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    In‚”Lather and Nothing Else” a short story by Hernando Tellez explains a story about a barber who has an unexpected customer‚ Captain Torres‚ who needs a shave from his hard work of catching revolutionaries. The techniques used in the story are foreshadowing and internal conflict. The barber uses external movement and different reactions to what Torres does when the captain enters. The story shows foreshadowing and internal conflict to show suspense in the story. One way that Tellez uses foreshadowing

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    to become a hero‚ you had to murder somebody. Not just anybody either‚ but Captain Torres. A murderer‚ who has killed many of your people. Given the option‚ would you kill them? This is the same scenario a Barber faces. In the story “Later and Nothing Else” by Hernando Téllez‚ the protagonist faces a moral dilemma in which he must decide to either kill‚ or not kill‚ Captain Torres. He must weigh the pros and cons of his reputation as a barber‚ or whether he is willing to commit murder to become a

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    Lathe Of Heaven George Orr is tortured by his dreams because sometimes they come true. The world he wakes up to has changed into the world that he dreamed‚ sometimes radically‚ sometimes violently. As a teenager he dreams the death of his aunt and he awakens to finds that she was killed in a car accident six weeks before. He is horrified‚ and attempts to control his dreaming‚ but over the years some of his dreams and nightmares come true. Finally by the time he is thirty ( in the year 2002) he

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    The first lathe machine that was ever developed was the two-person lathe machine which was designed by the Egyptians in about 1300 BC. Primarily‚ there are two things that are achieved in this lathe machine set-up. The first is the turning of the wood working piece manually by a rope and the second is the cutting of shapes in the wood by the use of a sharp tool. As civilizations progressed‚ there have been constant modifications and improvements over the original two-person lathe machine‚ most

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    know‚ the easiest option isn’t always the right one. But the most obvious choices aren’t always the easiest‚ either. “Lather and nothing else” written by Hernando Tellez. A short story of a saga. Starts with a barber who has to shave a captain’s beard. However‚ he’s a killer who has the urge to kill the captain‚ since a lot of people want to kill the captain. The essay will be about how the barber keeps mentioning murder‚ but vaguely in different forms of words (foreshadowing). Also‚ the tension

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    In the story Lather and Nothing Else by Hernando Téllez‚ the barber should not have killed commander Torres. When the barber asked how many prisoners they took‚ Commander Torres answered‚ “Fourteen‚ we had to go pretty far into the forest to get them.” Which implies that he has many men so if he ever died they would just get a new leader. This leader could be good or bad‚ but we don’t know and not knowing gives the possibility that it could be worse. At the end of the story‚ he says‚ “that it’s hard

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    Ethics means actions made that lead to the best consequence. The cartoon “Mascots” shows the opposite decision‚ “Independence Day” does not show a decision leading to the best consequence because murder is against the law. The novel “ Lathering and Nothing Else” is a terrible decision leading to a murder of an unarmed person. Initially‚ all actions that are made should be made with the best outcome‚ not demonstrated in trying to ban all mascots for teams and schools. In the cartoon “ Mascots” Phil Hands

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    In the short story “Lather and Nothing Else” by Hernando Téllez‚ Captain Torres is the villain. Captain Torres is the Captain of an army that kills and tortures the rebels in the town. Captain Torres has the composure of a villain. In the story‚ Captain Torres walks into the barber shop with the assumption that the barber will kill him. On the other hand‚ Torres keeps his composure by not showing the barber any fear and by keeping calm the entire time. In order to be a successful villain‚ you must

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    purpose of lathe machine. To use the lathe machine to cut a given metal cylinder to required diameter. Equipment: * Metal Cylinder The dimensions of the metal bars had length of 101mm and diameter of 25mm. * Vernier Caliper Vernier Caliper is a measuring instrument. It is used to measure the diameter or lengths and widths of objects up to 100th of a mm. I used it for measure of the length and width of the metal bar. * Lathe Machine

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    Lathe Machine Turning is one of the most common of metal cutting operations. In turning‚ a workpiece is rotated about its axis as single-point cutting tools are fed into it‚ shearing away unwanted material and creating the desired part. Turning can occur on both external and internal surfaces to produce an axially-symmetrical contoured part. Parts ranging from pocket watch components to large diameter marine propeller shafts can be turned on a lathe. The capacity of a lathe is expressed

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