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    Response to Kate Chopin “The sort of an hour “ In “The Story of an Hour‚” Kate Chopin begins her short story from the terrifying experience in which the bearer of bad news weighs between outcomes of relaying bad news to the intended recipient – Mrs. Mallard. Louise Mallard is reported to be a highly vulnerable human being. This forces her sister Josephine to take great precaution in relaying the news of her husband’s death. In the true spirit of good winning against evil‚ Chopin‚ although a feminist

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    adjacency pairs

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    Adjacency Pairs Adjacency pairs Schegloff and Sacks (1973) define adjacency pairs according to the characteristics of being adjacent; produced by different speakers; ordered as a first part and a second part; typed‚ so that a particular first part requires a particular second (or range of second parts). Typical adjacency pairs include greeting-greeting (1)‚ question-answer (2)‚ offer-acceptance/rejection (3) patterns (Levinson‚ 1983: 303):. having produced a first part of some pair‚ the current

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    Spider Silk

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    Paragraph 3: 5/5 What are some possible human uses for spider silk? 5/5 How are humans influenced by spider silk when developing products or new inventions? 5/5 Are there other organisms that produce silk besides spiders? If so‚ describe the organisms. A spider’s silk is made up of a chain of amino acids. This means that it is a protein. There are two primary amino acids called glycine and alanine. Spider silk is very strong and is about five times strong than steel and twice as strong as

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    History of silk

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    History of silk Silk‚ one of the oldest fibers known to man‚ originated in China. The history of silk is both enchanting and illustrious. Following sections cover the various facets of silk history. [For general silk information‚ please visit the All About Silk section‚ which covers various related subjects‚ such as Advantages of Silk‚ Cleaning Silk‚ How Silk is Made‚ Silk Info Dictionary‚ and Interesting Facts about Silk.] The Legend The Silk Road A Well-Kept Secret Sericulture

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    A Pair of Tickets

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    "A Pair of Tickets" Amy Tan’s classic short story‚ "A Pair of Tickets"‚ is a coming of age story as the protagonist wakes up to her heritage when she travels to her native land‚ but it is also a story of internal racial tension. Not in the sense of one class looking down on another but of the internal racial tension that rages on inside Jing-mei as the battle between what she is by birth and what she is by nature tears her apart when she suddenly discovers her long lost sisters just a month after

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    of Cadbury Dairy Milk Silk its premium offering under the Cadbury Dairy Milk brand (CDM).  Smoother‚ creamier and chunkier the new CDM Silk chocolate has been formulated to provide superior ‘eat’ experience.  Developed specially for the Indian consumer‚ the new CDM Silk * New CDM Silk is creamier‚ smoother and tastier and melts in the mouth more easier than ever before * Its bigger‚ chunkier and curvier cubes pack more taste  and pleasure in every bite * CDM Silk is available in 3 variants

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    Spider Silks

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    Spider silk What is Spider silk? Spider silk is incredibly tough and it is stronger by weight than steel. Quantitatively‚ spider silk is five times stronger than steel of the same diameter.  It has been suggested that a Boeing 747 could be stopped in flight by a single pencil-width strand and spider silk is almost as strong as Kevlar‚ the toughest man-made polymer.  It is finer than the human hair and is able to keep its strength below -40°C.  Spider silk is also very elastic and capture

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    Silk Road

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    For centuries the Silk Road has served as a connector between empires‚ countries‚ and cities all over the world. The outposts and cities along the Silk Road became the melting pot of race‚ culture‚ and religion. Transculturations between countries were becoming more frequent throughout the world‚ while Normal citizens‚ travelers‚ explorers‚ and scholars of the Silk Road experienced it first hand. Scholars such as Pratt and Clifford theorized transculturation through documents of modern European

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    1450 C.E. the Silk Road’s interaction patterns changed with the Black Plague and the religious exchange between China and the West. However‚ the continuity was maintained with its main purpose of trading goods passed along its routes. Flea bites from rats would infect the Black Plague along merchants and consumers throughout Eurasia which caused a decline in the economy. During the Middle Ages ships would stop at various points such as Turkey‚ Lebanon‚ and Iraq that are along the Silk Road. People

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    Adjectives Pairs

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    Order of Adjectives & Comma Use with Paired Adjectives In English‚ it is common to use more than one adjective before a noun. For example‚ we can write "He’s a funny young boy‚" or "She’s a smart‚ energetic woman." When you use more than one adjective‚ you have to put them in the right order‚ according to type. It is correct to write‚ "I have a small red car"‚ but it is not correct to write‚ "I have a red small car". When you use two adjectives together‚ you sometimes use "and" between them and you

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