Date: August 13‚ 2007 To: Cheryl Nobles From: Iana Machinskaia Subject: A mechanism process description of a stapler Figure 1 Stapler Introduction A stapler is a portable "device which binds together sheets of paper by driving a thin metal staple through the sheets and folding over the ends to secure the paper". (Wikipedia) Most office staplers are 30 cm long‚ 9 cm wide and 18 cm tall. The stapler is made of rubber‚ plastic and metal. Main components of an office stapler include
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FIGURE IN ART CONTEMPORARY VS RENNEISANCE CULTURAL From historical Renaissance aspect‚ the nude figure in art has always been represented as innocent and pure‚ as well sensual and sexual. Therefore contrasting to the contemporary point of view‚ whereas the nude is often a mirror reflecting the darkest parts in society through dehumanization‚ distortion and repulsion. Religion in society was quite superstitious back in the 1400’s and the artists beliefs in God where very strong and faithful‚
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directed at our acts‚ which are negative for our planet and for each one of us. Comment: The image seems not real‚ “surreal”‚ and is just a simple figure of a man‚ that his face is distorted with fish like features. This warning almost unforgettable image is from the WWF to stop climate change‚ which is a very controversial topic. The only figure is seen shoulder up facing slightly to the left whit his head; it’s like a “hero” pose‚ where the light is illuminating more the face than the rest of
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Name ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ Dateــــــــــــــــــــــــــ Activity 1: Simile and Metaphor Decide whether the sentence contains a simile or a metaphor‚ and identify the two things being compared. Then change the simile into metaphor and vice versa: 1. The lake was a huge mirror in the moonlight. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. The dancer moved around the
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groundwater table upstream of the dam. It is built entirely under the ground (see figure 1). The sand storage dam is constructed above ground. Sand and soil particles transported during periods of high flow are allowed to deposit behind the dam‚ and water is stored in these soil deposits (see figure 2). The sand storage dam is constructed in layers to allow sand to be deposited and finer material be washed downstream (see figure 3). A sand storage dam A groundwater dam can also be a combination
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Cooperation and Implication Harditya Perdana 2008410082 A great part of our communicative behavior takes place between the explicitly expressed words: It happens implicitly. What we mean is hardly ever exhausted by what we explicitly say. Normally we don’t have any difficulties in grasping what the speaker is trying to communicate implicitly. How can we explain this fact? Paul Grice gave the following answer: We grasp the implicit meaning by assuming cooperation on the part of the speaker (especially
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some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak‚ yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound: I grant I never saw a goddess go‚ My mistress‚ when she walks‚ treads on the ground: And yet by heaven‚ I think my love as rare‚ As any she belied with false compare. ~William Shakespeare‚ Sonnet CXXX 2. Metaphor Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day By: William Shakespeare Shall I compare thee to a summer’s
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A Brief History of American Veterans Affairs By: D.J. Schaefer Plato once put it‚ “only the dead have seen the end of war” and veterans will follow where war is. After every war the fighting and killing switch is suddenly shut off for the soldiers accustomed to battle. The war is over‚ they either won or lost‚ and “home” is the only place left to march. They often return home to what is a changed country with changed people‚ who will either love them or hate them. They then try to adjust to
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The Future of Print Media After the proud reign of almost 560 years‚ print media is now facing its greatest challenge against modern technology for survival. Electronic media has lived for almost 50 years and now it seems confident enough to take over. But surely it has still a long way to go before it surpasses its predecessor. By print media we mostly understand newspapers‚ magazines‚ hard copies of books and written or printed documents. On the other hand electronic media provides information
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Implication of EMH EMH and Technical Analysis Technical analysis bases decisions on past results. EMH‚ however‚ believes past results cannot be used to outperform the market. As a result‚ EMH negates the use of technical analysis as a means to generate investment returns. With respect to fundamental analysis‚ the EMH also states that all publicly available information is reflected in security prices and as such‚ abnormal returns cannot be achievable through the use of this information. This
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