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    Mister Pip Mister pip takes place in Bougainville and the war is around the corner. In the book we will follow Matilda when she tell us her story. She will narrate her life on the island, her meeting with Mr Watts, Charles Dickens and Pip and we will follow her during her growing friendship with Mr Watts and Pip and her admiration for Charles Dickens. In The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time we will meet Christopher who is autistic. We will follow him when he trying to figure out who killed

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    written by Lloyd Jones is a novel recounted by the protagonist Matilda. Set in 1990’s Bougainville, we see Matilda begin to question her Mother’s traditional idea’s about life as a civil war rages between the rebels and the Redskins in her homeland. Mr. Watts or “Pop eye” is given the role teaching the village children, being the only educated, and consequentially, white man left on the island. He begins reading Great Expectations to the children and Matilda finds herself becoming entranced in white civilisation

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    Mr Watts Is A Hero Essay

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    5. Is Mr Watts a hero or a villain? In Mister Pip, Mr Watts is brought into the life of the main character, Matilda. Mr Watts, who is known to the children of the island as ‘Pop Eye’ becomes a teacher for the children as the school closes down due to a break out war across the island. In this class, he reads the book Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. This book immerses the children into a new world that they can explore, especially since the island is so small. Dolores, Matilda’s mother, has

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    The Journey of Energy to Achieve a Diagnostic Image “Breath normally and stay still” Is what a radiographer would say to Mrs. Watt before exiting the room to take an exposure of a left PA hand. The .3 seconds that takes to capture the image on the IR is just one of the nine steps to produce a quality diagnostic image. The energy needed to heat the tungsten filament is traced back to lower granite dam in Washington where the energy is stored in Bonneville power and bought by Avista. The power then

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    the authorities for going against the clean air regulation. They only resulted to this to try and save electricity. There has been a lot of energy used to power data centers. So much energy used, that digital warehouses hold up to thirty billion watts of electricity. Peter Gross, who has designed many data centers, said, “A single data center can take more power than a medium sized town.”(2) The amount of energy used usually depends on the specific company that uses the data center. Most of the

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    At first, the Science workshop was connected to the lab computer, and then the cylindrical din plug of the voltage sensor was attached to the analog input socket A. After connecting the voltage sensor, the cylindrical din plug of the current sensor was connected to the analog input socket B of the Scienceworkshop. A resistor was placed in the pair of component springs to the nearest input jack at the lower left corner of the AC/DC lab board. In this step, the participants connected the positive

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    Watts Riots

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    The neighborhood I have chosen is Watts, California. Before it was known as Watts it was a part of Rancho La Tajuata specializing in livestock grazing and beef production. In the 1870's there was a population boom of White Americans in Southern California. La Tajuata was divided and sold into smaller farms and homes. By the 1900's the development of the railroads brought good things. The town became a city and built it's first station known as Watts Station. In 1926 the city annexed itself to Los

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    S-Land While today Los Angeles is prided on being one of the most diverse cities in the United States, there was (and still is) a tremendous amount of resistance that had to be overcome. Society’s inclination to maintain homogeneity along with the testing of loyalties and allegiance through pressures of war have proven great obstacles in the evolution of what is now a majority-minority city. Nina Revoyr’s Southland gives a historic fictional recount of Los Angeles’ most tested times from perspectives

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    Energy Efficiency Humans today are using much more electricity than we need to in our houses and this is impacting our world more then we realise. Although electricity is a huge advantage to humans it has the complete opposite effects on our environment. By using more electricity, we are using more of the earth’s resources and if we keep going down this road then we are going to run out. The solution for this mass overuse of energy is to build houses which are more energy efficient. Features like

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    The sampling interval for the current clamps can be changed depending on what we want to know. For the air compressor we may log more frequently, for example every five seconds, if we find that the compressor is switching mode very frequently, otherwise logging at 60-second intervals may be enough. The purpose of the continuous measurement will also affect the logging interval. If the first visit gives us the impression that the compressed air system is an important part of the energy use, we may

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