Wood types differ considerably in properties such as color‚ density‚ and hardness‚ making timber a resource that is valuable in a wide variety of contexts. Each of the samples of commonly used woods shown here has distinctive characteristics. Mahogany is a tropical tree prized for its heavy‚ strong‚ easily worked wood. Hickory is a tough‚ hard wood used for tool handles‚ furniture‚ and smoke wood for meat. Instrument makers favor the strong‚ richly colored wood of the cherry tree. Yew is strong‚
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English Commentary- Snowy Morning‚ by Henry Shukman. “Snowy Morning” is a melancholy piece about the difficulty and inevitability of saying goodbye to a lifetime of images‚ sensations and the beauty of the world around us. Shukman uses images from childhood to create a sense of nostalgia as well as establishing a paradox between the fear of death and dealing with death in a facetious manner. In addition to this Shukman uses semantic fields dealing with the senses in order to create a more involved
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Into the woods Into the woods is like a fractured fairytale. It has little red riding hood‚ Cinderella‚ jack and the bean stalk‚ and the baker. Little red riding hood stops at the baker’s house for some sweets for her grandma who is sick in bed. Then the witch from next door to the baker comes over and says that there was a spell on his family and the spell was that he couldn’t have any kids. The baker and his wife really wanted a kid. So the witch told them that they would have to get certain
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Into the Woods Play Review Zachary Martin Before Grimm‚ before Supernatural‚ and even before Wicked‚ there was one “reimagining of classic fairy tales with interwoven plots and grey scale characters” and that was Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim. Sondheim uses four familiar stories to set the scene for his overarching plot allowing him to concentrate on jokes and creating new relationships between old characters. He also uses familiar characters in ways that blend categories. Through
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A Frost at Midnight - A Poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s‚ A Frost at Midnight [1798]‚ is a conversation poem whereby the mind of the poet and his or her environment are brought into intimate contact. The rhythm of the poem is subtle and unforced carefully suggesting real rhythms of speech. Coleridge has achieved this effect by using blank verse‚ few full rhymes and few end stops. It is a deeply personal poem to his sleeping infant son. The setting is in a cottage at
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Stopping Obesity in America Should America keep allowing obesity to exist or should obesity be stopped? Everyday you wake up and take a look around‚ you notice that almost everyone you see is overweight. Obesity needs to be stopped‚ because it does not contribute to any factor to help live a good life. Being Obese can only cause bad health and even death. When turning on your TV you see commercials that show food like Burger King and Mc Donald’s taken to increase the obesity rate in America. Today
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Robert Frost was an American poet. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech. His work frequently employed settings from rural life in New England using them to examine complex social and philosophical themes Youth appears prominently in Frost’s poetry‚ particularly in connection with innocence and its loss. A Boy’s Will deals with this theme explicitly‚ tracing the development of a solitary youth as he explores
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1） What was the Snowy Hydro Electric Scheme? It is one of the most largest and complex hydro-electric schemes in the world it contains; 80 kilometres of aqueducts‚ 140 kilometres of tunnels‚ 16 large dams and seven power stations‚ two of which are underground. The project commenced under an Act of Federal Parliament in October 1949 with the goal of diverting the Murrumbidgee‚ Snowy and Tumut Rivers in south western NSW to provide irrigation water for the western side of the Great Dividing Range
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in the poem ‘Frost at Midnight’? What is the future envisaged by the poet for his son? In this poem‚ ‘Frost at Midnight’‚ the poet expresses his fear in solitude for his baby‚ sitting beside a fire. ‚ “Frost at Midnight” relies on a highly personal idiom whereby the reader follows the natural progression of the speaker’s mind as he sits up late one winter night thinking. His idle observation gives the reader a quick impression of the scene‚ from the “silent ministry” of the frost to the cry of
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If someone met a crossroad in his or her life and both roads brought many good things‚ what would he or she do? Robert Frost had to choose a path to take in his life. In “The Road Not Taken” He really thought long and hard about his decisions and which choice will take him further in life. The reader can tell from line 2 that the writer is very disappointed he couldn’t take both roads. He chose a road praying that choice was the right one. The writer uses figurative language in the poem to get
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