could go straight home and keep her mouth shut about it. I said‚ “Scout‚ I’m telling you for the last time‚ shut your trap or go home – I declare to the Lord you’re gettin’ more like a girl every day!” So‚ Scout joined us. We snuck under a barbed wire fence. We had to be very quiet‚ and Scout was very nervous! Dill looked in the window‚ but he didn’t see anything. So we went around the back and I crept across the porch and peeked into a window. Scout noticed the shadow. It was the shadow of
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Charlotte’s feelings about the seventh-grade teacher. In another metaphor about her mother‚ Charlotte says that she is “a white picket fence [that] stands in a field of weeds [and] is bounded on its other sides by thorny bushes and barbed wire”. In this passage‚ Charlotte further unveils her harsh opinion of her mother. She believes that‚ while she may appear to be the perfect mother and wife‚ she is really a bitter broad with a holier-than-thou persona. While
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How does the opening chapter of The Handmaid’s Tail introduce the main ideas of the novel? One of the main themes in the novel is that of hierarchy. This is demonstrated in the first chapter‚ through the violent and animalistic imagery of “electric cattle prods” carried by the Aunts “slung on thongs from their leather belt(s)”. This immediately hints to the reader that the women are being kept in the gymnasium by force. Another theme displayed in the first chapter is regime. The description in the
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“JAVA RING” ABSTRACT A Java Ring is a finger ring that contains a small microprocessor with built-in capabilities for the user‚ a sort of smart card that is wearable on a finger. Sun Micro system s Java Ring was introduced at their Java One Conference in 1998 and‚ instead of a gemstone‚ contained an inexpensive microprocessor in a stainless-steel iButton running a Java virtual machine and preloaded with applets (little
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Eudora Welty‚ in her character Phoenix Jackson‚ creates humanity’s counterpart of the phoenix firebird from oriental tradition. Although Phoenix Jackson can not lay claim to the immortality manifested by consuming fiery rebirths (as does the mythological bird)‚ she possesses a fiery spirit and is consumed by love for her grandchild. Ana4rzing the character of Phoenix is pleasurable because the characteristics of her "roundness" are primarily positive‚ static traits. She is tenacious‚ confident‚ wise
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that hold 100 people each‚ and 2-3 guard houses that hold 1000 guards each. 1 mess that hold 1000 labourers‚ and 1 staff mess that holds 100 people. Depending on the type of camp a tool shed or room. The camp should be set up with 3 rows of barbed wire fence and guard towers on the four corners of the camp as well as in the middle of the camp. If the camp happens to be more than 5km square the guard towers must be closer
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Explain how the combination of two of the following elements was used in one live production that you have seen and assess their contribution to the creation of specific mood(s) and atmosphere(s) at moments: set design‚ lighting‚ sound. The live performance I have chosen to write about is ‘Warhorse’ which I saw on the 3rd February at the New London Theatre. In this essay‚ I am going to explain and analyse how the staging and the lighting together created the different atmospheres and moods such
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Bianca Camille Casares February 20‚ 2012 LITR240-1301B-05 Phase 1 Discussion Board 2 Part A: 1. Literature can mean a variety of things to many different people. To me‚ the definition of literature is undefined. When looking up the term "literature"‚ you may find that most answers are vague and are always changing. To me‚ literature doesn’t mean anything that’s written down but may contain short/long stories read from books‚ or some types of information written by someone. Literature has
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progressed‚ an impregnable barrier developed. This was due to the creation of support and reserve trenches behind the front line and concrete bunkers that could withstand everything besides a direct hit from a large calibre shell and the placement of barbed wire. The trenches that existed in 1914 were crude in construction. The trenches often did not have duckboards to keep the soldiers out of the mud. Without duckboards in place‚ the soldiers would often get stuck in the mud. As the soldiers were living
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5 Fly By Wire Architecture 5.1 Introduction • The total elimination of all the complex mechanical control runs and linkages all commands and signals are transmitted electrically along wires‚ hence the name fly-by-wire. • The interposition of a computer between the pilot’s commands and the control surfaces actuators. • The aircraft motion sensors which feedback the components of the aircraft’s angular and linear motion of the computer. • The air data sensors which supply height and airspeed information
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