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- 8111: Comparison Paper - Sarah Kemple Knight Vs. Mary Rowlandson
- ... s writing differs from Mrs. Rowlandson's, and here are some characteristics that show this difference. Certainly Mrs. Knight was not faced with as drastic circumstances as Mrs. Rowlandson, she lived in a more developed New World and had things quite easy. As a result, she had a great sense of humor, therefore her tone was not only joyful, but also humorous. An example of her humorous tone occurs when she is ... pain by feeling the canoe on shore, which I as soon almost saluted with my feet" (32). This showed that Mrs. Knight wanted to get through this little dilemma, and this also showed a somewhat brave response to danger. For these reasons, Mrs. Rowlandson and Mrs. Knight were similar and different. It is true that Mrs. Mary Rowlandson and Mrs. Knight were primarily different, however, they also were similar.
- 8112: Peyton Place
- In 1956, a woman from middle class Manchester, New Hampshire wrote a book that shocked the nation. At 32 years old, Grace Metalious wrote the blockbuster novel Peyton Place. It transformed the publishing industry and made the author one of the most talked about people in the nation. Metalious wrote about incest, abortion, sex, rape, adultery, repression, lust, and the secrets of small town New England, things that were never discussed before in conservative America. She interpreted incest, wife beating, and poverty as social failures instead of individual flops. When Metalious published Peyton Place, the country was in the grasp of a new wave of sexual panic. The book turned the "private" into the "political." The avant-garde disturbed the country and critics called the book "wicked," "sordid," and "cheap." Canada declared it indecent and made the ...
- 8113: Natural Language Processing
- ... The phases a message would go through during NLP would consist of message, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and intended meaning. (M. A. Fischer, 1987) Syntax is the grammatical structure. Semantics is the literal meaning. Pragmatics is world knowledge, knowledge of the context, and a model of the sender. When syntax, semantics, and pragmatics are applied, accurate Natural Language Processing will exist. Alan Turing predicted of NLP in 1950 (Daniel Crevier, 1994, page ... PTRANS (to transfer the physical location of an object), PROPEL (to apply physical force to an object), MOVE (for its owner to move a body part), MTRANS (to transfer mental information), and MBUILD (to build new information out of old information). Schank called these basic acts semantic primitives. When his program saw in a sentence words usually relating to the transfer of possession (such as give, buy, sell, donate, etc.) it ... store when a man entered. He threatened me with a gun and demanded all the cash receipts. Well, I didn't want to get hurt so I gave him the money. Then he escaped. A new idea from MIT is to grab bits and parts of speech and ask for more details from the user to understand what it didn't before and to understand better what it did before ( ...
- 8114: Paradise Lost
- ... and exploit its wealth rather than war in Heaven against God (Milton 67-68). The final speaker at the meeting was Beelzebub, who relayed the earlier thoughts of Satan, which were to go after the new creation of God, man, rather than take the chance of fighting in Heaven (72-73). Since these ideas were those of Satan, he quickly adjourned the meeting, and the plans to accomplish his idea were ... evil to the reader. Milton used two main characters to display good and virtue to the reader; the first one is God himself. God was the true symbol of all that is good in the world. God was the creator of man and kept this in control with three mighty powers. The first power was omnipotence, which is being all-powerful. God's second power was that of omnipresent, which is ... sin, and the good and justification in the judgements of God and The Son. WORKS CITED Blessington, Francis C. Paradise Lost: Ideal and Tragic Epic. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1988. Bush, Douglas, ed. The Portable Milton. New York: Penguin Books, 1977. "John Milton's Paradise Lost." Internet. 7 October 1998. Available http://www.mindspring.com/~verax/milton.htm Milton, John. "Paradise Lost." Paradise Lost and Other Poems. New York: Penguin Books ...
- 8115: Out Of The Silent Planet
- ... is called the silent planet because there has been no communication from it in years. On the voyage there he is led to believe he will be sacrificed. Instead, the creatures that inhabit the other world reveal extraordinary secrets about the nature of man and the universe to him. Ransom is ultimately sent back to Thulcandra with the two earthlings who had kidnapped him. The book is told in such a ... as if beside him the whole way. When he visited Mars, even with the bizarre scenery it seemed so real. "He saw nothing but colours - colours that refused to form themselves into things. Moreover, he new nothing yet well enough to see it: you can not see things till you know roughly what they are. His first impression was a bright, pale world - a water-coloured world out of a child's paint box." Lewis also has a gift for making strong points in his novel without making the reader feel guilty, because he uses such human ...
- 8116: The Holocaust
- The Holocaust Things that I learned from Notes and Mrs. Dekelbaum's speech. From Mrs. Dekelbaum's speech, I learned that the Holocaust happened 6 years before World War 2. I learned that during the Holocaust, more than six million Jews, and four million non-Jews, were killed by the Nazis. The non-Jews that were killed in the Holocaust were, gypsies, homosexuals ... victims." There was a girl named Pearl. She went through nine concentration camps, and survived. Pear was the first Jew to have a baby who survived, and do to that, it brought more hope, and new life, to other Jewish people. Mrs. Dekelbaum was the baby. She said that during the holocaust, more than 1 and a half million children, under twelve, died. Only one out of ten Jews, survived. Poland, out of all other countries in the world, lost the most Jews. She said that neighbors, and friends of Jews turned on them and helped cause the Holocaust. At a concentration camp, Jews were ordered to make a sign saying, "You could ...
- 8117: Cesar E. Chavez
- ... came to terms with the union and accepted Union contracts and the boycott ended. In 1973, the union changed its name toe the United Farm Workers of America, (UFWA). With each change of name came new alliances, new strategies, new vision and hope. Unfortunately, the rich and powerful growers never had intentions of changing its non-integral philosophy and failed to renew their contracts in 1973. In 1973, the UFWA organized a strike for ...
- 8118: Oscar Romero
- ... San Miguel by his bishop and was soon secretary of the diocese. This position he held for twenty-three years. In San Miguel his work flourished and his reputation grew. He established a succession of new organizations and inspired many with his sermons, broadcasted by five local radio stations and heard across the city. Romero was impressed of the new Catholicism that was affirmed with such confidence in Vatican II. In 1970 he became auxiliary bishop of San Salvador, and there he busied himself with administration. In 1974 he became bishop of a rural diocese ... of violent men, and that they murdered with impunity. The wealthy sanctioned the violence that maintained them. Death squads committed murder in the cities while soldiers killed as they wished in the countryside. When a new government, which represented many powerful interests was elected it was seen to be by fraud. There was talk of revolution. More and more Romero committed himself to the poor and the persecuted, and he ...
- 8119: Chrysanthemums And Its Symboli
- ... more than just flowers. There are actions that she performs in the story, which also have other meanings. Elisa is a country housewife. She is semi-distant from her husband and greatly distant from the world around her. She is a homebody, meaning that she rarely leaves the boundaries of her home and she has a lot of time and energy being built up. She uses some of this energy to clean up her house, but most of it is spent on her flower garden. Her garden is a place of solitude. It s her own little world where she can let herself go and be the person that she wants to be. Her feminine side is brought out in her garden, the nurturer for the chrysanthemums, a mother almost to them. When ... garden in other words is a symbol for her femininity and womanhood. The chrysanthemums are also seen as a symbol for her heart. Her existence seemed drab, dull and inevitable. She wanted to travel the world but she knew that she should not leave her husband. She felt that her husband wasn t taken enough care of her personally so she took care of herself in the form of her ...
- 8120: Compare And Cantrast Web Du Bois & Booker T Washington
- ... and ideas were sometimes not in the best interest of his people. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was born on February 23, 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Du Bois had a poor but relatively happy New England childhood. While still in high school he began his long writing career by serving as a correspondent for newspapers in New York and in Springfield, Massachusetts. After his high school graduation he enrolled at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. There he "discovered his Blackness" and made a lifelong commitment to his people. He taught in rural ... of the Negro vote in Macon County, obtained financial support for a training school for blacks in Tuskegee, Ala. When the board of commissioners asked the head of Hampton to send a principal for their new school, they had expected the principal to be white. Instead Washington arrived in June 1881. He began classes in July with thirty students in a shanty donated by a black church. Later he borrowed ...
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