Technical Warfare: Discuss the impact that the Industrial Revolution had on the course of World War 1. How did the use of new technologies during World War 1 influence the war? Which sides benefited the most from the technologies? Which technologies were the most important? Technology during World War One reflected the trend toward industrialism and the application of mass production methods to weapons and to the technology of warfare in general. “The Industrial Revolution gave armies and complex
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California Coastal Experience I am sure it happened as easily as this: We were sitting around the garage shooting the bull during a cold winter snap. Thoughts turned to motorcycle rides and things spring and summer. For once‚ it wasn’t me. Mrs. K was the one to mention going to California. We hadn’t taken a trip the summer before‚ and she said‚ “We ought to ride to California and take the PCH along the coast.” Probably‚ no one jumped up and started packing‚ but several certainly starting
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had on woman. This completely caught me off-guard but showed me how lost she was because for a woman who already lives in a big house to buy a smaller house to live in made no sense! She buy’s the pigeon house to try and experience freedom for herself‚ “The pigeon house pleased her… (Chopin 117). The pigeon house symbolizes how Edna could finally make decisions for herself. Mr. Pontellier does everything in his power to make sure society doesn’t view his family and himself negatively. He lies and covers
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Allusion and Allegory in “She Unnames Them” Ursula Le Guin’s short story “She Unnames Them” takes place in the time of Adam and Eve. God had given Adam the task of naming every animal on the earth‚ but in Le Guin’s story‚ Eve feels separated from the animals. She feels that the names of the animals do not fit them and that by giving them names‚ they are attempting to label the essences of the animals. She begins to go around unnaming the animals‚ and in doing so‚ she begins to feel the wall
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Childhood Experience I was born when we were still living in our old ghetto neighborhood. Our house was one of the worst house I have ever seen. The front lawn was never green; only yellow grass and patches of dried up dirt. Our house gutter had big holes where bee’s‚ cats‚ and birds lived in there. Cats were having babies in our roof. We could hear the little kitties cry at night in the living room. Birds were making nest in the corner of our roof. We could hear their babies chirp at night in
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it were perfectly toned; touching everyone that crosses her path of wind. Roethke compares Jane to a wren‚ a sparrow‚ a pigeon—all birds which draw forth an emotion. Birds naturally symbolize peace‚ freedom‚ and love. The wren represents joyful times‚ the high moments in Jane’s life; the sparrow however usually represents those who feel they are not worth anything; and pigeons I personally think are trite birds. “Elegy for Jane” is not the only elegy which incorporates nature into its meaningful
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Behavioral economics Behavioral economics Behavioral economics and the related field‚ behavioral finance‚ study the effects of social‚ cognitive‚ and emotional factors on the economic decisions of individuals and institutions and the consequences for market prices‚ returns‚ and the resource allocation. The fields are primarily concerned with the bounds of rationality of economic agents. Behavioral models typically integrate insights from psychology with neo-classical economic theory. In so
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the book. Something that people realize in the book is that Kak the main character is scared of being shot at and thinks that he is the only one even though that’s not true this is shown in many places such as on page 144 when he is talking to the pigeon that his team was assigned and said that he doesn’t want to fly anymore “I told him over and over that I didn’t want to fly” and then a little bit later on page 146 he was in London and London got bombed by the germans and he felt bad being a bomber
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gestures. The narrator would have opened the door of the cage unless she was not forbidden by her mother. There were cats in her room. She could find only a few trees in the Mosque. So she did not think to lose the birds there. There were a hundred pigeons and some peacocks living in those trees in the courtyard of the Mosque. Then she thought of the orchard on the outskirts of the town with its many fruit trees and the whole orchard was being looked after by the gardener Ramai. He used to frighten
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Two poems about city life by Liz Lochead Liz Lochead has written two poems about city life‚ one being Laundrette which is set in an area of Bristol which is full of bedsits‚ meant for students just renting. The other poem is George Square which is set in the business district in Glasgow. As the first poem mentioned‚ Laundrette has a subtle start as it says ‘We sit nebulous in steam’ (nebulous meaning hazy or vague). You could almost have a debate on all the possible places that you ‘sit nebulous
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