Olympic torch The Olympic flame is a symbol of the Olympic Games. Commemorating the theft of fire from the Greek god Zeus by Prometheus‚ where a fire was kept burning throughout the celebration of the ancient Olympics. The fire was reintroduced at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. In contrast to the Olympic flame proper‚ the torch realy of modern times‚ which transports the flame from Greece to the various designated sites of the games‚ had no ancient precedent and was introduced by
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Compass and torch The short story‚ “Compass and torch” (2003) by Elizabeth Baines‚ is about the relationship between father and son. We follow this boy on his adventure expedition with his father. His parents have recently been through a divorce and he has not seen his father for a long time. Meanwhile‚ his mother has gotten into a relationship with a guy called Jim. The boy and his father are leaving the residence and are now heading for a “macho-trip”. Along the way the boy asks several questions
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Compass and Torch - Analysis All young boys are at some point in need of their father’s affection and appreciation. Most boys will do almost everything asked‚ if they want to live up their father’s expectations and thereby be accepted. Is it possible to form a relationship as father and son instead of “the boy” and “the man”? In the short story “Compass And Torch” by Elizabeth Baines‚ the protagonist strives for his father’s affection and appreciation and to be reunited. The short story is mainly
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Compass and Torch The short story Compass and Torch is written by the writer Elizabeth Baines. The short story is told in present time and the narrator is a third person narrator. The theme in the shore story is the relationship between father and son – a theme that the whole short story is based on. In the short story we are told about four different characters; the boy‚ the father‚ the mother and the stepfather. The four characters are very different from each other and the writer has managed
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Compass: - Device for finding you way - They don’t have the compass - Can’t find a way to work their relationships out Torch: - The torch could signify that they can ’see’ how they want their relationship to be but because they do not have the compass they can’t get their. Other Notes ’ with bleached end-of-summer grass‚ bruised here and there with heather and age-old spills of purple granite’ Very descriptive but the boy doesn’t take notice of it. (Boys detachment from nature occurs
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The Centre of Gravity & its relationship to the Application of Sports Massage Introduction Every object has a centre of gravity‚ which‚ when combined with other factors such as the line of gravity‚ enables an object to balance. If a person or object moves or changes shape‚ the centre of gravity will also move. This is important to remember when discussing sports massage as the therapist is constantly moving‚ making them vulnerable to being unbalanced or unstable. So to be able to conduct a safe
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Pendulums and Gravity Ashu Mishra B2 Physics Pooja‚ Logan Meyer Please read #’s 1-8 before you read the bottom section 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. formula for solving the period of a pendulum 10. derivation from #9 to solve for gravity The gravity is inversely proportional to the period Number 5 shows that if there is more gravity and everything else is constant then angular acceleration increases which can be assumed to reduce the period therefore gravity is inversely proportional
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Anti-gravity is the idea of creating a place or object that is free from the force of gravity. It does not refer to the lack of weight under gravity experienced in free fall or orbit‚ or to balancing the force of gravity with some other force‚ such as electromagnetism or aerodynamic lift. Anti-gravity is a recurring concept in science fiction. In Newton’s law of universal gravitation‚ gravity was an external force transmitted by unknown means. Under general relativity‚ anti-gravity is impossible
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Analysis of “Compass and Torch” By Elizabeth Baines Many children today‚ experience that their parents end up being separated. Unfortunately a separation is very likely to also make the relationship between the child and either the mother or father very complicated as well. In this story‚ we hear about an 8-year-old boy and his divorced parents – along with the mother’s new man‚ Jim. First of all‚ it doesn’t seem like the boy and his dad sees each other very often. The man and his son are spending
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Specific gravity What is specific gravity? Archimedes discovered that the weight of body in air minus its weight in water is equivalent to the weight of the water displaced by the body. Specific gravity is defined as "The weight of a body compared with the weight of an equal amount of pure water at 4°C (4°C is the temperature at which water is densest). When a body is placed in water‚ the volume of water displaced is equal to the volume of the body. When the body is placed in water that it
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