...In 1976, the Polynesian Voyaging Society had planned a journey that the sailed ancient route of the Polynesian migration used to do,they would use the Hokule'a and it would take 30 days, 2500 mile journey between Hawaiian and Tahitian islands. In 1978, a second voyage of the traditional sailing canoe was...
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...Leadership in Crisis Ernest Shackleton and the Epic Voyage of the Endurance 3/10/2014 aFriendInNeed Situation Overview: Shackleton sailed with 27 men from South Georgia Island on a British Polar expedition into South Atlantic aboard the ship called Endurance. The south pole had been recently reached in 1911. The goal of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition was to become the first explorers to land on the Antarctic continent as well as cross it. The original plan was to sail Endurance through the Weddell Sea and then use dogs and sledges to support the crew of six men to march on the opposite side of Antarctica. However, their ship became trapped in the pack ice of the Weddell Sea, before they could reach the Antarctic coast. For more than eight months, they drifted helplessly with the ocean currents that carried them to over 670 miles north. Attempts were made to free the ship at times when cracks appeared in the ice nearby, but it was of no avail. The ice around the ship was thick and solid. The wooden timbers of the Endurance, unable to withstand the pressure from the ice, eventually gave up, and massive plates of ice crushed it. Shackleton ordered his members of the expedition to take shelter on the ice floes surrounding the ship. They were able to retrieve three lifeboats and as many provisions and supplies as they could from the ship wreckage before it sank. For the next six months, the floating ice became the crew's home. They were now isolated on the drifting...
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...Stowage - The placement or loading of cargo in an aircraft or ship in a manner that provides optimum safety for the vessel and the cargo, giving maximum space usage, and allows easy access to cargo at the point of offloading. The ultimate responsibility for the stowage of cargo rests with the Master. In practice, while the Master retains overall responsibility, the supervision of stowage of cargo normally is delegated to the 1st Officer. His task is to see that neither the vessel nor her cargo is damaged. Furthermore he is responsible for safe handling, loading, including custody of the cargo throughout the voyage. Above all, he must ensure that the safety of the vessel is not imperiled by the carriage of cargo. His aim must be to have the...
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...Great Expectations by Charles Dickens In this essay I will be discussing Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. In this noel I will be looking at how dickens uses the weather and the setting to create suspense and tension. Dickens also used the main characters Pip and the convict to create suspense and tension by showing Pip as an orphan and the convict as a monster. This noel is about a little boy called Pip which thinks that money buys everything but by the help of the convict later on in his life he is going to find out that money doesn’t buy happiness. The most important thing in life is happiness and Pip finds that out as he falls in love with Estella and regrets his decision of choosing money over his friends and family. In this noel I look at how dickens uses his language to create a picture in the reader’s mind. Charles Dickens was born in 1812. His father worked for the Navy Pay office. Dickens had many chances to see Themes as he went with his father on boats and ashore. He attended a small school as his father couldn't earn much and back then people had to pay for schools to get educated and poor people couldn't afford to get educated. At the age of eleven Dickens and his family moved to London. Life was really hard in the central as his father didn't earn much Charles had to leave school. At his 12th birthday his parents had found him a job at the Warden’s Blacking Factory. The factory was described as a dirty and decayed warehouse which was over-run with rats...
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...9-803-127 REV: DECEMBER 2, 2010 NANCY F. KOEHN Leadership in Crisis: Ernest Shackleton and the Epic Voyage of the Endurance For scientific discovery give me Scott; for speed and efficiency of travel give me Amundsen; but when disaster strikes and all hope is gone, get down on your knees and pray for Shackleton. — Sir Raymond Priestley, Antarctic Explorer and Geologist On January 18, 1915, the ship Endurance, carrying a highly celebrated British polar expedition, froze into the icy waters off the coast of Antarctica. The leader of the expedition, Sir Ernest Shackleton, had planned to sail his boat to the coast through the Weddell Sea, which bounded Antarctica to the north, and then march a crew of six men, supported by dogs and sledges, to the Ross Sea on the opposite side of the continent (see Exhibit 1).1 Deep in the southern hemisphere, it was early in the summer, and the Endurance was within sight of land, so Shackleton still had reason to anticipate reaching shore. The ice, however, was unusually thick for the ship’s latitude, and an unexpected southern wind froze it solid around the ship. Within hours the Endurance was completely beset, a wooden island in a sea of ice. More than eight months later, the ice still held the vessel. Instead of melting and allowing the crew to proceed on its mission, the ice, moving with ocean currents, had carried the boat over 670 miles north.2 As it moved, the ice slowly began to soften, and the tremendous force of distant currents...
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...Great Expectations by Charles Dickens In this essay I will be exploring the ways in which Charles Dickens builds tension in the novel great expectations. In this novel I will be discussing the main themes used by dickens to place the viewer in suspense and tension. Dickens focuses on the main characters like Pip and the convict in order to create tension and suspense as Pip was the main point of sympathy since he was presented as an orphan whilst the convict was illustrated as a monster. Great expectations is on the subject of a little boy called Pip who thinks that money will buy everything however through the help of the convict, soon after in his life he will discover that money will not obtain him joy. The most significant obsession in life is the theme of happiness which Pip finds at the subsequent stages of the novel where he catastrophically falls in love with Estella, therefore regrets his action of choosing money in excess of his friends and family. Whilst dickens uses descriptive language to assemble an image in the readers mind he also uses powerful language in order to involve the reader within the novel in addition to allow the reader experience the themes and emotions. This Essay will explore how Dickens builds tension throughout his novel using imagery and his powerful language in both the setting and weather in chapter 1 and 39 whilst exploring the emotions of two main characters Pip and the convict in chapter 1 and 39 of the novel. ...
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...August 20, 2015 3.2.13 Practice: Revision Strategies The tempest one of the most difficult Shakespearean works in my opion to stage, from its stormy, chaotic first scene to its sureality to its ambiguous resolution, with Prospero facing his silent, treacherous brother and renouncing the power that has made every action in the story possible. Potent language remains the central force and mystery of this fathomless play. Prospero speaks almost a third of the lines in The Tempest, and controls the amount of speech every other character on the island has through manipulation and magic. Prospero’s narrative of how he came to the island, what he did once there, and what he is owed for this history, goes largely unchallenged in the text. Yet the play offers innumerable readings and opportunities for alternate staging, particularly in light of postcolonial discourse about Prospero’s relationship with Ariel and Caliban, the legitimacy of his authority, and the nature of his magic and command over language. Though Prospero can be played many ways, there is no doubt he is The Tempest’s show runner. The metatheatrical nature of the play sometimes detracts from its action on the page, but it also offers the chance to explore exactly why Prospero needs an audience for his revenge, and whether or not it satisfies him, onstage. Prospero restricts the sight and knowledge of the other characters, putting them to sleep or manipulating them with invisible forces, but he often lets us, the audience...
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...Odyssey, as distinguished from the Iliad, lies in the details, such as are given in the story of Nausicaii and the visit of Telemachus to Menelaus. They are used with admirable skill to enliven the story and make it seem real, never to hold it up or divert the readers attention from the main issue. When the victorious Greek Fleet put out to sea after the fall of Troy, many a captain, all unknowing, faced troubles as black as those he had brought down on the Trojans. Athena and Poseidon had been the Greeks' greatest allies among the gods, but when Troy fell all that had changed. They became their bitterest enemies. The Greeks went mad with victory the night they entered the city; they forgot what was due to the gods; and on their voyage home they were terribly punished. Cassandra, one of Priam's daughters, was a prophetess. Apollo had loved her and given her the power to foretell the future. Later he turned against her because she refused his love, and although he could not take back his gift-divine favors once bestowed might not be revoked—he made it of no account: no one ever believed her. She told the Trojans each time what would happen; they would never listen to her. She declared that Greeks were hidden in the wooden horse; no one gave her words a thought. It was her fate always to know the disaster that was coming and be unable to avert it. 212 MYTHOLOGY When the Greeks sacked the city she was in Athena’s temple clinging to her image, under the goddess’s protection...
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...100 Best First Lines from famous Novels 1. Call me Ishmael. —Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851) 2. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. —Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813) 3. A screaming comes across the sky. —Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow (1973) 4. Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. —Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967; trans. Gregory Rabassa) 5. Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. —Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (1955) 6. Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. —Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (1877; trans. Constance Garnett) 7. riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs. —James Joyce, Finnegans Wake (1939) 8. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. —George Orwell, 1984 (1949) 9. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair. —Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (1859) 10. I am an invisible man. —Ralph Ellison...
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...The Influence of Electronic Media on Reading Culture of School Children TABLE OF CONTENTS 1.0 Chapter One: Introduction 1.1. Background of the study…………………………………………………………...page 3 1.2. Problem Statement…………………………………………....................................page 3 1.3. Study Objectives.......................................................................................................page 4 1.4 Research Questions………………………………………………………………….page 4 1.5. Scope Study…………………………………………………………………………page 4 2.0 Chapter Two: Literature Review………………………………………………....page 5 3.0 Chapter Three: Research Methodology 3.1.1 Research design…………………………………………………………………page 7 3.1.2 Source of Data…………………………………………………………………..page 7 3.1.3 Target Population……………………………………………………………….page 8 3.1.4 Sample Size……………………………………………………………………..page 8 3.1.5 Sampling Methodology…………………………………………………………page 8 3.1.6 Research Instruments………………………………………………………...…page 8 3.1.7 Ethical Consideration….………………………………………………………..page 8 3.1.8 Data Analysis……… …………………………………………………………page 8 3.1.9 Possible Limitations of the Study……………………………………………….page 9 Bibliography…………………………………………………………………………..page 10 Annex 1: Work Plan…………………………………………………………………..page 13 Annex 2: Research Tools……………………………………………………………...page 15 DEFINITION OF KEY TERMS * Literacy: the possession of those literacy skills needed to successfully perform some reading task imposed by an external agent between the reader and the goal the reader wishes to obtain. * Reading:...
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...Gitanjali (Song offerings) by Rabindranath Tagore Formatted for Rocket eBook by: Kirby A. Heintzelman - June, 2000 Rabindranath Tagore(1861--1941), was the first non-White to receive Nobel prize (1913) for Literature. The event of course caused some furor at the time. New York Times in its prodigious generosity consoled its readers by alluding to the fact that after all Tagore was of Aryan Stock. It was first published in 1913 as a collection of prose translations made by the author from the original Bengali (a language of India) Poems. Evidence does indicate that the poet W.B. Yeats had a hand in editing and publishing it! GITANJALI 1 Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure. This frail vessel thou emptiest again and again, and fillest it ever with fresh life. This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new. At the immortal touch of thy hands my little heart loses its limits in joy and gives birth to utterance ineffable. Thy infinite gifts come to me only on these very small hands of mine. Ages pass, and still thou pourest, and still there is room to fill. 2 When thou commandest me to sing it seems that my heart would break with pride; and I look to thy face, and tears come to my eyes. All that is harsh and dissonant in my life melts into one sweet harmony---and my adoration spreads wings like a glad bird on its flight across the sea. I know thou takest pleasure in my singing. I know that only...
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...Shab Bazi is indicative of Chubak’s keen insight into the inner motives of human behavior. In 1949, Chubak published his second collection called, Antari Ke Lutiyash Murdeh Bod (The baboon whose buffoon was dead). The collected stories Puppet Show and The baboon whose buffoon was dead have exerted profound influence on modern Persian literature. Then there was a gap of some fifteen years before Ruze Avvale Qabr (The First Night in the Grave) and (The Last Alms) were published in 1965 and 1966, respectively. After the publication of The Last Alms and The First Night of the Grave, Chubak wrote his novel The Patient Stone, which is a great modern novel in the Persian literature. Chubak also translated Shakespear’s Othello, Roland’s La Fin du Voyage, and Balzac’s Le P Gorio Goriot, Pinokio (the wooden dummy) the work of Carlo, ‘‘Carlo Kuludy’’, Lewis Carroll’s book ‘‘Alice in Wonderland’’, the poetry of raven and (work of Edgar Allen poet), and Maah pareh; a Hindis love story into Persian. In his works, Chubak studies the lives of downtrodden people of the society who were victimized by iniquities and natural deterministic forces. Sympathetic to the sorrows and miseries of such people, he dispenses one single solution, combating corruption and injustice. Chubak’s retirement coincided with the onset of the Islamic Revolution in Iran. An atheist since his early childhood, he found living in the Islamic Republic difficult. In 1974, ergo, he moved to London, England, first and then to...
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...ALLEGOR AND IRONY IN 'OTHELLO' Y ANTOINETT B. DAUBER E Othello is Shakespeare's Spenserian tragedy, in which the theme of slandere d chastity becomes a vehicle for exploring the problems of an allegorica l art . Allegory is the mode of selfconscious faith, and Spenser's corpus may be rea d as a portrai t of the artis t as allegorist , wrestling first with the burdens of selfconsciousness and then with the burdens of faith.l In Othello, Shakespeare compresses and objectifies this struggle. Unlike Spenser, he is not committed to the maintenance of allegory, and so he freely dramatizes the interna l weaknesses and external onslaughts that lead to its destruction. What I am calling the 'Spenserian ' quality begins with the chivalric elements in the tragedy. Truly, Othello is a kind of Savage Knight, Desdemona, the absolutely, almost miraculously, worthy lady, and Iago, something of a manipulator like Archimago.2 But more particularl y I would call attention to a specific engagement with Spenserian rhetoric . Consider Cassio' s words of welcome to the disembarking Desdemona: Tempests themselves, high seas, and howling winds, The gutter'd rocks and congregated sands, Traitors ensteep'd to enclog the guiltless keel, As having sense of beauty, do omit Their mortal natures, letting go safely by The divine Desdemona. (2.1.68-73)3 He sets her in the line of Spenser's heavenly allegories . As a parallel , we may recal l Una , slandere d by the arch-magician , abandone d by 123 her...
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..."Farewell to alms" Ch.1 Wednesday 25 March 2015 The Malthusian Trap Conditions of leaving in 1800 were even worse, under several aspect, than the one of an average person in 100,000 BC, or the hunt-gathers . And hunter-gatherer societies are egalitarian. Material consumption varies little across the members. In contrast, inequality was pervasive in the agrarian economies that dominated the world in 1800. The Industrial Revolution deeply changed this trend, Income per person began to undergo sustained growth in a favored group of countries. The richest modern economy are now ten to twenty times wealthier than the 1800 average. For Clarks the biggest beneficiary of this revolution has been the unskilled workers, the poorest. Just as the Industrial Revolution reduced in come inequalities within societies, it has increased them between societies, in a process recently labeled the Great Divergence.1 For example African countries, in certain case, would have been better never discover the industrial revolution, because they remained trap in the Malthusian Era creating an higher divergence between population, and driving down standards to subsistence. * Why did the Malthusian Trap persist for so long? * Why did the initial escape from that trap in the Industrial Revolution occur on one tiny island, England, in 1800? * Why was there the consequent Great Divergence? "Thus I make no apologies for focusing on income. Over the long run in come is more...
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...------------------------------------------------- Act 1, Scene 1 | Original Text | Modern Text | | Enter THESEUS, HIPPOLYTA, and PHILOSTRATE, with others | THESEUS and HIPPOLYTA enter withPHILOSTRATE and others. | 5 | THESEUSNow, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hourDraws on apace. Four happy days bring inAnother moon. But oh, methinks how slowThis old moon wanes! She lingers my desires,Like to a stepdame or a dowagerLong withering out a young man’s revenue. | THESEUSOur wedding day is almost here, my beautiful Hippolyta. We’ll be getting married in four days, on the day of the new moon. But it seems to me that the days are passing too slowly—the old moon is taking too long to fade away! That old, slow moon is keeping me from getting what I want, just like an old widow makes her stepson wait to get his inheritance. | 10 | HIPPOLYTAFour days will quickly steep themselves in night.Four nights will quickly dream away the time.And then the moon, like to a silver bowNew bent in heaven, shall behold the nightOf our solemnities. | HIPPOLYTANo, you’ll see, four days will quickly turn into four nights. And since we dream at night, time passes quickly then. Finally the new moon, curved like a silver bow in the sky, will look down on our wedding celebration. | 15 | THESEUS Go, Philostrate,Stir up the Athenian youth to merriments.Awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth.Turn melancholy forth to funerals.The pale companion is not for our pomp. | THESEUSGo, Philostrate...
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