...family history, identity, and mortality. Through his journey across the desolate landscape of southeastern Idaho, Schrand embarks on a quest to uncover the shadows of his family's past while grappling with his own sense of self. Schrand employs various rhetorical strategies—metaphor, imagery, and narrative structure—to engage readers and invite them to participate in his introspective exploration. This essay argues that Schrand’s use of the Bone Road as a metaphor, his vivid descriptive language, and his non-linear narrative techniques effectively draw readers into his exploration of family history and personal identity, reflecting broader themes of searching for meaning in a...
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...absolutism for gender identity in the public sphere. The gender role of women in schools and in the workplace define important contradictions in the way women are victimized or empowered in comparison to men in the public sphere. Webber and Williams (year?) define the complex role of female employment in the relation to negotiations with males in the domestic sphere. In some cases, women were able to free themselves of the “domestic servitude” by having the father care for children, which often involved negotiating with fathers to take on more domestic responsibilities. These complexities in feminist ideology are also related to the problem of gender identity for Muslim girls that are educated within primarily white Christian schools in Canada. Often, western European “feminist” propaganda has depicted Muslim girls as victims of...
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...When considering the issue of multiple discrimination, it is worth starting from the fact that each person has many aspects of identity. People do not see themselves as just women or men, only people of a certain age, only as heterosexual or homosexual people. People's identities consist of many components, they are functions of belonging and identification with many groups and circles. These are complex, multidimensional integrals, which depending on the situation, some identifications or roles become more important, but never contain the multidimensionality of identity (although we are often perceived by others only through the prism of belonging to one group, which ignores this complexity of identity). This class increased my knowledge of...
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...Throughout higher education, students who identify as queer and first-generation are often not holistically supported by colleges and universities. Programs for those who hold these identities are often not acknowledged together, and are separated by each respective identity. By recognizing this important intersectionality of identities, student affairs educators will be better able to support and develop programs for queer, first-generation students within higher education. As Abes (2012) stated, intersectionality theory “highlights the complexity of lived experiences while discovering relationships between identity and intersecting systems of inequality” (as cited in Patton, Renn, Guido, & Quaye, 2006, p. 30). Thus, this theory provides...
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...Synopsis of Communication Theories: Constructivism, Organizations, & Accommodation Josh Garcia Central Michigan University Synopsis of Communication Theories: Constructivism, Organizations, & Accommodation Throughout this course, several theories of communication were covered. Being able to communicate effectively is a critical component in the development of establishing meaningful relationships among people and places, as well as the exchange of information. In order to establish effective communication skills, it is necessary to analyze the system of ideas that have been designed among several scholars. However, this paper is specifically focused on the discussion of three theories, which were found to have relevant viewpoints. Throughout this paper, the theory of constructivism, the critical theory of communication in organizations (CTCO), and communication accommodation theory (CAT) were examined. Constructivism Theory Constructivism is a communication theory, which is focused on the identification of individual differences among people’s ability to communicate effectively in social situations (Griffin, 2012). Jesse Delia is credited for the development of constructivism theory. Delia’s theory of constructivism implies there is a difference between people who are interpersonally successful, opposed to those who are not. Delia’s theory of constructivism is focused on being able to better understand the differences among individuals who communicate more effectively...
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...moments, and dies a hero. His heroic tragedy reflects Mahatma Gandhi's opinion that partaking in "the service of others" results in "the best way" to create an identity and allows the individual to gain insight on themselves. While analysis of the way people assist each other can lead to self discovery, identity's complexity does not derive only from beneficiary actions, as other factors such as conflict and motivation shape identity to the same or an even greater degree. Identity does not solely derive from assisting others; rather, it comes from introspective thinking and metacognition as seen in The Old Man and The Sea by Earnest...
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...Residual Learning for Image Recognition Kaiming He Xiangyu Zhang Shaoqing Ren Microsoft Research Jian Sun Deeper neural networks are more difficult to train. We present a residual learning framework to ease the training of networks that are substantially deeper than those used previously. We explicitly reformulate the layers as learning residual functions with reference to the layer inputs, instead of learning unreferenced functions. We provide comprehensive empirical evidence showing that these residual networks are easier to optimize, and can gain accuracy from considerably increased depth. On the ImageNet dataset we evaluate residual nets with a depth of up to 152 layers—8× deeper than VGG nets [41] but still having lower complexity. An ensemble of these residual nets achieves 3.57% error on the ImageNet test set. This result won the 1st place on the ILSVRC 2015 classification task. We also present analysis on CIFAR-10 with 100 and 1000 layers. The depth of representations is of central importance for many visual recognition tasks. Solely due to our extremely deep representations, we obtain a 28% relative improvement on the COCO object detection dataset. Deep residual nets are foundations of our submissions to ILSVRC & COCO 2015 competitions1 , where we also won the 1st places on the tasks of ImageNet detection, ImageNet localization, COCO detection, and COCO segmentation. 20 10 56-layer test error (%) 20 Abstract training error (%) ...
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...conventional definition of Hispanic identity. In order to fully understand how the concept of ethnicity has been constructed in Latin America it is important to start with some historic background. The formation of what will be known as “Hispanic Identity” started centuries ago when Portuguese and Spanish colonists arrived to the South America and started to oppress, enslave and exploit populations that had lived there for eons (Wade, 2003). In addition numerous African slaves have been brought in, especially in places like Caribbean and Brazil where today the significant part of the population is black (Ferreira da Silva, 1998). Because of the melting pot relationships a significant portion of populations got mixed and were called “mestizos”. This mixing occurred between ingenious populations, Europeans and of course African slaves (Wade, 2003). This mixing created a very interesting phenomenon when it comes to Latin America namely the fact that ethnic and racial composition of many countries is extremely diverse and not homogenous at all especially in places like Brazil, Chile, Mexico and others. However at some point even this has changed as the new approach was to define populations based on the culture rather than on ethnicity (De la Cadena, 2000). This was taking place first in Peru in regard to the ingenious populations. Another argument was that it was not very helpful to use racial/ethnic model of the US when talking about Hispanic identity mainly because it is so diverse...
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...Tracing Complexity Theory by Pedro Ferreira For ESD.83 – Research Seminar in Engineering Systems Fall 2001 Summary This work traces the development of complexity theory as a field of study. Complexity theory studies and analyzes complex systems and aims at understanding their structure and behavior. A complex system is characterized by emergent behavior resulting from the interaction among its parts and, for that reason it cannot be fragmented without losing its identity and purposefulness. Therefore, complexity theory is at the heart of what systems are today, and is concerned with the idea that a system is more than just assembling a set of machines together. To deal with this kind of systems, researchers use abstraction and rely heavily on computer simulation to derive steady-state information about the system, in form of invariants, limiting cycles and attractors. Complexity theory has a large scope of application in today’s life mainly because real world systems are all complex. This document presents ideas, definitions and properties of complex systems and introduces some of the tools and methods used in complexity theory. It also analyzes the origins of this field of study and includes an assessment about its success and relevance. 1 Ideas about Complex Systems Complexity theory encompasses a body of knowledge aimed at analyzing complex systems. Some views put up by researchers dealing with complex systems, compiled by Joseph Sussman in 2000...
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...In Madeleine Thien’s short fiction “Simple Recipes,” there are numerous instances of simple syntax and specific diction. On the surface, this narrative is seemingly simple, as the tile suggests, however as the story progresses it is evident there are deep, underlying complexities. Thien employs the use of literary techniques to provide a clear, yet elaborate outline of the social and cultural identity crisis immigrant families’ face, while also underlining the difficulties of determining a common ground between a person and their imperfections. Furthermore, the conciseness implemented in the story’s writing is the concluding step for relaying a straightforward, transparent writing technique. No room is left for misinterpretation of the literal sentence structure, however subliminal between the lines connotations may be present. In this short story, there is a strong correlation between the writing style and the effortless task of cooking rice, as illustrated by the narrator’s opening words: “There is a simple recipe for cooking rice. My father taught it to me when I was a child” (Thien 338). To cook rice, there are only two ingredients, water and rice, yet the daughter finds it nearly impossible to duplicate her father’s recipe. This is distressing to...
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...are very few countries in the world that can compare to the level of racial complexity that has characterized that of Brazilian history. The portrayal of Brazil as a harmonious melting pot of different races and cultures dates back at least to independence. Faced with a vast black slave population as well as a large range of Indian communities scattered the length and breadth of the nation, early Brazilian intellectuals and statesmen found themselves obliged to defend the indigenous element in national culture, and assert a national identity based upon racial mixing. Moreover, despite a long history of slavery, it also has no history of legal segregation, as in countries such as the United States and South Africa. However, in the Brazil of today the doctrine of racial democracy has long outgrown its use, and now constitutes the principal obstacle to greater racial equality. The perception that Brazil is an example...
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...As a white, middle-class young adult, social identities and understanding how they shape my life is an ongoing journey deeply influenced by the difficult framework of social justice. In this essay, I will explore two social identities to which I belong, my racial identity as a white person and my economic identity as a member of the middle class. Through examining these identities, I aim to explain how privilege and oppression intersect to shape my perspectives, values, expectations, and beliefs. First, my racial identity as a white person gave me many privileges I didn't realize.. Growing up in a predominantly white community, I was shielded from many of the harsh realities of racial inequality. My family and peers instilled in me the idea...
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...Authorial identity is defined as “the sense a writer has of themselves as an author and the textual identity they construct in their writing” (Pittam, Elander, Lusher, Fox & Payne,2009, p. 154). Cherry (1988) was one of the first researchers to shed light on identity and writing. He divided authorial identity, which is also called self-representation, into two major components: ethos and persona. Ethos is related to the author’s accountability, which contributes to gaining the readers’ trust by representing the writer’s intelligence and knowledge. Persona, on the other hand, is related to the author’s role in the community and how it is conveyed in his/her writing. Hyland (2002a) confirmed that authorial identity in academic writing is problematic...
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...Data Structure and Algorithms UNIT – I PART- A Questions & Answers 1. What is an algorithm? An algorithm is a finite set of instructions that , if followed, accomplishes a particular task. 2. What are the characteristics of an algorithm? Input – Zero or more quantities Output – At least one quantity Definiteness – each instruction is clear and unambiguous Finiteness – terminate after a finite number of steps Efficiency – easily understandable 3. Define Space Complexity The Space complexity of an algorithm is the amount of memory it needs to run to completion 4. Define Time Complexity Time complexity of an algorithm is the amount of computer time it needs to run to completion 5. What are asymptotic notations? The notations that enables us to make meaningful statements about the time and space complexity of a program is called asymptotic notations. 6. What are the various asymptotic notations used to define the efficiency of an algorithm? Big ‘Oh’ (O) Omega (Ω) Theta (θ) Little ‘oh’ (o) Little Omega 7. What is information? Information is a recorded or communicated material that has some meaning associated with symbolic representation. 8. What are the aspects to be considered to ensure information transfer between source and destination? Syntactic – Physical form of information Semantic – Meaning Pragmatic – Action taken as a result of interpretation of information 9. State the Markov algorithm It takes the input string X and through a number...
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...http://www.sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav Citations: http://jsr.sagepub.com/content/13/4/426.refs.html >> Version of Record - Oct 24, 2010 OnlineFirst Version of Record - May 21, 2010 What is This? Downloaded from jsr.sagepub.com by guest on May 7, 2012 Job Characteristics and the Creativity of Frontline Service Employees ´rio Augusto1 Filipe Coelho1 and Ma Journal of Service Research 13(4) 426-438 ª The Author(s) 2010 Reprints and permission: sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1094670510369379 http://jsr.sagepub.com Abstract This study investigates the main and interactive effects of job characteristics on the creativity of frontline service employees. Past research investigates the link between job complexity, an index measure of job characteristics, and employee creativity. This study follows a component-wise approach in studying the influence of each job characteristic on the creativity of employees. The approach overcomes a number of limitations such as the sole reliance on the intrinsic motivation rationale. In addition, we conduct this research in services, whereas past research has focused...
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