Aircel put up an inflated raft at Milan Subway in Mumbai‚ which sees a lot of flooding every year. The message simply said‚ "In case of emergency‚ cut rope". The raft came in handy on July 13 and 14‚ when heavy rains lashed the city. People stranded at the subway used the raft to move around and men in Aircel branded T-shirts were also available to help commuters. The idea was appreciated so much that Aircel will now take it to Delhi and Kolkata as well. The raft idea was conceptualised and
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life‚ was when he crashed in the ocean and had to spend many weeks on a small raft‚ with 3 people in it. In the book Unbroken‚ the author states that even know Louie got through the POW camp with the bird beating on him constantly‚ He still has nightmares about the bird‚ and can’t get him out of his head. With so much stress on him‚ he starts drinking alcohol to try to forget about the bird. While Louie was on the raft‚ he was extremely resourceful because he didn’t know how long
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El Dorado was the name of a tribal chief of the Musica tribe. As an initiation rite‚ he covered himself in gold dust and dove into the Guatavita Lake. As the story got recounted and told from place to place‚ details got mixed up. This proved to be a huge problem when El Dorado‚ the tribal chief of the Musica tribe‚ became the legendary lost "City of Gold." Since it was called the city of gold‚ it was something so spectacular that everyone wanted a part of it‚ mainly for power. Because everyone imagined
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Dante and his Mentor‚ Virgil Dante’s Inferno is the story of a middle-aged man’s journey through the varying circles of Hell where he encounters numerous people including previous popes‚ famous philosophers‚ and former acquaintances receiving the appropriate punishment for their respective crimes. In literature‚ it is common for a hero to undergo a journey‚ whether it is emotional‚ physical‚ or spiritual‚ where his or her battlement of substantial obstacles results in a significant change in persona
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away. He wanted to be honorable and courageous and not take the easy way out and instead he walked all the way to Athens. Perseus is categorized as a great hero of Greece because he was honorable and courageous during his quest to find and slay Medusa to save his mother from being forced to marry the evil King Polydectes. During his quest‚ Perseus was courageous when he went into Medusa’s lair knowing what could’ve become of him. But yet‚ Perseus still proceeded to walk into her lair and use the
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CHAPTER NO-5 KINGDOM ANIMALIA Phylum Porifera (GK: Porous = Pores + Ferro = form) Main characters: 1. They are commonly called as sponges. 2. They are sessile animals. 3. Sponges range in height from about 1cm to 2cm. 4. More than 5000 species of sponges are found. 5. All are marine‚ while some are fresh water. 6. The central body cavity is called spongocoel. 7. A single large opening is called as osculum. 8. They are filter feeders. 9. Body lining is formed by flagellated cells
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I saw the rip current open up a few times that day‚ but by the time it rolled around noon‚ it was pulling more because the water was going out for low tide. When I saw the raft‚ I never really put two and two together until the raft got in the rip current. Two kids and their dad were rapidly moving out to sea. I reacted just like we were taught in class; dropping my flag and calling in on the radio. I leaped from my tower to the sand‚ grabbed my buoy
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Cadmus she is the daughter of Ino who was once human “Now do as I say- you’re in no position to refuse: Take off those clothes and abandon your raft to the winds will” (5.345-355). Odysseus was really courages to listen to Cadmus and to trust her word that he will not be drowned by abandoning his raft. He also went up against Poseidon and got into the raft and tried to get home. Another example of Odysseus’s determination is when his good friend Menelaus told a story of how Odysseus did something
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defense. ("Marine Life Profile: Sea Anemones”) The two basic body forms among the cnidarians are the polyp‚ which looks flower-like‚ and lives attached to the seafloor; and the medusa (jellyfish)‚ which is umbrella-shaped and floats in the water. In some cnidarians‚ the life cycle includes both the polyp form and the medusa form. Although less conspicuous there are more sea animals that are found on the oceans floor. Great gardens of beautiful creatures‚ sea anemones alone are comprised of a large
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Freedom In Mark Twain’s novel‚ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn‚ Twain expresses his messages about many different topics. One of those in particular includes freedom. Freedom has a different perspective for each individual character in the novel. To Jim‚ freedom means an escape from slavery and to Huck freedom means a chance to escape from his civilized world. Their desire for freedom has one main focus which is happiness. We are able to read about all the different ways freedom has taken
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