The zeroAength springgravity meter By LUCIEN LaCOSTE Austin‚ Texas took my only formal geophysics coursein 1932at the University of Texas. Arnold Romberg was the teacher. Early in the course‚he explained the .theory of the horizontal pendulum and showed that theoretically it has an infinite period when its axis of rotation is vertical. It behaves like a sphere on a perfectly horizontal table - i.e.‚ the sphere stays wherever it is put. Romberg also told us that no verticalseismographhad ever
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president of a piano firm‚ and Jessie Hart White‚ his mother‚ who was the daughter of Scottish-American painter‚ William Hart. During his life and mostly when he was writing‚ White was influenced by a couple people‚ James Thurber‚ Robert Benchley‚ Dorothy Parker‚ and Steve Kroft. James Thurber was probably the most helpful man in Whites career. Together they
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1. Blind Man With a Pistol – Chester Hines 2. The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles 3. The Green Man – Kingsley Amis 4. Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth 5. Ada – Vladimir Nabokov 6. Them – Joyce Carol Oates 7. A Void/Avoid – Georges Perec 8. Eva Trout – Elizabeth Bowen 9. Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal 10. The Nice and the Good – Iris Murdoch 11. Belle du Seigneur – Albert Cohen 12. Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid – Malcolm Lowry 13. The German Lesson – Siegfried Lenz
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Little Red Riding Hood – Bettelheim’s Analysis Summarized From the Skeptical Inquirer‚ Sept‚ 2000 by Martin Gardner (http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2843) Little Red Riding Hood Went walking through a wood. She met a wolf and stopped to chat. Don’t ask what happened after that! Armand T. Ringer One of the funniest of all games played by Freudian literary critics is that of finding sex symbols in old fairy tales. It is a very easy game to play. Freud is said to have once remarked
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Univ 102 . 10 May 2011 Cultural Transformations of Little Red Riding Hood The story of “Little Red Riding Hood” began as a fairy tale passed down through the centuries‚ especially by peasant women to their daughters since folklorists often belonged to the peasant culture (Tatar 3). The peasants who were farmworkers and domestic laborers needed something to do while working tediously‚ so they told each other tales. That’s why the Little Red Riding Hood story’s original plot had a peasant
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Discharge Plannin Discharge planning is a process that aims to improve the coordination of services after discharge from hospital by considering the patient’s needs in the community. It seeks to bridge the gap between hospital and the place to which the patient is discharged‚ reduce length of stay in hospital‚ and minimise unplanned readmission to hospital.1 Discharge planning is an established part of hospital care‚ but the process varies and is not entirely evidenced based. A Cochrane review
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Bettina Golden ENG125 – Introduction to Literature Professor Joan Golding 10-16-2011 “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin and “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber both captured my interest from the very beginning. These short stories represent gender roles and marriage. They both are about married couples with controlling mates. “The Story of an Hour” is about a young married woman and how she reacts to the news of her husband dying in a train accident. The story takes place
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR The Life and Literature of F. Scott Fitzgerald By Jillian Thompson May 16‚ 2012. English newspaper‚ The Guardian‚ once asked Jonathan Franzen‚ the Pulitzer Prize nominated author of The Corrections‚ to contribute what he believed were the greatest rules to abide by for aspiring fiction writers. His response was “Fiction that isn’t an author’s personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn’t worth writing for anything but money” (Franzen). The novels of Francis
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1) Introduction. A man of seemingly inexhaustible talents‚ Stephen Butler Leacock (born December 30‚ 1869) easily juggled being a humorist‚ essayist‚ teacher‚ political economist‚ lecturer‚ and historian. He received many awards and honorary degrees‚ among them the Lorne Pierce Medal the Leacock Medal for Humour was established in his honor and has been awarded annually since 1947 to the best humorous book by a Canadian author. At the height of his career from 1915 through 1925‚ Leacock was undeniably
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Ever since women have been able to vote‚ there have been more rights for women everywhere in America. Somehow in construction working‚ women get lower paid than men. Should they be paid the same as men? The working area is the same‚ so why is it that women have lower payments because of their gender? This should be a new rule‚ for women have the same exact rights as men. Everyone is working the same‚ so why not? Finally‚ this can reduce women strikes. Working class women internalize their own oppression
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