“Atwood presents us with heroines who suffer victimization but who are not finally defeated” How far do you agree with this view of Atwood’s presentation of Elaine thus far in the novel? Margaret Atwood’s novel Cat’s Eye explores the life of the female protagonist Elaine‚ and her struggle to move on from her difficult and disturbing past. As a heroine who suffers victimization‚ to say Elaine was not effected harshly by these circumstances would be untrue. The victimisation and bullying Elaine received
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University of York Department of Electronics Third year Beng Preliminary Report 2012/13 The Development of Intelligent Drum Machines using Cartesian Genetic Programming Student ID (Y6385813) Work For: Julian Miller Due Monday 11th February 2013 Abstract Modern day electronic instruments often produce and perform unrealistic music lacking the subtleties introduced by a real life musician. Other than recording a musician or meticulously editing
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My machine is called‚ The this would be way easier to do by hand machine 9000‚ and my machines job is to open a book. Rube Goldberg machines are devices that accomplish a simple tasks. They are crazy and complicated machines‚ but building my Rube Goldberg Machine wasn’t just fun and games. I encountered many difficult problems while building my machine. An example was that when my marble went down the screw it tipped it over. To solve this problem I added support beams to every side. Also another
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Summary and Analysis PrintPDFCite. “This Is a Photograph of Me‚” by the Canadian writer Margaret Atwood‚ presents a speaker who begins by promising to show us a photograph of herself. Later‚ however‚ we learn that the speaker has died from having drowned in the lake the photograph depicts. The poem begins with a title that is a crucial part of the text. Unlike many poems‚ where the title has little effect on the work’s meaning‚ here the title is essential to a total understanding of the whole
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contesting the fact that the introduction of ATM has changed the face of electronic payment in Nigeria. This essay hopes to appraise the advent of ATM driven payment with regard to the present and future. 2.0 ORIGIN OF ATM IN NIGERIA Automated Teller Machines (ATM) was introduced into the Nigerian market in 1989‚ as a matter of fact‚ the very first ATM in Nigeria was installed by National Cash Registers (NCR) for the defunct Societe Generale Bank Nigeria (SGBN) in 1989. 2.1 BANKS AND ATMS Banks in
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The injection molding machine belogns to the plastic machinery type that has the largest output and application volume in China‚ as well as being the main force of China’s plastic machinery export. In 2013‚ the export volume of injection Molding Machines was 22‚946 sets with the export amount of USD 932 million; in 2012‚ the export volume was 24‚830 sets‚ so the export volume in 2013 declined‚ but the export value in 2013 increased 3.78%‚ which fully shows that the avergae price of export products
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How did everyday life change for those who got a washing machine after it was invented? The washing machine has changed very much everyday life since it was invented. This invention meant for many families to change the hard work of washing clothes by hand to a new machine that did this hard work. Until the arrival of the washing machine‚ washing clothes meant a few days of really hard work. Every week all‚ year long‚ there was a washday. A woman would scrub the clothes. “The soap‚ which they had
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story “Happy Endings”‚ Margaret Atwood uses different literary techniques that can alter the interpretation of the story’s theme. The story starts off with a generic “fairy tale” ending in which a husband and a wife live a happy life together and eventually die. However‚ as the story progresses‚ Atwood’s style and tone makes the alternate scenarios of John and Mary give off a sense of uncertainty of what main ideas she is trying to convey. Good opening and thesis. Atwood displays her feelings about
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where we can be free and be ourselves‚ in The Landlady we see how home is turned into a place where a sentence must suffered through. The danger is concentrated in the image of the landlady‚ the one who is in control. The speaker‚ who we assume is Atwood when she was a poor university student‚ never does escape her confinement‚ either physically or mentally. The poem is structured into nine stanzas of varying lengths‚ with the shorter ones coming at the beginning and end. The variety of stanza
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Margaret Atwood – ‘Spotty-Handed Villainesses’ ________________________________________ 1. Atwood uses a personal anecdote of herself as a child‚ and then her daughter‚ which becomes an intriguing motif throughout her speech 2. Atwood frequently adopts an ironic tone in order to appeal to both Logos and Pathos. She uses logic (Logos) to undermine logic (appealing to Pathos) and this can be shown in the paradoxical line ‘We con-artists do tell the truth’. Overall this paradoxical voice and polyvocal
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