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    River of Names

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    Butensky Eng2150 Time of Task: 3 hours River of Names‚ Tiny‚ Smiling Daddy and Girl proved to be three very powerful stories and a whirlwind of emotions for the authors and myself. We are approached with the same theme in different settings and at different points of the authors’ lives. Yet one characteristic seems to prevail: emotional abandonment‚ a subject most women can relate to in one form or another at some point in their lives. In River of Names‚ the author takes us on a journey of her gut-wrenching

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    Lost Names

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    Rocco Thompson June 10‚ 2011 History 354 William Kinzley Lost Names Lost Names: Scenes From A Korean Boyhood by Richard E. Kim is an autobiographical fictionalization of the author’s youth in Japanese occupied Manchuria. Though not a traditional autobiography‚ the author tells his own story through the eyes of a nameless young man. The story takes place between 1932 and 1945. The young man grows and changes from the start of the novel to the end and meditates on the nature of war‚ family

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    Power Of Names

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    The Power Of Names In the novel I know Why The Caged Bird Sings‚ Maya Angelou makes a statement about the power of names to show that names can go a long way. Names are very powerful. We feel good when someone calls us by our name. We are hurt when someone calls us an unkind name‚ or even when someone calls us by the wrong name or forgets our name. Sometimes a nickname means more to us than our given name‚ especially if it’s given to us by someone we love deeply. In this novel

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    Coming from a bi-racial background can be blessing and a curse all in one. Gloria Anzaldua exploits the truth in her essay in the context of language; however‚ I truly feel that it is deeper than that. Language is an important aspect of a person‚ although culture and experiences embodies individuals as well. I have a similar experience to Anzaldua‚ in the context of coming from a mixed background‚ but our stories may seem similar in some aspects‚ but they are different. Through our mixed experiences

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    No Name Woman

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    Harley Brown Ms. Margo Williams ENG 111 (D26) 29 January 2015 Summary & Analysis of Maxine Hong Kingston’s “No Name Woman” Kingston‚ a first generation Chinese-American woman‚ shares the saddening story (No Name Woman) of her aunt to explore the community/gender roles‚ as well as the cultural morals and motifs of her ancestors. So‚ who is this “No Name Woman?” Kingston learned from her mother about a “forgotten” aunt of hers. Kingston’s mother was a woman “powered by Necessity” and only told her

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    What´s Sleep Apnea?

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    they will stop breathing repeatedly as they try to sleep. In some cases‚ people with severe sleep apnea will stop breathing hundreds of times a night. Every time they stop breathing‚ they are denying their body and brain the oxygen that they need. What Is Sleep Apnea? There are two main types of sleep apnea‚ although it is possible to have a blend of both conditions. The main types of sleep apnea are: Central Sleep Apnea: This type of sleep apnea occurs when the brain forgets to tell the muscles

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    Names in Society

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    Names in Society Though some may feel insecure about their name while another person flaunts how “unique” or how they love their name. A normal human being is named as a baby usually by the parent or a loved one‚ which means we don’t have control over our own names. I was named by my grandfather as a newborn. My mother told me “We never planned a specific name‚ your grandpa named you Ajmal because it sounded nice.” I wondered if they even knew what the definition of my name meant. As I got older

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    Out Of Name

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    robs an individual of their sovereignty and forces the individuals into submission. Calling a person out of name is when individuals with more power address a person with significantly less using an undesirable name or title in order to degrade and demean them. Calling a person “out of name” is always an act of aggression because

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    Alias Name

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    Abstract An individual is typically referred by numerous name aliases on the web. Accurate identification of aliases of a given person name is useful in various web related tasks such as information retrieval‚ sentiment analysis‚ personal name disambiguation‚ and relation extraction. We propose a method to extract aliases of a given personal name from the web. Given a personal name‚ the proposed method first extracts a set of candidate aliases. Second‚ we rank the extracted candidates

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    Name Essay

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    My name‚ Sydney ‚ has little story behind it but does have meaning to my family and I. my first name was chosen on October 8th‚ 1995‚ my birthday. With names flying in the hospital room‚ I can’t imagine how someone could have thought of such a perfect name! And out of all the chaos‚ came a BEAUTIFUL NAME‚ Sydney. My grandpa had chosen it because of the energy of the name‚ and the beauty. Immediately‚ the family agreed. My name would be Sydney. My middle name‚ ******‚ was brought down and taken

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