Trapped By the Past I sat on the teacher’s dais‚ alone and unprotected. As floods of small schoolboys flowed into the room in unrelenting waves‚ I began to realise the full extent of my vulnerability. Standing at the highest point in the room‚ I was an obvious target. Any of the malevolent children below me could easily hit me with a heavy object or swarm on me like a crowd of ants‚ overwhelming me with sheer force of numbers and sending me tumbling to the ground. During the war‚ I had been far
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CMT3321 – Week 19 – Sample Exam Question Question (a) Describe the key features of Tangible User Interfaces‚ comparing and contrasting them with multi-touch interactive surfaces. [ 10 marks ] (b) Consider the following scenario: The Tangible Disaster Simulation System is a collaborative tool for planning disaster measures based on simulations of disasters and responses such as evacuation and the actions of emergency services. Users can define parameters of a disaster (such as its scale
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Discuss and compare questionable motives within ‘Frankenstein’ and ‘In Cold Blood’ The extracts I have chosen are ‘Frankenstein’ (page 102-104) and ‘In Cold Blood’ (page 135-137). My first extract from ’In Cold Blood’ begins with perry a criminal describing when he is arrested at Mexico city hotel‚ he expresses himself in a way that portrays his lack of education as well as his continuous frustration with life. The extract then goes on to present a letter written to Perry from his sister Barbara
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Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (1719) is one of the most important novels of the eighteenth century‚ and of the English literature. It is certainly the first novel in the sense that it is the first fictional narrative in which the ordinary person’s activities are the centre of continuous literary attention. Before that‚ in the early eighteenth century‚ authors like Pope‚ Swift‚ Addison and Steele looked back to the Rome of Caesar Augustus (27 BC – 14 AD) as a golden age. That period
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Would you agree that Frankenstein offers a spirit of hope and redemption? Well yes the spirit of optimism is exposed through Frankenstein’s didactic encounter with the character Walton and the sense of redemption is conveyed through Frankenstein’s acknowledgement of the atrocities he has bestowed upon humanity due to his immoral actions regarding science. What about Blade Runner? C – Well I think we see that Tyrell in Blade Runner displays no acknowledgment for his malevolent actions and we
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you should be completed with the reading by the date listed in the left column. Journal Assignment Worth: 200 project points Due Date: 3/24/14 Directions: You will be given time at the beginning of each class dedicated to reading or discussing the novel to complete a journal entry. You should be completing the journal entry that corresponds with the number of the reading you completed the night before. Each entry or answer should be lengthy – 3
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The invention of printing subjected the existing field of histories – whether allegedly true‚ romantic or novel – to a process of trivializationand commercialization. Romances had circulated in lavishly ornamented manuscripts to be read out to audiences. The printed book allowed a comparatively inexpensive alternative for the special purpose of silent reading. Abridgements of ancient historians‚ popular medieval histories of knights‚ stories of comical heroes‚ religious legends and collections of
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discusses the imagery in "Children of the Sea." At the age of twenty-six‚ young for a writer‚ Edwidge Danticat has many honors credited to her name. Aside from publishing two books‚ the novel Breath‚ Eyes‚ Memory and a collection of short stories‚ Krik? Krak!‚ she has also received much critical acknowledgment. Her novel earned her recognition by the New York Times as one of the "thirty young artists to watch‚" and it was nominated for a National Book Award in 1995. KriW Krak! drew as many rave reviews;
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"1. Flying." Professor Exchange: The chapter alternately follows two planes moving in the opposite direction from shortly after their take-off to the moment of their landing. It is the 1st of January 1969 and two English literature professors are changing their places for six months. One goes to the State University of Euphoria‚ the famous centre of learning located in the most attractive country in America between Northern and Southern California. The other goes to the University of Rummidge‚ an
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A novella is a narrative work of prose fiction somewhat longer than a short story but shorter than a novel. A common length is about 50 to 100 pages‚ or around 20‚000 to 40‚000 words. The extra length is generally used for more character development than is possible in a short story‚ but without the much greater character and plot development of a novel. ------------------------------------------------- Novella From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia This article is about the literary form. For
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