No matter how great you think you are‚ if you are a king or a pauper‚ the fact remains that we all have to die. With death‚ power ceases to exist. Shelley portrays a deteriorated statue‚ which stands for the fall of life. As the statue breaks down little by little‚ eventually nature will catch up with you. To give an impression of this destruction‚ Shelley uses words like: ‘trunkless’ and ‘shattered’. Trunkless means a main body‚ apart from tributaries or appendages. You are without a torso‚ meaning
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The Raven: A Close Reading The entire poem including the first stanza‚ as scanned here‚ is octametre with mostly trochaic feet and some iams. The use of a longer line enables the poem to be more of a narration of the evening’s events. Also‚ it enables Poe to use internal rhymes as shown in bold. The internal rhyme occurs in the first and third lines of each stanza. As one reads the poem you begin to expect the next rhyme pushing you along. The external rhyme of the "or" sound in Lenore and nevermore
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Close to the Water’s Edge Section B In our modern lives we have to form our own identity. We need to make a lot of choices concerning who we are and how we would like our lives to develop. But of course our identity is greatly affected by our childhood. The choices made by our parents and their parents are probably the most important choices ever made for us. The few people who rise in the social hierarchy is a proof of this. The short story is about the importance of our foundations. The grandmother
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all I have done to help people I’m sure I’d find more (not trying to make myself look good here‚ but it’s just one of the things my mother (God rest her soul) always taught us‚ she always helped other people too. It’s a good feeling when you help someone else and sometimes great friendships
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Transformer What is a Transformer? A transformer is made from two coils‚ one on each side of a soft iron core. It can decrease the voltage (called a step down transformer). or increase the voltage (called a step up transformer‚ shown below). Alternating current is passed through the primary coil (the input) which creates a changing magnetic field in the iron core. The changing magnetic field then induces alternating current of the same frequency in the secondary coil (the output).
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following student essay is based on a reading from the December 1999 exam: an essay: “Getting Close to the Machine” by Ellen Ullman. Why do we have computers? Computers are invented in order to facilitate the satisfaction of our needs. We want to satisfy our needs daily and computers are composed of our thoughts and of how we would realize the action performed by the computer. In Ellen Ullman’s “Getting Close to the Machine”‚ the effects and compositions of a programmed computer is clearly illustrated
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1. Answer the questions for the case “integrating McDonald ’s Business‚ Human Resource‚ and Staffing Strategies" page 49‚ Chapter 2. [ 15 Marks] Questions 1: How would you describe McDonald ’s business strategy? What are the foundations of its competitive advantage? Answer: McDonald’s business strategy is a specialization strategy. The organization is built on a foundation that gives it a competitive advantage and a business strategy that is consistent‚ flexible‚ and specialized. McDonald’s
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“In light of what you have learned about City Road‚ describe some of the inequalities on a street which you know.” Very much like City Road‚ the street which I observed for comparison‚ Concord High Street‚ is a mixture of consumer outlets and places in which the local population socialise‚ during the day and later on on a night. Concord High Street is part of what is locally understood to be ‘Old’ Washington‚ i.e. the original small village that once stood here amongst the coal mines‚ as opposed
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3. Describe a time when you took a great risk. What was the outcome? The heat baffled me when I left the plane in Jeddah airport after a 10 hours’ travel. I met the company driver to embark in drive in a desert area‚ punctuated by a few police check points along the trip. We reached our destination after an hour and a half‚ and once passing the armed guards looking for potential bombs under the car‚ we finally reached the base camp where I was going to spend the next months. Completely out of my
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Confidence 1. How do you justify your thinking to someone who questions your conclusions? The way that I justify my thinking to someone who questions my conclusions is by using my knowledge from my past and present experiences‚ as well as the education I have acquired thus far both in and out of school because not everything is learned in the classroom. I use evidence-based practice and information from reliable sources as well as textbooks to explain my reasoning for someone to better understand
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