Trapped By the Past I sat on the teacher’s dais‚ alone and unprotected. As floods of small schoolboys flowed into the room in unrelenting waves‚ I began to realise the full extent of my vulnerability. Standing at the highest point in the room‚ I was an obvious target. Any of the malevolent children below me could easily hit me with a heavy object or swarm on me like a crowd of ants‚ overwhelming me with sheer force of numbers and sending me tumbling to the ground. During the war‚ I had been far
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CMT3321 – Week 19 – Sample Exam Question Question (a) Describe the key features of Tangible User Interfaces‚ comparing and contrasting them with multi-touch interactive surfaces. [ 10 marks ] (b) Consider the following scenario: The Tangible Disaster Simulation System is a collaborative tool for planning disaster measures based on simulations of disasters and responses such as evacuation and the actions of emergency services. Users can define parameters of a disaster (such as its scale
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Research Question: The government should not engage in the surveillance of their citizens in the interests of national security. After the occurrence of the terrorist attacks on September 11‚ 2001‚ President George W. Bush signed a law‚ the PATRIOT Act. The PATRIOT Act made it easier for the law enforcement officials to use certain techniques such as wiretapping and other surveillance technologies to aid in the war against terrorism. The reason why this topic needs to be addressed is located
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Rewrite Story What I Did On My Holiday by Chrissie Manby I can’t wait for this holiday. Sophie Sturgeon will have a perfect romantic holiday with Callum Wales. I had prepared the whole thing to be perfect as well as for the night before we head to Majorca. But Callum did not show up. He at last sent a text saying he will not come over. He wants a break up and he will not go to Majorca. I decided to hide in my flat. I can’t go by my own. But I need to look independence like how everyone in the office
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Guy Montag is a fireman in charge of burning books in a grim‚ futuristic United States. The book opens with a brief description of the pleasure he experiences while on the job one evening. He wears a helmet emblazoned with the numeral 451 (the temperature at which paper burns)‚ a black uniform with a salamander on the arm‚ and a “phoenix disc” on his chest. On his way home from the fire station‚ he feels a sense of nervous anticipation. After suspecting a lingering nearby presence‚ he meets his new
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“Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” is a nine section poem written by Walt Whitman that was originally published in 1856‚ then revised and republished in 1881. The poem seems to be an attempt to address the future to an audience that is composed of people from the future. Whitman’s first section opens with imagery of what the character is seeing in his immediate vicinity. Whitman begins to consider the other people on the ferry with him and those that are on the other ferries on the river. With the words:
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In Betty Smith’s novel‚ A Tree Grows in Brooklyn‚ she demonstrates how for some people the ‘American Dream’ was a struggle to achieve‚ while it is possible for other people who never gave up hope on achieving the ‘American Dream’. However‚ after immigrants came to America‚ life turned out to be not exactly what they expected. During the immigration period‚ the ‘American Dream’ was an important factor that motivated many immigrants to achieve their goals. Throughout the novel‚ Smith is able to show
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Arthur Miller first heard the story of a Brooklyn longshoreman that would become the basis for his play‚ A View from the Bridge in 1947. He would not write it until 1955‚ when it was produced on Broadway as a simple‚ unadorned one-act. Miller would then develop and expand it into a full-length production with director Peter Brook in London in 1956. The incubation period of A View from the Bridge‚ spanning from 1947 to 1956‚ straddles and absorbs a host of major events both on the national landscape
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America needs a bard whose focus is the common American‚ American landscape‚ and the American spirit. This freedom from Europe opens the door for America to blossom into the political‚ artistic‚ and intellectual model for the world. Whitman’s “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” displays the interconnectedness of him and his fellow passengers with each generation‚ while at the same time transcending time and space. The ferry is a symbol that represents the ebb and flow of time‚ while the speaker and his fellow passengers
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