------------------------------------------------- State of matter From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia States of matter in physics are the distinct forms that different phases of matter take on. Four states of matter are observable in everyday life: solid‚ liquid‚ gas‚ and plasma. Further states are possible but do not naturally occur in our environment: Bose–Einstein condensates‚ neutron stars. Other states‚ such as quark-gluon plasmas‚ are believed to be possible. For a complete list of all
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in this light that Chinweizu‚ Jemie and Madubuike quite firmly state “To Western critics […]: take your hemegonic hands off African literature! [...] they should show the proper respect for the autonomy of that literature†(303). Achebe does not stop at this warning but in his works ensures that the Western hegemony is undisputedly dealt with. From Things Fall Apart to Anthills of the Savannah‚ it has been a long struggle to help his society “regain belief in itself and put
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Based on the novel by Humphrey Cobb‚ Stanley Kubrick directed the movie Paths of Glory in 1957. Kirk Douglas plays the role of Colonel Dax‚ a commander of the French army in World War I. Held in their trenches against the threat of German cannons‚ the regiment is ordered on a suicidal mission to capture the Germans. When the mission fails‚ French generals order three soldiers to be tried and executed on the charge of cowardice. Dax is selected defense attorney for the chosen soldiers. Kubrick explores
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Phoenix’s Long Journey Motherhood is expressed in an unusual manner in “A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty. Phoenix is described in detail as an old‚ very poor African American woman who talks out loud to herself and has an estranged imagination while she starts out on a long journey through the woods to town. She was so poor that the author says “She carried a thin‚ small cane made from an umbrella‚ and with this she kept tapping the frozen earth in front of her” (1). She appears very delusional
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‘The Old Man and The Sea’ by Ernest Hemingway CEL Ernest Hemingway’s ‘The Old Man and The Sea’ is set in Cuba during the 1950’s. The main characters that are portrayed in this novel are Santiago‚ the old man and the main character of the story‚ Manolin‚ the young boy who looks up to the old man for guidance and also helps Santiago in any way he can and the fish‚ a marlin. The sharks also play a significant part of this tale. There are many themes that run throughout this novel including determination
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‘Cemetery Path’ By Leonard Ross Essay The story ‘Cemetery Path’ is about a timid little man who was constantly mocked by a young lieutenant by nicknames like ‘pigeon’ and ‘Ivan the terrible’. Ross uses this to show the reader the concept of mental fear and how fear can consume us and drive us down to serious consequences. Ross begins the story ‘Cemetery Path’ with the portrayal of Ivan as a scared and timid who is very afraid. Ivan’s strange behaviour‚ of not crossing the cemetery‚ not even in
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Chinua Achebe’s novel ‚Things fall apart‚ portrays Okonkwo as a successful and respected member not only in his clan of Umuofia but in all nine of the villages in the area. However his characteristics of being a man of action as well as driven by violence leads him to success but also towards failure and defeat. Achebe does this in his novel to portray Okonkwo as a tragic hero to show the audience that a person’s own fear can lead them to greatness as well as destruction. The novel begins with Okonkwo
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Can what is lost ever be recovered? Wing Ming-Yi’s “The Man with the Compound Eyes” translated into English by Darryl Stark is an exploration into the tidal nature of grief. Set in a near future‚ the novel an earth where global warming has irreparably changed the world’s weather patterns and the strange and untouched Island of Wayo Wayo‚ where every second son is given to the sea to appease and give thanks to the Sea God. As a result of the worlds changed weather patterns‚ a trash vortex has formed
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The poem "Dead Man’s Dump" written by Isaac Rosenberg‚ a soldier in the first world war‚ has made a lasting impression on me. He originally enlisted in the army in October 1915. He was killed upon the western front in France on the first of April 1918. He was twenty years old. I believe that Rosenberg was trying to tell us that the soldiers that had sacrificed their lives in the name of duty were not getting the respect that they deserved. As time goes on we may gradually forget what these men
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The Just-in-Time (JIT) approach was developed after the war‚ it was created for the Japanese auto industry in an attempt to decrease costs and advance production by prudently ordering materials to be scheduled to arrive when and where they were needed. This is intended to reduce the flow times within the production system as well as the response times from suppliers to customers‚ by arranging the materials to arrive at the production facility “just in time” to be used. Toyota was very eager to develop
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