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    Women In The Odyssey

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    Exploring the Role of Women in Ancient Greece Through Homer In The Odyssey‚ Homer creates characters that embody many aspects of human nature to reflect his observations about his world and society. Many of the characters have personalities that define them to be heroic‚ or borderline evil. Throughout Odysseus’ return home from Troy‚ he meets important women of both kinds. Homer portrays some women that are ideal‚ and more women that are immoral. Through Homer‚ we learn that women in Ancient Greece

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    Texts and Traditions: Semester Two 2012 Caitlin Smith: 17517137 Research Essay Question: Discuss how the mother-child or father-child relation is central to either Frankenstein or The Hours. The story of Frankenstein‚ written by Mary Shelley‚ was first published in 1818. The book shows many representations of gothic literature and romanticism. Majority of Frankenstein’s characters are intensely intertwined and have relations with at least one other character. This leads to the tragedies written

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    Text Messaging

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    Essay “Text Messaging becomes a reality for the blind‚ and visually impaired.” “85% of the British population owns a mobile phone‚ with sending over 11 million text meesages daily. Text messaging is affecting teen literacy by how we can communicate‚ and how we spell. Example we use Facebook a lot‚ which is how we can also use improper spelling

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    Classic Texts

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    A classic text does more then tell an interesting story. It has many features such as that it gives us insight into specific historical events‚ highlights issues or concerns that are still around today‚ they can also last the test of time by still being relevant in the modern world and finally classic texts can serve to warn us of repeating the same mistakes made in the past. Any text that has these characteristics can be classified as a classic text. The novel ’Animal Farm’‚ the extract from ’Pride

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    Text to Speech

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    Nouns in Text to Speech systems E.Veera Raghavendra‚ Lavanya Prahallad IIIT Hyderabad‚ India raghavendra@iiit.net‚ lavanyap@cmu.edu At present most speech synthesis systems use raw text as their input which is understandable from a human point of view but problematic for the machines since the process of converting text to speech is very complex; in this paper we discuss the need for having a specific SSML tag for each “mention” (1st occurrence‚ 2nd occurrence) of a proper noun in the text or paragraph

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    Text Talk

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    In this essay‚ I will be exploring the view that texting and/or web based interactions creative can be very creative forms of language use. In modern day society technology has become more of a resource to life than an object. Phones are one of these life necessities that has progressively changed our way of life. The introduction of texting in particular‚ it has drastically altered our speech and idiolect. For example within the texting community a vast amount of acronyms‚ abbreviations‚ and alphabetisms

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    sacred texts

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    life for guidance. It shows us what the first Christians believed. e) “Sacred texts were created by humans” The term Sacred is used to describe something that is special and connected to God and dedicated to a purpose‚ in Christianity the Bible is considered sacred text as it contains the word of God and gives Christians guidance. Some more liberal Christians may agree with this statements and state that sacred texts are ideas and symbolism of what God is like and that it is not exactly what God

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    Text Linguistics

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    Text linguistics Module I. Classificationally meaningful characteristics of the text as an integral and independent object of investigation. Lecture 6. Conceptual variability of linguistic interpretations of the text essence and status and their reflections in the models of the text descriptions. Problem for discussion Evolution of the text description approaches. Models of the text descriptions. Grounds for the chosen models and schemes of the text descriptions

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    challenge the text

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    Challenge the Text "And she said maybe they got no rite to make me smart because if god wanted me to be smart he would have made me born that way." p. 16 If I could rewrite this part of the story I would add why he stands so strongly about his decision. Having a little background about the situation will give the reader a better and clearer understanding of why things are happening. Ask Questions "The more intelligent you become the more problems you’ll have‚ Charlie.’" p. 47 How far would

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    poem The Odyssey‚ society treats women differently from men‚ though the women possess as many or more admirable qualities than their male counterparts. This applies to Odysseus’ wife‚ Penelope‚ as well as Arete and Circe‚ all of whom embody power‚ an important characteristic in Ancient Greek society. The impressive yet often overlooked traits of Penelope‚ Arete‚ and Circe reveal the true natures of these powerful women and their influence over Odysseus in his journey throughout The Odyssey. Penelope

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