...Eden’s Draft of essay (without intro and conclusion) Bruce Dawe effectively utilises the poem ‘enter without as much as knocking’ as a tool to explore in depth the not only physical but emotional influences from modern society. Dawes poem is a political and social statement of contemporary culture and the cyclic web of conforming and consumerism that we follow consciously and subliminally. The persona is born into a clinical, inorganic world of ‘Blink, blink. HOSPITAL. SILENCE’, where feelings of isolation and distance are evoked, where loss of connectedness and belonging is created. Dawe comments upon the superficial world we are brought into from the start. Without warning, without consent we are stripped from our innocence and taught what is right and what is “true”. Even from a place of safety, from a haven in a “mothers arms” the allusion of “Bobby Dazzler on channel 7” from the cradle so to speak, introduces the influence of the character and opinions of his modern external world. From the ‘set-up’ of the personas life individuality is robbed as he becomes part of a stereotypical family where reality is superficial and abiding family and society norms begins control. The frame work of this conformed civilization compel the persona to exist as a commodity of a nuclear family that runs all too often on the middle class dictates of consumerism, wealth and keeping up with Jones image. Even as a child, within his family he is introduced into a world of control...
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...Jehovah’s Witnesses serve a purpose not just knocking on your door Chloe Lawson 08/08/13 Research Paper ENG 1020 Many people view Jehovah witnesses as being that religious group that knocks on your door and hands you out magazines when you are in a rush. Others believe that they are a group of people who are always talking about the world ending, and lastly some believe that witnesses aren’t Christians, they don’t believe in Jesus (anti-Christ), or they are some type of cult. On the contrary, Jehovah witnesses aren’t as bad as people make them seem, they are respectable genuine people. Many people in today’s society form biases and beliefs of someone, something, and especially a religious group without even finds facts about it. Jehovah’s witnesses actually serve a biblical purpose to educate the world spiritually about the one true god Jehovah. Once you understand them you, the principles they live by, and their duty you will think twice about judging them. I believe that the world is close minded to Jehovah’s witnesses because they know very seldom of them. History of Jehovah’s Witnesses: Firstly, when people hear Jehovah’s witnesses they think who is Jehovah? You guys don’t believe in Jesus? Where did they come from? Jehovah’s witnesses have been around for ages; Jehovah is the name of God, like anybody “God” is a title like boy or girl. You wouldn’t want to be called boy or girl every time someone addresses you everyone has a name, like God he has a name which is Jehovah...
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...EXTENDED STUDY CONNECTED TEXTS Over the centuries, poetry has endeavoured to communicate human emotion and ideas. Bruce Dawe’s grave Homecoming and the saddening Dulce et Decorum est by Wilfred Owen convey the trauma in war-stricken situations and the loss involved. Significantly differing from these sombre themes, William Shakespeare is able to convey his love and appreciation for a woman in My Mistress’ Eyes which conflicts with the self-hatred and resentment apparent in Jennifer Maiden’s stark Anorexia. Delving into personal emotions, a number of the poems express despair in conflict or, conversely, aim to portray an inner turmoil. The depressing atmosphere of Homecoming appeals to the reader by evoking a sense of despair. As the soldiers’ bodies are returned from war, Dawe explores the undignified treatment of the corpses, zipped “in green plastic bags”. Irony in the title alludes to the fact that the soldiers are not returning to a celebration and are unidentifiable, “piled on the hulls of Grants”. Gaining an emotional distance through the use of a third person voice, the poem enables the reader to view the tragedy in its entirety. Repeating “home, home, home” accentuates the emotional ties of the soldiers, a technique indicative of the monotony of the experiences involved in warfare. Equally, “telegrams tremble like leaves from a wintering tree…the spider grief swings in his bitter geometry”, uses simile and metaphor to portray the coldness of death and spreading...
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...convince his partner in crime to join him on a visit to a waterfall made of sapphires, which is located on the planet called Midnight, but she refuses, and the Doctor gets on the Crusader Tour Bus with seven strangers. On his way to Midnight Palace, the bus stops due to “engine” problems; however the Doctor quickly figures out that the Crusader Tour Bus is in perfect condition. The mechanic seems to see an odd shadow that appears to be running toward them, but the driver says its nothing and that help is on the way, reassuring the passengers and the bus attendant that everything will be fine. Suddenly, a random but constant knocking begins. The plot has finally come to the “monster”. The passengers start panicking and guessing what could be knocking: a person or maybe rocks falling. But it is neither, the viewer is now eager to find out who or what is knocking. Carroll states, “because horror fictions are predicated on that revelation of unknown and unknowable-unbelievable and incredible-impossible beings, they often take the form of narratives of...
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...The mood for “The Monkey’s Paw,” written by W. W. Jacobs, is strange. The mood is shown through three elements. Setting, imagery, and the type of narrator. The setting in this story is the White’s family household. At the end of the story, there is a strange knocking on the door of the house. On page 384, the story says: “He heard the creaking of the bolt as it came slowly back, and at the same moment he found the monkey’s paw, and frantically breathed his third and last wish. The knocking ceased suddenly, although the echoes of it were still in the house. He heard the chair drawn back, and the door opened. A cold wind rushed up the staircase, and a long loud wail of disappointment and misery from his wife gave him courage to run down to her side, and then go to the gate beyond....
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...LADY MACBETH: That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold; What hath quench'd them hath given me fire. Hark! Peace! It was the owl that shriek'd, the fatal bellman, Which gives the stern'st good-night. He is about it:(5) The doors are open, and the surfeited grooms Do mock their charge with snores: I have drugg'd their possets, That death and nature do contend about them, Whether they live or die.(10) Enter Macbeth |Lady Macbeth (Worry, holding hands) I cannot wait until Macbeth kills the King | | |MACBETH: |Macbeth: | |Who's there? what, ho! |Who's there? | |LADY MACBETH: |Lady Macbeth (Hands are touching the head) | |Alack, I am afraid they have awaked |Did he kill King Duncan before the guards wakes up, I am so | |And ’tis not done. The attempt and not the deed |afraid and worried about Macbeth | |Confounds us. Hark! I laid their daggers ready; | | |He could not miss ‘em. Had he not resembled(15) | | |My father as he slept, I had...
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...The KOCA error can be then evaluated for each single pressure trace, according to the set of constants A, n, and B of the ignition delay model: Experimental results and discussion The model was initially calibrated using the pressure cycles obtained with gasoline (first column in Table 3 and Table 4, i.e. 0% gaseous fuel), with NG (last column in Table 3) and with methane (last column in Table 4). The optimal set of model constants A, n and B has been determined minimizing the mean absolute error MA evaluated over the total number of pressure cycles N available for the fuel: where i is the KOCA error determined for the ith knocking pressure cycle using equation (8). As already mentioned, the starting temperature of the NTC behaviour TNTC has been determined for each of the three fuels by means of data published in [33] and [35]: 720 K for gasoline and 850 K for methane and...
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...by his wishes. He then threw the talisman into the fire in which Mr. White retrieved it. Against his better judgment, Sargent Morris fearfully instructed Mr. White how to make the wishes and to heed his warning about the supposed consequences. After a suggestion by his son, Mr. White wishes for money to pay off the house, the money comes from the company that his son worked for because he passed away in a horrible accident at work when he got caught in the machinery. A few days later a distraught Mrs. White wants Mr. White to wish him back to life, which he reluctantly does. Later in the night there is a knocking on the door and Mrs. White races to answer the door believing it is her son. As Mrs. White frantically tries to unlock the door, Mr. White fears that it is not his son at the door and uses his last wish to wish his son back to his final resting place. The knocking stops just as Mrs. White opens the door and finds no one there. The monkey’s paw causes one of the critical aspects of this story. In this short story, the author wants you to believe that something bad was going to happen if the White family used the three wishes that monkey's paw grants them when Sargent-Major Morris, the family friend, threw the talisman in the fire and said “I threw it on the fire. If you...
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...When knocking on the door may cause serious issues related to executing a search warrant. The case below goes into great detail in explaining the illegal acts committed by Sharlene Wilson the petitioner and the executing of a search warrant without knocking upon entering ones dwelling. In the case, Wilson v. Arkansas, Sharlene Wilson made a number of narcotic sales to an informant acting at the direction of Arkansas State Police between November and December 1992. The informant purchased marijuana and methamphetamines at the home where Sharlene Wilson shares with Bryson Jacobs. On December 30, the informant called Sharlene at her home to arrange to meet at a local store to by marijuana. Sharlene showed up with a semiautomatic pistol and...
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...I was very hot, sweating like mad and my heart was beating so hard, I didn't think I would be able to tell the difference between someone knocking at the door and my racing heart beat. After I came back from my frightened haze, I calmed down and realized that the chances of hearing someone knocking at the exact moment of dreaming that there is knocking on the door was incredibly low, so I fell back to sleep shortly afterward. Monday, the very next night, I had the same dream. I was right back outside the front door of my house standing in the pouring rain again, intensely staring at the house. Slowly, I walked to the front porch, and through the doorway, since this time the door was open. I walked in, made a sharp right, and headed straight for the kitchen. I opened the first drawer I saw and pulled out a very large meat knife. I don’t know why I did this, but it felt necessary. I held the knife up close to my eyes and looked at my reflection through the blade of the...
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...Belonging Critical Essay “Belonging to a community or group has a significant impact on an individual’s sense of self” Introduction Individuals desire a sense of belonging within various groups in the community to engage with others in an enriching and meaningful way. Displacement from a community, culture or family can have a significant impact on individuals’ sense of self and where he truly belongs. Peter Skryzynecki’s poems, “Feliks Skrzynecki” and “Migrant Hostel” explore the effects of displacement due to migration and the consequential lack of identity and place. Bruce Dawe’s poem “Enter without so much as knocking” and an image from Shaun Tan’s book “The Arrival” explores various aspects of belonging suggesting that belonging to a place is central to an individual’s identity and sense of security. Feliks Skrzynecki ‘Feliks Skrzynecki” explores the hardships experienced by migrants growing up in Australia. Skrzynecki highlights the underlying idea of Peter’s difficulty in trying to accept his inherent Polish culture, which is evident in the third stanza “His polish friends always shook hands too violently…I never got used to” while at the same time unconsciously assimilating to a new civilized Western culture. Skrzynecki utilizes an extended metaphor of Hadrian’s Wall; “Watched me pegging my tents further and further south of Hadrian’s Wall” to epitomize the confusion and choice surrounding Peter in the ethics and values of each culture to which he must choose. Peter...
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...Carolina Executive Mansion, commonly called the Governor's Mansion, was built in the late nineteenth century on Blount Street in downtown Raleigh. The first inhabitant of the mansion was Governor Daniel G. Fowle. He only lived there for 3 months due to his death in April 1891. Before his death he did order the construction of a be to accommodate himself and one of his children who had a tendency of climbing into bed with him at night to sleep. The bed stayed in the mansion for over three-quarters of a century, until Gov. Bob Scott, who was elected in 1968, had it moved to storage because he wanted a more comfortable bed. Shortly after buying a new bed, Governor Scott and his wife were reading in bed when around 10 o'clock they heard a strange knocking coming from the wall behind them. Scott and his wife thought little of it, but it kept happening night after night at the same time. Governor Scott assumed that it was just pipes running, but when he asked for the maintenance staff to see if something could be done, were no pipes running behind that section of the wall. The governor and wife were confuzed until Governor Fowle's elderly daughter paid a courtesy call to Governor Scott, like she did with all the new Governors when they took office. And, according to Governor Scott, part of the social call involved her demanding...
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...case where the plaintiff, Ms. Palsgraf, was on one end of a train platform when a package was knocked out of the hands of another passenger who was attempting to board a moving train with the assistance of a guard, the defendant, on the other end of the train platform. The package being knocked out of the passenger’s arms and onto the ground created an explosion which knocked over some scales that were near Ms. Palsgraf and caused harm to her at the opposite end of the train platform. Mr. Palsgraf is taking the Long Island Rail Company, representing the guard on the platform, to court for damages she suffered through the injuries caused by the scale falling on her as a result of the guards assisting another passenger onto the train and knocking the package out which then exploded. Negligence is not a tort unless it results in the commission of a wrong, and the commission of a wrong imports the violation of a right, in this case, we are told, the right to be protected against interference with one’s bodily security. (Edwards, 1999, p. 131) In this case negligence is not a consideration as the guard was unaware of the contents of the passenger and he was doing his duty in protecting the passenger by pushing him onto the train before he fell off and injured himself. Proximate cause concerns arise because it may sometimes seem unfair to old a defendant liable for all the injuries actually caused by his breach, no matter how remote, bizarre, or unforeseeable they are. (Mallor...
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...website. Obviously, you won't knowingly place any code on your own website to compromise the computer security of people visiting it. Another way to divide the Internet is into secure and non-secure zones. The secure zones are normally represented by a lock symbol in the address bar of your computer. An example of such sites can be your Internet banking site that employs high level encryption to secure their database as well as your computer. While you already know about malware, there are two more common techniques used by hackers to access your data: port knocking and packet sniffing. There are several ports on your computer that allow different applications to transfer data to and from your computer. A good application would instantly close the port as soon as it sends or receives information. However, there are some applications that delay or forget to close these ports. Sometimes it is the OS to blame. Port knocking, or port scanning, is the technique where hackers keep on trying to access the different ports on your computer or server. Once they find an open port, they can easily reach your data and use it the way they want. You might know that to transmit data over Internet, it is divided into several chunks (called packets) of equal size. Each packet contains the sequence number of the packet preceded by the IP address of...
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...In “The Raven”, by Edgar Allen Poe, the interaction between the raven and the bust of Pallas, the Greek goddess of wisdom, substantiates the idea that grief can overshadow wisdom. The narrator is engrossed in a “volume of forgotten lore”, which he is reading to forget and bury deep the memories of his departed love, Lenore, when he hears a knock that seems to be coming from his chamber door. He allows himself the thought that his lovely Lenore is knocking but dismisses the thought as quickly as it arrives. On second glance, the knocking seemed to be coming from his window, and when he opened it, in flew a majestic raven. The raven settled “upon a bust of Pallas”, the Greek goddess of wisdom, whose forename is Athena. She adopted the name Pallas...
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