“Travelling is a sort of educations among the younger people”‚ said Bacon. Perhaps‚ he had a disappointing journey in his mind. For it gives more experience and enables to develop more courage. Hazlitt‚ in one of his essays‚ says that a journey becomes enjoyable if one hopes to get a good meal and a good rest after a tiring journey‚ and adds that traveling hopefully gives the maximum happiness perhaps he had no experience of a disappointing journey which is more instructive. It was a day of
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in pascals in the SI system)‚ or the difference in pressure at two points within a fluid column‚ due to the weight of the fluid; ρ is the fluid density (in kilograms per cubic meter in the SI system); g is acceleration due to gravity (normally using the sea level acceleration due to Earth’s gravity in metres per second squared); is the height of fluid above the point of measurement‚ or the difference in elevation between the two points within the fluid column (in metres in SI). The intuitive
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“If birds of a feather flock together‚ they don’t learn enough.” When asked to define this quote by Robert Half‚ many things come to my mind. Without analyzing the quote‚ the first thing I think of when I read it is a flock of dozens of birds in the sky. These birds are all flying together following one leader of the group. The leader of the group is making the decisions and all the other birds are in agreement with the leader and aren’t learning on their own. For example‚ a flock of geese that
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The past: The past is a poem about race‚ identity and the people who have been forgotten. The poem is written in 1970‚ the writer is named Oodgeroo Noonuccal. She is from the tribe Noonuccal. She talks about the past‚ she is very eager to tell the reader that the past is something that shouldn’t be forgotten. We are agreeing on her way of thinking. The past is a fact that we can’t just sweep under the carpet. The past is what makes the world and the individual what they are today. As she says: The
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In ‘Half Caste’ John Agard expresses his strong feelings about being treated differently for being mixed race as he has a Caribbean father and a Portuguese mother. He makes fun of the term ‘half caste’ by using the idea of him being half a person. Agard uses repetition of the phrase “Wha yu mean‚ when yu say half-caste” and “Explain yuself”. He is asking the audience as he thinks the term ‘half-caste’ does not make sense and he is emphesising his anger. He wants the audience to feel guilty and
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Could the United States have become half-slave and half-free and not fought the Civil War...Why or Why not? The United States could not have been half-slave and half-free without fighting the Civil War. I say this because the North and South had quite a bit of things going on between the two. It is too much of a contradiction to be half-slave and half-free. In a perfect world‚ this might have worked‚ but in the real world‚ it has to be one or the other. During the development of the thirteen colonies
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In Half of a Yellow Sun‚ Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie writes about the Biafran War‚ or Nigerian Civil War. Adichie recounts this through the lenses of the Igbo people trying to secede to create their own state of Biafra. Adichie wrote this with a political purpose‚ one of the four motives of writing listed by George Orwell. Adichie writes against the Nigerians and in support of the Biafrans in this novel. She does this by voicing her political thoughts through Odenigbo and through the term “half of a
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Did you know that half marathons are the second most popular race to run in the United States? Who would figure that? Have you ever watched a half marathon and looked at runners as they run by? In all half marathons you will meet three runners‚ the one who is taking the race seriously‚ the one who just wants to have fun‚ and the one who is trying to survive the thirteen point one miles. When you are standing on the starting line‚ it is not hard to spot the guy or the girl who is taking the race
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Born Yesterday | Point | Example | Effect | F | 2 stanzas of irregular length * First stanza talks about positive wishes made by the rest of society which are wished for every child * Second stanza echoes the structure of a sonnet (14 lines long and ends with a rhyming couplet) | In the first stanza‚ the poet talks about wishes of ‘being beautiful’ and ‘of innocence and love’ made by the rest of society‚ whilst the second stanza he wishes for her to be ‘ordinary’ and ‘dull’. | By presenting
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Usages of Barcelona (1076) Catalan “bill of rights * First citizens “charter” in Europe * All “burhers” or citizens (not Serfs) on equal legal footing with feudal nobility * Disputes sorted by negotiation‚ not decided by a higher (feudal) authority. * Rise of the Bourgeoisie * From French Burgeis – ‘of a walled town’ * Artisans‚ traders * Outside Feudal system * Rival Crown and Church for power in Barcelona * Organized into trade associations – guilds
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