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    that he wanted to get out of but‚ he was a man and came of age and grew up raising his daughter Feather. A basketball can maul people but in The First Part Last it represents Bobby’s childhood and how he is letting go of it. Bobby was getting ready to go play basketball with his friends when he realizes “I forgot Feather‚ and let her all alone..”(pg.23) Bobby found out that staying with Feather is more important. “I laid my basketball down and it rolled out the door into the hall.”(pg.23) Having

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    People of all ages and cultures respond to humour. Riddles and jokes have been told for centuries to make light of situations and to make people laugh. Humour is the tendency of particular experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement. People are able to be amused‚ laugh‚ or smile at something funny‚ and therefore they are considered to have a sense of humour. To find something humourous depends on the person and their taste in humour and there are many instances when humour does not result

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    Love in the Time of Cholera In the novel‚ Love in the Time of Cholera written by Gabriel García Márquez‚ there are many symbols to represent‚ literally‚ love in the time of cholera. These symbols are flowers‚ birds‚ and rain. Márquez uses these similar terms to describe the effects of love and cholera throughout the novel by using all of those symbols ultimately represent or foreshadow anguish and unfortunate disasters that Cholera can bring. Cholera was a contagious disease affecting most of the

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    saves feather from a crime scene. When frank saves the person he risks his life. Sadly Frank doesn’t make it through‚ but he had a good heart. Frank represents good hearted people that save or help others which are called heroes. Frank is the good of the story and it teaches you not to judge people by their’e looks or actions because they have good in the inside. In conclusion Bobby needs to go through problems and tasks in life that make it hard for him like taking care of feather and

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    Bob Fosse is a choreographer‚ dancer and director best known for Tony Award-winning musicals including Chicago and Cabaret. Bob Fosse was born in Chicago‚ Illinois‚ on June 23‚ 1927. A trained dancer‚ Fosse achieved success as a choreographer and director of stage and screen musicals. Fosse took an early interest in dance‚ displaying unusual skill. His parents supported his interest‚ enrolling him in formal dance training. By his early teens‚ Fosse was dancing professionally in local nightclubs.

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    and in reverse‚ and to provide smooth thrust transients in response to PLA movement. This system also limits the minimum blade angle obtainable in flight. In addition‚ the system provides the ability to feather the propeller on demand‚ minimize cabin noise in synchrophase mode and automatically feather the propeller in the event of an engine failure‚ when the autofeather system is selected. 2. Propeller Electronic Control (PEC) Unit The Propeller Electronic Control (PEC) (Figure 12.22-4) is a dual channel

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    superstitiously believed to be a means of driving away evil. The accompanying traditional songs‚ dances‚ and games were supplications to the gods to give water to the dry earth. People would present roses to each other and loving couples would set pigeons free. If the pigeon flew over the young girls roof three times then it was an omen that the man would marry the girl in the

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    work in the painting so that things can be depicted to the human eye correctly. This piece might have looked like bird feathers but it used many different techniques to give me a bigger underlying meaning behind a such complex painting. This piece

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    The outer tail-feathers of male Anna’s Hummingbird vibrate during display- dives and produce a loud chirp. When courting‚ the male ascends about 60feet before diving over an interested female at high speed (35 to 60mph) and producing a high-pitched sound. Experiments showed that the birds could not make the sound when missing their outer tail-feathers‚ and that those same feathers could produce the dive-sound in a wind tunnel. The bird can sing at the same frequency as the tail-feather chirp‚ but its

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    other in terms of similarities and congruence. One point with which to note‚ is the way they describe the flock of birds. Passage one depicts them as an unending stream of Pigeons flowing from everywhere he look and went‚ while Passage Two did as well. This point being abundantly clear with descriptions such as a "torrent" of Pigeons or a "oriflamme" or birds to both Passage One and Passage Two‚ respectively. Along with this‚ we can see the way in which they both describe the movements and the fluttering

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