Name: Muna Said-Ahmed Date: November 19‚ 2012 Assignment: Three Rational for Text Choice: The most important factor associated with the choice of my text was its usability. Is this a text that I will be able to teach the lower-intermediate class in week four of the Celta program? Potential texts that answered yes to that question were kept‚ while those that answered no were discarded. With the remaining texts I divided them into two columns: ‘interesting reads’ and ‘less interesting topics’;
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BEOWULF: A HERO In reading the epic poem of Beowulf‚ he has the characteristics of an epic hero by showing skill and courage‚ enduring fame‚ and royal responsibility. "Beowulf is considered an epic poem in that the main character is a historic hero who travels great distances to prove his strength at impossible odds against supernatural demons and beasts" (Wikipedia). He showed fairness to all he came across‚ including his enemies. He believed that everybody was equal and no one was greater
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Odysseus As An Epic Hero In the story of the Odyssey‚ Odysseus was put through many ordeals through which we see his moral and physical characteristics. After evaluating such characteristics we can see that Odysseus is a great epic hero. We can see that not only is he superior to most mortal men‚ he also shares many of the same desires‚ therefore fulfilling all the technical requirements of a "hero". Odysseus has insight about his own fate and destiny‚ but lives intertwined with the Olympic Gods
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Although Ulysses and Odysseus share similar traits‚ Homer would not agree with Tennyson ’s portrayal of Odysseus in the poem "Ulysses". Whereas Odysseus wishes to complete his journey and find relief‚ Ulysses seeks to continue on a never-ending one. Homer ’s Odyssey and Tennyson ’s "Ulysses" have different desires and their desires lead them on contrasting quests. The hero in Homer ’s depicts Odysseus as a hero in the process of completing a journey home. The portrayal of Ulysses is a hero that
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knowledge‚ but never truly touching anyone‚ or is it centered around the relationship with close family and friends? Based on am individuals personal desires comes a hero that follows the path they hope they will pave. Ancient civilizations created epics that surpass any modern day super hero. From the ancient Sumerian culture came the tale of Gilgamesh‚ and from the Greeks came a man by the name of Odysseus. These heroes were people set on a journey‚
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Texts and Traditions: Semester Two 2012 Caitlin Smith: 17517137 Research Essay Question: Discuss how the mother-child or father-child relation is central to either Frankenstein or The Hours. The story of Frankenstein‚ written by Mary Shelley‚ was first published in 1818. The book shows many representations of gothic literature and romanticism. Majority of Frankenstein’s characters are intensely intertwined and have relations with at least one other character. This leads to the tragedies written
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A classic text does more then tell an interesting story. It has many features such as that it gives us insight into specific historical events‚ highlights issues or concerns that are still around today‚ they can also last the test of time by still being relevant in the modern world and finally classic texts can serve to warn us of repeating the same mistakes made in the past. Any text that has these characteristics can be classified as a classic text. The novel ’Animal Farm’‚ the extract from ’Pride
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Homer Barron VS. Mr. Grierson Homer Barron and Mr. Grierson are two totally different men‚ but somehow they both manage to help keep Emily feel secure and loved. In a short story titled‚ “A Rose for Emily” written by William Faulkner he writes about the life of Emily Grierson. Emily’s father‚ Mr. Grierson isolated her whenever she was younger but whenever he passes away Emily can’t seem to let him go and goes into some sort of depression. She ends up meeting Homer Barron who even the townspeople
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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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years on end‚ he maintains this being of nobility‚ making this formidable character’s journey through life something we still discuss today. One of the only things people of that time had to bring them together were stories. These rightfully named epics were told across the land so they had to be something memorable. In such a time of despondency these people needed something to hold onto and believe would get them through‚ and that was Beowulf. Their simplistic thinking of right and wrong made it
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