L’Odissea e Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood and the Implications of the Word Love

This paper discusses ideal romantic love as it appears in Western literature and how women are portrayed in works containing idealistic romantic plots. It also explores how Canadian author Margaret Atwood rejects the traditional love plot in her novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, as well as in her book of poetry Power Politics and the poem “A Woman’s Issue.” The first section of this paper gives a bri...

"Nolite te bastardes carborundorum": Reproduction and Resistance in Octavia Butler, Margaret Atwood, and the Alien Series

Chaos in the Swinging Atwood Machine (SAM)

A normal Atwood Machine is composed of two masses connected with a string, hanging from pulleys, (see figure 1). This system is often used to teach Newton’s laws of motion due to its simplicity. However, it is not very interesting to study beyond that. When the two masses are not equal, the heavier one will accelerate down and the other will accelerate up at the same rate. When the masses are e...

Small Atwood number Rayleigh-Taylor experiments.

Consideration is given to small Atwood number (non-dimensional density difference) experiments to investigate mixing driven by Rayleigh-Taylor (R-T) instability. The past 20 years have seen the development of novel experiments to investigate R-T mixing and, simultaneously, the advent of high-fidelity diagnostics. Indeed, the developments of experiments and diagnostics have gone hand in hand, an...

Margaret Macdowall

Margaret Macdowall, a well known and leading figure among pioneer teachers of the mentally defective, was born on July 20th, 1862, at Thornton Dale (her father was Vicar of Rillington in 1864). She had a very delicate girlhood which seriously interfered with her education, but in spite of that she lived to be nearly 68. When special opportunities came, her doctor (attending her for a very sever...