The Iron Gate Essays

  • Clary's Brave Departure: A Journey Beyond Familiarity

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    her father's horse had left behind. Finally at, Clary and Wayfarer finally made it to the castle from which the poor, frightened scared horse had escaped from earlier the previous night. A gasp escaped Clary's lips, as she looked up at the tall iron gates which seemed to be attached to the very wall itself. She now stood before the gigantic structure, which seemed to radiate and pulse with an aura of negative energy and pure coldness. A shudder ran through her small body, as a bolt of lighting flashed

  • Creative Writing: The Spreading Iron Gates

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    The imposing iron gates standing between the West Derby streets and the Melwood training complex might have shifted some 500 yards or so off Melwood Avenue ??? and onto ?????? since the last time Liverpool contemplated a trip to a European Cup Final but outside the scenes are exactly the same. Five or six kids who don't look old enough to remember a time before foreign managers at Anfield stand on tiptoes on the wall of the house opposite the entrance to the most famous training ground in English

  • Operation Stop Gang Violence (OSGV)

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    prevention to be successfully applied to OSGV, specific measures would have needed to be taken. OSGV using iron gates to reduce traffic to gang-violent hotspots is not a specific strategy aimed at preventing a specific crime. The iron gates are being implemented to target a broad category of gang violence, rather than a specific gang crime like shootings. Due to the lack of specificity of the iron gates, situational crime prevention is limited in its

  • Operation Stop Gang Violence (OSGV)

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    installing 6-foot-high iron gates to close roads leading to and from gang-violence hotspots and having police officers monitor blocks for graffiti and tagging. Utilizing iron gates that restrict access to and from gang-violence hotspots are an example of target hardening, and access control, which are opportunity-reducing techniques, derived from situational crime prevention. Target hardening includes the use of physical barriers to obstruct criminals (Clarke, 1997). Therefore the iron gates are a prime example

  • Rebecca Du Maurier Chapter Summary

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    In Chapter 1 of Rebecca, du Maurier depicts Manderley as a magnificent estate with overgrown nature, a house and a long drive and gate. To begin, du Maurier describes Manderley as an estate with uncontrolled, foreign nature. "And there were other trees as well, trees that I did not recognize, squat oaks and tortured elms that straggled cheek by jowl with the beeches, and had thrust themselves out of the quiet earth, along with monster shrubs and plants, none of which I remembered" (du Maurier 3)

  • Foreshadowing In The Masque Of The Red Death

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    gay” (Poe 380). This symbolizes the end of life and time shortening. In the beginning of the story, Poe mentions all of the precautions taken to shut out the plague, including the iron gate. The courtiers use furnaces and hammers to weld the bolts shut inside the iron gate (Poe 373). This is a symbol because an iron gate is strong and sturdy, and it is meant to keep out all evil: another attempt to dodge death. Lastly, Poe describes how distraught the guests are at the masked figure. The partygoers

  • In The Kitchen Henry Louis Gates Analysis

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    To illustrate “In the Kitchen” Henry Louis Gates shapes an identity of a young person growing up in a lower class black community and also the community as a whole in Piedmont, America in the fifties and sixties when the Black Civil Right Movement was taking place. The identity is based on his life and upbringing with his “mama” and the ways they used the kitchen for straightening their kinky hair to make them fit in with the wider community. Gates has developed the identity of an African American

  • Case Study: Sintalow Hardware LTD

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    quality of products that can reach a satisfying outcome from our valued customer. We are recognized to be one of the top distributors of mechanical engineering products in southeast asia such as: flow control valves, water flow meter, epoxy coated cast iron hub less piping system, expansion joints, BS steel line pipes and carbon steel API with galvanized sheet/coil that can meet your technical requirements and needs; our business is constant and continuous to be committed in our fields of marketing demands

  • Rhetorical Strategies In Iron Jawed Angels

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    Maidens: Rhetorical strategies hidden in Iron Jawed Angels “The 2004 film Iron Jawed Angels, depicts the movement for women’s suffrage. It tells the story of Alice Paul and Lucy Burns; two of leaders of the movement in the early 1900s.” (Wardle, Maddie, and Samantha Gregson. "Out of the Darkness." Out of the Darkness. Word Press, 18 Nov. 2011. Web. 13 Oct. 2016.) In a literal sense: Iron-jawed, is having a jaw of or like iron; fiercely determined: an iron-jawed will; while an Angel, an individual

  • Hidden Symbols In The Starry Night, By F. Scott Fitzgerald

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    Even the moon bulges in its orange irons” can signify Mr. Gatsby feeling as if he is locked behind iron gates. The color orange can symbolize anger, passion, danger, and desire. Jay Gatsby has an undying love for Daisy Buchanan and can not bare to be without her. These irons can signify how he is held back from Daisy as she is married to Tom Buchanan. Nevertheless, the gates will not stand in Gatsby’s way as he yearns for Daisy. Another perception of “orange gates,” can signify how Tom Buchanan tries

  • Literary Analysis Of I Go Back To May 1937

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    An Open Gate to Life The poem “I Go Back to May 1937” written in 1987 by poet and writer Sharon Olds, is based on a child’s perspective on her parent’s marriage that is destined to fail and the child’s wishes to go back and stop them from making the mistake of marriage. The poem is told from the perspective of the couple’s future child, who ultimately goes back in time to try and convince them that their marriage would be a mistake. Although this creates conflict, as by preventing the couple from

  • The Sidewalk Description

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    past the first place where I scraped my knee, past the rusty iron gates guarding where I had spent my childhood. My sidewalk ended in front of a bland apartment building identical to the six siblings next to it. My sidewalk still had the same cracks, the same missing bricks, the same downward slant I used to love running on. Stepping

  • Working In The Middle School: A Short Story

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    metallurgy, etc. This assignment was after they proved a certain amount of proficiency with the skill. Tim decided that his family farm could use a new gate for one of its pastures. He began to sketch what he called “the most beautiful gate” on a piece of paper with metal wagon wheels and wrought iron accents. “Do you have the materials to build this gate?” asked Mr. Lane. “Oh yes, Mr. Lane.” he nervously replied. He did not. “Okay Tim, I’ll be by in the morning with the truck and trailer to pick you

  • History Of Casting

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    discovered around 3500 BC in Mesopotamia. In many parts of the world during that period, copper axes and other flat object were made in open moulds made of stone or baked clay. Casting technology was improved by the Chinese around 1500 BC. It appears that iron casting technology in India has been in use from the times of the invasion of Alexander the Great, around 300BC. 1.3 Theory of Casting

  • Mommy Alternate Ending

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    seeing my beautiful golden star that I wore over my heart. I didn’t know why I had to wear it but Mommy said that only the most special people got to wear one. “Look, honey. Those are the gates! We are almost there!” Mommy’s voice seemed to suddenly be spurred with hope and light. I looked up to see huge iron gates that seemed to glare down at us.

  • The Brandenburg Gate

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    The Brandenburg Gate The Brandenburg Gate is the trademark of Berlin and over the coarse of its life has been the symbol of peace, victory, power, division, hope, and a united Germany. The gate is a symbol for Germany much like the Eiffel tower is a symbol for France. The gate is located on the Pariser Platz. It is the only gate of a series of gates that once stood in Berlin. The gate is located on Berlin’s most famous street the "Unter den Linden," or "Under the Lime Trees." This street is

  • Delta Airlines Descriptive Writing

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    night for a military aircraft training session. My orders were to close terminal A at the Buren International Airport in Augusta, Maine, and run a night shift until five in the morning. Terminal A was relatively big; several restaurants, shops, and gates were encompassed. Walls of crystal, glass window panes smudged with fingerprints lined the exterior wall, and with more sufficient lighting, one would be able to clearly make out discarded equipment and scattered cables on the neglected runway. But

  • Robber Barons Or Captain Of Industry

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    ruthless means Half of the main business leaders were robber barons, which were Vanderbilt, Donald Trump, and Andrew Carnegie. There are also leaders called "captains of industry", who consisted of leaders like Rockefeller, J. Morgan, and also Bill Gates. Captains of industry worked hard and actually helped the economy instead of robber barons who insisted on achieving wealth by being ruthless businessman. Leaders of the last century where the building blocks of the Industrial Revolution. Rockefeller

  • Allegory In The Masque Of The Red Death

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    Poe states, “The courtiers, having entered, brought furnaces and massy hammers and welded the bolts [of the iron gates]. They resolved to leave means neither of ingress or egress,” (Poe 83). He had his friends bring in all these heavy metal items, and massive hammers to seal themselves off from the rest of the world. They hid in Prospero’s “strong and lofty wall” guarded by “gates of iron” (Poe 82-83). As the reader finds out, it is not as strong as they hoped. The castle acted as a barrier that

  • Essay Comparing The Cask Of Amontillado And The Masque Of Red Death

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    Poe in “ The Masque of Red Death”, describes the scene of the highly protected castle and the masquerade that results in Prince’s over confidence and hence his death. The author declares, “A strong and lofty wall girdled it in. This wall had gates of iron. The courtiers, having entered, brought furnaces and massy hammers and welded the bolts” (Poe 300). In “ The Cask of Amontillado”, Poe creates a dark and a dull setting which symbolically meant the rising of Fortunato’s death. Montresor warns Fortunato