THE NOVEL IN AFRICA John Maxwell Coetzee is a South African essayist‚ novelist ‚ linguist‚ literary critic and translator. He has also won the Noble prize in the Literature category. The following lecture ‘The Novel in Africa’ was given by him in the University of California in Doreen B.Townsend Center for the Humanities. This lecture is a fictionalized creation of J.M .Coetzee‚ which upholds his belief that‚ “…a true sense in which writing is dialogic; a matter of awakening counter voices in
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The blue whale is one of the largest known species to exist and the largest mammal on Earth. The blue whales are measured to be as long as a jet‚ its living heart to be scaled to the about the same size of a car‚ and whose tongue weighs on average of 2.7 tonnes about the same weight of an elephant. Researchers have made a scientific breakthrough of how these creatures have grown to be this size. About 2.5 million years ago scientist believe based on their data a group of whales‚ the Baleen whales
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Assumptions (A) Assumptions (B) E( If we use Assumptions (B)‚ we need to use the law of iterated expectations in proving the BLUE. With Assumptions (B)‚ the BLUE is given conditionally on Let us use Assumptions (A). The Gauss-Markov Theorem is stated below Under Assumptions (A)‚ the OLS estimators‚ are the Best Linear Unbiased Estimator (BLUE)‚ that is 1. Unbias : 2. Best : Real data seldomly satisfy Assumptions (A) or Assumptions (B). Accordingly we should think that the
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Cicely Wood English 101 – 004 1 December 2012 Red or Blue? There are some questions people come across in life that could change his or hers life forever. For example‚ in The Matrix Neo must chose to take the blue pill and live in an ignorant bliss‚ or take the red and find out the truth about the world he is living in. Most people are raised to believe certain things‚ meaning they believe in what ever their parents believe in‚ and their parents believe in what their parents believed in as well
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Consider the structure‚ rhetorical strategies‚ and content of the two essays and answer the following questions. 1. How does Bass construct and support his argument? He constructs the argument by stating that he was a hunter before but not to the degree that he is now. He then states the reasons why he has become an avid hunter. He describes how beautiful and life changing the landscape and wild life is in Montana. He says how the valley of Montana has converted nearly every local into a hunter
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Sonny ’s blues is a fictional story and a first person narrative written by James Baldwin . The main point of this story is how drugs affects Sonny ’s life‚and how the narrator feels about it . I believe the moral of this story is people deal with struggles in everyday life and people deal with their struggles in their own way .The narrator is not only sonny’s brother he is also someone trying to undersatnd his brother . Learning more about sonny meant he would be able to understand him and why
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Blue Ocean Strategy How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant Facilitators : Yip Khai Biau (ymike27@hotmail.com) & Lieu Yoke Sun Group/Presentation Title Agilent Restricted Date ##‚ 200X Blue Ocean Strategy (BOS) Introduction to BOS BOS Tools : Strategy Canvas & E.R.R.C. Awakening : As-Is Strategy Canvas Exploration : Reconstruct Market Boundaries Strategizing : To-Be Strategy Canvas Actualization : Identify actions to actualize the strategies
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[–]damnit_blondemoment 92 points 2 months ago Edit - Sorry‚ I didn’t realize I’d write a novel. TL;DR at the bottom. Early Myspace days. He moves to my extremely tiny town to live with his father for awhile and save money. Searches for people to hang out with. Of all the people he messaged (20+)‚ I was the only one to message back. He was cute‚ why not? We message back and forth. Finally meet. Super cute. He thinks I’m cute‚ too. We continue to hang out‚ he asks me to be his girlfriend a month
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adaptations done for the silver screen‚ there are changes that the films make to the book. The most evident change that jumps out at me is the portrayal of Dr. Victor Frankenstein. The common missing element in all of the film versions of the classic novel is the way they treat the character of Victor. The films all tend to downplay what a "monster" Victor is and instead stress how much of a monster the Creature is. The films seem to stress less on the responsibility and guilt that Victor feels over
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As a director how would you convey the vulnerability of Donald’s character in scene 13 of ‘Blue Remembered Hills’? In scene 13 of ‘Blue Remembered Hills’ I would convey the vulnerability of Donald through a variety of ways. Donald is perhaps the most vulnerable character in this play because of the abuse he suffers at home and the absence of his father; it is important to show the audience the impact of this abuse on his personality and actions. At the beginning of this scene Donald would be standing
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