The Sheltering Sky

PASSIVE SOLAR ARCHITECTURE INTRODUCTION:1 The last two decade has witnessed a severe energy crisis in developing countries especially during summer season primarily due to cooling load requirements of buildings. The energy consumption in buildings is quite high and is expected to further increase because of improving standards of life and increasing world population. Air conditioning use has increasingly penetrated the market during the last few years and greatly contributes in the upsurge of

Silk Road Trials and Triumphs Traders prospered from the Silk Road, but they had to overcome the many dangers along the route before they could gain their wealth. These challenges, ranging from human to natural, made trading along the Silk Road a more difficult task. In order to be successful, merchants were required to be innovative and adapt to the conditions. Much of the Silk Road route is over trying terrain, such as high altitude mountains and arid deserts that stretch for miles. The mountain

The Western Front in World War One was a bleak place for soldiers. Men died from bullets, shrapnel, concussive blasts, gas, disease, dehydration, trench foot, and exposure. The life expectancy in the trenches was only six weeks (War History Online). In “Break Day in the Trenches”, Isaac Rosenberg documents the feelings of a sentry at dawn. The sentry watches the sun begin to rise and plucks a poppy to put behind his ear. He watches a rat and internally converses with it, before coming under

The body has been a key focus in the design world across all history according to Ellen Lupton as people like to build and make things that look like them. It’s also prevalent as objects made come into contact with the skin and at times, act as extensions for the body allowing it to do things it cannot. In her essay Second Skin: new design organics (2006), Lupton discusses the surfaces of objects; from lights, to chairs, and to building materials, acting like skin which allow for a fluctuating understanding

Rain dribbled down the gravestones, down the monuments, down the men with bowed heads. The sky was trademark English grey, the sort of colourless, dreary sky that so many cynics and sceptics had been born under, the grass was less of a green colour, and more of a dead brown, and the poppies had bowed their head, weighed down by the drizzle, and out of respect for the dead. The only things that looked clean and not devoid of life were the gravestones: white marble, drenched in rain, almost gleaming

lay on the roof of Villa Maldorme, on a white bedspread. Last night, she had a near overdose. For many hours she lay on the roof, floating in a blue, deflated world until the gentle gurgling of the morning’s transfusion woke her. The arteries of the sky, which only a few hours before unwilling poured their blood into the vague, moody sea, were not being refilled, slowly swelling with light pumped from the luminous water. A gull lunged towards Veronique with a homicidal screech. She covered her head

During youth athletics, many seasons end with a gathering, a cook-out perhaps, and more often than not, participation trophies are given out to the young players. A coach hands a plastic trophy or a plaque to the players whether or not they actually earned it and a successful season took place. Sure, a nice plastic participation trophy might fill the empty space on your dusty shelves, but is it instilling false expectations in children? As we get older, we realize that participating in events does

While testing the layer of clay they discovered traces of iridium which is typically found in meteoroids. It could not have been asteroid dust that had just fallen from the sky because of how much iridium that was found there, it must have been a meteorite that struck earth. From different parts around the the world paleontologists had found this similar clay layer between the rocks and was found with traces of iridium. Iridium

Canterbury Tales The tale of the Plowman July 12th 1392 The Boiling sun casts a blanket of heat over the mile long fields, a faint voice can be heard in the peaceful atmosphere the calling repeats and a man wearing an tabard smock raises his head from the line of crops to attend to the noise he picks up the bucket of bruised vegetables and travels towards the voice as he gets closer it gets louder and more audible the man slightly drained from the sun and work

Amir’s merciless encounter with his childhood enemy Assef and Hassan’s rape relates to the violence of the islamic revolution and chaos of Afghanistan, which illustrates the importance of the past, the feeling of guilt and the redemption for one’s past sins. Khaled Hosseini regained control of the beauty of Afghanistan, especially the city of Kabul, in his novel The Kite Runner. He narrates the turbulent journey of a man named Amir, who is haunted by his past and the ghosts of his sins. The novel