Gunfire at sea 1. Summary events and developments: Before 1898: the gun pointer estimated the range of the target and elevated the gun barrel (loop) to a height so that the shell could reach the target at the estimated range‚ done by a small wheel on the gun mount (bevestiging). When the pointer wanted to fire‚ he had to wait until the right moment of the roll and fire a bit earlier to compensate for his firing interval. In 1898 Admiral Sir Percy Scott introduced continuous firing‚ after
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If anyone asked me about my opinion in "The Old Man and the Sea" I would say ’the most thing that attracted me is its theme between the old man and nature’ . I liked it for it shows us the real hope ‚patience and life that we can learn from this old man. "He was two feet longer than the skiff" maybe Santiago depended on the appearance of the fish which terrified him. It is a lesson that we should not depend on appearances and to look at the inside. It was only a fish that had a weak heart ‚it does
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Old Man and The Sea - Rough Draft Human beings need to live in a group where everyone respects them and treats them equally. No human being can live alone isolated from other people because one hand can not clap by itself. In The Old Man and The Sea‚ the author uses setting‚ character and symbolism to show that people who society perceives as different are usually isolated. Once one is able to discover the reason of their existence‚ they are able to accept themselves in order to fulfill their
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Caitlin Couch Period 4 Old Man and the Sea 1. Symbols a. The Marlin is a major symbol in the novella. It stands for Santiago’s ideal opponent; his worthy challenger. He feels lucky to be able to fight this challenger‚ as it is his equal. Having bested your equal is much more satisfactory than whipping some amateur’s butt. I think that he feels that by facing the Marlin‚ he is giving the best of himself to his cause. He’s going full throttle‚ and by facing his Marlin‚ he is enhancing
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The sea trips in films ‚ literature and painting Lіterature Daniel Defoe " Robinson Crusoe " The novel is about a young man named Robinson Crusoe‚ who dreams of going on sea voyages. On the journey the ship is attacked by pirates and Crusoe is taken as a slave. After slavery‚ he dramatically escapes and lands on an uninhabited island. The Jonathon Swift’s "Gulliver’s Travels" Gulliver’s Travels is an adventure story involving several voyages of Lemuel Gulliver‚ a ship’s surgeon‚ who visited
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suffer from their lives. In “Children of the Sea”‚ both the female narrator and the pregnant women suffer from the experiences of their lives. The female narrator experiences the sufferings because she is separated from her boyfriend who is on a boat to America. This separation is painful for her‚ since when she thinks that his boyfriend is sent away by her father she wishes “those macoutes would kill him”. Also she calls his father “pig peasant” when she debates with him‚ demonstrating that the
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Greatest Wonder of The Sea Andreka Wilkes ENG. 101 Sec. 047 1) INTRO My name is Andreka Wilkes and I am a part of the RSO at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale called SAVE OUR PLANET. Our president of our organization has launched a new campus community initiative advertising project concerned with water management and environmentally friendly behavior by marketing companies. In this project we will be analyzing an advertisement relating to water using some methods we have reviewed
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Communism in China as we know has played a major role in the countries political system over the past century. Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao were the co-founders of the communist party in 1921. At the time China was in a world or turmoil ever since the end of the Qing Dynasty in 1911. For 10 years China was lost in a world with new ideas coming from all over the world. At the time‚ Duxiu and Dazhao saw an opportunity to bring change throughout a weakened China and they exploited it. The communist influence
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In Hemingway’s novel "The Old Man and the Sea" there is a common relationship between Santiago and the fish that dealt with respect but the desire to conquer. Within this relationship Hemingway describes Santiago’s feelings and attitudes toward the fish and how these feelings change. At first‚ Santiago was glad he hooked the fish‚ then he felt sorry for the fish‚ and finally he felt guilty for going out so far. He describes Santiago’s views by using many different stylistic elements such as diction
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UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA FACULTY OF ACCOUNTANCY AC220 ___________________________________________________________________ IBM 535 – INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AND GLOBALISATIONS BUSINESS IN CHINA ___________________________________________________________________ PREPARED FOR: AHMAD SHAZEER BIN MOHAMED THAHEER PREPARED BY: Date Submitted: 21ST June 2013 TABLE OF CONTENT NO. DESCRIPTION PAGE 1. INTRODUCTION ABOUT THE COUNTRY 2 2. BASIC CULTURE OF
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