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    girl‚ Marilyn‚ had made a mistake by sneaking on to and EMS cruiser because she wanted to see her brother‚ that she hadn’t seen in years‚ who was working at the destination of the cruiser. When she got found by the pilot he had thought that the stowaway was like any other man and protocol was said that whomever is not an EMS ‚that is on the cruiser‚ must be evacuated or jettisoned‚ but when he had found this girl he was dumbfounded on if he should still follow protocol because killing her would

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    It Couldn’t Be The short story Cold Equations by Tom Godwin takes place on a ship called EDS. The space cruiser is piloted by a man named Barton. He has an order of killing the stowaway who snuck onto the ship because the weight on the EDS is too much for the ship to handle. In the process of hunting down the stowaway‚ he realizes it was a young innocent girl named Marilyn. Once Barton understands what kind of person Marilyn is‚ he doesn’t kill her immediately because he knows her reasons were

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    crises. Senior’s poems are pervaded with irony‚ humour and sarcasm and her tone is conversational and calm. Senior’s style of writing aids in creating a diacritic voice which is evident in the poems “Seeing the Light”‚ “Meditation on Yellow” and “Stowaway”. Senior in an interview with Kwame Dawes entitled “Talk Yuh Talk” admits that she has been haunted by the absence of the Tainos and was always unsatisfied with the image of the Tainos being a simplistic group of people that existed before Columbus’

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    Unsinkable Walker Bean. Walker. Walker is trying to bring a magical skull back and if looked at the skull or opened the bag that contained the skull would be very sick. Shiv is a friend of Genoa and they are on the same ship Shiv finds Walker as a stowaway and the people of Shiv’s ship don’t know about Walker. Genoa is a tough girl that also doesn’t know about Walker until later in the book and she is friends with Shiv. The settings in this book are in a little town‚ in the water‚ on a boat‚ on a

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    Crime" and " Mystress of Mystery" - Anthony Burgess D) " It was the plotting of the crime that fascinated Agatha Chrisitie‚ not its often unpleasant end‚ and it is as a constructor of plots that she stands supreme among modern crime writers." -Julian Barnes E) " No one else in the world would have manipulated a plot like that of Ten Little Niggers without a hapless presentiment of failure." - Ralph Partridge F) " Agatha Christie’s skills developed‚ a pattern emerged which might be called the

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    answer in three to five sentences. Essay Submission To me its not believable because a pilot is on an emergency mission to a planet whose colony is doomed if he doesn’t get there. He has just enough fuel to reach the planet - then he finds he has a stowaway‚ a young girl wanting to be with her brother on the colony. If the pilot jettisons her through the airlock‚ the ship will barely make it to a landing on the planet. If he does not‚ the ship will crash and both of them as well as the colony will die

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    The short story “Cold Equations” by Tom Godwin is about human nature versus reality‚ because the girl’s nature told her to get on the EDS as a stowaway‚ but she didn’t know the reality so she suffered the ultimate consequence of death. The EDS pilot knew he wasn’t alone in the EDS because of the heat sensor. He knew what he had to do‚ so he opened the cabinet where the human was. The pilot is surprised to find a young happy girl in the cabinet and gets thrown off his objective. He tells her what

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    setting of the story that the readers are capable of observing the metamorphosis of young Ernesto‚ which can be seen in Ernesto’s writing when he finishes the whole journey‚ in Valparaiso when he sees a poor woman‚ and in Antofagasta when he is a stowaway. First of all‚ the readers are anticipated to have a glimpse at the transformation in the very beginning of the story‚ and this is how Che saw the journey as he looked back on it: “The person who wrote these notes passed away the moment

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    Cited: Bureau of Labor Statistics‚ U.S. Department of Labor‚ Occupational Outlook Handbook‚ 2010-11 Edition‚ Correctional Officers‚ Retrieved March 6‚ 2011 from http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos156.htm. Julian E.‚ B. (2000). INTERVIEW; Life as a Jailer. New York Times Book Review‚ 6. Retrieved March‚ 7‚ 2011from EBSCOhost. Seiter‚ (2008)‚ Corrections: An Introduction (2nd Edition). New Jersey:Pearson Learning Solutions. Stephan‚ James. (2008). Census of

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    travel all around the galaxy. The story begins on a Emergency Dispatch Ship (EDS) that was heading to a planet in desperate need for medical aid. The pilot discovers a stowaway: an eighteen year old girl. She had suncked on the EDS to reunite with her brother‚ but she snuck on without knowing the consequences. By EDS laws stowaway were to be kicked out because EDS carry no more fuel than is needed for a safe

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