KONG DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS AND ACTUARIAL SCIENCE STAT2801 Life Contingencies LN1: Chapter 3 (Actuarial Mathematics): Survival distributions Age-at-death random variable T0 – age-at-death (lifetime for newborn) random variable To completely determine the distribution of T0 ‚ we may use (for t ≥ 0)‚ (1) (cumulative) distribution function: F0 (t) = Pr(T0 ≤ t) (2) survival function: s0 (t) = 1 − F0 (t) = Pr(T0 > t) (3) probability density function: f0 (t) = F0 (t) = (4) force of mortality:
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Maus‚ by Art Spiegelman‚ is a graphic novel in which the characters are represented as animals. The comic collection is full of juxtapositions. Vladek and Artie represent the opposition of past and present. The story also illustrates the opposition in the cultural contexts of Nazi occupied Poland and Rego Park‚ New York. The format of the book contrasts images with language‚ and the characters of the book depict the opposition of father and son. These juxtapositions serve to emphasize the transmission
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A Fight For Survival “Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor!” announced Effie Trinket‚ the escort of the District 12 tributes. She tried to encourage the tributes to be happy about being chosen; that it is somewhat of an honor to be selected to participate in the Hunger Games‚ yet was unsuccessful. The Hunger Games is the first book in an amazing trilogy written by Suzanne Collins‚ that follows the story of Katniss Everdeen and how she survives The Hunger Games. The Hunger
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Maus Analysis Loosing Through Surviving During World War 2 many lives were changed through destruction‚ and pain. Those who survived were strong‚ but that did not make them winners. Surviving requires more than simply being alive. The sacrifices‚ and offenses placed upon those who survived took something away from them‚ and although they survived‚ winning the game of life for now they must live with haunting memories for the rest of their life. In Spiegelman’s Maus‚ those who survived‚ such as
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have to decide or do something on their own. The more experience they have the better the outcome usually is. What if you had to survive in the wilderness by yourself? Could you find food‚ make a fire‚ make shelter‚ etc. In the short writing Deep Survival by Laurence Gonzales‚ she explains many reasons or ways people survive in these situations. Personally‚ I think the biggest way to survive is to have self-confidence. When you have self-confidence anything is possible. Without this you won’t have
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Damages of War Art Spiegelman’s Maus expounds on the poignant story of Spiegelman’s father‚ Vladek‚ and his traumatic experience as a Polish Jew during the Holocaust in World War II. Vladek is a complex individual whose arduous past explains his difficult behaviour in the present. His son‚ Artie‚ renders him as a very meticulous‚ demanding‚ critical and anxious character. Vladek’s involvement in the Holocaust through his unwavering pursuit for survival is what makes him quite the tangled personality
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Approximately 6 million Jews were killed during the Holocaust . The book Maus is about Artie trying to right a book on the experiences of his dad Vlaked in WW2 and the holocaust. In the book the characters are animals‚ the Jews are mice and the Nazi were cats which symbolizes the dog is superior then the cat. In Art Spiegekman’s Maus‚ Vladek is depicted as intelligent‚ brave‚ and thoughtful. Vladek is very intelligent throughout the whole book which helped him survive. Vladek always knows when
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Germany; 11 million people exterminated and countless others put into concentration camps with unimaginable conditions. But most people do not try to explain how the German soldiers could do these things to other human beings. Primo Levi in his book Survival in Auschwitz attempts to answer this question. He begins by explaining the physical and psychological transformation of the prisoners and how that enabled the Germans to see the prisoners as inhuman and therefore oppress-able. Levi believes that
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better understand the book. Many people believe this is a serious topic and it should not been seen as a joke‚ but Spiegelman made the topic a little more at ease using animals to represent the people and the different nationalities. Anthropomorphism in Maus is helpful because it shows the difference of each the animals because they are symbolic to the different nationalities‚ the social stereotypes of the animals match the social stereotypes of the nationality being represented in that animal‚ and it
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