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    Csc010‚ Computer Applications‚ Fall 2010 Individual PowerPoint Presentation Guidelines Name: Nicholas Boles Section: CSC 010-020 |Items |Percentage | |PPT Slides | | |Title Slide – topic‚ name‚ course‚ date

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    Hot Air Balloons Brandon Barclay April 24‚ 2002 Mr. Craft Eng.IV Research Paper Outline Introduction: Part A: Explains the structure of the hot air balloon Part B: A historical background of the hot air balloon. Part C: Goes over some the inventions and experiments done with the hot air balloon. Conclusion: The closing summary of the paper. Never having left the ground except by water‚ made the thought of air travel even scarier (Norgaard 21). Man being scared would bet the reason why a duck‚

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    Literature T/R 12:50-2:15 10/30/2012 Reader Response #8 “A Wall of Fire Rising” by Edwidge Danticat There are two people in this world: those who can deal with life’s challenges and those who cannot. “A Wall of Fire Rising” by Edwidge Danticat recognizes this predicament in the shantytowns of Haiti in 1991. Freedom has a different meaning for everybody and can be attained in different ways. As referenced by Guy‚ the hot air balloon is the key to freedom. Guy and his wife‚ Lili‚ have different

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    Imagery of Fire in Edwidge Danticat’s “A Wall of Fire Rising” The imagery of fire in Edwidge Danticat ’s short story “A Wall of Fire Rising” possesses a very powerful meaning and also continually changes throughout the entirety of the story. Fire was a very sacred thing to have‚ especially during the time this story has taken place. One example of how fire is used in the story "A Wall of Fire Rising" is the fire that is burning deep down inside of Big Guy. This fire is a metaphor

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    Part 1 – Buoyancy http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/buoyancy 1. Open the web browser and enter the link above into the address bar. 2. When the simulation page opens click “Run Now!” 3. Click the “Buoyancy Playground” tab at the top of the window. 4. Look in the yellow data box in the top left corner of the window. Record the mass (m)‚ volume (V)‚ and density (ρ) of the wood block. 5. In the middle of the screen there is a container of water. Record the volume of the water. 6. Drop

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    convey. The symbolism in “A Wall of Fire Rising” by Edwidge Danticat is important to understand the reasoning behind the story. how the hot air balloon symbolizes the poverty‚ and how it helped Guy view himself as a better man because he flew it. The symbolic meaning of the hot air balloon allows you to understand the struggle of the impoverished people of Haiti‚ and the personal struggle of Guy. “A Wall of Fire Rising” is a story full of symbols‚ from the hot air balloon to the lines that his son

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    remember my father‚ who was a very poor struggling man all his life. I remember him as a man that I would never want to be.” (261). His inability to reconcile himself with his own sense of failure drives him to climb out of the basket of the hot air balloon and fall to his death. Not only do his dreams drive him to his death‚ but they severely impact those

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    In " The Right Way to Pack for a Hot Air Balloon Race" the informative and concerned tones reflect the author’s thoughts of Cheri White. Although the author is writing for a newspaper article‚ a reader can tell that Hilary Potkewitz‚ the author‚ shows that she is interested in White’s hot air balloon life. Potkewitz’s diction reflects how interested she in sharing Cheri White little biography of her hot air balloon life. The author refers to Ms. White as "a decorated pilot of a no-so-precision

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    current generation. In the short story “A Wall of Fire Rising” Guy‚ a father‚ and a loving husband creates a public scene of his perception on freedom by jumping out of a balloon and committing suicide. Working hard hours‚ he endeavors a job at the sugar mill and later flies the balloon from the sugar mill. When Guy implies the idea of escaping their home to his wife Lili‚ he says‚ “Sometimes‚ I just want to take that big balloon and ride it up in the air. I’d like to fly off somewhere and keep floating

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    Danticat utilizes juxtaposition to create complex characters that in return create the overall mood of depression throughout the book. The book Krik Krak is full with complex situations that lead to depression. The guy in the short story “A wall of fire rising” is always changing‚ and having trouble with his view of life and the people around him. In the beginning of the story‚ it shows

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