11/11/2013 Edgar Gomes Prof. Brooks‚ Art History and Appreciation II Art Paper # 2: Iconology and Semiotics Comparison We as humans all have an item or two that has been passed down or inherited. Whether it is from a family member or a close friend‚ we have received something that has a deep meaning and/or tells a story about someone or something that extremely relates to one’s self. The meaning the original object or story holder has‚ does not mean it is understood by others who hold the same
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Araby James Joyce’s prose Araby in Dubliners is a story written with a nameless first-person narrator. It is about the narrator’s life on Northern Richmond Street and his tremendous crush on the sister of his companion‚ Mangan. In my opinion‚ the girl has significance in symbolizing the frustration and blind pursuit of romance. In view of the portrait of her “brown figure” and that “her dress swung as she moved her body”‚ as well as the boy’s timidity towards her‚ she appears to be mysterious‚
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The Day They Burned The Books Jean Rhys’ “The Day They Burned The Books” is a short story narrated by an anonymous young girl about Eddie and his family‚ including his abusive father and tortured mother. Eddie’s father‚ Mr. Sawyer‚ fancied his library and later on died of unknown cause. His wife decided to burn and sell all of the books in his library. It is obvious that feminist criticism and structuralism are well applied to the story. Feminism refers to the advocacy of equality of the sexes and
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Sean E. English 102 Body language is not language in the strict sense of the word language; it is in fact‚ a broad term for forms of communication using body movements‚ gestures‚ facial expressions and eye behaviors in addition to sounds‚ verbal language‚ or other forms of communication. Although we may not realize it when we talk with others‚ we make ourselves understood not only by words but also by our body language. Body language sometimes helps make communication easy and effective. In order
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The Structure of Myth and the Structure of Western Film Based on Saussure (1974)‚ structuralism is a theoretical method derived from his theoritical work. He divides language into two component parts which together produce a third (signifier‚ signified and meaning). According to him‚ meaning is produced through a process of combination and selection. As Saussure insists‚ “In language‚ there are only differences without positive terms… language has neither ideas not sounds that existed before
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In this passage‚ Jamaica Kincaid articulates upon how foreign power vastly altered the lives of Antiguans‚ by affirming that they have been ripped away from their families and homeland. Kincaid uses word choice which exhibits her frustration toward the Antiguans‚ who cheers at “some frumpy‚ wrinkled-up person passing by in a carriage waving at the crowd.” Kincaid juxtaposes Antiguans to orphans to further relate her feelings about the people of Antigua. To create a harsh tone consisting tragedy and
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Definitions of Language Many definitions have been given to language by language scholars. Alo (1995) cites some of these definitions‚ which we reproduce below: “Language is the primary and most highly elaborated form of human symbolic activity…made up of symbols made by sounds produced by the vocal apparatus….” (A. A Hill) “Language is any set of system of linguistic symbols as used in a more or less uniform fashion by a number of people who are thus enabled to communicate intelligibly with
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Reading Assignment - "Language in Thought and Action" by S.I. Hayakawa and Alan R. Hayakawa book report Language in my Thought and my Action Since I was born‚ I have been learning languages consciously and unconsciously without asking why. S.I. Hayakawa and Alan R. Hayakawa‘s Language in Thought and Action remind me the goal of the study of language – to learn to think more clearly‚ to speak and to write more effectively‚ and to listen and to read with greater understanding. This book is divided
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The relationship between language and literature This essay explores‚ the implications Saussure’s statement‚ “language is a social institution”‚ has in the study of literature‚ and a study of literature with other kinds of language and communication. In order to achieve this‚ two of the theorists‚ Ferdinand de Saussure and Jacques Derrida‚ from the Norton anthology of Critical Theory are going to be examined closely. Moreover‚ a brief encounter of Bakhtin’s essay‚ “Discourse in the Novel”‚ is
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Learning Recurrent Neural Networks with Hessian-Free Optimization: Supplementary Materials Contents 1 Pseudo-code for the damped Gauss-Newton vector product 2 2 Details of the pathological synthetic problems 3 2.1 The addition‚ multiplication‚ and XOR problem . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.2 The temporal order problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.3 The 3-bit temporal order problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.4 The random permutation problem . . . . . . .
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