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watched everybody all the time,” (Orwell 3) Winston still tries to elude the grasp of Big Brother. As he gets bolder with his defiance, he is eventually caught: “‘We are the dead, he said…’You are the dead,’ said an iron voice behind them” (Orwell 221). In his last act of resistance, the iron-voiced police who record his blasphemy capture him in his previously private room. Winston’s hubris in avoiding an all-knowing government leads to his…

pay the Sultan out, if he should touch.” (132). The Sultaness and her councilors to feign their baptism and slay the Christians at the wedding feast to pay back her traitor son for abandoning their religion. Lady Constance is left unscathed and is cast out upon the sea. The next example of revenge occurs when Constance denies the young knight’s advances and flirts. The young knight is then influenced by Satan to cruelly slit the throat of Hermengild and to place the knife in Constance’s bed, as…

unimportant continuation of a solitary string plane. With the bass strings in the higher plane it was now possible to have a much narrower cabinet at the “nose” end of the piano. Thanks to over-stringing, the transition from unwound tenor strings to the iron or copper-wrapped bass strings was optimized. Érard invented the double escapement action in 1821, which incorporated a repetition lever (also called the balancier). Henri Pape was the first to present felt pound covers supplanted layered…

the tri power set up provides two sets of secondaries. The factory had to configure specially designed intake manifolds to pull this off. For this reason, when you stumble across an original Pontiac Tri Power engine, you will find the [original cast iron intake…

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While being in a perplexed state the narrator observes a “cast-iron figure of a very black, red-lipped and wide-mouthed Negro, whose white eyes stared up at [him] from the floor, his face an enormous grin, his single large black hand held palm up before his chest.” The figure looking back at the narrator is a racist…

In the story “Martin” Vaca learns about someone new in there neighborhood and from first sight hates the new kid Martin. Vaca’s conflict with Martin helps Vaca learn to not judge a book by its cover. Vaca initially doesn't like Martin because he believes that Martin is rich so the treat him badly, but he eventually changes his views on Martin When Vaca first sees Martin he has a strong dislike for him since Vaca thinks Martin is rich, Martin throws a clod of dirt at Vaca and his brother which…

one of the most interesting objects from the past. The hooks are believed to originate from England and first composed of in the 17th century. Ever since then, Archaeologists have found over 270 tenterhooks in James Fort. Tenter hooks, composed of iron or wooden tenders, and spanning from one to two inches long, were used to dry clothes after they have been washed and pounded. Wool, for example, was hung on wooden tenters after been removed of oils and had its fibers thickened. Evidence also…

During the Industrial Revolution, there were significant changes in society and economy that were extremely favorable for all aspects of society, creating massive changes in lifestyles. These changes included an increasing mechanization, agriculture, industry, and trade. All led by scientific developments, which made a positive, and ideal picture of wellbeing and progress giving rise to urbanization. All along the Industrial Revolution there was a colossal change in the industrial system of…