AP Literature Poetry Essay Prompts (1970–2011) 1970 Poem: “Elegy for Jane” (Theodore Roethke) Prompt: Write an essay in which you describe the speaker’s attitude toward his former student‚ Jane. 1971 Poem: “The Unknown Citizen” (W.H. Auden) Prompt: In a brief essay‚ identify at least two of the implications implicit in the society reflected in the poem. Support your statements by specific references to the poem. 1972 NO POEM 1973 (exam not available) 1974 Poem: “I wonder whether one expects
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accomplishing things‚ that doesn’t necessarily mean that your life is the same way. Another literary element used in the poem is the motif. Two recurring motifs are inertia and the empty dance shoes. Inertia is the tendency to do nothing‚ and in this poem‚ it represents laziness or obstacles in life. In this poem‚ the obstacles are the inertia‚ the sandbag‚ the book‚ the water‚ and a bully. The empty dance shoes represent a life void of fun and happiness‚ and it is the main subject of the poem. At
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Murellus believe that “these growing feathers plucked from Caesar’s wings will make him fly an ordinary pitch.” Although their effort fails‚ the statement likens Caesar to Icarus‚ an important figure in Greek mythology. Icarus and his father Daedalus‚ trapped on the island of Crete‚ build feathered wings and try to escape. But Icarus‚ proud at what he has accomplished‚ soars too close to the sun‚ melts his wings‚ and drowns in the ocean. Shakespeare uses this classical allusion to hint to the reader
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Minela Sljoka Notes on Physics Inertia- tendency of an object to maintain motion. Property of matter. Not newton’s first law. Matter wants to maintain motion- moving objects want to stay in motion if stopped wants to stay stopped. Mass is measure of inertia. Things have mass because they have inertia. Units: kg Symbol m in equation. Inertia is most constantly called rest mass but we call it mass because we are dealing with speeds not going to speed of light. Kinetic Energy- v^2 is proportional
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the remainder of the ride. Inertia keeps the object in motion. The other forces bring the roller coaster to a stop by friction. Since roll coasters don’t have motors they need to be pulled up by a chain up the first big hill. No engine is required because of inertia. The roller coaster won’t last forever. Two of the significant energies are friction
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adaptationist theories‚ argues that change is possible because the environment is not something immutable and managers can be active agents of it. The other‚ supported by the population ecology theory argues that change is impossible because of structural inertia that faces all organizations. In this paper we review each of these approaches and discuss the implications of the theory of population ecology in the light of adaptationist theories. KEY WORDS: Population Ecology; Theories Adaptation; Radical
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Frida Kahlo (1907-54)‚ whose body and biography were her chief subjects‚ mythologized them into a revealing life epic. Her paintings tell stories-intimate‚ engaging‚ terrifying‚ and tragic ones. When she abandoned hope in her daily life‚ Kahlo embedded her despair within paintings‚ which‚ by virtue of their very existence‚ act as the artist’s envoys in search of salvation‚ or something like it. At times archaizing and romantic‚ at times brutally immediate‚ Kahlo’s subjects impose stasis on history
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physical stress was evaluated with myoelectricity‚ the musculoskeletal moment of the operator and the operator’s feelings during the experimental motion. As a result‚ we found that the physical stress tended to decline with the decrease of virtual inertia and virtual Coulomb friction‚ and to increase slightly with the decrease of virtual gravitational moment. The decrease of virtual viscous friction made the physical stress increase gradually after it declined to a trough during the positive virtual
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the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force. An object at rest tends to stay at rest unless acted on by an unbalanced force‚ is also known as “the law of inertia.” Galileo Galilei developed the concept of inertia years before Isaac Newton was born. “The law of inertia” states that every moving object possesses inertia which keeps it moving unless an external force acts upon it. Basically this law means that all objects naturally want to stay in motion. Objects avoid change in their
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Beam deflection experiment done by four parts. Part 1 -Simple Supported Bean‚ part 2-Cantilever Beam‚ part 3-The Principle of Superposition‚ and Part 4-Maxwell’s Reciprocity Theorem. For part 1 and 2 beam dimensions were recorded and are moment of inertia (I) was calculated using the following formula I=bh3/12.for part1‚ maximum permissible loads for mid-span and quarter-span were calculated. For part 2 maximum permissible loads for mid-span and end of the cantilever beam were calculated. For both
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