Cracks in concrete are inevitable and are one of the inherent weaknesses of concrete. Water and other salts seep through these cracks, corrosion initiates, and thus reduces the life of concrete. Concrete structures usually show some self-healing capacity, i.e. the ability to heal or seal freshly formed micro-cracks. This property is mainly due to the presence of non-hydrated excess cement particles in the materials matrix, which undergo delayed or secondary hydration upon reaction with water. Scientists
Alfie Kohn’s essay “From Grading to Degrading” initially impresses the reader. At a glance, the ideas imbedded in the text appear radically revolutionary, yet reasonable, intelligent and logical. Unfortunately, the promise of a good essay is marred by excess personal emotion that clouds the judgment of the writer, along with ill-timed references to the author’s extensive research. The writing is this essay’s redeeming quality. The polished yet simple language captivates the reader. It is sophisticated
Introduction This paper is a reflective essay based on my personal learning achievements, during the ‘Developing the Professional’ module. It encompasses the critical evaluation of my overall development during the coursework. The coursework has provided me with many expert abilities through different courses and extracurricular exercises. The businesses and doctoral level colleges, along with companies hiring the employees are looking for the accompanying abilities from today's graduates. These
or this essay, we will be attempting to discuss about the causes, explanations, and origins of white-collar crimes by using various sources and the scandal case of WorldCom. There are already studies done on the topic of white-collar crime in the criminology field, but not every theory and hypothesis has been done to try and explain the three problems concerning it. Theories such as the fear of falling and strain theory, and any other possible factors affecting people’s decisions, would be investigated
his essay soap powder and detergents in “‘Mythologies’ Barthes describes about the myths of French daily life and explain how the media contributed to form the myths. According to barthers the advertisement and media repackage the popular idea so that it become selling. Barthes introduces the subject of soap-powders and detergents by identifying the benefits and the aim. For instance, the detergents have the possibility to save miners from silicosis. Then he gave the main point of the essay that
Critics generally agree that “The Yellow Wallpaper” is a story about a woman’s attempt to escape the “entrapment of the female illness experience of the nineteenth-century” (Hume 477). Using the “properties of illness” outlined in Virginia Woolf’s essay “On Being Ill” as a framework to define the illness experience, this paper will establish the female illness experience to be one with both medical components— aspects of illness defined by one’s own perceptions and individual, bodily experiences—
The unifying idea behind the personal essays of Tannen, Munoz, and Tan is that in each story the writer expresses their own unique take on communication through personal experiences, and the tone that they establish . However, the common unifying theme is that each of the characters have their own subset of English that is their own which they use to communicate to others with Tannen's "Sex, Lies and Conversation: Why Is It So Hard for Men and Women to Talk to Each Other" begins with an example
Each particular community group will have different ways of living with others. The ways of living the life of a society can be defined as the culture of that society. A classic definition: "culture is a set of behavioural patterns that are socially symbolically transmitted through language and other means to members of a particular society (Wallendorf & Reilly in Mowen, 1995). On the other hand, the culture according to (Tyler in Mowen, 1995) is "a complex whole which includes knowledge, belief
There are few Holocaust memorials as vast as the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. The area covered by the thousands of concrete pillars covers a space larger than a football field and is located right in the middle of Berlin, Germany. Included with the memorial is an underground Information Center in which visitors can learn about the Holocaust and its victims. The memorial itself is very abstract – so much so that some people do not think it belongs. On the other hand, there are others who
people have been conditioned (160). This conditioning stems out of generations, environments, and experiences. Human beings are social animals, we love the feeling of reassurance, love, and welcoming. Think back to Wallace’s reason for writing his essay on Kafka’s peculiar humor. He is writing in search of acceptance; assuring the reader that Kafka’s stories, really are funny, or so he argues. There’s something very uncomfortable in the way we feel when we find ourselves laughing alone, it urges us