in the direction of the net force‚ and is inversely proportional to the mass m of the body‚ i.e.‚ F = ma. The Atwood Machine - is a device where two masses‚ M and m‚ are connected by a string passing over a pulley. Theory - the atwood machine was invented in 1784 by Rev. George Atwood as a laboratory experiment to verify Newton’s laws of motion. The ideal atwood machine consists of two masses m1 and m2‚ connected by an inelastic massless string over an ideal massless pulley
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EXERCISES on Application of Newton 2nd Law-(1st PART) 56. Two boats pull a 75.0-kg water skier‚ as illustrated in Fig. 4.32. (a) If each boat pulls with a force of 600 N and the skier travels at a constant velocity‚ what is the magnitude of the retarding force between the water and the skis? (b) Assuming that the retarding force remains constant‚ if each boat pulls with a force of 700 N‚ what is the magnitude of the acceleration of the skier? Figure 4.32 Double tow. See Exercise 56. 57. (a)
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Death of a young son by drowning” by Margaret Atwood conveys the story of the emotions of a parent losing a child and not being able to help them. “...on a voyage of discovery into the land I floated on but could not touch to claim‚” in this poem Atwood takes the reader on an emotional journey using literary devices such as imagery‚ personification and metaphors to express the depth of her feelings and give a larger sense of what its like for the reader to understand roughly what the speaker must
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enables the reader to visualize the proceedings from Offred’s shoes. On the contrary‚ Atwood had written this novel from Offred’s point of view and only hers which restricts the reader to see the bigger picture and only trail Offred’s memories and her opinions‚ ultimately allowing one to see the narrative structure being “limping and mutilated”. The novel begins in an irregular fashion as it seems that Atwood had jumped into the story. The first sentence states ‘We slept in what had once been the
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speech‚ the Keynote Address at the Beijing Conference on Women (1995). These two speeches focus on the role of women in society and effectively discuss it in a way that has successfully raised the issue and resonated through history. Margaret Atwood uses a variety of rhetorical methods in captivating the audience. She uses wit and humour‚ as well as establishing
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words used in the text. The element of surprise allows the writer to manipulate the reader’s expectations and take them somewhere completely different. In the short stories‚ A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flanney O’Connor and Happy Endings by Margaret Atwood‚ both authors use the element of irony and surprise to engage readers and to develop deeper levels of meaning in their text. In A Good Man is Hard to Find‚ O’connor uses several kinds of irony to communicate her message about the human condition
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the same century it was written in. The author of the Penelopiad‚ Margaret Atwood‚ has a feminist lens while writing and in her daily life. While at University of Toronto’s Victoria College she says‚ that she was around a lot of intellectual women. These women helped influenced her into the feminist movement and helped her write her books with more main characters being strong and dominate females. In The Penelopiad‚ Atwood makes us think about the roles of women and feminism In Homeric and modern
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Commanders’ daughters wear white‚ the Marthas – the servants – wear green dresses‚ the Aunts in charge wear khaki dresses‚ and the handmaids wear red. Offred says‚ “Everything except the wings around my face is red: the color of blood‚ which defines us” (Atwood 8). The dress color of the handmaids is mentioned frequently to symbolize their weakness in the society and how they are unable to escape their duty – to reproduce and to bear children – and their new identity. In addition‚ Offred’s red dress serves
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Love is one of the most compelling and universal emotions felt by the human race. Although this feeling is common‚ it can be interpreted differently by us all. “I Carry Your Heart” and “You Fit Into Me” by E.E. Cummings and Margaret Atwood respectively show the various ways in which people can understand and express infatuation and passion. The title of the poem‚ “I Carry Your Heart”‚ the references the fact that love is perpetually felt. Like other emotions that may be fleeting‚ when love is real
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When The Handmaid’s Tale was written in the 1980s‚ there were many issues‚ such as women’s rights‚ climate change and social control‚ that were happening that caused Margaret Atwood to write this book and all these issues are still very much relevant in today’s world. In the Handmaid’s Tale‚ Atwood brings to light the effects of limiting women’s rights and the use of a strict social class order has on a society suing a first-hand story of a woman being thrown into an authoritative theocracy in the
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