Misc Info and COVID quarantining Flashcards
Card 1: how movies were invented.
It was on a bet. In 1877, Leland Stanford, yes the origin of Stanford university, made a bet that when a horse galloped, all the legs were off the ground, and the horse was airborne.
To prove this theory, he had Edward James Muybridge build a photo device that would take interval photos of a horse trot in action.
This proved that a horse does indeed go completely airborne during a run!
When the photos were played in rapid succession, it looked like live action movement. This led to the idea of a movie.
William Dickson came forward with the Kinetograph, which became the first motion picture camera.
This was an illusion of motion.
This was groundbreaking! People actually paid to see motion of a train coming down the tracks in theaters.
As technology advanced, so did stories to make the film interesting.
This opened up something new, the visual world of story!
Metonymy defined,
Metonymy, however, develops a relation on the grounds of close association, as in “The White House is concerned about terrorism.” The White House here represents the people who work in it.
Examples of Metonymy in Everyday Life
For a better understanding, let us observe a few metonymy examples:
“England decides to keep check on immigration.” (England refers to the government.)
“The pen is mightier than the sword.” (Pen refers to written words, and sword to military force.)
“The Oval Office was busy in work.” (The Oval Office is a metonymy, as it stands for people who work in the office.)
“Let me give you a hand.” (Hand means help.)
Examples of Metonymy in Literature
Example #1: Julius Caesar (By William Shakespeare)
The given lines are from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Act I:
“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.”
Mark Anthony uses “ears” to say that he wants the people present to listen to him attentively. It is a metonymy because the word “ears” replaces the concept of paying attention.
Example #2: Gone with the Wind (By Margaret Mitchell)
This line is from Margaret Mitchell’s novel Gone with the Wind:
“I’m mighty glad Georgia waited till after Christmas before it secedes or it would have ruined the Christmas parties.”
Scarlett uses the word “Georgia” to point out everything that makes up the state: its citizens, politicians, and the government. It is a metonymy extremely common in the modern world, where the name of a country or state refers to a whole nation and its government. Thus, it renders brevity to the ideas.
Metonymy in religion.
Everything that happens whether it be Natural science or Chaos theory that caused it is a metonymy used in a fashion to mean God is controlling all the action and events of the present and future, ergo God is calling all the shots!
Ancient people were ignorant of physics and nature, therefore they believed everything was in God’s control. Such as rain, thunder, lightning, tornados, floods, earthquakes etc.
Since they needed someway to explain what was causing these great feats, they used the noun God as a named metonymy.
This started religions, saviors and the whole nine yards of supernatural belief.
What language was O.T. written?
During the thousand years of its composition, almost the entire Old Testament was written in Hebrew. But a few chapters in the prophecies of Ezra and Daniel and one verse in Jeremiah were written in a language called Aramaic. This language became very popular in the ancient world and actually displaced many other languages. Aramaic even became the common language spoken in Israel in Jesus’ time, and it was likely the language He spoke day by day. Some Aramaic words were even used by the Gospel writers in the New Testament.
The source of this info is from an evangelical site, but I feel it is accurate.
So it was written in Hebrew with a small amount in Aramaic .
Did you know Easter is taken from “The epic of Inanna” circa, 2100 BCE, who was in the underworld missing for three days?
Then resurrected and returned to Earth as the light of the Sun?
Did you know that Easter, a pagan festival, was not adopted to designate Christ’s resurrection until the Eighth century?
People never really gave up their PAGAN GODS, they just disguised them and changed their names and status to saints? Kinda like a cheap witness protection program to make the critics happy.
Did you know that the church was the only source of knowledge until the 18th century?
All books on science were forbidden and locked up behind the altar in the Cathedrals.
5 on your side, 7-13-19. Discovered new species that lived 100 million years ago. This was during the other dinosaur era. R.E.M. THE BIRDS ARE DINOSAURS. This totally exposes the Bible claim that the universe started 6,000 years ago.
MN: The Bible makes God a metonomy for explaining natural science and chaos theory.
America, the story of us. E. 6.
1876, Nebraska locust plague. 3 trillion locusts! Half mile high, 100 miles wide, 1,000 miles long. They blocked out the sun in a swarm the size of Colorado.
Circa 1900. America for the very first time can feed itself! This is 50 years before I was born!
30 million buffalo. Herds up to 25 miles long.
Bison hides worth $3.00 back East. Some Bison hunters make more money than the president!
Indians worshipped the Bison. The Bison supplied all their needs.
Because the railroad was a thousand miles short of Texas, the cowboys job was created to drive cattle north to Kansas.
The railroad was a thousand miles short of Texas because trains couldn’t cross the Mississippi River until the Eads bridge was built in 1783. (Check date)
Carnegie built the bridge using James Eads for the contractor.
So, because the river was impossible to cross with train, the west was cutoff from rail travel. Thus the “Cowboy” job was invented.
President McKinley’s election.
The world, particularly the United States was run by wealthy monopolies. Carnegie, Rockefeller and Morgan totally ruled the government and made people work long hours for very little pay. Even children had to work.
The top three magnates bought the election of McKinley to president so they could stay in power. They threatened the common people that if Willian Jennings Bryan got elected that they would shut down factories and put millions out of work.
Teddy Roosevelt was elected Vice President but that was a powerless office.
Then McKinley gets shot and Teddy tears up the monopolies.
Stops child labor, institutes the eight hour workday, starts meat inspections, job safety, comes up with the idea of social security, etc. He accomplishes mountains of sweeping life improvements for America. So great a president that his face is carved on Mount Rushmore. The only president in the 20th century to attain that!
From book, fall of Rome, cause and effect.
Rome divided East and West. The rich taxed the poor farmers to the point that the farmers abandoned their arms. Without a strong tax base, they couldn’t support an army to defend Rome. Next invasions from enemies made Rome fall!
Did Ben Franklin invent the fire department?
6 CE. Augustus setup a professional fire department bucket brigade for Rome. It had 7,000 firemen. They used bucket line. Called “Vigiles” meaning watchmen. Operated until 476 CE. P. 68.
7/21/20, 600,000 COVID deaths so far with millions testing positive. Over 400,000 positive in the states. NBC nightly.
Updated 20 August 2020. Isolation after traveling.
According to the CDC, “regardless of where you traveled or what you did during your trip,” after your trip you should:
Stay at least six feet (about two arms’ length) from other people who aren’t from your household—it’s important to do this everywhere, both indoors and outdoors.
Wear a mask that covers your nose and mouth when you’re outside your home.
Wash your hands often and/or use hand sanitizer (with at least 60 percent alcohol).
Monitor your health and look for symptoms of COVID-19—take your temperature if you feel sick.
The agency notes that travelers may have been exposed to COVID-19 during their journey and not realize it. “You may feel well and not have any symptoms, but you can be contagious without symptoms and spread the virus to others,” the CDC states.
It reminds travelers that they pose a risk to their family, friends, and community for 14 days after they were exposed to the virus—but it doesn’t go as far as advising a 14-day quarantine.
This CDC pivot “kind of changes the game a little bit,” says Saskia Popescu, senior infection prevention epidemiologist at George Mason University. “Without that requirement, I always encourage people to do a little bit of research about where they’re going, what the community transmission is like.”
The CDC does outline several types of travel and travel-related activities that can put people at higher risk of exposure to COVID-19. They include:
Being in an area that’s experiencing high levels of COVID-19 spread
Attending a large social gathering
Being in crowds, for example, in restaurants, airports, train stations, or theaters
Traveling on a cruise ship
For those who participate in any of the above activities, the agency recommends that in addition to the blanket post-travel precautions listed above, that for 14 days after their trip, travelers stay home as much as possible; avoid contact with those at higher risk for severe illness from COVID-19; and consider getting tested for COVID-19.
BOB IS AT HIGHER RISK. So no kissing and sleep in separate beds for two weeks. 25 August 2020 updated.
NBC nightly, oct. 26, 2020
COVID does heart damage that can be permanent. Study shows that 63% of hospitalized COVID patients have heart damage that may lead to serious problems or premature death.
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