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- 2681: Natural Fiber - Natural Color
- ... B.C., in Indo-Pakistan, Egypt, and Peru. It grew in natural colors - mocha, tan, gray and red-brown - and was prized by the hand-spinner. With the industrial revolution and its newly invented looms, short-fibered colored cotton was displaced by longer fibered white cotton. As the white variety grew in popularity, colored cotton nearly isappeared, kept alive only by the hand-spinners. That is, until Sally Fox found a ... B.C., in Indo-Pakistan, Egypt, and Peru. It grew in natural colors - mocha, tan, gray and red-brown - and was prized by the hand-spinner. With the industrial revolution and its newly invented looms, short-fibered colored cotton was displaced by longer fibered white cotton. As the white variety grew in popularity, colored cotton nearly disappeared, kept alive only by the hand-spinners. That is, until Sally Fox found a ...
- 2682: Skydiving
- ... let us say he has three parachutists leaving at ten second intervals. He must plan the initial exit so that all three will land as close as possible to the target: the first would be short of the target, the second right on, and the third would be long. In our case, the spotter is looking down from 12,500 feet, has to guess about the wind, and has only a ... of people, depending on the number of skydivers involved. BASE jump. A jump made from a fixed object rather than an aircraft. BASE is an acronym for building, antennae, spans (bridges) and earth (cliff). Beech. Short for Beechcraft, an aircraft manufacturer. Usually used in reference to a Beech D-18, a.k.a. Twin Beech. At one time these were common skydiving planes, but they are becoming obsolete. BOC. Bottom of ...
- 2683: Combined Sewer Overflows in the Boston Area
- ... in the country were providing secondary if not tertiary treatment for their waste water. The waste from these plants was being dumped into the shallow waters of the Harbor, at the end of a relatively short outfall pipe. Another eyesore for the Commonwealth were the eighty-one combined sewer overflows in the cities of Boston, Chelsea, Cambridge and Somerville. Combined Sewer Overflows occur when sewage flow in a combined sewer system ... sent to Deer Island for treatment. If this plan were put into effect all remaining CSO's would receive some form of treatment, at least primary treatment. Ideally there should be no CSO's but short of digging up and separating all 5,000 plus miles of combined sewers under the streets of Boston this would be almost impossible. Separating the sewer lines is something that will have to be done ...
- 2684: The Simpsons: The History
- ... Yes" Bart: "What about a robot with a human brain?" Teacher: "I don't know! Is a little blind faith too much to ask for?" (Pepoon) The pastor, Reverend Lovejoy is a hypocrite. In "22 Short Films About Springfield" he leads his dog to the Flanders' yard to go to the bathroom. He praises the dog until Ned Flanders comes outside. He then acts angry and threatens the dog with hell ... show doesn't make us do it. It just happens. If this world did not have The Simpsons children would behave in the same manner, they just might laugh quite as much. --- WORKS CITED "22 Short Films About Springfield." The Simpsons. By: John Swartzwelder, Dir: Jim Reardon, Prof: James L. Brooks. Fox. WHNS, Greenville. 12 May, 1996. "Bart the Genius." The Simpsons. By: John Vitti, Dir: David Silverman, Prod: James L ...
- 2685: The Sistine Chapel
- ... 85 ft tall." But it has on it's ceilings and walls some of the greatest art ever produced."Brilliant artist's of the late 1400's decorated the walls with paintings that tell the stories of Moses and Christ". (World Book 476 Vol 17). On the ceiling are Biblical stories painted by the great artist Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512. According to Charles Symore the author of the book Michelangelo the Sistine ceiling "the ceiling tells the history of the creation of the world, the ...
- 2686: Romeo and Juliet
- ... Lawrence does not have very much time on stage but the time he does have is crucial to the plot line. Through his words Friar Lawrence demonstrates the he is a good intentioned, yet sometimes short-sighted, man who is not afraid to take risks to help others One of Friar Lawrences most favourable traits is how good intentioned he is. He may do something out of the ordinary if he ... an extremely risky thing to do because anything might happen to Juliet while she unconscious. Even after all Friar did to help Romeo and Juliet the play still ended in tragedy because of Friar Lawrences' short sightedness. When the Friar married Romeo Juliet in secrecy, he did not think of all the complications that would arise but instead went on with the marriage because at that time he thought it was ...
- 2687: Fashion in the 60's
- ... the feeling that a break with the past had been achieved. Clothes, furniture, and products all looked newer, brighter, and more fun. The swinging 60's were at their height. Women's hemlines were very short. Fashion in the 60's tended to encourage exhibitionism. Miniskirts, bold colors, and see through dresses were all geared to showing off women's bodies, and on rare occasion men's bodies. Gaudy accessories such ... experimented with fabrics and materials like paper, nylon, plastics, and elastic. The Hippy movement, which first surfaced in California, nurtured a form of anti-fashion in which virtually all types of clothes were permissible whether short or long, new or second hand, patterned or plain, as long as the materials were natural. All the fashions of the 60's were care free and expressed each individual person. Some of the fashions ...
- 2688: Romeo And Juliet: Violence And Bloodshed
- ... violence and bloodshed than most TV mini-series. The Play begins with a riot, ends with a double suicide,and in between has three murders. And all this takes place in the span of four short days. Of course, when your're dealing with love and passion, your're operating on an elemental level. The funny thing is that they have their roots in the same soil. How many times have ... Italy is a very hot place in the summer, also quite humid." After reading this I then realized that a great deal of the violence in Romeo and Juliet become more understandable; they're all short tempered because of the heat! This is even noted when Benvolio warns Mercutio that " The day is hot, and Capulets abroad/And if we meet we shall not scape a brawl/ For now, these hot ...
- 2689: Abstract Expressionism
- ... a new dimension to his artwork. In "Excavation," he used an extremely wide variety of lines, shapes, and textures, with the odd touch of colour in a few places. We see many forms of lines: Short lines, long lines, thin lines, thick lines, and everything in between. The varied thickness of lines adds depth, pulling the observer into the painting. Shapes are abundant in this work, yet we can't always ... of the painting, while the open, free, and empty shapes in! the centre of the piece have a smooth-like nature to them. Small amounts of green, yellow, red, and pink colors are applied in short wisps of the brush, yet seem to add greatly to the artwork. The painting would lose much of it's intrigue had De Kooning not added the meagre amount of colour he did. I happen ...
- 2690: Character Comparison in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Dead Poet's Society
- ... we are all also very similar to each other. Even if you compare personalities, there is no one whose personality is completely different from everyone else's, even the personalities that we create, for movies, stories, plays etc. For example the characters in "A Midsummer Night's Dream", and the characters in "Dead Poet's Society", present themselves in a very similar way. Mr. Perry and Egeus tend to take control ... on and on. Characters from the movie "Dead Poet's Society" have similar traits as Shakespeare' s characters in the play "A Midsummer Night's Dream". This just shows how characters from two totally unrelated stories are similar. Both Mr. Perry and Egeus want to have total control over their children's lives. Egeus and Mr. Perry made the most important choices their children would ever have, rather than letting them ...
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