43 Int. J. Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems‚ Vol. n‚ No. m‚ 2008 Commonsense Knowledge‚ Ontology and Ordinary Language Walid S. Saba American Institutes for Research‚ 1000 Thomas Jefferson Street‚ NW‚ Washington‚ DC 20007 USA E-mail: wsaba@air.org Abstract: Over two decades ago a “quite revolution” overwhelmingly replaced knowledgebased approaches in natural language processing (NLP) by quantitative (e.g.‚ statistical‚ corpus-based‚ machine learning) methods. Although it is our firm
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The texts‚ “Undaunted Courage” and “The Way To Rainy Mountain” depict the land as a spiritual entity that’s worth being worshipped and respected as shown by man’s praise of it. The way man‚ rather than exploit it for profit‚ respects the land through animism shows their gratitude for it. From the detailed descriptions that give the reader an illustration of what man has seen‚ it is clear to say that man had this religious relationship again‚ but was also in tune with the lay of the land. In “Undaunted
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fail to realize we are truly blessed to have these necessities we refuse to even think how life would be if these very items were stripped from our lives the way those of the Jewish faith were stripped of any humanization they had‚ as displayed in “Night” by Elie Wiesel. As we are guided through Wiesel’s horrific experience‚ we are challenged to understand how specific items and events symbolize the pain and suffering of the Jewish people. In such case‚ tattooed numbers‚ the process of selection‚ and
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From: DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE By R. Gordon Richard Gordon was born in 1921. He has been an anaesthetist at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital‚1 a ship’s surgeon and an assistant editor of the British Medical Journal. He left medical practice in 1952 and started writing his "Doctor" series. "Doctor in the House" is one of Gordon’s twelve "Doctor" books and is noted for witty description of a medical student’s years of professional training. To a medical student the final examinations are
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other name.” (42) Elie Wiesel’s Night is about a young Jewish boy and his experiences through the Holocaust in the 1940’s. Any human being should never experience the hell-like terror that Elie had to go through. He is separated from his mother and his sister and is deported to Auschwitz‚ one of Hitler’s most depressing concentration camps. Wiesel uses night not only as the title but also as a symbol of time‚ a world without God‚ and man’s inhumanity to man. Night is defined as a time of day when
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people‚ one is a lark‚ one is an owl and the rest follow a normal circadian cycle? The Normal cycle is when people wake up in the morning naturally‚ and the owl‚ you should guess‚ is a loner night person. “These settings are genetically encoded and cannot be erased. Once an owl‚ always an owl.” (Anne Fadiman‚ “Night Owl”‚ 62). So how can the night and day difference be so big? When reading the story “Night Owl’ by Anne Fadiman‚ she describes a contrast between morning people and the night people
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life of the small 15 year old jewish boy‚ Eliezer Wiesel. The Nazis had come to take them away into the concentration camps. When there‚ unknowingly without time for a final goodbye was the last time Eliezer ever saw his mother and sisters. The book “Night” by Eliezer Wiesel focuses on his experience during the horrors of holocaust as a teen with his father‚ Shlomo‚ by his side. At the beginning of the story it was said their relationship was almost nonexistent. Eliezer goes on to say how his father
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demeanors such as self preservation are shown by Wiesel at various points throughout the text Night. “Men to the left! Women to the right!” (pg. 27). These 8 eight simple words altered one’s fate as they entered the concentration camps at Auschwitz; furthermore‚ they transformed the course of action displayed by the Jews throughout the gruesome journey that was the Jewish Holocaust. Men were sent to one side of the camp to work as laborers‚ whereas women were sent to the right to be terminated. Along
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A SCARY NIGHT It was an old and creepy house‚ my friends and I where on camping. The wind blew heavily that the tress where dancing and there was lightening. One of the girls was in the kitchen and another in the palour watching TV. Suddenly the lights went out‚ we were all scared. We heard screaming coming from the neighborhood which made us more frightened. Suddenly we heard a bang which made us run upstairs to the room. We all went under the bed as terrified as we were. We saw shadows and movements
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“Horses of the Night” by Margaret Laurence 1. Who is the narrator of the story? How old is she at the start of the story? What is her age at the end of the story? Discuss the reliability of the narrator. 2. Go back through the story looking for examples of foreshadowing. 3. Discuss the shifts that occur in the setting of the story. 4. Why does Chris hesitate to believe in God? 5. Discuss the significance of the following names used in the story: a. Chris b
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