...The wind howls across the wide and open American great plains. The greatest of these three short stories at evoking a feeling similar to that of being in the American south “A Rose for Emily”, “Dust Tracks on a Dirt Road”, and “The Life You Save May be Your Own” is “Dust tracks on a dirt road”, followed by “The life you save may be your own”, and finally “A rose for Emily” In Dust Tracks on a dirt road, Hurstons use of imagery, telling us about her gingham dress and how most kids did not wear shoes evoked feelings similar to those that arose as a child when children would run around without shoes, get into a scuffle or two, and be home by dinner unless you wanted a bit of a whipping with a wooden spoon showed exceedingly well how rural the area was. None of that was said, however the idea of kids running around not wearing shoes or rolling around with each other in the dust and dirt made it easy to see, as well as also connecting emotionally with people of a rural background. This story also appeals in an ethical sense when you realize how horrible things were back then and the strides in human rights this nation has made. In “The Life You Save May Be Yours”, the author uses indirect characterization, such as when Mr.shiflet was fixing the nell’s car, or barn, and was exalted about everything he did, not worried in the slightest and being exceedingly manipulative of Mrs.nell, telling her how he’d marry her daughter if he could have the car, showing how useful he was around...
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...Reference Manual on Best Management Practices for PM-10 and Fugitive Dust Control BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES For Maricopa County, Arizona Rule 310 Written by Zbigniew D. Czupak Dr. Edward Kavazanjian, P.E. Arizona State University Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment Sponsored by 1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support provided by the Arizona Pavements, Materials, and Transportation Conference steering committee for preparation of this Reference Manual. The authors would also like to thank Amanda McGennis of the Phoenix Chapter of the Association of General Contractors and Cameron Flowers of Kitchell Engineering for their technical assistance in manual preparation, including their review comments on the document and many of the pictures used in the document. 2 QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE Application Control Method Watering Paved Roads p. 19 Unpaved Roads p. 20 Construction Entrances p.21 As needed (excessive watering increases track out, requires catch basins) Staging Areas p.23 Storage Piles p.24 Disturbed Flat and Sloped Surfaces p.26-28 Water to form visible crust Weed Abatement p.29 Use prior and during weeding Demolition/Blasting p.30-32 Backfilling p.33 Stacking, Loading, Unloading p.34 Use prior and during Trenching, Excavating p.35 Pre-wet, maintain moisture content Expensive, Can mix with water Hauling p.36-37 - Periodic reapplication Polymer...
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...Dust Tracks on a Road Hurston’s Dust Tracks on a Road depicts the struggle and journey of growing up in a predominately African American society. She displays how African Americans were curtailed to nothing after the Civil War and how it was quite difficult to commence a town on their own of there own race. Her autobiography entails the very candid moments of the Harlem Renaissance. As the novel is exposed in the opening chapter the subject matter is revealed and it entails Zora Neale Hurston’s life. “So you will have to know something about the time and place where I came from, in order that you may interpret the incidents and directions of my life” (Hurston 1). The setting appears to be one of the developing subjects in the novel because her atmosphere depicted many of the events in her life. The town’s locations also foreshadowed many of her life events. “Eatonville is what you might call hitting a straight lick with a crooked stick. The town was not in the original plan. It is a by-product of something else” (1). The town setting is very symbolic in Huston’s life because she lived amongst one of the only all black towns in the state of Florida. This coincides with the possible theme of the individual in society. Living in this society had many effects on Hurston’s life. She reveals these frank moments with the reader. The setting sets up the forthcoming of the rest of the novel by demonstrating that living in the predominately black town will come with many hardships...
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...the Ralston Road railroad tracks could have been prevented if more precautions were taken in order to prevent such an accident from happening. 2. I want to know if there was anything else that could have been done to prevent this accident from ever occurring. Was the train horn and light clean enough for the standard to not have an obstruction to noise and sight? Were the proper procedures followed by the train conductor when he had approached the ¼ mile mark? Was the train clearly visible from the point of view or was the view obstructed due to dust, plants, weeds, etc.? 3. What I do know from the information I was given, is that John’s truck was ahead of the train, because the conductor saw the truck before John saw the train. I know based on the information given by Lee...
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...Oyibo 1 Onye Oyibo Mr. Cannon English III AP March 5th, 2014 The Grapes of Wrath Research Paper Throughout the Grapes Of Wrath, author John Steinbeck incorporates an adequate amount of Realism as well as Romanticism within his novel. Although these philosophies are brought upon the audience, Steinbeck prominently bases of The Grapes of Wrath upon a substantial use of Artistic Romanticism, through the similarity between the themes as well literally devices. Steinbeck stress the use of literally devices throughout the novel which establishes The Grapes of Wrath philosophy of Artistic Romanticism and Realism. Artistic Romanticism is based upon the romantic viewpoint of a particular outlook on the relations among God, Nature, and the individual manifested meaning. Throughout the novel of “Romanticism and Transcendentalism” the author is capable of unveiling the abstract meaning behind the philosophies of Romanticism. Romanticism was an not just an artistic movement but also, literary and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Europe, and gained strength in reaction to the Industrial Revolution (Holman, Hugh M. "Definitions of Romanticism."). In literature, Romanticism has been found through recurrent themes of advocating criticism of the past. As well as in the novel (Phillips, Jerry, Andrew Ladd, and Michael Anesko. Romanticism and Transcendentalism) the author touches base on multiple in-depth examples and meaning of...
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...Collateral Murder Morgan Pollock 496751 LM2A Table of content Final draft Page 3 First draft Page 7 Second draft Page 9 Third draft Page 12 Sources Page 16 Collateral Murder By Morgan Pollock On April 4th, 2010, a whistle-blowing website by the name of Wikileaks, released a classified United States military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Bagdad by an Apache helicopter crew (collateralmurder.com). Among the victims killed were two Reuters news reporters, Namir Noor-Eldeen and Saeed Chmagh . The video also contains an audio track of the soldiers voices responsible for the attack in which they laugh about the unprovoked slaughter. The following document covers, in detail, the events that unfold during the video, an extract from the U.S Military Rules Of Engagement for Iraq and in what ways they were violated by the soldiers in question and what happened during the days after the attack. It concludes with a brief discussion of the video by Wikileaks and the effects it has had. All the points in this document will provide evidence that proves, that the actions taken by the crew of the Apache helicopter were unwarranted and despicable. At 9:50 am, on the day of July 12th 2007, U.S. armed forces received reports of small arms fire in a Baghdad suburb of New Bagdad. The military claims it was unable to positively identify the...
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...Andrew Bae Period 2 Iannuzzo 4/27/14 Zeal Neale Hurston: Behind the Scenes Zora Neale Hurston is an African American other from a small city in Florida, filled with wildlife and gardenias. Hurston is faced with two different perspectives of the world and uses that to help further describe her childhood to the readers. In Zora Neale Hurston’s passage Dust Tracks on a Road, she uses diction, her mother’s point of view of the world and her father’s view of the world to help illustrate her own childhood to the reader. Hurston uses specific word choice and diction to enrich the reader’s perception of her childhood. Hurston being from Florida was often around forestry and foliage however once she had moved to New York it was quite the opposite, what was bountiful is now rare and what was unusual then is now plentiful, for “there were plenty of oranges, grapefruit, tangerine, guavas and other fruits in our yard.” All these different fruits were available to her so easily and plentiful however “[she] treasured the apple… apples were something rare. They came from way up north.” She uses specific word choice by saying plenty of oranges, implying and abundance almost an unnecessarily large amount of oranges, grapefruits and other fruits however when it came to an apple, it was like a treasure to her, rare because it had come from way up north. Differentiating herself from the north made it more realistic to the reader that the apple was rare and that something from way up north...
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...College Comp 2 Research Paper Simply Masterful “Most of us would prefer to look at cartoons in a magazine than read a poem," says Kooser. Poetry reflects life in a way that even big movies, cannot do. Kooser’s poems invite the reader to reflect on everyday items and to notice the small details and beauties of the world. He has a talent to express emotions in a way that the readers themselves will experience. He has been referred to as the master of the short metaphorical poem (Gioia). Kooser has lived in Iowa and Nebraska all of his life. His decision to remain in the Midwest has resulted in a limited audience for his work, but Gioia concludes by observing that Kooser “has written more perfect poems than any poet of his generation” (Gioia). “Kooser wants a poetry anyone can read without shame and understand without labor, because he thinks poetry has too long been in the hands of poets who go out of their way to make their poems difficult if not downright discouraging” (Logan). Although many authors poetry is extremely hard to understand, Ted Kooser’s well-constructed poetic language and simple eloquent style, conveys a heartfelt message toward subjects like loved ones, everyday items, and rural America that are effortless to comprehend throughout his poetry as a result of his tone, imagery, personification, and the uncomplicated metaphors. Kooser has always been identified primarily as a poet. “While I was at work, I did everything that was required of me and kept getting...
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...Mid-term Essay Question 5 The New Deal as proposed by President Franklin D Roosevelt included three stages to get the nation back on track and out of the depression. Roosevelt along with his "Brain Trust" a group of trusted advisors that helps conceive the programs in which the New Deal would revolve around. This constructed the stages of; Relief, Reform, and Recovery, also known as the three R's. It is important to know that the New Deal was not preplanned but rather a type of experimental set of programs, that would at the very least attempt to put things on track. Some important measures taken were "fireside chats", the creation of the alphabet agencies, and the first hundred days of administration into office. The Fireside Chats were...
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...with the last colourful flush of the day. Behind the town, roads run up the mountain and the large houses with larger gardens walled and winding, continual and quiet on their way toward the mountain rising gradually, pastures turn to heather until eventually the clouds that were once so free and high come lower and lower and fade in colour and disappear, and you find they are all around you, draped on the land. On the very top there is a hut that lies beside a small track. Beyond this, the mountain falls a little then levels into what the towns people consider proper countryside, glens and woods, bench’s that belong to no-one beside paths that that lead to nowhere anyone knows, out there you’ll find solitary cob farms, clean and empty, with all their occupants out in the fields. Keeping guard, a dog, out of sight and asleep, a retired horse standing still in the shade of the barn........................................ ( which means coconut), living clean and quiet, and well, which belies his circumstances, he arrived quite sometime ago and it is assumed to be a certainty that he could not have built the house himself, this is thought, along side many other reasons because he is known to be one of the laziest people you will ever meet, it is known that his horse still lies tethered in the stable though it died of hunger years ago, Nanan could never trouble himself to feed it. Yet as i said his house is clean, no dust, people joke it is because he sleeps outside happy with his...
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...drive on the better, updated roads alongside the newly constructed telephone lines. People began to gravitate toward cities and a new light was shed on the public after the dark days of war. However, an unknown storm was brewing, and less than a decade later all classes of Americans would...
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...Name: Renata Limited Head Office: Renata Limited, Plot No. 1, Milk Vita Road, Section-7, Mirpur, Dhaka-1216, Bangladesh, GPO Box No. 303 Telephone: +88-02-8011012, +88-02-8011013 Fax: +88-02-8011956 Production Sites: Mirpur, Dhaka Rajendrapur, Gazipur Type of Company: Listed Public Limited (Dhaka Stock Exchange) Main Business: Manufacture and Marketing of Human Pharmaceuticals and Animal Therapeutics. The company has two production sites. The Mirpur Site is 12 Acres and Rajendrapur Site is 17 Acres. Number of Employees: 2,623 employees. Renata Limited started its operations as Pfizer (Bangladesh) Limited in 1972. For the next two decades it continued as a highly successful subsidiary of Pfizer Corporation. However, by the late 1990s the focus of Pfizer had shifted from formulations to research. In accordance with this transformation, Pfizer divested its interests in many countries, including Bangladesh. Specifically, in 1993 Pfizer transferred the ownership of its Bangladesh operations to local shareholders, and the name of the company was changed to Renata Limited. In a gesture of corporate charity, Pfizer donated shares so that, along with a partial payment from the SAJIDA Foundation, 51% ownership of Renata Limited would be held by the Foundation. Today SAJIDA’s microfinance and micro-insurance programs support over 107,120 members and their families; thus far cumulative loan disbursement totals BDT 5,750 million. Currently, SAJIDA’s health...
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...Danielle mordon Zora Neale Hurston's love of African-American folklore and her work as an anthropologist are reflected in her novels and short stories--where she employed the rich indigenous dialects of her native rural Florida and the Caribbean. In her foreword to Hurston's autiobiography, Dust Tracks on a Road, Maya Angelou wrote, "Her books and folktales vibrate with tragedy, humor and the real music of Black American speech." A published short story writer by the time she came to New York in 1925, Hurston studied anthropology at Barnard, where she was the college's first African-American student. After graduation, Hurston pursued graduate work at Columbia with renowned anthropologist Franz Boas. She left New York to conduct research in Florida and in Haiti and Jamaica, and her field work resulted in the folklore collections Mules and Men (1935) and Tell My Horse (1938). Her classic novel Their Eyes Were Watching God was published in 1937. Still, Hurston never received the financial rewards she deserved. (The largest royalty she ever earned from any of her books was $943.75.) So when she died on Jan. 28, 1960--at age 69, after suffering a stroke. Her neighbors in Fort Pierce, Florida, had to take up a collection for her February 7 funeral. The collection didn't yield enough to pay for a headstone, however, so Hurston was buried in a grave that remained unmarked until 1973. In 1975, Ms. Magazine published Alice Walker's essay, "In Search of Zora Neale Hurston" reviving...
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...Contrast/Compare Human beings have been on the move ever since the invention of the wheel around 3,500 B.C.E. in Mesopotamia. By 1200 B.C.E., a more sophisticated model, the spoked-wheel, was used on chariots as a mode of transportation throughout Eurasia, even reaching as far as Egypt, China and Scandinavia. From there, transportation needs did not change drastically until the first true gasoline automobile was invented in 1885 to1886 by Karl Frederich Benz. With the invention of this new “toy”, men felt the need to push the limits of these vehicles for more than just cargo and passengers. By the beginning of the 20th century, automobile racing took off in both Europe and the United States with each having their own fledgling racing circuits. This trend continued up to present time with two of the world’s most popular racing series: WRC (World Rally Championship), which was launched in 1973 by the FIA (The International Automobile Federation.) and NASCAR (The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing), which was founded by William France, Sr., in 1948. Although both WRC and NASCAR are extreme and captivating in their own respects there are great differences and a few similarities in the skill level of the drivers, the cars, and the fans. First, is the huge gap in the skill level between the WRC driver and the NASCAR driver. WRC drivers are some the most versatile and talented drivers in the world. WRC drivers have an endurance that cannot be matched. Each rally...
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...Chapter I THERE IS ONE mirror in my house. It is behind a sliding panel in the hallway upstairs. Our faction allows me to stand in front of it on the second day of every third month, the day my mother cuts my hair. I sit on the stool and my mother stands behind m e with the scissors, trimming. The strands fall on the floor in a dull, blond ring. When she finishes, she pulls my hair away from my face and twists it into a knot. I note how calm she looks and how focused she is. She is well-practiced in the art of losing herself. I can’t say the same of myself. I sneak a look at my reflection when she isn’t paying attention—not for the sake of vanity, but out of curiosity. A lot can happen to a person’s appearance in three months. In my reflection, I see a narrow face, wide, round eyes, and a long, thin nose—I still look like a little girl, though sometime in the last few months I turned sixteen. The other factions celebrate birthdays, but we don’t. It would be self-indulgent. “There,” she says when she pins the knot in place. Her eyes catch mine in the mirror. It is too late to look away, but instead of scolding me, she smiles at our reflection. I frown a little. Why doesn’t she reprimand me for staring at myself? “So today is the day,” she says. “Yes,” I reply. “Are you nervous?” I stare into my own eyes for a moment. Today is the day of the aptitude test that will show me which of the five factions I belong in. And tomorrow, at the Choosing Ceremony, I will decide on a f action;...
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