Essays Tagged: "ellipses"

The importance of structure in "The Agamemnon" is a classic Greek tragedy written by Aeschylus.

ructure. Things such as the chorus, audience, the use of common literary devices such as "buts" and ellipses" as well as foreshadowing and flashback had an immense effect on the overall structure of t ... in has a great importance on the structure of common literary devices such as the use of "buts" and ellipses" as well as foreshadowing and flashback. For that reason the style Aeschylus wrote this pla ...

(6 pages) 69 0 4.4 Mar/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Greek Language & Literature

William Carlos.

, hence the title. He also uses black marks in various places throughout the poem. These are called ellipses. They are used to let the reader finish the thought on his/her own, or in this case they co ...

(2 pages) 32 0 3.0 Jun/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

Definitions and applications of various conic sections

ows come in arcs of a circle.Some important terms include: radius, origin (or center), and diameter.Ellipses were first claimed by Kepler to be the true shape of the orbital. Today, ellipses are also ... re also used in the manufacturing of optical glass for telescopes and microscopes.Some key terms of ellipses are foci and origin. Some key terms of hyperbola terms are: branch, center, Conjugat ...

(1 pages) 33 1 2.0 May/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Mathematics

Kepler's Laws

et is directly proportional to the cube of the orbit's semimajor axis.Kepler's first law(the law of ellipses): Simply it is the all planets orbits the sun in a path which looks like an ellipse - expla ...

(1 pages) 45 0 0.0 May/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

Calculator drawing

on, and this gave me an excuse to draw one. I used several types of equations, including parabolas, ellipses, lines, circles, and sine and cosine curves. After finally figured out what everything look ...

(5 pages) 25 0 1.7 Dec/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Mathematics

"Oliana" by Carmine Capaldo

a phone call, showing the significance of communication within the play. This act is littered with ellipses and the dialogue is not constantly continuous between the two characters. From the start we ... act two we can immediately see the difference in dialogue, how it is somewhat longer with much less ellipses. The purpose of this act was for John and Carol to discuss the complaint Carol filed on Joh ...

(3 pages) 42 0 0.0 Nov/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature

If You Are Reading This You Have Too Much Time

rvbar;completely"¦different"¦ You may have noticed the rather frequent use of ellipses. Well, there is a very good reason for it, and I'll tell you about it in this paragraph. Th ... rgeous! Different...but gorgeous. So now that I have fully explained the rather frequent use of the ellipses in the previous paragraph, you should be more enlightened.

(1 pages) 951 0 0.0 Dec/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Math

egral calculus. To find out the area of sections bounded by geometric figures such as parabolas and ellipses, Archimedes broke the sections into an infinite number of rectangles and then added the are ...

(3 pages) 1272 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

A Comparative Study of Texts Exploring the concept of "Reinventions", including Yann Martel's "Life of Pi"

rever. With this comes the idea of a fluid identity conveyed in Cosmic Wheels which feature sinuous ellipses that change dimensions to stress the continuous transformation of forms with an added air o ... elements of the journey, to create a meaningful story. Similarly, the two largest but equally sized ellipses in Cosmic Wheels have the signs of the zodiac and Roman numerals respectively engraved on t ...

(7 pages) 17 0 4.0 Mar/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Comparative Essays

All About Conics: Circles, Ellipses, Hyperbolas, and Parabolas

Conics are surprisingly easy! There are four types of conic sections, circles, parabolas, ellipses, and hyperbolas. The first type of conic, and easiest to spot and solve, is the circle. The ... now it is starting to get tough! But don’t worry, hyperbolas are not much more difficult than ellipses. Imagine two parabolas opposite each other either going up and down or left and right. Ther ...

(4 pages) 4960 0 0.0 Jun/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Mathematics