Interpretation of “My Number” by Billy Collins Billy Collins’ poem‚ “My Number” combines the use of personification and imagery to illustrate the uneasy feeling of uncertainty in regard to Death and its imminence. The persona is waiting in constant fear for Death’s arrival‚ as he is clearly not ready for Death to find him. Collins uses personification in the first stanza when he writes the following: Is Death… reaching for a widow in Cincinnati or breathing down the neck of a lost hiker in
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Number A-7713 “Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever. […] Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things‚ even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never” (Wiesel). This quote‚ taken from the book Night by Elie Wiesel‚ testifies to the concept of transformation for Eliezer‚ a Jewish teenager who was forced to experience the horrors of the Holocaust. Eliezer‚ when living
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The Seven Chakras Chakra means‚ “Wheel of light” in Sanskrit. Chakras are invisible centers of spinning energy that run along our spine. There are seven major Chakras along the spine‚ and they concentrate and coordinate the flow of life force in and out of the body. This life force is the electromagnetic force field that surrounds all living things. If the chakras are not balanced‚ or if the energies are blocked‚ the basic life force will be slowed down. The individual may feel listless‚ tired‚
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Graham’s number‚ named after Ronald Graham‚ is a large number that is an upper bound on the solution to a certain problem in Ramsey theory. The number gained a degree of popular attention when Martin Gardner described it in the "Mathematical Games" section of Scientific American in November 1977‚ writing that‚ "In an unpublished proof‚ Graham has recently established ... a bound so vast that it holds the record for the largest number ever used in a serious mathematical proof." The 1980 Guinness
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ABSTRACT Reynolds number can be defined as a number of varieties of situations where a fluid is in relative with motion to a surface. This experiment is to observe the behavior of the flow of fluid either it is laminar or turbulent by calculating it’s Reynolds number and the characteristic of the flow. Other than that‚ the range for laminar and turbulent flow can be calculated and the theory that Reynolds number is dimensionless can be proven. The pump is opened to let the water flow. The dye
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Oxidation Number When elements combine to produce a compound‚ each element is assigned an “apparent” charge. This apparent charge‚ the charge an atom would have if both electrons in each bond were assigned to the more electronegative element‚ may be positive or negative. It is called the oxidation number or state of the element in the compound. Oxidation numbers are very useful in keeping track of what happens to electrons when various elements combine to form compounds. By remembering a few
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Stellar Numbers Results 1. Triangular Numbers Observation of the number pattern of polynomial type or different pattern needed. Identifying the order of the general term by using the difference between the succeeding numbers. Students are expected to use mathematical way of deriving the general term for the sequence. Students are expected use technology GDC to generate the 7th and 8th terms also can use other graphic packages to find the general pattern to support their result The
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geometric shapes‚ which lead to special numbers. The simplest example of these are square numbers‚ such as 1‚ 4‚ 9‚ 16‚ which can be represented by squares of side 1‚ 2‚ 3‚ and 4. Triangular numbers are defined as “the number of dots in an equilateral triangle uniformly filled with dots”. The sequence of triangular numbers are derived from all natural numbers and zero‚ if the following number is always added to the previous as shown below‚ a triangular number will always be the outcome: 1 = 1
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Figure 1: Recognizing the pattern of the "rabbit problem". If we were to keep going month by month‚ the sequence formed would be 1‚1‚2‚3‚5‚8‚13‚21 and so on. From here we notice that each new term is the sum of the previous two terms. The set of numbers is defined as the Fibonacci sequence. Mathematically speaking‚ this sequence is represented as: The Fibonacci sequence has a plethora of applications in art and in nature. One frequent finding in nature involves the use of an even more powerful
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She had third and second billing. It’s Always Fair Weather‚ starred Gene Kelly‚ (Singin’ in the Rain‚ An American In Paris) Dan Daily‚ (There’s no Business Like Show Business) Dolores Gray‚ and Michael Kidd (choreographer of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers). She was third billing‚ and played Jackie Leighton. It’s Always Fair Weather‚ is about three war buddies who agree to meet at a restaurant in ten years. Ten years later‚ they are all at the restaurant‚ doubting they should have come
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