The Pros And Cons Of The Glass Age

You don’t find very many families nowadays that are constantly moving and traveling throughout our country, stopping to live in a place for a couple months, then leaving for another place for a couple months and doing that constantly. But the Walls are a family that does do that. In the entertaining book The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, a young girl named Jeannette Walls learns how to become successful in life through constantly being on the move, and living with her parents, Rex and Rose Mary who would be in a huge fight one minute and would be hugging each other the next. Through Jeannette’s unusual childhood, she learned to develop acceptance towards herself, braveness towards her fears, and how to figure out the most important things in life, which helped her become the successful person that she grew up to be.

and glass. While the Greek’s used marble, which is still applied today. They both built big,

In order to create a building, you must first make sure the foundation is durable. Without a sturdy foundation, the structure won’t be able to stand up properly causing it to come crumbling down. Roofs are supported by pillars, wagons with wheels, and the human body with legs. Without pillars, wheels, or legs, the entire machine wouldn’t be able to do what it’s meant to do. In order to create a castle out of a material so fragile such as glass, it is crucial for the base to be as robust as possible. The ideals of a mighty foundation can be seen in the structure of a family. The parents are the bases that have the duty to make their children reach the clouds. Sons and daughters are a result of the nurturing

Tom Standage’s “A History of the World in 6 Glasses” discusses six drinks that have greatly influenced human history. Many people believe that things similar to a drink are irrelevant in history, however, Standage views the drinks he describes as having “a closer connection to the flow of history than is generally acknowledged, and a greater influence on its course. Understanding the ramifications of who drank what, and why, and where they got it from, requires the traversal of many disparate and otherwise unrelated fields…” The drinks that Standage focuses on include beer, wine, spirits, tea, coffee, and cola. He describes each of the beverages and how each of them managed to alter history in very unique ways. The first three beverages are all alcoholic while the last three are all caffeinated. Coffee heavily impacted the world by influencing modern culture, being used to sharpen the mind and its alertness, and also by advancing the social aspects of society.

One main creation is the clock, Ancient Egyptians were one the first groups of people to divide days into equal parts through using timekeeping devices to tell what time it was. I consider this as a very important artifact since almost every single home in America has a clock that everyone uses to be on time to go somewhere, time something such as when you are baking, or just to check what time it is and make sure everything is on track. Adding on to the creations, the first proof that people were creating and using glass in arts and crafts was way back in 3500 BC in Egypt and some of Mesopotamia. However, the Egyptians managed to also make red glass including a few other colors. I think that the Egyptians used their brains a lot and thought out of the box since this was a very hard task unlike the Mesopotamians. It is was hard because the the glass had to be fired in an oxygen free environment. Other people might think that Mesopotamia also created glass just like Egypt, but Egypt actually thought out of the box and made different colors of glass which was very tough

The Corning Glass Company many product developments throughout the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. During that time they always had been a leader in the arena of glass and ceramic products. Corning Glass Company focused on commercial products until the 1960s when it entered the consumer market. One of Corning’s exceptional technologies in this market was Z-Glass. After several successful years of producing Z-Glass at the Harrisburg plant,

In the book, A History of the World in 6 Glasses, beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, and Coca-cola, all differently benefited this world we live in. Alcoholic drinks and Caffeinated drinks all medically benefited through history. For example, sailors drank grog to alleviate scurvy and doctors used wine to help sick patients. For the Caffeinated drinks, coffee was used by businessmen to stay up longer to work. It also helped clear men’s mind after they have drank too much alcohol. Coca-cola in the beginning, was also used medically. Coca-cola when it was originally advertised, was used as a cure for morphine and opium addictions. Another similarity between Alcohol and Caffeinated drinks is that each drink was the defining drink during a pivotal

Though it might not be apparent at first glace, beverages other than water have played a vital role in the development of our world. In A History of the World in 6 Glasses, Standage sheds light on the vital importance of the six most influential non-water beverages in human history. As he states, “The availability of water constrained and guided humankind’s progress. Drinks have continued to shape human history ever since” (Standage 1). Drinks have influenced every aspect of humanity, from civilization to medicine to trade. Though each of the six beverages discussed in A History of the World in 6 Glasses had vastly different affects, they all influenced humanity in dramatic ways.

Over 45 million Americans are living in poverty. Even though Jeannette walls in rich and famous today, she wasn’t always. Jeannette and her family grew up in poverty. In her Memoir The Glass Castle Jeannette, Brian, Lisa and Maureen’s Parents Rex Walls and Rose Marry are a poor family, they stay poor and move around America avoiding the police and paying bills. While living in poverty has its problems it affected Jeannette to become independent and hard working.

Attention Getter: Everyone might believe that sunglasses were recently invented in the last hundred years with the rise in pop culture. However, according to glasshistory.com, the sunglasses concept has been around as early as when Romans watched gladiator fights, possibly earlier.

Specific Purpose Statement: To enlighten my listeners about the history of 3D glasses as well as their mode of operation.

Glass has a variety of unique properties. Glass is hard, very brittle, a good insulator, and does not react to other chemicals easily. In addition to this, glass is considered an amorphous solid. This means that the molecular structure of glass is mostly random. This is because in the process of making glass, glass is cooled so quickly that it does not have time to form or create a structure at the molecular level. This process is known as quenching.

Its advantages are: it can often be carried out without dismantling the equipment, it is more effective since all parts will be reached, the damage caused by chemical cleaning is minimal and generally less than that due to conventional mechanical cleaning, the damage induced could enhance corrosion or fouling during subsequent operations, it reduces the time required and it often generates much less materials. Meanwhile, the disadvantages are: it chemically inerts materials causing coke deposits unable to be removed, fully plugged equipment will require mechanical cleaning since

Google Glass has been described as “a personal assistant whereby it allows users to direct connect to the Web via WiFi, or tethers to a 3G or 4G mobile devices via Bluetooth. Its weight is less than a pair of sunglasses ( approximately nine pounds ) and it basically operated by touch and voice.” (Tuffley,2013) Since Google Glass comes with the Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity, you could connect your Google Glass with your mobile devices such a smart phone, via Bluetooth. Google Glass also able to translate your speech to text, with it connected to your mobile devices, you can now chat instantly with your friends on Chat Room or Instant Messaging without looking down on your smart phones, instead, you just have to “talk” to them. Google Glass is said to be an almost “hands free device”, the propose of it is to create a more active lifestyle with our advanced technology, it is enough for us seeing people meeting up in a café, meanwhile all they do is just looking down on their smart phones instead of talking to each other, and they could call that a “gathering”, yet it is actually just a group of people sitting together looking at their smart phones separately. The Google Glass is currently still on it’s “Trial and Error” journey, where Google make the Google Glass available for developers, the price stated in the meantime was $1,500. A few lucky developers

One of the early methods of glass making was called core forming. This technique made use of a metal rod that had clay attached at one end. The end of the rod with the clay around it was either lowered into molten glass or the glass was poured onto the clay. The glass surrounding the clay would solidify