also known as salt‚ common salt‚ table salt or halite‚ is an ionic compound with the formula NaCl‚ representing equal proportions of sodium and chlorine. Sodium chloride is the salt most responsible for the salinity of the ocean and of the extracellular fluid of many multicellular organisms. As the major ingredient in edible salt‚ it is commonly used as a condiment and food preservative. /Salt is currently mass-produced by evaporation of seawater or brine from brine wells and salt lakes. Mining of rock
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Salt is modern book written about the history of salt and its effect on the events of the past. The book maintains a semi-chronological flow to it. It is nonfiction and there are no characters. Salt has had an effect on the past that is often overlooked‚ but not by the author of Salt‚ Mark Kurlansky. Salt takes you through the history of the only edible rock. It begins talking about the sexuality of salt as a hook‚ then begins talking about the nutrition of salt. The rest of the book is about different
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JUST A LAKE In "Greasy Lake" by T. Coraghessan Boyle‚ the setting is a character that changes throughout the story‚ much as the narrator changes and grows through his experiences. Greasy Lake is a place where good boys go to learn to be bad. This story is about a time "when you cultivated decadence like a taste." (Boyle 144) You can tell by the first few paragraphs that you must pay great attention to the setting in this story to fully grasp what Boyle is trying to convey. Greasy Lake is a world
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texts: Mary Lawson’s Crow Lake‚ and David Auburn’s Proof‚ though not necessarily in the most traditional sense of the word. The characters in both texts are greatly influenced by education‚ both formal and informal‚ which in turn‚ becomes a key element in their overall success. Formal education takes a powerful position in both Crow Lake as well as in Proof‚ and is part of the reason the characters In both find themselves becoming successful. Crow Lake From the very begging
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Swan Lake is a globally well-known ballet choreographed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. He composed the ballet in the late 1880s. Even though it failed miserably initially‚ Swan Lake is now considered the renowned classical ballet piece among the many others. I personally grew up watching numerous Swan Lake plays. Talk about the choreographer briefly in one paragraph. Swan Lake centers around the story of two girls: Odette and Odile who resemble each other closely. Odette‚ a young maiden
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Swan Lake Ballet is a form of dance that started during Western Europe during the Renaissance. Itwas created towards the end of the romantic period‚ so the culture and style of romanticism was prominent‚ with glimpses of the beginning of the classical era. Because of this‚ it contains elements of both eras. Some of the romantic characteristics include the pursuit of the unattainable‚ romance‚ fantasy‚ focus on the female role‚ simple play‚ pointe work‚ soft and feminine technique for females and
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they choose. So how can the author’s choice of words shapen the devolvement of the story? Richard Ford’s story‚ "Under the Radar‚" and T.C Boyle’s‚ "Greasy Lake‚" are great examples of how astute word choice provide depth in establishing the setting‚ developing characters‚ and as a catalyst for how the events will unfold. T.C Boyle’s‚ "Greasy Lake‚" focuses on the conflicts of three 19-year olds‚ set in the 1960s‚ between their perceived self-image and the true self within. The story tells the tale
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” is a modernist poem published in Yeats’s second volume of poetry‚ entitled “The Rose” (1893) and‚ although simple in form and imagery‚ it has managed to earn its place as one of his great literary achievements and one of his most enduring. The poem represents a nostalgic description of a concrete‚ geographical place‚ the lake isle of Innisfree‚ which the poet manages to transform into
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The Mysterious Woman ‘The night before Halloween and Frank and Kyle were sitting on the dock at Kyle’s Lake House talking about what they were going to do the next day on Halloween at that moment they decided they were going to have a senior Halloween party at the old abandoned school a few blocks down from their Lake house. They then decided they were going to look through the attic and find decorations for the party. When they got to the attic there was a black cat lurking in the corner. Frank
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Saving Lake Malawi Lakes are complex ecosystems with many species of animals and plants interacting with each other and their environment. Every lake is a unique body of the water‚ reflecting many of the characteristics of the surrounding watershed and the climate‚ as well as the shape and volume of the lake basin. Malawi is a landlocked country in Southern Africa‚ bordered by Zambia‚ Mozambique and Tanzania. The country has no ocean coastline‚ but has the third largest lake in
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