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    River Island

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    http://www.riverisland.com/Online/ [pic] Logo [pic] DESCRIPTION/PURPOSE The logo is placed in the top left of the website page. The word River Island are shown above is in black and in Capital which this emphasis their company name. The purpose for this logo is that people would know what website they are visiting and seeing company’s image. This logo’s size has the height of 76px and width 172 px. TARGET AUDIENCE The target audience is for teenagers and adults aged 13-35.

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    Ode to the West Wind

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    Theme :- Inspiration in "Ode to the West Wind" "When composition begins‚ inspiration is already on the decline" - P. B. Shelley 	Shelley deals with the theme of inspiration in much of his work. However it is particularly apparent in ‘Ode to the West Wind ’ where the wind is the source of his creativity. The cycles of death and rebirth are examined in an historical context with reference to The Bible. The word inspiration has several connotations that Shelley uses in

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    Advantages and Disadvantages of Wind-Generated Electricity A Renewable Non-Polluting Resource Wind energy is a free‚ renewable resource‚ so no matter how much is used today‚ there will still be the same supply in the future. Wind energy is also a source ofclean‚ non-polluting‚ electricity. Unlike conventional power plants‚ wind plants emit no air pollutants or greenhouse gases. According to the U.S. Department of Energy‚ in 1990‚ California’s wind power plants offset the emission of more than 2.5

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    Santa Ana Winds

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    Santa Ana Winds Weather can affect people’s behavior‚ positively and negatively. When the weather is nice and hot‚ it affects people positively by encouraging them to enjoy the outdoors‚ however‚ when the weather is bad‚ like when a hurricane hits this effects people negatively by worrying. Similarly‚ in the essay “Santa Ana Winds”‚ by Joan Dideon‚ the winds are so abrasive and obstructive that it engenders people to actually commit suicide. This occurs in Los Angeles. Even though Dideon provides

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    Ode to the West Wind

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    Q. Critical Appreciation of Shelley’s Ode to the West Wind. / Bring out the revolutionary zeal of Shelley in the poem Ode to the West Wind. / Critically analyse Shelley’s use of imagery in the poem Ode to the West Wind. A. Ode to the West Wind‚ the single most renowned and anthologized of Shelley’s poem‚ presents him as the visionary idealist and romantic revolutionary who makes a fervent plea to the greatest of natural forces – the west wind – to disseminate his message of reform and change among

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    Flying Wind Generators

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    Flying Wind Generators Flying wind generators are the future of wind energy. This article talks about the replacement of wind turbines for “windmills in the sky”. Instead of using the current wind turbines‚ Bryan Roberts‚ and engineer at University of technology in Sydney‚ Australia‚ decided to fly wind turbines into the jet stream 15‚000 to 45‚000 feet into the sky with winds up to 200 miles per hour. With 600 of these producing 20 megawatts each could power two Chicago sized cities. The

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    Ode to the West Wind

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    Paul Kintzele 10/01/05 Wild West Wind An ode is a poem with extraordinary lyrics‚ aiming at loftier thought‚ and more complex formal structure than most lyrics. Another characteristic of an ode is that they are often addressed at something or someone. An ode is a long lyric poem‚ highly interested in a specific subject‚ tone‚ and style‚ often written to celebrate an event‚ person‚ being or power. In which in "Ode to the West wind"‚ Shelley describes the winds mighty power and fierce strength

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    Santa Ana Winds

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    Asya Evelyn 11/4/14 Period 1 The Santa Ana Winds Joan Didion feels that the Santa Anna Wind have a negative effect on people and makes people act very different. Throughout the passage Didion’s tone is negative and uneasy; and the same goes for her diction. She creates images that are negative‚ so the reader can understand her true thoughts and feelings toward the Santa Ana winds. She also gives details of the human behavior while the Santa Ana takes place. Didion opens up the passage by describing

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    Wind Farms in Cumbria

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    The Cumberland News Wind Farms in Cumbria The majority of the world uses non-renewable sources of energy for electricity and this is having a negative impact on the world. Fossil fuels generate most of our electricity but by using them‚ we create greenhouse gases while combusting them. Hence this contributes to global warming and is impacting the rest of the world. If the level of greenhouse gases keep on rising‚ the earth will get warmer; sea levels will rise and droughts will occur throughout

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    Ted Hughes Wind

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    Ted Hughes’s poem‚ “Wind”‚ describes the impact and strength nature has over human beings. The poem is written in first person‚ which emphasizes the idea of a personal experience and suggests that the speaker of the poem is Hughes. The poem is situated away from the cities‚ presumably in the countryside or in a very isolated place‚ this can be supported by the use of words like “fields” and “hills”. The setting of the poem is in autumn since the weather is described as being cold and grim. The

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