Melting is a process that causes a substance to change from a solid to a liquid. Melting occurs when the molecules of a solid speed up enough that the motion overcomes the attractions so that the molecules can move past each other as a liquid.
The Purpose of Work. âWe work to have leisure, on which happiness depends.â So said Aristotle, quoted by Notre Dame philosopher Gary Gutting to explain âWhat Work Is Forâ in a recent article for The New York Times. Luther countered this medieval view of workâwhich is coming back into style in our consumerist cultureâwith his doctrine of vocation.
What is the purpose of a book? This is a complex question, for books have no purpose that is analogous to that of a plow or a needle. Books do many things, and also nothing at all in a practical sense-except perhaps to weight down papers and keep them from flying away.Books may serve one purpose for the writer and another for the reader-or rather one purpose for the writer and another purpose for each of the different readers who come to the text.his is not to say that the book is entirely unsuccessful: Some elements of it do work well, including the fact that this story is told in some measure as an epic story, a form of storytelling that is probably as old as humanity itself and that crosses cultural as well as historical bou...