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    need for survival for them and their family? Victor is a Mexican boy from the novel Crossing the Wire whose family is impoverished. He is forced to go to America in hopes of being able to provide for his family. Poverty badly hurts Victor’s family‚ and Victor will have to get a job in America or Victor and his family will be doomed. Poverty impacted Victor’s family negatively. In Chapter 2 of Crossing the Wire‚ Victor thinks “And Rico didn’t know what it felt like to be hungry‚ really hungry‚

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    The wire

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    Film: The wire (TV series 2002-2008) The series features the abuse of narcotics from a law enforcer’s‚ abuser’s and a drug dealer’s perspective. Rational choice theory This theory settles on a practical belief that man is an actor who reasons contemplates on benefits‚ means‚ costs and ends then makes a rational choice. Man has a sense comprehensible rationale of free will‚ where he evaluates the risks and benefits for committing a crime. From the excerpts from the film (season1)‚ we see a night

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    Crossing

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    Crossing The short story “Crossing”‚ written by Mark Slouka‚ begins as a straightforward account of a man who takes his son to a remote area where he remembers similar experiences with his own father. He carries their packs across a shallow but fast moving river‚ and then goes back and carries his son across. They spend one night exploring the area‚ but the next day when he recrosses the river‚ he knows that the current is a bit stronger than the day before. When he takes the boy back across‚ he

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    The Crossing

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    The Crossing In Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Crossing‚ there is a dramatic sequence described by the narrator. The author uses many different techniques to convey the impact of the experience on the narrator. Some of these such techniques are: repetition‚ diction‚ and simile. Of the aforementioned techniques‚ the most obvious is repetition. The author uses the word “and” a total of thirty-three times. However‚ the simple usage

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    Wires

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    Wire A wire is a single‚ usually cylindrical‚ flexible strand or rod of metal. Wires are used to bear mechanical loads or electricity and telecommunications signals. Wire is commonly formed by drawing the metal through a hole in a die or draw plate. Standard sizes are determined by various wire gauges. The term wire is also used more loosely to refer to a bundle of such strands‚ as in ’multistranded wire’‚ which is more correctly termed a wire rope in mechanics‚ or a cable in electricity. Although

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    Crossing

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    Crossing Nothing is stronger than a bond between a child and a parent. In all cultures the parent educates the child with skills and values and these remain with the child all his or her life. The reason why a parent has such impact on its child is because of trust. A relationship build on trust is the strongest and every parent wants to have such a relationship. This is the kind of relationship the main character in the short story Crossing (2009) by Mark Slouka is trying to build with his son.

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    Crossing

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    Crossing Crossing is a short story written by Mark Slouka in 2009. The story is concerned with the relationship between a father and his son. Some fathers like to take their sons out camping to create a closer bond and that is exactly what the father wishes to obtain‚ but most fathers would never dream of taking their sons out on dangerous trips. However this is the case in Mark Slouka’s short story. By the use of a description of the nature versus man Slouka presents the struggle of the father.

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    The Crossing In this passage from the novel The Crossing‚ Cormac McCarthy uses imagery and word choice to describe the dramatic religious experience of his main character who becomes conscious of the spiritual unity of every soul in the natural world‚ because of the death of a she-wolf he had formed a connection with. McCarthy conveys to the reader that the main character is going through an intense‚ and somewhat frightening‚ spiritual experience through his religious imagery and dramatic word

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    Question 2 – The Crossing As one encounters dramatic experiences‚ the impacts those create may significantly alter that way in which that person views his surroundings. In Cormac McCarthy’s passage from his novel The Crossing‚ the main character is challenged with major obstacles that come to change his opinion of nature and its doubtful peacefulness. By employing techniques such as selection of detail‚ religious symbolism and sublime imagery‚ McCarthy paints the tragedy which has impacted the

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    Resistance of a Wire

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    Introduction The resistance of a wire depends on certain factors. Some of these variables are listed below: • Length of wire • Diameter or thickness of wire • Temperature at which wire is kept • The material of which wire is made out of. • The potential difference or voltage. • Humidity • Cross sectional area. • Voltage across circuit All these factors will have to be kept constant except the diameter of the wire whilst doing the experiment to ensure that the investigation is

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