A flexible alternating current transmission system (FACTS) is a system composed of static equipment used for the AC transmission of electrical energy. It is meant to enhance controllability and increase power transfer capability of the network. It is generally a power electronics-based system. FACTS is defined by the IEEE as "a power electronic based system and other static equipment that provide control of one or more AC transmission system parameters to enhance controllability and Technology
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Caroline McKinnon - Year 12 English Analytical Response - Poetry ’No More Hiroshimas’ by James Kirkup and ’Icarus Allsorts’ by Roger McGough can appear‚ on a superficial level‚ to be completely different poems. The former is long‚ gloomy and reflective‚ written in a narrative‚ free verse style‚ in first person. The latter is a short‚ satirical rhyming poem with an upbeat tone. Upon closer analysis‚ however‚ the two pieces are not only bound together by a common overall theme of nuclear war
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Literary analysis of an unseen extract: how does the author engage the reader through the use of literary devices in your given extract? The first line " In the middle of nowhere..." grabs the readers attention because it gets the reader wondering why this person is in the middle of nowhere‚ It gives the reader something to think about creating different feeling and emotions towards the reader. As you begin to read on you are given the weathers description "left behind its feeble breezes‚ but the
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Poetic Sound Devices Practice “Poetry is old‚ ancient‚ goes back far. It is among the oldest of living things. So old it is that no man knows how and why the first poems came.” Confound the cats! All cats--away— Cats of all colors‚ black‚ white‚ gray; By night a nuisance and by day— Confound the cats! All cats‚ always. I dreamed a dream next Tuesday week‚ Beneath the apple-trees; I thought my eyes were big pork-pies‚ And my nose was Stilton cheese. Big Balloons Bounce into the
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The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Today I will be talking about the bombings that ended World War II ‚ The plane that dropped it‚ the destruction that followed‚ and issues that were dependent on the weather. The bombings had code names. Hiroshimas code was ‘Little Boy’‚ Nagasakis code name was ‘Fat Man’. The bombings took place on August 6th‚ 1945 they had different locations where they might drop the bombs‚ it all depended on whether the target had clear weather. So hours before
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Anton Ermakov Period 4 US History Essay The Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki On August 6th‚ 1945‚ the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima‚ Japan‚ and then‚ three days later‚ dropped another bomb on Nagasaki. Since both bombs were dropped‚ there has been controversy over this important event. Some people feel strongly that the United States was justified in the decision to drop the bombs‚ whereas many other people believe that it was not necessary to bomb Japan at that point in
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http://www.translationdirectory.com/article301.htm Literary Translation: Recent Theoretical Developments By Sachin Ketkar Lecturer in English SB Garda College‚ Navsari www.geocities.com/sachinketkar sachinketkar@yahoo.com Literary studies have always‚ explicitly or implicitly‚ presupposed a certain notion of `literariness ’ with which it has been able to delimit its domain‚ specify‚ and sanction its methodologies and approaches to its subject. This notion of `literariness ’ is crucial
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simile only says that one thing is like another‚ a metaphor says that one thing is another. All the world’s a stage / And all the men and women merely players ... (Shakespeare) Life’s but a walking shadow ... (Shakespeare Macbeth) ‘Night’ is often used as a metaphor for ‘evil’. He uses ‘night’ as a metaphorical equivalent of ‘evil’. Personification: a kind of metaphor in which animals‚ plants‚ inanimate objects or ab¬stract ideas are represented as if they were human beings and possessed human
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Barefoot Gen: A Cartoon History Of Hiroshima Barefoot Gen: A Cartoon History Oh Hiroshima1 is written to show Keiji Nakazawa’s own ideas on peace and how the world needs to live peacefully together. The story is about Keiji’s alter ego Gen’s life before the atomic bomb was dropped on his hometown of Hiroshima. Gen and his family are poor civilians living in Hiroshima who are under the constant burden of the town officials‚ the citizens of the town‚ and the hunger
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Rohan Shah 3 November 2014 Hiroshima and Holocaust Perspectives World War II is an event that has marred the lives of people from all different races‚ cultures‚ and continents. Two of the most terrifying and grim incidents happened during this war: the Holocaust and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Germany wiped out the Jewish population in Europe‚ while the United States shocked the world with its weapon of mass destruction that destroyed two industrial cities of Japan. Although
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