...Sung Jin Moon Professor Brennan ENGL 110 A6 July 8, 2012 Dusty Nostalgia Humans can be acknowledged as dependent species whom need to necessarily rely on other humans to seek happiness in their life. Majority of happiness are originated from the bond and relationship people make with each other. Values and meanings of relationship cannot certainly be measured with tangible objects; yet, respect and feelings of love can only be obtained by truly understanding one another. In a novel, “Embers,” the author, Sandor Marai, articulates the true friendship between Konrad and Henrik. The dream, passion, and youth which Konrad and Henrik shared burned furiously until lust and envy within human nature had devoured the burning flame. Even though forty-one years and forty-three days have passed, the heat of friendship continues to remain hot in embers. Henrik patiently waits for Konrad’s return to shine the light upon the darkness which concluded their friendship in turmoil. Absolute trust, unfathomable understanding, and altruistic forgiveness are what held Konrad and Henrik together, ultimately leading them to remove the misunderstanding from their nostalgia. Complete trust between Konrad and Henrik has never allowed the seed of doubt to grow in their friendship. Even though it has already been more than forty years ever since Konrad left Henrik, Henrik assures himself that Konrad will return to him. Although times that have been elapsed have taken away Henrik and Konrad’s youth, Henrik’s...
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...On March 23th, 7:30pm, I watched the thought provoking southern circuit film screening: Embers direct by Clare Carré in Williams hall. After watching this movie, I only have one word to say, mind-blowing. This film is based on a world that was devastated by a global neurological epidemic that wiped out the majority of human population, and those who survived had lost their memory. In short, there is no past for these people. In addition, I found out that there are five intertwined stories which delineates five different aspects of life, which are: love, family, morality, learning and freedom. For the first element of life presented in the movie: love, we see the story of Guy and Girl. Both Guy and Girl do not know their own name everyday they wake up, but they are aware that they are couple and are meant to be together. We can see that both of them go through the ritual of bafflement and questioning every morning they wake up, and the only thing they definitely know and appreciate is that they have each other. Mrs. Carré showed us the concept of love by portraying their unyielding love to stay with each other although they don’t have the sense of identity, and it is love that ties the human race together. In short, the guy and girl present the challenge of...
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...In the novel, The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau, the setting plays a very important role in the book. As you read the book, you realized that their ‘world’ is very different from ours. The setting in their ‘world,’ has many differences from what our ‘world’ is like. In the beginning of the story, the author told us that the city of ember was very dim, and had little light. “In the city of ember, the sky was always dark. The only light came from great flood lamps mounted on the buildings and at the tops of poles in the middle of the larger squares”(DuPrau, 2003, p. 4). This is funny to think about because we are used to seeing light all the time, and then just imagine yourself in their ‘world,’ and then realize that they barely get to see any light as is. In our ‘world,’ we have...
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...Class issues and the rise of the superstructure in The Giver and The City of Ember Since the start of agriculture, man's evolution has gone from a hunter-gatherer to modern day capitalistic societies. Using a lot of energy in order to hunt was no longer necessary. By leveraging the division of labor, grains could be stored for human consumption. Consequently, population grew which meant that some people had to, for example, harvest the food, whereas others could be “thinkers” and create a better world in terms of science and effective infrastructures. Over time resources have been used and exploited in to order to sustain societies and the ever increasing population: It has become a scarcity. (Harris 12) Philosophers such as Karl Marx wrote about this scarcity and how it creates classes in societies, as in Das Kapital, the Critique of Political Economy: In social productions of their life, men enter into definite relations that are indispensable and independent of their will, relations of production which correspond to a definite stage of development of their material productive forces. The sum total of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society.... With the change of the economic foundation the entire immense superstructure is more or less rapidly transformed. In considering such transformations a distinction should always be made between the material transformation of the economic conditions of| production...(Marx 143) What is...
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...ORIGINAL RESEARCH FORECASTING SIGNIFICANT SOCIETAL EVENTS USING THE EMBERS STREAMING PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS SYSTEM Andy Doyle,1 Graham Katz,1 Kristen Summers,1 Chris Ackermann,1 Ilya Zavorin,1 Zunsik Lim,1 Sathappan Muthiah,2 Patrick Butler,2 Nathan Self,2 Liang Zhao,2 Chang-Tien Lu,2 Rupinder Paul Khandpur,2 Youssef Fayed,3 and Naren Ramakrishnan2 Abstract Developed under the Intelligence Advanced Research Project Activity Open Source Indicators program, Early Model Based Event Recognition using Surrogates (EMBERS) is a large-scale big data analytics system for forecasting significant societal events, such as civil unrest events on the basis of continuous, automated analysis of large volumes of publicly available data. It has been operational since November 2012 and delivers approximately 50 predictions each day for countries of Latin America. EMBERS is built on a streaming, scalable, loosely coupled, shared-nothing architecture using ZeroMQ as its messaging backbone and JSON as its wire data format. It is deployed on Amazon Web Services using an entirely automated deployment process. We describe the architecture of the system, some of the design tradeoffs encountered during development, and specifics of the machine learning models underlying EMBERS. We also present a detailed prospective evaluation of EMBERS in forecasting significant societal events in the past 2 years. Introduction Anticipatory intelligence is considered to be one of the next frontiers...
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...Statutes, a strict code that governs everything from what people are allowed to read to sexual practices. Ember tries to help her ambiguous single mother fly under the radar, but one night when she got home from school, she was horrified to find out that her mother was being arrested for violating Article 5 of the statutes, which states that children can only be conceived by a legally married man and woman. To make matters worse for Ember, one of the arresting officers is Chase Jennings, the boy who used to live next door and in which Ember was in love with, but who now appears to be a hardened soldier. As Ember struggled with a presiding officer as her mother was being loaded in the cop car, she saw him get out of the car and all she could think of was “He’d chosen this over me” (Simmons 21). “Chase said nothing. His jaw was bulging, as though he was grinding his teeth, but otherwise his face revealed no emotion, no indication that the home he’d been raised in was twenty feet away. It occurred to me that he was the driver” (Simmons 21). “My terror grew, closing off the world around me. Chase’s presence didn’t soothe me as it had in the past. The mouth that had once...
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...STEVE EMBER: I'm Steve Ember. BARBARA KLEIN: And I'm Barbara Klein with People in America in VOA Special English. Today we tell about Aaron Copland, one of America's best modern music composers. (MUSIC) STEVE EMBER: Aaron Copland wrote many kinds of music. He wrote music for the orchestra, piano, and voice. He wrote music for plays, movies and dance. Copland also was a conductor, pianist, speaker, teacher and author. Music critics say Copland taught Americans about themselves through his music. He used parts of many old traditional American folk songs in his work. He was influenced to do this after studying music in France. He said that composers there had a very French way of writing music. He said Americans had nothing like that in this country. So he decided to compose music that was truly American. BARBARA KLEIN: Aaron Copland was born in nineteen hundred in Brooklyn, New York. He was the youngest of five children. His parents had come to the United States from eastern Europe. They owned a store in Brooklyn. Aaron began playing the piano when he was a young child. He wrote his first song for his mother when he was eight years old. His dreams of becoming a composer began when he was young. When he was sixteen, he urged his parents to let him study composing with Rubin Goldmark. Goldmark had taught the composer George Gershwin. STEVE EMBER: When he was in his early twenties, Copland went to Paris where he studied music with Nadia Boulanger. She was one of...
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...environment (Ember et al. 2011:86). Primatology also allows modern humans to study the behavioural and anatomical features that are distinctly human (Haviland et al. 2012:53). Homo sapiens share more than 98% of their DNA with chimpanzees and slightly less with great apes, although there is such a huge DNA shared we are not the same but there are similarities between the two. The following essay is aimed at discussing the similarities, differences and behavioural differences that are present between Homo sapiens and the present day primates. Primates are very diverse group of animals and possess features which are common within the group (Haviland et al. 2012:53). One of the common characteristics among all primates is the ability to grasp objects due to their opposable thumbs that modern primates have developed in the past year which allows more precise and powerful grip (Ember et al. 2011:88-89). Primates have well developed vision because a large portion of their brains is devoted to vision than smell, which allows than to see things better than humans and all primates give birth to live and developed young which in turn have a longer dependency period on their parents in comparison to other animals (Ember et al. 2011:89). Life expectancy of primates is very high and primates have larger brains compared to their body’s reason being their survival is dependent on their learning and the more time taken by a young primate to develop the higher its life expectancy (Ember et al. 2011:89)...
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...Proceedings of the National Seminar on River Valley Civilization of Chhatisgarh & New Research in Indian Archaeology.Raipur,C.G. p.227 to 244 CULTURAL ASPECTS OF THE TRIBAL ART IN CENTRAL INDIA: A CASE OF THE BODY DECORATION OF THE BAIGA TRIBE Dr. Basanta Kumar Mohanta1 Dr. Mohan Lal Chadhar2 Abstract The tribal arts, crafts and architectures are one of the most fascinating parts of their culture. The knowledge of this art is a hereditary one which transmits from generation to generation through oral tradition. The art of tattooing or body decoration is widely found among the tribal of India in general and the tribals of Central India in particular, which is treated as an integral part of their life and culture. Baiga is one of the Particularly Venerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs) of Central India, known for their traditional method of treatment and shifting cultivation. They live in a particular forested area of Dindori district of Madhya Pradesh, identified as “Baigachawk” and its neighbouring area. Both the male and female Baigas are very fond of body decoration. Besides, the female members like to decorate their body with different kinds of tattoos, known as Godna. Each of these tattoos has a specific cultural significance and tattooed at a particular age and a specific location of the body. It is related to their religion, belief system, health care practice, body decoration, social status, wealth etc. In this present paper an emphasis has been given on the importance...
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...(free from dusts). Here in the Philippines, it is known as “bunot”. The husk and shells can be used for fuel and are a source of charcoal. Coconut shells/husks are usually left around and are considered wastes besides making them into husks. To get benefits from them, by a primitive process, they can be produced to charcoal which can be an alternative fuel especially for cooking. B. Statement of the Problem The study aims to produce charcoal using coconut (Cocos nucifera) fibers. Specifically, it seeks to find answers for the following questions: 1. How much charcoal can be produced from the coconut fibers? 2. How long is the coal ember of the Coconut Fibers Charcoal? 3. Is there a significant difference between the Coconut Fibers Charcoal and the commercially made charcoal in terms of the duration of coal ember and cost analysis? C. Significance of the Study Charcoal is already being used by people nowadays for...
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...mindmáig: az, amit olyan pontosan fogalmazott meg a delphoi jósda felirata: Gnóthi szeauton - Ismerd meg önmagadat! A delphoicától jóslást kértek az emberek, a jövendőjükre, a sorsukra voltak kíváncsiak. A jós azt felelte: Ismerd meg önmagadat, és tudni fogod a sorsodat. Mert a sorsod te vagy. Nem külső erők uralkodnak rajtad, az istenek benned vannak, s jellemed, személyiséged alakítja, formálja jövődet. Változtass magadon, és változni fog a sorsod is. Fogadd el magadat, és el tudod majd fogadni sorsodat is. Ez a »gnóthi szeauton« igazi értelme. Ma úgy nevezzük: pszichoterápia. Más a kultúránk, más a nyelvünk, mások a szempontjaink, a módszereink, de a lényeg azonos" I. Miért és hogyan keletkezett ez a könyv Van egy ősi mesterség: az ember önmegismerésének fejlesztése, a pszichikum megbillent egyensúlyának helyreállítása, megzavart működéseinek rendezése - nevezhetjük gyógyításnak is. Régen letűnt kultúrák sem nélkülözhették, a miénk sem. Művelték e mesterséget sámánok és varázslók, vajákosok és egyiptomi hierophantesek, álomfejtők, ördögűzők, papok, filozófusok, orvosok, próféták, jósok és remeték. Indiában és Babilonban, a kirgiz sztyeppéken és afrikai dzsungelekben, dél-amerikai templomvárosokban, sivatagokban, európai falvakban és metropolisokban mindig volt egy csendes,...
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...konfliktusokra épülnek, amelyek egyrészt tovább viszik a cselekményt, másrészt pedig érdekessé, izgalmassá teszik (jobb esetben) a filmet a néző számára. Minden filmnek megvan a maga dinamikája, ezáltal meghatározódik a sebessége is. Minél több konfliktus és annak feloldása van egy filmben, annál inkább tekinthetjük gyorsnak a művet, mint például egy akciófilmet, azonban minél kevesebb van, annál lassabbnak hat, ehhez a drámákat vagy romantikus filmeket tudnám hasonlítani. Minden filmnek megvan a saját narratív szerkezete, de ezek nagyon sok filmben átfedik egymást. Olyan univerzális filmszerkezetekről beszélek itt, amely ahhoz segíti a film készítőit, hogy mindenki könnyedén be tudja fogadni a filmjeiket, megértsék azokat. Ez egy olyan, a legtöbb ember által már befogadott struktúra, ami által kérdőjelek nélkül térhet ki a néző a moziból. Alapjában véve, a néző tudja, hogy milyen műfajú filmre ül be, legalábbis a legtöbb esetben, ez már sokat segít neki belekapaszkodni a történetbe. Vannak olyan dolgok, amelyek csak műfaji filmekben...
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...Andrew Maddox Professor Stacy Schmauss ANT 210 10/18/2012 Class Matters A class is defined as "A combination of income, education, wealth and occupation." (Ember, Ember, and Peregrine 315) Social status or economic class has shaped society since the beginning of man. Whether it is money, power, or strength, certain people are put into classes that gain them respect. Especially during this time of year when the election is going on, we hear class mentioned all the time. The upper class is the wealthier people in America, the middle class is what can be described as your "Average Joe", and the lower class are those that are struggling to provide for themselves. Class can affect things such as getting jobs, what kind of women or men you will attract, and how you are treated. Whether people want to believe it or not, class is a huge part of how we view people and it always will be. The New York Times came out with a special study about economic class. According to them, "class influences destiny in a society that likes to think of itself as a land of unbounded opportunity." (Scott, and Leonhardt) The article states that class is a powerful force in the life of Americans and places a huge role in shaping us today. Things such as your family name, education, and ethnicity all play huge rolls what class you fall into. In my personal opinion, I would have to say that the article hits the nail right on the head. Class is a widely debated topic and the people in each class play...
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...floors, making it clean and shiny (free from dusts). Here in the Philippines, it is known as “bunot”. The husk and shells can be used for fuel and are a source of charcoal. Coconut shells/husks are usually left around and are considered wastes besides making them into husks. To get benefits from them, by a primitive process, they can be produced to charcoal which can be an alternative fuel especially for cooking. . The study aims to produce charcoal using coconut (Cocos nucifera) fibers. Specifically, it seeks to find answers for the following questions: 1. How much charcoal can be produced from the coconut fibers? 2. How long is the coal ember of the Coconut Fibers Charcoal? 3. Is there a significant difference between the Coconut Fibers Charcoal and the commercially made charcoal in terms of the duration of coal ember and cost analysis? . Charcoal is already being used by people nowadays for cooking. It is because charcoal is cheaper than petroleum gas. It has many uses and one of...
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...It takes place “upon a midnight dreary” in “bleak December.” Ordinarily in literature, December symbolizes depression and death and midnight is referred to as the witching hour and darkest part of the night. Hence, both midnight and December symbolize the end of something, which could be of life. However, the life may not only pertain to the end of Lenore’s life, but the life of the narrator as well, who may be depressed enough to contemplate suicide. Suicide would reunite him with his lost love, and he would be freed of his endless sorrow and grieving. By using this specific setting, Poe sets the stage for introducing the death of Lenore. He also writes, “each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.” A “dying ember” is reminiscent of the light of life being blown out. The dying embers could also symbolize dying sanity. This visual places the narrator’s thoughts in a state of hopelessness and helplessness. With the phrase, “wrought its ghost upon the floor,” the ghosts can symbolize the remainders of sanity, and the floor can symbolize the mind, which is the foundation of thoughts. Poe further sets the scene of darkness and death by using these few very descriptive...
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