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    Significant Figures

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    Significant Figures Even in this day and age with all of the equipment and technology available to us‚ whenever someone works with a numerical value that was given‚ measured‚ or calculated they can assume that it has some degree of uncertainty. There will always be some degree of uncertainty because as human beings we do not possess the skill to make exact measurements. Take for example if a group of students were performing in a lab and a step in the procedure was to measure a piece of metal.

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    Cure Nail Yeast Infection

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    How to cure nail yeast infection? Yeast infection in the nail bed or also with known as Onychomycosis‚ is one of the health problems that can happen to anyone. Symptoms onychomycosis is as inflammation‚ swelling‚ yellowing color and texture change in nails. Although sometimes painful‚ but if the infection has spread the pain caused even this condition is unavoidable. Onychomycosis itself is triggered by certain conditions‚ such as not normally the pH levels of the skin‚ immune system weakening

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    Figure of Speech

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    A figure of speech is the use of a word or words diverging from its usual meaning. It can also be a special repetition‚ arrangement or omission of words with literal meaning‚ or a phrase with a specialized meaning not based on the literal meaning of the words in it‚ as in idiom‚ metaphor‚ simile‚ hyperbole‚ or personification. Figures of speech often provide emphasis‚ freshness of expression‚ or clarity. However‚ clarity may also suffer from their use‚ as any figure of speech introduces an ambiguity

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    eechhttp://engquizzitive.wordpress.com/gk-for-snap/ Simile: A simile is a figure of speech that directly compares two different things‚ usually by employing the words "like" or "as"... "if" or "than" are also used though less commonly. A simile differs from a metaphor in that the latter compares two unlike things by saying that the one thing is the other thing. Using ’like’ A simile can explicitly provide the basis of a comparison or leave this basis implicit. In the implicit case‚ characterized

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    Figure of Speech

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    Simile : A comparison between two distinctly different things‚ objects or events. It consists in placing two different things side by side and comparing them with regard to some quality common to them. First the two objects must be different in kind. Secondly‚ the point of resemblance between the two different object or event must be clearly brought out. Such words are used for comparison : ‘like’ or ‘as’. A simple example of Robert Burns‚ “O my love’s like a red rose.” Errors like strews upon

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    Figures of Speech

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    Figures of Speech [ Examples ] 1. Metaphor ❖ "But my heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill." (William Sharp‚ "The Lonely Hunter") ❖ "Love is an alchemist that can transmute poison into food--and a spaniel that prefers even punishment from one hand to caresses from another." (Charles Colton‚ Lacon) 2. Simile ❖ "Good coffee is like friendship: rich and warm and strong." (slogan of Pan-American Coffee Bureau)

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    For the formal analysis Essay I have chosen Fig. 1-14: female figure (nkisi)‚ Kongo people (muserongo)‚ Zaire‚ late 19th century. Wood‚ iron nails‚ glass‚ resin‚ height 20 1/4 “ x 11” x 8. University of Iowa Museum of Art‚ Iowa City‚ IA. The subject of the female figure is one in the 19th century as European states colonized the continent. IN central Africa certain people can communicate with the dead and are accepted as healers‚ diviners‚ and defenders of the living. They believed in the Minkonde

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    Figures of speech

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    Figures of speech As one of the articles in this issue deals with the English Language Fair held at the Barbican Centre last autumn‚ this might be a good opportunity to concentrate on varieties of English style. Let’s start with the use of imagery.  The passage chosen for comment comes from The Guardian‚ a newspaper famous or notorious for its misprints as well as for the depth and seriousness of its new coverage. If the name of the writer‚ Roy Hattersley‚ seems familiar - yes‚ it’s the same

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    LIST OF FIGURES

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    LIST OF FIGURES Fig 3.1 Power Supply…..…………………......……..….………………………………………..6 Fig 3.2 Circuit Diagram Of MAX232…………..…………………………………...……………9 Fig 3.3 PIC Diagram………..……………………………………..……………………..............13 Fig 3.4 Relay Operation….……………………………………..….….………………………....14 Fig 3.5 Relay Energized (On)……...……………………………....…………………………….15 Fig 3.6 Relay De-Energizing (Off)………...……...…………………..…………………………16 Fig 3.7 Relay Operation (2)…...………………………….…….....……………………………..17 Fig 3.8 Torque Production in Dc Motor…………………………

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    Figures of Speech

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    Figures of Speech 1. Alliteration - The repetition of an initial consonant sound. 2. Allusion - Figure of speech that makes a reference to or representation of‚ a place‚ event‚ literary work‚ myth‚ or work of art‚ either directly or by implication. 3. Antithesis - The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phrases. 4. Apostrophe - Breaking off discourse to address some absent person or thing‚ some abstract quality‚ an inanimate object‚ or a nonexistent character.

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