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This project is a group work, will be accomplished by three students in about 20 weeks. A single cylinder test engine block will be combined with a Ford cylinder head, then to be installed on the testbed coupled with an AC dynamometer. After connecting the control sensors, the engine will be tested in various operating conditions. 1.1 Background Engine is a machine which converts any form of energy into mechanical energy, especially the combustion engine converts combustion energy into…

I look down at the black book in my hands, or rather what’s left of it. The spine of the book had long since disintegrated, facing the weight of my travels. The pages ripped and crumpled, all held together by two stitches of frayed thread. But no matter. I have read this story a legion of times. I have travelled near and far, spreading the book thief’s words. I have told the book so many times that I could never forget. Now, you may have been wondering throughout all my narrations how I, Death,…

The first chapter of Tom Clancy's Battle Ready is packed with action and plans to use in war. It started on November 12, 1998, with General Tony Zinni sitting at the command center in Tampa, Florida, preparing for an attack on Iraq. This was caused by a group of people called UNSCOM. UNSCOM went to Iraq to see if they were making guns and if they didn’t get data they would need to hit Iraq. Sadly the UNSCOM couldn't get any data so on November 11 the 24-hour clock started to tick. After the…

In Markus Zusak’s novel, The Book Thief, Hans Hubermann and his wife, Rosa, newly foster nine-year-old Liesel Meminger. This new addition to the family changes all of their lives forever. The novel is narrated by Death, and is set in the small and fictitious town of Molching, Germany in the Second World War, Hans and everyone around him in Molching, Germany are expected to help support the Nazi party, even if it alters them as a person. Everyone is affected by this setting; some people had an…

common, but has only been talked about in recent years. It was 1878 when German neurologist, Adolph Kussmaul, first used the phrase “word blindness” describing what we know as dyslexia today. The word dyslexia was first used by Rudolf Berlin of Stuttgart, Germany, in 1887 to describe the inability to read. In 1905 W.E. Burner published the first report of childhood reading difficulties in the U.S.. It was not until 1925 that an American neurologist Dr. Samuel T. Orton proposed the first theory…

Audrey Ulmer Honors Music Ms. Vicki Fox May 16, 2016 The Life and Music of Mozart Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, known as an adult as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, was born January 27, 1756 to Leopold and Anna Maria Mozart. The last of their two children to survive infancy, he and his sister Maria Anna- also known as Nannerl- were noted to be musically skilled from a young age. Mozart had learned to play piano at the age of three and by the age of five he had begun to compose…

fact because of potential profits? Scholars have different opinions about Hegel’s view of racism and the other because Hegel was a complex thinker whose many works can be interpreted as racist or non racist. Born on August 27th, 1770 and raised in Stuttgart, Germany, Hegel had a Protestant upbringing. With his Christian background and his father’s wishes for him to be a clergyman, Hegel studied Theology at the University of Tübingen from 1788 to 1793. The European Graduate School recounts…

Did you know the power of words can impact somebody’s life? The things you say to someone can change their mind about their decisions, choices, or may even affect their self-esteem. Words also have the power to make somebody change their attitude. Throughout the story of The Book Thief, there are many positive and negative situations that occur because of words. In the novel, the reader can see evidence of how words can build or strengthen a relationship. However, one must also note how words…

Tone “Snowflakes of ash fell so lovelily you were tempted to stretch out your tongue to catch them, taste them. Only, they would have scorched your lips” (13). RESPOND The narrator makes it seem as though the scene had the potential to be pleasant, but rather that the appearance was deceitful. ANALYZE Death describes the ashes as falling “lovelily” and through the use of italics gives a sarcastic emphasis on the word. The narrator’s tone was almost apathetic throughout this passage as he did…

Ring Around the Rosie Most people can recognize the common adolescent schoolyard game “Ring Around the Rosie.” Many, though, would naught recognize the manifestations of the Black Death, also known as the Bubonic Plague, displayed in the nursery rhyme. This correlation leaves many scholars believing that the two contain a sickening connection. The opening phrase refers to a rash symptom that began in the early stages. “A pocketful of posey” explains how people would carry around flowers in hopes…