In James Somers article “Why New York Subway Lines Are Missing Countdown Clocks” (2015)‚ Somers looks at the old New York subway system and compares it to the newly efficient and safe subway system called communications-based train control‚ or CBTC. First‚ Somers mentions that in the old New York subway system the tracks are separated into sections which display an occupied or vacant track. In contrast‚ he states that each train supported by the CBTC system is carrying a radio and onboard controller
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so far or asking the reader questions. He begins the story by describing a classic ebony grandfather clock‚ with porcelain figures replacing the numbers on the face. The characters aged as you went clock-wise around the face‚ ending with the figure of Death at the top. The narrator explains how people thought the clock unlucky‚ and that death would truly strike someone one day along with the clock. He goes back 200 years‚ explaining how there was much intrigue and suspicion in the Duke’s court. Rumors
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Two poems‚ Roger McGough’s "Being-In-Love"‚ and "Stop All the Clocks" by W.H Auden‚ are similar and different in a variety of ways. Both poems however‚ share the main theme; Love. The first poem‚ explores the idea of ’unrequited love’‚ while the second poem is an expression of grief for someone who has recently died. Roger McGough’s Being-In-Love‚ begins in the first stanza describing this person who he is in love with: "you are so very beautiful". The speaker is presumably a male‚ because of the
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How do deaf people use telephones? What about doorbells and alarm clocks? There are many everyday devises that we hearing people take for granted‚ among these are telephones‚ smoke alarms‚ doorbells‚ and alarm clocks. When we look at how members of the deaf community use these everyday items we must consider that members within the community have very different communication needs‚ abilities‚ and preferences. Hard-of-hearing people for example can use a standard telephone with the addition of
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One flew over the cuckoo’s nest – How is nurse Ratched perceived in two parts of the novel? One flew over the cuckoo’s nest is a novel written by Ken Kesey set in a psychiatric hospital. It was a best-selling book in 1962‚ and adapted to a film in 1975. Kesey often spent time talking to the patients‚ sometimes under the influence of hallucinogenic drugs that he volunteered to experiment. He strongly believed that these patients were not insane‚ but rather society had pushed them out because
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there is still a division of classes within the society‚ as the tale begins with‚ "A rich man’s wife... ". There is also use of the word "haughty"‚ by the two stepsisters when they tease Ashputtle about her old gray dress. Tannith Lee’s When the Clock Strikes is completely different from the previous two tales‚ most likely because this tale was written more recently (around 1971)‚ and there was a very major difference in the world as compared to the world when the other two tales were written. It
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Classical Conditioning Process For most of the world the words “classical conditioning” produce one common name‚ Ivan Pavlov. According to Harris (2006)‚ “Pavlovian conditioning has come to be viewed as the cardinal example of associative learning—the process by which an organ- ism represents the correlations between the events it experience” (p. 584). Associative learning is a simple name of classical learning‚ which further implies the association of stimuli to engage in learning or conditioning
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2010 H I G H E R S C H O O L C E R T I F I C AT E E X A M I N AT I O N English (Standard) and English (Advanced) Paper 1 — Area of Study Total marks – 45 Section I Pages 2–7 General Instructions • Reading time – 10 minutes • Working time – 2 hours • Write using black or blue pen 15 marks • Attempt Question 1 • Allow about 40 minutes for this section Section II Page 8 15 marks • Attempt Question 2 • Allow about 40 minutes for this section Section III Pages 9–10 15 marks • Attempt
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portrayal of Caligula’s sister Drusilla; Caligula’s accession to the throne; the portrayal of Caligula’s wife Caesonia; the charge of treason by Gemellus; and the assassination of Caligula. In the movie‚ Caligula is portrayed as having only one sibling‚ a sister. The accounts of Caligula and sister Drusilla throughout the movie are that of an unnatural bond between siblings. In the beginning of the movie before the opening credits‚ Caligula and Drusilla are frolicking in the forest and
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Faulkner exemplifies this break from custom through his analysis of Bayard’s character‚ especially during the garden episodes‚ his description of Drusilla to embody the remnant of Southern tradition‚ and the moral significance behind Bayard’s refusal to shoot Redmond. In “An Odor of Verbena‚” Faulkner first analyzes the role of Bayard’s pursuit of personal fulfillment in sequestering him from avenging
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