The Awakening By: Kate Chopin Part I Reading Journal: Chapter 1-13 1. Plot summary of these chapters. The story starts off with Mr. Pontellier and a talking parrot on the porch. The parrot begins yelling at Mr. Pontellier who leaves to go read his newspaper elsewhere. He describes that the newspaper is a day old but he is just now reading it because he was gone in New Orleans. Mr. Pontellier observes his two sons playing in the yard with their nanny. After a while‚ Edna Pontellier and a boy named
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Chapter 1 - Christmas Eve • When the book opens‚ Arthur Kipps is sharing some fascinating thoughts about how he’s always been affected by the weather. • He describes how he came to live at Monk’s Piece and stumbled across it while out on a ride with his employer‚ Mr. Bentley. • Arthur is a solicitor and has worked with Mr. Bentley for many years. • Now he’s married to a woman named Esmé and lives in Monk’s Piece with her four children from a previous marriage; they have been happily settled for
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This semester‚ I read The Disappearing Spoon and Other True Tales of Madness‚ Love‚ and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean. The main reason I wanted to read this book is the concept behind it: every element is unique and has had a unique role in history and society. It is such a clever idea to write a book that outlines the uniqueness of each element and the roles that each one has played in our daily lives and the lives of those before us. And like I was
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Eric Weiner was ready to go for an adventure. His plan was to search the happiest place to live in the world. His first place to visit was the Netherlands. The chapter begin when the author was in a café near in downtown Rotterdam. The place was really cozy‚ large and upscale. Because everyone was smoking‚ he lit up his cigar and ordered a Trapiste beer. While he was drinking this delicious warm beer‚ he noticed that Dutch is very similar to English spoken backwards. He stayed a long time in the
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Chapter 1 -Chapter 1 introduces the two main characters‚ Jasper Jones and Charlie. -The chapter begins with Jasper coming to Charlie’s window in the middle of the night and asking Charlie to leave his house in order to help him. -Charlie seems to feel honoured that Jasper has asked for his help. Charlie describes Jasper. -Jasper explains that he needs Charlie’s help but he won’t tell him why. -They walk through their town‚ Corrigan‚ until Jasper stops to smoke a cigarette in front
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To summarize this Mill’s chapter two about what utilitarianism is‚ basically meaning that individuals would find some kind of pleasure that are more desirable and more valuable to themselves are inherently good. Utilitarianism is pleasurable when the actions are good; when the actions are bad the pleasure decreases. To Mill he compares human pleasures are as equal as animalistic pleasures. It depends on what kind of pleasure people are seeking. For this purpose‚ Mill mentioned that people would have
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many funny stories in this book. One of them was how Les Hite fires band members. Instead of firing just one person‚ he would fire the whole band and then hire back the men he wanted. He would say‚ "I’m breaking up my band‚ everybody’s fired‚" and then say‚ "I want you‚ you‚ and you in my new band." He said it was better than pointing at one person and telling them to get out. That’s exactly what happened to Dizzy. Another was when Basie’s band was France‚ and Buddy Tate got the wrong interpreter.
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Reading The Sopranos - Chapter 3 – ‘What has Carmela ever done for Feminism’? Introduction Feminism in a simple definition refers to women’s movements‚ and feminism is a subject that is on going which has become a forum for debate in relation to television and film. My main focus will be feminism in the television series ‘The Sopranos’ which will be used as a case study to examine the theory of feminism plus psychoanalysis and how it’s inflicted on the screen. An academic book that I have
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Face Detection Ming-Hsuan Yang University of California‚ Merced‚ CA 95344 mhyang@ucmerced.edu Synonyms Detecting faces Definition Face detection is concerned with finding whether or not there are any faces in a given image (usually in gray scale) and‚ if present‚ return the image location and content of each face. This is the first step of any fully automatic system that analyzes the information contained in faces (e.g.‚ identity‚ gender‚ expression‚ age‚ race and pose). While earlier work
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In chapter one to three of Whistling Vivaldi‚ the author started the book with his memory of recognizing his given social identity. I paused for a few seconds after I finished reading the sentence that said‚ “I don’t know what being black meant‚ but I was getting the idea that it was a big deal” (2). This quote brought to mind my level of knowledge and awareness about race before I ever heard African American friends complained about the way people‚ outside the school‚ treat them. Looking back‚ the
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