Health and Safety in Construction

wellness and asylum in bodily structureThis chapter begins with a general discussion on the concept of precaution forwards examining the modern concern with achievement health and safe, unique(predicate)ally in the complex body part industriousness. To better relate to the scope of this study, it will also review the current workplace pencil eraser and health organization agency in the Singapores formulation industry. Subsequently, an overview of the safety legislations and policies under take awayn in Singapore to amend crook safety will be investigated.Introduction to refugeAlthough the term safety is very often used in our everyday life, the concept of safety fag make water various meanings for different people. According to Oxford Dictionaries Online, safety is delineate as the condition of be protected from or unlikely to cause danger, risk or injury. Moreover, as safety is comm only if viewed from the perspective of specific injury domains, some injury pre ventive researchers defined safety as the prevention of crime and violence whereas the others described it as a feeling of being out of danger or as a satisfaction of the basic human physiological needs.Hence, collect to the multitude of views on the definition of safety, the World health Organisation (WHO) Collaborating Centres on rubber Promotion and Injury Prevention has real an international consensus on the conceptual and operational aspects of safety in 1998 (Nilsen et al., 2004). They concord defined safety as a state in which hazards and conditions prevailing to physical, psychological or material accidental injury are controlled in order to preserve the health and well-being of individuals and the community. This definition of safety contains two dimensions, of which ane is objective and can be assessed by measuring behavioural and environmental parameters whereas the other is subjective and can be evaluated according to the feeling of being safe (WHO, 1998).In addi tion, safety is a resultant of a complex process which integ lays humans behaviour and fundamental interaction with their physical, societal, cultural, technological, political, economic and organisational environment. According to Maurice et al. (2001), the optimum level of safety can only be attained with the presence of four conditions that proved beneficial in delineate the domain of safety. Table 2.1 indicates the four basic conditions for safety.Table 2.1 Four basic conditions that define the domain for safetyFour Conditions for Safety1)A climate of social cohesion, peace and equity between groups that protects human rights and freedoms2)The respect of the values of individual and their physical, material and psychological integrity3)The prevention and control of injuries and other consequences or harm caused by accidents4)The provision of effective measures to cope with undesirable traumatic eventsSource Maurice et al. (2001) workplace Safety and Health (WSH)Before 1880s, t here was little interest in work safety and minimal protection for the safety of workers in their workplaces because legislation, precedent and public opinion were all in favour of the counsel (Pearson, n.d.). Moreover, workplace accidents were comprehend to be cheap and were often disregarded because there were no workers stipend laws that protect the interest of workers. Thus, work-related accidents were common then.However, in the late 1900s, workers safety and health in the workplaces begun to receive increasing attention due to the rapid industrialisation of the coupled States (U.S.) and the establishment of unions that promote the need for safer working conditions. Hence, the high foreboding(a)ities and injuries rate then bind the federal official government to implement various acts to force the industries to reduce the occurrence of work-related accidents or illnesses so as to mend on the safety standards of their workplaces (Aldrich, 2001). Some initiatives of the fe deral government include passing of the Occupational Safety and Health prompt (OSHA) in 1970 and the enactment of the workers compensation laws.Therefore, tighter employers liability and the steep increase in the approach of accident due to the compensation laws have initiated the employers interest and concern with work safety (Aldrich, 2001 Alton, n.d.). As a result, significant amelioration in the workplace safety and health performance can be observed as fatalities rate in the U.S. declines from 27 deaths per 100,000 workers in 1950 to 3.5 in 2011 respectively (BLS, 2012 Kaufman, 1997). The safety performance in British industry had also improved significantly since the introduction of the Health and Safety at Work Act (HSWA) in 1974 as the fatalities rate has change magnitude from 2.9 per 100,000 workers in 1974 to 0.5 in 2011 (HSE, n.d.). Like OSHA, HSWA is the chief(a) piece of legislation covering occupational health and safety in the United Kingdom (UK). Figure 2.1 ill ustrates the work-related fatalities rate among different countries.Safety in the twisting IndustrySafety has always been a major issue in the construction industry. In many developed and developing countries, the construction industry has constantly been ranked as one of the worst industries in terms of the frequency of fatalities and work-related injuries. Unlike the other industries where it mostly consists of a stationary fabrication setting with little changes in working procedures, equipment and labour force, the working environment in the construction industry is generally complex and ever-ever-changing. This is due to the multidisciplinary and multitasked aspects of the parties involved in the vagabond and also the use of sophisticated plants, equipment and construction methods (Teo, Ling, Chong, 2005). Thus, this highly differentiated and unstructured nature of the construction industry makes safety management extremely challenging (Gambatese, Hinze, Haas, 1997 Lingard, 2012 Zhang, Teizer, Lee, Eastman, Venugopal, 2012). some research and studies over the years have attempted to look into astir(p) construction safety using various concepts such(prenominal) as approach patterning for safety (Gangolells, Casals, Forcada, Roca, Fuertes, 2010), HR practices (Lai, 2009 Lai, Liu, Ling, 2011) and BIM technologies (Azhar, Nadeem, Mok, Leung, 2008 Kiviniemi, Sulankivi, Khknen, Mkel, Merivirta, 2011 Qi, 2011 Zhang et al., 2012)For instance, the Britain authorities have long recognised that safety should be addressed from the very step to the fore of a escort and they are the first to introduce the Construction (Design and perplexity) Regulation in 1994 and revised in 2007 respectively. This regulation places duties on clients, seeers and contractors for consideration of safety issues from design through the demolition stage of a project (Hecker Gambatese, 2003). According to Gibb (2002), this regulation has lead to an increase in the profile of construction safety among designers in several(prenominal) European Union (EU) countries. Additionally, Australia has also introduced the Model WHS Regulation 2011 whereby have to provide a Safe Design Report that specify the hazards relating to the design of the structure to the someone carrying out the construction work (Safe Design Australia, 2011).Therefore, good safety planning and management throughout the project life cycle become an essential essential for most construction projects because without a thorough understanding of safety issues on office, undesirable work-related accidents will occur. This will then incur additional costs, unnecessary project delays and in the worst situation, the loss of lives (Lai et al., 2011). Therefore, the next section will attempt to understand the different safety issues on berths by first identifying the various substructure causes of accidents.Causes of AccidentsAccording to Teo (2009), accidents are unintentional and undesirable events that can cause pain, suffering, damage and injury to the affected person(s) or meet(ip)ty, if not a combination of both. While not all work-related accidents will cause physical injuries or damages, the occurrence of any accidents on internet site will definitely challenge the quality of the construction site operation. Therefore, there is a need to understand the various causes influencing safety performance in the construction industry so as to better develop strategies to acquire this concerning issue.A review of the literature on construction safety reveals that much research efforts have been directed to understand the factors and causes that can influence construction accidents (Abdelhamid Everett, 2000 Hamid, Majid, Singh, 2008 Hughes Ferrett, 2008 Suraji, Duff, Peckitt, 2001). Many types of theories have been developed throughout the decades to understand the accident causation factors. The earliest research can be traced back into the 1930s were Heinrich (19 31) had pioneered the accident causation theories by developing the five-domino model of causation. The domino theory had been the foundation work of many other models that were developed by other researchers thereafter.According to Ridley (1976), most of the accidents on site are either caused by unsecured acts, unprotected conditions or frequently a combination of both. An grave act refers to a violation of an accepted safety procedures which then permits the occurrence of an accident whereas an unsafe condition refers to a hazardous physical condition or circumstance that are in violation of coetaneous safety standards. Table 2.2 present the development of different theories that were developed to understand the accident causation factors.Table 2.2 Development of different models to understand the accident causation factorsTypesCharacteristic of ModelModel / TheoryAuthorsAccident Causation ModelsUnderstand the various accident causation factorsDevelop tools for better acciden t prevention courseDomino TheoryHenrich (1932)Multiple Causation ModelPetersen (1971)Stairstep ModelAdams (1976)ARCTM Construction ModelAbdelhamid Everett (2000)Behaviour ModelsStudies the tendency of humans to make errors under various situation and environment conditionsAccidents are mainly a result of human unsafe characteristic onlyAccident proneness theoryAccident (1983)Goals freedom acuity theoryKerr (1957)Motivation reward satisfactionPetersen (1975)Sociological theory of accidentsDwyer and Raftery (1991)Human Factor ModelsHolds human error the main cause of accidentsUnlike the behaviour model, the righteousness not only fall on human unsafe characteristic aloneThe responsibility also fall on the design of workplace, which does not take into consideration the limitation of humanFerrel theoryFerrel (1977)Human-error causation modelPetersen (1982)McClay modelMcClay (1989)DeJoy modelDeJoy (1990)Source Abdelhamid and Everett (2000)To tailor to the need of the construction ind ustry in identifying the seed cause of accidents, Abdelhamid and Everett (2000) had developed an Accident Root Causes Tracing Model (ARCTM) after further development and synthesis from various existing accident causation models. ARCTM proposed that unsafe conditions can occur before or after the start of an activity and they can either be caused by human-related or nonhuman-related factors. Table 2.3 illustrates the different causes of unsafe conditions that might lead to accidents.Similar to that proposed by Abdelhamid and Everett (2000) and Suraji et al. (2001), Toole (2002) has also tried to identify and attribute the basic root causes of construction accidents to factors such as lack of proper training, poor enforcement of safety, use of unsafe equipment, methods or sequencing, unsafe site conditions and a poor attitude towards safety. The aforementioned are just some of the many studies undertaken by researchers in an attempt to identify the root causes of work-related acciden ts so as to develop better preventive strategies (Hill, 2003). Even though there has been a significant utility in the safety performance of the construction industry as compared to the past, to a greater extent has to be done to further reduce the fatalities and work-related injuries frequency rate.Table 2.3 Main causes of unsafe conditions which can lead to accidentsMain Causes of Unsafe ConditionsHuman FactorsManagement action or inactionWorker or co-workers unsafe actsFail to provide proper or adequate personal protective equipmentViolate workplace standards lean ventilationPoor housekeepingPoor designSabotaging equipmentUnauthorised operation of equipmentInsufficient rest while workingRemoving safety deviceSource Abdelhamid and Everett (2000)Construction Safety in SingaporeThe construction industry in Singapore has been one of the fastest growing industries since Singapore embarked on her various industrialisation programme in the early 1960s. However, the safety situation in the industry then deteriorated so drastically that the government had to introduce the Factories Act in 1973 to regulate occupational safety and health in Singapore. Since then, Singapores statutory OSH regime was governed by the Factories Act.However, due to the high-profile and fatal accident that took place in Nicoll Highway in 2004, this had called attention to the need for a reform of the current legislative approach to OSH (Teh, 2006 Teo, 2009). This has therefore led to the unveil of a current Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) framework in 2005 and the introduction of the WSH Act in 2006, which will repeal and replace the former Factories Act. The new WSH Act became the key legal instrument for the WSH framework and it aims to cultivate good safety and health practices among all individuals in their workplaces. Additionally, WSH 2015 Strategy was developed concurrently so as to complement with the new framework. This strategy aims to halve the workplace sine qua non rate f rom 4.9 fatalities per 100,000 workers in 2004 to 2.5 by 2015. As a result of the dynamic and changing WSH landscape, a full-fledged industry-led WSH Council was established in 2008 and a new national target was developed by identifying enhancements to the previous WSH 2015 Strategy. This new strategy, named WSH 2018 aims to achieve an even more challenging goal, which is to reduce the fatality rate to less than 1.8 fatalities per 100,000 employed workers by 2018 (WSH2018, 2009). With the introduction of WSH Council, WSH Council (Construction Landscape) Committee was formed and Implementing WSH 2018 for Construction Industry was developed specifically to thread the efforts of the construction industry to achieve better WSH performance.Following these efforts to increase the safety performance in the construction industry, it is noted that there is a remarkable improvement in the safety performance in 2011. According to the WSH Report 2011, construction industry was the only one th at saw a drop in fatality numbers as the fatality rate decreased from 8.1 per 100,000 employed persons in 2010 to 5.3 in 2011, as shown in the Figure 2.2 (WSH, 2011). This is a significant improvement as the fatality rate of 5.3 in 2011 is the lowest-ever since 2006. Furthermore, the number of work-related injuries has also fallen by 22% as compared to 2010 (channelnewsasia, 2012).Despite the positive progression in the safety performance, it calm down remains as a serious concern as fatality rate continued to account for the highest among all industries in Singapore as shown in Table 2.4. Thus, in order to achieve the targeted result set aside for the construction industry as seen in Figure 2.3, all stakeholders will have to commit themselves to work towards a safe and healthy workplace with a vibrant WSH culture and zero injury (WSH2018Construction, 2010). In addition, more efforts have to be put to prevent falling from height because it remains as the major contributor to fatal accidents (see Figure 2.4).Till date, many studies have been conducted to look into improving construction safety in Singapore. For example, Ling, Ofori, and Teo (2004) have constructed a model to predict the safety level of a construction project site. Moreover, Ling and Teo (2006) have analyze the intrinsic and external incentives on increasing worksite safety and found out that there are many personal factor that can affect site safety.Safety Policies and LegislationMinistry of Manpower (MOM) is the government regulatory body responsible for the enforcement of workplace safety and health legislations. Throughout the years, MOM, in collaboration with other government agencies and stakeholders have put in extensive efforts in achieving significant and sustained improvement in the WSH performance for the construction industry. In this section, various policies and legislations that have been introduced particularly to improve on the safety performance in the construction industry w ill be discussed.Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) ActIn the past, Singapores primary legislation in the construction safety regime was governed by Chapter 104 of the Factories Act and Section 68 and 77 of the edifice Operations and Work of Engineering Construction (BOWEC) Regulations (Cheah, 2007). However, due to the spate of high-profile accidents in 2004, MOM saw the need for a fundamental reform of the former safety policies and legislations in order to curb the insurrection numbers of work-related accidents on site. Hence, as part of the new WSH framework that was introduced in 2006, the Factories Act was repealed and replaced by the Workplace Safety and Health Act on 1 March 2006. As a result, the OSH regulation has evolved from a highly prescriptive (rule-based) system to a more descriptive (performance-based) approach.Unlike the former Factories Act where industry players were expected to comply with a fixed set of safety guidelines, the new WSH Act is focused on three gu iding principles reduce risk at source, instil greater ownership of safety and health outcome by industry players, and impose higher penalties for poor safety management. This is a paradigm veer from the former Factories Act because it encourages every industry player to be more proactive rather than reactive to safety issues.Workplace Injury Compensation Act (WICA)The former Workmens Compensation Act has been replaced by the Workplace Injury Compensation Act (WICA), which came into effect on the 1st April 2008. Unlike the former Act which only covers manual and non-manual workers earning $1,600 or less per month, WICA is applicable for all employees regardless of their level of earnings. The enactment of WICA is essential because it safeguards the interest of all employees and employers as the former are right off able to claim compensations for work-related injuries promptly without having to prove fault whereas the latter are protected against the fraudulent claims of errant e mployees (MOM WSHC, 2008). At the same time, this new Act enhances the enduringness and efficiency of the compensation process and indirectly, influences the employers to pay more attention to workplace safety and health issues.In order for WICA to stay updated with the current market situation, amendments have been to WICA and it will take effect from 1st June 2012. The key objectives of the recent changes are to maintain a fair balance between the pay-outs for the injured employees and the responsibilities that fall on the employers and also, to ensure that the WICA framework remains efficient so that injured employees can receive compensation promptly (MOM, 2012). Some of the major changes include increasing the compensation limits, prohibiting compensation due to work-related fights and work-related exclusion clauses and expanding the scope for compensable diseases. Table 2.5 illustrates the recent amendments to the compensation limits.Safety and Health Management System (SHMS )Safety and Health Management System (SHMS) is a systematic process that is mandatory for all workplaces such as worksite, shipyard and factories in Singapore. It provides a platform for goal setting, performance measurement and unload management commitments and direction in order to manage human and organisational risks (MOM, n.d.-b). SHMS guides the efforts for an effective and proactive implementation of risk control measures to reduce work-related injuries, which will subsequently lead to a long-term reduction in operational costs (Baliyan, 2008). To build up an effective SHMS, it has to adhere to the relevant WSH legislation and guidelines set out for the construction industry, such as the SS 506 Part 1 2009 Occupational safety and health (OSH) management system and CP 79 1999 Safety management system for construction worksites. In tandem with the SHMS, audits and reviews must also be carried out periodically on SHMS to ensure its continual performance (MOM, n.d.-a). Table 2.6 shows the requirements for SHMS audit or review depending on the projects contract sum.To make sure that SHMS is effective and relevant in addressing construction safety, Teo et al. (2005) have developed a model to measure the effectiveness of the SHMS of construction sites in Singapore.Summary of ChapterThis chapter has looked into the concept of safety before focusing on workplace health and safety especially in the construction industry. 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Classification of Wastewater

Classification of WastewaterWastewaters atomic number 18 numerous in kind and defy easy definition. It is difficult to evolve a universal compartmentalisation for drop. However, roughly there atomic number 18 three basic classification methods, which atomic number 18 combined to form a waste classification system (Hagerty., 1973). They are animal(prenominal) classification, chemical classification and thermic classification. The last one is directly related to thermal touch on requirements and focuses on the information needed to select, design, and operate a thermal functioninging system.5.1 Physical ClassificationThis classification identifies the physical state of waste. It is needed for the weft and design of waste handling systems and the choice of processing equipment. Based on physical characteristics, typical waste materials are classified as vapourific, liquid, slurry, sludge, solid and mastererized waste. In the present context, solid and liquid wastes will be di scussed in this section. unscathed waste is wastes those which arise from human and animal activities that are normally solid and are usually discarded as useless or unwanted. The term as used in this context is all inclusive, and it encompasses the heterogeneous mass of throw aways from the urban community as well as the more homogeneous accumulations of agricultural, industrial and mineral wastes (Tchobanoglous, 1977). In discussing solid waste, generally and traditionally certain categories of wastes are well recognized as they are very common. For example, solid wastes include domestic, commercial, industrial, (due to reflexion and demolition) agricultural, institutional and miscellaneous. Many times domestic and commercial wastes squirtnot be differentiated and are considered together as urban wastes. Included in this category are the garbage materials which result from food preparation both in the homes and restaurants, and also the frill which is produced in residences and commercial establishments. Generally, the garbage consists of rapidly decomposable materials while the rubbish is either s basely decomposable or non-degradable. A second major category of waste is industrial, the disavow produced by industrial processes. Generally the character of the refuse produced in any manufacturing or processing operation will depend very much on the type, amount, or the character of wastes produced by the industry. Obviously, the wastes produced by stain manufacturers will differ considerably from those produced in the chemical industry. Usually the wastes produced by any food processing operation, the study and plastics industries are almost similar to the paper and plastic packaging materials found in domestic rubbish. On the other hand, the metal processing industry will obviously generate metallic wastes, that in addition will also produce large quantities of slags, processing chemicals, and other residues, many of which are used in air pollution u nderwrite and water pollution control activities. The wastes produced by chemical industries or other more specialized industries will in general depend upon the specific disposition of the end product of the manufacturing process (Waste Classification Guidelines Part 1 Classifying Waste , 2009).5.2 Chemical ClassificationIt is the key to selection of proper process design parameters, selection of materials of construction, choice of concentration equipment, design of incinerator hardware, the possibility of bye-product recovery, and the requirement of fuel gas and discharge water treatment systems. Based on this classification, the waste materials are in the main classified as clean waste and hazardous waste.5.2.1 Clean WasteThis group covers hydrocarbons which contain alone carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. The oxidation products are considered clean and can be discharged into the environs.5.2.2 Hazardous WasteThe problem with hazardous wastes is that there is still no internationa lly accepted definition of a hazardous waste. However, technical foul criteria such as toxicity, flammability, corrosivity, ignitability and reactivity have been proposed and used to some extent to identify and designate the waste as hazardous. Though the hazardous wastes account for only a small proportion of all wastes generated by the industries, their impact can be disastrous as they not only affect the physical environment but also the biotic components. The United States alone generates well-nigh 60 million tons of hazardous waste every year, and the European Economic association about half of that quantity. Roughly 10 to 20 per cent of the total waste produced can be considered as potentially hazardous. In general, there are industries like metallurgical, iron and steel, fertilizers, thermal power production, etc. generating large quantities of solid and liquid wastes containing low concentration that is at the trace level of hazardous constituents. On the other hand, there is another group of industries such as chlor alkali, pesticides, dyestuffs, electroplating, photographic chemicals, fine chemicals, etc. which generate comparatively small quantity of wastes, but they are highly toxic and hazardous. Approximately one million tons of solid waste is generated annually by the 131 industrial units surveyed. Nearly 22% of wastes from these industries are hazardous. It has been estimated that about 94% of these wastes are generated by process oriented (generating during the processing of raw materials to get the finished products) industries and 6% of it is pollution control oriented (generated from the treatment of gaseous and liquid effluents) industries. Maximum amount of hazardous waste is generates by chlor-alkali, dyes and pigment, organic fertilizer chemicals, pesticide and plating industrial sectors. The inorganic chemical sector on the other hand, generated low volume-high toxic wastes. The synthetic drug manufacturing units in drugs and pharma sector generate maximum quantity of hazardous wastes. Thus, hazardous waste may be foster classified into waste generating gaseous contaminants, waste containing alkali and alkaline earth metals and waste containing heavy metals.5.3 Thermal ClassificationThis is used in the determination of faculty requirements for processing and in the selection of system configuration. Based on the thermal properties, typical waste materials are classified as follows, where combustible wastes are a group that includes wastes which will sustain oxidation reaction without additional energy requirements, noncombustible wastes are groups that represent low-Btu value wastes, which will not sustain oxidation reaction without additional energy supply. These wastes may be further classified into following two categories which are the noncombustible wastes with no low the volatiles (the organics in the wastes contain no low volatiles which, when heated, will evaporate) and the noncombustible waste with l ow volatiles (the organics in the waste are heat sensitive and readily vaporized when heated). These two categories tolerate important information for the designing of evaporation and steam stripping systems. They are also important factors in the selection of pre-concentration equipment of wastes. For the successful application of thermal processing systems accurate and reliable information about the composition and characteristics of any waste to be processed is essential. Such data are necessary to understand the process and for the selection of process equipment.Classification of a wastewater by toxicity or hazard is important for safety and also to comply with legislation (Mumford, 1973). In practice, it is better to use the characterization hazardous and non-hazardous having regard to both toxicity and the environmental implications of the waste on disposal. Therefore the Control of Pollution Act distinguishes waste as poisonous, noxious or polluting and whose presence on lan d is likely to give rise to an environmental hazard. It also encompasses highly flammable or volatile materials which may have little toxicological significance (Agency, n.d.).Classification may be further expanded taking into consideration individual chemicals. Chemical outline will usually give the proportion of each chemical present, except that of organics which may be characterized by one or more physical properties as listed in Table 2.Table 2 Physical properties of liquid wastes.Alternatively the description may be limited to synthetic organic materials, natural organic materials, and inorganic materials and this characteristic corresponds to classification by origin. Finally, wastewater is usually wastes because it consists of unusable and often unpleasant mixture of chemicals.BibliographyAgency, T.E.P. About Hazardous Non-Hazardous Waste by The environmental Protection Agency, Online, Available http//www.lonestar.edu/16715.htm 19 February 2014.Hagerty., D.J.P.J.L.a.H.J.E. (1973) Solid Waste Management, New York Van Nostrand Reinhold Co.Mumford, C.J. (1973) Industrial Pollution Control, Bussiness Books.Tchobanoglous, G.T.H.a.E.R. (1977) Solid Wastes Engineering Principles and Management issues, New York McGraw Hill.

How James Joyce Challenges His Readers in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake Es

How crowd Joyce Challenges His Readers in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake In the history of written literature, it is difficult not to notice the authors who flip ones lid their readers style and manner of reading. Some write in an unusual syntax which forces the reader to utilize new methods of looking at a language others utilise lengthy allusions which oblige the reader to study the same works the author drew from in order to more fully comprehend the text. Some authors drug abuse ingenious and complicated plots which warrant several readings to be understood. But few authors have used all these and still more devices to demand more of the reader. James Joyce, writer of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, uses extraordinarily inventive and intricate plot construction, creative and often thought-provoking word constructions, allusions to works both celebrated and recondite, and complex issues and theories when challenging his readers to have a fit their method of reading. T he plot, or story, of a book is the foundation upon which all else is constructed, and Joyce is renowned for his extraordinary plots, always innovative and always astonishing. In Ulysses, Joyce parallels the day of his protagonist, Leopold Bloom, with the journeys of Odysseus from Homers Odyssey. Chapter by chapter, Blooms travels throughout Dublin, along with the experiences of his young friend Stephen Dedalus and his unfaithful wife Molly, parallels the Odyssey. All the chapters are there Telemachus, Nestor, Proteus, Calypso, the Lotus-Eaters, Hades, Aeolus, Lestrygonians, Scylla and Charybdis, Sirens, Cyclops, Nausica , Oxen of the Sun, Circe, Eumaeus, Ithaca, and Penelope. He even adds a chapter, Wandering Rocks, by subdividing Scylla ... ...challenged his readers to lard and enhance their reading method, to think for themselves, to read the raw thoughts of another, to read a hybrid language, to simply learn, and to become a better reader. Works Cited Barger, Jo hn. IQ Infinity- The extraterrestrial James Joyce, Robot Wisdom Pages, 5/25/97 http//www.mcs.net/jorn/html/jj.html Cave, Charles. James Joyce Web Page, Ozemail Communications, 5/25/97 http//www.ozemail.com.au/caveman/Joyce Joyce, James. Finnegans Wake. bare-ass York, New York Penguin USA, 1976 Joyce, James. Ulysses, New York, New York Random House Inc., 1992 McHugh, Roland. Annotations to Finnegans Wake, Baltimore, Maryland Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991 Thornton, Weldon. Allusions in Ulysses, Chapel Hill, North Carolina University of North Carolina Press, 1968

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Biography of doubting Thomas JeffersonThird President of the United States of America.Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was the leash president of the United States and acreator of the Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson was a philosopher,politician, scientist, architect, inventor, musician, and writer. Thomas Jefferson was also one of the smartest leaders in history. His father was named Peter Jefferson, a very rich Farmer from Virginia. ThomassMother, Jane Randolph Jefferson, was part of the Randolph family. The Randolph Familywas a big part of Virginia history, and also very rich also. Peter and Jane Jefferson moved to Goochland county, because Peter had just gotten cd acres of land there.Thomas Jefferson was born in the log cabin in which the family lived. ThomasJefferson was the third child out of four brother and sextette sisters. Two years after Thomas was born, William Randolph, a cousin of Mrs. Jefferson and a close friend of the family, died. His will requested th at Peter Jefferson move to his estate, take billing of the house and land, and make sure Randolphs four children get educated. The Jefferson?s remained at Randolphs estate for seven years. The estate was called Shadwell.Thomas Jefferson was quite the little intelligent boy. At age nine, ThomasJefferson Started Latin, Greek, and French Studies at a boarding school. Thomas liked toHorse cover version ride, Canoe, Hunt, and fish. When Thomas was fourteen years old, his fatherpassed away. Thomas Jefferson was the oldest son, so Thomas had to take care of thefamily. Jefferson was a tall, slender boy with sandy reddish hair and fair skin that freckled and sunburned easily. A serious student, Thomas also enjoyed the lighter aspects of the education of a Virginia gentleman. Jefferson learned to dance and play the violin. Weekends and holidays Thomas spent either at Shadwell entertaining guests or at his friends plantations.After two years at William and Mary (A College in Virginia?s cap ital city), Jefferson left to study law. Thomas still studied French, Italian, and English history and literature. In 1767, Jefferson was chosen to the practice of law in Virginia. Jeffersons main source of income was his land. That?s because most lawyers didn?t make enough money back then. On New Years Day, 1772, Jefferson married Martha Wayles Skelton, a 24-year-old widow. Patty... ...cts. Icannot write volumes on a single sheet, Adams wrote plaintively, but these letters ofyours require volumes from me.Jefferson and his friend Adams, both of whom had vie such great parts in thewinning of independence, died on Independence Day, July 4, 1826. Jefferson leftdetailed instructions for his burial in the graveyard of his estate. A unprejudiced monument was to mark his resting place. Thomas Jefferson specified that the monument was to be made of coarse stone so that no one might be tempted time to come to destroy it for the value of the materials. Thomas Jefferson wrote his own epit aphHere was buriedThomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American IndependenceOf the Statute of Virginia for ReligiousFreedom And pay back of the University of VirginiaThese achievements were to be inscribed on the monument, and not a wordmore ... because by these, as testimonials that I have lived, I wish most to beremembered.Jeffersons wishes were carried out, but vandals later overturned and broke thestone. A careful reproduction now marks Jeffersons grave.SourcesMicrosoft Encartahttp//encarta.msn.com/www.whitehouse.gov

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IntroductionPupilometry is the study of how a pupil reacts to different perceptions and stimuli. The seek on the topic of pupilometry is scattered and fairly shallow. Related research has been conducted on facial expressions and their reaction and relation to emotion. There are some relationships to the facial expression research and pupilometry, but these relationships do not tell the tout ensemble story. Some interest has been brought up through research in the field of pupilometry and its predictive powers on emotion. Pupilometry has to do with the dilation and contraction of the pupil relative to the stimulation or emotion being studied. In the early stages of pupil dilation research, there was intrigue as to the response of the pupil to emotional situations. That focus shifted toward development processing, and soon emotional studies were completely ignored. One emotional study that was done questioned whether pupil size change, as a response to seeing nudity, was a worl d(a) indicator of arousal. Fifty women and fifty-seven men of the heterosexual college student variety, with a mean age of 21.4 years were studied. Results of that experiment indicated that pupils did dilate signifi piece of asstly more for nude test group than they did for the clothed group, regardless of the sex of the subject or the sex of the pictured person. It was the studys conclusion that the pupils dilated because of the increased emotional front end of arousal (Aboyoun and Dabbs 1998). Often, the eyes are poetically quipped as the window to your soul, mirror of you heart, or the gauges showing fleeting feelings and changes (Whiteside 1974). It has been studied that facial expressions can be inhibited by cognitively trying to hide them. In a study by Ursula Hess and Robert E. Kleck, spontaneous vs. deliberate facial emotions were studied. It was concluded that large number could deliberately control facial expression. Pupil reaction on the other hand is not controllable by cognitive means. The dilation and contraction of the pupils is an forced response based on reaction to stimulus and or emotion. Even if a person tried to hide their reaction to some stimulus physically, the size of the pupil could still be measured to observe a persons reaction to a situation (Hess, U. and Kleck 1997). Eckhard Hess states in his book that normal reactions to the emotion happy should indicate significantly larger pupil size than the emotion mad. He goes on to suggest that large doe-eyed pupils are seen as happy, and niggling beady-eyed pupils are seen as mad (Hess, E.

Anne Conway’s Critique of Cartesian Dualism :: Dualism Essays

Anne Conways Critique of Cartesian DualismABSTRACT I describe and analyze Anne Conways critique of Cartesian dualism. later a brief biographical introduction to Conway, I sketch some of the influences on her philosophy. I then describe her non-Cartesian view of substance. According to Conway, there is just one substance in created reality. This substance contains both matter and spirit. A purely material or spiritual substance is, she argues, an impossibility. Next, I discuss some(prenominal) of Conways arguments against Cartesian dualism. Firstly, dualism is inconsistent because dualists, while denying that concepts such as divisibility and extension are applicable to spiritual substance, nevertheless use such terms when describing the nous or spirit. They assume that soul or spirit is something particular which can be located somewhere. Secondly, she argues that dualism results in mechanism because it makes too sharp a notation between body and soul, thus regarding the body as a mechanical machine and the soul as something which is not integrally related to the body. Thirdly, dualism cannot account for the fundamental interaction between mind and body. The two substances of which a dualist speaks are defined on the fundament of the exclusion of characteristics. But the two things which have nothing in honey oil cannot influence each early(a) causally. 1. IntroductionDuring his lifetime and in the centuries following, the dualism and mechanism of Descartes philosophy gave rise to a great number of objections and discussions. In this article, I would wish to consider a response to Descartes views which is somewhat less well-known than others, that of Anne Conway. Conways reaction to Descartes is interesting because she speaks from out of a metaphysical tradition different from those of many other philosophers who discussed his ideas. (1) In addition, she makes use of a pre-modern, non-abstract idea of spirit, a conceptualisation of spirit which has bee n lost or sidelined in the philosophical tradition after Descartes. On the basis of an entirely different ontology of matter and spirit from that of Descartes, Conway questions the presuppositions of dualism as well as its abstract view of spiritual substance. In this paper, I will begin with a short biographical sketch of Conway and a survey of some of the main influences on her thought. I will then briefly describe her philosophical system. I will then discuss her critique of Descartes dualism. Finally, I will consider the question of how her views can be of value to us today.

Got Internet Pornography? Essay -- Internet Pornography Essays

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This way you dont have to go to the s... ...tables that show from a survey about how many people have visited sex sites broken down to phallic female, born again Christians, married, single, livin g together, divorced, and widowed. These graphs will show that pornography is not that dangerous, and is harmless. Although it has its pros and cons I am for pornography, it gives a person that escape from reality like everyone needs once in a while. On the down side I am and will always be against child pornography on some degree. Younger than 16 I am against it totally but 16 that is a gray bea for me because when I was 18 years overage my girlfriend was 16 years old. So its like looking at porn but in the flesh. Thats why I say they should make up their minds about the age. all you can give consent to get pictures taken of you or you cant give sex until you are 18. Its one or the early(a) it cant be both. Got Internet Pornography? 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I will be talking about the pros and cons for pornography on the internet, the increase in child pornography, the booming of pornography on the internet ,and the confusion with all the different laws in our society. Pornography in the 90s has been on a steady increase. With the popularity of the in ternet growing daily, pornography has also grown. Pornography has NOT however grown to the Herculean proportions which many believe. The industry itself according to Forbes is at best $520 million (Forbes.com) not the $10 billion which is a false statistic, also according to Forbes.(http//www.eden.rutgers.edu/%7Eskwong/pornography/internet.html). I believe that pornography on the internet is a good idea because you can monitor it easier than monitoring those hidden magazines that your kids somehow always find them. This way you dont have to go to the s... ...tables that show from a survey about how many people have visited sex sites broken down to male female, born again Christians, married, single, living together, divorced, and widowed. These graphs will show that pornography is not that dangerous, and is harmless. Although it has its pros and cons I am for pornography, it gives a person that escape from reality like everyone needs once in a while. On the down side I am and wi ll always be against child pornography on some degree. Younger than 16 I am against it totally but 16 that is a gray area for me because when I was 18 years old my girlfriend was 16 years old. So its like looking at porn but in the flesh. Thats why I say they should make up their minds about the age. Either you can give consent to get pictures taken of you or you cant give sex until you are 18. Its one or the other it cant be both.