Saving Face Saving Face In Shooting an Elephant by George Orwells‚ the author narrates an incident when he was an unhappy British police officer in Burma faced with the predicament to shoot an elephant and safe face‚ or not shoot it and loose face. Making decisions to meet others expectations‚ to avoid humiliation and embarrassment‚ or to maintain ones dignity can have repercussions in ones life. Orwells final act of killing the elephant to please a crowd and look like a powerful sahib‚ in
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简介 Face/Off is a 1997 action film directed by John Woo‚ starring John Travolta and Nicolas Cage. The two both play an FBI agent and a terrorist‚ sworn enemies who assume the physical appearance of one another. 内容 The film exemplifies gun fu and heroic bloodshed action sequences‚ and has Travolta and Cage each playing two personalities. It was the first Hollywood film in which Woo was given complete creative control and was acclaimed by both audiences and critics. Eventually grossing $245 million
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Are faces special? Critically evaluate the evidence that we have evolved a specialised neural network dedicated to processing faces. Brian Marron‚ 11461992‚ SF TSM. INTRODUCTION Processing faces is extremely important to humans as social beings. We are able to put and identity on thousands of faces (Gazzaniga‚ 2002) with ease‚ something we might take for granted. The value of this ability can be better understood when the world is viewed through the eyes of somebody with prosopagnosia‚ the inability
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one really able to read your mind by the look on your face? In this essay‚ the Naked Face‚ Malcom Gladwell explains how some individuals are born with this gift and some are able to learn it. We center our story on howyou can read someone’s true emotions just by the looks on their faces. Malcom Gladwell uses personal experiences as well as facts to prove that these are not just lucky guesses‚ but long intricate thought processes. The Naked Face was published for The New Yorker in August 2002. It
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The film Saving Face is about representing one self’s identity. There are three motifs that allow this transformation; transportation‚ face and time. The central motif in the film Saving Face is transportation‚ which is centralized with face and time because they explain the character’s change of identity. The motif of face represents the characters’ identity. Saving Face is an expression to keep definition. Face is a motif because face is used repeatedly‚ especially in close-ups to captivate the
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INTRODUCTION 1.1 Aim of the Thesis This project presents an interactive algorithm to automatically segment out a person’s face from a given image that consists of a head-and-shoulders view of the person and a complex background scene. The method involves a fast‚ reliable‚ and effective algorithm that exploits the spatial distribution characteristics of human skin color. To fulfill this aim‚ the following objectives are carried out: 1. Implement different types of image segmentations. 2. A
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The Face of War There are many different forms of artwork that can depict moments in my life. Many musical compositions‚ sculptures‚ and architecture‚ that express the trials and tribulations that I have endured in my lifetime. There is one piece of artwork that I find to be a complete expression of my entire life. Although "The Face of War" by Salvador Dali was influenced by tragedy in times of war; I have a different view on the painting. The painting itself shows a head that was severed
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Face in the Crowd In the mall you sit in the middle of the courtyard. There is a big crowd of people just hanging out‚ or conversing with each other‚ or waiting for transportation. In this courtyard there are some small potted trees and bushes; these plants are beginning to turn brown since the winter is drawing near. As you sit on that stone bench you notice the different cliques of people. There are the high schoolers‚ the “cool kids”‚ the parents and their children‚ and the young couples.
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Face validity refers to how a test ‘looks’ as it measure what it is meant to measure. For listening test‚ it is expected that the questions and test subject will require takers to listen to audio recordings. Face validity also includes other factors such as the setting of the examination and the equipment used (Hughes‚ 2007). Finally‚ criterion validity refers to the criteria wherein the results of the examination will be compared to (Hughes‚ 2007. The criteria used to evaluate the skills of students
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were many interesting facts in the Upfront Magazine “The New Face of America.” The first one I found was that other races outnumber caucasian races‚ “The Census Bureau announced last spring that minority births-Hispanic‚ black Asian‚ American Indian‚ Native Hawaiian‚ Pacific Islander‚ and Alaska Native-now outnumber those of non-Hispanic whites.” Living in a region with dominantly white people‚ I didn’t realize that we made up less than half of our country’s population. Another interesting fact from
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