turning from escapist activity to a job‚ the author draws focus to the conditions of their livelihood. The monochromatic display of “gray faces” is telling to the tired lives of these individuals. The lack of color on their faces‚ presumably due to soot‚ figuratively demonstrates that their lives also lack color. Thus‚ their jobs take away a vivacity of spirit making them empty souls trucking on with the day to day. In the last town of Wheeling Steel the narrator describes a specific individual‚ a
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stitches. I gifted her hand puppets and sock dresses‚ then chopped her hair into uneven patches. I grew a year older and gave her up to my brother and his friends‚ who ripped off her head and crammed her body with firecrackers. Her limbs‚ caked with black soot‚ scattered in the front yard‚ discovered by the dog weeks later.” (Ibarra‚ 34) Personally I don’t think they way children treat their toys should be a huge controversial issue. Children are going to do whatever they want with their toys. Some kids
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Basics of Fire Prevention On board Ships The best way to deal with fires on board ships is to prevent them rather than letting them occur. Breaking out of fire in a place where no fire exist is called “ignition”‚ whereas “flash” is a term used for fire eruption in a new place as a result of flames from an existing fire in a nearby place (the ignition source). Fires on board ships can be prevented by finding and rectifying leakages of fuel oil‚ lubricating oil‚ and exhaust gases. In a ship’s generator
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only knows how to work and survive because that’s how he has lived his whole life. In the story Tom Dacre’s dreams he sees thousands of sweepers‚ “were all of them lock’d up in coffins of black.” This gave the impression they were coated in soot and dying from the conditions while they were in their death beds. However‚ after doing some research‚ I found that “coffins of black” is a term William Blake used to describe the tiny chimney flues that the
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Primary Source Analysis: The Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution in Europe could be described as the transition of the use of hand-powered labor to machine operated manufacturing methods. This transition ultimately changed the way the world produces its goods in a more efficient and quicker way in today’s modern world. This revolution began in Great Britain in 1750 and followed the Agricultural Revolution. Through primary source documents like the Factory System: Two Views (Dr. Andrew
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BODY PARAGRAPH 1 (art) From the beginning of civilization‚ the empire of summer’s main usage of art was for temple decoration and ornaments. Often the temples were ornate with skillfully crafted interiors. One of Sumer’s greatest displays of art and architecture came from the ziggurat‚ a huge rectangular pyramids formed with mud prick in the shape of steps. An example of one of the greatest Sumerian ziggurats would have been the Nanna Temple of Ur‚ with its blue enamel tiles‚ invaluable cedar and
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Chapter 10 and 11– Homework 1. Describe the stages of transcription. Initiation- Initiator tRNA binds to small ribosomal subunit. Small subunit/tRNA complex attaches to mRNA and moves along it to an AUG “start” codon. Large ribosomal subunit joins complex. Initiation must occur in the order listed above. Elongation- mRNA passes through ribosomal subunits. tRNAs deliver amino acids to the ribosomal binding site in the order specified by the mRNA. Peptide bonds form between the amino acids and
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Swan made an incandescent light bulb. But the light bulb had many disadvantages. The light bulb burned out in an hour and it cost a lot of money (Burnie 52). Also‚ the filament was made of pure carbon‚ so when the carbon burnt‚ it filed the bulb with soot (“Lighting”). Then in 1879‚ Thomas Edison made a better incandescent (a term for heat-driven light emissions) light bulb. Time News reported‚ “Thomas Edison is the creator of the first commercially viable light bulb.” His incandescent light bulb was
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Love is a very powerful emotion. In both Antigone and The Iliad there are many different types of love portrayed. The love one has for their child for example‚ or the love for a close family member or friend. There is also the love one experiences when they feel they have found their mate in life. In examining the excerpts from Antigone and The Iliad I was able to draw the conclusion that Antigone portrays the different types of love in a more realistic way. When I read The Iliad for the
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breath from smoking. These are things I am sure you don’t want to have. Yellow fingernails from the smoke looks like buttery popcorn. It will look ugly and messy when you want to look nice. Tar builds up in your lungs and makes them all black like soot. When you don’t get enough cigarettes‚ your body can tell. People can shake and shiver when they don’t get the amount of nicotine they are used to. Smoking doesn’t only make you look bad‚ but it affects your body internally
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