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    Honors Essay Prompts form The Lord of the Flies 1. Explain the symbolism of Conch shell and how it relates to Piggy’s death In The Lord of the Flies, the conch shell plays an important role on how the kids organize themselves and how they decide their rules. Piggy thought of the idea of blowing the conch to unite everyone on the island, and told Ralph to do it. The noise of the conch was so powerful that all of the kids on the island started to respect the conch and the one who blew the conch…

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    governing equations and combine the variables, which makes the group of dimensionless numbers in order to reduce the number of total variables. 3.1.1.1 Prandtl Number The Prandtl number is the ratio of the momentum diffusivity or viscous diffusuion rate and thermal diffusivity or thermal diffusion rate expressed as where is the specific heat, is the thermal diffusivity, is the…

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    Analysis Of Friction Flow

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    pipe at high velocities. The type of flow whether its laminar, transitional or turbulent solely depends on the Reynolds number, Re value. When the Reynolds number, Re is less than 2000, it is considered as laminar flow whereas Reynolds number, Re between 2000 to 4000 is referred as transitional flow and for turbulent flow, the Reynolds number should be more than…

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    Demitri Mendeleeve was a Russian chemist who invented the first periodic table in 1869. The periodic table he made was very different from the modern day periodic table we know today. Henry Moseley updated Mendeleev's version of the periodic table in 1915. This is more like the periodic table that we know and use today. The only difference is that there has been many more elements added. Mendeleeve also had predicted a lot of the characteristics and properties of elements that would fill up…

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    Symbolism is often used by authors to represent important ideas or qualities in literature. Objects, situations and even people, are used to represent those specific concepts that the author is trying to communicate to the reader. In the novel, Lord of the flies, William Golding applies symbolism throughout the book to represent the theme of civilization and savagery that is explored in the novel. One of the very first symbolic objects was the conch shell discovered on the beach by Ralph and…

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    Orifice Plate Essay

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    ORIFICE PLATE: Definition: An orifice plate is a device that is used for the measurement of flow rate for reducing pressure or for the restricting flow. An orifice plate is a thin plate with a hole in it, which is usually placed in a pipe. When a fluid (either liquid or gaseous) passes through the orifice, its pressure builds up slightly upstream of the orifice. But as the fluid is forced to converge to pass through the hole, the velocity increases & the fluid pressure decreases. Orifice Plate…

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    personified as cockroaches in his stomach. In times of fear he imagines cockroaches crawling up his stomach. Throughout the novel he mentions the cockroaches several times. He mentions, “…the night terrors that brought on the cockroaches and their quick hairy legs.” (36). Whenever Mitchell began to think about the constant fears he would feel these cockroaches crawling up the walls of his stomach. The personification of the cockroaches shows us to what drastic extent Mitchell was concerned about…

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    In Lord of the Flies, the boys are raised in environments that enforces the idea of abiding to the law, being peaceful, disciplined, and in general, being civil. Jack lands on the island, aware of these values. But, there is darkness inside him. Golding proves this by writing, "As the echoes died away so did the laughter, and there was silence. Within the diamond haze of the beach something dark was fumbling along. Ralph saw it first, and watched till the intentness of his gaze drew all eyes…

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    The beginning scene opens as Ralph and Piggy meeting for the first time. As they find other stranded boys they find themselves in need of leadership. They elect Ralph, but as the story continues the boys find an inner fear, the beast. Even though it is all a figment of their imaginations. They turn gradually more savage as the story progresses. Leading to deaths such as Simon and Piggy. The boys formed a civil leadership at the beginning the fear inside them creates an inner fear that gradually…

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    Within the course of the novel, Golding links cruelty to fear by creating a chain of reactions that lead up to the spiteful ways the boys deal with the Beast, their worst nightmare. At first, most of the children cry and whimper about a monster in the forest, but eventually, they respond to their outrageous situation with a tremendous amount of energy, excitement, and cruelty towards other life forms: “He [Jack] stood up, holding the dripping sow’s head in his hands … and jammed the soft throat…

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