Plank

Sailing technology unique to the Indian Ocean system included the lateen sail and a shipbuilding technique that involved piercing the planks, tying the planks together and caulking them in which allowed them to travel longer routes. It increased as a result of a decline in the silk road trade or any Land Routes.It was also safer for merchants and the goods were charged as a reasonable price.The…

sound well, too. It was the beating of the old man's heart. It increased my fury, as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage.” It says in the text that he took up three planks of wood off of the floor and if you can easily pull up wood off of the floor, then that must be old. “I then took up three planks from the flooring of the chamber, and deposited all between the…

different from other in different guilds or serfs. The carpenters would make doors and furniture for the castle or manor, he would use wood to make these thing. The carpenters special skill was woodworking. When stone castles came the carpenters made wood planks and beams for the castle support system or for the roof. The carpenters would use special tools that they used when working with wood. There are two different types of axes, the felling axe and the shaping axe.The felling axe would be…

Through literature, the trauma of conflict can be processed more easily. Using any form, Literature can provide a blank canvas to offload burdening thoughts, emotions and to simplify and accept traumatic experiences related to conflict. Conflict has been ever present in the human race and for as long as literature has existed, people have used it as an outlet to deal with the trauma of these conflicts. Thought and emotion take up a huge amount of the human brain capacity. When faced with…

quietly stepped up the unstable wooden planks of the slanted hallway towards the open door. I could hear "it" making gross moaning noises, and had strange glowing bumps all over its body. These bumps moved somewhat, they were pulsing, and every time a bump on its skin pulsed, it gushed liquids. It was a horrifying sight to encounter, its face was tar-black, as if it was burnt in a fire. I crouched at the top of the stairs, getting…

it ceased. The old man was dead. I removed the bed and examined the corpse. Yes, he was stone, stone dead. His eve would trouble me no more.”.“First of all I dismembered the corpse. I cut off the head and the arms and the legs. I then took up three planks from the flooring of the chamber, and deposited all between the scantlings.”. This is cruelty at its finest. Consequently, the police arrive to investigate a scream that came from the home of the man. Will this cruel narrator, notwithstanding…

You Be the Judge As Rick Warren once said, “We are products of our past but we don’t have to be prisoners of it.” We live in a way to prevent mistakes—not taking risks, expanding our comfort zones, or jumping outside the boxes we hide in. It is always difficult to accept our failures and shortcomings, but it always has a way of teaching us valuable lessons. Our mistakes are gifts and guideposts in our learning and growth as people. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, he reveals that…

How is suspense illustrated? Does the author create suspense by illustrating a picture in the reader’s mind? Does the author create suspense by choosing specific word choices? In the story, “The Landlady,” an individual named Billy Weaver requested to stay at the Landlady’s house or Bed and Breakfast since he didn’t have a place to stay and was also looking for something cheap as well. As he explores the place himself, he encounters that the Landlady is acting a little peculiar. She then started…

According to four graduate students, Noah’s ark could in theory float. The ark being 300 by 50 cubits long and being made of gopher wood. The question is now how could he fit two of every animal in the world in there AND make it still float? The boat had to have the same amount of force on the ocean as the weight of the water it displays. The students thought about it and tried looking for the mass. The students started made a math problem. Where they subtracted the mass and found Noah’s ark…

Wiesel’s story changed my outlook on the Holocaust tremendously. At first i really did not know much about the horrific event. Obviously i knew what happened, who the oppressor was, and who the victims were. But i was still unclear on what really happened. Elie Wiesel’s story is just marvelous and quite frankly emotional. After reading his book i really got a good understanding of how the conditions were, how taxing it was on ones body, and how it can really diminish a person. Throughout the…