I am doing my Prose Performance on the story called An Offer He Couldn’t Refuse, by Jennifer Armstrong. At a very young age Jennifer Armstrong knew that she was going to become a writer. Armstrong grew up in Salem, New York, and later in life graduated from Massachusetts’s Smith College. Once out of college, Armstrong began her writing career. Before she started writing her own books she started out as a ghostwriter for a successful book series. Jennifer Armstrong wrote the book called The…
It is 1973, the Vietnam War is still going strong and will continue for two more years. The women’s liberation movement has payed-off with the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) and the world is still adjusting to this new layer of freedom and equality. It’s in the midst of this upheaval that 18 year old Carmon R. Bulkley will begin her journey to become the first female helicopter mechanic working on the flight line. I had the honor of interviewing Carmon, now Carmon Hepp, the following are her…
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Sapir-Whorf hypothesis Zainab Saleem Khan Section K It is often thought that the reality expressed in spoken word is the very same as the reality which is perceived in thought. Perception and expression are frequently understood to be synonymous and it is assumed that our speech is based on our thoughts. This idea presumes that what one says is dependent of how it is encoded and decoded in the mind. (Badhesha, 2002) However, there are many people that believe the opposite: what one…
Long before Wakulla County was established, the Paleo Indians called it home. This occurred around 12,000 years prior to Wakulla County existing. Shortly after in the 19th century Wakulla County came about on March 11th 1843. Wakulla County can be spotted on the Map in the United States of Florida. Wakulla is a part of Tallahassee, Florida which is approximately 736 square miles. The Florida Center for Instructional Technology, College of education, and the University of South Florida state,…
Since the start of this research paper, President Obama has ordered more special forces to advise the Iraqi, and Kurdish ground troops. Monday, he also has sent 250 special operation forces to Syria. Also, he has ordered more close in support like Apaches and A10 aircraft to help ground forces. If we as Americans truly believe in religious freedom and human rights, then we should lead the way in destroying ISIS and others like them. “The overwhelming consensus that Foreign Policy found when…
Political-correctness, described by Bill Lind on “The Origins of Political Correctness,” as a form of cultural Marxism due to the totalitarian ideology parallels, has currently shaped the way Americans process issues. Sadly, the problem is that many Americans simply can't recognize deficiencies anymore living with this belief . Political-correctness is a way to avoid offending, or hurting another person's feelings by for example, removing certain art, music, sexism, racism, etc.. Throughout the…
died like a wimp in my eyes. John was going out like a champion, equipped with military armor and a lone stick, several of the midgets swarmed him. It took fifty to take him down and suffocate him, he killed somewhere around 300 according to one ape. Apache helicopters coming for fire support on our side, when all of a sudden a huge earthquake, we assumed, happened and we all had been shifted to the streets of New York City. “Back where we started, Eh?”, Mark says. “Since when did you turn…
11, 2017 Scenario – PDF parsers An application needs to be developed for parsing PDFs, and potentially performing optical character recognition (OCR) in case of non-searchable PDFs. For searchable PDFs, an open source tool called Apache PDFBox is available, while for non-searchable PDFs, depending on quality requirements, OCR needs to be performed by going to a paid Google Vision API or using open-source tools like Tesseract. A strategy pattern based solution Figure 3…
The following essay will compare the cinematic language of the two Western classics Stagecoach (John Ford, 1939) and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1966) while analyzing the claim that both film respectably are pioneers of the Western genre during their times proven on the basis of their original work in editing and narrative, and its influence on other filmmakers. After a brief summary of both movies, I will continue with the analysis of both, in particular with the formal…