...Skilled, direct, and honorable are all attributes of many individuals. These traits are specifically contributed to Min in the novel A Single Shard. Min is an extremely skilled, elderly potter in ancient Korea. Throughout this novel, Min’s personality and behavior alters. In the beginning of A Single Shard, Min is slightly impolite to the orphan, Tree-ear; although, later in the novel, he begins to become further involved with Tree-ear. Min is proficient when creating art in his form, pottery. Min is an exceptional artist. This can be known by a reader after reading page 138 in which the Emissary stated “‘I say it of this one. And the inlay work…remarkable.’” In this section, the Emissary told Tree-ear that Min’s work was remarkable....
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...A Single Shard Sayings Tree-ear is an orphan who lives under a bridge in a village of pottery called Ch’ulp’o with Crane-man, a man who was born with only one leg took Tree-ear when he was a small child. Although Crane-man is physically disabled, he always gives Tree-ear some advises which are useful and meaningful. Crane-man exhort Tree-ear do not to steal. “‘Work gives a man dignity, stealing takes it away.’ Crane-man said.” He told Tree-ear that you could gain respect by working, but lose dignity from stealing, and several honorable ways to garner a meal such as foraging in the woods, rubbish heaps, and gathering grain-heads in the autumn are way better than stealing, and stealing makes a man no better than a dog. This sentence keeps Tree-ear away from stealing by telling him to steal is ashamed. Also, Crane-man tells him do not to steal other’s ideas. Tree-ear heard Kang’s idea in a wine shop, he knew that Min’s work is far superior from Kang’s and the royal emissary is assigning a pottery for the palace. Tree-ear wanted to tell Min the idea so Min’s skill will be improved, but he still asked Crane-man. “If a man is keeping an idea to himself, and that idea is taken by stealth or trickery－I say it is stealing. But once a man has revealed his idea to others, it is no longer his alone. It belongs to the world.” Crane-man said. Crane-man keeps Tree-ear from telling the method to Min, thus it’s fair for potters in the village who wants to be commissioned for the palace...
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...In the book “A Long Walk to Water” by Linda Sue Park, the main character goes through a lot of loss and gains hope and persistence which he learns will be necessary to succeed. This included loss of loved ones, harsh changes in the weather, and the doubt of his ability which this helped him move through his long journey. In Linda Sue Parks book, the main characters deal with these obstacles, and other plot events by using hope and persistence which illustrates the main idea of the book; “A Long Walk to Water”. Facing the loss of loved ones and the doubt put on your ability is hard to deal with. Especially in the book, “A Long Walk to Water”. According to Linda Sue Park’s book, “A Long Walk to Water”, in chapter 11 page 65-66 it says, “Marial was gone. Uncle was gone too, murdered by those Nuer men...” This quote explains this because even from the very beginning of the book Salva has to deal with lots of loss. At the beginning of the story Salva was forced to leave his school, town and his family behind because of the shooting and war outside his class. But in order to survive he had to have hope and be determined. This quote develops the theme of the story because Salva had to overcome the obstacle of the losses of the people he loved the most. Even the death of his only friend Marial does not stop him on his journey. It actually gives him more and more hope. On his journey to the refugee camp, the death of his only family member left, his uncle helped him continue his way to...
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...Orphans are children who are abandoned by their parents at a young age. In the novel A Single Shard, Tree-ear is brought to a man named Crane-man at a very young age. There is another orphan named Izidor Ruckel; unlike Tree-ear, Ruckel was abandoned and was put in an orphanage. Most orphans are orphans for the same reason, but they all have vastly different stories. Tree-ear, a 12th century orphan from Korea, was abandoned because his parents died from a fever. Ruckel, a Romanian orphan, was abandoned after he contracted polio. The similarities between Tree-ear and Ruckel is they both had a house to live in. Tree-ear has to live under a bridge in the summer while in the winter months Tree-ear has to live in an abandoned vegetable pit. Ruckel...
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...Orphans are children whose parents have died, left them, or put them up for adoption. Tree-ear, a character from the book A Single Shard, is an orphan in medieval Korea whose parents died. Ruckel, a child in a passage, is a modern-day Romanian orphan whose parents abandoned him at a hospital. As one reads, he will discover many similarities and differences between these two characters. Tree-ear and Ruckel, a Romanian orphan, have many differences. Tree-ear lives under a bridge with one male caretaker, and he gets all of the attention because there are not any other kids. Ruckel lives in an orphanage with many female caretakers, and he has many children to compete with for attention. When Tree-ear does wrong, he is disciplined with...
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...A MongoDB White Paper Performance Best Practices for MongoDB MongoDB 3.2 December 2015 Table of Contents Introduction 1 Pluggable Storage Engines 1 Hardware 2 Application Patterns 4 Schema Design & Indexes 5 Disk I/O 6 Considerations for Amazon EC2 7 Considerations for Benchmarks 7 We Can Help 9 Resources 9 Introduction MongoDB is a high-performance, scalable database designed for a broad array of modern applications. It is used by organizations of all sizes to power on-line, operational applications where low latency, high throughput and continuous availability are critical requirements of the system. For a discussion on the architecture of MongoDB and some of its underlying assumptions, see the MongoDB Architecture Guide. For a discussion on operating a MongoDB system, see the MongoDB Operations Best Practices. This guide outlines considerations for achieving performance at scale in a MongoDB system across a number of key dimensions, including hardware, application MongoDB Pluggable Storage Engines patterns, schema design and indexing, disk I/O, Amazon EC2, and designing for benchmarks. While this guide is broad in scope, it is not exhaustive. Following the recommendations in this guide will reduce the likelihood of encountering common performance limitations, but it does not guarantee good performance in your application. MongoDB 3.0 exposed a new storage engine API, enabling...
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...Hibernate ORM (Hibernate in short) is an object-relational mapping framework for the Java language, providing aframework for mapping an object-oriented domain model to a traditional relational database. Hibernate solves object-relational impedance mismatch problems by replacing direct persistence-related database accesses with high-level object handling functions. Hibernate is free software that is distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License 2.1. Hibernate's primary feature is mapping from Java classes to database tables (and from Java data types to SQL data types). Hibernate also provides data query and retrieval facilities. It generates SQL calls and relieves the developer from manual result set handling and object conversion. Applications using Hibernate are portable to supported SQL databases with little performance overhead[citation needed]. Contents [hide] * 1 Mapping * 2 Hibernate Query Language (HQL) * 3 Persistence * 4 Integration * 5 Entities and components * 6 History * 7 Application programming interface * 7.1 org.hibernate.SessionFactory interface * 7.2 org.hibernate.Session interface * 8 Software components * 9 See also * 10 References * 11 Bibliography * 12 External links * 12.1 Further reading ------------------------------------------------- Mapping[edit] Mapping Java classes to database tables is accomplished through the configuration of an XML file or by using Java Annotations...
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...Creative You grasped the rectangular glass bottle in your clammy palm, and raised it to your dry mouth, swallowing the last remnants of your guilty pleasure. You would have to cleanse your mouth later, using toothpaste and mouthwash in an attempt to conceal the intoxicating odour that infused your breath. You stared over the russet, rusted metal railing, absorbing the blackened chaos of the storm-tossed Atlantic Ocean. A sensation of rebellion and pleasure, both startling and exciting, surged through your lungs. You exhaled deeply, your warm breath tainted with alcohol, which tangoed and twisted, transfusing the salty Atlantic air. You firmly stoppered the empty bottle with a rubber cork, and safely sequested it in your cobalt, cotton pocket: it was to be dealt with later. Despite the negative stigma associated with drinking, it nevertheless attracted a subversive following, particularly among the rebellious youth. It was a group, to which you had of course, once belonged, but you grew old, and your membership expired, albeit leaving you with a legacy of addiction that you were unable to vanquish Of course, you were glamorizing the reality. You were simply a middle-aged adult who couldn’t kick a habit. However, as a Commander of an elite naval vessel, if caught excessively drinking, you would be expected to resign. Unfortunately, the repercussions wouldn’t just end there. Your partner and two sons were oblivious to your secret habit, your chronic alcohol addiction. You could easily...
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...just maybe it would be over quicker than I thought, damn, lost count. The Sound of the blasts felt as destructive as my thoughts, the pungent stench of dirt and sweat marched its way into my nostrils, I fear I’ll die in this hell hole. Unidentified. Unknown. A single thought paralysed itself in my mind, what if I never see my mother again? What if I never hear her voice again? Oh God, what was the last thing the I ever said to her? I’m going to get myself hysterical; I need to breathe, even if I cried would anyone hear me above their own fear? I remember the wailing of the walls and the merciless shaking of the ground and like sheep to slaughter we were led to this Godforsaken railway station. I’m currently sandwiched between an older man who hasn’t stopped praying since we got here, and a young woman who looks to be either sleeping or praying? I just want to grab that stupid crucifix from his hands and throw it as far away from me as possible, where was God when I needed him, when my mum is somewhere out there in the world. Alone. And all I can see is fucking darkness, maybe if I click my heels three times and think of home... Home, that seems alien to me now I wonder what’s left of it now, probably blown to shards by these blasted Nazi’s. I remember marking the door at my height every year and laughing at my sisters who hadn’t even grown an inch, those memories seem quite far away from me now. Today London will close its eyes and sleep, I hope for rescue soon. God save...
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...How much love do you really need as a child? Compare and Contrast Essay: Ruckel and Tree-ear Brain studies show that when a child is neglected in young years, their brains are stunted as they grow. Ruckel was beaten if he didn’t listen in his orphanage, and by the time he got adopted he couldn’t understand why they were so nice to him. However, Tree-ear was fed and loved the moment he was born and still is. If a child doesn’t get enough attention, then that child won’t accept affection as an adult as well as a loved child would. Ruckel and Tree-ear were both abandoned as babies, because their parents were both terminally ill. Ruckel was beaten as a child instead of being embraced or getting told politely what not to do like most parents...
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...Big Data [Name of Writer] [Name of Institution] Introduction The term Big Data is gaining more followers and popularity. However, despite this trend, not all organizations are clear about how to face the challenge to store, organize, display and analyze large volumes of data. The term Big Data is gaining more followers and popularity. However, despite this trend so evident, not all organizations are clear about how to face the challenge to store, organize, display and analyze large volumes of data. There are multiple techniques in terms of huge database storing approaches that can store petabytes, exabytes and may be zetabytes data. These options are Cassendara, Mongodb and HBase. We will discuss about them one by one and in a proper research method and will compare them in order to contrast their difference and efficiency. Research Background One problem in understanding the phenomenon is that the size of these data sets the volume greatly exceeds the Data warehouse. A plane collects 10 terabytes of information from sensors every 30 minutes flight, while the Stock Exchange of New York collects structured information 1 TB per day. In the context of Big Data, volumes are reaching peta bytes, exa bytes and then soon to zeta bytes. For instance, Apple has just announced that 7 trillion send daily notifications to iOS devices. The explosion of information in social networks, blogs, and emails is characterized the presence of data key...
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...I Thomas Edmond sat alone in the bright, cold, white room on a single blue chair bearing a plastic seat and four stout legs of stainless steel. His legs swung back and forth, barely long enough to touch the white linoleum tile floor but still managing to graze it ever so slightly. The five inch thick steel door directly in front of him has remained both shut and locked for the past five hours. Unbeknownst to Thomas, a small camera hidden beside a ventilation shaft in the ceiling monitored his actions. A calming synthesized female voice sounded from a loudspeaker hidden somewhere in the room. “Subject identified. Edmond, Thomas. Six years of age. Date of birth: The twenty ninth of August, nineteen eighty eight. Edmond, Thomas. Please rise from...
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...Okay Hi Everyone!!! My Name Is Veronica or Vi for short (Or Vivi-Chan If You’re Name Is Jessica). Now My Assignment was draw some signs that represent me, what’s important to me.... And to write what they mean to me. So I did the first part and I would like to point out that it turned out semi-good. :) So Now I'm doing this part (Or have done since if you’re reading this it'll probably already be done..... So yeah... ONWARDS!!!!!!!!!) Okay so my first symbol was some hands. What In The world could hands mean??? It could mean love or Family but to me it means friendship. What??? How??? Well if the person Is your true friend they will forever hold on. They would go through the ups and every-single-one of the downs just to stay your friend. That's why I drew hands, because hands are forever holding on to something... anything just to hold on. But The Next Symbol Is A Little Confusing I Think. It's a broken heart. That Means That I've been heartbroken before right? Nope. Never. Well there was this one time with this one kid but that was so long ago I don't even remember kids name (actually I Do but Whatever!) But actually the broken heart means Love. Yeah... Told You confusing. It's supposed to say all the things that you love will sometimes hurt you. And sometimes you just have to patch it up and move on! The Sun. That should be an easy one right? It means bright right??? Nope it's supposed to represent a smile. Because I have a friend that will rarely smile but when he does...
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...Unit 3: IT521: Decision Support Systems Jessica Brown IT 521 Kaplan University Even the best-organized data will become overwhelming to analyze with vast amounts of data especially for those not adverse in analytics. This was the problem for New York City Mayor’s Management Report (MMR), which offers indicators from city agencies to gauge performance. To solve this problem they decided to develop a Citywide Performance Reporting (CPR) system. The current Mayor of New York in 2008, Michael R. Bloomberg, stated the City was developing a performance measurement tool that would help make the workings of government transparent to all citizens and ensure that city agencies are accountable for their performance.() The CPR will eliminate the mystery about where and what kinds of performance information are available and increases accountability to its customers. The CPR was launched in February 2008 as an pioneering methodology to interactive, transparent performance management. The agencies involved in the implementation of the CPR dashboard were the Mayor’s Office of Operations in consultation with the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications. CPR identifies where service delivery by more than 40 City agencies is trending in a positive or negative direction in an easy-to-use snapshot format. The following are the incentives of the CRP taken from NYC CPR At-A-Glance: * Tracks performance for the most important "outcome" measures - those directly...
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...Japan and the United States. The garbage gets caught in the current of the North Pacific Gyre, a series of currents that all rotate in a circle with a very calm centerpoint, and enters a path of currents that mostly keep the trash in the Gyre. The most common misconception about the Trash Vortex is that there is a massive pool of trash piling up in the Pacific Ocean which is somewhat true. Many picture an ever growing island of plastic debris when in reality, plastic has the ability to be broken down, but only into very small pieces of its former state. Instead of a giant pile-up of plastic, there are billions of pieces of plastic ranging from tiny shards to whole bottles and even tires floating in this gyre. At first thought this may sound a whole lot better than a plastic island, when in reality it's a whole lot worse. “A single one-litre bottle could break down into enough small fragments to put one on every mile of beach in the entire world” (‘Trash Vortex’ 2). The result is an endless amount of bottles and plastics ending up in the ocean each creating a million small particles of plastic, also known to fish, birds, and other sealife as food. According to the Center for Biological Diversity, “Fish in the North Pacific ingest 12,000 to 24,000 tons of plastic each year,” which can cause intestinal injuries and death. The problem of fish consuming plastic doesn’t stop there. When fish die or are eaten, the plastic already consumed just travels into the next predator which then...
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