What is Textiles? Textiles is a term applied to natural and man-made fibres and filaments that may be spun into yarn or made into fabric by such processes as weaving and knitting or felting and bonding. As a citizen of the new millennium‚ you utilise a vast array of textile items every day. So‚ to enable you to begin to understand the important role of textiles in your daily life‚ you need to imagine a world without textiles: at the moment you’d be sitting here naked. Textile items that you utilise
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What is it that spurs certain people on to magnificent achievements while others choke bitterly in their dust? There’s an old and true‚ military motto‚ “Si vis pacem‚ para bellum” from Flavius Vegetius Renatus circa 375 AD: “If you want peace‚ prepare for war.” When you want something badly enough‚ you will fight for it. It’s the old‚ “Live free or die” kind of approach. Watch what people do and you will see their true level of commitment. Ayn Rand spoke about this kind of bulletproof resolution
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birth‚ and bade him seek his father. The sight of his own signet rendered Rustum quite frantic; he cursed himself‚ attempting to put an end to his existence‚ and was only prevented by the efforts of his expiring son. After Sohrab’s death‚ he burnt his tents and all his goods‚ and carried the corpse to Seistan‚ where it was interred; the army of Turan was‚ agreeable to the last request of Sohrab‚ permitted to cross the Oxus unmolested. To reconcile us to the improbability of this tale‚ we are informed
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B04 Wong Lap Jack A0126596U Convergence or Coincidence??? Evolutionary convergence is the process by which unrelated or distantly related organisms of different lineages evolve similar smorphology‚ organs‚ and adaptations‚ but that were not present in the last common ancestor of those groups. Evolutionary convergence involving unrelated organisms living in similar environments but in different places or even in different environments. Similar or different environments have several challenges
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Gothic texts are distinguished by the conventions they explore. The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole‚ The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe and Christabel by Samuel Taylor Coleridgem all create an atmosphere of mystery and suspense and highlight to cruel terrors and passions prevalent in Gothic texts. In atmosphere of gloom and terror can be conveyed through medieval setting and inexplicable occurances. In the Castle of Otranto‚ various events occur‚ which are completely arbitrary
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Slave Culture and the Harlem Renaissance: Finding a Home in Modernism For years scholars have noted the importance in history of the African- Americans from the time of the Atlantic slave trade‚ even up to current culture and entertainment. As prominent as the slave trade is taught within the schools and the education systems‚ there has been little noted in the history classes about the art and literature of that time period for African-Americans. However‚ in spite of the little we know of the
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USE OF FOREGROUNDING IN THE POEM TITLED “GOING” The author of the poem “Going” had a specific message that he intended to set across to his readers. To do this‚ the author used a number of stylistic elements that include foregrounding‚ imagery‚ symbolism‚ diction‚ synthetic parallelism and structure among others. This essay intends to give a brief stylistic analysis of the poem and describe how these devices have affected the meaning of the poem. Basically the poem “Going” according to the essay
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Consonance is the repetition of consonant sounds in the words. All three techniques can be combined: And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain Thrilled me‚ filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before. — Edgar Allan Poe: “The Raven” There is alliteration in the repetition of the s sound at the start of “silken” and “sad”. There is assonance in the repetition of the ur sound in “uncertain”‚ “purple”‚ and “curtain”. And
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jaws Of the great devil-beast‚ like a pale soul Fluttering in rocky hell‚ lightsomely flew A snowy trochilus‚ with roseate beak Tearing the hairy leeches from his throat. Bats by Paisley Rekdal unveil themselves in dark. They hang‚ each a jagged‚ silken sleeve‚ from moonlit rafters bright as polished knives. They swim the muddled air and keen like supersonic babies‚ the sound we imagine empty wombs might make in women who can’t fill them up. A clasp‚ a scratch‚ a sigh. They drink fruit dry. And wheel
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the main architectural features that we still see today. They‚ although originally developed in Rome‚ are renowned for their development of the basilica‚ and their use of domes and alabaster‚ among many other things‚ such as religious depictions and silken textile. A basilica is a building typically used for Christian devotion. It is a rectangular‚ building‚ with colonnades running down either side of its nave to an apse (or a half dome) behind the altar. Domes are also depicted on top of these
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