notes on electricity comes to cocoa bottom- the poem captures the reactions of the community to the arrival of electricity in cocoa bottom‚ a developing village in the caribbean islands. it starts with the childrens perspectives- creates connotations of childish reactions from the village and a sense of wonder and excitement. ’grannie patterson...peeped’ creates sense of community as involves all generations within the community‚ builds sense of anticipation. ’drawn like a pencil line’ portraying
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The best vacation I’ve ever been on was to Jamaica. So just sit back and relax while I tell you my story. Well‚ it all began with the plane ride. I was extremely happy that the plane ride started at 11:00‚ which meant I would wake up 9:00 and get some extra rest and start going to the airport at 10:00. Nope‚ it wasn’t like that. I had to wake up at 6:00 because we had to be at the airport at 8:00 and the flight stated at 11:00. Isn’t that stupid. I was so mad I had to wake up earlier then usual
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There have been many awesome inventors with inventions still being used in our everyday lives. To choose the greatest invention or discovery of all time would be next to impossible. With all the technology today‚ all inventions seem as if we could not live without them. Thomas Edison’s light bulb has been one of the biggest impacts on society even to this day. Thomas wanted to replace the gaslight with a mild‚ safe‚ and inexpensive electric light. Edison invented the light bulb in 1879‚ and to this
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Cell phones are one of the most important creations ever since the telephone itself. With the creation of the telephone we were able to communicate with other human beings all across the world thus allowing us to communicate valuable information to family‚ and friends. This invention also created various job opportunities to many people in the form of telemarketing. You can quite clearly see how amazing the invention of the telephone is and it has gone through many innovations‚ the most important
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dislike1like It is obvious that Jem and Scout have a special relationship with their father: They call him by his first name‚ Atticus--an unusual way for young children of any era to address a parent. Scout does not miss her mother--she died soon after Scout was born--and Jem barely remembers her‚ so Atticus serves as both mom and dad. Atticus believes in giving the children as much independence as possible‚ and they have a liberal run of the immediate neighborhood. But Atticus has ways of keeping an eye on
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States‚ replacing farmlands and times are changing. New inventions and factories are now coming up‚ new jobs have risen up and now men are going to work in the factories. This was the industrial revolution. “Low-cost‚ high-grade coal‚ oil and natural gas- the backbone of the industrial revolution- will be a distant memory by 2050‚”(Jeremy Grantham) this quote shows how the industrial revolution was such a big part of American history. The greatest impacts of the revolution were the making of factories
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nice at first‚ but it then turned to a hilarious tragedy between two lovers. Nothing can separate them both‚ no matter what. I don’t think that this experience will encounter anybody’s fate‚ but I was surprised that it encoutered mine. It was in the meridian of summer‚ where the sun was shining brighter than gold and the orchids where blossoming to the waterfall’s melody. The sound of children’s bare feet sizzeling on the barren and hot sand gave me an indication that this day
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Whether there should be enforcement limits placed on the bonuses that can be earned by employees of financial institutions Introduction With the gradual recovery of economy‚ people began to realized that the improper system of bonuses payment for the financial institutions employees may be one of the main reasons that caused this global financial crisis. So whether the bonuses should be capped have became a very controversial question. Bonuses limit can help The culture of high bonuses has some
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television really that good for our society? In 1884 the first ideas of the television came to an inventor by the name of Paul Nipkow. It was called the scanning disk and was patented by him in 1884. It worked by having a large disk spin in front of an object‚ while the photoelectric cell that worked it would take in the changes in the light of the object. If the electricity put up significant changes‚ then some of the light bulbs on the device would light up and some wouldn’t. The concept never took off
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Best Week Ever It was the first day of recruitment‚ Sarah and Jessica and I were going to go together. We all got ready in my room and headed over to Blum for the information night. When we got there‚ I had sweat pints as big as softballs and we were the first ones there. While us waiting for all the girls who were rushing to come so the meeting could start. We started talking to all the active girls‚ so we can get to know them all. I was so nervous to meet all of them and felt so little to them
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