Soot Essays

  • Essay On Diesel Exhaust

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    The Effect of Diesel Exhaust on a Person’s Health Air pollution has been one of the greatest concerns this millennial. The majority of the focus regarding air pollution has been on its effects on the environment and how it contributes to climate change. It can be easy to overlook the effect it has on the human body. In Resitoglu’s article that was written about his research study it says, “The World Health Organization estimated that around 2.4 million people die every year due to air pollution”

  • Creative Writing: The Mockery

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    beside him. “Aren’t you two hungry?” asked Soot. Nettle and Fawn shot the molly grateful glances. “I bet you two were too busy bickering to hear Milk and Sparrow return from hunting,” meowed Nettle. She squinted her blue eyes as she teased the kits, showing that there was no sting to her words. The kittens locked eyes. Amber to kit-blue. They dropped their ears simultaneously and lowered the fur on their hackles. They knew Nettle was right. “Night,” said Soot, “you still haven’t had much prey, have

  • The Chimney Sweeper by William Blake

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    hardly learned to talk, we know this because of lines two and three. He then learned to sweep chimney and to live with being unsanitary (covered in soot). He even mentions that he sweeps the soot and also sleeps in it; this is metaphorical because the job has them covered in soot everyday and he is around chimneys so much that he literally sleeps in the soot....

  • Mother Earth and the Impacts of Human Activities

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    which is the main factor that planet Earth suffers the most. Almost all automobiles in world release gases which contain soot and carbon dioxide. Soot has always played an important role for global warming. “Soot is the second predominant agent after carbon dioxide which forces warming by contributing 1.1 watts per square meter of soot to the atmosphere” (Richard A. Kerr, 2013). Soot can affect the climate by absorbing sunlight, shrinking cloud... ... middle of paper ... ...are the three most factors

  • William Blake's The Chimney Sweeper

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    to express the evils of exploiting these small boys. Most of this symbolism appears to be about death. This gives the poem a dark mood. For example, Blake writes “So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep'; (554). Most of the boys who were sold into chimney sweeping died very young because the soot inhalation destroyed their lungs. In ...

  • William Blake Innocence

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    Loss of Innocence William Blake’s “The Chimney Sweeper” from the songs of innocence, is about a boy who was sold at a very young age into the life of a chimney sweeper. Blake tries to educate his readers about the social injustices imposed on young children by revealing the horrifying and hazardous conditions they work under. Even though Blake believes that innocence is pleasing, it cannot outlast the real world due to the harsh circumstances faced by children. By using the voice of a child, Blake

  • William Blake's Chimney Sweeper Poems

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    Blake uses strong imagery to represent the feelings of his poems. A strong component used was the light versus dark imagery in both poems, with the contrasting soot-covered boy on the white snow in Songs of Experience. This blackness was used to describe the death and despair brought by the labor. These, “clothes of death,” were made by the soot but literally and metaphorically (SoE). Sweeping a chimney could mean death to a young boy who panicked when caching his leg or falling during a job. The color

  • Joy and Darkness in William Blake’s ‘The Chimney Sweeper’

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    fact he is absolutely oblivious of what is going on. A few words used in this stanza are striking, words such as lamb, soot and white hair. There is a clear distinction made here between black and white. ‘When your head’s bare, you know that the soot cannot spoil your white hair’2, to put that sentence in other words, it says that the innocence of the child cannot be spoilt by the soot because it will remain clean for it is not there. The third stanza talks about dreams that Tom has about him and thousands

  • Air Pollution In Cambodia Essay

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    city in Cambodia with highest population and the number of vehicles increases day by day, so the traffic jams has been occurred frequentl... ... middle of paper ... ...operties. Char is weak light absorption with a strong spectral dependence while Soot is strong light absorption characteristics with little spectral dependence (Han et al., 2010). By the way, Particle matter (PM) was associated with cardiovascular mortality and morbidity. Spontaneous Hypertensive Rate was the effect of single intrataracheal

  • Impact of the Industrial Revolution on the Environment

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    supplies of coal and developed infrastructure, was a place well prepared to begin industrialization. Textile mills, metalworking, glass, ceramic, and brewing industries released huge amounts of coal soot into London’s air which literally created a black haze over the city (Internet 2). With so much soot in the air blocking out sunlight, London was su...

  • Greed And Materialism In Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away

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    The animated film director Hayao Miyazaki is most known for his 2001 film Spirited Away. The film centers around the character Chihiro who finds herself stuck into a spirit world after her parents are transformed into pigs by the witch Yubaba. With her parents cursed, Chihiro is forced to work for her and her parents freedom. Miyazaki uses the bath house and the witch Yubaba to depict the greed and materialism that surfaces within a capitalist society. The film begins with Chihiro and her parents

  • Analysis: The Chimney Sweeper In Song Of Innocence

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    and playfulness in Heaven. Recall, that the soot makes the boys dirty, and the representation for the soot is sin. Specifically, society’s sin which comes from various sources like the parents, chimney masters, and the British monarchy as well. The child is not only mocking God, the king and the church, but society as a whole when it seem that everyone benefitted from his anguish. The boys were not allowed to wash their figurative sin and thus, the soot got stuck to their skin. In the Songs of Innocence

  • Summary Of Ernest Hemingway's Big Two-Hearted River Part 1

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    Part 1”, Hemingway conveys a theme of hope and recovery from the suffering. Hemingway progressively introduced the necessity of destruction for the rebirth of something new and improved. When forest fires occur, they leave behind a trail of ash and soot throughout

  • The Song of Innocence Vs. The Song of Experience

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    William Blake's poems show the good and bad of the world by discusses the creator and the place of heaven through the views of Innocence and Experience while showing the views with a childlike quality or with misery. Blake one of many others had lived in the time of the American, French, and Industrial Revolutions (Blake Background). This gave Blake the opportunity to witness the most conflicting stages for the transformation of the Western world. Through Blake's poems The Lamb, and The Tyger can

  • Summary Of Ernest Hemingway's Big Two-Hearted River: Part 1

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    behind a trail of ash and soot throughout vast land areas which, consequently, lead to the rebirth of the forest. The smoke pollutes the air and the fire destroys the vegetation, yet creatures small and large are able to adapt. Grasshoppers, a small insect trying to survive, have changed color because of the soot that remains on the forest floor. Their hearts have hardened to the conforming and adapting to their surrounding environment. Similarly, Nick is covered with his own ‘soot’ brought back with him

  • An Unfolding of William Blake's " the Chimney Sweeper"

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    An Unfolding of William Blake's "The Chimney Sweeper." William Blake's poem "The Chimney Sweeper" gives us a look into the unfortunate lives of 18th century London boys whose primary job was to clear chimneys of the soot that accumulated on its interior; boys that were named "climbing boys" or "chimney sweepers." Blake, a professional engraver, wrote this poem (aabb rhyme), in the voice of a young boy, an uneducated chimney sweeper. This speaker is obviously a persona, a fictitious character created

  • William Blake Diction

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    pacing and rhythm of the pieces. The diction in the poems is similar as well. The poems use similar wording likely because of the poems’ similar setting. The similar setting also creates similar imagery between the two pieces. The author talks about the soot, the darkness, and the sadness to create a dreary picture of late-18th-century London. The rhyme in the poems is similar in that they both use the “AABB” rhyming pattern at times. However, the second poem uses “AABB” in only the first stanza, and

  • William Blake Rhetorical Analysis Essay

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    'weep! 'Weep / So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep” (3-4). The tone of these lines make people feel sad for the boy. It hits the limbic system in their brain, which is where emotions are controlled. These lines are very emotional and people can instantly feel, this is going to be sad. Blake instantly pulls you in with empathy for this child. Also, Blake says, “Hush, Tom! never mind it, for when your head's bare, / You know that the soot cannot spoil your white hair” (7-8). The kids have

  • William Blake Thesis

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    An African child has recently lost his mother due to natural causes in Mozambique, and his father, who is so desperately in need for money, sells his only child to a lumber factory. Because of the unfair economic situations and lack of prioritization of children, they are forced to bear the harshness of society from adolescence. This title relates to the evidence that this poem is about a young child who is forced into child labor. Furthermore, the author reveals the truth that society suggests and

  • Dinosaur Extinction

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    tumbled boulders that could have been generated by a massive tsunami. In addition, the soil also contains pieces of quartz that were deformed by high shock pressures. These crystals would occur from a giant explosion, such as an asteroid impact. The soot, deformed crystals, and tumbled boulders could of all happened without an asteroid colliding with Earth, but it would be very unlikely. To conclude, these three pieces of evidence prove that an asteroid collided with Earth, killing the