Some Virtues of Design By Gui Bonsiepe An Unfashionable term I chose to focus on the issue of virtues of design when I was reading - once again - the Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino. As is known‚ he finished only five out of a plan of six memos before he died. In this remarkable small volume he speaks about the values he would like to see maintained and brought into the next millennium as far as literature is concerned. These shared values he calls virtues. Taking his approach
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Name: Muna Said-Ahmed Date: November 19‚ 2012 Assignment: Three Rational for Text Choice: The most important factor associated with the choice of my text was its usability. Is this a text that I will be able to teach the lower-intermediate class in week four of the Celta program? Potential texts that answered yes to that question were kept‚ while those that answered no were discarded. With the remaining texts I divided them into two columns: ‘interesting reads’ and ‘less interesting topics’;
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behave in the way that they do‚ we cannot forget the biases that may come along with it. We tend to make snap judgements of people‚ as the book says we have a “gut feeling.” However‚ going by these “gut feelings” we tend to choose one attribution over the other and they usually are not very nice attributions. For example‚ in class when asked to list reasons a person may be rude to you on the road‚ most of the reasons we came up with were that the person was an asshole or they were annoyed or what
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of non-state actors on the world scene. The purpose of this essay is to expand on the applicability of these theories in today’s modern warfare where non-state actors play a larger‚ more global role. The study of theory‚ especially translated theory‚ requires an open mind to determine its applicability to various and ever-changing situations. In the case of Clausewitz‚ many strategists do not view his theories as relevant to today’s wars involving a Nation State vs. non-state actors. This is not
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Caesar‚ Breaking election promises and Dynasty in power‚ death and politics Interpretations of texts are painted by the representations of personalities‚ through events and situations. They enthrall the audience to reflect on characters’ vices and virtues‚ determining their true nature‚ and spawning conflict between their various perspectives drawn from techniques. These differing personal interpretations evoke conflicting perspectives in the audience’s minds. Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar”
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Americans Hurt Due to Negligence “No Text On Board‚ It Can Wait” is a slogan from an advertisement that AT&T sponsored‚ and it makes a claim saying if drivers just wait to take their calls and wait to text back‚ then many lives would be spared each year. In America we see everyday someone in their vehicle talking on the phone or texting. This has become an epidemic since‚ more and more people have suffered from others not paying attention to the road. Distracted driving activities like
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Mukachevo State University Report Text linguistics Prepared by Kamenkova Nastia 2014 Text Linguistics A text is an extended structure of syntactic units i.e. text as super-sentence such as words‚ groups‚ and clauses and textual units that is marked by both coherence among the elements and completion .A non-text consists of random sequences of linguistic units such as sentences‚ paragraphs‚ or sections in any temporal and/or spatial extension. A naturally
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5. The Role of Non-State Actors Jenerali Ulimwengu 5.1 Introduction It is generally recognized that the process of building a capable state requires the participation of all the vital forces of a nation. A capable state is one that has all the attributes of a modern‚ strong‚ responsible and responsive state‚ a state capable of effectively discharging its duties of delivering security‚ peace‚ prosperity and other pubic goods to its people. Although the state has traditionally been considered as
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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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1- Explain the types of nutrients. Discuss the positive and negative. There are 2 main types of nutrients : 1. Macronutrients 2. Micronutrients Macronutrients also have 3 types: 1. Carbohydrates 2. Protein 3. Fat Micronutrients have 2 types: 1. Vitamins 2. Minerals 3- water Carbohydrates: Carbohydrates are a main type of nutrients‚ and it’s a main source of energy for human. In our body we use it as glucose (blood sugar)‚and we can found it in fruits‚ vegetables‚ milk. There are 2 types simple
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