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    about their masterpieces. Just like in the art of painting‚ Van Gogh and Picasso were artistic genius of their times‚ so also were Mozart and Beethoven masters of their trade. Music is all around us and is prevalent in every bit of nature‚ from the whirling of the wind‚ the sound of a tide‚ the flow of a river or even something as simple as drops of rain. Music is the best medicine for our body and soul. Mozart’s childhood days On January 27th‚ 1756 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in the town of

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    Introduction to Wind Tunnel

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    aircrafts‚ military aircrafts‚ missiles‚ spacecraft‚ and automobiles without measuring its lift and drag properties and its stability and controllability in a wind tunnel. Benjamin Robins (1707-1751)‚ an English mathematician‚ who first employed a whirling arm to his machine‚ which had 4 feet long arms and it‚ spun by falling weight acting on a pulley however‚ the arm tip reached velocities of only few feet per second. [4] Figure 1: Forces exerted on the airfoil by the flow of air and opposing

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    Candide Review

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    those who say everything is well are uttering mere stupidities; they should say everything is for the best. Candide lives in the castle of the baron of Thunder-ten-tronckh in Westphalia. Candide is the illegitimate son of the baron’s sister. His mother refused to marry his father because his father’s family tree could only be traced through “seventy-one quarterings.” The castle’s tutor‚ Pangloss‚ teaches “metaphysico-theologo-cosmolo-nigology” and believes that this world is the “best of all possible

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    Katherine Mansfield and Gurdjieff’s Sacred Dance James Moore First published in Katherine Mansfield: In From the Margin edited by Roger Robinson Louisiana State University Press‚ 1994 The facts are singular enough: Katherine Mansfield‚ a young woman who could scarcely walk or breathe‚ absorbed in sacred dances that lie on the very cusp of human possibility. Some ideal of inner conciliation—neighbourly to the dancers’ purpose there— seems to have visited Katherine almost precociously.

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    “[A human being] experiences himself‚ his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest‚ a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness‚ “said Albert Einstein. “Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty” (“Heart Quotes”). Einstein’s view on nature is similar to that of Indian Buddhists. Life-giving Indian weather inspired the Buddhist cyclic view of rebirth while the rugged terrain

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    Space Tourism

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    Key Notes: Space Tourism is the term that’s come to be used to mean ordinary members of the public buying tickets to travel to space and back. Many people find this idea futuristic. But over the past few years a growing volume of professional work has been done on the subject‚ and it’s now clear that setting up commercial space tourism services is a realistic target for business today. But this idea of Space Tourism isn’t at all familiar to most people‚ including the space industry‚ who are used

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    Cross-cultural analysis for Eva Hoffman pp102-108 Introduction In Lost in Translation‚ Eva Hoffman describes how she starts a new life in a new language. In this essay‚ I will analysis pp102-108 from a cross-cultural perspective to identify relevant cultures‚ sub-cultures and their influences on Eva as well as internalised cultures and non-internalised cultures. Then‚ to see the forms and levels Eva shows on intercultural competence. Tensions of a cultural origin within Eva and between Eva and

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    Introduction American literature‚ to my eyes‚ like American history‚ although short‚ however‚ still full of glories and shining masterpieces and writers. Those American writers‚ while conquering this wild America‚ also had conquered the great field of American literature. From its first imitative activities to innovative attempts nowadays‚ American literature gradually gains its unique style‚ theme and form‚ and I¡¯m always excited to see their works are more and more America in its true sense.

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    and lives in a beautiful home. When he steals the money he miraculously gets to be in this glass case. He enjoys his new life‚ of which he things he has a right to be in and he becomes the flower. He escapes the his hell‚ but hell haunts him as whirling snow. In one scene he watches himself figuratively. “Here and there on the corners were stands‚ with whole flower gardens blooming under glass cases‚ against the sides the snowflakes stuck and melted; violets‚ roses‚ carnations‚ lilies of the valley

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    SOURCES OF ENERGY Energy can neither be created nor destroyed. Energy can only be converted from one form to another. E.g. if we drop a plate from a height‚ the potential energy of the plate gets converted mostly to sound energy when it hits the ground‚ chemical energy in the wax is converted to heat energy & light energy on burning. The total energy during a physical or chemical process remains the same. In the above examples‚ energy in the usable form is dissipated to the surroundings in less

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