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Storm Surge Low Lying
979 wordsHurricanes, cyclones, and typhoons are a major hazard in the Tropics. Every year, some 80 occurrences claim, on average, 20 000 lives and cause immense damage to property, natural vegetation, and shipping. A hurricane is a large rotating storm around a centre of very low pressure with values of 950 mb or lower. Most systems have a diameter of about 650 km, less than half that of a mid-latitude depression. Wind speeds often exceed 33 m per second (119 km per hour) and, in the most intense hurrica...
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Affair With Abigail Giles Corey
1,158 wordsAct One begins with the Rev. Samuel Parris praying for his daughter Betty who lies faint in her bed, suffering from a strange malady. Betty and Abigail, Parris's niece, and some of the other village girls had been surprised by Parris in the forest as they were engaged in a voodoo ritual led by Tituba, Parris's black slave. Betty fainted and still had not recovered. Ann and Thomas Putnam, prosperous villagers, arrive and claim that the children are suffering from "the Devil's touch" at the hands ...
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Jem And Scout Kill A Mockingbird
4,365 wordsChapter 1: To Kill a Mockingbird begins, "When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow... When enough years had gone by to enable us to look back on them, we sometimes discussed the events leading to his accident. I maintain that the Ewell's started it all, but Jem, who was four years my senior, said it started long before that. He said it began the summer Dill came to us, when Dill first gave us the idea of making Boo Radley come out" (9). Only after one fin...
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Hail Macbeth Hail Kill King Duncan
1,716 wordsIn Macbeth king Duncan is physically murdered in act 2 scenes 1 - 2 by the Thane of Cawdor, Macbeth, he is unable to be held completely responsible for the murder as many other characters can be held responsible for motivating him to do the deed. The main suspects are: the three witches, Lady Macbeth, Macbeth himself, Duncan and the guards. So far in the play Macbeth has become the Thane of Cawdor by winning the battle against the Norwegians and Macdonald. Then Macbeth returns home where he reun...
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Part Of The World Lady Bracknell
1,246 wordsThe play begins in the flat of Algernon Mon crieff, an English bachelor. Visited by his friend Jack Worthing, though Algernon and everyone else in London know Jack as "Ernest. " Jack says that he has come to town to propose to Gwendolyn Fairfax, the daughter of Lady Bracknell, first cousin of Algernon. Algernon tells Jack that he refuses to give his consent for him to marry Gwendolyn until Jack can explain why the name Cecily inscribed in Jack's cigarette case. After making up a story, Jack fina...
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Timeline Of The Life Ernesto Che Guevara
1,156 wordsToday I would like to tell you the Biography of Ernesto Guevara also called El com andante che. First of all does anybody no anything about che? Young Ernesto Guevara Ernesto Guevara de la Serna is born June 14, 1928 in Rosario, one of the most important cities in Argentina, in a well off family. A family with aristocratic roots but socialistic ideas. After attending a primary school in 1947, Ernesto Guevara meets the young Berta Gilda Infante, also known as Tita. She is a member of the Argentin...
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Fidel Castro Soviet Union
1,147 words... a complete trading-embargo against Cuba. Che leads an official Cuban delegation in a tour to different socialistic countries: from the Soviet-Union and Eastern Europe to China and Northern Korea. From there, back to the Soviet-Union, Eastern-Germany and Czecho-Slovakia. Early 61 the U. S. breaks all diplomatic relations with Cuba. On April 15 are the Cuban airports bombed by US-planes. On April 17 there is the invasions in the Bay of Pigs: 1. 500 CIA-mercenaries attack Cuba supported by the ...
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Act Ii Scene Act Iii Scene
1,786 words... problem of the two lovers and hints that there may be some way to overcome it: 'But passion lends them power, time means, to meet, / Temp " ring extremities with extreme sweet. ' Mercutio lays on the sexual innuendos rather thickly in the first scene of the second act. He uses phrases that invoke sexual images such as 'raise up him, ' 'mistress' circle, ' and 'letting it there stand / Till she had laid it and colour'd it down, ' as well as metaphors of pears and medlars (a fruit somewhat lik...
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Website N P Cardiac Arrest
906 wordsThe Importance of Learning CPR The average person may think he is able to perform CPR, but mastering this vital skill can save a life. What is CPR? CPR is an abbreviation of cardiopulmonary resuscitation. According to Nemours foundation Website, CPR is a combination of rescue breathing (mouth-to-mouth resuscitation) and chest compressions. Why is this skill so important? When a person cannot breathe or a persons body cannot circulate blood adequately, cardiopulmonary resuscitation can restore ci...
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Romeo And Juliet Benvolio And Mercutio
1,647 wordsThe Death Motif in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet Often times, authors use the theme of death throughout their works. This seems to be true of William Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet. Throughout his play, Shakespeare uses death to move his story along. He does this with actual deaths, which cause problems for the lovers, and through premonitions and dreams of death. Both Juliet and her Romeo exhibit these premonitions / dreams . The use of death is immediately seen in the prologue of the play: T...
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High Social Status Aristotle
836 wordsThe play The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde definitely proved itself to be? A Trivial Comedy for Serious People. ? I saw the play at Lindenwood University? s Jelkyl Theatre. The play was long, in a three-act structure, yet it moved along at a good pace. They did a nice job of preparing the audience, there was an interesting lobby display with sketches of each of the costumes with fabric samples and they played music to fit the time period before the show began. The first of Aristotle...
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Native American Culture House
3,055 wordsIn Linda Hogan? s 1998 novel Power, much is learned about Native American culture. The main characters, Omishto and Ama help reveal this culture. The novel is divided into nine chapters. In Chapter 1, ? Omishto, ? a girl is in a boat that is floating on a pond. She notices that there is a storm coming in. She describes the pond and the area around it. A snake tries to enter the girl? s boat, but she pushes it out with a pole, and then she moves the boat to land. As she does this, she feels somet...
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Lord Jim Bad Luck
1,853 wordsSummer Reading Project Lord Jim The main character of Lord Jim is none other then, Jim. He is also referred to as Lord Jim and Tuan Jim. Jims main goal in life is to be understood by someone, anyone at all. Jim does a lot of day dreaming. His dreams consist of a hero (him) performing some kind of a heroic act. But despite all the day dreaming, he never does perform his Heroic deed. When Jim had the chance to perform his first heroic deed, he failed. He was on a ship, transporting pilgrims, but w...
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Hail Macbeth Hail Macbeth Hail To Thee Thane
4,416 wordsAndrew Tegala January 1997 For Brave Macbeth, well he deserves that name Show how he changes from respected general to tyrant. Is he to blame or are others responsible for his downfall? Macbeth is the general of the Scottish army, who has lead his men into a savage battle with the Norwegians, Highlanders and Western Islanders. He has boldly executed Macdonald, who was recreant to his fatherland. He walks from the bloody terrain, triumphant of his achievement with his trustworthy companion Banquo...
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Roger Chillingworth Human Heart
1,211 wordsMichael Stavropoulos Doctor Torrance English III 2 December 1997 The Deterioration of Roger Chillingworth Roger Prynne is an old and lonely scholar in England dehumanized by a life of abstruse studying. He makes the mistake of marrying a young wife. He sends his wife to America, to the Puritan colony of Massachusetts, with instructions to live quietly until he arrives. Due to grievous mishaps by sea and land, and over a years captivity by Indians, his intended arrival was delayed. He finally arr...
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Makes The Story Red October
1,803 wordsMarko Red October 2) Outline: Marko Ramius is the captain of the Russian super-submarine Red October. The Red October is a modified submarine of the Typhoon-class and is nuclear powered. The October can carry twenty-six nuclear missiles, enough firepower to blow up the city of Washington for about twenty times. To test this very expensive submarine (billions of dollars! ), the Russian navy has to find the Red October in the Atlantic Ocean. Because the Red October has a new propulsion-system that...
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Act Ii Scene Act Iii Scene
3,541 wordsSummary Act I, Scene ii Paris asks Capulet for his daughter Juliets hand in marriage. Capulet replies that she is still too young to be married, but nevertheless invites Paris to try to woo her at a banquet he is holding that night. He gives a servant a list of guests and tells him to take an invitation to each of them. The servant is illiterate, and so goes about trying to find someone to read the list for him. He runs into Romeo and Benvolio, who are still discussing Romeos unrequited love. Th...
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Romeo And Juliet Capulet And Montague
3,280 wordsThe opening scene of any play is extremely important because it can play a major role in establishing key elements throughout the rest of the performance. The main elements are the characters, themes, language, settings and plot. The audience can form a basic idea of these elements involved to spark their interest in the play. At the end of an opening scene the audience have usually had an insight into the typical mood and language of the play. It also enables the viewers to have a taster of the...
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Concealing His Identity Mother And Her Lover Orestes
580 wordsEuripides and Sophocles wrote their own versions of the Electra story. The basic plot is as follows: Agamemnon is killed by Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus after he returns from the Trojan war to reclaim his sister-in-law Helen from the Trojans. Electra and her brother Orestes plot to kill their mother and her lover to revenge his death. Both authors wrote about the same plot, but the built the story very differently. Sophocles focused on Orestes, and Euripides focused more on the life of E...
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