An Internal Viewpoint of Igbo Culture: Things Fall Apart Although there are many biased European views of the small agricultural villages that occupied Africa in the eighteen hundreds, we have a primary source of the African culture in Chinua Achebe's novel, Things Fall Apart. Achebe was born in Nigeria in an Igbo town in 1930 and was educated in Nigeria at the University of Ibadan. Being exposed to Igbo culture his whole life, Achebe knows the language, the proverbs, the food, the religion and
Family is Everything (An Analysis of the Effect of Family Allegiance in Les Mis by Hugo) Victor Hugo’s narrative rendition of the French Revolution has been one of the most noted and idolized throughout the ages. His heart wrenching story describes the path that many different average citizens take throughout the revolution. Jean Valjean, a man who has been in prison for years for stealing a loaf of bread is haunted and terrorized by Javier, a leader of the French army who is in control of finding
progresses and improves. One such example is a robot modeled after the science fiction author Philip K. Dick, a collaboration product that showcases the potential of machines to understand and learn human language through latent semantic analysis (“What’s The Next Big Thing?”). The robot gathers information from its programmed database, the internet, and real time conversation in order to extract and index
Next, Robert Stevenson creates an undoubtable portrait of inner conflict to dramatically show how people have two sides to them. In Robert Stevenson’s novel Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Jekyll talks about his inner conflict and realization “It was on the moral side, and in my own person, that I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because
Symbolism Analysis of Lord of the Flies Lord of the Flies is a symbolic novel that illustrates William Golding’s perspective on ubiquitous defects in human nature and their relation to deficiently functioning society. William Golding, the author of the award-winning novel, has written two other fairly well known stories in his time, but neither is as famous as his 1954 classic. Golding utilizes the demeanors of his characters as well as a few notable symbols to convey his universal theme: Civilization
A Scientific Analysis of Andy Weir’s, The Martian Andy Weir, a computer programmer from California, published a book titled The Martian in early 2014. In the book, protagonist Mark Watney is left on Mars and the author is faced with the challenge of imagining what it would be like to be stranded on another planet and how he might have survived. On reddit.com, Andy Weir himself states that his research conducted of mostly google search pages and only a small amount of the knowledge he used to write
A critical study has been carried out in the earlier chapters to explore Flannery O'Connor's fictional works with respect to the study of human relationships and the nuances of the truth-seeking concerns exemplifying interesting realities. The study recorded in this thesis illustrates that there is a repetition of retreat patterns in human relationships on the canvas of the familial, societal and spiritual altitudes. In O’Connor’s fiction, human relationships are understood to be perverted and strange
Woman: God’s second mistake? Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, who regarded ‘thirst for power’ as the sole driving force of all human actions, has many a one-liners to his credit. ‘Woman was God’s second mistake’, he declared. Unmindful of the reactionary scathing criticism and shrill abuses he invited for himself, especially from the ever-irritable feminist brigade. The fact and belief that God never ever commits a mistake, brings Nietzsche’s proclamation dashingly down into the dust bin
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION TO FACE RECOGNITION 1.1. BIOMETRICS A biometric system is a technological system that uses information about a person to identify that person. Biometric systems rely on specific data about unique biological traits in order to work effectively. A biometric system will involve running data through algorithms for a particular result, usually related to a positive identification of a user or other individual. We all have unique physiological
The Dispossessed Following World War I, novels describing utopias gradually decreased in number, until the genre almost went extinct in mid-century, being replaced by dystopias like the famous Nineteen-Eighty-Four written by George Orwell. Later on, in the mid-seventies, fuelled by the upsurge of social reform that began in the late sixties and continued into the new decade, new utopias graced the scene, the most memorable ones being Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia, Samuel R. Delany's Triton, and