...is divided into different chapters. The first one concerns the creation of the telephone, and how it took in turn in New York. It’s mostly about the telephone wires, and how they been raised, and how the inventor of the telephone, presents the telephone by creating demonstration of how the telephone works. The first chapter is also about how the public don´t welcoming the new invention. This negative angle leads us to the next chapter. The next chapter is a long listing of black people being hanged in telephone wires. The listing contains names of the men and the town they have been hanged in. The describing of the hangings continues supported by quotes wrote by different people. The people contains off a writers, a precedent, an activist and an investor, scientist and businessman. The novel ends in the last chapter with the main character, telling what he thinks of the telephone, the wires and the poles. The construction of the novel is quite unusual. There is a bit of a surprise element in the beginning of the story. We’re supposed to believe, that we are about to read a story of the telephone and how it was invented, but then the hangings take place in the story, and it flips the expectations, and make the rest of the story unpredictable and more exciting to read. The negative thoughts of the telephone wires are connected to the black men, whom have been hanged. We can find this connection in...
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...She states, “A cleft in your chin instead of your foot/But no less a devil for that” (Plath, 1962). The devil is normally depicted as a goat like animal with horns and hooves with clefts in them. She is clarifying that although he does not have a cleft in his foot, he is still like a devil to her. She continues on to say “No not/Any less the black man who/Bit my pretty red heart in two” (Plath, 1962). She uses the phrase “black man” to signify evilness, and contrasts it with the phrase “pretty red heart” to show the differences between the two. The father is seen as black, while the speaker is seen as pretty and red. This is another way of emphasizing to readers that she was a victim of her evil...
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...divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.” This quote can be proven true in, “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings: A Tale for Children” by Gabriel Garcìa Márquez. In this story, a couple named Pelayo and Elisenda find a peculiar old man with large wings, who appears very different from them, in the mud near their home. Their neighbor tells them that the old man is an angel, who is a fugitive survivor of a spiritual conspiracy. The neighbor believes that he should be clubbed to death, but instead the couple locks him in a chicken coop. News of the angel spreads and the wife charges the townspeople five cents to view the man. Later, they charge people less to view a girl with the body of a spider. The couple buys many nice things with the money that is raised. The following winter the angel becomes sick, but when the seasons change he grows stronger. He isolates himself to morph into a vulture-like creature who eventually flies away. Gabriel Garcìa Márquez depicts how people treat others with disrespect when they look different from themselves in “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings: A Tale for Children,” by showing how poorly people treated the old man....
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...Who seemed to be the leader. “Hah!” Laughed Lennon. “I will do no such thing. You are nothing, you are not my government.” “Very well then.” Said one of the men. “Put him to sleep.” Another man brought out a tablet. He looked up Lennon's name and pressed a red button. Lennon instantly dropped to the ground. Then he was taken to a lab. “Wake up!” Said one of the mysterious men in black. “Where am I!” screamed Lennon with rage in his voice. “You shouldn't have done that, Lennon. You should of handed the shoes the first time we asked.” “I won't listen to your government.” said Lennon. “We can not let you go on with this any longer Lennon, you crossed the line.” said the leader of the men. “Call it in.” A few seconds later a big metal machine entered the room. It had black snake like wires surrounding a chair with straps on the arm rests. Lennon was quickly strapped to the chair. The black wires were attached all around his head. “Kill me,” screamed Lennon. “I don't care anymore!” “Oh we’re not going to kill you.” Said the man. “We’re just going to hurt you really, really bad. So bad that you won’t remember anything that happened in the last...
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...It was the Christmas of 2006. Tyler woke up and ran down the stairs to open his present and saw his dad leaving and asked “Where are you going” His Dad replied “I have to go to the work ”. Tyler hugged his dad and said goodbye. The next day a man came to the door and asked if he could speak to Tyler's mom. The man told his mom that her husband was killed in action. Tyler's mom started to cry. The man went to Tyler and gave him a locket with a phone number and a picture of his dad and said “call this number whenever you have a problem and make sure you ask for Howard.” Seven years later, Tyler and his friends went to an alley to gamble on an illegal fight. When he was watching the police came. Everybody ran away but the police caught Tyler. Tyler was taken to the police center where he was questioned. The police told him he could make a call. Then Tyler...
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...arrived at the conclusion that the history of chain making is either a well kept secret or just not of much interest to anyone. Precious metal chain for jewelry has been around for a long time. Basically when man first began working extensively with gold back in Neolithic times he found that certain metals, most notably pure gold, were extremely ductile and could be hammered and stretched to a great degree. With the invention of wire, man could now take something rigid like metal and turn it into something flexible like chain. Chain making has always been, up until the middle of the 18th century, a labor-intensive time consuming hand operation. It was a well-versed art and most books on jewelry will demonstrate basic techniques on making chain by hand. Before automated wire drawing machines, the craftsman had to hammer down and pull metal through succeeding smaller dies to form thin wire. Once the wire was pulled down to the needed diameter, it was wound around a mandrel forming loops. Then, the craftsman would make a cut through the looped wire down the length of the mandrel forming individual offset loops. The craftsman would then interlock the loops, bend each link closed, and then solder each link. Tedious indeed, if you considered making an 1132 chain (.011" wire at 32 links per inch) by hand, it would contain 512 links for a...
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...Eng 101 Prof: Conners Essay 1, Draft 1 9/28/2015 Art is the beautiful thing created by human whatever it is messy or beautiful. People express their creative skill and imagination, and try to bewitch other people to their works. It is art. I watched the documentary that there is a man, Mr. Philippe Petit, walked on the wire that connected between towers at height a hundred and ten stories. He created art through his skill, bewitched everybody who saw his walk. His imagination and passion is almost impossible for other people. Is it art? Yes, tightrope walk between the Twin Tower is very creative and significant art. To create art, of course, people need to take time to build their skill. It didn’t happen over a night. What do you think of Mr.Petit’s tightrope walking? His creative skill and imagination are amazing. Mr. Petit spent most of the time to build his skill. He failed several times, but he never gave up. He went back and forth from his country to New York to create his art. He devoted all his efforts into it for his whole life. He has a great passion, perseverance. We could see it. It is a lot more difficult to create his art than any other arts. His imagination is different from any others. He did something that might be a dream for others. His creation isn’t normal. He bet his life to create his art. It is a signification art. As an artist, his job is to immerse his viewers into a world that he has built. In the book, ‘let the great world spin’, by Colum...
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...Reality in Legal Dramas Introduction: The public relies on television as its primary source of information about the legal system. Many American’s turn to television media for general entertainment, but watch certain genres for informative purposes. Watching crime based shows is one example of this theory. People look to crime shows to gain knowledge of how crime solving works and what kind of job duties each person has, when what is shown on television is not always reality. Take the shows Law and Order: SVU and Hawaii 5-0. These shows reveal the aspects of detectives’ everyday lives inside the job. They have a high tolerance for violence and depict an unrealistic representation of certain occupations. Methodology: Reading two essays, researching television media and genres, observing two shows and participating in a Roundtable Discussion on American Media Images (RDAMI) were the steps I took in putting together my ideas on television media. “Superman and Me” by Sherman Alexie and “Where Have All the Parents Gone” by Barbara Dafoe Whitehead were the two essays I read for this paper. They develop ideas on what has an impact on American people and culture. I observed two episodes of two different television shows. Law and Order: SVU was one of the shows. Law and Order: SVU is a show about sexually based crimes, SVU meaning “Special Victims Unit”. “Friending Emily” and “Manhattan Vigil” were the two episodes with the main characters being senior detectives Olivia Benson...
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...Moose and the Sparrow Hugh Garner From the very beginning Moose Maddon picked on him. The kid was bait for all of Maddon's cruel practical jokes around the camp. He was sent back to the tool-house for left-handed saws, and down to the office to ask the pay cheater if the day's mail was in, though the rest of us knew it was only flown out every week. The kid's name was Cecil, and Maddon used to mouth it with a simpering mockery, as if it pointed to the kid being something less than a man. I must admit though that the name fitted him, for Cecil was the least likely lumberjack I've seen in over twenty-five years in lumber camps. Though we knew he was intelligent enough, and a man too, if smaller than most of us, we all kidded him, in the good natured way a bunkhouse gang will. Maddon however always lisped the kid's name as if it belonged to a woman. Moose Maddon was as different from Cecil as it is possible for two human beings to be and still stay within the species. He was a big moose of a man, even for a lumber stiff, with a round flat unshaven face that looked down angrily and dourly at the world. Cecil on the other hand was hardly taller than an axe-handle, and almost as thin. He was about nineteen years old, with the looks of an inquisitive sparrow behind his thick horn-rimmed glasses. He had been sent out to the camp for the summer months by an distant relative who had a connection with the head office down in Vancouver. That summer we were cutting big stuff in an almost...
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...The guide quickly went through the process of strapping yourself in and hooking the cable trolley to the wire. The girls could barely tell what he was saying. A minute later, the guide zoomed away on the zip line, leaving the young girls behind. They watched the guide in silence, until he completely disappeared. “We are going to die, aren't we,” Anna said. “No,” Jessica replied calmly. “What are we going to do?” Anna sobbed. “We will just have to go, it's the only way down.” Jessica paused, thought to herself, then asked, “Do you remember anything he said?” “No.” Jessica...
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...use. So, do we owe them our lives? I find myself forming a total agreement with Jane Goodall. Man was put on Earth to rule, but with wisdom and care, not with greediness and egoism like now. We have used our position on this once beautiful planet to destroy nature and kill animals for personal profit. Chimpanzees do not deserve to live in tiny cages and drive themselves mad. Locked up like criminals, rocking from side to side. I’m chocked how they’re treated by mankind. Factory farming is an unacceptable way of treating farm animals. Factory farming began in the 1920s soon after the discovery of vitamins A and D. When these vitamins are added to feed, animals no longer have to exercise and don’t need sunlight for growth. This allowed large numbers of animals to be raised indoors all year around. The greatest problem that was faced in raising these animals indoors was the spread of disease, which was combated with antibiotics. Unfortunately, this trend of mass production has resulted in incredible pain and suffering for the animals. Animals today raised on factory farms have had their genes manipulated and pumped full of antibiotics, hormones and other chemicals to encourage high productivity. In the food industry, animals are not considered animals at all, they are food producing machines. The chicks that go to the battery will live in a shed with long rows of cages made of wire mesh, with three or more stories on top of each other. The animals live in small cages, 4 chickens...
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...negative tone regarding British rule. In 1704 the regularly published newspaper appeared in the American Colonies called the Boston News Letter. At this time news was transported by ship, it took weeks to arrive in the states. The news was not current and people found it to be boring. In the 1820’s the cost of a newspaper was about six cents per paper, and required a subscription. In 1830 the Penny Press was introduced to the world. This newspaper was the paper for the common man. Up to this point newspapers were not for the common man. They were expensive and boring. The Penny Press was a steam powered mechanical machine that was able to produce more newspapers for less money. Unlike the traditional newspaper the Penny Press did not require a subscription. The Penny Press introduced Human Interest stories which highlighted daily triumph of the people. This type of paper was the first to report on crime, scandal, fashion, finance, balloon races, and sports stories things that are interesting to the common man. Competition was...
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...devotes itself to describing the history of the telephone, and the quite silly struggle between private persons and the telephone companies that came out of putting up the telephone poles; however in the second part, that is divided from the first by three little stars, the essay suddenly focuses greatly upon the fact that a lot of black men were hanged in the telephone poles, and almost nothing about the continuing development of the telephone itself is mentioned – only that the “Early telephone calls were full of noise.” (line 95) and, at the very end of the second part, that “Bell had lived to complete the first call from New York to San Francisco, which required 14,000 miles of copper wire and 130,000 telephone poles.” (line 134) Part two begins with the sentence, “In 1898, (…) a black man was...
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...who are done what they are told, Women are expected to be the ones who are afraid, perhaps also as a more weaker sex, if the story didn’t tell us who was the man and the woman, we would automatic set the gender roles so the most dominant would be the man, this story could have been written so the genders was switched around at first and then switched again later on so at first the killer was the man but then when the story was finished the writer made some changes so the killer was the girl. 1) The story is about a writers travel to Venice, where he ends up being involved in a case about a serial killer, Richard meets Jessica in a museum Richard sees Jessica, falls in interest of her and starts talking to her, after some time where they have talked they split up and Richard keeps looking for her, thinking he have missed his chance, he then sees her coming out of the restroom, he sees her buying some postcards and he then does the same, then he follows her and takes contact to her after she had sat down at a table, they are sitting and talking about the art over a cup of coffee in the café, they order lunch, doing the lunch Richard discovers a newspaper that Jessica had left on the chair beside her, with the headline in Italian about two killings, Jessica tells about the killings, that the murder weapon was a cheese-wire, Jessica goes to the restroom and Richard hurries out of the café, in his hurry he accidently takes the wrong plastic bag Jessica’s bag goes to his hotel room...
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...have become one of the greatest innovations of the modern world. Simply put, your personal guide to anywhere in the world. It can accurately get a fix on your position to within 100 meters. This is where most people would say that their GPS gets them down to ten meters or less, and they would be right. But it is GPS in coordination with the Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS) that gets them that accurate of a location. To understand this we must start from the beginning and go over GPS’s history. From there we will take a look at what causes some of the inaccuracies that GPS can. Then we can see how DGPS counters these and gives you the most accurate reading you can have. Differential Global Positioning System, GPS’s right hand man for accuracy. To understand how a DGPS helps a GPS we start at the beginning of it’s short history. Though made for use by the United States government, it was the Soviet Union that launched Sputnik in 1957 and gave us the idea. After the launch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researches observed that they could pick up the radio signal that Sputnik was producing. They also realized that the sound of this transmission varied with the proximity of Sputnik to its antenna receiver. As the satellite got closer to the receiver the strength of the signal got stronger. Likewise the satellite drawing farther away caused the signal received to decrease. This is called the Doppler shift or effect. It was these increases and decreases...
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