can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children‚ and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts‚ sir!’ Mr Thomas Gradgrind’s speech‚ the opening paragraph to Hard Times‚ is probably as famous as the novel itself. Published in 1854‚ Hard Times tells the story of a fictional Northern industrial town by the name of Coketown‚ and particularly of the Gradgrind
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In A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is a story festive Christmas story of Scrooge and his transformation from a greedy and spiritless miser to a cheerful and generous old man. In the beginning of the novel Scrooge is a caricature of a miser‚ greedy and mean in every way‚ that is until three ghosts visit Scrooge and help him turn from his mean spirited ways and learn the values and importance of generosity‚ kindness‚ and cheerfulness. The ghost of Christmas past takes scrooge back to his childhood
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annotation etc. Many of the existing methods focus on the feature extraction and to bridge up the gap between low level features and high level semantics. In this paper we propose a supervised machine learning (SML) using artificial neural network (ANN) and singular value decomposition (SVD) for image retrieval. Specifically we use back propagation algorithm (multilayer perceptron) (MLP) for training and testing our proposed model. Experimental results show that by changing parameters of feature vector
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was born. Racism was a big thing for blacks. They weren’t able to go many places or do many things without getting yelled at. “Sweetness” proposes the impression of how hard it was for an African American family in the nineties. Sweetness and Lula Ann struggle in their everyday life to make it through the day. The narrative is first person point of view and is told by Sweetness‚ a single‚ African American woman. These characters try to function in a world filled with discrimination and hate. This
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My two characters that I will be comparing and contrasting are Stevie and Susan Carol from the book “Last Shot”. They have some things in common but they are also different. They both won a contest to go to the final four. They both are friends but they try to out beat each other. Stevie and Susan Carol have some things that are similar. They both like basketball‚ you can tell that because they try to win a writing competition to go to the final four then you’re definitely a basketball fan
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Commonwealth a novel by Ann Patchett is the story of marriage‚ divorce‚ happiness‚ death‚ love‚ survival and the Commonwealthunconditional love of family. In an attempt to avoid his growing family on Sunday‚ a family day‚ Bert Cousins crashes Franny Keating’s christening party‚ telling his wife it’s a “work thing”. He brings along the only thing he had around the house that might pass as a gift‚ a big bottle of gin. Bert Cousin’s bottle of gin mixed with the juice from the Keating’s backyard orange
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Scrooge has changed. There was no doubt about it. The stingy‚ cold‚ introverted‚ unappreciative fellow had become the most generous‚ warm-hearted‚ friendly‚ and open person you could find in all of England. Scrooge has been well aware that he had recently undertaken a tremendous change because he purposely brought it upon himself. Fred and Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim and his maid all oversaw that he upheld his vow of retaining the Christmas spirit in heart yearlong. He so far had been successful in
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Case 39 – Ann Taylor Introduction Ann Taylor was founded in 1954 as a wardrobe home for busy‚ socially upscale women by Robert Liebeskind. Its first stand-alone clothing store was started in New Haven‚ Connecticut. Ann Taylor was never a real person; it was a brand identity or a personality within the retail clothing industry. Kay Krill‚ the current president/CEO‚ has been the leader of the company since 2004 and has faced many issues and challenges with the ANN legacy as a women’s specialty
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The novel Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett‚ is built around the basis of friendship; however‚ this friendship is an extremely unique one. It is comprised of two writers who are completely different‚ and yet they are able to maintain their relationship despite the plight they encounter. They have compassion for one another‚ they empathize with each other‚ they trust each other for the most part‚ are usually honest with each other‚ and love each other dearly. Each of these attributes is vital to
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she not only entertains her reader but also makes a point‚ without preaching. The novel begins with a conversation between Mrs. And Mr. Bennet. At once we are introduced to a couple whose banters are distressingly amusing‚ half parts witty and half parts inane. Mrs. Bennet fails to catch her husband’s sarcasm and the ill-treatment he metes out to her ‘poor nerves’. Mr. Bennet is aware of her feelings but he is not interested in her constant raptures and worries. Their weak understanding is the
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