self-awareness and understanding. Further examination of the text shows that the narrator is actually embarrassed and chagrined by the confused adoration towards his friend’s older sister that marked his childhood‚ creating a reflective yet fatuous tone that is developed through the utilization of literary devices such as dramatic diction‚ simile‚ extended metaphor‚ and religious imagery. Joyce’s word choice both provides insight into and encapsulates his feelings regarding blind love and infatuation
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Whenever one is faced with misfortune‚ the common question that follows is‚ “How did this happen? Who is at fault?” The same thought process is true of William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. The play takes place in Verona where Romeo‚ a Montague‚ and Juliet‚ a Capulet‚ have a love forbidden by their families’ rivalry. Juliet‚ and the spiritual leader of Verona called Friar Lawrence‚ make a plan to fake Juliet’s death. This would allow her to escape the feud and be with Romeo‚ who
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came across about going back in time to a carefree young you right? In the poem “Birches”‚ by Robert Frost‚ he portrays a child being carefree and being jovial to being an adult that wants to go back to his childhood. The author presents a hopeful tone through the use of imagination‚ details‚ and imagery to help picture what Robert is talking about. Also its theme about escaping the rationality‚ of the adult world‚ if only for a moment. The first writing style in “Birches” is imagery. A example
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Pinyin seems like “Alphabets + Tones” like: “nǐhǎo !”—hello! Learn the Tones Mandarin is a tonal language‚ which means if you say a word with the wrong tone or inflection‚ you can be misunderstood. For example: “ma”There are four distinct tones. In Pinyin‚ the first tone: mā(mother) this tone is high and flat with no change in the pitch‚using‘ˉ’as its tone mark.the second tone: má(numb)this tone rises from the middle to the top‚ using ‘ˊ’as its tone markthe third tone:
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Since the 18th century Romanticism dominated French literature‚ Romanticism depicted scenes and ideals from the Romantic movement. Realist‚ however rejected this movement as they did not agree with portraying exotic or profound emotional displays in art‚ rather realism was to portray reality and truth for what it was. Realism works of art sometimes depict much of the same characteristics as modern photography‚ displaying scenes in the purist form‚ in most cases showing the "not so beautiful" in
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France‚ and was copyrighted in 1955. The novel is an erotic tragicomedy set in France and America in the 1940s. 2. Humbert Humbert’s personality is quite erudite. Humbert uses words very carefully in speech as well as in writing. Humbert uses his tone and diction to take the reader’s attention from the terrible acts which are actually being described and as a result‚ he becomes far less despicable to the reader. Playing with words softens the blows of the horrors of Humbert’s lived fantasies.
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1 FAULT TREE ANALYSIS 1. Introduction FTA is a deductive‚ failure-based approach. As a deductive approach‚ FTA starts with an undesired event‚ such as failure of a main engine‚ and then determines (deduces) its causes using a systematic‚ backward-stepping process. In determining the causes‚ a fault tree (FT) is constructed as a logical illustration of the events and their relationships that are necessary and sufficient to result in the undesired event‚ or top event. The symbols used in a FT indicate
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2013 Tones of Love Poems Pablo Neruda and Billy Collins both wrote poems about love; however‚ they each create individual tones through literary devices and relations. Neruda employs imagery and uses similarities between the speaker and his lover to create a serious tone‚ while Collins instead creates a satirical tone using metaphors and separating the narrator from his beloved. In “XVII‚” Neruda employs imagery such as words like “dark‚” “secret‚” “soul‚” and “shadow” to create a tone that demonstrates
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The San Andreas Fault by Sandra S. Schulz and Robert E. Wallace The presence of the San Andreas fault was brought dramatically to world attention on April 18‚ 1906‚ when sudden displacement along the fault produced the great San Francisco earthquake and fire. This earthquake‚ however‚ was but one of many that have resulted from episodic displacement along the fault throughout its life of about 15-20 million years. What Is It? Scientists have learned that the Earth’s crust is fractured into a series
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San Andreas Fault Zone The San Andreas Fault Zone is located in San Francisco‚ California and is more than 800 miles long and at least 10 miles deep. The San Andreas Fault is the drifting boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate. It splits California in two from Cape Mendocino to the Mexican border. San Diego‚ Los Angeles and Big Sur are on the Pacific Plate. San Francisco‚ Sacramento and the Sierra Nevada are on the North American Plate. There was an earthquake along
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