Cloaking

infamous and oldest of American hate groups” (SPLC). The Ku Klux Klan started during Reconstruction, a period of rebuilding in the South after the end of the Civil War. It was originally started as a vigilante group to terrorize and intimidate former slaves and to try to keep former slaves from gaining equal rights and to influence control over the so called “carpet baggers”, or northerners, that moved south to try and bring equality to the former slaves and profit from the damaged south. Although

1. My initial response to this story is that I'm intrigued. The story had this way of almost cloaking what was really happening. It made each death or event seem like it was a dream and the way everything was described it hooked you into the story. 2. The genre would be considered science fiction. 3. The exposition was when the narrator was spectating the beginning of people going into the pit and watching the chaos happen. The rising action was when the narrator saw the men waving a white flag

returning to work. Her gawking at these buildings allowed her siblings to catch up to her, as she had left them behind a bit due to her enthusiasm. Eventually, the four reached the sign that the officer had mentioned. It read: Nordsdale School of Combat is proud to welcome incoming students to study the art of combat. For those enrolled, turn left at the walkway and continue straight on Borne Boulevard. Please have your mailed student ID ready at the gate. “Mailed student ID?” said Thyra, confused

a place for rituals in their lives, as long as you intentionally cultivate that character for it. A person receiving their white coat identity is altered in a variety of ways, they are now seen and expected to act as medical professionals. The “cloaking” emerges from the ceremony ritual. It is seen as a symbol of professionalism and humanism, and ensure that students commit to those virtues throughout medical school. Accepting the white coat ensures that a medical student promises to retain certain

Over the next ten years many of the new technologies will be implemented in policing. Some of the technologies currently being tested includes: nanotechnology, metamaterial cloaking camouflage, unmanned drones, OICW gun, dragon skin armor and microwave technologies ADS. The ADS (Active Denial System) will be used deter rioters and high risk threats. It is used to heat up the spark a reaction in water and fatty tissues of an

problems and those who are perfectly healthy. “For the last few years, [Salt Lake City] has been grappling with one of the nation's most vexing pollution problems, where atmospheric inversions during the winter months lead to a thick fog of dirty air cloaking the region.” (Seen) It is a severe problem that has only gotten worse with time. Just last year, Salt Lake

argue that social media provides a cloak by which people can hide behind. In other instances, the Internet has established a place for those who fear interacting in the real world. They can now safely communicate and build relationships. The topic of cloaking is interesting because prior to the internet, people had to venture out into the world and had to communicate live with people, the process developed social skills that are threatening to be lost as social networking continues to grow. At the forefront

“Araby,” is a story of self-discovery expressed by the author, James Joyce, to mark the end of one chapter of life, and the start of another. It is told from the point-of-view of a young boy on the brink of adolescence. He is completely and utterly infatuated with his mate, Mangan’s, sister. He has this overly idealized image of her engrained into his mind and can think of nothing but her. He lives in a gloomy Dublin town, on a dead-end street housing simply complacent people with little to live

“The Great Gatsby”, all the characters in certain situations are hiding what they truly feel on the inside and retain the truth with a smile on the outside. F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author of the book, conveys a great image on how each character is cloaking a little piece of their lives from everyone else. Each individual in the book mask their personal conflicts to such an extent that everyone else thinks they’re living happily, but obviously they’re not. The Buchanan’s. Daisy, Pammy, and Tom Buchanan

The weather had changed overnight, when a backing wind brought a granite sky and a mizzling rain with it, and although it was now only a little after two o’clock in the afternoon the pallor of a winter evening seemed to have closed upon the hills, cloaking them in mist. It would be dark by four. The air was clammy cold, and for all the tightly closed windows it penetrated the interior of the coach. The leather seats felt damp to the hands, and there must have been a small crack in the roof, because