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    that made our daily lives easier. One of the most significant inventions is a pencil. a thin, sharp-pointed device that is used for writing or keeping a record of events or information of any kind. Writing on a whiteboard using a marker illustrates writing or drawing patterns on a piece of paper. There are two types of pencils, mechanical and non-mechanical. In spite of the fact that a mechanical and non-mechanical pencil share one most important material that produces shapes or writings when pressed

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    Essay on Writing and Technology

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    ourselves or even recognize its presence and influence (Ong, 317)." In this modern age of computers, disposable pens, and mechanical pencils, it is easy to forget that at one time writing was not so simple or convenient. Most of us have ". . . become so used to composing virtual prose at a keyboard . . . (Baron 36)," that the thought of writing anything out by hand with a pencil, or any other implement, would not even cross our minds. The experience of trying to invent my own writing implements has

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    response to “An Ode to the User-Friendly Pencil” Technology is upgrading itself and is, perhaps, taking over the world. From virtual reality to supercomputers, people are depending more on technology in their everyday lives, but is it necessary? Technology has reached the point where Samsung phones are becoming C4 explosives and 4K televisions do not display 4K quality. In “An Ode to the User-Friendly Pencil” by Bonnie Laing, she explains how a simple pencil that we use in our everyday lives is better

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    things. No books, pencils, pens, a notepad, she just did not have anything it was just her. In my head, I started thinking “oh she’s one of those students that comes to class unprepared and expects to copy off everyone’s paper” well she was not copying off mine. Class started and she asked for a pencil, I was going to give her one of my mechanical pencils but I knew I was not going to get it back so I gave her one of those wooden pencils that no one uses they were just sitting in my pencil pouch taking

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    Creating Text The process of creating “text” without using technology appeared to be a simple task that would allow the students to be a creator of his or her unique technology free masterpiece. I just had to come up with a creative, natural way to write text instead of using modern technologies that society takes for granted. How hard and restrictive could this assignment be? I soon found out everything would not go exactly as planned. It took me two attempts and failures before

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    in; Telephone: 040-23018443; Fax: 04023016032 Abstract Here we report the fabrication of a flexible all carbon field effect transistor (FET) using a low cost, recyclable and biodegradable cellulose paper as both substrate as well as dielectric and pencil graphite as source, drain, channel and gate without using any other expensive, toxic or non-biodegradable materials. The electron and hole mobility’s of FET are observed to be 180 and 200 cm2v-1s-1 respectively which are comparable to the recently

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    Hello, I’m Charlotte Wasserman, and today I will be sharing my journey in poetry writing. I began to love poetry in the sixth grade. I had never written that much before, but I discovered that I get this inspirational feeling when I write poetry that I never get in anything else. Sometimes my poems seemed good from the start; some I knew needed a little help. I think some of my best poems were revised over and over. Just remember, I 'd rather have a rough draft in the beginning and have a great piece

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    Graphite (Carbon) in a lead pencil and the electrical resistance of the graphite in the lead pencil? Hypothesis: The prediction is that a higher concentration of Carbon in a pencil will produce a lower resistance due to Carbon being more conductive than Clay produced in lead pencils. Figure 1: Details of pencils used in the investigation. (2015). Enabling Physics 1 & 2 - Investigative Research Assignment. 1st ed. Materials: 1 x Digital Multimeter (Digitor Q1467) 13 x Pencils (Derwent Graphic 12; ranging

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    Consider the painting The Railroad Bride, Argenteuil by Claude Monet. This artwork looks simple, but uses geometry and one point linear perspective. Monet uses a sense of opposition is created by the alternating rhythm of light to dark established by the bridge pillars and the color orange and blue in both water and smoke from the train above. The light and dark areas given the picture asymmetrical balance between the dark and light areas. Monet uses one point linear perspective to create the bride

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    did not know that it was a self portrait. I thought it was just a black man with his hands placed both sides of his head as if inside he was going crazy inside. My pops hands moved so smoothly as if each finger had a tiny brain in the tip where the pencil touched. I was around 8 years old at the time. From that moment I knew I would want to be an artist, because that type of expression seemed best for my dad. I always paid attention to the early teachings from the big guy. The cleanliness of the lines

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