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    Imagine having no one to support you. Our friends make us who we are and help us feel better. In The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer‚ Maria is Matt’s first friend. Friends are important people so Maria is an really important character. She was Matt’s best friend and lover. Maria is compassionate but still can be unforgiving because she had concerns for people‚ held grudges‚ and she helped Matt. She did all those things although she can’t seem to grow out of the fact that Matt is a clone.

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    Utility Fog

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    CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. Concepts of UTILITY FOG 2.1 Structure 2.2 Working 2.3 Properties 3. Implementation 3.1 Self Reconfiguring Robots 3.2 Homogenous Self Reconfiguring Robots 3.3 Crystalline module concept 3.4 Design 3.5 Motion and Control 4. Applications 5. Problems 6. Conclusion References Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION: The Idea of Utility fog was originally put forward by Edison in 1890. These tiny

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    leased the house next to him. One night they decide to go look around in the house to count the boxes left. While they are away‚ Mina has a strange encounter with “fog‚ which had evidently grown thicker and poured into the room” (Stoker 161). Mina believes that this is just a product of her overactive imagination‚ but we the reader know that this is Dracula‚ and he came to visit her. Also‚ while Dracula is fleeing to his castle‚ he surrounds the boat that his box is traveling in with fog. Dr. Steward

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    “The Fog of War” documentary highlights the experiences of Robert McNamara as the U.S. Secretary of Defense during the presidencies of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B Johnson. The film covers McNamara’s involvement in World War 2‚ the Cuban Missile Crisis‚ and the Vietnam War with regards to his position and the lessons he’s learned after being put into the century’s most conflicting situations. McNamara implements these lessons into the historical wartime occurrences in the U.S. he’s able to witness

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    House M.D. is a medical drama and investigative series that centers on the job of Dr. Gregory House. He is a physician who works at Princeton-Plainsboro Hospital as the Director of Diagnostic medicine where he supervises a team of highly skilled doctors who take on medical cases that other doctors fail to solve. In season six‚ episode three of House M.D‚ House explores different ways of distracting himself after completing a rehab program. As an addict to Vicodin‚ he must cut all of his old habits

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    The Haunting Hill House is a novel written by Shirley Jackson. In this novel‚ Jackson writes about Hill House which was believed to be a haunted place in which Dr. John Montague with his invited guests‚ Eleanor Vance‚ Theodora and Luke Sanderson stay at for a while with the purpose of helping Dr. Montague to write his book. Jackson writes the novel in away Hill House is the physical manifestation of the mind and during Eleanor’s stay in Hill House‚ the house becomes a reflection of her own mind.

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    Night and Fog

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    I must say that this film is very traumatizing. There are some images in this film that will be burned and scarred into my mind for as long as I live. I have seen many holocaust films‚ but no one was as near as dramatic and depicting as Night and Fog. However I did like the theme of this movie. It is very sad but yet realistic. Our minds are murky and dull. We tend to only remember the important situation in our lives. Yet we don’t remember the importance of our own history. I say OUR history be

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    Bassam Theodory Political Science 116 05/13/2013 The Fog of War Any military commander was honest with himself will admit that he had made mistakes in the application of the military power. He had killed many people unnecessarily. But he hasn’t destroyed nations. As McNamara said “In this world‚ there will be no learning period with nuclear weapons‚ you make one mistake and you are going to destroy nations.” According to that‚ McNamara was trying to tell us that using nuclear

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    As humans‚ we are all expected of something‚ and we all deal with those expectations in our own ways. In The House on Mango Street‚ Sandra Cisneros shows the expectations of Esperanza Cordero and explains how she deals with the difficulties of living in poverty in 1984. One societal standard is the expectation that the oldest sibling is responsible for the younger siblings’. Being the oldest of the children in her family‚ Esperanza is responsible for her siblings. One morning Esperanza’s abuelito

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    The Fog Horn

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    In the short story "The Fog Horn" by Ray Bradbury the theme "loneliness can be taken for granted" is best shown through the actions of McDunn and the creature in the sea. McDunn describes living at the lighthouse as a "lonely life"‚ but it seems he doesn’t mind being alone. McDunn seems to find comfort in the loneliness of the empty sea and the "mysteries" of it. As well‚ he describes the sound of the fog horn as "a big lonely animal crying in the night". Later McDunn explains to Johnny how once

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