...A season is a division of the year, marked by changes in weather, ecology, and hours of daylight. Seasons result from the yearly revolution of the Earth around the Sun and the tilt of the Earth's axis relative to the plane of revolution. The seasons result from the Earth's axis being tilted to its orbital plane; it deviates by an angle of approximately 23.4 degrees. Thus, at any given time during summer or winter, one part of the planet is more directly exposed to the rays of the Sun. This exposure alternates as the Earth revolves in its orbit. Therefore, at any given time, regardless of season, the northern and southern hemispheres experience opposite seasons. The effect of axis tilt is observable from the change in day length, and altitude of the Sun at noon (the culmination of the Sun), during a year. Summer: Summer is the warmest of the four temperate seasons. Summer is the warmest season of the year when the sun shines directly on one half of the world. Usually, July and August are the hottest months of the summer season. Crops, trees, and other plants reach their full maturity in summer. Summer is traditionally associated with hot dry weather, but this does not occur in all regions. Summer is one of the seasons of a year which is the warmest. It falls between the seasons of spring and autumn. Summer is generally known to be the season which has the hottest and longest days in a year. The summer nights are usually smaller than those of winter. It is a very good season...
Words: 2120 - Pages: 9
...The Four Seasons Many people wonder why we have the four seasons. These four seasons are winter, summer, spring, and fall. These seasons let us know things like what to wear, things to eat and places to go. Some people just think that's the way the world is; winter is supposed to snow and be cold and in summer is supposed to be hot. There are many misconceptions of the seasons but I will explain what happens. Many factors change due to the tilt of the Earth, whether it is at the normal 23.5 degrees, at 45 degrees or at no tilt at all. The tilt of the Earth has a major effect on the seasons around the world and the amount of daylight that each particular geographic location receives. Seasons are caused by the tilt of Earth’s axis. As the Earth revolves around the sun once a year, the direction of the rotational axis stays nearly fixed in space. So, when the Earth is at a certain place in its orbit, the Northern hemisphere is tilted towards the sun and experiences summer where the Southern hemisphere experiences winter. Then six months later the Northern hemisphere is tilted away from the sun and experiences winter and the Southern summer. Perigee and Apogee somewhat help determine our seasons as well. Perigee means in Latin-Greek, "Closest to the Earth" and refers to a position in an orbit. Apogee means "Farthest from the Earth “Another answer According to the Free Dictionary by Farlex, "The point in any orbit nearest to the body being orbited." Summer, winter, autumn...
Words: 703 - Pages: 3
...KNITTING YARN –A MORE ACTIVE BRAND IN THE OFF –SEASON MONTHS’ Vardhman Spinning & General Mills, Ludhiana An Industrial Internship project SUBMITTED TOH.B.T.I Kanpur SUBMITTED BYVartika Pandey 131/10 F B.Tech Computer Science & Engg. Harcourt Butler Technological Institute, Kanpur , Uttar Pradesh. CERTIF ICATE This is to certify that the thesis/dissertation entitled, “To Study various methods for making Vardhman- Hand Knitting Yarn -a more active brand in the off –season months” submitted is a bona fide internship project work carried out by Vartika Pandey (2010-2014) under my supervision and that no part of this report has been copied or submitted anywhere. The assistance and help received during the course of study have been fully acknowledged. Mr. Pawan Sharma Ludhiana Yarn Sales Branch Manager ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I, Vartika Pandey, wish to express my acknowledgement: To Mr. Pawan Sharma (Industry Mentor) & Ms. Tanvi Makker for being more than my advisor, for their inspiring guidance and constructive criticism, for helping me not to give in during the struggling time of the study. Also I want to express my gratitude to my family who has been the pillars of support to me throughout this internship and has helped me in every possible way . Vartika Pandey PREFACE This report examines the techniques suggested for the hand knitting yarn branch of Vardhman ,for making it a much more dynamic brand in the off-season months .But this concept of seasonal revival...
Words: 4739 - Pages: 19
...I like summer the most. This may seem Stanger, but it is a fact for me. Let me first narrate the good and the bad sides of the seasons clearly. In summer, the heat becomes oppressive. It causes physical hardship that sometimes become unbearable. We feel easily tired. What with the heat and the sweat and the dust and the flies at times, it is positively maddening. On the other hand, the general health is usually good. The discomforts caused by cold season ailments of digestion, common in the rainy season, practically do not exist in this stern season. Further, the sultry and humid heat of noonday is usually compensated by the refreshing breeze that blows in at about evening. And then a thunder-shower or two brings down the temperature and gives us a pleasant respite. Summer has richer compensations that make it so dear to me. First, there is the mango, the world's wonder-fruit. Next, there is the joy of playing football, the world's most popular game. As soon as the sea-breeze begins to blow across the fields, out we go with our ball, and then there is a joy of having a refreshing bath that follows. It cools the body and soothes the mind. At what season, again, is the sweetness of an ice-cream or a cold drink so deliciously inviting? At night we may sleep under the electric fan or the open sky, refreshed by the breeze. In summer, we can go up a hill-side station or down to a seaside resort and both are equally welcome. Above all, their is the charm of the long vacation...
Words: 371 - Pages: 2
...ETHICS IN A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS Joe Casey Milltown Institute PREAMBLE I want to begin with some comments on what led me to the topic of ethics and A Man for All Seasons. I had been looking at some fairly heated exchanges in the late 1990s in the journal Philosophy and Literature between Richard Posner and Martha Nussbaum on the possibility of ethical criticism (Posner 1997, 1998; Nussbaum 1998). Briefly, Posner takes up what he believes to be an aestheticist stance that ethics has nothing to do with literature, so that ethical criticism is ruled out, whereas Nussbaum argues that literature can be ethical and ethical categories legitimately be applied to it. In the background is Nussbaum’s view that certain works of literature may be necessary for ethics (Nussbaum 1990). Neither position seemed entirely satisfactory. It appeared evident to me, as against Posner, that literature could provide ethical insights, but Nussbaum’s suggestion that ethics is dependent on literature seemed too strong. But whatever the merits of the latter thesis, the weaker thesis that literature can be ethically revealing is worth defending. At some level a great work of literature represents a form of human existence, to which we may respond as human beings. That there is a moral dimension to human existence I assume. Hence, it seems clear that literature may represent that dimension. Robert Bolt’s 1960 play can serve as an instance of how literature can stimulate...
Words: 5220 - Pages: 21
...' Academy ol Management Executive, 2002, Vol. 16, No. 4 Four Seasons goes to Paris floger HalloweU, David Bowen, and Carin-Isabel Knoop Europe is different from North America, and Paris is very different. I did not say difficult. I said diffeient. —A senior Four Seasons manager Executive Summary Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts opened its first French property in 1999. This article presents that opening as a case study to illustrate a perspective on how a company with a strong and highly successful organizational culture might approach a new national culture when that cuhure is both distinct and intense, as is the case in France. Managers can henefit from the case by understanding this approach to organizational and national culture, which the authors believe represents a useful framework for global management. The article begins with a discussion of the linkage between corporate cuifure and competitive advantage for service organizafions. It then describes the corporate support structure and the philosophy that Four Seasons developed over two decades to support its international expansion and to manage the type of challenges its French property posed. Finally, it describes how the firm went about transforming that property into one of its crown jewels. The Linkage Between Service Culture and Competitive Advantage The enduring success of service organizations such as Southwest Airlines, The Walt Disney Company, Wal-Mart, and USAA (among others) is frequently ...
Words: 13427 - Pages: 54
...[pic] Marketing MK 201 Marketing of Four Seasons Hotel Shanghai [pic] Lecturer: Kathryn Medico Student: Lu Yizhi [ luyi080789 ] Duy Hung Pham [ phdu271188 ] Class: 2A March 12th , 2012 Acknowledgement For the successful completion of our report, we would like to express our deep gratitude to all the people who give us help and advise. First and foremost, we are going to give our appreciation to Mr. Wang, the Assistant Sales Director of the Four Seasons Hotel Shanghai. He spent his personal time replying our email to answer our questions and gave us a lot of valuable information and instructions which keep our report going in the right direction. Secondly, we would like to thank our Marketing lecturer, Miss Medico, she provided us with many useful resources and guidance at every stage of writing the report. Clearly, we cannot finish this report smoothly without her help. Last but not least, we would like to thank all our friends for their suggestions and inspiring. Contents Aknowledgement 2 Introduction 4 Background of Four Seasons Hotel Shanghai 4 The Lifecycle Stages of Four Seasons Hotel Shanghai 5 Target Market 6 The Promotion Mix of Four Seasons Hotel Shanghai 7 Advertising 7 Publishing pamphlets and magazines 7 Online advertising 8 Public Relations 8 Communicating with public by Internet 8 Participate in public service 9 Sales Promotion 9 Hotel packages promotion 9 Discount 10 Conclusion 10 Reference...
Words: 2734 - Pages: 11
...The biggest distinction between mainframes and supercomputers is the type of problems they tackle. Each of these types of large computers is specially designed and optimized to perform a particular type of task, and to do it better than any other computer. Not only do supercomputers and mainframes do their tasks more efficiently than other types of computers, they do things that no other computers can do! Supercomputers are designed to work on types of problems whose primary constraint is calculation speed. Mainframes, on the other hand, deal with problems constrained by input/output and which demand reliability above all else. So while supercomputers are ideal for performing complex calculations on a large data set, mainframes are well suited for performing thousands upon thousands of concurrent transactions. Supercomputers conduct large amounts of very fast and complex calculations on data stored in memory. These computers are built to purpose to run complex simulations or beating grand masters in chess. Mainframes process the large amounts of data that come into them from external sources, such as credit card transactions or payroll processing. Supercomputers push the limits of computational speed, discovering what is possible for a computer to do. They are the explorers of the computing world. Conversely, mainframes are the workers. Rather than pushing up against the boundaries of what’s possible, they focus on reliable completion of large tasks and processing of transactions...
Words: 1313 - Pages: 6
...Season From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search For other uses, see Season (disambiguation). Part of the Nature series onWeather | | Calendar seasons | Spring · SummerAutumn · Winter | Tropical seasonsDry season · Wet season | Storms | Thunderstorm · Supercell Downburst · Lightning Tornado · Waterspout Tropical cyclone (Hurricane) Extratropical cyclone Winter storm · Blizzard · Ice storm Dust storm · Firestorm · Cloud | Precipitation | Drizzle · Rain · Snow · Graupel Freezing rain · Ice pellets · Hail | Topics | Meteorology · Climate Weather forecasting Heat wave · Air pollution Cold wave | Weather portal | * v t e | A season is a subdivision of the year, marked by changes in weather, ecology, and hours of daylight. Seasons result from the yearly revolution of the Earth around the Sun and the tilt of the Earth's axis relative to the plane of revolution.[1] In temperate and polar regions, the seasons are marked by changes in the intensity of sunlight that reaches the Earth's surface, variations of which may cause animals to go into hibernation or to migrate, and plants to be dormant. During May, June and July, the northern hemisphere is exposed to more direct sunlight because the hemisphere faces the sun. The same is true of the southern hemisphere in November, December and January. It is the tilt of the Earth that causes the Sun to be higher in the sky during the summer months which increases the solar flux. However...
Words: 435 - Pages: 2
...9 August 2010 A Season of Changes In “To Autumn” by John Keats, the narrator uses visual imagery and personification to emphasize autumn’s progression towards winter. By using visual imagery, the narrator captures the season of autumn not only as a time of maturity, abundance, and warmth, but also as a time of death and dying, the cold desolation that becomes winter. The narrator personifies autumn as a woman, allowing the grace and beauty of the season to emanate from the words on the page. Autumn is a season that delights the senses with all of its colorful grandeur, yet autumn is also a season of gray, melancholy days that beg for quiet reflection as winter’s decay invades its existence. Autumn’s passing is gracefully mourned with the knowledge she will return to delight us again the following year. The first stanza uses visual imagery to appeal to the senses of sight and taste. The “seasons of mists and mellow fruitfulness” (1) captures the atmosphere of autumn in England. Autumn is a time for the cool fog that often permeates the morning dew as the sun rises. The richly colored leaves of yellow, orange, and red and the cornucopia of the harvest symbolize the maturation of autumn. An abundance of apples on “mossed cottage-trees” (5), “fruit with ripeness to the core” (6), and “plump...hazel shells” (7) tempt the taste buds with an array of succulence that cannot compare to any other season. Autumn is a time to savor the colors, the crisp morning air, and...
Words: 935 - Pages: 4
...and hot summers transitioning back into a cool autumn. These transitions from season to season can be hard to describe sometimes, and they’re better off being described through picture or art. A Celebration of the Iowa Prairie by Sarah A. Grant does a tremendous job at this description of the transition from one season to another and depiction of the historical and cultural depth of Iowa’s prairies. This piece of art is definitely an attention grabber in multiple different ways. The artist, Sarah A. Grant owns a company called Sticks Inc. a nationally recognized company for its decorative furniture, and object art. Grant, being from Ames has given over forty pieces of art to the university. In doing so she has became an honorary alumna of the university. Grant considers herself a “historian artist” and in her work of A Celebration of the Iowa Prairie it clearly has a historic background. This is a piece of object art in which she donated...
Words: 784 - Pages: 4
...“Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.” This is one of my favorite quotes that were spoken by Henry David Thoreau. When the seasons alter from winter to spring or summer to autumn there are many changes that the world seems like a happier place. The two seasons that seems to stand out the most are autumn and spring. Although there is exquisite beauty in the seasons of autumn and spring, there are also distinctions, which allow each season to stand on its own. One of the first notable differences between them is the weather change. When spring arrives, the temperature rises and the days get longer. There are mass amounts of colorful flowers with beautiful smells that make everyone’s days a little brighter. The grass turns green and the flowers begin to blossom. One of my favorite spring memories is when I was eight years old and I loved gardening with my mother. We have a garden in our back yard that we call the “love garden” because it was shaped like a heart. We would put certain flowers in places to make a pattern. When you looked down from my deck, it doesn’t just look like colorful flowers, it appears to be like a mosaic picture. Spring is also known to accumulate a great amount of rain. Windshield wipers are on full blast so drivers can see. Children are constantly jumping and splashing in the puddles like a cat playing with a ball of yarn. I always like watching all of the birds...
Words: 1097 - Pages: 5
...LESON PLAN: ENGLISH 6 Teacher’s name: Pham Thi Thanh Hoa Unit 13: Activities and the seasons. Lesson A: The weather and seasons (A1 + A2) Teaching date: October 27th, 2011. I. Objectives. After the lesson Students (Ss) are able to: - Ask and answer questions about the weather and seasons. - Develop 4 language skills. II. Language contents. 1. Vocabulary: Season, weather, summer, winter, fall/ autumn, spring. 2. New structures: - It’s hot in the summer. - What’s the weather like in the summer? => It is hot. III. Teaching aids. - Black board, chalk, hand-outs. - English 6. - Projector. IV. Teaching methods. - Direct approach. - Communicative approach. - Deductive approach. V. Procedure of the lesson. Activity 1: Warm up |Time |Teacher’s activities |Students’ activities | | |- Greets . Shows slide 1. |- Greets. | |5 min |- Organizes the game “guessing game’’ in order to help Ss review the |- Listen to the teacher. | | |vocabulary they’ve learnt. | | | |+ Asks 2 Ss to go to the board and gives them hand-outs. ...
Words: 999 - Pages: 4
...When the seasons shift and the weather starts to get colder, the leaves begin to put on a presentation of bright, beautiful colors. This presentation of magnificence is represented by the temperature, sunlight, soil, moisture, and the shortening length of the days during the fall months. The changing seasons with their different climates and day length is what makes up the life cycle of the leaf. Most people think that what causes leaves to change color is the frost and cold temperatures, and this thought is partially correct. Weather is not the only aspect that indicates the color change in the leaves. The green pigment that leaves normally have is that of chlorophyll; chlorophyll simply absorbs the color from the sunlight and causes the leaves to change their pigment. There are other pigments that play a role in the change of color in leaves, such as xanthophyll and carotenoids. These make up...
Words: 756 - Pages: 4
...People from all around the world have come up with different creations throughout the years, seldom for the same reason as the rest simply created differently. Some used sticks or bones to mark the days as they passed, others marked the religious feast days, and determination of seasonal and celestial events. To begin with, the determination of season and celestial events was extremely significant to different cultures. The seasons were split into four, very similar as it is today (Source 1: Ancient Calendars). People still do that, but its viewed differently. In the early ages people would use the seasons to know what type of vegetables or fruits grows best in that specific season. People still use seasons as a source.when people go out...
Words: 390 - Pages: 2
