Are the characters of Robert Walton and Victor Frankenstein similar or dissimilar.
Are the characters of Robert Walton and Victor Frankenstein similar or dissimilar In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Robert Walton and Victor Frankenstein are the two biggest narrators of the story but their style of narration is entirely different. We are introduced to Robert Walton through a series of letters he is sending to his sister, a Mrs Saville. Through these letters we learn about his character, his objective and motives. The letters tell us of what is happening to Robert Walton and tells the story from his point of view. It is through these letters that we are introduced to Victor Frankenstein. As the two bond, Victor Frankenstein agrees to tell his story of how he has come to be where he is and how he is, desolate. Although the story is being relayed in a letter to Mrs Saville from Robert Walton the words are meant to be straight from Victor's mouth and the tale is written in a novel format i.e. in chapters. In Robert Walton's narrative we are constantly reminded that he is writing in the present, telling his sister his emotions he is feeling while writing and what is happening at the precise moment. Victor Frankenstein's narrative is different he talks precisely of all that happened to him in that time of influence and emerges you into that story. Occasionally reminding you that he is actually telling it to someone, that there's someone else listening to the story.
Walton on the Naze
Introduction For my coursework I will study coastal erosion on the Walton-on-the-Naze cliffs in Essex. This is a coastal resort located about 10 miles from Frinton-on-Sea and is a two hour drive from North London. The aim of the study is to investigate the differences in beach characteristics in the managed and unmanaged sections of the beach at Walton-on-Naze. I have chosen to study this topic of coastal erosion in order to identify variations in beach characteristics and how badly and sea walls cliffs can erode in the past years. If they lack protection like groynes. Our visit to Walton-on-the-Naze came on 21st May 2008. It was a good idea to do it just at the beginning of the summer because there not would be too many tourists to interfere with our progress but the weather would still most likely be good which would help to gather and record accurate results. (This the map of Essex in which Walton-on-the-Naze is located) I am interested in the difference in the beach characteristics between the managed and unmanaged sections, the probable processes operating there and in whether the council should consider changing or adding to its sea defences in this area Geology plays an important part in how the cliffs are eroded at Walton-on-the-Naze so I will describe how this happens. Slumped material effectively helps to protect the cliff in the short term or long term if it
Geography - Walton on the Naze
Geography Coursework Introduction For our Geography Case Study, we visited Walton-on-the-Naze. The aim of our study is to find out the differences of beach characteristics between managed and unmanaged sections of the coast at Walton-on-the-Naze. Walton-on-the-Naze is a coastal resort, located approximately 10 miles from Frinton-on-Sea. I have chosen to study this topic, in order to identify variations in beach characteristics. Our visit to Walton-on-the-Naze came on 21st May 2008. Going at this time, at the beginning of the summer, made it particularly easier, to make notes and have our experiments done. There would also be fewer tourists, resulting in less interference in our experiments, thus helping to record results more accurately. Coastal erosion is the wearing away of land or the removal of beach or dune sediments by wave action, tidal currents, wave currents, or drainage. Waves generated by storms, wind, or fast moving motor craft, cause coastal erosion, which may take the form of long-term losses of coastal sediments and rocks, or merely the temporary redistribution of coastal sediments; erosion in one location may result in accretion nearby. It may be caused by hydraulic action, abrasion, and corrosion. On rocky coasts, coastal erosion results in dramatic rock formations in areas where the coastline contains rock layers or fracture zones with
Walton-on-the-Naze - Coastal erosion
GCSE Geography Coursework - Walton-on-the-Naze Coastal erosion presents a problem along the coastlines of Britain. One of the many areas affected by this is Walton-on-the-Naze, situated in the Southeast coast of England, about sixty-five miles from London. Walton-on-the-Naze is a dated tourist resort with a pier, which has an end shut off due to unsafe structure. There is an area of cliffs further up coast, which are suffering from erosion and cliff collapse. The government has erected a number of different sea defence mechanisms including groynes, rip rap and wooden revetments. These are erected to protect the cliffs from substantial erosion and the eventual disappearance of Walton-on-the-Naze. Sea defences are very expensive to set up but could have dramatic effects on the future of Walton-on-the-Naze. There are several groups of people who believe that it is worth the money, these include local residents, conversationalists and local business owners. Residents want to protect Walton because none of them wish to lose their homes to the sea, they believe that whatever can be done to conserve their homes should be done however high the cost. Conversationalists want to keep the area because the Naze provides homes to a great amount of wildlife whose homes are situated in an area most at risk from cliff collapse. Local businesses want to protect Walton-on-the-Naze
Comparing the presentation of Harker in Dracula and Walton in Frankenstein
Jonathan Harker and Robert Walton clearly play important roles in their respective novels, and this is particularly shown by their status as narrators. Indeed, their importance is further emphasised by the fact that both characters provide both the opening and closing narratives in their novels. Whilst both characters play narrative roles within the novels, there is a key difference in the way in which the reader must interpret their narratives: whilst Walton plays only a minor role in Frankenstein, Harker's role in Dracula is much larger, and so his views are likely to be biased. Indeed, at one point Harker's reliability as a narrator is seriously questioned when it transpires that he is 'suffering from a violent brain fever'. By allowing the reader to doubt Harker's versions of events, his reliability is, ultimately, enhanced when it is revealed that his narrative was entirely accurate. Walton only plays a small physical role in Frankenstein, and so Shelley clearly believes that he is less likely to be seen as a biased narrator, and the need to emphasise his overall reliability is not present. Both Walton and Harker are shown to be erudite characters from the very start of their respective novels. Harker is shown to have a knowledge of several languages ('I found my smattering of German very useful here'), and Walton is shown to have a knowledge of both Homer and
Walton on the naze coursework
SAMUEL COLE 5C HOW EFFECTIVE ARE COASTAL MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES AT WALTON ON THE NAZE? The aim of the coursework is to find out how effective coastal defences on the north and south beaches at Walton on The Naze, Essex. We have knowledge that the north beach is unprotected, whereas the south beach is protected by man made defences. The naze has been chosen, because it shows a coastline which is eroding very quickly and is also relatively close to our school. A comparison can be seen between the two sides i.e. The North beach appears to show cliffs that are eroding very rapidly, whereas the south beach erosion is less apparent. Two beaches differ significantly and therefore make a fine area to do the coursework. These questions will be asked to help reach a conclusion: --What evidence is there to show that erosion still takes place? --What evidence is there that long shore drift is taking place? --Do the coastal defences on the South Beach affect the North beach? --Is there a noticeable effect of longshore drift on the coastline? Location Of Walton On The Naze? SEQUENCE OF STUDY PRODUCE AIM AND INTRODUCTION FOR INVESTIGATION WRITE OUT THE METHOD COMBINE ALL GATHERED DATA (Input all data collected on trip into charts and graphs) CONDUCT WIDER BACKGROUND SEARCH (Receive secondary data) ANALYSE DATA (Assess the data assuring there are no irregularities) WRITE UP A
Walton on the naze field trip coursework
Walton-on-Naze. To complete the case study, we went to Walton-on-Naze to find out ways in which the coast is currently being protected from erosion. We also looked at the effects caused by the erosion on the Walton coast. By doing this, we could come up with ways that the coast could be protected further in order to keep it there for the future. The coastline at Walton faces East (compass direction) towards the North Sea. The cliffs are orange in colour and steeply sloping. At the top of the cliffs is a thin layer of grass covered in cliff top vegetation. In the cliffs you can see sand and shingles. At the base of the cliffs is a broad stretch of beach consisting mainly of sand. To the North the coast is interrupted by the river orwell. On the northen side is the port of Harwich. There is a large breakwater here called land guard point. It traps beach material on the North side to prevent the deep water channel from becoming blocked. This allows ships to use the ports of Harwich and Felixstowe (known together as the Haven ports) at all states of the tide. The causes of erosion on the Walton coast is mainly down to Long shore drift and prevailing winds causing the waves to crash against the cliffs. We found this out by measuring the distance a Satsuma travelled along the sea in the space of 1 minute. One member of the group placed the Satsuma in the sea and stood still on
Erosion at Walton on the Naze
. CHAPTER1 As part of my GCSE coursework, my geography class and I had to visit Walton-On-The-Naze. We visited Walton on the 3rd of November 2000. I have to answer the question, 'Why is the rate of erosion so rapid at Walton-On-The-Naze?' I will try to answer this by studying a variety of coastal processes that are operating at Walton, e.g. the different types of sea defences, and use the theory behind it. I will use for example, the technical terms in my explanations with diagrams where possible. Walton is very close to the North Sea, and this is only one reason why erosion is so rapid. The cliffs have eroded by 4m since last year, and the largest amount it has eroded was 5.9 m in 1998 to 1999. The rapid rate of erosion is due to the many processes on its coast, effect of raw materials, wave size and fetch, depth and width of beach, longshore drift, where waves transport the material along the beach. Including mass movement e.g. small avalanches, rotational slips, weathering, and formation of wave cut platforms. My project will also involve lots of results from the tests we took, and evidence supporting it. In this first chapter, I will introduce Questions and Hypotheses which I will present as a list, the location of Walton, and then my aims and objectives. In most sections I will talk about the influencing factors, the technique, and the limitations and
Walton centre HISS and LINUX case study.
WALTON CENTRE HISS AND LINUX CASE STUDY THE HISTORY The Walton Centre INFOSTAT Hospital Information Support System (HISS) directly supports all the hospitals major functions including: * Medical Records; * In-Patients; * Out-patients; * Clinic scheduling; * Clinical Audit; * Pathology; * Contracting; * Clinical Coding; * Casemix & Koerner. In addition it is directly linked to a number of other departmental systems, mainly PC LAN based, including Radiology, Nursing, Theatre, ITU and Finance. The HISS INFOSTAT applications and associated hardware was purchased in 1992, after a competitive tender, from CHC(UK) Ltd, the UK division of an American company. The total project cost was £850,000. The applications were installed on a HP9000/H30 mini running HP-UX (A.09.00) which had a purchase cost of £160,000, and a current costs of a similar spec machine of £80,000. Infostat has two underlying layers of technology: Infostat is developed using CHC's proprietary dictionary based 4GL and database, 4th Write. The database uses a basic or simple relational model with some in-memory elements. The structure of the databases leads us to the, un-proven, theory that root of the database technology is fairly old and may pre-date disk file systems. The database engine is however, highly efficient, lean on disk space, very robust and fast. The development tools are
Walton on the Naze
Walton on the Naze a) Describe and explain the natural processes operating on the Naze cliffs. All along the exposed side of the Naze cliffs, and to a smaller extent on the managed areas, erosion is constantly taking place. These are as such: Slumping The Naze cliffs are made up in layers. The base off the cliffs is a thick layer of very soft but impermeable London clay. Sitting on top of this are two permeable layers. The first is the Red Crag. This is made of reddish coloured sand and shells, which are the remains of an ancient seabed from 3 million years ago. The next thinner layer is of Glacial Materials, deposited from the last ice age. Slumping occurs when it has been raining heavily. The top two permeable layers become totally saturated with water and become very heavy. The water then seeps down and reaches the impermeable London clay. Now as it cannot seep through this layer it runs out of the cliff at the intersection between the layers. This causes mini streams and fountains to be seen on the cliff. This and the weight of the material on top causes it to slip off the clay onto the beach, where the loose material is quickly taken away by normal coastal deposition. Examples of this can be seen all along the unmanaged section of the Naze. Hydrostatic pressure (Hydraulic action) Waves breaking onto the face of cliffs can exert large amounts of pressure. This has a
