Essays Tagged: "flame"

Fire Retardant Fabrics

of Cotton5cm x 5cm piece of Rayon5cm x 5cm piece of AcrylicProcedure:1) Place a piece fabric under flame. Make sure that each time you do this, the flame is placed at an equal distance from the fabri ... o this, the flame is placed at an equal distance from the fabric.2) As soon as fabric is exposed to flame, begin timing with the stop watch3) Stop timing when fabric ignites.4) Put out the fire. Try n ...

(3 pages) 60 0 3.5 Feb/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

Evaluate the effectiveness of diction as an adjunct to meaning in John Updike's 'Player Piano'.

er piano. In the next line, the word flicker is a phonetic intensive, closely associated with word 'flame'. Since the 'flame' is a symbol of life and light, it gives the reader a feeling that the pian ...

(3 pages) 81 0 3.7 Jan/1996

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

life's powerful forces

eral.Fire begins with an idea of a spark. Then the spark is made and with the help of kindling, the flame begins to grow. Once a flame begins to grow it can take many paths because of the influences o ... s to grow it can take many paths because of the influences of external forces. If a wind blows, the flames change their direction and velocity and can engulf many other things. On the other hand, if t ...

(3 pages) 45 0 4.3 Nov/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

The Deluge

Resting. Watching. Waiting.' She stared off into the distance, but could see nothing but patches of flame and sparks, and smoke as it trailed off into the night. 'I'm so . . .''Tired? Hungry? Thirsty? ... ooked like she needed taking care of.Colin was standing by the fire, arms crossed, staring into the flames. He looked up quickly when he sensed them, and squatted down and warmed his hands before the ...

(20 pages) 85 0 4.4 May/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Poems & Short Stories

First Love. Refers to Vladimir, in Turgenev's "First Love", and Tatyana, in Pushkin's "Eugene Onegin"

h of a person; like wildfire spreading through a tree. But as the feelings become more intense, the flame of passion can turn into a blazing fire that burns painfully through every vein. A person's fi ...

(5 pages) 72 0 4.3 Oct/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Vivaldi

her so resounding a success nor so complete repudiation. A small group of the faithful had kept the flame going until the memorable year 1829. In that year Mendelssohn presented Bach to a wider public ...

(2 pages) 79 0 4.0 Oct/2002

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Of what value is the episode concerning the "Cave of Spleen" to the rest of the "Rape of the Lock"?

ous cares", it is followed by Dryden with "...already seized the queen / she fed within her veins a flame unseen". This is the point where Dido is in love with Aeneas. This is thus perhaps a point of ...

(5 pages) 44 0 3.7 Nov/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Letter to a person who fears fire from the POV of a Bunsen Burner

the Bunsen burner.Sometimes the Bunsen burner may 'strike back' if the air-hole is fully open. The flame changes to a green colour and produces a loud noise. You should turn off the gas tap immediate ... r. Simultaneously lift up and turn the gas tap, while using a lighted match or lighter to light the flame. The flame should be yellow. This a luminous flame. Open the air hole slowly by turning the co ...

(1 pages) 50 0 4.2 Mar/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

World War I.

d the globe, causing great nations to eagerly participate. Many reasons explain the ignition of the flame of hatred between the European Countries, as well as the resolution between them. The first ca ...

(2 pages) 34 0 4.3 May/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War I

Renaissance through Impressionism.

Renaissance Era ranged from c. 1400 to 1600. It is said that the spark that started the renaissance flame came from a life that lay dormant in Italy. After almost a millennium, the people of Italy cam ...

(6 pages) 207 0 1.4 Aug/2003

Subjects: Art Essays

In October 1859, German physicist Gustav Kirchhoff announced the results of his investigations with chemist Robert Bunsen on the dark lines that interrupt the otherwise continuous solar spectrum.

presence, in the incandescent atmosphere of the sun, of those substances which in the spectrum of a flame produce bright lines at the same place."News of his claim spread quickly throughout the scient ...

(8 pages) 26 0 3.0 Sep/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

"The Journey" RP Story.

en water for many days... possibly weeks"Listen to my tale, for I am Lord Narthil, protector of the flame of Marinoth. My father, the noble Narthilion, legendary warrior, founder of 'The Order of Larg ...

(3 pages) 25 0 0.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

It is an oral presintation on drumming and how the drum was made.

Drumming has been part of our daily lives before the flame was found. Hundreds of drumming enthusiasts are taking the world by storm and they are not alo ...

(4 pages) 33 0 4.3 Nov/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

It is a stubborn fly that follows the corpse to the grave.

by a famous jester. A lifeless stick of matches scratched against its coated paper produces a small flame but when left carelessly near an open jar of volatile petrol, causes a conflagration, which ca ...

(2 pages) 26 0 4.3 Nov/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

This essay is about the Celestial Spectroscopy: making reality fit the myth

presence, in the incandescent atmosphere of the sun, of those substances which in the spectrum of a flame produce bright lines at the same place."News of his claim spread quickly throughout the scient ...

(8 pages) 35 0 4.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences

How to Manage HomeDepot

elp you if you have to return anything because it's like jumping out of the frying pan and into the flame. Then there is the problem with having to find somebody that knows what he or she is talking a ...

(3 pages) 144 0 4.4 Jan/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

The Search for a True Scientist in Big Science

rkshop, despised by society as nonconformist, existing in a state of near poverty, motivated by the flame burning within him. " Derek Price and John Ziman explain in their essays the transition which ...

(14 pages) 72 0 3.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Ode to my love

yes sparkle so bright,They look like stars in a moonlit night.Her right eye burns with a passionate flame,Her left eye joins and does the same.But if I were to sit with her and listen,It would shine m ...

(1 pages) 25 1 4.2 Jun/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Poems & Short Stories

Medea; questions and answers that can create a better understanding of the character Medea and how the sympathy of the audience shifts thoughout the play.

e will not eat; she lies collapsed in agony, dissolving the long hours I tears" (Nurse, pg18)"Come, flame of the sky, pierce through my head! What do I gain from living any longer?" (Medea, pg21)Calcu ...

(26 pages) 119 1 5.0 Jul/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Greek Language & Literature

Summary/Understanding of Sonnet 1 by William Shakespeare

ender heir might bear his memory:But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes,Feed'st thy light'st flame with self-substantial fuel,Making a famine where abundance lies,Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet ...

(1 pages) 14 0 3.0 Jul/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers