“Hunting Octopus in the Gilbert Islands” is an interesting short story about Sir Arthur Grimble who is stationed in the Gilbert Islands and recounts his experiences in short stories. The short story offers an interesting insight into the lives of the natives and shows what extreme lengths the islanders must go through to get food and have a little bit of fun along the way. Grimble starts the story by describing with great detail how the islanders hunt octopus. The description of the hunt shows how
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with the keen insights to help improve his world by claiming that leaders should not use poverty to control his people‚ harshly tax his people‚ and take benefits of people’s hard work. Leaders should not use poverty to control his people. In Utopia‚ Sir Thomas More wrote “Certainly it is wrong to think that the poverty of the people is a safeguard of public peace.” More meant that a ruler should not use poverty to control his people. Having people depending on leaders or the government for their own
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In 1928‚ Raman spectroscopy was introduced by Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman an Indian Physicist‚ together with K. S. Krishnan. For this tremendous contribution in Physics‚ Sir C. V. Raman got Nobel prize in 1930. Write something about Raman signal‚ where does it come from? What are the implications of Raman? Raman is the inelastic scattering of light. The meaning of inelastic scattering is observable from the figure below. When an electron is excited by photons of applied light‚ it jumps from
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A Farewell to False Love By: Sir Walter Raleigh A Farewell to False Love by Sir Walter Raleigh is the best poem in the world. Raleigh writes his experience with love as terrible and unbearable; it was written in 1588 in an era where poets would typically write about the wonders of love‚ or write to a love. In Raleigh’s poem he contradicts this idea by writing a poem that states explicitly that love seems to be a lovely thing on the outside‚ but once you experience it‚ it is like a “poisoned
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In Sir John Betjeman’s poem‚ “5 O’clock Shadow”‚ imagery and figurative language creates a complex tone of hopelessness‚ revealing the fear of dying alone. From the first line‚ the speaker is revealed as a male and he is forced to stay in the “men’s ward” located in a hospital. It is evening because the poem portrays a sense of departure; from the doctor’s who have left to play golf to the “loving family” who has gone home to enjoy tea and television. The “shadow” is implying a deeper‚ figurative
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Sir Isaac newton had a gigantic effect on society and even now teachers are still teaching his three laws of motion from 1687. He has published the most revered book in science known as Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy) which is more commonly known as Principia. He helped explain elliptical planetary orbits and nearly every motion in the universe including how all of the planets in our solar system revolve around the sun. Isaac Newton
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The conventions of courtly love are both upheld and broken in Part III of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The four prominent components of courtly love include: tokens‚ concealment‚ servitude‚ and imprisonment. They are adhered to and broken by Gawain and the lady when they are alone together in the castle‚ as well as when Gawain and the lord discuss their daily winnings with each other. Under the rules of courtly love Gawain should have given the lady a token in order to show his admiration for
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Sir Philip Sidneys Sonnet 7 is from the sonnet sequence Astophel and Stella dating from the sixteenth century. It is a lament by one of the central figures‚ Astophel‚ a man who is in love with the other central figure‚ Stella‚ who is ultimately unattainable because she is married to another man. In the first few lines of the poem‚ Astrophil talks about Stellas black eyes and how they beam so bright (ll. 2) and how in beamy black (ll. 3) she radiates beauty. The excerpt chosen begins with Or did
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“The Adventures of the Speckled Band” Essay In the story‚ “The Adventures of the Speckled Band‚” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle‚ fearful and timid Helen Stoner seeks Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson for assistance. During the early 1883‚ in London‚ England‚ specifically in the Stoke Moran residence‚ Helen’s sister‚ Julia mysteriously died. Helen‚ Helen’s stepfather Dr. Roylott‚ and the doctors could not figure out how Julia died. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are put up to the challenging test to solve
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did in “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” by The Pearl Poet. In the story “Le Morte d’Arthur” written by Sir Thomas Mallory‚ shows that during Gawain’s battle with Launcelot‚ Gawian would not give up until his death. There is more than one reason as to why Sir Gawain is a better‚ more courageous knight in “Le Morte d’Arthur” than he is in “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”. The first way Gawain shows that he is a better‚ more courageous knight in “Le Morte d’Arthur” is by what he says to Sir Launcelot
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