Blockade Runners. A blockade runner is usually a lighter-weight ship used for evading a naval port. Often blockade running is done in order to transport cargo‚ for example to bring food or arms to blockade a city. Other times blockade runners would carry mail in an attempt to communicate with the outside world. The blockade runners during the American civil war were seagoing steam ships that were used to make it through the union blockade that extended some 3‚500 miles along the Atlantic and Gulf
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Why Texting While Driving is Bad Purpose: The main purpose of this speech is to persuade people that texting while driving is bad and how dangerous it can be. I. Introduction: Visual This: You’re on your way home from school or work. Then receive a text message from your friend. You decide to text them back right away. Composing and sending a text message can take a couple of seconds. In those few seconds‚ you could have run over a person‚ hit the car in front of you or gotten of your lane
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In contrast‚ ‘Ozymandias’ a sonnet‚ describes how an ancient king was once a powerful leader but today his work has faded by the destructive power of history which implies the insignificance of human beings over a passage of time. Whereas in ‘Poem of Thirty-Nine’ the daughter continues her life through the lessons her father taught her. ‘Ozymandias’ is about a meeting with the poet and a “traveller” who describes the story of King Ozymandias’s “shattered” statue. The traveller explains how the
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their first years on the road. It would encourage them to do better on their homework‚ try harder in school‚ and not be irresponsible with their friends showing their parents that they are responsible and want their license. Teenagers tend to get into wrecks more often and tend to do more stupid things in cars than adults do.
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dramatist‚ short-story writer‚ essayist‚ actor‚ musician‚ painter‚ cultural leader‚ religious reformer and even a politi¬cal leader to some extent. Above all‚ he was a patriot‚ even while being a citizen of the world. His famous novels are “Gore”‚ “Wreck” etc. But he is most popular for his book: the “Gitanjali”- a book of devotional lyrics in poetic prose. The book won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. He wrote this book in Bengali and then himself translated it into English. Our national
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Words are never spoken in a vacuum. They cannot be disconnected from their source. Whether read‚ sung‚ or spoken‚ our interpretation and understanding of words are necessarily filtered through our relationship to the person who wrote or spoke them. As Barbara Teicher points out in her book‚ It’s How You Say It‚ the “how” we say something‚ cannot be separated from “who” that says it. The critical foundation then of our interaction with others can be condensed into three essential characteristics:
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and enjoy ourselves. The technology actually has improved our science‚art‚and culuture.You may not like the change‚ but it’s part of life. But the internet has its consequences. A person driving while on their phone is dangerous.They may cause a wreck or take someones life.Millions of people can’t stop using it sometimes‚this can interrupt their personal life.While multitasking is productive its very stressful.Scientist say heavy multitaskers have a harder time remembering things. The internet
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as Bill Gates had his original family. Steve Jobs was a very odd man‚ to say the least. He was a hippie in the early days of his life. He did drugs such as acid. Bill Gates was a very plain boring person. He loved to play poker and was a very wreck less person in his actions. Steve Jobs did not develop the original ideas of Apple; instead‚ Steve Wazniack was the original inventor of the Apple Computer. Both Bill Gates and Steve Jobs went to MITS wanting to test out the Altair‚ the owner of
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went through. Evidence What evidence is presented to support the claim? The whole speech is the evidence‚ a young girl died as a result of texting while driving. The girl’s father quotes” I told her‚ "You’ve got to stop this. You’re going to have a wreck if you continue to do this." But‚ her mentality was it wasn’t going to happen to her Ideas What ideas are stated which are related to the claim? Her parents think that at the time of the accident she was on her phone texting ” After Alex died‚
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“A Separate Peace” by John Knowles takes place at Devon school during World War II. Narrated by Gene Forrester he tells the reader about his friendship with Phineas and how it ended.Gene becomes paranoid and lets his fear and jealousy get the better of him causing him to make a terrible mistake. Human emotions and suspicions can cause people to make irrational decisions. Phineas is perfect in every way‚ to Gene. Sometimes Gene gets jealous of him because he can get away with just about anything
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