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    How to Build a Robot

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    Have you always wanted to build your own robot? Oh of course you have‚ what person in their right mind hasn’t dreamed of playing catch with the magnificent C-3PO? Well even though he is amazing‚ I personally cannot create such a robot. However‚ a more R2D2-esque model is in my creative arsenal. Yes‚ it is difficult to build even a small robot‚ but don’t be discouraged. To start‚ you must gather a few easy to find and necessary materials. Grab yourself some high-quality glue‚ Velcro‚ dual-lock tape

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    In Jack London’s “To Build a Fire”‚ the man’s initial mistakes come‚ because he is too prideful and over confident in himself. In the end his lack of experience costs him‚ his life. Before the man sets off on his journey‚ he ignores the old timer on Sulphur Creek when he mentioned “how cold it got sometimes in the country”(6). Despite what the old timer said‚ the man still sets out on the journey‚ ill prepared for the harsh weather. In the beginning‚ the man “did not know cold” and refused to turn

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    also in a stupid way. I am not saying that we humans are stupid‚ what I am saying is that our human nature is to be clueless and we do not know everything. We are all full of curiosity and we want to know what certain things do. In this story To Build a Fire by Jack London‚ this main character has some stupidity and he did not lessen. I am going to tell you about this long short story and the main character. The first thing the main character did in this story that I thought was really stupid was

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    How to Build a Computer

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    How to build a computer The Computer this day and age is coming to its peak as the module for the super information high way. I have noticed rising prices for the personal computer as sold from the common dealers such as Dell‚ Gateway and Macintosh. These overly priced computers are a rip‚ ranging anywhere from 999.99 to 1‚300.00 dollars. This is outrageous; the pieces needed to build a computer are so inexpensive these days it would be idiotic not to build it yourself.

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    The story “To Build a Fire” by‚ Jack London‚ is about a Man who travels through the Yukon with His dog in very dangerous weather conditions. He made a bad decision by traveling in very cold weather and this leads to him struggling to make it to his destination. He comes across many dangerous situations on the way. He doesn’t know the right way to handle these situations which leads him to struggle a lot. The overall theme of the story is that you should think before you go out and do something because

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    Jack London’s short story “To Build a Fire” is an illustration of the mood loneliness. This mood is conveyed throughout the story by the dark and gloomy setting of the Yukon in the extreme cold temperatures. When the man is walking along the Yukon trail he stops at the top of the hill and examines the darkness in the sky‚ “there seemed to be an indescribable darkness over the face of things. That was because the sun was absent from the sky” (London‚ 64). The image of darkness canvassing the

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    Adventure is something that everyone wishes to experience‚ yet many fail to realize the dangers that come with it. In Jack London’s short story “To Build a Fire‚” Tom Vincent is a hiker who one night decides to embark on a journey alone. His near-death experience along this trail is what causes him to realize that it is indeed important to take a companion along when traveling‚ just as the locals had told him. The theme here is that you must not be so arrogant as to ignore the advice of others‚ especially

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    expert. The protagonist of “To Build a Fire” by Jack London may have been fearless‚ but that does not lead to him to survival. He makes several critical mistakes that cost him his life‚ including‚ as Bear Grylls talked about‚ making decisions and taking action. The protagonist did not think about his actions‚ analyze what he was about to do‚ or plan his way through the woods thoroughly (Gonzalez 96). One example of these shortcomings is when he left the first fire he made prematurely (London 83)

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    In text 5‚ “To Build a Fire” by Jack London‚ and text 9‚ “Scott’s Last Expedition” by Robert Scott‚ there are similarities and differences. In text 5 the man tries building a fire and in text 9 the man knew the end was near. Each text proves man vs nature because they both struggle with the cold weather. In both texts‚ there are many similarities. One of the similarities each text had where the men had a destination to arrive at. For example‚ in text 9 Scott was supposed to meet his friends at

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    in the Klondike Gold Rush in Alaska by the time he was just twenty-one years old‚ used his various life experiences to write and publish more than 219 works of literary art‚ one of which he wrote in the early 1900s‚ was a short story called “To Build A Fire”. As the story about a man‚ whose name is not mentioned‚ begins to unfold‚ it seemed as though London had made his main character go through several of the stages of grief compiled by the psychiatrist Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross. These stages are:

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