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    Calypso/Homer Group Six Period 3/4 Song: Sailboat To the tune of Payphone by Maroon 5 I’m on a sailboat‚ trying to sail home. We need to new capt-ains pronto. We have no captain but an idea‚ go vote for Homer and Calypso. Yea I‚ I know it’s hard to remember the last time we were on land. Vote for beauty and the brain. They’ll sail better than you can. You say it’s too late to make it. Who says it’s too late to try. Homer may be blind as a bat‚ but he controls the story format. We’ve

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    Bambara’s use of symbolism. Miss Moore uses the toys in FAO Schwartz to convey to the kids where they are on the social ladder. Outside of the toy shop‚ the children stare at a number of very expensive toys; some of them include a paperweight and a sailboat which symbolize the facts that wealth is not equally distributed and education that and hard work can one day earn the children these things they see. Initially‚ none of the children‚ especially Sylvia‚ know what the paperweight is. She says to

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    dollars. As the ex-spouses discuss their different perspectives on their marriage and its failure‚ the woman checks out the same two novels she has just returned. Her ex-husband announces that he will probably buy a sailboat that he always wants. He tells her‚ "I always wanted a sailboat. But you didn’t want anything." The words comes from her ex-husband makes she started to think about her choices of life. After the ex-husband

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    Translating Neologisms Introduction: Neologisms are perhaps the non-literary and the professional translator ’s biggest problem. New objects and processes are continually created in technology. New ideas and variations on feelings come from the media. Terms from the social sciences‚ slang‚ dialect coming into the mainstream of language‚ transferred words‚ make up the rest. It has been stated that each language acquire 3000 new words‚ annually‚ but in fact‚ neologisms cannot be accurately quantified

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    directions of the x- and y-axes. 1.1.4 The velocity of sailboat A relative to sailboat B‚ vrel‚ is defined by the equation vrel = vA − vB‚ where vA is the velocity of A and vB is the velocity of B. Determine the velocity of A relative to B if vA = 30 km/hr east vB = 40 km/hr north. ANS. vrel = 50 km/hr‚ 53.1◦ south of east. 1.1.5 A sailboat sails for 1 hr at 4 km/hr (relative to the water) on a steady compass heading of 40◦ east of north. The sailboat is simultaneously carried along by a current. At

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    direction and speed of a boat. Mastery of the skill requires experience in varying wind and sea conditions‚ as well as knowledge concerning sailboats. Today most people enjoy sailing as a recreational activity. Recreational sailing or yachting can be further divided into racing‚ cruising and "daysailing" or dinghy sailing. There are many production sailboats available‚ and several of these manufactured models have ownership associations‚ such as the Islander 36 association Throughout history sailing

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    curving view of the city in the background. A single piling takes up the foreground‚ while a sailboat occupies the middle ground. John Noble’s Provincetown‚ Winter painted about 1920 takes a different approach. Nobel also used oil on canvas to create this piece‚ although‚ he does give more space to the town bordering the water. There is also a dock running diagonally to a house on the water‚ with a sailboat tied to

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    Lexy Immerman ARTH 111: Survey II 10/15/14 Emil Nolde and Degenerate Art In 1941‚ the Nazi government classified Emil Nolde’s Modernist style as “degenerate‚” and forbade him to paint. Nazi oppression influenced the work of Emil Nolde‚ making the watercolors and oil paints he produced during his time in isolation emblematic of Degenerate Art‚ modernism‚ and German Expressionism. Nolde’s Sunflowers in the Windstorm (1943) is one of the few oil paintings he made during his time in isolation in Seebüll

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    Mesopotamia is an ancient civilization located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. It has a hot‚ dry‚ climate. Mesopotamia was started in 5‚300 B.C. and ended 2‚900 B.C. There are 5 features to every civilization‚ they are: stable food supply‚ specialization of labor‚ system of government‚ social levels‚ and a highly developed culture. There are 8 features under culture they are: art‚ architecture‚ writing‚ literature‚ music‚ religion‚ technology‚ and leisure and recreation. The three most important

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    “The Lesson” A young‚ poor‚ black girl named Sylvia narrates Toni Cade Bambara’s “The Lesson”. Sylvia is growing up in Harlem during an unspecified time period known only as “back in the days when everyone was old and stupid or young and foolish and me and Sugar were the only ones just right.” (Pg. 2008‚ line 1) One day‚ Sylvia notices that someone new has moved onto the same block that she lives on. The lady is intriguing and “black as hell‚ cept for her feet‚ which were fish-white and spooky”

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