The Curtain Blown by the Breeze (by Muriel Spark) Dame Muriel Spark was an award-winning Scottish novelist. She spent several years in Central Africa‚ returning to Britain during World War II. Until 1957 she published only poetry and criticism‚ including studies of Mary Shelley and the Bront sisters. Her fiction uses satire and wit to present serious themes‚ often questions about good and evil. Memento Mori (1959) is her most widely praised novel; the best-known is The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
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The Lucky One Nicholas Sparks‚ the author of The Lucky One‚ uses many literary devices and elements throughout the book to help the reader better understand his theme. The main theme is fate or luck. One simple decision or action can seemingly change your fate or luck. Some literary elements and devices that helped shape the theme were the point of view‚ conflict‚ symbols‚ and foreshadowing. The book is written in a third-person omniscient voice. That is‚ each chapter is written from a specific
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The Notebook‚ by Nicholas Sparks is a touching story about true love but affected by a horrible disease. This story begins when Noah and Allie are in a nursing home‚ eighty years into their life. Noah goes back in time to tell the story of him and Allie‚ and how they came to be together. Their major conflict is when Noah and Allie grow older and diseases start to appear. The main conflict‚ in present time‚ is that the old lady‚ Allie has a disease called Alzheimer’s‚ in which she cannot remember
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What is censorship? Censorship is the actual process of examining books‚ movies‚ and suppressing unacceptable parts. Now that you know what censorship means‚ let’s connect it to banned books. What exactly is a banned book? A banned book is a book that has been prohibited from being published or circulated by a government authority‚ usually on the grounds of religion‚ politics or public morality. My book Go Ask Alice‚ is one of the books that still remains on the banned book list. When looking into
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a 15 year old‚ he influenced many young men. By making this video‚ he provided young men with many myths and unrealistic events. Another example would be the music video “No Air” by Jordin Sparks and Chris Brown. This video shows women that they cannot live without having a man in their lives. Jordin Sparks compares living without a man to living without air. She also tells the man‚ how does he expect her to live without him. It is absurd that a woman should have to feel like this. It makes it seem
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The Notebook By: Nicholas Sparks Today I will be talking to you about a famous movie and novel The Notebook. It is an achingly tender story about the enduring power of love and a story that will make you believe in miracles. Like a puzzle within a puzzle‚ the story of Noah and Allie is just the beginning. As it unfolds‚ their tale amazingly becomes something different‚ with much higher stakes. The result is a deeply moving portrait of love itself‚ the tender moments and the important changes
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World War II a love between two social classes was something parents didn’t agree to. It wasn’t completely the parents’ choice‚ but they still did pretty much anything to prevent it from happening. The Notebook comes from the novel written by Nicholas Sparks. It is a story of a girl born into a wealthy‚ upper class family‚ and a boy from a not-so-wealthy middle class family who fall in love but are torn apart because of social class. What I like about this movie is how it can capture all types of audiences
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The scene from the Notebook that I have selected is the “it wasn’t over for me” scene as it has a strong significant meaning of a long lost love story. The film is seen through the eyes of Noah and Allie as they reunite after a period of seven years. This is an important scene in the build up of the climax as Nick Cassavetes’s intentions for this scene is to make a sense of romance and to portray that after all the years apart‚ they still have feelings for each other and to show that Noah loves
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1 Smoke Detector ∗ Sardar Nimisha Sankhe∗ ‚ Nisarg Vinod† and Ekta Vira Patel Institute of Technology‚ Mumbai-400058‚ India‚ nimisha.sankhe@yahoo.com † Sardar Patel Institute of Technology‚ Mumbai-400058‚ India‚ naughty.nisarg@yahoo.co.in ‡ Sardar Patel Institute of Technology‚ Mumbai-400058‚ India‚ ekta vira@ymail.com Abstract Most of the smoke alarms available in the market use one or another kind of smoke sensor which increases the cost and also require complicated interfacing circuitry
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Brake lights flasher circuits This circuit will allow the brake light was flashing. The default behavior. When the power supply to the circuit‚ Or tap the brake it. The IC timer IC2 drive current to transistor Q2 and producing oscillator output‚ pulse signal output at pin 3 to input pin 1 of IC1-CD4024. Count pulse and stops counting after 8 pulses‚ with pin 2 of IC1 is reset. The transistor Q1 will trigger the IC2‚ and pin 3 of IC2 change status as well. The voltage drop across R3‚ the voltage
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