The theme in the poem “Homecoming”‚ by Bruce Dawe‚ is the feeling and belonging of home and how you can die for your country‚ yet receive inhumane like treatment. The theme in “Beach Burial”‚ by Kenneth Slessor‚ is the pointlessness of war. The two poems are very similar‚ yet very different‚ in meaning and tone‚ through their subjects‚ themes‚ techniques and structure. Both poems relate to the same post-war event; bringing the corpses of soldiers back from war. However‚ in “Homecoming” the corpses
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H h h hhlj jl k k k j h g f cv b n m k j pnmt3Pxet’s been said that the compositions of Glasgow-based folk artist Alasdair Roberts sound as if they were written hundreds of years ago. This is certainly testament to the Will Oldham protégé’s nigh-on two-decade quest to promote the communal and social aspect of folk music‚ rather than the confessional and personal approach taken by many acoustic guitar-wielding singer/songwriters who have popularized the genre in recent decades. While Roberts has
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I’m standing at a place‚ In the midst of my life‚ Surrounded by the uproars all around. And my life can’t move in one direction. It bends and swirls again and again through certain phases. I think I’m waiting for someone — To hold my hand and carry my heart up till the horizon. But a time rolls on‚ I decided to walk on my own‚ As no one holds you on — till the end. I faced a dilemma. One turn of happiness‚ one of sorrows. One of peace‚ Other of a mindless crowd‚ And a million more like that.
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XRD – X-Ray Diffraction X-ray diffraction (XRD) is a powerful non-destructive technique for characterizing crystalline materials. It provides information on structures‚ phases‚ preferred crystal orientations (texture)‚ and other structural parameters‚ such as average grain size‚ crystallinity‚ strain‚ and crystal defects. X-ray diffraction peaks are produced by constructive interference of a monochromatic beam of X-rays scattered at specific angles from each set of lattice planes in a sample. The
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Case study A blue paint layer sample was collected from the wall decorations of the mortuary temple of Ramesses III (Medinet Habu. This temple is one of the largest memorial temples in Egypt. It measures 320 m in length (east to west) and about 200 m in width (north to south)‚ built with order of the Pharaoh Ramesses III (c.1184–1151 BC the 20th Dynasty). The micro-XRF spectrometer (SPECTRO‚ COPRA model) used to analyze the sample includes a side-window X-ray tube with Mo anode (Oxford Instruments
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entering into my ears... From under the quilt I searched for the mobile phone and switched on one of the Bengali FM radio channels...The Kolkata special winter morning just started... At around half past 6 o’clock‚ when the morning mist was just fading away‚ we sat down with cups of hot tea...We started playing the Gayatri Mantra...We looked out of the window... The momentum of the nearby roadside market was just getting started...The chit-chat of the school going children were gradually becoming
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Once a darling of students‚ pens now only plastic waste! PTI Mumbai‚ Aug 8 (PTI) Treasured by many students once upon a time‚ pens are now quickly turning into plastic waste as the thrift practise of refilling them is dying a slow death.A far cry from till the early 1990’s‚ when writing instruments‚ in their earlier avatar of fountain pens‚ had to be recharged from an ink bottle frequently‚ most of the users now end up throwing away branded pens as they avoid refilling at Rs 3 to buy a new one
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T. Sutherland. Starflight‚ the main character‚ was stripped from his only known family (at that moment) and dumped on an active volcanic island where the mere smell of it hinted death. There‚ he realizes that his tribe‚ the NightWings‚ was slowly fading there and had a plan that would place his siblings and new friends in grave danger. Three elements that made this book so interesting are the setting‚ characters‚ and the conflict. The setting takes place in two areas: the volcanic island and the
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Unit 4 – Cognition‚ Memory and Language Memory is the ability to encode‚ store and recall information. Encoding allows the perceived item of interest to be converted and stored within the brain‚ and then recalled later from short-term or long-term memory. There are three main ways in which information can be encoded: 1. Visual (picture) 2. Acoustic (sound) 3. Semantic (meaning) An example of encoding is memorizing notecards. Storage is the process of retaining information in the brain‚
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CHALLENGES OF PRINT MEDIA Conventional wisdom in the media industry holds that existing‚ established forms of media adapt to new and emerging forms. For example‚ radio adapted to the emergence of television rather than simply fading away. The emergence of the Internet and the plethora of information available‚ however‚ have led many to question the conventional view. Media executives and scholars agree that newspapers‚ magazines and other forms of print media face serious challenges in terms of
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