting the effect of pyrite and coal on the acidity of water? a. Pyrite hypothesis = it can contaminate water or dirt by increasing acidity levels. b. Coal hypothesis = can cause a problem with underground mining because it can cause the river
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MAKE HAY WHILE THE SUN SHINES The idiom‚ “Make hay while the sun shines” originated in an agricultural setting and originally it was in the form “when the sun shineth‚ make hay”. This unique expression refers to the production of hay after a harvest. The warmth of the sun’s rays dry up the wheat stalks and turns them into hay. Once the hay is dry‚ if it gets wet again it starts to rot. The weather being unpredictable‚ one has to grab the opportunity and dry the hay while the sun is shining. The
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The sun becomes one of the most important motifs in Albert Camus’ "The Stranger". The imagery Camus uses when describing the sun sets the stage for the climax of Mersault’s murder of the Arab. More than anything the sun is depicted as a distraction to Mersault. It causes him to do things he would not normally do and clouds his judgement‚ causing him to commit a serious crime which will cause his own death. The sun is in a way a representation of the constraints society places upon Mersault. The effect
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The damming of Hetch Hetchy valley was one of the first big controversial environmental debates that started the conservation movement‚ in the United States. The Hetch Hetchy Valley is a glacially formed valley in the northwestern corner of Yosemite National park in California. Yosemite was declared a national park in the late 1800’s by congress to protect this valuable wilderness for all people. The debate was between John Muir and Gifford Pinchot. Muir was against the dam and Pinchot was for it
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The body needs a minimum of 20 minutes of sun a week to make enough vitamin D to stay healthy. The body cannot obtain enough Vitamin D from the food we eat so it needs to create it from sunlight exposure. A shortage of Vitamin D can cause problems such a rickets. So‚ except in special cases‚ some sun is good for most people. Over exposure can lead to bad sun burns and‚ in the worst case‚ melanomas (skin cancer). Overall‚ too much time in the sun is bad because you get first degree burn
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(12:54) We arrived at a ragged desert like valley from the upland. The patterns as the snow cornice looked beautiful. In the further end I got the panoramic view of the Japan sea and the Shonai Plain. (14:08) With the sun setting‚ it highlighted the jaggy ridge lines and patterns. I gazed in awe. I saw a golden eagle flying afar. There are only 4 of them in the Shonai area. Seeing them was a treasurable experience. (15:49) I waited for the sunset. The sun went down the somewhat cloudy sky. (17:00)
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The Aztec stone of the sun is ¨Carved from a single piece of porphyry and is weighed at 20 tons¨. (American National Museum of History) The Aztec stone of sun’s symbols relate to the Sun and the Sun’s role in Aztec belief. (American National Museum of History) Even through the disk is not really a functioning calendar it is also referred as the calendar stone. (Cartwright)The stone was discovered in December 1790 in the central plaza of Mexico City. (Cartwright) The artist carved the Aztec calendar
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