Days of Thunder (1990) directed by Tony Scott is a film about an open–wheel race car driver trying to make it in the National Association of Stock Car Racing (NASCAR). Cole Trickle (Tom Cruise) is picked up (hired) by race team owner Tim Daland (Randy Quaid). Daland convinces Harry Hogge (Robert Duvall)‚ a retired crew chief‚ to come out of retirement and be crew chief to his race team. Rowdy Burns (Michael Rooker) is Trickle’s racing nemesis; he is a hot headed driver who will do whatever it takes
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Read Chapter Three again of ‘The Great Gatsby’. How does he tell the story? In Chapter Three‚ both the reader and Nick finally get to meet the famous‚ eponymous Gatsby. The reader and Nick get introduced into a world of partying‚ absolute wealth‚ speculation and the imbalance of society. This can all be shown through the form‚ structure and language. Polysyndeton is repeatedly used in this chapter. We often see this technique when Nick refers to Gatsby‚ especially in this sentence: ‘By seven o’clock
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situation‚ a dark cloud or a shower of rain is always welcome. It was the 20th of July. It was very hot in the night. Not a single member of the family could sleep well. But in the morning‚ as I got up‚ I found that a pleasant wind was blowing and clouds were gathering in the sky. My joy knew no bonds. Soon there was lightning and thunder and within moments it started drizzling. It was really a very pleasant morning. Soon the drizzling turned into heavy rain. There was a beautiful smell of the earth
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or appreciate it. In the end‚ your worth will show in some way. In the book‚ The Lightning Thief‚ I thought I that it was about a boy named Percy who has dyslexia and ADHD that always gets into trouble. Then‚ Percy learns that his dad is the sea god Poseidon. Afterwards‚ Percy finds out that Zeus has accused him of stealing his lightning bolt. Now‚ Percy must go on a quest with his new friends to find Zeus’s lightning bolt so that there isn’t another world war. He also wants to save his mom who has
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Semester 2: Assignment 2 Chief Matenje is an example of corrupt leadership – particularly‚ the corrupt and oppressive leadership seen on the African continent. He is the antagonist and villain of the novel “When Rain Clouds Gather”. When we are first introduced to Chief Matenje‚ he is referred to as the “troublesome and unpopular brother” of the “paramount chief named Sekoto” (Head 2008:18). Chief Sekoto appointed Chief Matenje as the subchief of Golema Mmidi‚ a small‚ rural village in Botswana
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A Sound of Thunder is a short story written by Ray Bradbury which belongs to the genre of science fiction. Set in a near future where time travel is possible‚ this is the story of a travel agency‚ Time Safari Inc.‚ that arranges hunting trips back in time to hunt dinosaurs. In this case‚ a nervous hunter‚ Eckels‚ steps off the trail‚ and steps on a butterfly. The historical repercussions of the death of a single butterfly‚ compounded by millions of years of effects‚ leaves the hunters to return to
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Anahi Miranda English Period 6 The Sound Of Thunder WOW! Ray Bradbury explains how easy it can be to the future. In his own story The Sound Of Thunder using imagery and creating suspense using tone and mood. The book can keep uou in suspense on what will happen next because of Rays imagery and tone the book will keep you interested. Everything about his story catches my attention. He goes into time to travel back into the past to see how it was. Second‚ they step into the time
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Lightning is not distributed evenly around the planet‚ as seen in the image on the right. About 70% of lightning occurs over land in the tropics where atmospheric convection is the greatest. This occurs from both the mixture of warmer and colder air masses‚ as well as differences in moisture concentrations‚ and it generally happens at the boundaries between them. The flow of warm ocean currents past drier land masses‚ such as the Gulf Stream‚ partially explains the elevated frequency of lightning
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A Sound of Thunder is a great story written by Ray Bradbury‚ however‚ Nethergrave is an even better story written by Gloria Skurzynski. Though both of these stories are science fiction‚ I enjoyed reading Nethergrave more than Sound of Thunder‚ the story has more of a unique feature to it‚ seeing as it is not set in the future and most science fiction stories are set in the future like A Sound of Thunder. Also the imagery in Gloria’s story grabs my attention unlike in Sound of Thunder. Both of these
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English I 11/25/13 Analysis of “We Shall Fight On The Beaches” In 1940 the Nazis and Hitler were rapidly spreading through Europe. Only sixteen days after Winston Churchill became the Prime Minister of Britain were the British Expeditionary Force and the First French Army trapped on the beaches surrounding Dunkirk‚ France ("Battle of Dunkirk"). There were 400‚000 troops trapped on there‚ with the Nazis surprisingly halted. 338‚000 troops were rescued from those beaches‚ thanks to efforts from
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