Get‚ Set‚ Style ! Long before the days of Lycra and spandex‚ ladies wore the height of fashion to cycle like Olympic record holder‚ Victoria Pendleton who wore a long-skirted white dress and tall bonnet trimmed with flowers. Women players wore corsets‚ painful and restricting‚ until 1925 when Suzanne Leglan wore a simple (and daring) one-piece cotton frock‚ without a petticoat or corset in sight. Stockings were discarded in 1929‚ and by 1939 tennis fashion became recognisably sportier and maybe
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Sisters of the Sword by Maya Snow is a very emotional book. This book is set in 1185‚ the feudal era in Japan. One clue for the time period is that Japan still had a king instead of a president‚ another was that they still wore the white faces and traditional silk robes. The character who told this story was Kimi‚ she was also the main character. She tells her story of her escape with her sister‚ Hana. She also tells how they come to realize that the commoner life is hard. My favorite character of
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experiments explored the hypothesis that immediate memory span is not constant‚ but varies with the length of the words to be recalled. Results showed: (1) Memory span is inverselyrelated to word length across a wide range of materials; (2) When number of syllables and number of phonemes are held constant‚ words of short temporal duration are better recalled than words of long duration; (3) Span could be predicted on the basis of the number of words which the subject can read in approximately 2 sec; (4) When
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“Vergissmeinnicht” (translated “forget me not”) by Keith Douglas is a realistic poem outlining a soldier’s firsthand account of his return to the site of a fierce battle. Upon his arrival‚ “three weeks gone” (1) since the battle‚ he finds the deceased German adversary‚ simply known as “the soldier” (4)‚ who had fired at his tank just before his demise. The poem stirs the emotions of the reader‚ utilizing specific descriptions of the scene and bringing the feelings of loss and despair felt by the
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’ contains a trochee followed by an iamb. "O Captain! My Captain!" contains even more exceptions to the iambic meter. Line 5‚ But O heart! heart! heart! ’ consists of an imperfect root followed by two spondees‚ or feet with two equally accented syllables. Both Line 6 O the bleeding drops of red ’ and line 8 Fallen cold and dead ’ have trochaic meters with an imperfect root at the end. The remainder of the poem has an iambic meter until the last two lines: Walk the deck my Captain lies‚ /Fallen
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religious texts‚ more important the text than the music. In order to send God’s words to the congregation with no disturbance‚ the Church stipulated three ways to set the tex: syllabic‚ neumatic‚ and melismatic. Syllabic‚ as it sounds‚ happens when a syllable has one note;
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and explain their importance to psychology today. Ebbinghaus is well known for his discovery of the forgetting curve. Ebbingahus has made several other significant contributions to psychology for example: he was the first person to use nonsense syllables in learning and research‚ which I will discuss throughout this paper. Ebbinghaus born in Germany in 1850‚ he received his degree in philosophy in 1873. He used himself as a test subject and began experimenting with memory in the 1870s. Furthermore
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the orthography. This voicing is a relic of Old English; the unvoiced consonants between voiced vowels were ’colored’ with voicing. As the language became more analytic and less inflectional‚ final vowels/syllables stopped being pronounced. For example‚ a modern knife is a one syllable word instead of a two syllable word‚ with the vowel ’e’ not being pronounced. However‚ the voicing alternation between f and v still occurs. Explaining deeper we can tell that devoicing is actually two processes: a phonological
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Mending Wall Script Mending Wall is the opening poem of Frost’s second book of poetry “North of Boston”‚ which was published upon his return from England in 1915. While he was in England‚ he was homesick for the farm in New Hampshire where he had lived with his wife from 1900 to 1909. This poem depicts Frost’s personal story with his neighbor‚ a French-Canadian in New Hampshire. The two had often walked along their property line and repaired the wall that separated their land. The theme I am
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i ? k ? m meaning ! is placed before the stressed syllable in a word. For example‚ the noun contract is pronounced .!jPmsqæjs.‚ and the verb to contract is pronounced .j?m!sqæjs.. .j`9q. means .j`9q. in American English and .j`9. in British English. .h. means .h. or .H. or something in between. Examples: very .!udqh.‚ ability .?!aHkHsh.‚ previous .!oqh9uh?r.. ? . k. shows that the consonant .k. is pronounced as a syllable. This means that there is a short vowel (shorter than the .?. sound)
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