Assignment: Review of Gone With the Wind Date: 2013.10.11 The Scarlet Flame Have you seen that girl‚ sitting around by dozen of beaux with her dimples deep and her earrings sparking? Have you seen that girl‚ marching alone the war with her shoulder squared and her back straight? Have you seen that girl‚ fighting against the poverty and starvation with her heart hard and her promises kept? Have you seen that girl‚ goosing the public with her head up high and her eyes determined? That girl is
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Gone With The Wind‚ written by Margret Mitchell and first published in 1936‚ is a classic novel depicting the changing South during the Civil War times. Understanding the transition between the Old and New South and how the changing times affected Southerners is essential to comprehending American history. Mitchell gives an opportunity for readers to gain a deeper understanding of The American Civil War through the use of symbolism; Gone With The Wind depicts the transition from Old to New South
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reader. I was sitting in my room when my little sister came in. She had a book in her hand and said that I needed to read it. Well if my sister‚ who barely reads‚ says a book is good‚ then I needed to read it and I’m glad I did. Standing Against The Wind is an incredible book. The main characters‚ Patrice and Monty‚ are an interesting a unique couple. Patrice is a quiet girl who keeps to herself and gets straight A’s in school. She doesn’t have much family besides her mom‚ who’s in jail‚ and her
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Inherit the Wind‚ based on the famous "Scopes Monkey Trial" in the small town Dayton‚ Tennessee‚ was written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. The play was not intended to depict the actual history or the proceedings in the Scopes’ trial but it was used as a vehicle for exploring social anxiety and ant-intellectualism that existed in the Americas during the1950s. Lawrence and Lee wrote the play as a response to the threat to intellectual freedom presented by the anti-Communist hysteria of the
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Introduction: The novel “The Divine Wind” written by Gary Disher is a novel that presents the readers the conflicts that occur throughout the history of mankind and were all caused by the racial prejudice. The years of 1940’s in the chaotic times of Australia where it was filed with war and hatred in which many lives and loved once and families was destroyed. This novel is a good example of a historical setting. It also shown us the prevalence of racial prejudice that result to hardship between
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ODE TO THE WEST WIND Summary The autumnal west wind sweeps along the leaves and "winged seeds." The seeds will remain dormant until spring. The wind is thus a destroyer and a preserver. The west wind also sweeps along storm clouds. It is the death song of the year. With the night that closes the year will come rain‚ lightning‚ and hail; there will be storms in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. The poet pleads with the west wind to endow him with some of its power‚ for he feels depressed and helpless
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Inherit the Wind is a play about the battle between scientific and religious beliefs‚ and the restrictions upon freedom of thought. The themes presented in Inherit the Wind are timeless‚ and could have taken place a century ago‚ could be taking place today‚ and could take place in twenty years. In order to illustrate the timelessness of the play‚ the country-side surroundings and backgrounds are depicted in a modern setting. This also reinforces the fact that these themes are not obsolete and part
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COLLEGE UHI 12 INSTRUMENTATION OF A WIND TUNNEL PROJECT BEng(Hons) Gaurab Ghosal ABSTRACT The wind tunnel being built in Scone airport is a closed loop wind tunnel. On completion this will provide a much needed facility for education purpose as it can be used by engineering students for aerodynamic evaluations. To conduct these evaluation proper evaluating tools needs to be setup. In this section the possible instruments that can be setup in this wind tunnel has been evaluated with Matlab
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“When you’re through learning‚ you’re through” – Will Rodgers. The book‚ Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee‚ takes place in a small town in the heart of Tennessee‚ Hillsboro‚ and the Bible Belt in the 1920’s. The play covers one of the first evolution v. religion cases in the South. A teacher named Bertham Cates thought the teachings of Darwin were fascinating. Even though it was outlawed to teach evolution‚ he decided to teach his students the teachings. Not soon after‚ he finds
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states that plants respire at a faster rate if they are exposed to wind‚ opposed to no wind. This was tested by putting one plant in water in front of a fan and the other plant in water‚ but with no fan. The results showed that the plant in front of the fan transpired more. However‚ since the plant blew cold air it affected the rate of transpiration and altered the experiment. Overall‚ this experiment supports the hypothesis that wind makes plants transpire more.
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