Eden Zheng December 11‚ 2013 Leah Wilson IB English 11A‚ Period 8 Poverty’s Effect on Raskolnikov In western traditional writing‚ various literary devices convey a distinct message on the novel. For example‚ point of view‚ imagery‚ and symbols all contributes towards a motif or overarching idea. In the novel Crime and Punishment‚ Fyodor Dostoevsky uses domestic imagery‚ the setting of the home‚ and the setting of the story itself‚ Saint Petersburg to reveal the oppressive forces of poverty acting
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the Americas‚ these interchanges included animals‚ plants‚ and diseases; and took place in the Caribbean in 1492 after Columbus arrived. Ironically enough‚ the Columbian Exchange was an astonishing benefit to Europe and its colonies‚ while being a complete misfortune for the Native Americans. The Columbian Exchange was a quite indistinct concept‚ and developed by a fairly ambiguous individual. I‚ like most people‚ had never heard of it. Yet‚ the Columbian Exchange may very well be one of the single
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RATE OF REACTIONS. The reaction rate (rate of reaction) or speed of reaction for a reactant or product in a particular reaction is intuitively defined as how fast or slow a reaction takes place. For example‚ the oxidative rusting of iron under the atmosphere is a slow reaction that can take many years‚ but the combustion of cellulose in a fire is a reaction that takes place in fractions of a second (right). Chemical kinetics is the part of physical chemistry that studies reaction rates. The concepts
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No More Pesky Learning Rates Tom Schaul Sixin Zhang Yann LeCun Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York University 715 Broadway‚ New York‚ NY 10003‚ USA schaul@cims.nyu.edu zsx@cims.nyu.edu yann@cims.nyu.edu arXiv:1206.1106v2 [stat.ML] 18 Feb 2013 Abstract The performance of stochastic gradient descent (SGD) depends critically on how learning rates are tuned and decreased over time. We propose a method to automatically adjust multiple learning rates so as to minimize the expected
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The 1920s What was happening in America in the 1920s with fashion‚ government/politics‚ society‚culture (Harlem renaissance)‚ and more? The first thing on the topic of government is on January 16th 1920 the federal volstead act closed all bars and taverns in the United States‚now it was illegal to sell any “intoxicating beverage” with more than 0.5% of alcohol in it. Another big thing in 1920 that happened was‚on august 18th‚ the 19th amendment was added to the Constitution which
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European countries and America learnt how unadvanced and weak China’s military really was compared to them. They used this knowledge to gradually impose their ways and beliefs on China. Many of the Chinese commoners thought this to be intrusive and offensive to their cultural beliefs. As time went on other nations slowly gained more freedom in China as Westerners forced them into a series of unfair treaties. One example was the Conventions of Peking‚ which allowed European missionaries to move freely about
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Causes of Accident Challenger’s STS-51L mission was scheduled for Launch at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral‚ Fla. “After several technical and weather-related delays‚ Challenger launched at 11:38 a.m. EST on Jan. 28‚ 1986” (Chow‚ 2011). The ship exploded 73 seconds after liftoff (Howell‚ 2012). The (mechanical) cause of the accident points to pressure seals (O-rings) but more importantly points to the serious problems that NASA had with its communication channels and safety information
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American Obesity Rises The obesity rate in America has increased tremendously within the past 20 plus years. People have become more comfortable being heavier than the average. Society tries to enforce the idea of “slim” being “in”‚ while somehow contradicting itself by saying being comfortable in your own skin. The obesity rate in America has increased because of cultural changes‚ lifestyle habits‚ and genetics. Over the past 20 years‚ American culture has changed as a whole. Working men and
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that happened more than once was illegal immigration. Illegal immigration is crossing over a border‚ disregarding the immigrations laws of the designated country. East Berliners were fleeing over into West Berlin to live‚ in a way‚ a more free life. The statistics show that by “...August 1961‚ approximately 2.2 million citizens of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) had left their country without official permission” (“Berlin Wall”). The communist reign of the GDR was failing with their citizens
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could not serve in the senate. That was the province of the patricians. In effect‚ they had paid dearly for a freedom that simply turned out to be an aristocracy. Since they had nothing‚ they became reliant on loans from the patrician class in order to try and rebuild their farms and lives. But the debtor’s laws were written in favor of the patricians (by the patricians‚ of course) and if a debtor fell behind he could be imprisoned and enslaved. The public land was also limited to be used by patricians
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