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    frequent abuse of these kids. In "Unspoken abuse 1 and 2" Ruby is confronted with the probing chants of the other kids "What did he do to ya"‚ Ruby responds literally refusing to give into their torments "I promised not to tell". Childish language is used "What did he give to ya" to highlight the fact that even these young children know through her unintended dialogue that she has been abused‚ Ruby responds with "Gave me a doll". The doll Ruby slings around is symbolic of the innocence she has lost

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    The Laser Before we can learn about the laser we need to know a little bit about light (since that is what a laser is made of). Light from our sun‚ or from an electric bulb‚ is called white light. It is really a mixture of all the different colours of light. The colours range from violet‚ indigo‚ and blue‚ to green‚ yellow‚ orange‚ and red. These make up the visible part of the electromagnetic spectrum. Light is made up of particles‚ called PHOTONS‚ which travel in waves. The difference in

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    this film as in a dystopian society people must believe they are happy and then discover they are not. Dorothy discovers she is unhappy in the film. This idea of dystopia is conveyed to us the viewer by the Imbalance of Power‚ a handicapped society‚ Ruby Red Shoes at the time through the conventions of Characters‚ Camera angles and Symbolism. In the film Wizard of we are able to see the idea of an imbalance of power

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    In the novel H2O by Virginia Bergin‚ Darius Spratt is an obvious outcast. The main character‚ Ruby‚ mentions multiple times how he is “... not the king loserville; he wasn’t even the Crown Prince; he wasn’t even a lowly serf. he was‚ like I said‚ a nobody nerdy freckly freak” (153). This shows how Darius isn’t Noticed and that even the Ruby wasn’t so popular she thinks of Darius as an outcast. another thing that Darius says that indicate season Outcast is “ ‘I was studying!’ Repeated the

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    Nurses played an important role in World War I‚ helping heal those injured on the battlefield. Over 3000 canadians served as nurses in the Canadian Army Medical Corps during the first world war including Laura Gamble‚ Ruby Peterkin‚ and Anne E. Ross. One nurse who served with the Canadian military during the First World War is Laura Gamble. She was born in Wakefield‚ Quebec and worked for the Toronto General Hospital before she joined the Canadian Army Medical Corps. She served as a nurse in

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    . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 v. Conclusion of the Story. . . . . . . . . . . 13- 14 III. Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14- 15 I. Introduction a. i.Eddie lives an insignificant life as a maintenance man for the rides at the Ruby Pier amusement park. One day a mechanical failure causes a fatal accident. Eddie rescues a young girl from her death but in the effort‚ he is killed. This is when the adventure begins. Eddie enters heaven and discovers it is not a garden but a place

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    comes over a hill. She first describes the colors as “rubies” (3) and later‚ “topaz” (7). In the same stanza‚ after describing the sunrise‚ the poet mentions that “A sudden musket spills” (4)‚ there is no mention of a year or an era‚ but the sound of a gunshot from a musket could symbolize that there is a war going on‚ and since the color of the sky is first described as “ruby”‚ it is safe to assume that blood may have spilled. The use of the rubies to describe both the colors of the sunrise and the

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    bridge and set a course for the Galaxy Warp.” Peridot was quick to follow her task as Serpentine sat down. After ten minutes of waiting Kyra‚ Cynthia‚ Galaxite‚ a Peridot (with a gem on her chest)‚ and the three Rubies. “Galaxite and Cynthia‚ I want you two to go and get the two Rubies lost. Peridots I want you two to work on fixing any broken warps‚ once we arrive at the Galaxy

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    Within four days‚ five summer rainstorms had hit the eastern shores of Virginia‚ and transformed the regional roadways‚ into a never-ending slip and slide. In the rural town of Wrongberight‚ Clemmy Sue Jarvis‚ a petite‚ vivacious woman of sixty-three‚ loathes driving on rain soaked roads. However‚ she is on a mission‚ late Saturday afternoon and has no choice‚ but to cautiously‚ ease out of her driveway‚ turn south onto Flat Bottom Road and follow it for seventeen miles‚ into the boonies‚ to the

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    scene of the film happens at Ruby Pier on Eddie’s 83rd birthday. It then starts to when he will die and when will his journey in heaven begin. Eddie tried to save a little girl by pushing her out of the path of the falling cart because accidentally on that day‚ one of the carts breaks free from the ride and falls to the pier. Eddie does not get out of the way causing him to be killed. Eddie then travels to heaven and meets his first person‚ the Blue Man in the Ruby Pier Eddie remembers from his

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