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    Long Flashover Arresters

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    Long Flashover Arresters 1 What I’ll be presenting…      Introduction to lightning and lightning arresters What are Long Flashover Arresters? Why do we need them? How do they work? What are their types? 2 What is a lightning stroke?  It is an electric discharge between ◦ Cloud and earth ◦ Cloud and cloud ◦ Charge centers of the same cloud 3 Lightning stroke waveform 4 Types of lightning strokes   Direct Stroke Indirect Stroke 5 What does lightning

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    Scarlet Letter

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    In this book all the good stuff goes down in the woods. Nature is almost like a character in the world of The Scarlet Letter. It is often personified as listening‚ commenting on‚ and interacting with other characters. The society itself (Puritan Boston society) is like an island surrounded by nature. The town is bordered on one side by a huge expanse of woods‚ home to Native Americans (the Wampanoag tribes). On the other side lies the big blue Atlantic Ocean. From the beginning of this story‚ our

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    A Very Long Engagement

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    What does it take to be hopeful? Hope is an everyday human experience that is so ruthlessly clichéd. Such word has been sorely worn out that‚ to a mere mortal like me‚ arriving at its essence is such a hopeless plight. I take Marion’s explanation of how hope is distinctive from mere calculation of possibility‚ expectation‚ optimism‚ vitality and stoicism then later attempt to understand how hope can lead to transfiguration. According to Marion‚ hope is always directed towards the future‚ making

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    Long-Lived Assets

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    Long-Lived Assets Long-term assets are defined as resources with economic lives of more than a year that a business possesses and uses in generating revenue. The cost of long-term assets is recognized as an expense in the accounting periods in which the assets are used. The cost of all Long-Lived Assets that decline in value will through use and/or the passage of time will have their cost allocated to the periods that receive benefit. So‚ if a piece of machinery is expected to have an economic

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    Huey Long‚ nicknamed the “Kingfish”‚ was a politician from Louisiana who had an interesting and tumultuous political career that culminated in his assassination attempt on September 8‚ 1935 and subsequent death two days later on September 10th. The book The Huey Long Murder Case by Hermann Deutsch provides a good description of the events surrounding his assassination before‚ during‚ and after. Deutsch explains Long’s political career‚ his views‚ and his popularity with the people of Louisiana and

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    The Scarlet Letter

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    Scarlet Letter—by Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Response Questions: Respond to the following questions in 100-150 words each. Limit your answers‚ but do use text support where necessary. You may type on this document‚ save it as your own‚ and upload it with answers to turnitin.com. Use an appropriate MLA heading in the upper right. Do this by inserting a header. Use MLA parenthetical citation for all quotes. 1. Which character of The Scarlet Letter is innocent? In The Scarlet Letter‚ Pearl is

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    Long Run Equilibrium

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    Long Run Equilibrium (A) Firm and Industry: A competitive market is made up of a large number of firms with complete freedom of entry. Such firms together are called competitive industry. An industry can be defined as a group of firms producing homogeneous products with freedom of entry and exit and which earn only normal profits. Hence the concept of an industry is applicable only under competitive conditions. There is no fixed size of an industry though the analytical stability of an industry

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    A cover letter

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    Cover Letters University of Wisconsin – River Falls Career Services – 24 East Hathorn Hall (715) 425-3572 www.uwrf.edu/ccs There are five types of cover letters used during the job search process: application letters (serve as an introduction to your resume)‚ prospecting letters (an inquiry about possible vacancies or a request for an informational interview)‚ thank you letters (a follow-up to an interview)‚ acceptance letters (to accept a job offer)‚ or rejection letters (used to thank

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    God's Long Summer

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    God’s Long Summer The novel Siddhartha and God’s Long Summer both show commonalities of religion as being an important part in the main characters of both books. In God’s Long Summer‚ each of the main individual characters in the first four chapters like the character Siddhartha‚ all were consistent with the statement‚ “What we believe matters.” All of the characters from both books used religion for giving them the strength to speak their minds‚ move on in their lives‚ and fight for what they

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    The Scarlet Letter

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    there are many ways to indirectly convey or foreshadow events‚ settings‚ and situations. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter uses a great deal of literary devices and techniques in order to effectively lead the reader towards his viewpoint and‚ finally‚ towards his purpose. The sin of adultery‚ which acts as the base and impetus for much of the plot in The Scarlet Letter‚ affects Hester Prynne‚ Arthur Dimmesdale‚ and Roger Chillingworth the most; however‚ each of the preceding is affected differently

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