...Analysis Langston Hughes' moving poem "Mother to Son" empowers not only the son, but also the reader with precious words of wisdom. Through the skillful use of literary devices such as informal language, symbolism, metaphors, repetition, as well as clever use of format, Hughes manages to assemble up the image of a mother lovingly, yet firmly, talking to her son about life. This poem is an advice from a mother to son about life that will be challenging and do not think about giving it up. The advice is simple but pertinent to the poetic theme: in order to overcome the hurdles of life, a person must possess courage and determination. The theme that this poet conveyed in the poem is determination to live without ever thinking giving up although the obstacles are harsh. Besides, it also emphasize regarding the struggle for life that the one will experience but still have the strength to face it day by day. It also shows about affection and as motivation of a mother to son that takes care of his son and gives advice so that the son will somehow be prepared to face the life. Langston Hughes’ poem, “Mother to Son” resemble to the well-known expression “let’s have a father to son chat”. However, in this case, the saying is altered to “mother to son”. Poetic devices such as informal language, symbolisms, metaphors and repetition were used in this poem. This poem is written from the mother’s point of view in the advice form so the audience could feel the warmth and......
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...The dominant artistic movement from about 1900 to 1940, modernism was characterized by the reexamination of existence from every possible angle. Modernist writers sought to leave the traditions of nineteenth-century literature behind in terms of form, content, and expression. They realized that a new industrial age—full of machines, buildings, and technology—had ushered out rural living forever, and the result was often a pessimistic view of what lay before humankind. Frequent themes in modernist works are loneliness and isolation (even in cities teeming with people), and a significant number of writers tried to capture that sense of solitude by engaging in stream-of-consciousness writing, which captures the thought process of a single character as it happens without interruption. Some of the most famous modernist authors include Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Virginia Woolf, and James Joyce. 1. Open form and free verse are distinguishing characteristics of modernist poetry. Though commonplace now, this style was quite a break from nineteenth-century rules about meter and rhyme. 2. The moniker “The Lost Generation” was coined by Gertrude Stein and refers to those artists of the 1920s who had become disillusioned with America and found themselves living as ex-patriots in Europe, chiefly in France. 3. An example of stream-of-consciousness (also called “interior monologue”) from Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway: “She felt somehow very like him—the young man......
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...The Power of Language Baca experienced a turning point the first time he was wrongfully arrested after failing to explain a deep cut on his arm. He stated: "There I met men, prisoners, who read aloud to each other the works of Neruda, Paz, Sabines, Nemerov, and Hemingway. Never had I felt such freedom as in that dormitory. Listening to the words of these writers, I felt that invisible threat from without lessen- my sense of teetering on a rotting plank over swamp water where famished alligators clamped their horny snouts for my blood. While I listened to the words of the poets, the alligators slumbered powerless in their lairs" (4). The poetry made him feel secure and free even though he was in jail with inmates. The poetry saves him from being eaten by the alligators and in reality it saves him from losing all hope and feeling trapped because he's in jail. Baca was unable to communicate or express himself which landed him in jail twice. Both times he was innocent, but the second time he couldn't pay his bail so he was sent to the county jail. After stealing an attendant's university textbook he began to learn how to read. He commented that "I became so absorbed in how the sounds created music in me and happiness, I forgot where I was...For a while, a deep sadness overcame me, as if I had chanced on a long-lost friend and mourned the years of separation. But soon the heartache of having missed so much of life, that had numbed me since I was a child, gaveaway, as if a grave...
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...The meaning is where ethnic groups come together and become one, with similar religions, speech, and various other features that bond people from different backgrounds into one common group. The Hispanics and Latinos are learning more on becoming Americans, the vocabulary, the way we live, right down to the food we eat. Their children are going to school to learn the English language; the adults are mating with American men and women. This in itself will start producing a new generation and ethnic group. I have female relatives that have married Hispanic men and their children are bilingual. They carry traits from both parents; dark skin and they are just a little shorter than the rest of my relatives. So what I have seen through my family experiences and also talking to Hispanics where I work, (and they have very good English), I see America turning into a different nation. A nation where everyone shares the same traits, America was taken away from the Indians and now it is time for a new society of humans in the United States. Becoming an ethnic group of large proportion and overwhelming effects, turning America into a super nation of one, no African Americans, no Europeans, no Caucasians, only caramel colored...
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...English – the universal language of the Internet Generally speaking, English is the universal language on the Internet, but it has no official status, and it will never have. In truth it is really a vague collection of languages called “English” because the common origin was the national language of England. The variants are considerable. So how did this happen, why is it so? Well, firstly the Internet was the concept of a US Military research division DARPA (Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency), as a means to share information on defence research between involved universities and defence research facilities. Also as a method of communication that could be used in the event of a nuclear first strike on the US mainland. Less than 5 years ago 90% of computers connected to the Internet were located in English speaking countries and more than 80% of all home pages on the web were written in English. Interestingly, whilst computers connected to the internet located in native English speaking countries has declined to around 63%, the home page percentage remains similar to that of 5 years ago. Today more than 80% of all international organisations use English as either their main, or one of their main, operating languages. The highest use of the Internet in non-English speaking countries, such as Malaysia, is in the urban areas, partly because of infrastructure availability. However these areas also have a rapidly increasing “middle class” who understand the need for...
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...It’s Election Day! (Does Anyone Really Care?) John F. Kennedy once said that “The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.” When I ran across this quote I realized that today is Election Day in Massachusetts and many local voters were heading to the polls to select new leadership. Now it’s a known fact that local voter turnout is never very high. We see more middle-aged citizens and the elderly turning out for these elections which, based on the information presented in our discussion question, is about 20-30% of registered voters. But how does this tie-in to the quote. I am in agreement that a low voter turn-out is not necessarily a bad thing. These voters usually represent those voters who are knowledgeable about the issues at hand and want to see the best person for the job get elected. But does this continuous process yield a better outcome as a whole. The populace needs to be educated about the issues and understand what they are voting for. If people tend to vote on blind faith or, worse, emotion, it is an ignorant and potentially costly move for us all. In order for communities as a whole to bind together and elect the right people for the job, they must take the time and energy to get involved and to become educated on the important issues that are affecting them and their families. The question was asked in our discussion as to what kind of a program we could devise to not only increase voter turn-out but to educate the...
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...The article I will be summarizing caught my eye because it explains which skills sets that will be needed for future jobs. This article is basing itself looking forward to the year 2020 and gives advice on which skill sets people should be preparing themselves for in the next 8 years. This article was written by a lady names Vickie Jimenez. She goes into detail about the importance of why having one or more of these skill sets are going to be so important in 2020. Personally I agree with her, because the world we live in now is not the world we were born into. Technology has grown so much in the past 20-30 years, which makes you think about how much more it is going to grow in the next decade. For example, Ms. Jimenez believes these skill sets are the most important out of any careers in the world today. The seven skill sets she talks about are; leaderships and management roles, social technologists/specialist, consulting, writing and editing, virtual assisting, IT (information technologists), and medical professionals. Jimenez explains that this world is turning itself into a globalized computer technology based universe. In more detail, this means technology is literally taking workforce jobs away from us because any industry anywhere is turning itself into computer based ran machines. With more technology comes less jobs. Also, the out sourcing for jobs now has become normal for the United States of America and many other countries. This is not a good thing for our......
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...board of directors for First Interstate BancSystem and in the united way. Gates has got one elder sister named Kristianne and an younger sister named Libby. Earlier in his life, Gates parents had a lawyer career in mind for him. But, that, dream went to side lines, when he was in the 8th grade. Bill Gates Education At the age of 13, bill enrolled for Lakeside school, an exclusively preparatory school, which is said to be a turning point. It all began to create a new page in the history, when the mothers club at the school used funds arisen out of profit from sale of some miscellaneous things collected in the club, to purchase an ASR-33 teletype terminal and also a block of General Electric computers for school students. Gates developed a special interest in GE terminal computer and went ahead to learn and develop programs using programming language BASIC. He was excused from attending the Maths classes, while doing so. He developed his first major program on his own, which is an implementation of game called as tic-tac-toe. This is, perhaps the turning point in his career. In fact, Gates was always thinking, how the machine could execute his program perfectly without giving any problems. I think, as a professional programmer, that also one way, helped Gates to understand computer programming better. Laying first foundation stones, for a great distinguished career Gates got a chance to work in Computer Center Corporation (CCC), along with three other Lakeside students......
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...Apart Important Quotations Explained Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world. Explanation for Quotation 1 >> Achebe uses this opening stanza of William Butler Yeats’s poem “The Second Coming,” from which the title of the novel is taken, as an epigraph to the novel. In invoking these lines, Achebe hints at the chaos that arises when a system collapses. That “the center cannot hold” is an ironic reference to both the imminent collapse of the African tribal system, threatened by the rise of imperialist bureaucracies, and the imminent disintegration of the British Empire. Achebe, writing in 1959, had the benefit of retrospection in depicting Nigerian society and British colonialism in the 1890s. Yet Achebe’s allusion is not simply political, nor is it ironic on only one level. Yeats’s poem is about the Second Coming, a return and revelation of sorts. In Things Fall Apart, this revelation refers to the advent of the Christian missionaries (and the alleged revelation of their teachings), further satirizing their supposed benevolence in converting the Igbo. For an agricultural society accustomed to a series of cycles, including that of the locusts, the notion of return would be quite credible and familiar. The hyperbolic and even contradictory nature of the passage’s language suggests the inability of humankind to thwart this......
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..."WHO IS A PAKISTANI IN TODAY'S PAKISTAN?" The topic of the essay poses a question which allows for a number of different perspectives to exist. My approach shall be to portray a Pakistani who would be on the favourable side of every controversial issue (face least opposition) under the existing conditions in Pakistan. Such a citizen would be an "ideal Pakistani" in today's Pakistan. The "ideal Pakistani" shows the following characteristics: 1. Is a Muslim 2. Considers Urdu to be the sole National Language of Pakistan. 3. Accepts the history Pakistan Studies Textbooks present as fact. 4. Says "Thank You Raheel Sharif" and looks towards India as a grave external threat. 5. Is affluent and influential. 1. IS A MUSLIM: Being a Muslim...
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... A light-programmable biofilm displaying the Hello World message CNC machining test in Perspex A "Hello world" program is a computer program that outputs "Hello, world" on a display device. Because it is typically one of the simplest programs possible in most programming languages, it is by tradition often used to illustrate to beginners the most basic syntax of a programming language, or to verify that a language or system is operating correctly. In a device that does not display text, a simple program to produce a signal, such as turning on an LED, is often substituted for "Hello world" as the introductory program. Contents [hide] 1 Purpose 2 History 3 Variations 4 See also 5 References 6 External links [edit]Purpose A "Hello World" program has become the traditional first program that many people learn. In general, it is simple enough so that people who have no experience with computer programming can easily understand it, especially with the guidance of a teacher or a written guide. Using this simple program as a basis, computer science principles or elements of a specific programming language can be explained to novice programmers. Experienced programmers learning new languages can also gain a lot of information about a given language's syntax and structure from a hello world program. In addition, hello world can be a useful sanity test to make sure that a language's compiler, development environment, and run-time environment are correctly......
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...data into information is an important part in the decision making process in business and in life. In order to create sound decisions, one must process data received from various places and convert it into information. In this paper, we will discuss how this is done, along with the input, processing and output of data. We will also discuss the role of various computer components, the definition of data and information, the application program along with the operating system, higher language and machine code and lastly, graphical versus mathematical or statistical output. Input, process and output is the basic beginnings of turning data into information. When creating programs for any information, we first have to input data we received. This data could be for any situation such as how many customers have purchased a product or are they satisfied with the product due to customer feed back data. Once you input that data into a program writing software, It must be processed in computer language to give you the information you require. The input and process portion is very important in the program writing evolution as it is where a bulk of your work will be completed. Once the data has been processed, it will become output. This is where your information will come from. The computers inner components will allow one to complete the tasks of running programs. The Central processing unit, or CPU is essentially the brain of the computer. It processes data in the......
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...anonymity. There seems to be some mixed emotions towards this everyman, both praising yet somewhat negative. For how he is shown with “already democratic in inspiration” but has also “embarked in the crowded human ship of fools.” (pg. 1) The character noble in his struggle of existence against hostile systems, but is ironic in simplicity. Saying that, trivialities stand between the everyman’s paths. De Certeau claims that there is a must in using common language as a means to understand common, anonymous, people, when his language is anything but. Anonymity, the mass, hides within general society’s perception and are unknown to all, even to themselves. Saying that common is so unanimous that it is hard to differentiate. This may be an unreasonable interpretation but it’s hard to see it within his language; it may be due to the translation or the fact that he comes from a line of blunt French humanists, nonetheless it is strange given his aim to use popular language and uncover popular resistance. Then turning to say experts, at least in De Certeau’s generalisation, are anybody, nobody, just like the...
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...As one analyzes the “Apology” by Plato, one is able to analyze and contrast and most people would agree with Socrates when he claims that “…the unexamined life is not worth living…”. From a more personal standpoint I would completely agree with Socrates point of view, due to the fact most of us in society have chosen to live the “unexamined life” for centuries and as a result we live in a society where one has to live segregated from our freewill as human beings as well as a society that is restrained by rules and other types of social “walls”. He asks the jury's forgiveness if he slips into his usual conversational style. This is his first appearance in a court of law, he explains, and so he is completely unfamiliar with the language of the place. As the jurors might forgive a foreigner for speaking in his accustomed dialect, Socrates asks their patience if he, a stranger to the law courts, might speak as he normally would as well. Rather than pay attention to his style, Socrates asks the jurors to pay attention to the substance of his speech and consider whether what he says is true or not. Commentary The sharp contrast that runs throughout this first section lies between the studied, artificial--and false--speech of Socrates' accusers, and Socrates' own improvised, conversational--and true--speech. At this time in Athens, there were a great many sophists, professional teachers who would instruct the wealthy youth of the city in oratory. Throughout his works, Plato......
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...Buddhism Lecture notes of Chan Buddhism- Oriana Chinese Religion. -- At the first part of the semester, we looked at three different movements. The first was the notion of the Dharma king, and we talked about it in terms of the political background of what’s going on in China, that it is divided between North and South. And also the Chinese start to take seriously the notion of the impermanence of everything, including the dharma itself. And how’s that brings a notion that maybe we are in the final age, or maybe the final age is approaching. And one response to that is, somewhat ironically, an accommodation between the Buddhist Sangha and the son of heaven, where the son of heaven becomes not just a cosmic regulator of heaven on earth but also a regulator of the dharma, and in return to that – a sponsor of the dharma. So basically the monasteries become government officials, they need to be licensed, and yet on the other hand China becomes represented as Buddhist nation, and eventually they began to give emperors the title of “Bodhisattva”. Dharma king= very politically oriented Buddhism. We also talked about another popular religious movement – the three stages school, which begins to grapple with the question of how do you practice if this is the final age, what do you do when the scriptures don’t work, and we ended up with public-service Buddhism – social welfare Buddhism, talking about giving and not just to a stupa or to the sangha but giving to your......
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