making non-text selections such as menu choices on the till of a fast food outlet. The keyboard is also waterproof which can be useful where there is dirt or the risk of splashes. 5. Explain why a mouse often called a pointing device A mouse is often called a pointing device because it enables you to control what happens on the screen by moving the mouse on your desk and pointing‚ clicking and selecting items on the screen. 6. Describe the difference between a mouse and a tracker ball? The difference
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allusions and different varieties of poetic elements are used to depict how a helpless young woman becomes violently reduced into being a sexual object instead of just being a customary girl. The author‚ William Butler Yeats‚ does not just use allusions in his poem to illustrate what Leda had to go through he also had used other types elements of poetry such as tone‚ mood‚ and rhyming‚ structure and irony‚ and imagery. An allusion is a kind of poetic device where the poet mentions or refers to
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Rebecca Jones Ms. Garvin English Comp. II MWF 12-12:50 6 November 2012 Literary Devices There are many different literary devices found in the book Night written by Elie Wiesel that deal with his personal experience with the faith he had to keep and then lost during the Holocaust. In Night‚ Elie Wiesel uses tone‚ irony‚ and characterization to illustrate his faith throughout the Holocaust. In the book Night‚ Wiesel uses tone to explain the many sufferings that the Jews were required to face
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primary importance of the bar/bat mitzvah ritual in Judaism is to formally initiate young Jews to membership in God’s covenant. While we tend to think of a “bar mitzvah” as an event or celebration‚ this is incorrect. The term means “son of the commandment‚” and is actually applied to the initiate himself (or herself‚ in the case of a bat mitzvah: “daughter of the commandment”). Thus‚ anyone who has gone through the bar/bat mitzvah ritual carries the title of bar or bat mitzvah. The purpose of the ritual
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Management Journal created (o encourage dialogue and exchange of ideas among leading management scholars in North America and Europe. Crosstalk spans the two journals‚ and the content oi each journal complements‚ rather than duplicates‚ that of the other. In this Crosstalk‚ Henry Mintzberg from Canada and Constantinos Markides from England discuss their work in strategy and management‚ including their current thinking on major ideas that have shaped these fields and emerging concepts. An interview
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Vampire bats have been making an appearance in Panama‚ attacking innocent cattle. Many of the cattle have red markings and scars from the almost nightly bloodlettings. But‚ some unlucky few bats have been caught and a poison called Vampirin applied to their backs when they would be groomed at the nest‚ the birds who had groomed them would take in the poison and die from it. I am on the side of not killing these bats because they could hold the answer to a big problem and their anti-coagulant has
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1947) is the son of Erling Persson who founded the Swedish fashion company Hennes & Mauritz (H&M). Persson was born the same year‚ 1947‚ as H&M. His father‚ Erling‚ was the son of a butcher in Västerås‚ an hour or so outside of Stockholm. Stefan Persson chairs the hugely successful clothing retailer Hennes & Mauritz AB‚ a company founded by his father in Sweden in 1947. Known informally as "H&M‚" the international chain of nearly 900 stores has mastered the art of delivering cheap
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Pslam 19 is a hymn with a focus on God’s creation and His revelation to the world through scripture. Through this psalm we are able to see how God has chosen to reveal Himself to the world. He chose to reveal Himself through creation and through His Scriptures. This Psalm also defines characteristics of God through how He describes His Word and Creation. The psalm scientifically provides insight as it describes the heavens and the action of the sun. As insightful as the psalm is‚ it’s important
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Rhetorical Devices Style is part of classical rhetoric and a number of rhetorical devices are worth considering in any analysis of style. For the analysis of literature a knowledge of rhetorical devices is indispensable‚ since there is often a considerable density of rhetorical figures and tropes which are important generators and qualifiers of meaning and effect. This is particularly the case in poetry. Especially the analysis of the use of imagery is important for any kind of literary text. (For
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In his letter to Thomas Jefferson‚ Benjamin Banneker uses rhetorical devices to reinforce his argument against the cruelties of slavery. Being a man of color‚ Banneker did not possess the social status deemed worthy of communication with a fine man such as Jefferson. Nevertheless‚ Banneker was an intelligent man and used his knowledge to point out the contradictory characteristics between slavery and American values. Banneker uses repetition throughout his letter. Periodically‚ he refers to Jefferson
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