Captive of a G-string: An Analysis of literary techniques in Nicola Barker’s short story “G-String” Nicola Barker’s short story “G-string” relates the troubles of a middle-aged woman with her self-confidence‚ how she fails to achieve the respect and admiration she seeks from her boyfriend Mr. Kip‚ as well as how she struggles to attain a certain idea of herself as a modern woman by wearing a G-string. With a humorous tone and use of the G-string as a symbol‚ Barker allows us to follow her protagonist
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agent a natural or synthetic substance that can be used to colour something‚ e.g. a textile or hair‚ and is most often applied as a liquid Liar- somebody who tells lies‚ lyre-string instrument: a plucked string instrument associated with ancient Greece and consisting of a U-shaped frame with a crossbar from which the strings stretch down to the soundbox Sink-vti go beneath surface of liquid: to descend‚ or cause something to descend‚ beneath the surface of a liquid or a soft substance and become
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It is difficult to believe that something as insignificant as a piece of string could cause a person to lose his mind and eventually die‚ but in Guy de Maupassant’s short story‚ The String‚ the reader is asked to accept such an extreme premise. De Maupassant masterfully uses the setting of a rural French town and it’s market-place to help reveal the character of everyday peasant Maître Hauchecome‚ thereby making the story believable. De Maupassant introduces the town of Goderville in France by
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Project Title: Strategies for Attention Control for Intermediate Standard Adolescent String Students Project Grade: Date qualified: HIGH DISTINCTION 30 July 2003 POBox6 Monash University Victoria 3800‚ Australia Telephone: +61 3 9905 2819 Facsimile: +61 3 9905 5400 www.monash.edu.au ABN: 12 377 614 012 STRATEGIES FOR ATTENTION CONTROL FOR INTERMEDIATE STANDARD ADOLESCENT STRING STUDENTS Matthew Cohn B.Mus.Per. (Melbourne University) Dip. Ed. (Monash University)
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pendulum and what it is used for today. Equipment and Method The pendulum was constructed with a weight (size varies) at the end of a string (length varies) which was attached to a metal base. A meter stick was used for measuring lengths and a stopwatch was used to measure time. We determined the length of the pendulum to be from the point where the string was attached to the base to the end of the (1000 g) weight. Length of the swing was approximated as one meter for a long swing and fifty centimeters
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Elliptical Accident In the book “Knots in my Yo-Yo String” they were knots in Jerry Spinelli’s yo-yo string. Jerry Spinelli was the author of “Knots in my Yo-Yo String.”When Jerry came home from school there were a lot of knots in his yo-yo. What that means is that the yo-yo string is his life and the knots in the yo-yo represent the problems in his life. He must be having problems at home because he said he came home to knots in his yo-yo string. My knot took me some time to recover from. The knot
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G-strings and sympathy: Strip club regulars and male desire. By Katherine Frank. Katherine Frank is a cultural anthropologist (Ph.D. Duke) who studied at Duke University‚ University of Michigan. Katherine’s primary research focus is based around gender and sexuality concepts‚ exploring the issues surrounding monogamy‚ marriage and swinging. She is currently in the Department of Sociology at American University in Washington‚ DC‚ and a faculty associate at The College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor
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Monica Naderi - Colon Language Arts 1/23/08 Knots in My Yo-Yo String In this book I admired many of the authors personal qualities. My favorite personal quality of the author is that the author actually wrote a book about his childhood. The second quality I admired most about the author is when he was a child he went to church every Sunday of his life. I admired that he went to church
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Edition Chapter 9 Character Strings Objectives • • • • • • String Fundamentals Library Functions Input Data Validation Formatting Strings (Optional) Case Study: Character and Word Counting Common Programming and Compiler Errors A First Book of ANSI C‚ Fourth Edition 2 String Fundamentals • A string literal is any sequence of characters enclosed in double quotes – "Good Morning!" – Also called: string constant‚ string value‚ string – A string is stored as an array of characters
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Strings and Dreams Cut: How Does Eliminating Music Education Affect Academic Performance? In May 2005‚ “93% of Americans [believed] that the arts are vital to providing a well-rounded education for children [and] 86% agree an arts education encourages and assists in the improvement of a child’s attitudes toward school” (Ruppert 7). Yet‚ every day there are more and more music programs being cut from school curriculums. Some schools have cut all extra-curricular activities‚ including sports‚ while
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