particular form that would allow actions or verbs to express various progresses of the state in each situation; therefore, it needs a particle to be added to the sentence to achieve this need. Chinese grammar is not similar to English grammar, in which English can add -ing onto the end of a verb to show the ongoing state of an action. Chinese has many particles such as le, zhe, guo that are being used in the sentences to add aspectual values to the attached verbs in the sentences. Even though…
present progressive encode semantic meaning through a combination of devices. From general to specific, these semantic devices are: (a) nature of the specific verbal aspect, (b) inherent semantic properties of the verb, (c) aspectual classes of the verb, and (d) core meanings of the verb predicate. Below is the essence of each semantic device, presented in the order just mentioned. Nature of Verbal Aspect. Exploration of the nature of verbal aspect can be traced back to Aristotle’s…
story. 12b) Since grotesque is defined by terms such as malformed or distorted, three details to suggest this include: the great warped chest of the hunchback, his hump on his shoulders, and the hunchback's thin and crooked legs. 12c) The change in verb tenses throughout the excerpt holds a very deep meaning because it marks a very important change. This is the establishment of the café. The start of the excerpt first begins with the use of past tense or the…
Exercise 11: Chaos and Coins: do exercise as described by Tharp. Write 1-2 paragraphs on your process and findings For this exercise, It said to gathered up coins until you have a handful and then throw them into the air. Once they drop the goal is to play, fiddle, and move the coins around until you get familiar or unfamiliar geometries or shape. I did this exercise a few times to experiment with having the same coins, like all dimes, and different coins, like pennies, nickels, and dimes…
Words That Kill “Your words have power, use them wisely.”This quote says, Tords can harm people or help them. Just like in the case of Michelle Carter. Where Michelle used her freedom of speech to convince her boyfriend Roy to kill himself. There is proof of Michelle trying to convince Roy. One of the proof would be how she messages him and the words she uses. Another proof would be that Michelle did not take any action to stop what he was doing. The third and most important is that when Roy was…
FernGully is a tale of how humans destroy and release danger into the world and care nothing about it. Even though FernGully is a fictional movie, there are still a lot of real world points it brings up. There are many references to real world problems and actions throughout the movie mixed in with cartoon antics to mix fun into the movie as well. In FernGully, the first thing we hear about a human is through Batty. Batty is a bat who escaped the humans after he was tested on. The humans put…
Ponyboy risks his life many times and does things through the course of the story that are unexpected for someone like him. Ponyboy is different from the inside than the outside because on the outside he is weak and a kid, but on the inside he is strong. One reason that Ponyboy is different on the outside than the inside is that he appears weak. “I got pretty scared- I’m kind of small for fourteen even though I have a good build” (4)... In the beginning of the novel, it shows…
Strong AI incorporates dynamic processes associated with the cognitive processes of intelligent life, whereas weak AI aims to produce output that merely mimics intelligence. Strong AI has developed from research using neural networks (large collections of machine neurons). The inspiration for This research is based primarily on what we know…
Swag is a term heard far too often. I hear “Swag” on a daily basis, and that is because it is simply everywhere: in music, in day-to-day life, and even in sports. Rappers, athletes, and regular people alike use swag as a way of credibility. I, on the other hand, think the expression swag needs to come to an immediate end, and the reason for that is that there is an actual word that has the exact same connotation. That word is swagger. Swagger, unlike swag, could actually be found in the…
existence throughout the entire universe. Black holes, the formation of planets, galaxies and stars are all because of gravity and these same celestial bodies have their own electromagnetic forces and the strong and weak nuclear forces are. Since everything in the universe is made of atoms, there is strong nuclear force everywhere around us. Also, because radioactive material decays over time, the weak nuclear force is important to our safety. The weakest of all four fundamental forces, gravity,…