Signal processing

hope, there is no reason to follow and rules. The signal fire is the hope the boys had of being rescued. When the glasses are broken, they can no longer start a signal fire and they lose hope. Without these civilized structures the boys turn to evil and savagery. To control evil, civilized structures must be set in place to follow. While on the island the boys set up law in order through the use of the conch. The boys find hope and power in the signal fire and piggy’s glasses. The hunting the…

defined numerically as the average of the equivalent RGB values. Saturation is a measure of a colour’s purity/greyness. Purer colours have a saturation value closer to 1, while greyer colours have a saturation value closer to 0. Video signals and image signals are recorded…

Image processing which is inspired by human visual system, is one of the most fascinating field I came across during my college time because of its very wide range of applications. This field is advancing at very rapid pace and still have lot of opportunity for the research work because we haven 't achieved…

Journey into an Ill Mind: Hopsin’s Use of Vivid Images and Word Play “Let’s take a journey into my mind and let’s see what we find” -Hopsin Plain wooden crosses, mother Mary’s son, and paintings of Jesus Christ is all that you see in every room and on every wall, so you can say that an “Ill” mind is the last thing I have in my common religious life. At least that’s what I thought. Hopsin, a rap artist, published a song series called the “Ill Mind of Hopsin”. A series of songs that talk about…

Drive-by shootings, prostitution, rape, vandalism, and drug trafficking all sound like acts that would committed by hardened adult criminals. Unfortunately, this is not always the case. Juvenile gang members are committing these terrifying acts as early as eight years of age (Bartollas & Miller, 2014). Between 1988 and the early 1990s, a drastic increase in youth gang membership occurred and is still on the rise today in the United States (Bartollas & Miller, 2014). There are several…

Sherman Alexie 's "The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me" is a personal narrative in which he recounts his early life and how he started to appreciate reading. As he shares his experience with us, he weaves into his story a powerful truth about our society. Even though we refuse to admit it, we have certain expectations of different communities. In his essay, he focuses precisely on what it meant for him to grow up as an Indian child in an American society. By discussing the obstacles…

collective group before attacking one of their own because he was a rat. As you can see, without shouting across the street to your comrade and alerting the enemy, you do a single hand signal and they know what you want to do and can get prepared. It is an intelligent way to send messages to others. There are also hand signals to say what gang you are, but the most creative way is body art. Tattoos are done worldwide, but with gangs you can ink your gang, where you were recruited, and even if…

Sometimes forgiveness is a hard concept for people to grasp and others forgive too easily, but when do we know when to forgive or whom we should forgive? What happens when we do not forgive? In “The Powwow at the End of the World,” Sherman Alexie experienced several mishaps in his reservation and even the surrounding areas, for example, the water levels were raising, the dams were breaking, and the cities and towns were flooding. Even though all of those events were happening, Alexie was told to…

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) – the most common form of idiopathic interstitial pneumonia – is a chronic, progressive fibrotic lung disease that affects older adults. IPF is characterized by a continuing decline in lung function, poor survival, and limited therapeutic options. The invasive proliferation of fibrous tissue and scarring of the interstitium lead to a decline in forced vital capacity (FVC) (Richeldi et al. 2014). IPF has a poor prognosis; the median survival for the disease is…

In the YouTube video called “PEN Banned Books Week Google Hangout on the Air with Sherman Alexie,” PEN representative Deji Olukotun and American Library Association Office Director Barbara Jones interview Sherman Alexie. This video highlights authors whose books have been banned; therefore, Sherman Alexie is a guest for this interview. Olukotun and Jones ask him a series of questions about his novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. In the interview, there are three intriguing…