Essays Tagged: "hot summer"

Advanced Technology of todays society using Arthur Miller litt as perspective.

d TechnologyWhen I was younger things were not as easy as they are today. For example, years ago on hot summer days my family only had one air conditioning unit, which took hours to cool off the house ... re the invention of the air conditioner, people were forced to live and work in unfit and extremely hot temperatures. According to Arthur Miller, "Given the heat, people smelled, of course, but some s ...

(2 pages) 93 0 4.4 Mar/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Technology

Castle Life in the 12th century

ndcourtyard buildings, covered around 15 acres and were built fordefensive warfare. Even during the hot summer months, dampness clung tothe stone rooms, and the lord and his entourage spent as much ti ...

(3 pages) 33 0 3.7 Apr/1997

Subjects: History Term Papers

Willis Carrier: The Father of Cool, Inventor of the modern-day Air Conditioner

f the scientific air conditioner. His life-long hard work has resulted in many of us today enjoying hot summer days indoors. Because of this, Willis Carrier is a legend and he will never be forgotten. ... hools, air conditioning has become a part of our modern lifestyle. Just remember this: when it is a hot and muggy 40°C outside, and you are relaxing comfortably indoors, you have Willis Haviland C ...

(5 pages) 55 0 3.3 Jan/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Technology

A brief biography of William Shakespeare.

land. Waves of the plague swept across the countryside, and pestilence ravaged Stratford during the hot summer months. Mary and John Shakespeare became parents for the first time in September of 1558, ...

(1 pages) 32 1 1.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

K.C. Public Transit System Needs Improvement this essay is about the poor public transit system kansas city has. It also offers some insight towards possible solutions to the problem.

ion system for a better economic and healthy community.The air quality in Kansas City is bad in the hot summer days. Cities, like New York, have spent money to have wonderful public transportation sys ...

(4 pages) 66 0 4.3 Dec/2003

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Gettysburg

This most famous and most important Civil War Battle occurred over three hot summer days, July 1 to July 3, 1863,around the small market town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. It ... the Rebels thought too.But as the Rebels got within range, Federal cannons opened fire using grapeshot which is a shell containing iron ballsthat flew apart when fired, and they also used deadly wave ...

(5 pages) 40 0 4.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Step by step procedure writing paper idea was given on how to pack for long weekend

, consider your destination and activities. Will this be a weekend of leisure activities during the hot summer weather, thereby requiring such items as shorts? Sandals, possibly a bathing suit, and so ...

(3 pages) 41 0 4.7 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Analyzation of a quote from the novel Night by Elie Weisel.

as free for anyone, belonging to nobody. It was simply a matter of helping oneself. An open tomb. A hot summer sun." takes place when the Jews from one ghetto are moved into another. The significance ...

(1 pages) 33 1 4.2 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

The Proud Coward A biography of a time when ones circumstances must be stood for or trampled on.

the son was known as the coward of the county. I can relate.I was a carefree feller. However, on a hot summer afternoon, the way I perceived myself had changed. From that day, a coward was the percep ...

(5 pages) 23 0 4.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

"Night" by Elie Wiesel, Is it fiction?

the reader in and make the story that much more believable. On page 15 he writes "An open tomb. / A hot summer sun." after he describes their houses as they leave the ghetto. "I was fifteen years old. ... Elie got off the cattle train and he thought it was snowing, but it was truly human ash. How they shot a man trying to get to some unguarded soup during a raid. How the prisoners were forced to run f ...

(3 pages) 55 0 4.7 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies

BEUTIFULL EXPERIENCE

On a hot summer, several years ago, I went on vacation to a beautiful place. There I was able to see the ... ity of the ocean.Few meters from the birth of this cold, clear and sweet water mixes with the salty hot water of the ocean forming turbulence of white big foams.The Caribbean Sea with its blue water c ... ), in the Dominican Republic is one of the must magnificent places I have ever visited. Without big hotels and all the amenities modern society has to offer, I must say that I have never enjoyed mysel ...

(3 pages) 59 0 4.0 Sep/2004

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays > Travel Descriptions

Gas Fears

carbon dioxide over the past two years may be connected to forest fires in Siberia or the unusually hot summer in Europe in 2003. According to Richard Betts, Manager for Ecosystems and Climate ...

(1 pages) 22 0 1.7 Jan/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

"Hunting Nature" This is a really well written Descriptive/Narrative essay from my English 101 class that meets a required 800 words.

I clinched my .30-.30 Winchester tightly to my right cheek and glazed down her sights. The searing hot summer sun and the orchestra of crickets screeching all around were little distractions compared ... l and sulfur into the wind. I approached the buck from behind with my rifle poised for a follow-up shot. He was still twitching as early signs of rigor mortis began to set in. He laid there on the sof ...

(3 pages) 68 0 4.2 Feb/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Descriptive Essays

"The Fall River Axe Murders" by Angela Carter.

ause as we know, it is human nature to socialize with others on a regular basis. There for when the hot summer humidity and head swept across Fall River area, my feeling is that Lizzie became very une ...

(1 pages) 43 1 2.3 Nov/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

To what extent is personal weakness to blame for what happens to the main characters in Hartley's novel "The Go-Between"?

gh the eyes of an innocent 12-year-old boy, who discovers the importance of class structures in the hot summer of 1900. In the resulting loss of innocence, Leo discovers the true nature of the relatio ...

(3 pages) 13 0 3.0 May/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder: A Narrative/Descriptive Essay

weetly soothing voice. The few letters I received from him where like a glass of cool lemonade on a hot summer's day when you can feel the essence of it soothing you with every sip. The uncertainty of ... lights in front of me strategically placed around the road . I made it to the airport. My head gets hot as I breathe heavily. "I cannot belive I'm going to see my boyfriend!" I say under my breath. I ...

(4 pages) 48 0 4.3 Sep/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Descriptive Essays

Speech about Air Pollution

day having to walk outside wearing a mask; or not being able to open the windows of your house on a hot summer's day. Or even worse, imagine looking out of your window and not seeing any form of life. ...

(2 pages) 57709 0 4.3 Oct/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Persuasive Writing

The other side of the line

I remember tasting a mixture of salt water and chlorine on the tip of my tongue on that hot summer's day. The chlorine taste came from the family pool where I had taken in which I took ref ...

(4 pages) 1052 0 0.0 Feb/2007

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

The Alpine Iceman

uple hiking on Mount Similaun (in the Otztaler Alps), on the Austria-Italy border. The particularly hot summer that year had melted most of the snow, bringing to light remains that would otherwise hav ...

(2 pages) 1329 0 3.0 Aug/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Heaven

e sky will be blue. It wouldn't be a dark blue but a nice pure blue. The blue that the sky has on a hot summer day. The water would be crystal clear and would fall from a stream of the side of a mount ...

(2 pages) 927 0 0.0 Aug/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers