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    Lagoon 400 Analysis

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    illusion that the entire vessel is a floating family rec room. Accommodations: The 400's purpose is to provide passengers with an easy, anti-stress environment. The cabins and lounge area is spacious and adorned with comfortable furnishings while the galley is fully equipped for cooking requirements. Plenty of storage space is…

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    Javert Is Good Essay

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    He’s willing to against the law and as a police officer, that’s the biggest crime he can ever commit. However, Javert had two choices to choose from, it was either to return Jean Valjean back to the galleys or to commit suicide. Javert commits suicide instead of bringing someone he freed back to the galleys. Because of that, it shows how he did not have mixed feelings about bringing Jean Valjean back. If Javert hasn't changed, he wouldn’t have been able to realize Jean Valjean is a good person.…

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    Rogue Wave Suspense

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    it will convey suspense. In the galley, Scoot should be visible. She should be making sandwiches when she is thrown across the ship as it turns over. To convey suspense in this scene, Scoot hitting her head should be clear. She can clutch her head and look at her hand, which will reveal some blood. Water will rush in a few seconds before Scoot blacks out. In the next main scene, Sully can be swimming and looking for Scoot below the water. When he gets to the galley doors, he can slowly feel…

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    for a galley-slave, can that be possible? He shuddered at it, yet could not shake it off” (Hugo 283). Jean Valjean messes with Javert’s moral code that is unforgiving and immutable. A man who only saw the world in black and white was now abruptly seeing a world with shades of grey. The change was too much for him to cope and he could only think of two ways to ease his mind. ”There were only two ways to get out of it. One, to go resolutely to Jean Valjean, and to return the man of the galleys to…

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    the best crew. Luxury yacht staff members are not only well paid but also well taken care with annual bonuses, health insurance, flight expenses and other offshore benefits. A luxury yacht crew includes officers, Deck crew, engineers, interior crew, galley crew, and subordinate staff. Here is a list of supertacht crew and estimated…

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    Labyrinth Theory

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    In Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables, the Labyrinth Theory can be identified and used to develop a greater understanding of the novel and the main character, Jean Valjean. First, the Labyrinth Theory manifests itself in the form of physical obstacles. In addition, psychological challenges arise as the story progresses. Finally, the Labyrinth Theory can be used to describe the social structure of France at the time the novel was written. After reading Les Misérables and understanding its messages…

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    During the political and controversial times of the nineteenth century, Victor Hugo used his characters to represent the lifesaving and life-taking abilities of mercy and justice, respectively, in his romantic novel, Les Misérables. Inspector Javert represents the ideology of justice in the novel, and he eventually shows the troubles of living with a completely impassive attitude toward those he deems as undeserving of freedom. Though justice seems to control the actions of the aforementioned…

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    Positivity and Adversity in the Face of Poverty Can you imagine what it would it be like to experience true poverty, and how it would shape your worldview? In Les Misérables, Victor Hugo addresses such a topic using multiple characters’ experiences of living on the margins of society. Each characters’ outlook on life and attitude towards poverty has a dramatic effect on their experiences: Fantine views poverty with deep resentment, Jean Valjean sees his impoverished experience as something he…

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    studies topic. Interestingly enough, a biology professor learned more about the history of how samurai swords are crafted from reading “a comic series about a rabbit samurai warrior named Usagi Yojimbo that included a detailed sequence of the process” (Galley 3). If high school students were to read a graphic-novel version of a social studies topic, the topic may become more “easier than usual to read [it] after having read the graphic novel” (Kan 3). High school students may even become more…

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    Which provided a place for soldiers to retreat to on ships like an actual castle to attack people sieging it. This was because the primary way of fighting was to board another’s vessel and fight hand to hand. This is because Galleys would capsize too easily on the waters outside of the Mediterranean, so they were ultimately ineffective. Ships then began to take on the use of new technology, cannons. Ships from the unlike the romans this was the beginning of modern ships that…

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