What is EEW? The Earthquake Early warning (EEW) will give advanced warning to those who will experience a tsunami. All earthquakes produce a series of different types of shock waves‚ which travel at different speeds and carry different amounts of energy. The fastest shock waves‚ and the first to arrive‚ are called P waves. These travel about twice as fast as the next fastest shock waves and rarely cause any damage. The next shock waves to arrive are called Shear waves (or S waves)‚ followed by
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1. Santiago is an older fisherman‚ also referred to the old man. He is the main character in this book. 2. Manolin is young boy who has learned how to fish from Santiago. They became great friends and fished together until Santiago didn’t catch anything for a number of days. Manolin still helps the old man out with carrying stuff for him and looking out for him. 3. Martin is the owner of the Terrence. He has sent food to both Santiago and Manolin on more than one occasion. Pg20 4. The boy’s parents
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A Lesson Before Dying takes place in Louisiana. Throughout the novel‚ a young girl‚ known as Vivian is the most stable and influential character in A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines. Even though she is still “married”‚ she and Grant have been able to maintain a romance. Although she is not a main character‚ Vivian plays a vital role in A Lesson Before Dying; she acts as Grant’s conscience and she differs drastically from Tante Lou and Miss Emma. Vivian plays a vital role in A Lesson Before Dying
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The point of view in terms of the narrator in this story is always third person. But‚ the point of view in terms of perspective shifts to the correspondent and‚ less frequently‚ to the other men. The narration only becomes first person (using "I") when the third person narrator supposes what the men might be thinking: as illustrated in that last block quote. We get the feeling that these are really just the correspondent’s thoughts‚ but he’s confident the other men feel the same way he does…but even
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Hemingway establishes first-person authority in a variety of ways: Harry assumes that readers share an intelligence or worldliness with him‚ and addresses us directly with ‘you’ more than once. Seemingly unintended flattery creates authorial acceptance. Harry also establishes authority by easy display of his knowledge about the water and fishing-- and in contrast to other characters‚ like Johnson‚ the client who assumes intelligence clearly unearned‚ ‘the fish would’ve gotten away anyway’. The same
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One of the popular themes found in Vertigo is death‚ which entwines with the illusion of romance. Vertigo places its emphasis on the psychological level that twists the angle of Scottie’s fear of death; also his obsession to focus all is energy in search of his decease lover. This theme identifies Madeleine to be the perfect illusion of the world’s misconception of romance to which Scottie is tragically attracted. Thus his restlessness caused him to be manipulated by himself and others‚ in the dream
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The literal meaning of ‘The Interrogators’ conveys an isolated area‚ as a result of war. The plurality of the title leads to the interpretation of the narrator as one of the interrogators‚ this is further supported by the nature of the narrative style; the narrator is removed from the passage‚ thus imposing a passive voice in the passage‚ this renders more sympathy for the foresters and deems the narrator as unemotional‚ as an interrogator should be. The consistent use of pathetic fallacy throughout
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A Critical Review of Ali Eteraz’s Children of Dust: A Portrait of a Muslim as a Young Man Kelius Hardy World Religions: East and West REL-223-15WE October 12‚ 2014 Professor Patricia Spacek A Critical Review of Ali Eteraz’s Children of Dust: A Portrait of a Muslim as a Young Man In Children of Dust‚ Ali Eteraz expresses his life story from the circumstances behind his conception‚ through his early school years‚ troubling teenage years‚ and finally reaching a level of self-fulfillment or finding self
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An Analysis of Ernest Hemingway’s "Cat in The Rain" In his frictional story‚ “Cat in the Rain‚” Ernest Hemingway sets the scene for his fiction in a hotel room in Italy on a rainy day. On the first reading of this short story it can be easily interpreted as a wife nagging her husband‚ who is lying in bed preoccupied reading a book. The young married American’s being in a foreign country on business or pleasure‚ (Hemingway does not say) one would expect that the expression of love would be more
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Amanda Pridmore English 2a Myers May 11‚ 2015 What made The Importance of Being Earnest funny? In Oscar Wilde’s play‚ The Importance of Being Earnest‚ there was a lot of comedic portrayal seen through the foolishness of its characters. Wilde’s vast usage of vocabulary‚ characters‚ breathtaking humor and foolishness made this play very amusing. The majority of the time‚ it was difficult to tell whether the character was of sincerity‚ or just joking‚ which left the audience either confused of laughing
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