The use of deus ex machina at the end of Sophocles’ ‘Philoctetes’ serves as a final anchor point to tie together the events which unfolded prior. Heracle’s intervention allows us to reflect on the nature of events in the play and the themes of the play. Finally it gives us insight into divine influence and the role of fate. Throughout the play‚ the characters have conflicting objectives‚ ideals‚ etc. Neoptolemus struggles with an internal conflict between doing what he thinks is right‚ and what
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Nouns in Text to Speech systems E.Veera Raghavendra‚ Lavanya Prahallad IIIT Hyderabad‚ India raghavendra@iiit.net‚ lavanyap@cmu.edu At present most speech synthesis systems use raw text as their input which is understandable from a human point of view but problematic for the machines since the process of converting text to speech is very complex; in this paper we discuss the need for having a specific SSML tag for each “mention” (1st occurrence‚ 2nd occurrence) of a proper noun in the text or paragraph
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USING CARTOON MOVIE FOR DEVELOPING NINTH GRADERS’ WRITING SKILL OF NARRATIVE TEXT AT SMPN 1 DASUK A THESIS PROPOSAL Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree Of Sarjana Pendidikan in English By ……………………………. ENGLISH DEPARTMENT FACULTY OF LANGUAGE AND ARTS SURABAYA STATES UNIVERSITY 2010 TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER I I INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study 1.2 Reasons for Choosing the Topic 1.3 Statements of the Problem The Objectives of the Study The Significant of
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In this essay‚ I will be exploring the view that texting and/or web based interactions creative can be very creative forms of language use. In modern day society technology has become more of a resource to life than an object. Phones are one of these life necessities that has progressively changed our way of life. The introduction of texting in particular‚ it has drastically altered our speech and idiolect. For example within the texting community a vast amount of acronyms‚ abbreviations‚ and alphabetisms
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Well I’m sure it’s without a doubt that you all commonly believe it constitutes either a kind or category of text‚ but in actual fact does it really? Good morning Year 11. The prime focus of your studies during the HSC course next year‚ I’m going to discuss how the genre of crime fiction has extended through time‚ whereby a variety of notions and characteristics exhibited throughout a text may either reinforce‚ challenge or extend on genre parameters. So what is genre then? Although genre is quite
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The Outsiders Compare and Contrast October 4‚ 1957 Soviet R-7 worldwide airborne missile launched Sputnik‚ it’s the world’s first false satellite and the first man-made item to be placed into the Earth’s orbit. The launch came as a surprise toward most Americans. Then in 1958 the USA launched their own satellite “Explorer I.” President Eisenhower produced two national security-oriented space programs at the same time as NASA’s program. The first was initiated by the US Air Force‚ it gave its self
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life for guidance. It shows us what the first Christians believed. e) “Sacred texts were created by humans” The term Sacred is used to describe something that is special and connected to God and dedicated to a purpose‚ in Christianity the Bible is considered sacred text as it contains the word of God and gives Christians guidance. Some more liberal Christians may agree with this statements and state that sacred texts are ideas and symbolism of what God is like and that it is not exactly what God
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Dallas “Dally” Winston: Social Clique: Greasers Age: 17 Status: Deceased * Reason- Provoked police to shoot him because he got a heater out. Abilities/ Strengths: Street smart‚ knows how to use a variety of different weapons like guns‚ blades‚ etc. Natural born leader; Strong personality; excellent fighter; stereotypical “bad boy”. Tougher‚ colder and meaner than rest of the greasers. His parents were very abusive of him Criminal Past: "The real character of the gang‚" Dally was arrested
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A boy with no parents and in a bad neighborhood with bad influences as friends and is a minor that smokes and his older brother lets him do that and have those friends ‚ which also doesn’t give him a curfew and lets him go to places alone ‚ should be in the system. Ponyboy has an older brother Darry‚ but Darry doesn’t really take care of ponyboy like he should or gives him as much as attention as he should get for a teenager. Ponyboy should be in the system because he is a young boy that has bad
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Reading: Read the following text‚ and write a brief heading for each paragraph. Products and Brands 1………………………………………………………………… Marketing theorists tend to give the word product a very broad meaning‚ using it to refer to anything capable of satisfying a need or want. Thus services‚ activities‚ people (politicians‚ athletes‚ film stars)‚ places (holiday resorts)‚ organizations (hospitals‚ colleges‚ political parties)‚ and ideas‚ as well as physical objects offered for sale by retailers
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