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- 191: Deregulation Of The Airline In
- ... and gate areas at larger airports. Automation Infrastructure Free Flight Phase 1 tools and other future tools depend on infrastructure improvements already underway, such as the display system replacement (DSR), standard terminal automation replacement system (STARS) and host/oceanic computer system replacement (HOCSR), to operate. DSR provides new controller workstations and a network infrastructure for the air route traffic control centers (ARTCC). DSR has the capability to show weather data from the next generation weather radar. STARS is the new terminal workstation that will interface with the new sequencing and spacing tools and the advanced communications, navigation, surveillance and weather systems. HOCSR replaces the host and oceanic processors and peripherals at the ...
- 192: The Adventures and Maturing of Huckleberry Finn
- ... Huck spent the many hours floating down the river talking with Jim and thinking about life. "It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big, still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn't ever feel like talking loud, and it warn't often that we laughed - only a little kind of a low chuckle." He enjoyed the freedom of the raft, instead of the ... no matter." The incorrect grammar of a juvenile, southern boy begins to introduce the reader to Huck and it develops his character right away. Twain also uses imagery, metaphors, and similes to paint pictures. "The stars were shining, and the leaves rustled in the woods ever so mournful; and I heard an owl, away off, who-whooing about somebody that was dead." Mark Twain wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to ...
- 193: Aztec Mythology: Quetzalcoatl
- ... accepted the reptilian nature of the wind" (Brundage 106-07). Another of Quetzalcoatl’s associate forms is the Morning star. In this legend he takes the name Ce Actal. In this form he battles the stars that overwhelm the sun at night and as the last star visible before the sun rises he has defeated the stars that seek to destroy the sun (Brundage 110). Ce Actal is also in competition with the sun who eventually overwhelms and destroys him to resume his place in the daytime sky. This is one of ...
- 194: David Belasco
- ... York, in London, and on tour across the U.S.. Belasco wrote the play as a showcase for the particular talents of an actress who would be the first in a long line of "Belasco stars"-- a notorious, flame -haired society divorcee named Mrs. Leslie Carter. Other stars discovered and trained by Belasco include David Warfield and Ina Claire. By 1900, Belasco turned his attentions to developing the career of Blanche Bates. After reading a story in Century Magazine, and with John Luther ...
- 195: Frost's “Desert Places”: Inner Darkness
- ... fourth and final stanza the poem takes a dramatic turn, taking the reader to the very “desert places” at the root of the speaker’s desolance: “They cannot scare me with their empty spaces/ Between stars – on stars where no human race is” (lines 13-14). “They” are almost certainly the spirits of desolation which actively attempt to terrify him, but are unsuccessful as he is able to terrify himself much more than ...
- 196: Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
- ... Twain’s imagination lends vigor and freshness to many passages, and especially in the sections involving conversations between Jim and Huck. As Huck and Jim lie on their backs at night looking up at the stars, while the raft slips silently down the river, they argue about whether the stars was made or only just happened: Jim said the moon could laid them; well, that looked kind of reasonable... because I’ve seen a frog lay most as many (Twain 120). Huck feels more comfortable ...
- 197: Violence In Hockey
- ... will be answered on the path of time. The younger players are currently looking up to the NHL for their idols and they end up idolizing enforcers.(Smith, Mike p.72) This younger generation of stars will someday be replacing their heroes. But will these blooming stars be enforcers or elite hockey players?
- 198: Macbeth - Nature vs. the Unnatural
- ... the human world. In the beginning of Act II, Macbeth murders King Duncan so that he can become king. Shakespeare makes a connection to the darkness of the sky: "Their candles are all out." (49) Stars are connected to candles and by saying the candles are out, he means that they were unable to see the stars. The night is also referred to as ‘thick’. The environment that Shakespeare describes is the perfect scene for murder. When Macbeth kills Duncan, nature reacts immediately: "I heard the owl scream and the crickets cry ...
- 199: As I Began This Assignment I E
- ... by 1954 it was broadcast daily on television at 12:45 and played on radio at 1:45. Another interesting trend that had developed in television by 1954 was the increase in the number of stars that had made the transition from radio to television. Staples of radio in 1949 such as Walter Winchell, Lucille Ball, Perry Como, Red Skelton, Guy Lombardo, and shows such as Our Miss Brooks and Your ... 1949 and the relative changes in media outlets had more to do with changes in the economy and population than the release of new broadcast licenses. Of greater interest was the transitioning of shows and stars from radio to television. The standard fare of news, comedy, and quiz shows was in full swing by 1954. I suppose the goals are different in a saturated market, it's more about moving listeners ...
- 200: Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
- ... Twain s imagination lends vigor and freshness to many passages, and especially in the sections involving conversations between Jim and Huck. As Huck and Jim lie on their backs at night looking up at the stars, while the raft slips silently down the river, they argue about whether the stars was made or only just happened: Jim said the moon could laid them; well, that looked kind of reasonable... because I ve seen a frog lay most as many (Twain 120). Huck feels more comfortable ...
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