...I. Jasmine Bailey Mrs. Spicer APLAC 12/04/13 Into Thin Air II. The struggle to climb Mt. Everest drew the minds from interested climbers. Jon Krakauer recorded the monstrous climb. The Sherpa’s were familiar to the area, helped the alpinists by bringing them supplies, and helped carry people down to take them to the doctors down to the summit. During the expedition in May of 1996, Rob Hall led a group of willing people up Everest. With the occurrence of harsh weather, many people suffered from HARPE and frostbite, and some of these conditions were so devastating that some died or have never been found. III. a. Rob Hall – A New Zealand head guide, Without Rob Hall, there wouldn’t have been a team with lots knowledge and could accomplish the tasks as efficiently. i. Determined ii. Counselor iii. Knowledgeable iv. Willing v. Dare-Devil a. Jon Krakauer- He is one of the luckiest men to survive the Mt. Everest disaster. Luckily as a journalist he was determined to tell the truth about this occurrence. vi. Gambler vii. Detective viii. Lucky ix. Sensitive x. Descriptive b. Scott Fischer- The head guide for the Russian Team. He had a huge interest in leading this team. He knew the routes and procedures that needed to be taken to insure safety. xi. Leader xii. Driven xiii. Smart xiv. Athletic xv. Compassionate ...
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...In the text, Beck Weathers is described as having love and passion towards Mt Everest and climbing in general. Many people wonder why someone would to do something that has an average chance of survival of 1:4 – one death for every 4 people that summit. In Beck Weathers case like many other climbers it was his obsession to conquer her, “her” because in the text Into Thin Air, the mountain is a very important character and is portrayed as a volatile female. Jon Krakauer says in the book “Beck seems to lack in skill, but he makes up for it with sheer determination”. I cannot understand this’ drive beyond logic to conquer’ either but I think it’s something that only those who want to have attempted to or have summited Everest before (and lived to tell the tale) can understand. Mt Everest is supposedly not a very challenging climb and doesn’t allow climbers to show their skills, but It is stereotyped that it’s what “real” climbers should do. Being on top of the world is big deal for some people and we need to respect their dreams just as they do ours.// Beck Weathers first encountered his own problems in Mt Everest’s “Death Zone” when the altitude (close to 29,000 feet at this stage) started to affect his surgically repaired eyes. It only got worse for Beck from this point, he got caught in the storm along with many of his fellow climbers. The storm was not for the mountain to “pick it’s victims” but to test them to their mental and physical limits. Five people that were...
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...“Into Thin Air”, a book written by Jon Krakauer, mountaineer and renowned for his writing of the outdoors, is Krakauer’s account of the deadliest season of Everest. In the beginning of the story, Krakauer writes, “I can attest that nothing I saw early on the afternoon of May 10 suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down,” (Krakauer 5). This quote is foreshadowing what is to come later in the story, and Krakauer suggests that he and other climbers were unaware and unsuspecting of the “murderous storm”. As the story goes on, Krakauer talks about Everest, writing, “I stared at the peak for perhaps thirty minutes, trying to apprehend what it would be like to be standing on that gale-swept vertex,” (Krakauer 59). This quote tells of the presence of Everest, and how large, yet beautiful it is. Krakauer does a good job of letting the reader know what it is like to be looking at the largest mountain in the world. Lastly, Krakauer writes, “I stayed behind to...
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...Into Thin Air Have you ever read “Into Thin Air”? I am going to talk about a chapter from the book that I have read. The chapter talks about Jon Krakauer’s journey climbing Mount Everest. Along with his journey, it talks about the events that went with his journey. “Into Thin Air” is a good story that I would recommend to anyone because it teaches you to never give up, to help others, and what it is like to climb Mount Everest. My first point of why “Into Thin Air” is a great story to read is that it teaches you to never give up. My reasoning for this is that Jon Krakauer faced many challenges while climbing Mount Everest, but he never gave up. One challenge that he faced was when he reached Hillary Step.(Krakauer,page 358). Jon reached the top of...
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...Jon Krakauer was a part of the deadliest expedition in Mount Everest history (at that point), with 8 people dying on May 10 and 11th in 1996. Into Thin Air was written by Jon Krakauer, an avid mountaineer in his youth and a journalist as he is climbing Everest. Jon writes about his expedition and personal experience of climbing Everest. In the book Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer uses rhetorical appeals to express the dangers of climbing Mt Everest. Jon Krakauer triggers readers emotions with careful wording, and uses human nature to justify climbing Mt Everest. Jon is explaining the history of Mount Everest, when he exclaims that it's human nature to want to climb everest. “Once Everest was determined to be the highest summit on earth, it...
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...Nearly eleven times as large as the Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest manmade structure, Mount Everest looms over the rest of the world with the spectacular height of 29,029 feet. Imagine how amazing it feels to stand on the summit of this mountain, the highest elevation on Earth that any human can climb to, peering over the rest of the beautiful world. The author of Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster, Jon Krakauer, experiences this, but he has determined that it is by far the worst incident of his entire life. Krakauer ascends the mountain with well-respected and world-famous mountaineer Rob Hall’s team. Several of the people on Hall’s team, including Krakauer, successfully reach the summit, but descending proves...
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...Thin-Layer Chromatography PRELAB READING/VIDEO: See video on Blackboard Zubrick: Cleaning, Chapter 9 pp. 77-79; Chromatography, Chapter 26 pp. 218-221 TLC Chapter 27 pp. 222-235, Melting Point Chapter 12 pp.88-93 PURPOSE: The purposes of this experiment are to: (1) determine the optimal conditions for separating substances in a mixture using thin-layer chromatography (TLC), and (2) use thin-layer chromatography and infrared spectroscopy to identify an unknown solid. EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES: thin layer chromatography, infrared spectroscopy. This is a 2 week experiment. INTRODUCTION Thin-layer chromatography (TLC) is a quick, inexpensive procedure that provides the chemist information on the purity of a sample, while using a minimal amount of that sample. Chemists often use TLC after running a chemical reaction to determine the purity of their product. In this lab, you’ll be (1) determining the best solvent to use for a TLC separation of four known compounds (shown below), (2) studying how experimental parameters (the type of development chamber, the presence of a filter paper “wick,” and how well the development chamber is sealed ) affect the results of a TLC experiment, (3) determining the reproducibility of Rf values, and (4) identifying an unknown compound using TLC. Before the lab, be sure to read the chapter(s) in Zubrick on thin layer chromatography! The four compounds you’ll be studying are shown below. CHM25701 Spring 2015 Thin Layer...
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...(Unknown #212) Thin Layer Chromatography The main objective of this experiment was to use a Thin-layer chromatography analytic technique to analyze the relative polarity of given samples and to identify the components of a given unknown solution. TLC is usually done on a small plate coated with silica which is the stationary phase. The solvent is the mobile phase. Small sample of different compounds is placed across the plate and each plate is then put into a jar containing different solvents. Each solvent climbs up the plate with capillary action with different rate bringing up the sample to the top of the plate along with it. After the plate is allowed to dry, the relative distance the compounds traveled along the plate can be compared to that of the solvent using a ratio of Retention factor, Rf. A sample of five compounds and one unknown was placed on a small TLC plate. The original spot of each compound was represented with alphabetical letter which is ~ 1cm from the bottom of the TLC plate. Accordingly, A represented the acetanilide solution, B represented the benzophenone solution, C represented the mandelic acid solution, D represented benzyl solution, E represented Benzoic acid and X represented the unknown. This process was repeated four times making the total of five TLC plates samples. Five empty jars were obtained and a peace of large filter paper was inserted into each jar sideways. Approximately 10ml of solvent was added into each jar. Each jar contained...
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...perspective and into a controversial topic about smoking and having a rich thin women. In this attached 1970s ad for Silva Thins it displays a pack of “Thin and Rich” cigarettes and in the background there is a man and women smoking a Thin and Rich cigarette. This ad was made by the cigarettes company Silva, and their purpose was to grab the attention of smoker’s worldwide and make them think that by purchasing this you will living the glamourous life. How the attention is grabbed from the ad by using techniques such as transfer, snob appeal, and logos. The biggest thing that puts emphasis on the ad is the big bolded text which says, “Cigarettes are like women. The best ones are thin and rich.” Also, below the text Silva...
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...Summary/ Abstract Thin-walled pressure vessel provides an important application of the analysis of plane stress. Since their walls offer litter resistance to bending, it may be assumed that the internal forces exerted on a given portion of wall are tangent to the surface of the vessel. The resulting stresses on an element of the wall will thus be contained in a plane tangent to the surface of the vessel. In this experiment, we are going to determine the circumferential stress under open condition, and analysis of combined axial and circumferential stress. We propose to determine the stresses exerted on a small element of wall with sides respectively parallel and perpendicular to the axis of the cylinder. Because of axis symmetry of the vessel and its contents, it is clear that no shearing stress is exerted on the element. It can be seen that all strains are used to calculate stress. As it is not possible to measure all strains, these have to be computed on the basis of marginal conditions. With this experiment it is not possible to measure in particular longitudinal strain in the body and radian strain perpendicular to the surface. Initial stress at the surface must be zero, longitudinal stress is constant over the radius are the marginal conditions to obtain the solution. The average E value we obtain from graph was 64 GN/m2. with the help of the computer, the Poisson’s ratio, v =0.35 and the principal strains for the thin cylinder were also calculated using formulas and the...
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...Dying to be Thin: America’s Obsession with the Anorexic Profile. Matthew Smith Strayer University SOC100 Sociology Professor Sheila Farr April 29, 2012 In today’s society we have a standard by which we compare ourselves to others. We judge the people around us by physical appearance before we even meet and get to know them. Mental disorders revolved around eating stem from this kind of mass judgment. These standards are often not based around our own appearance but by the standards set for us via the Media. We allow ourselves to become over saturated with these images of the ”perfect” person. Why is it that the people who aren’t even in our live get to decide the way we look? We put our bodies through hell trying to meet and manage these expectations that society has placed on us. Is this really necessary with all the other pressures we face on a daily basis? Which begs the question, why is our society dying to be thin? In many other cultures it is a sign of wealth and prosperity to be overweight. This girth is afforded by a station above all others and looked upon with envy. (Popenoe, 2004)As a result there are few without this stature within these cultures. The small and skinny are those who can’t afford to eat as robustly. Other societies, like our own have taken an opposing stance on this. The small are suspended on pedestals while the over -weight are rejected. It has not always been this way, however. Through the years our perspectives have been skewed by...
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...ENC1102 Research Paper 3/15/2014 The Thin-Ideal Women around the world struggle with self-worth as well as depression. Many of these lead to more severe situations, such as eating disorders or even suicide. The idea which has created these issues has developed over time through media and the fashion world. The idea that women are to look a certain way and wear a specific size has caused much turmoil for those living in the Western world. It has been proven through research and studies that show the impact media and advertising has on a woman’s self-esteem as well as her self-image. It has become a cultural idea for women to have thin, curve-free bodies, which cause women who do not fit the image to feel body dissatisfaction along with an importance of the woman’s weight leading her toward depression. Though men can be effected by the stereotypes of body images, it is higher amongst women (Rizon and Fallon, 1988). How Media Portrays the Thin-Ideal The media portrays the thin-ideal through many different aspects. It almost always uses a communicator (the person who is used to relay the message of how thin is the best body image), a message (this is different depending on the type of media used), the channel (which is also different depending on what message the communicator is trying to portray), and finally the audience (who the communicator desires to reach through his or her message using a specific channel). An example of this type of media would be a Weight Watchers...
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...Drivin to be Thin Throughout the years, eating disorders have been on the rise. In a society that prizes thinness, anorexics and bulimics are often just one who looks good in clothes, hiding themselves from their real problem. Before 1995, bigger was better, and if you were trying to lose weight, people worried. “Back then big was beautiful and bigger was more beautiful...Everyone worried about losing weight but not the way they are now” (Goodman 79). Young girls and women strive to look like the models they see in magazines, and unrealistic body images promote dangerous eating disorders; therefore, photographers and magazine editors should not be able to photoshop pictures of women. To start out, anorexia nervosa is one of the two most common eating disorders. Anorexia is a disorder that makes one scared to gain weight, therefore, they starve themselves and go to an extreme with dieting and exercising. In fact, they are almost always hungry and thinking about food, even as the disorder impels them to deny their bodies the fuel needed to function properly. (Walsh, Cameron 62,63) It starts out as a diet, but because they have a fear of gaining weight the diet can spiral out of control. They may be bone thin but they can continue to eliminate more and more food, over time or they will eat very little or nothing at all. (Fanning n. pag.) In addition, bulimia is the second most common. Bulimia is a disorder in which one will eat an excessive amount of food, and then to get...
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...Thin” Reaction Paper “Thin” a documentary about women facing their eating disorders. “Thin” focused on four particular women Polly, Shelley, Brittany, and Alisa. These women were all brave enough to realize they had a problem and wanted help with the exception of Brittany. Sometimes when I hear about women with eating disorders I can be unsympathetic. I just feel there are so many things in life to think about other than what people think of you. Then I had to realize media has a lot to do with the way our young women picture themselves. We all want to look like this superstar. They all see this fat, ugly person when they look in the mirror and I realized I do the same thing, if we admit it we’ve all done it. The only difference is I’ve come to embrace this so called “fat” person. I wasn’t happy with my body image so I’m doing something about it but in a healthy way. These woman have so much more going on mentally they probably should have gotten therapy way before it got this far. These women just had so much more going on than they can show in a short documentary. I felt the documentary was ok. I don’t know what the director was going for but the documentary was a bit fluff. I don’t think it really went as deep as it could have. I mean the stories were real but the Renfrew just seem like it wasn’t really helping that much. The fact that they would throw you out as soon as you’re insurance ran out, even though it’s clear you still need to be there, was disgraceful. It showed...
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...The critical issue in this case is loss in sales coupled by rising costs and falling net earnings for Nucor.The 1 st supporting evidence in this case is the rising costs involved for Nucor in its processes. If you look at Exhibit 6, we can see that COGS for Nucor started with 55% of sales and has grownat an alarmingly increasing rate and grown to 81% of sales by the end of 1986. This indicatesthat Nucor has not been able to garner effective sales growth and in contrast has shown risingCOGS over its lifespan. This has led to loss of earnings and hence decreased ROA for Nucor Also, the case talks about investment on part of NUCOR into the beam segment (YamatoKogyo) and also the thin flat sheet segment (SMS). NUCOR is not being able to decide on SMSinvestment because of loss of funds and high risks. The total investment in these two ventureswould total $410 million and NUCOR only had $185 million & few securities on hand. Nucor has not been able to invest into new plans from 1981. Prior to 1981, NUCOR was knowsfor its investment into new plants and continuous reformation of technology. But NUCOR has been stagnant in terms for developing new technologies since 1981 and this has also contributedto its loss in sales over time. NUCOR had spent $6million in the Hazelett Caster but it was not as efficient as it had planned itto be. It had led to more complex problems such as expensive conveyor belts, which requiredcontinuous replacement and led to considerable down time and also led...
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