Shakespeare’s King Lear and The Tempest Analyzed
King Lear
This places the play just after the writing of Timon of Athens and before that of Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra. King Lear was first printed in 1608.
Influences
Raphael Holinshed’s Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (second edition 1587) tells of the King of Ancient Britain’s unwise division of his kingdom between his three daughters. Holinshed himself drew on Historia Regum Britanniae, written by the twelfth-century historian, Geoffrey of Monmouth.
In 1605, an anonymous play
Read MoreAdvanced Network Flow Applications in Optimization
[30] Choose a number r larger than any |bi|, and say that the scaled benefit bi0 of keeping application i on the old system is bi0=r, while the scaled benefit of moving it is bi1=r+bi. So our problem is equivalent to that of finding a partition of the applications that maximizes the sum of the scaled benefits minus the sum of pij for all pairs i and j that are split. Define a directed graph G=(V,E) with nodes s,t,v1,v2,..,vn, edges (s,vi),(vi,s) of capacity bi0,(t,vi),(vi,t) of capacity bi1, and
Read MoreLiterary Analysis: Objectivism, Language, and Poeticity
Perspectives on Literary Analysis
Objectivist vs. Anti-Objectivist Approaches
When analyzing art, two distinct attitudes emerge:
- Objectivist Attitudes: These posit that a specific, definable literary object exists within a text. Something inherent in the text makes it literary, an artistic specificity. This definition can also depend on societal context. Aesthetic meaning, from this viewpoint, is based on absolute values intrinsic to the literary text.
- Anti-Objectivist Attitudes: In contrast, these
IVF History: Milestones in Assisted Reproduction
Understanding Test-Tube Babies and IVF
A test-tube baby refers to a child conceived through medical intervention that manipulates egg and sperm cells for successful fertilization, rather than through sexual intercourse. The term was originally used to describe babies born from early applications of artificial insemination (AI) and has since expanded to include children born via in vitro fertilization (IVF), the practice of fertilizing an egg outside a woman’s body. The use of this term in twentieth-
Read MoreMastering Text Analysis: Summaries, Outlines & Linguistic Features
Text Summarization Techniques
To effectively summarize a text, follow these guidelines:
- Read the text and highlight key information.
- Synthesize important ideas in your own words.
- If the text is expository or argumentative, begin with the thesis statement.
- The summary should not exceed 30% of the original text.
- Avoid copying phrases directly from the text.
- Order ideas logically.
- Begin directly with the content summary; avoid expressions like: “The author defends…?”
- Do not include personal opinions about
Human Language Uniqueness and Animal Communication Studies
Understanding Animal and Human Language
George Yule’s Focus on Language Distinction
Initially, the focus was on the ways in which human language is distinct or different from animal communication. Key points include:
- Language is a fundamentally human trait, or universal.
- It is considered species-specific, with the belief that Allah Almighty taught Adam how to speak.
- The question of language in use was deemed most important.
Do Animals Understand Human Language?
There is a common agreement that non-humans
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