1. Provide a comprehensive description of the experiment Thomson used to discover the electron. Thomson was experimenting with electric discharges in electric discharge tubes when he found that it would glow when a high voltage was applied in a gas volume at low pressure‚ while it was known that the glow in the gas was something to do with the cathode and the negative pole of the high voltage‚ Thomson continued with his experiments with the rays coming from the cathode and he found that the rays
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walking home‚Montag stumbles across a seventeen year old girl . She is quite strange‚according to him. Our society and the society in the book in some ways are alike. "You’re peculiar‚ you’re aggravating ‚ yet you’re easy to forgive" (Bradbury23). Today‚ we have people who think about certain subjects in a different perspective. Sometimes we look at these people differently because they have a different thinking process. Montag doesn’t have the same thinking process as Clarisse.Therefore‚he finds
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between? People of Troy and Allie’s of Greek Kings. Epic and Values 1. What are epics? Long narrative poems that tell of the adventure of hero’s who in some way embody the values of their civilianization. 2. What were the Iliad and the Odyssey used for? To teach greek virtues.
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light to humanity and equality which he obviously thought should be a part of our culture. Although the American audience was initially not entirely receptive of the viewpoints that Whitman had to offer‚ his poetry still lives on to be very relevant today and has been greatly admired. By discussing the topics of nature‚ humanity‚ America‚ and life in general‚ Whitman seems to enlighten his audiences on new perspectives through his exploration on these different topics with the great
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What is irony and how is it used in the story? Irony is a stylistic device‚ used by the author to keep the drama in the story going‚ for the reader’s enjoyment. It is the twist or unexpected event which blends the elements of the story together. In the instance of O. Henry he combines exaggeration [or hyperbole] and irony to add humor in the story. O. Henry is a master of irony and exaggeration‚ so that his stories have flavor and depth. In "The Ransom of Red Chief‚" O. Henry uses the three devices;
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lives. These prisoners are chained facing a wall; they cannot see anything except the shadows on that wall‚ which are being cast by men carrying unknown objects in front of a glowing fire. They never see the actual carriers or items‚ and they hear nothing but the echoes of these obscure men‚ yet are still entranced by these illogical sounds and images. Plato’s Cave illustrates how people solely base their perception of the world on their experiences of physical objects‚ and by doing so‚ they limit
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Both cartoonists use analogy to display and compare social classes‚ and how upper class reacts to lower classes. Analogy is the comparison between two things or ideas to clarify and explain the problem. In the “House problem” cartoon‚ showing middle class life Vs. Upper class is simple explanation for analogy. It is used successfully comparing middle class life and the upper class’ point of view. Although the rich man has a house and a car‚ he still thinks he is living like middle class. In the “Unions”
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How is music alongside poetry used in Twelfth Night Critics call Twelfth Night one of William Shakespeare’s most poetic and musical plays. Shakespeare writes poetic lines for the major characters‚ Viola‚ Orsino‚ and Olivia‚ and gives the Fool‚ and other minor characters‚ songs to sing throughout the play. The particularly romantic lines of the play make it seem as if the characters are professional poets themselves. Shakespeare also uses the music and poetry in Twelfth Night to foreshadow what
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Sarcasm Used in The Great Dictator In the movie The Great Dictator‚ Charlie Chaplin depicts a dictator named Hynkel who is racist‚ opportunistic‚ and a totalitarian ruler of a fictitious country called Romania. Chaplin uses a great deal of sarcasm in the movie to present ideas that influence viewers. Sarcasm used in the movie effectively shows us with humor and pointed messages how fascism is used to consolidate Henkel’s power by blaming Jews for everything and how that is against humanity. One
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There are many people in society today that think the same way that Atticus Finch does about Tom Robinson‚ a black male accused of raping a white woman‚ in Harper Lee’s book “To Kill a Mockingbird”. Atticus believed that although Robinson was African American‚ he deserved a fair trial and not to be killed‚ despite what the other white people were saying in the town. Atticus thought that Tom had just as many rights as the Caucasian people. The towns’ people felt as though Tom was beneath them and
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