corrosion resistance and low density. The importance of this material is testified from the fact that it covers more than 50% of the titanium alloy industrial production. Particularly for forging‚ Ti–6Al–4V is an important material for the near net shape forming of medium weight components with high mechanical performances (such as turbine blades). For this reason‚ great attention is given in the scientific literature to the study of the behaviour of this alloy under deformation. In fact‚ due
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Saucers Came¨ by Neil Gaiman is that people (such as girls) seem to worry about some so little and meaningless‚ such as a phone call‚ when they should be worrying about what’s going on around them. The author choses sixteen different odd things that happen on one day such as ¨the sauser day‚¨ and ¨zombie day¨ he chose these different things for a reason. I think he choses these things because they aren’t small simple things that could happen. Also all these things that happen aren’t things someone would
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Down to a Sunless Sea by Neil Gaiman Down to a Sunless Sea is short story written by Neil Gaiman and published in the British newspaper The Guardian on March 22nd 2013. Taking place in London‚ this story describes a rainy encounter on the banks of the Thames which unlocks a tale of loss and grief. The setting is London. Presumeably 18th or early 19th century based on how the Thames is described as extremely filthy and filled with the bodies of cats and dogs. Also the mention of the so-called
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the role of shaping peoples reality. The media have the power to changes peoples decisions and opinions. The government have the power to impose laws and regulations that alter the way we live. Chloe Hooper’s The Tall Man demonstrates how power shapes reality in very different ways Firslty it shows authorial power Anybody who constructs a piece of writing to be read by many people has the power to construct a reality. This is clearly evident in The Tall Man. Chloe Hooper had the power to choose
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Fairytale and fantasy is a genre of literature that has been introduced to generations and generations of children from very young ages. The tales that never have an unhappy ending are regarded as stories for children in today’s society; however Neil Gaiman‚ the author of Stardust‚ argues that children were never really the targeted audience for these narratives that they were in fact intended to be delivered to adults. “Children listened to them and enjoyed them‚ but children were not the primary
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CORALINE Adapted from a Neil Gaiman book‚ the story of Coraline would be best described as a gothic‚ horror. It’s nothing like most fairy tales‚ this movie features lots of intense action and lots of spots throughout the movie that gives you an adrenaline rush. It offers a good range of the strange‚ abnormal and supernatural storyline which includes; bugs‚ ghosts‚ and the terrible Other mother. Coraline can be viewed as a dark and grim fairy tale by most people that choose to watch it. Coraline
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Csécsei Luca 12.IB Does language shape culture? Most questions of whether and how language shapes thought start with the simple observation that languages differ from one another. And a lot! Just look at the way people talk‚ they might say. Certainly‚ speakers of different languages must attend to strikingly different aspects of the world just so they can use their language properly. The word order can be completely different among languages. And also there are tenses in some languages that
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The Devil in the Shape of a Woman Review The Devil in the Shape of a Woman is a pretty interesting book. Its only interesting cause it’s about the history of witch trials‚ and things like that kind of tickle my interest. It had its moments where I wanted to put it down cause it got so boring‚ but overall it was a decent read. I learn a couple of new things about the witch trials reading this book. Like parliament making a law in 1542 saying that witch craft was a capital crime. I learned
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In Neil Postman’s The Word Weavers/The World Makers‚ he inquiries‚ understudies in all evaluations are given definitions as though they are certainties‚ even realities of nature‚ and "with couple of special cases‚ are not told whose definitions they are‚ for what reason they were concocted‚ and what elective definitions may serve just as well". With the end goal us should have a typical beginning ground‚ I will start with a definition–not the definition‚ yet all the more precisely my definition:
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American Gods by Neil Gaiman "Neil Gaiman is a messy-haired white male author trapped in the body of an identical white male author with perhaps even less tidy hair. He thanks you for your offer of a comb but does not believe it would do any good." This is how fifty-year old Neil Richard Gaiman describes himself. Despite being English‚ he lives more in America than he does anywhere else in the world. Gaiman was born on the 10th of November 1960 in a small city called Portchester
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