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    with hundreds of people that are as tiny as your finger. That’s what happened with the character Gulliver in this book. He is the main character in this book‚ a son of a middle-class family in Nottinghamshire‚ England and he’s also a doctor with two distinctive gifts. He’s very smart and he enjoys watching and learning from people’s manners and actions. He also likes traveling so in one of his travels he’s caught in a storm that sunk his boat and he ended up in

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    out soon. Life is like a battlefield but only it feels longer even though it may not be. You don’t only enjoy life but you can also dread it as a person‚ you go through so many different feelings and actions throughout your life. One of the poetic devices is style‚ it shows this

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    The 90’s decade was probably one of the best ten years of all times. This decade had a major impacted on society from technology to the toys‚ music‚ movies‚ and fashion trends. What makes the 90’s great is a service that we all use the majority of the time called the internet became available to the consumer. Without the internet‚ we could not surf the web‚ check Facebook or Instagram‚ better yet take online classes. Thanks to the creator‚ Tim Berners-Lee for paving the way for us to be able to use

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    Plot surprise and close calls is the most important literary device used in Three Skeleton Key‚ because the story would not go anywhere if it was all details and mood. Close calls is important because the reader will get anxiety and the feel relieved because it was a close call. In Three Skeleton Key‚ there is lots of close calls like this one. “At two in the morning‚ While Itchua was dozing in his room the sheet of metal burst and the rats swarmed on top of him.” He still survived. Or like this

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    Gulliver's Travels

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    COMMENT UPON GULLIVER’S TRAVELS AS A MULTI GENRE TEXT. (Shriya Shrimukham‚BA English hons. 2nd year) In 1726‚ the first edition of Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World {Gullivers Travels) was published to great fanfare‚ first in London and early the following year in Continental Europe. Upon publication‚ Lady Mary Wortley Montagu wrote‚ "Here is a book come out‚ that all our people of taste run mad about

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    the short story while alluding to the ending in a very subtle way. This device gives us an insight into the sensitivity of the minor characters emotions with a questioning insight on the main character. Foreshadowing is used in the beginning when Kate Chopin writes‚ “Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble‚ great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husbands death.” This device hints that such news could cause Mrs. Mallard to have a heart complication

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    Velocity and M/s

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    with a forward velocity of 60 m/s. The oscilloscope record of the deceleration is shown. Determine the approximate velocity of the particle at t = 9 s. [answer: -58 m/s] 2. A car can decelerate at 0.8 ‘g’ on a certain road. Find the total emergency stopping distance measured from the point where the driver first sights the danger for a speed of 100 km/hr. The time taken for the driver to identify the hazard‚ decide on a course of action‚ and apply the brakes is 0.75 s. [Answer: 70 m] 3. An underground

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    In "Mother to Son" by Langston Hughes‚ the literary device being used is dialect to communicate the mothers message on how life may be hard but you have to work through it. Dialect is a particular form of a language that is peculiar to a specific region or social group. Dialect is used to help the reader understand the characteristics of the speaker like the speakers education level. In this case‚ the dialect is from a black‚ working‚ uneducated mother. This poem is about a mother who grew up

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    Velocity and M/s

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    1. A car travels 40 kilometers at an average speed of 80 km/h and then travels 40 kilometers at an average speed of 40 km/h. The average speed of the car for this 80 km trip is: A) 40 km/h B) 45 km/h C) 48 km/h D) 53 km/h E) 80 km/h 30’+60’ = 90’=5400s=1.5h 40km+40km=80km vavg= 80000m/5400s=13.168724279835390946502057613169 m/s = 48 km/h 2. The coordinate of an object is given as a function of time by x = 7t – 3t2‚ where x is in meters and t is in seconds. Its average velocity

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    operational and strategic. For example‚ Nike Fuel enables customers to record their progress through the use of Nike Plus devices. These devices are designed to update customers on the latest Nike sports trends and insights‚ and allow them to communicate with Nike. Another CRM program implement by Nike is Nike + Connect apps. It is a free app developed by Nike that uploads customer’s Nike+ data from plus devices to their accounts. Nike also created a Nike+ running app that enables customers to share their

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