Blockade Runners. A blockade runner is usually a lighter-weight ship used for evading a naval port. Often blockade running is done in order to transport cargo‚ for example to bring food or arms to blockade a city. Other times blockade runners would carry mail in an attempt to communicate with the outside world. The blockade runners during the American civil war were seagoing steam ships that were used to make it through the union blockade that extended some 3‚500 miles along the Atlantic and Gulf
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Margaret Visser writes about fasting in her short story “Running on Empty”. Visser effectively presents her writing style as expository and her thought process as deductive with denotative diction through the use of objective writing only to persuade the reader to her way of thinking. Visser’s writing is in fact persuasive‚ connotative and inductive. After a careful analysis of the story‚ one must conclude that Visser intentionally attempts to convince her audience that fasting is wrong by appealing
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Far and Away successfully conveyed American society for immigrants in the 1890s by including realistic push and pull factors‚ the lure of advertisements‚ the diversity in immigrants‚ ethnic neighborhoods‚ and differences between the aristocrats and the poor. In Far and Away‚ Joseph Connelly faced poverty and inadequacy in land. When his father died‚ the audience learned that he and his brothers were left with all of their father’s debt. Because the rent wasn’t paid‚ the house was burned down‚ leaving
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Our Water is Running Out Boston Globe - January 6‚ 2002 By Jeffrey Rothfeder For those of us who can turn on the faucet confident that there will be steady stream of clean water for bathing‚ drinking‚ cooking‚ washing dishes‚ the thought that the world could go dry seems incomprehensible. But the reality we face is sobering: water -- nature’s most essential element -- is becoming dangerously scarce. A freshwater crisis has already begun
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world. The director Miyazaki Hayao‚ cooperating with Japanese soundtrack master Joe Hisaishi‚ successfully links his “fairy tale” to the real world life in our modern society via a combination of music and the scene in the film. The music in Spirited Away significantly provides the audience with the inner world of the characters and the feelings of how the characters perceive their surroundings. The music in the scene “The Sixth Station” expresses a strong spiritual longing for home and love‚ which
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Literary Analysis Composition/ Put your laptops away In the Article “Attention Students:Put Your Laptops Away”‚ The author uses rhetorical strategies such as allusion and rhetorical question to portray his motivation‚ which is to inform students that writing your notes out helps retain the information better. Later in the article NPR uses a rhetorical question to illustrate how even though we are rapidly advancing in technology we might need to stick to the basics. As the author finishes up his
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Creating Other Worlds in Fly Away Peter In the novel Fly Away Peter‚ David Malouf explores the individual’s ability to transcend the immediate‚ and create ‘other worlds’ of his or her own: "Meanwhile the Mind‚ from pleasure less‚ Withdraws into happiness: ...it creates‚... Far other worlds..." Malouf uses the continuity of life to highlight the importance of the individual’s mind set against the meaning of human existence. Malouf’s three main characters‚ Jim Saddler‚ Ashley Crowther
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Running head: A FAMILY CELEBRATION A Family Celebration Tamica Ellis AIU Abstract A family celebration is a time for family to get together on any occasion‚ whether it is a birthday‚ wedding‚ graduation ceremony‚ holiday or a family gathering. A celebration is a time to celebrate and have fun. A celebration is a memory you can’t forget‚ because it means a lot to you. It’s the type of memory; you can pass down from generation to generation. For example‚ a family reunion is a great celebration
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Inhaling Western Peace In “Running Xian” (168)‚ Calderazzo utilizes literary realism to illustrate culture clash as related to the poor air quality in China (theguardian.com‚ 2008). The opening line of text‚ “China in my mouth‚ in my lungs” immediately forms the city’s air into a tangible object invading the writer’s body (Calderazzo‚ 1984). The polluted air is defined as the country of China itself. Calderazzo channels Henry James to describe everyday scenes without emphasizing contributors
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for my achilles. These superfluous attempts at eliminating pain only created more problems. Could these very things - cushioned‚ bulky shoes - designed to maximize running performance be hampering our running and causing excessive injuries? Many runners‚ professional and ametuer‚ have arrived at this conclusion and have begun running barefoot. Many believe that clunky‚ padded shoes make runners strike on the heel‚ which sends a massive shockwave of force up the leg and is absorbed by the knee and
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