What is Gothic? To first answer this question, one must first acknowledge the existence of a Gothic subculture. So what is the Gothic subculture exactly? A subculture is “a group of people with beliefs, attitudes, customs, and other forms of behavior differing from those of the dominant society, while at the same time being related to...
Horror, according to Oxford dictionary, is “intense shock and fear or disgust”. Have you seen The Exorcist II? It’s supposed to be a horror movie, but doesn’t really stand up to these horror standards. It’s a terrible sequel to the original movie, and has a storyboard that’s anything but clear, making it...
The Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus is often considered the founder of modern astronomy. He is best known for his astronomical theory that the Sun is at rest near the center of the universe, and that the Earth, spinning on its axis once daily, revolves annually around the Sun. This is called the heliocentric or Sun-centered...
In her argumentative article “Television Addiction”, taken from her book The Plug-In Drug, Marie Winn talks about television addiction and its dangers. First she defines addiction then she looks at the destructive side of television addiction. Winn tries to show the reader that TV addiction should not be taken lightly for it is...
Blast furnaces are structures used mainly in extracting metals, mainly iron and copper, from their ores. The ores are reduced by the action of CO and the removal of oxygen from the metal oxide in order to obtain the metal. Iron usually occurs in the Earth’s crust as ore. The most common ore is Haematite, which is iron oxide. This is a...
About Mathew Arnold (1822-1888): Mathew Arnold was born in Laleham-on-Thames, England, and educated at Balliol College, Oxford, where he became a close friend of the poet Arthur Clough, whom he later eulogized in “Thysris” (1866). In 1851 Arnold became an inspector of schools, a position he held for 35 years. His writing on education...
Have you noticed how each smartphone brand is positioning itself in order to stay alive in the hard competition of the ever evolving smartphone market? Here’s a quick overview on mobile brand positioning in 2012: (how each smartphone brand is competing) iPhone: Apple are keeping it fancy, classy, refined, polished, with great OS graphics...
Everyday life as we know it would not be the same without spin-offs. Perhaps the greatest and most noteworthy advancements have been in the field of medicine. Pacemakers and artificial hearts are just a few of the many advancements giving a renewed chance at life for patients. Spin-offs are products which have undergone a technology transfer...
Ever wished that you could connect your phone to your PC or monitor to view it on a big screen or use a full sized keyboard? Now you can, with the Motorola Lapdock 100! The Atrix Lapdock aka Motorola Lapdock 100 is a docking station (a base device) for Motorola smartphones, that turns them into a laptop! The Atrix Lapdock aka Motorola Lapdock 100...
Asus has come up with an awesome new tablet / laptop hybrid: the Eee Pad Transformer Prime! It’s basically a tablet that can be docked onto a keyboard-touchpad full feature dock to become a laptop… how cool is it!? I definitely see this as the next generation in tablet-laptop technology. This makes it easier to professionally work on...