In fact, The Spike performed the same vital function as did the booksFailsafe,Seven Days in Mayand, a decade earlier, Graham Greene’sThe Ugly American. Each took a point of view, and you were bound to agree or disagree with it. Perhaps the edginess ofThe Spike, then, was its attracti...
You’ll see on the graph that there is another dip to represent this disappointment, which again only makes the reader more empathetic to Starling. She’s gone to great lengths to be ready to join Crawford when she hears about Martin. She even jumps in the shower with another trainee to ...
“Ding” is a typical pictographic character, with the bottom being the tripod’s feet, the middle being the tripod’s belly, and the top “cat ears” being the two ears of the tripod. Originally, the tripod was used as a food vessel, and people used it to cook or hold food. Late...
This change, the rise and fall in a story, can be plotted on a graph to form a curve shape line. And when you graph them, you begin to see patterns across all forms of story. Here is a simple graph of a dramatic arc that Kurt Vonnnegut describes as “Man in a Hole”: The x-...
objects? Many new products are made Look at the graph to see how many from old ones. For example, old foam is tons of paper each city recycles in a year. shredded and pressed together into 600 s n 500 o t n 400 i t n 300 u o m 200 A 100 Location CA GA Now answer Numbers ...
In his book, Introduction to the Old Testament as Scripture, Brevard Childs posits that the Wellhausen school of thought argues for a “post-exilic date on the evidence of the book’s location in the Hagiographa, its distance from the customs reported, its relation to Deuteronomic formulae ...
My first blood work showed a CA19-9 of 2500. One week later, the day of my first Chemo, it was up to 3500. Four weeks later it was up to 10,000. After the fourth round of chemo, it started down. Plotting the numbers coming down forms the most beautiful graph I’ve ever seen....
This EMG graph represents the noise made by contracting human muscles. During the EMG I discovered when my muscles are moving and tensing they make noise, a lot of noise, the electrical static coming out of the EMG speakers was astounding. As soon as I heard that racket all those deer de...
Born June 25, 1947 — John Maddox Roberts, 75. Here for being prolific with his Conan pastiches, seven to date so far. I’ll also single out his The SPQR series beginning withSPQRwhich are police-procedural mystery novels set in Ancient Rome. Someone at the Libertarian Futurist Society real...
To solve the Königsberg bridge problem, Euler developed a new type of mathematics calledgraph theory. He designated the four land masses that the bridges connected as nodes and the bridges themselves as links. From there it was fairly easy to see that the only way someone could walk across...