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    Words such as “soured‚ stank‚ grey‚ foul‚ fanged and bullet” spotlight the hideousness of Medusa. Now she commands her lover/husband to “be terrified”‚ a hint that she starts giving full vent to her wrath turning everything she gazes at to a stony figure: “The fact that she has gone from bee to bird to cat to pig to dragon shows the ever-increasing size of her anger: she is not being satiated by these random acts of destruction. They are merely leading her towards greater‚ more powerful targets until

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    own death. He hides on Jackson’s Island in the middle of the Mississippi River. Huck runs into Jim‚ Miss Watson’s slave in the woods and they stay together. Huck and Jim find a raft and house floating down the river. A dead body is in the house but Jim refuses to let Huck see the man’s face. They start downriver in the raft and run into con

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    go on a little adventure out at sea. He brought with him a blow up raft that three people can fit on that can float out in the ocean. So we started pumping air into the raft and then put it out to sea with both of us on it. We wanted to see how far we can make it out far away from the small little bay we were chilling at. While we were heading out into the middle of nowhere‚ bryan brought we him a little paddle that can move the raft a little bit faster. The water was now deep

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    The 20th century was a time period lasting from January 1‚ 1901 all the way through December 31‚ 2000. Commonly known as the modern era‚ this century was nothing less than contemporary in every aspect throughout the world. Art in itself has always been a widely known and incorporated feature around the world since the beginning of time. As centuries came and went‚ eras within art and certain portrayals were heavily integrated and became best known as being used within certain centuries. From visual

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    Mississippi River. The river breaks all the barriers of the time period‚ between black and white‚ young and old‚ slave and free. With their many journeys on land‚ they invariably return at the raft. While stopped in a near by village‚ Huck and Jim manage to escape the king and the duke‚ seeking refuge on raft. "It was the raft‚ and mighty glad was we to get aboard of it again"(Clemens 1309). Later on in the novel‚ at the Phelps Farm plantation‚ Tom and Huck learn that Jim is held captive in a hut just beyond

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    TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. OVERVIEW 2. MOTIVATION AND OBJECTIVES 3. SNs – GLOBAL VIEW AND REQUIREMENTS 4. INDIVIDUAL COMPONENTS OF SN NODES PROCESSOR STORAGE POWER SUPPLY SENSORS AND/OR ACTUAT ORS RADIO 5. SENSOR NETWORK NODE BERKELEY MOTE NODE UCLA MEDUSA MK-2 NODE BWRC PICONODE LIGHT COMPASS NODE 6. WIRELESS SNs AS EMBEDDED SYSTEMS 7. SUMMARY 8. REFERENCE 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT This material is based upon work supported in part by the Nati nal Science Foundation

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    sinks. Before you know it‚ you find yourself sitting in one of the few lifeboats‚ surrounded by hundreds of people who are now accurately portraying survival of the fittest. They are treading water and fearing sharks‚ all because there are not enough rafts. You are grateful to be in your lifeboat and eventually question if everyone on this earth has an equal right to an equal share in its resources (Hardin 1). Well‚ if you were not wondering about that‚ Garrett Hardin was. In his essay “Lifeboat Ethics:

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    to call for help‚ but the radio was broken by the lightning. Brian places Derek upward and tries to feed him water‚ but it only causes Derek to choke. Afraid that Derek will die before anyone worries about them‚ Brian decides their only choice is to raft the river to a trading

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    people should not condemn others for trying to survive.For an example’’not only had they lost all the items stored on it‚ but the three men were wedged in a two man raft ‚so close together that to move each man had to ask the other to give him room’’. To clarify he pushed aside other thoughts and was focusing to make it to the other raft paragraph 34.For an instance’’you may be astonished that in such a short period of time i could

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    favorite part of the exhibit because of how massive and intriguing the giant statue is. I love seeing metaphors within the sculpture such as Medusa’s head adorned across Athena’s shield‚ indication to the old Greek mythology story where Athena slayed Medusa. I feel as if this piece shows great significance to Greek beliefs that the gods protected them. The serpent beside Athena is said to represent the people of Athens and Athena’s shield protects the serpent‚ as she does them. This assumption only further

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