Arthur Millers "Broken Glass" in Arca

the tragedy of modern man in arthur millers world

what miller wants is a theatre of heightened consciousness. he speaks of two passions in a man, the passion to "feel" and the passion "know". he belives that we can have more of the latter. he says: drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us know more and not merely to spend our feelings. the writing of the crucible shows us that he is trying to give more heightene...

Evidence for broken ergodicity in strain glass

Yu Wang,1,2 Xiaobing Ren,1,2,* Kazuhiro Otsuka,1,2 and Avadh Saxena3 1Multi-disciplinary Materials Research Center and Department of Physics, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China 2National Institute for Material Science, 1-2-1 Sengen, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0047, Japan 3Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA Received 19 June 2007; revised...

Broken bond-bending constraints and glass formation in the oxides.

Rice millers' syndrome: a preliminary report.

A study was carried out to determine the health effects of rice husk dust in Malaysian rice millers. The study population consisted of 122 male Malay workers from three rice mills, with 42 controls of similar age, sex, ethnic group, and agricultural work background. Interviews using standardised questionnaires, physical examination, total and differential white cell counts, chest radiographs, a...

Mesothelioma in Quebec chrysotile miners and millers: epidemiology and aetiology.

In a cohort of some 11,000 men born 1891-1920 and employed in the Quebec chrysotile production industry, including a small asbestos products factory, of 9780 men who survived into 1936, 8009 are known to have died before 1993, 38 probably from mesothelioma--33 in miners and millers and five in factory workers. Among the 5041 miners and millers at Thetford Mines, there had been 4125 deaths from ...