Dickens not only reveals character through gesture, he makes hands a crucial element of the plot, a means of clarifying the structure of the novel by helping to define the hero's relations with all the major characters, and a device for ordering such diverse themes as guilt, pursuit, crime, greed, education, materialism, enslavement ( by both people and institutions ), friendship, romantic love, forgiveness, and redemption.

Mines need to be recognized as a major element in anti-submarine warfare employment, extended to deep water, and have their effective area per unit increased.

Chemical analysis is an important element of national security among the major world powers with materials measurement and signature intelligence ( MASINT ) capabilities.

For example a two dimensional array with three rows and four columns might provide access to the element at the 2nd row and 4th column by the expression: ( in a row major language ) and ( in a column major language ) in the case of a zero-based indexing system.

The ansible itself is a major plot element, nearly a MacGuffin in Moon's Vatta's War series.

A major meta-plot element was the sealing off of the aforementioned Renraku Arcology in Seattle when the advanced computer control system awakened into a self-aware AI named Deus.

In the twentieth century, silicon was introduced as the primary alloying element, creating an alloy with wide application in industry and the major form used in contemporary statuary.

The last major element of many BRP games is that there is no difference between the player character race systems and that of the monster or opponents.

" According to West and Sanders, when talking about conspiracies in the Vietnam era, Pipes includes within the fringe element anyone who entertains the thought that conspiracies played a role in the major political scandals and assassinations that rocked American politics in the Vietnam era.

) Where the irony with which Reefer Madness was adopted as a midnight favorite had its roots in a countercultural sensibility, in the latter's place there is now the paradoxical element of nostalgia: the leading revivals currently on the circuit ironically include clearly non-cult films like John Hughes oeuvre — The Breakfast Club ( 1985 ), Pretty in Pink ( 1986 ), and Ferris Bueller's Day Off ( 1986 ), which were major studio productions and popular and financially successful during their original releases, and the teen adventure film The Goonies ( 1985 ).

The 1920s saw an interim period during which cavalry remained as a proud and conspicuous element of all major armies, though much less so than prior to 1914.

Talmudic sages Hillel and Rabbi Akiva commented that this is a major element of the Jewish religion.

The Detroit River forms a major element of the international border between the United States and Canada.

* The ESS was a major element used to analyze evolution in Richard Dawkins ' bestselling 1976 book The Selfish Gene.

A major element of fascism that has been deemed as clearly far-right is its goal to promote the right of claimed superior people to dominate while purging society of claimed inferior elements.

This trend of using Gothic architecture began with the Castle of Otranto and was to become a major element of the genre from that point forward.

The major element is foreign remittances, reported as $ 931 million in 2002, primarily from the U. S. Foreign assistance, meanwhile, was $ 130 million in FY 2002.

She provides the only major element of Bring It On that plays as tweaking parody rather than slick, strident, body-slam churlishness.

In human biology, magnesium is the eleventh most abundant element by mass in the human body ; its ions are essential to all living cells, where they play a major role in manipulating important biological polyphosphate compounds like ATP, DNA, and RNA.

Methodists formed a major element of the popular support for the Radical Republicans with their hard line toward the white South.

It appeared already in Heinlein's Red Planet and is a major plot element in Greg Bear's Moving Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy, and S. C. Sykes ' books.

Elemental phosphorus exists in two major forms — white phosphorus and red phosphorus — but due to its high reactivity, phosphorus is never found as a free element on Earth.

The other major sticking point, which is reportedly causing concern at government level, is that the majority of people going to Potsdamer Platz are visitors to the city, implying that the original vision of the development as a linking element attracting Berliners themselves, and Berliners from both sides of the former divide, has not really materialised.

The use of psychedelic drugs was a major element of the 1960s counterculture, where it became associated with various social movements and a general atmosphere of rebellion and strife between generations.

" At its core, the gameplay is similar to classic shooter games ( such as Space Invaders ), presenting the player with the challenge of surviving while shooting every enemy in sight, but with its pseudo-3D first-person perspective giving environments a spatial representation that has a major effect on the level design and gameplay experience.

It was released to major acclaim ; reviewers praised the interactivity of the environment, level design, gameplay and unique risqué humor ( a mix of pop-culture satire and lampooning of over-the-top Hollywood action heroes ).

A major gameplay feature is due to the fact that the player controls three different characters ( although only one at any given time ), and must make use of their individual abilities and work as a team to solve puzzles and progress.

Shenmue is regarded as a major step forward for 3D open-world gameplay, and considered the originator of the " open city " subgenre later popularized by Grand Theft Auto III in 2001.

In 2004, Wario World, the first console Wario platforming title, was released for the Nintendo GameCube ; featuring three-dimensional graphics and gameplay, it did not use any major elements from previous platforming titles.

The game retains some of the gameplay features of its predecessors while having major gameplay additions, such as a more substantial single-player mode and online play via the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection.

One major part of gameplay involves managing various ship systems which are accessed via an interface running up and down the left side of the screen.

A number of video games include aspects of parkour as major gameplay elements.

Both of these games were distinguished from most earlier conversions in that they took major liberties with the source material, attempting to modernize both the gameplay as well as the graphics.

In the PS2, PC, and GBA versions, gameplay contained one major difference from a normal Tetris game.

One of the major features of gameplay is scientific research.

There were no major technological developments, graphical improvements, or substantial gameplay changes.

One of the major enhancements with Mage Knight 2. 0 was the introduction of styrene cards which influenced gameplay in various ways.

Shenmue was a major step forward for 3D open world, nonlinear gameplay, touted as offering an unparalleled level of player freedom, giving them full reign to explore an expansive sandbox city with its own day-night cycles, changing weather, and fully voiced non-player characters going about their daily routines.

No further major gameplay updates from KRU Interactive are expected.

Another major change in the gameplay of Second Edition was the new method of handling dilemmas.

A major theme of the set is the encouragement of " go big or go home "; gameplay is enabled by heavily investing in a single affiliation or sub-theme.

One major addition to the gameplay in Mega Man 4 is the " Mega Buster ", an upgraded version of Mega Man's arm cannon.

The major types of server-supported gameplay are Player vs Environment, Guild vs Guild, Player vs Player.

He further pointed out that " Diku codebases did eventually popularize many of the major developments in muds ", and that the Diku gameplay provided inspiration for numerous MMORPGs, including EverQuest, World of Warcraft and Ultima Online.

Among significant changes to gameplay mechanics and visual presentation, one of the major additions introduced by Unreal Tournament 2004 is the inclusion of vehicles and the Onslaught game type, allowing for large-scale battles.

However, DragonRealms 2 did not in itself come with major new gameplay systems or content visible to the player ; it was a behind the scenes transition enabling the Gamemasters to create such systems in the future.