distinctive writing style implemented in this book helps focus on Ivan’s relationship with a newly captive baby elephant called Ruby‚ whose wellbeing Ivan becomes responsible for. Ruby‚ coming from the wild‚ makes him see his captive life from a new perspective and he begins to remember what his life before the cage was like and how it felt to truly be free. He sees Ruby being ill-treated by the ringmaster and realizes that living at the mall was not what he thought it was. So‚ he paints a picture
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Along with accusations made by Victoria Price and Ruby Bates that the boys raped them. Their trial begins April 6‚ 1931. All of the boys except for Roy Wright are tired and convicted‚ with the result of the death sentence‚ Roy Wright’s trial ends in a mistrial. Later the NAACP and International Labor Defense‚ fight to represent the boys. Even though there was no proof that the boys committed these crimes they were still tried as if they did. Even when Ruby Bates admits that she was not raped the trial
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Main Characters and their Connections to Nature Charles Frazier’s novel Cold Mountain takes place during the time of the civil war. However‚ instead mainly focuses on each character and the life lessons they learn throughout the story. As the novel progresses we the characters go through different arduous journeys. The novel Cold Mountain is made up of two separate journeys occurring at the same time that eventually come together at the end. Frazier’s characters‚ Ada and Inman are well aware of
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A high-level programming language developed by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs in the mid 1970s. Although originally designed as a systems programming language‚ C has proved to be a powerful and flexible language that can be used for a variety of applications‚ from business programs to engineering. C is particularly a popular language for personal computer programmers because it is relatively small - it requires less memory than other languages. The first major program written in C was the UNIX operating
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Society for Information Science (JASIS)‚ 46 (7)‚ 478-489. Hersh‚ W.‚ Pentecost‚ J. & Hickam‚ D. (1996) A task-oriented approach to information retrieval evaluation. Journal of the American Society for Information Science‚ 47 (1)‚ 50-56. Hersh‚ W.‚ Turpin‚ A.‚ Price‚ S.‚ Chan‚ B.‚ Kramer‚ D.‚ Sacherek‚ L. & Olson‚ D. (2000)."Do batch and user evaluations give the same results?" In: Proceedings of the annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval pp.17-24
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Cold Mountain Cold Mountain‚ a novel wrote by Charles Frazier‚ is a Civil War story‚ a magnificent love story between a wounded Confederate soldier – Inman who deserts and begins a lonely‚ dangerous journey to find the way back home‚ and his lover – Ada who tries to survive after her father’s death. The Cold Mountain is the destination Inman wants to arrive at‚ and a place where Ada transform from a city girl into a mountain woman. The story is woven around the experiences of Inman and Ada trying
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it that our whole lives suffer. Eddie is someone who has every problem in the world. His father abused him mentally and physically‚ he didn’t had a chance to chase his dream because of his ruined left leg‚ he lost his wife early and he was stuck in Ruby Pier‚ the place he is trying to avoid to work. He was greatly affected of every problem happening in his life to the point that his life totally changed. Like when his wife died he stopped to love or when his dad died he felt that his father did that
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by electrocution (Wormser 1). In 1931‚ nine black boys boarded a train at Chattanooga to Memphis. Little did these boys know that they would be accused of raping two white women. Victoria Price and Ruby Bates were the women that the boys “rapped”. On the train with Victoria and Ruby were several white boys. A fight broke out between the white boys and black boys. The black boys were arrested for assault and attempted murder. While the white boys were only forced off of the train. On March
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7th 1960‚ and the ruby lasers haad been used for medical purposes shortly thereafter. The treatment of retinal tears with a pulsed ruby laser was the first substantial ophthalmic application of any laser system. In 1962‚ Zweng‚ along with several associates‚ discovered that a laser can be used to cause photocoagulation of a retinal tear by forming an adhesive scar. As a result‚ despite the traction‚ the retina does not detach. But there was much space for improvement as the ruby laser could only
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This novel’s first and almost only main character is Eddie‚ an eighty-three year old man. He is a man who has lived almost his entire life on Ruby Pier‚ an amusement park right on the ocean. He is head of maintenance at the pier‚ which was his father’s job when Eddie was a child. Eddie is the protagonist of the novel and a dynamic one at that‚ as the story covers the day he was born‚ died‚ and everywhere between the two. Eddie’s wife‚ Marguerite‚ is dead before the novel begins. She died when they
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