Expectation-maximization algorithm

Most people would think that “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens is about Christmas when it was originally written to prevent child labor. The novella tells the story of a wealthy and greedy man named Ebenezer Scrooge. He is not the nicest gentleman and he is mean to his poor servant whose name is Bob Cratchit. This book teaches us that money does not always make us happy. This message can still apply to us today. around the time that ACC was written, children did a lot of work in the mines…

In what ways can the Great Game help us understand contemporary conflicts? On a June morning in 1842, in the Central Asian town of Bokhara, two ragged figures could be seen kneeling in the dust in the great square before the Emir’s palace. Their arms were tied tightly behind their backs, and they were in a pitiful condition. Not far away were two freshly dug graves. Looking on in silence was a small crowd of Bokharans. Normally executions attracted little attention in this remote, and still…

Fagin represents a time in London that was corrupt, disorganized, and old. Dickens emphasizes the old London in Fagin by connecting him to the streets, he states, “The mud lay thick upon the stones, and a black mist hung over the streets; the rain fell sluggishly down, and everything felt cold and clammy to the touch. It seemed just the night when it befitted such a being as the Jew to be abroad. As he glided steadily along, creeping beneath the shelter of the walls and doorways, the hideous old…

Hurst of Hurstcote E. Nesbit’s short story, “Hurst of Hurstcote”, is an eerie tale that takes place in England. The short story had a confusing start, but the further I got into it, the more it started to make sense. The narrator, Bernard, tells the story of his old friend John Hurst, who would later become John Hurst of Hurstcote, the owner of one of the nicest mansions in England. John attended Oxford and was not particularly popular with the other guys because of his strange infatuation with…

child (22). He writes “to be a boy means to be a flawed, inchoate, or incomplete man” (22) and asserts that the bulk of boy-literature depicts the struggle of boy to rectify his own incompleteness, or alternatively, to disengage himself from the expectations of being a boy entirely. Meanwhile, Richard Linklater’s…

Symbolism Compared and Contrasted A book. A piece of bread. An accordion. Three entirely different objects, used for entirely different purposes. Yet, in context to The Book Thief written by Markus Zusak, the entities accommodate a manifold of symbolic meanings in between the pages, keys, and crumb. Hans accordion carries history of a long friendship between him and Erik Vandenburg that dates back to his experiences in World War I. Every time his eyes lay upon the magnificent instrument, or…

really feels. One may do this to sway someone else’s opinion. Additionally, to make an impression, one masks her true identity. The first impression is often the most trivial, which is why one feels as if she must change herself. In the novel, Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens, Pip and his brother-in-law, Joe, prepare to visit Miss Havisham. Joe and Pip are both considered “common”, while Miss Havisham…

Change is something that is a part of life. Sometimes change is not something that we can control wether we like it or not. Change can be bad sometimes, but sometimes change is good. Take for example Ms. Havisham, after she got left at the alter her life was hell. She never seemed to be happy or enjoy anything about her life. Before Ms. Havisham died she realized all of the errors she had made in her life. But what if Ms. Havisham does not die? How would her life and the people around her lives…

Through the fateful day of their meeting, Pip changed his path from a blacksmith to making a living as a gentleman. When Pip meets Estella once more before going to London, he was again dazed by her, “The lady whom I had never seen before lifted up her eyes and looked archly at me, and then I saw that the eyes were Estella’s eyes. But she was so much changed, was so much more beautiful, so much more womanly, in all things winning admiration had made such wonderful advances, that I seemed to have…

supposes that he,“‘Shall or can [never] be comfortable-or anything but miserable [at home], unless [he] can lead a very different sort of life from the life [he] leads now”’ (79). When Pip finally achieves the life of the high class, he has great expectations for his future. He anticipates that he will be recognized as important. However, to Pip’s surprise, his conjecture does not work out accordingly to the way he has…