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The Scarlet Letter Scaffold
1,289 words
Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, centers
its plot, setting, and characters around the
unifying scaffold. With each encounter at the
scaffold, the four main characters, Hester, Pearl,
Rev. Dimmesdale, and Mr. Chillingworth, become
more emotionally connected to one another. Each of
the three meetings symbolizes a major turning
point in the novel where a sin is confessed and /
or developed. All four main characters interact
together only at the scaffold. During the first
scaffold scene, He...
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World War Ii War In The Pacific
1,828 words
... has Asia and that Britain would declare war
the next day. Roosevelt responded that he would go
before Congress the following day to ask for a
declaration of war against Japan. Churchill wrote:
"To have the United States at our side was to me
the greatest joy. Now at this very moment I knew
the United States was in the war, up to the neck
and in to the death. So we had won after all! ...
Hitler's fate was sealed. Mussolini's fate was
sealed. As for the Japanese, they would be ground
to powder...
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Ball Bearings Laser Light
1,919 words
Your universe, as we have suggested many times, as
we " ve suggested already this morning, is but one
universe among many. It is relatively a small
universe - not to suggest that you should feel
badly... {laughter}... for despite the consensus
reality that bigger is better, despite the
male-dominating energy and the comparative
energies that say "bigger is better, " your
universe, though relatively small, is not at all
diminished by its size. Now we know the word
universe by its definition means...
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Point Of The Play Tells The Audience
1,192 words
The opening scene of Act Two marks the dramatic
turning point of the play. In this scene,
Catherine confronts Rodolfo over Eddies allegation
that Rodolfo only wants to marry Catherine to be
an American. However it is soon revealed that
Rodolfo truly loves her. The two characters sleep
together for the first time, a fact that Eddie
finds out when he returns home drunk, which
results in a devastating confrontation between the
central characters. The seriousness and the
intense emotions displayed i...
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Ginsberg Howl A Counterculture Manifesto
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Allen Ginsberg dives into the wreck of himself and
of the world around him to salvage himself and
something worth saving of the world. In this
process, he composes Howl to create a new way of
observation for life through the expression of
counterculture. Protesting against technocracy,
sex and revealing sexuality, psychedelic drugs,
visionary experience, breaking the conventions of
arts and literature; all basic characteristics of
counterculture are combined and celebrated in
Howl, as it becomes...
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A New Mobile Robot Navigation Algorithm
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A New Mobile Robot Navigation Algorithm By using
Fuzzy Logic Control and Virtual Target Technique
Dr. Omid Reza Esmaeili Motlagh Intelligent Systems
and Robotics (ISRL) Lab Institute of Advanced
Technology, University Putra Malaysia (UPM),
Malaysia Abstract A new fuzzy logic control system
is developed for reactive navigation of a
behavior-based mobile robot. The robot perceives
its environment through an array of eight sonar
sensors and self positioning-localization sensors.
While the fuzzy log...
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Innocence And Beauty Plato Theory
1,429 words
Among School Children" is a poem used by Yeats to
determine an upcoming generation with the
underlying concept that no possible life can be
fulfilled. The philosophy controlling this work
suggests that perhaps life 'prepares us for what
never happens'. Consistent with Yeatsean
philosophy, it follows the dogma which states that
witlessness brings about innocence, whereas
knowledge brings us ballyhoo. Within the realms of
acquired wisdom, consciousness produces an
anarchic state within the individ...
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Rock Band Years Ago
335 words
Music today is not segregated against by most
people. Not only is it not segregated, it is
joining. One example of that is the relationship
between black rappers and white rockers. The
distinct line of rock and rap is now turning into
a blur. The first point that rap and rock is not
segregated against is that whites buy more rap
music than blacks. That shows that whites do not
discriminate against blacks in music. The second
point that rap and rock is turning into a blur is
that when rap first s...
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Coal And Oil Lot Of Money
1,888 words
All energy sources have negative and positive
aspects. Coal and oil pollute the environment,
nuclear fission produces toxic waste, and solar
heaters are not efficient. When compared to other
energy sources, hydroelectricity has fewer
disadvantages and is being explored and widely
used today. Throughout the world an increasing
amount of people are turning towards hydroelectric
power as a new source of energy. Although the idea
of converting water to power might seem simple,
the process it must go...
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Dover Beach Versus The Second Coming
579 words
Yeats and Arnold, the authors of these two Poems,
have taken an existential view regarding the way
religion affects the society, and why there is
such turmoil in nearly the same way. Each uses
methods of cause and effect and by using similar
style and tone with diction, varied the
presentation to bring a romantic view and a gothic
view of religion and the world society. The two
poems have no fixed form but are modern and leave
no rhyme or reason in their content. Dover Beach
indirectly tells a s...
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Wife And Children Heavy Burden
3,101 words
... thee counsel? Chr. If it be good, I will; for
I stand in need of good counsel. World. I would
advise thee, then, that thou with all speed get
thyself rid of thy burden; for thou wilt never be
settled in thy mind till then; nor canst thou
enjoy the benefits of the blessing which God hath
bestowed upon thee till then. Chr. That is that
which I seek for, even to be rid of this heavy
burden; but get it off myself, I cannot; nor is
there any man in our country that can take it off
my shoulders; t...
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Book Was Written Pride And Prejudice
1,427 words
their way to getting married. The sisters are
Jane, Elizabeth, Kitty, Mary and Lydia. The Bennet
sisters all live with their parents at Longbourn.
A new neighbor comes to live in the area of the
family, named Mr. Bingley. Bingley catches the
interest of most everyone in the area, but he
seems to be especially fond of Jane. Bingley's
friend, Mr. Darcy, is not so well taken as Bingley
himself is. Darcy is seen as too proud and overall
not as nice a person as Bingley, but both are
wealthy. Mr. Coll...
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Alternative Energy Sources Forms Of Energy
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Solar energy is of the most resourceful sources of
alternative energy. It is the most important of
the non-conventional sources of energy, because it
does not pollute the earth. "One of the reasons
for this is that the total energy we receive each
year from the sun is around 35, 000 times the
total energy used by man. " (Alternative energy
sources) Solar energy can be converted directly or
indirectly into alternative forms of energy.
People use solar energy for many things, but most
of it is use...
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Fall Of Man Second Stanza
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The poem 'Easter Wings' by George Herbert is a
poem full of deep imagery not only in its words
but also in the visual structure of the stanzas.
In Herbert's poem why does he use a shape poem?
Because he wanted this poem to have many different
levels and meanings. Herbert also used huge
amounts of mental imagery so that the reader can
find new truths and meanings each time he or she
reads it. The poem tells of the poets desire to
fly with Christ as a result of Jesus's artifice,
death and resurrec...
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Ivan The Terrible Evil Deeds
1,274 words
It is said that Russian rulers occurred in two
contrasting types. They tended to be either
extremely meek, or extremely self-assertive. In
the case of Ivan IV, he was extremely
self-assertive. At first this was a good thing he
used it to his and the countries advantage via
reforms etc However, Ivan experiences a turning
point after which that self-assertion transforms
into insanity, and completely destroyed all the
positive things he built up. Ivan was a madman
without genius, the quality ideas ...
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King And The Duke Duke And The King
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Important decisions made by the protagonist in The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Huck Finn, the
protagonist, made many story altering decisions
throughout the novel. Three monumental decisions
are lying to the bounty hunters about Jim, tearing
up the letter to Miss Watson about Jim and
himself, and hiding the gold the duke and the king
conned out of the Wilks. Two of the choices by
Huck decide the fate and freedom of a human being,
Jim, making them very powerful decisions that he
has to make. H...
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Men Are Equal Blacks And Whites
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Characters found in Mark Twain's novel, The
Adventure of Huckleberry Finn are shown as being
victims of the times through their ignorance to
the possibility that all men are equal no matter
what color skin one has. Pap, Huck's father, is
the most ignorant character within the book. He
blatantly comes out and tells the reader his
feeling of blacks, while a character such as Tom
isnt so obvious. Along with these two characters,
the Royal Nonesuch and the Phelpss friends display
an ignorance of the...
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Oxford Oxford University Fathers And Sons
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In an essay of not more than 1500 words: 1.
Explain how in your view the settings in Fathers
and Sons contribute to Turgenev s ideological
statement. 2. Consider whether setting acts in a
similar way in either Frankenstein or Great
Expectations. There are many ways in which the
word setting may be applied to a novel. Some of
these include: The time and place (s) in which the
action in the novel takes place; whether or not
the novel is being read in its original form, or
through the actions of a ...
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Innocence And Beauty Plato Theory
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dsffddfdfdAmong School Children is a poem used by
Yeats to determine an upcoming generation with the
underlying concept that no possible life can be
fulfilled. The philosophy controlling this work
suggests that perhaps life prepares us for what
never happens. Consistent with Yeatsean
philosophy, it follows the dogma which states that
witlessness brings about innocence, whereas
knowledge brings us ballyhoo. Within the realms of
acquired wisdom, consciousness produces an
anarchic state within the ...
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Rocking Horse Winner D H Lawrence
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A Feminist Reading of D. H. Lawrence? s The
Rocking Horse Winner The man that does not know
sick women does not know women. S. Weir Mitchell?
The Rocking Horse Winner? is the story of a boy? s
gift for picking the winners in horse races. An
omniscient narrator relates the tale of a boy
whose family is always short of money. His mother
is incapable of showing love and is obsessed with
the status that material wealth can provide. This
paper will explore the premise that D. H. Lawrence
presented th...
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