Shiloh The short story Shiloh by Bobby Ann Mason portrays a marriage in trouble.
Shiloh The short story Shiloh by Bobby Ann Mason portrays a marriage in trouble. The couple cannot seem to find any common ground and seem incapable of communicating their true feelings. Instead, they take up a variety of interests and amusements, but these are just distractions they use to escape from taking any meaningful action. As Norma Jean's mother Mabel says, they are "...just waiting for time to pass." Norma Jean uses her diversions to distract her from the frustration she feels about having Leroy at home all the time. Whenever Leroy says something that irritates her rather than communicating with him she exercises fanatically or dives into some other distraction. One example of this occurs in the kitchen where she is doing leg exercises with ankle weights. When Leroy pushes the idea of building a log cabin, she shifts from stationary exercises to goose-stepping around the kitchen. Later when he presses her on the subject again, she shuts him out by playing "Who'll be the Next in Line" on the organ. She takes a night school course in composition and when Leroy asks her why she tells him" It's something to do." Leroy is at a crossroads in his life and distracts himself from making a decision by building craft projects, one of, which gives him the idea to build a log cabin house. He becomes fixated on the project and begins to use it as a crutch. Anytime Norma Jean or
'Hotel Room 12th Floor' By Norman MacCaig
"Hotel Room 12th Floor" By Norman MacCaig "Hotel Room 12th Floor" is a thought provoking poem by the 20th century poet Norman MacCaig. The poem is about a man who watches from his twelfth floor hotel room over the city of New York at midnight, taking notes of the surrounding incidents. As he is alone the loneliness takes advantage of him and makes him feel cautious of everything. "A helicopter skirting like a damaged insect, the Empire State Building, that jumbo sized dentists drill." This simile is very effective as the characteristics are very similar. A helicopter is similar to a damaged insect as the helicopter was flying round and round in a way, which an insect may fly when injured. The buzzing an insect makes is also similar to the sound of helicopter propellers. The size comparison between the building and the helicopter may seem like the size comparison to an insect and a human. The empire state building may be compared to a dentists drill because of its descending shape, and also because of the aerial on the top, which may represent a needle. These form an effective introduction to the main concern of the poem as it shows the feelings of loneliness from the writer. ".... A million lit windows, all ups and acrosses." This is effective in adding to the image of lines two to four, as it is a simile. The lit windows contrasting with the midnight darkness may produce
Wiring a house - Table for cable size CB
Table for cable size CB.S6004&6346 * Circuit = 240 volt supply * Watts = volts × amps * Amps = watts/volts * Voltage loss = voltage drop × length of cable × amps * Check does it comply with the 2.5% rule: Lighting Circuit Power circuit Circuit 1 Cooker oven = 4350 watts Amps = watts/volts Using a 240 volt supply: Amps =4350/240 Amps = 18.125 Voltage loss = voltage drop × length of cable × amps Voltage loss = 0.011 × 30 × 18.125 = 5.98volts Check does it comply with the 2.5% rule: 5.98/240 × 100/1= 2.49% (under 2.5%) Table for cable size CB.S6004&6346(circuit 1) Circuit 2 Microwave = 1100 watts Kettle = 2250 watts Toaster = 1150 watts Radio = 100 watts Amps = watts/volts Using a 240 volt supply: Amps =4600/240 Amps = 19.17 Voltage loss = voltage drop × length of cable × amps Voltage loss = 0.0073 × 32.1 × 19.17 = 4.49volts Check does it comply with the 2.5% rule: 4.49/240 × 100/1= 1.87%(under 2.5%) Table for cable size CB.S6004&6346(circuit 2) Circuit 3 Refrigerator = 1725watts 4"Tv = 51 watts Washing machine = 2200 watts Amps = watts/volts Using a 240 volt supply: Amps =3976/240 Amps = 16.6 Voltage loss = voltage drop × length of cable × amps Voltage loss = 0.011 × 23.70 × 16.6 = 4.31volts Check does it comply with the 2.5% rule: 4.31/240 × 100/1= 1.8%
Paella. As paella is Spanish I decided to incorporate a Spanish theme into my project. I did this by observing Gaudis architecture, which can mainly be found in the Spanish capital, Barcelona. His work is said to be organic architecture. This was
Paella I decided to look at the aspects surrounding the predominately Spanish dish, paella. Obviously the actual dish and the ingredients that make up the dish are the most important components surrounding the meal. Therefore to begin with I decided to draw sliced green and red peppers. Through completing this piece of work I was able to get the texture and the colours of the peppers and use them to good effect. I then went on to draw a clove of garlic. As the clove is mainly white I had to emphasise this by creating a somewhat strong shadow that consisted of many built up colours. Continuing with the theme of ingredients I went on to draw a sliced tomato, which I completed in pastels. I finished by painting some peas and an olive oil bottle from observation. As paella is Spanish I decided to incorporate a Spanish theme into my project. I did this by observing Gaudi's architecture, which can mainly be found in the Spanish capital, Barcelona. His work is said to be 'organic architecture.' This was a good aspect of his work as it meant I could tie in the food I had studied, into Guadi's architecture. As well as looking at the culture I also decided to look at the working environment that such a dish may be prepared in. Therefore I drew my kitchen sink and it's surroundings. I also looked at aspects of the table setting, by drawing a wine glass in white pastels on black paper.
Parallel structure means repeating the same grammar patterns to show that the ideas in them have the same importance and expressed in similar ways or that separate clusters of words appear together
HOW TO ACHIEVE PARALLEL STRUCTURE Parallel structure means repeating the same grammar patterns to show that the ideas in them have the same importance and expressed in similar ways or that separate clusters of words appear together in identical grammatical form.Parallelism requires that the nouns be used with other nouns, verbs be used with other verbs of the same tense,predicate adjectives be used with other predicate adjectives, and so on.Parallelism is important because readers expect symmetry among coordinate sentences and sentenceelements areso pronounced that rhetorically the effect of the sentence is very different from that of a common sentence. The usual pattern of the parallel sentence is the series.In this construction, three or more elements of the same grammatical pattern are linked together. A.Parallel Structure with single words or phrases Parallelism may be secured by having a series of nouns, adjectives, gerund phrases, or clauses. Example: . wrong: All her employers found Judy to be intelligent, able and a hardworker. Correct:All her employers found Judy to be intelligent, able and hardworking. (Intelligent and able are predicate adjective; hardworker, a predicate noun was not parallel.) 2. wrong: Because Isaac memorizes, acts and can sing well, he is a musical director's ideal performer.(series of verbs) Correct: Because Isaac memorizes, acts
Commentry on Wilfred Noyce's - Breathless
Commentary on 'Breathless' Wilfred Noyce's, "Breathless" is a heavy poem about a man encountering physical difficulty whilst climbing a mountain. The tall structure of the poem and the difficulty of reading the poem, help the reader identify with the relentlessness the climber is experiencing, leaving the reader somewhat exhausted and irritated. The reader cannot help but feel that in a time of severe difficulty pessimism extinguishes even the strong virtue of optimism, neglecting the splendors of ones surrounding hence enervating morale. The structure of the poem is narrow and tall resembling the steepness and shape of the mountain. This not only gives an automatic visual image of the dire difficulty of having to hike up such steepness but also provides insight to the voice's state of mind, limited to only verticality. The lines of the poem are irregular and cannot be grouped into stanza, presenting an immediate difficulty because to follow the jagged structure of lines is confusing. The verticality and the short phrases can also represent conservation, the tall structure of the poem and the two-worded lines, attempt to conserve space just as the voice meticulously conserves the 'dry air'. The use of enjambment and the regular rhyme scheme ushers the reader to read the poem quickly. The anxiety that the reader feels to finish the poem corresponds to the way in which the
The advantages to the owner of the building is that the BMS would increase the rental value of the property.
Design Principles and Applications assignment 2. Task 1 The advantages to the owner of the building is that the BMS would increase the rental value of the property. The BMS makes obvious power consumption and energy cost cuts meaning a reduced expense to the occupier in terms of running cost bills, but this cost would be balanced out by the increased cost in rent, which would be necessary by the owner to recoup the capital cost of the BMS system. It would also give the owner greater flexibility over the change of use that may occur in the building. With the BMS in place no changes would have to be made in order to accommodate other types of work (ie, changing from an office to a place of manual labour), within the building. Any adjustments to room temperature for example would be taken care of by the automated BMS. If there is more than one tenant in the building the BMS can then be tailored to suit their individual needs. This also means that for the owner the individual tenants can be billed for services that they use, ie electricity, maintenance cost per hour usage of heating\cooling systems etc. An advantage to the building tenant is that energy consumption is reduced. Effective monitoring can also be achieved which helps when looking at areas that need improvement. The internal conditions can be controlled to suit the working environment meaning that comfort
Electronic strustures
Electronic structures Electronic structures are the structures of particles (elements), these structures show the amount of electrons in each shell. The electron structure of oxygen is 2,6 this means that there is the maximum amount of electrons in the first shell and the second shell has only six electrons. Oxygen is situated in the non-metal section of the periodic table, this is on the right hand side. Oxygen is actually in group 6 period 2. The chemical property of oxygen is This particle is shown in the diagram below. The electron structure for aluminium is also different, this structure 2,8,3 this means that there is the maximum amount in the fist two shells and then in the first shell there is three electrons in it outer shell this makes the particle very reactive. Aluminium is situated in the poor metal part of the table, this is this is also on the right hand side. It is in group 3 period 3. The particle is shown below in the diagram. The electron structure for argon is 2,8,8 this means that all the shells are full so it is a strong particle however it is not as strong as helium this is because the more shells the nuclei has more difficulty keeping them. Argon is situated in the noble gasses which is on the far right hand side, it is from within group 0 period 3. The structure of the atom is shown below in the diagram. The electron structure for calcium is
Manchester Airport Environmental Aspects
Manchester Airport Environmental Aspects Manchester Airport and its surroundings do not do the environment any good. During the building of the second runway, there was a significant number of protests, to stop the destruction of wildlife's habitats. These protests led to tunnels being dug and tree top fortifications being built, to stop the building work carried on. Lots of countryside had to be destroyed to make room for the new runway, and people had to be moved out of their houses, Manchester airport had to pay for them to be moved and re-housed near the area, because they were knocking down peoples houses to make way for the new runway. Some protesters even became well known because of the press that they were given because of the protests they were staging to stop the construction going on. One of which was called Swampy, he dug a hole in the area and lived in it for several days to stop the building work going on. Eventually he was arrested, but his name was splashed across the press, and he appeared on TV shows because of what he did. Manchester finished building the runway, but lowered the values of the houses near by because no-one wants to move into a house next to a runway because of the noise pollution it cause therefore the houses will sell for less and puts the person out of a lot of cash. Therefore Manchester Airport has to take a lot of things
Nomad Settlements
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