...Science in my daily life As the Earth completes yet another turn around it axis, the sunlight pours into my bedroom indicating it is time to wake up. In case I miss the hint, my alarm clock set, as usual, for seven o’clock will do the trick. I get up and enter the bathroom, pleasantly warm thanks to the radiator fed with hot water through a series of pipes connected to a central heating boiler. I remain a couple of extra minutes under the shower enjoying the warm water – courtesy again of my boiler -, and finally I am ready to get dressed, opting for a suit cut out of one of these new fabrics that are comfortable, warm and light all at the same time. In the kitchen, I prepare breakfast for four. I turn on the electric kettle to boil water for tea, while a jar of milk heats in the microwave. I turn on the gas oven to warm up the brioche I baked yesterday. It smells delicious and it looks even better, golden and spongy due to the work of yeast. And, while the rest of the family comes down to have breakfast, I turn on the radio to listen to the latest news around the Globe. I have been awaken for just some twenty minutes and science is all around me: the movement of planets, the electricity, the water treatment, the transformation and piping of the gas we use to cook and heat out homes, the chemistry behind new fabrics, the radio waves or the power of the small fungi we use for our pastries. Whatever I do, whatever I see, science is at the heart of everything. And the day...
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...Briefly explain the significance of having finance knowledge in your everyday life. Having finance knowledge is significance because it helps us to better understanding the event that happened in our everyday life. The possessed of financial knowledge enables us to apply it through our daily life. Finance knowledge can assist us managed our money in a proper manners and thus use our money efficiently. For example, we can use our money efficiently by fully utilized surplus cash through making investment or saving in the bank. Besides, we can have better knowledge of what types of borrowing that we can take if we suffered from cash deficit. Through the understanding on the loan available and term stated make an analysis that whether you are afford to pay back the loan. If you cannot afford to back the loan you are strictly prohibited to borrow in order to prevent the worst situation to occur and probably making you to the way of bankruptcy. Moreover, having finance knowledge help us having a better understanding of the financial issues that arises in our daily life. It can lead us more concern toward the economics situation that happen around, such as the changes of the interest rates, inflation rates, currency exchange and so on. As a result, we are not easily misleading by other people to involve in a bad investment. Furthermore, through the finance knowledge that we apply in our daily life, it assist us in making a wise decision that can directly influence the wealth...
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...How has daily life changed since 1800? Since the dawn of time the world has been evolving. So to have the people and how they live, work and survive. In today’s modern world we take so much for granted it’s hard to imagine having to work from dusk to dawn six days a week so that you may be able to provide a basic meal for your family. The purpose of this essay is to explore just a few of the key differences between the period of 1500-1800 and today’s modern world. It will provide a summary of Blaineys (Blainey, 2000) writings and outline key features of this period as well as highlighting several key differences between then and now. These differences will show how we have come so far that we wouldn’t be able to comprehend the low quality of life from the past. Blainey’s (Blainey, 2000) chapter on ‘Dethroning the Harvest’ goes into detail about how people lived, worked and survived during the period of 1500-1800. Blainey (Blainey, 2000) states that during this period “Daily life, in every part of the world, centred on the production of food.” (Blainey, 2000, p. 410). The world revolved around bringing home the harvest and, as it was mostly a once-a-year event, it was something that everyone was involved in. Grain, being the main food source, was literally the life-bread of the world. It was used to provide bread, porridge, soup and beer. During this period, tea and coffee was still a luxury and therefore beer was the commonplace drink. It was served with most meals...
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...Economics of Daily Life Economics of Daily Life Economics is a study of how society manages its scarce resources. The literal translation for economy is “one who manages a household.” “In an increasingly complex world connected by social and economic interaction and interdependence, news of stock market fluctuations, consumer confidence scores, and various economic indicators fill the media” (Broome & Preston-Grimes, 2011). This means that economics is everywhere, even in a home. Every household makes decisions that follow the economic principles. There are tradeoffs, and incentives. Supply and demand regularly show up in a household setting, as do decisions regarding limits on price and time. I am a single mom and the science of economics is a daily occurrence, at the grocery store, while doing homework, and in my choice of home and bills. Economics is an inevitable part of most people’s daily lives. It occurs in every facet of home, work, and school. There are ten principles to economics. They are the decisions that need to be made in regards to the jobs that need to be done, and the management of the resources that will allow the necessities to be provided. One of the principles that occur most in my daily life is tradeoffs. Tradeoffs occur when a person has to choose between one thing and another, forgoing one desirable option, for the more beneficial, sometimes undesired option. In a study done in 2011, a Montessori middle school set up a school store. Some...
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...Physics in Daily Life Through out my daily life activities physics is involved with every aspect. Even while I sleep physics is at work. So lets begin with sleep. Sleeping is usually what I am doing when the sun rises and the day begins. There are a lot of physics concepts in which take place during my sleeping period, but I will touch on one that is common in every activity…. gravity. As I lay in the bed I am causing the atoms of pillow top and springs underneath to bend. I am putting pressure on the bed itself because I have weight, which is due to gravity. The force of gravity is what keeps me from floating away as I sleep or do anything else. Gravity is probably one of the most important concepts in physics. One of the next things I do is next after waking up is eating breakfast. There is a lot of physics going on in this activity as well but I chose to discuss one of the more complex terms that takes place during eating. The conversion of food to energy is also a part of physics. My body digests the food and in the process pulls the energy from it either to keep me warm or fuel my body to do work. It probably sounds more chemical physical, but gravity pulls the food down which contains potential chemical energy, and in the end that energy allows me to do work or just store it. Also with eating I could mention the act of chewing it. Another activity that I take part in is driving a car. The lists of things that take place that involve physics while driving a car...
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...Daily life in ancient Egypt revolved around the Nile and the fertile land along its banks. The yearly flooding of the Nile enriched the soil and brought good harvests and wealth to the land. These days we use most of their daily life. Three most important things in Egyptian daily life were papyrus and writing, food and cookery, and cylinder seals. One of the important things in Egyptian daily life was papyrus and writing. Paper is made from the papyrus plant by separating it with a needlepoint into very thin strips as broad as possible. It was rare for a ancient Egyptian to be literate. As few as two percent of the overall population knew how to write or read. The village of Set Maat was an anomaly. Occupied by the workmen who built the Valley of the Kings and the families of the workers, this town probably had a literacy rate of approximately forty percent, an at least some of the women who lived there was literate. According to papyrus fragments, “the papyrus fragments are mostly Coptic in nature; that is, they came from Egypt’s Christian Period or the Arab conquest shortly thereafter. A few of the fragments came from the region of Faiyum, southwest of Cairo. “Papyrus uncovered there in the 19th century. Fragments of papyrus was invented three thousands year ago. Papyrus was very old and useful even these days because if it wasn’t invented then we would never be able to write. The other important thing in Egyptian daily life was food and cookery. Cooking was done in clay...
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...Econ 1 Professor Carter December 12, 2011 Microeconomics In My Daily Life Throughout my life, I have always been reading and hearing about economic issues and concepts, but I never thought about the impacts of economic models on my personal life. Before learning about microeconomic concepts, I always thought that a course in the field of Economics, would teach me theories that only apply to the economy of a nation as a whole and not to an individual’s life. However, there were a lot of concepts throughout this course that I found relative to my personal life. Among all the concepts that I have learned in the Microeconomics course, “Opportunity Cost”, “Sunk Cost”, and “Supply and Demand” have the most impact on my daily life. “Choice and Opportunity Cost” is one of the most important concepts of Microeconomics that I found it relative to my everyday life. Similar to many other students, limited time during the school semester, forces me to make choices about what to study, when to study, and how to estimate the opportunity cost of every choice. Applying opportunity cost concept in my day-to-day life helps me better schedule my study time. For instance, I usually choose to study during weekdays because the opportunity cost of studying on these nights is lower than studying on Friday or Saturday nights, when usually more exciting events are happening. On the other hand, if my alternative on weekend is to stay home and organize my closet and do my laundry, I would...
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...Logic dictates daily life more then we realize. Simple everyday situations require actions dictated by Logic and or common sense. Routines are established to create normalcy in one’s life. Without such things, chaos would soon reign. Logic is one’s ability to define problems and solutions. For example, if I pet my cats they will purr. This will make them happy. Therefore every time I pet my cats they will be happy. This is an example of inductive reasoning. Inductive reasoning, or induction, is reasoning from a specific case or cases and deriving a general rule. It draws inferences from observations in order to make generalizations. (Inductive) Another example we follow with inductive reasoning is that if I go to bed at 8 tonight I will be well rested: Therefore I will be well rested every night if I go to bed at 8. This logic is fallible because some nights I may wake up in the middle of the night and others I may sleep throughout. Another example I use a lot with inductive thinking pertains to World of Warcraft. Player A has awesome stats on his gear. Better gear with higher stats mean better players. Therefore Player A is an awesome player. With that assumption one does not simply know. Deductive reasoning is basing decisions from more fact then generalization. For example, if I do not eat, I will be hungry. Therefore I must eat to not be hungry. Another good example of deductive reasoning used on a daily base is I dirty dishes when I eat. The dishes will pile up in...
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...Discount: Reduction from the full amount of a price. The following are the five types of discounts which we see are: Simple Discount: Offer a price reduction on a product by a percentage. For example, buy a shirt and receive 25 % off the original price. Minimum Purchase Discount: Offer a price reduction on a minimum quantity purchase. For example, buy two shirts and receive 20 % off each shirt. Buy N, Get one Free. Offer a free gift with a minimum quantity purchase. For example, buy two shirts and receive a third shirt for free• Offer a price reduction on a product if another product is purchased. For example, buy a shirt and receive Rs.10 off a pair of jeans• Paired Set Discount: Offer a price reduction on an item if a certain quantity of another item is purchased. For example, buy three shirts and receive 30 % off a pair of jeans• Order Discount: Offer a price reduction or free shipping on the order total, if a certain amount is purchased. For example, buy Rs. 5000worth of merchandise, and receive 10 % off the total order. Banking: A system of trading in money which involved safeguarding deposits and making funds available for borrowers.* what is the use of mathematics in Banking •Bank is full of transactions. In turn the transaction is nothing but mathematics •Banks are also involved in stocks and bonds. Bond calculations are mathematical. Stock options are also quite mathematical Foreign...
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...and peer-to-peer networks for file sharing. Although the Internet protocol suite has been used by academia and the military industrial complex since the early 1980s, rapid adoption of its use was driven by events of the late 1980s and 1990s such as more powerful and affordable computers, the advent of fiber optics, the popularization of HTTP and the Web browser, and a push towards opening the technology to commerce. Internet use grew rapidly in the West from the mid-1990s and from the late 1990s in the developing world. In the 21 years since 1995, Internet use has grown 100-times to reach over one third of the world population,[1][2] leading to its services and technologies being incorporated into virtually every aspect of contemporary life. The impact of the Internet has been so immense that it has been referred to as the "8th continent".[3][4] The origins of the Internet date back to research and development commissioned by the United States government, the United Kingdom government and the government of France in the 1960s to build robust, fault-tolerant communication via computer networks.[5][6][7][8] This work led to the primary precursor networks: the ARPANET, in the United States, the Mark 1 NPL network in the United Kingdom and...
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...Evaluate research into life changes and/ or daily hassles as sources of stress Holmes and Rahe carried out research into the idea that life changes are linked to stress and illness. They suggested that change is stressful and therefore this affects health. They developed the Social Readjustment Rating Scale (SRRS), as a way to measure the relationship between life changes and physical illness. The SRRS is made up of 43 life events and each event is given a score called life change units (LCUs). Rare et al used the SRRS to test the hypothesis that the number of life events a person experienced would be positively correlated with illness. He used 2700 participants which were all males who worked for the US Navy and made them complete the SRRS. They made them carry out a questionnaire before a tour of duty and they had to note down all the life events that they experienced in them six months (to create the LCU score). An illness score was then calculated based on the number, type and severity of illnesses that the men developed whilst on tour. The SRRS and the illness score were analysed and it was discovered that there was a significant weak positive correlation between LCU score and illness score of + 0.118. They found that it does not matter whether an event is positive or negative; it is the amount of change an individual has to deal with during a life event that creates stress. This supports the idea that there is a positive correlation between life changes and physical illness...
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...Economics and My Daily life Stevens-Henager College Abstract Economics is a daily part of our lives I will be discussing how certain areas of economics affects my life these will include principles 2, 4 and 5of economics. I will discuss how supply and demand and consumer surplus are used in most areas of my life. My Economics class has given me a better understanding of how important economics is to our daily lives. How Economics is used in my daily life There are 10 principles of economics and all of them are used in our lives but for the purpose of this paper I will be discussing how three are used in mine. Principle 2- Opportunity cost “Because people face trade-offs, making decisions requires comparing the costs and benefits of alternative courses of action.” (Cleverley, Song, & Cleverley, 2011) This principle refers to what you have to give up in order getting what you want. For example, you can choose to study for an exam or be with family and friends. If you choose to study, your opportunity cost is quality time with family and friends. Opportunity costs do not always have a monetary value associated with them, rather, the cost is: anything of value to the person assessing the situation including energy and time. I have chosen to spend three years of my live to go to college for my Bachelors degree. This is costing me time...
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...“To start of, I’m going to tell you about the daily life, Mr. Cortes. The daily life in the Aztec Empire, if you were rich, would be like, you staying in the best home you could ever imagine, everyday. The rich don’t really do much work for themselves, they have slaves to do their work for them. And the poor, they don’t have slaves. They do their own work, all by themselves, all the time. It’s like doing your homework 24 seven. The rich also live in homes built of sun-dried brick and sometime stone, it just depends. And, stone can be very pretty sometimes. They also have whitewash, to make them sparkle. There is separate areas for steam baths, to wash themselves. Staying clean is very important to them. And lastly their clothes are colorfully embroidered and decorated with features. They even have fans to carry, fans are a sign of status. But the poor on the other hand, aren’t as lucky. They are mostly farmers, and farmers, well they work a lot. They live in huts with thatched roofs, which is a roof covered in straw or another material like it. And on the inside, there isn’t much of anything. But there is woven baskets and mats to cover the floor and to hold...
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...Daily Life in the Cities of Vesuvius Gambling and Prostitution ; Gambling was a popular activity to pass the time of the people living in the cities of Vesuvius. Mosaics, paintings and graffiti provide evidence of It didn’t only take place in taverns and bars, but in other places too such as baths. The Inn of Salvius has a series of wall paintings showing customers gambling, quarrelling and then being thrown out. Names of two women gamblers are recorded on the wall in a tavern on the Via Stabania, along with the date and amount of debt and the rate of interest they were being charged. People gambled on the consequence of gladiator combats and cockfights. The large number of dice found in Pompeii is evidence that many people participated in the act of gambling as a way to pass time. http://www.slideshare.net/LeahFarr/2c5i-everyday-life-leisure-activities?related=1 In an inscription in one tavern a gambler praised his winnings and his honesty ; other inscriptions listed the names of gamblers in arrears and the amounts they owed, with interest. – The Lost World Of Pompeii Prostitution ; Sources: * House of Menander:...
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...most of the people in the early colonies lived and worked on a farm. The owner used to have big land and large plantation where a poor people used to work day and night not to earn wealth rather survive. The day of a people used to start early in the morning when the sunrise and ends when the sun sets. The farmer did not use to get benefit from the daily hard work. They used to have porridge and beer to be ready for the work every morning. In the early colonies, the farmer's house was used to built by Edwin rice. The men used to work outside in the farm field and at the time of springtime they would be filling and planting the fields. They used all the hard labor with the help of an animal. And in the fall time they collect the harvest and...
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