entered World War I. Soon After‚ Cummings was thrown into French Prison (“…Biography.”). He was accused of treason and spent many months in the French prison camp (Blumenkranz). Cummings’ experience in the camp inspired one of his famous books‚ The Enormous Room. The book is based on his life during this time period (“…Biography.”). Cummings had an affair with Elaine Orr‚ the wife of Scotfield Thayer. Thayer was a friend of Cummings that he met at Harvard (…The Famous…). Although she was married‚ Elaine
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Romanticism and Realism in the Arts Romanticism and Realism were two forms of art that came into existence in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Both formed as a resistance to traditional standards and in response to a time of war and revolution. Both Romanticism and Realism are prevalent in works of art to this day. This is where the similarities of the two art forms end. So how can two opposing literary movements overlap time periods yet be so different in style? Romanticism
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The magical power of African Art‚ illustrated in the nkisi nknode figure is unfamiliar to Westerners because we don’t know the context of the art and the intention of the artist. Westerners are interpreting that illustration without any real knowledge of the culture. Due to these figures been in museums in West‚ the culture has lost a great deal of their history and memory. The Westerners in return have gained some knowledge and have created there own interpretation of the figures. The culture also
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the production/consumption of a film text • Particular film is rendered in a particular style; has to be addressed by consumer • Objectivity v. Realism Realism • Mode of representation that attempts a 1:1 correspondence with reality with how the subject is depicted (in film‚ artwork‚ etc.) — exactly how a person sees it • Never possible to have exact realism • Everyone’s reality is different • Ideology — relative truth‚ truth that can be verified in experience • Character — actions‚ dialogue — motivations
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Six years back‚ when on November 4‚ 2004‚ the Prime Minister proclaimed Left Wing Extremism as the biggest threat confronting the nation that had to be dealt at ‘war footing’‚ it had a ring of resolve of a freshly elected government to take the bull by its horns. However‚ when he repeats the same now‚ it carries an air of helpless lamentation. The efforts at war footing notwithstanding‚ during the last six years‚ the area under Naxal influence has nearly doubled extending to nearly 203 districts
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LEFT-WING EXTREMISM: The Current Threat Prepared for U.S. Department of Energy Office of Safeguards and Security Washington‚ DC Prepared by Karl A. Seger‚ Ph.D. Center for Human Reliability Studies Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education Oak Ridge‚ TN April 2001 ORISE 01-0439 i TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .............................................................................................ii I. LEFTIST EXTREMISM IS ALIVE AND WELL.............................
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speak Chinese is a unique and magical language. Natural language processing Chinese data ‚ we will encounter difficulties that many other languages do not have‚ such as segmentation. Between Chinese words‚there are no spaces. So‚ how can computer know this sentence: Married and not married youth must practice family planning. This is the so-called problem of segmentation ambiguities. But now a lot of the language model has more beautiful method to solve this problem. However‚ in the field of
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…the world is entering a new era in which the very concept of security will change and change dramatically. Security will be interpreted as: security of people‚ not just territory. Security of individuals‚ not just nations. Security through development‚ not through arms. Security of all the people everywhere – in their homes‚ in their jobs‚ in their streets‚ in their communities‚ in their environment (Axworthy‚ 2001). Security has been a longstanding item on the agenda of both individual and states
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Left wing or right wing? It is important to know because that decides how much government involvement there is in an economy. Two different ways are classic capitalism‚ a right wing economy which has less government involvement in people’s lives and socialism‚ a left wing economy‚ which has more government involvement in people’s lives. If these were blended together it would form a mixed economy. Either way there will be issues‚ such as a decrease in production‚ decrease in the standard of living
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WHAT CAUSED WORLD WAR 1? As Hobbes said in Leviathan‚ “if any two men desire the same thing‚ which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy‚ they become enemies”. Men are equal and interact in anarchy‚ driven by competition‚ diffidence‚ and glory. World War I was prompted by the self-centered behavior of Germany in the early 20th century combined with the achievement of balance of power in Europe. For realists‚ the war could have been a case of security dilemma for Germany in a system of balanced power;
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