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Edition/Copyright: 6TH 07
Imaginative Literature. Conventional Themes. The Literary Canon. Luisa Valenzuela, All about Suicide. Wole Soyinka, Telephone Conversation. Interpreting Literature. Evaluating Literature. The Function of Literary Criticism. Checklist: Evaluating Literary Criticism.
Reading Literature. Previewing. Highlighting. Checklist: Using Highlighting Symbols. Maya Angelou, My Arkansas. Annotating. Writing about Literature. Planning an Essay. Drafting an Essay. Revising and Editing an Essay. Checklist: Using Sources. Checklist: Conventions of Writing about Literature. Exercise: Two Student Papers. Student Paper: Initiation into Adulthood. Student Paper: Hard Choices.
Writing a Comparison-Contrast Paper. Checklist: Writing a Comparison-Contrast Paper. Sample Student Paper: Comparing Two Fictional Characters. Student Paper: The Dangerous Consequences of Societal Limbo. Suggested Topics for Comparison-Contrast Papers. Writing an Explication. Checklist: Writing an Explication. Sample Student Paper: Explicating a Poem. Student Paper: A Lingering Doubt. Suggested Topics for Explication Papers. Writing a Character Analysis. Checklist: Writing a Character Analysis. Sample Student Paper: Analyzing a Character in a Play. Student Paper: Linda Loman: Breaking the Mold. Suggested Topics for Character Analysis Papers. Writing about a Work's Historical Context. Checklist: Writing about a Work's Historical Context. Sample Student Paper: Setting a Literary Work in Its Historical Context. Student Paper: Dreaming of Home. Suggested Topics for Historical Papers.
Distinguishing Fact from Opinion. Evaluating Supporting Evidence. Detecting Bias in Your Writing. Understanding Logic. Inductive Reasoning. Deductive Reasoning. Toulmin Logic. Recognizing Logical Fallacies.
Planning a Literary Argument. Choosing a Debatable Topic. Developing an Argumentative Thesis. Defining Your Terms. Considering Your Audience. Refuting Opposing Arguments. Using Evidence Effectively. Supporting Your Literary Argument. Establishing Credibility. Being Fair. Using Visuals as Evidence. Organizing a Literary Argument. Writing a Literary Argument. Student Paper: The Politics of "Everyday Use".
Choosing a Topic. Doing Exploratory Research. Narrowing your Topic. Doing Focused Research. Library Research. Internet Research. Taking Notes. Integrating Sources. Drafting a Thesis Statement. Making an Outline. Writing your Paper. Sample Literature Paper with MLA Documentation. Student Paper: And Again She Makes the Journey: Character and Act in Eudora Welty's "A Worn Path".
Avoiding Plagiarism. Document All Material That Requires Documentation. Enclose Borrowed Words in Quotation Marks. Do Not Imitate a Source's Syntax and Phrasing. Differentiate Your Words from Those of Your Source. Checklist: Plagiarism and Internet Sources. Documenting Sources. Parenthetical References in the Text. Checklist: Guidelines for Punctuating Parenthetical References. The List of Works Cited. Content Notes.
Planning an Essay Exam Answer. Review Your Material. Consider Your Audience and Purpose. Read through the Entire Exam. Read Each Question Carefully. Brainstorm to Find Ideas. Shaping an Essay Exam Answer. State Your Thesis. Make a Scratch Outline. Drafting and Revising an Essay Exam Answer. Sample Student Essay Exam Answer.
Origins of Modern Fiction. The History of the Novel. The History of the Short Story. Defining the Short Story. Ernest Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants. Recognizing Kinds of Fiction.
Gary Gildner, Sleepy Time Gal. Jonathan Safran Foer, A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease. Margaret Atwood, Happy Endings. Jamaica Kincaid, Girl. Amanda Holzer, Love and Other Catastrophes: A Mix Tape. Monica Ware, Mislaid Plans.
Reading Fiction. Active Reading. Alberto Alvaro Ríos, The Secret Lion. Writing about Fiction. Planning an Essay. Drafting an Essay. Student Paper: Symbols in "The Secret Lion" (First Draft). Revising and Editing an Essay. Student Paper: Symbols in "The Secret Lion" (Second Draft). Student Paper: "The Secret Lion": Everything Changes (Final Draft).
Conflict. Stages of Plot. Order and Sequence. Checklist: Writing about Plot. Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour. Naguib Mahfouz, Half a Day. Nadine Gordimer, Once upon a Time. Stephen Dobyns, Kansas. William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily. Writing Suggestions: Plot.
Round and Flat Characters. Dynamic and Static Characters. Motivation. Checklist: Writing about Character. John Updike, A&P. Katherine Mansfield, Miss Brill. Gish Jen, The Water Faucet Vision. Charles Baxter, Gryphon. Jhumpa Lahiri, The Third and Final Continent. Writing Suggestions: Character.
Historical Setting. Geographical Setting. Physical Setting. Checklist: Writing about Setting. Kate Chopin, The Storm. Sherman Alexie, This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona. Ralph Ellison, Battle Royal. Tillie Olsen, I Stand Here Ironing. Bobbie Ann Mason, Shiloh. Writing Suggestions: Setting.
First-Person Narrators. Unreliable Narrators. Third-Person Narrators. Omniscient Narrators. Limited Omniscient Narrators. Objective Narrators. Selecting an Appropriate Point of View. Limited Omniscient Point of View. First-Person Point of View (Child). First-Person Point of View (Adult). Omniscient Point of View. Objective Point of View. Checklist: Selecting An Appropriate Point of View: Review. Checklist: Writing about Point of View. Richard Wright, Big Black Good Man. Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado. William Faulkner, Barn Burning. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Disappearance. Alice Munro, An Ounce of Cure. Writing Suggestions: Point of View.
Style and Tone. The Uses of Language. Formal and Informal Diction. Imagery. Figures of Speech. Checklist: Writing about Style, Tone, and Language. James Joyce, Araby. Robert H. Abel, Appetizer. Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper. Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried. Writing Suggestions: Style, Tone, and Language.
Symbol. Literary Symbols. Recognizing Symbols. Allegory. Myth. Checklist: Writing about Symbol, Allegory, and Myth. Jorge Luis Borges, The Book of Sand. Shirley Jackson, The Lottery. Alice Walker, Everyday Use. Raymond Carver, Cathedral. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown. Writing Suggestions: Symbol, Allegory, and Myth.
Interpreting Themes. Identifying Themes. Checklist: Writing about Theme. Eudora Welty, A Worn Path. David Michael Kaplan, Doe Season. D.H. Lawrence, The Rocking-Horse Winner. Hisaye Yamamoto, Seventeen Syllables. Gina Ochsner, Hidden Lives of Lakes. Writing Suggestions: Theme.
Fiction in Film: John Updike's "A&P". Fiction in Film: Tillie Olsen's "I Stand Here Ironing". Fiction in Film: Alice Walker's "Everyday Use". Fiction in Film: Raymond Carver's "Cathedral". Fiction in Film: Eudora Welty's "A Worn Path".
Joyce Carol Oates, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?. Joyce Carol Oates, When Characters from the Page Are Made Flesh on the Screen. Gretchen Schulz and R. J. R. Rockwood, from In Fairyland, without a Map: Connie's Exploration Inward in Joyce Carol Oates's "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?". Mike Tierce and John Michael Crafton, from Connie's Tambourine Man: A New Reading of Arnold Friend. Bob Dylan, It's All Over Now, Baby Blue. Laura Kalpakian, from a review of "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been: Selected Early Stories". Stephen Slimp, from Oates's "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?". Don Moser, from The Pied Piper of Tucson. Anonymous, The Pied Piper of Hamelin. Charles Perrault, Little Red Riding Hood. Topics for Further Research. Student Paper: Mesmerizing Men and Vulnerable Teens: Power Relationships in "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" and "Teenage Wasteland".
Chinua Achebe, Dead Man's Path. James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues. Toni Cade Bambara, The Lesson. T. Coraghessan Boyle, Greasy Lake. Albert Camus, The Guest. John Cheever, The Swimmer. Anton Chekhov, The Lady with the Pet Dog. Stephen Crane, The Open Boat. Louise Erdrich, The Red Convertible. Gabriel García Márquez, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings. Ha Jin, Saboteur. James Joyce, Eveline. Franz Kafka, A Hunger Artist. Herman Melville, Bartleby, the Scrivener. V.S. Naipaul, B. Wordsworth. Flannery O'Connor, Everything That Rises Must Converge. Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart. Katherine Anne Porter, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall. John Steinbeck, The Chrysanthemums. Amy Tan, Two Kinds. Anne Tyler, Teenage Wasteland.
Marianne Moore, Poetry. Nikki Giovanni, Poetry. Origins of Modern Poetry. Bob Holman, 6 Short Poems. Defining Poetry. William Shakespeare, That time of year thou mayst in me behold. Louis Zukofsky, I walk in the old street. E.E. Cummings, l(a. Recognizing Kinds of Poetry. Narrative Poetry. Lyric Poetry.
George Herbert, Easter Wings. May Swenson, Women. Greg Williamson, Group Photo with Winter Trees. Charles Bernstein, This Poem Intentionally Left Blank Tupac Shakur, 1 for April Hamilton Finlay, Acrobats. Reed Altemus, Flake upper phase. Bob Gruman, Mathematiku No. 10.
Reading Poetry. Active Reading. Robert Hayden, Those Winter Sundays. Seamus Heaney, Digging. Writing about Poetry. Planning an Essay. Drafting an Essay. Student Paper: A Comparison of Two Poems about Fathers (First Draft). Revising and Editing an Essay. Student Paper: A Comparison of Two Poems about Fathers (Second Draft). Student Paper: Digging For Memories (Final Draft).
Emily Dickinson, I'm nobody! Who are you?. The Speaker in the Poem. Louise Glück, Gretel in Darkness. Leonard Adamé, My Grandmother Would Rock Quietly and Hum. Langston Hughes, Negro. Robert Browning, My Last Duchess. Further Reading: The Speaker in the Poem. Leslie Marmon Silko, Where Mountain Lion Lay Down with Deer. Janice Mirikitani, Suicide Note. James Tate, Nice Car, Camille. Pat Mora, Veiled. The Tone of the Poem. Robert Frost, Fire and Ice. Thomas Hardy, The Man He Killed. Amy Lowell, Patterns. Further Reading: The Tone of the Poem. Adam Zagajewski, Try to Praise the Mutilated World. William Wordsworth, The World Is Too Much with Us. Sylvia Plath, Morning Song Claude McKay, The White City. Robert Herrick, To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time. Deborah Garrison, Please Fire Me. Mary Oliver, The Old Poets of China. Irony. Robert Browning, Porphyria's Lover. Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias. Ariel Dorfman, Hope. Further Reading: Irony. W.H. Auden, The Unknown Citizen. Anne Sexton, Cinderella. Dudley Randall, Ballad of Birmingham. Sherman Alexie, How to Write the Great American Indian Novel. Checklist: Writing about Voice. Writing Suggestions: Voice.
Sipho Sepamla, Words, Words, Words. Word Choice. Walt Whitman, When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer. William Stafford, For the Grave of Daniel Boone. Further Reading: Word Choice. James Wright, Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio. Adrienne Rich, Living in Sin. E.E. Cummings, in Just-. Robert Pinsky, ABC. Theodore Roethke, I Knew a Woman. Kay Ryan, Blandeur. Levels of Diction. Margaret Atwood, The City Planners. Jim Sagel, Baca Grande. Wanda Coleman, Sears Life. Mark Halliday, The Value of Education. Further Reading: Levels of Diction. Barbara L. Greenberg, The Faithful Wife. Richard Wilbur, For the Student Strikers. Charles Bukowski, Dog Fight. Gwendolyn Brooks, We Real Cool. Word Order. Edmund Spenser, One day I wrote her name upon the strand. E.E. Cummings, anyone lived in a pretty how town. Further Reading: Word Order. A.E. Housman, To an Athlete Dying Young. Emily Dickinson, My Life had stood--a Loaded Gun--. Checklist: Writing about Word Choice and Word Order. Writing Suggestions: Word Choice, Word Order.
Jane Flanders, Cloud Painter. William Carlos Williams, Red Wheelbarrow. Ezra Pound, In a Station of the Metro. Gary Snyder, Some Good Things to Be Said for the Iron Age. Suzanne E. Berger, The Meal. William Carlos Williams, The Great Figure. Further Reading: Imagery. Richard Wilbur, Sleepless at Crown Point. Michael Chitwood, Division. Lam Thi My Da, Washing Rice. Robert Frost, Nothing Gold Can Stay. Jean Toomer, Reapers. Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum Est. Kobayashi Issa, Haiku. William Shakespeare, My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun. Billy Collins, Litany. Octavio Paz, Daybreak. Octavio Paz, Nightfall. Checklist: Writing about Imagery. Writing Suggestions: Imagery.
William Shakespeare, Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?. Simile, Metaphor, and Personification. Langston Hughes, Harlem. Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Constantly Risking Absurdity. Audre Lorde, Rooming houses are old women. Further Reading: Simile, Metaphor, and Personification. Robert Burns, Oh, my love is like a red, red rose. N. Scott Momaday, Simile. Sylvia Plath, Metaphors. John Updike, Ex-Basketball Player. Randall Jarrell, The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner. Marge Piercy, The Secretary Chant. John Donne, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning. Martín Espada, My Father as a Guitar. Hyperbole and Understatement. Sylvia Plath, Daddy. David Huddle, Holes Commence Falling. Further Reading: Hyperbole and Understatement. Anne Bradstreet, To My Dear and Loving Husband. Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress. Robert Frost, "Out, Out--". Donald Hall, My Son, My Executioner. Margaret Atwood, you fit into me. Metonymy and Synecdoche. Richard Lovelace, To Lucasta Going to the Wars. Further Reading: Metonymy and Synecdoche. Thomas Lux, Henry Clay's Mouth. Apostrophe. Sonia Sanchez, On Passing thru Morgantown, Pa. Further Reading: Apostrophe. Allen Ginsberg, A Supermarket in California. Checklist: Writing about Figures of Speech. Writing Suggestions: Figures of Speech.
Walt Whitman, Had I the Choice. Rhythm. Gwendolyn Brooks, Sadie and Maud. Meter. Emily Dickinson, I like to see it lap the Miles--. Further Reading: Rhythm and Meter. Adrienne Rich, Aunt Jennifer's Tigers. Etheridge Knight, For Malcolm, a Year After. Frank O'Hara, To the Poem. Alliteration and Assonance. Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Eagle. N. Scott Momaday, Comparatives. Robert Herrick, Delight in Disorder. Rhyme. Ogden Nash, The Lama. Richard Wilbur, A Sketch. Further Reading: Alliteration, Assonance, and Rhyme. Gerard Manley Hopkins, Pied Beauty. W.H. Auden, As I Walked Out One Evening. Galway Kinnell, Blackberry Eating. Lydia Davis, A Mown Lawn. Robert Francis, Pitcher. Mona Van Duyn, The Beginning. Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky. Checklist: Writing about Sound. Writing Suggestions: Sound.
John Keats, On the Sonnet. Billy Collins, Sonnet. Closed Form. Blank Verse. Stanza. The Sonnet. William Shakespeare, When, in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes,. Further Reading: The Sonnet. John Keats, On First Looking into Chapman's Homer. Gwendolyn Brooks, First Fight. Then Fiddle. Mona Van Duyn, Minimalist Sonnet: Summer Virus. The Sestina. Alberto Alvaro Ríos, Nani. Further Reading: The Sestina. Elizabeth Bishop, Sestina. The Villanelle. Theodore Roethke, The Waking. Further Reading: The Villanelle. Mary Jo Salter, Video Blues. The Epigram. Further Reading: The Epigram. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, What Is an Epigram?. William Blake, Her Whole Life Is an Epigram. Martín Espada, Why I Went to College. Haiku. Further Reading: Haiku. Matsuo Basho, Four Haiku. Carolyn Kizer, After Basho. José Juan Tablada, Haiku Jack Kerouac, American Haiku Open Form. Carl Sandburg, Chicago. Louise Glück, Life Is a Nice Place. E.E. Cummings, the sky was can dy. Further Reading: Open Form. Walt Whitman, from Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking. Diane Wakoski, Sleep. Robert Hayden, Monet's "Waterlilies". William Carlos Williams, Spring and All. Carolyn Forché, The Colonel. Pat Mora, Immigrants. Czeslaw Milosz, Christopher Robin. Checklist: Writing about Form. Writing Suggestions: Form.
William Blake, The Sick Rose. Symbol. Robert Frost, For Once, Then, Something. Jim Simmerman, Child's Grave, Hale County, Alabama. Emily Dickinson, Volcanoes be in Sicily. Further Reading: Symbol. Langston Hughes, Island. Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven. Allegory. Christina Rossetti, Uphill. Further Reading: Allegory. Adrienne Rich, Diving into the Wreck. Allusion. Wole Soyinka, Future Plans. William Meredith, Dreams of Suicide. Further Reading: Allusion. Delmore Schwartz, The True-Blue American. Maxine Kumin, Where Any of Us Myth. Countee Cullen, Yet Do I Marvel. Further Reading: Myth. William Butler Yeats, Leda and the Swan. Derek Walcott, Sea Grapes. W.H. Auden, Musée des Beaux Arts. T.S. Eliot, Journey of the Magi. Elizabeth Holmes, The Fathers. Checklist: Writing about Symbol, Allegory, Allusion, Myth. Writing Suggestions: Symbol, Allegory, Allusion, Myth.
Poems about Parents. Theodore Roethke, My Papa's Waltz. Robert Hayden, Those Winter Sundays. Edna St. Vincent Millay, The Courage that My Mother Had Seamus Heaney, Digging. Raymond Carver, Photograph of my Father in His Twenty-Second Year. Judith Ortiz Cofer, My Father in the Navy: A Childhood Memory. Mitsuye Yamada, The Night Before Goodbye Wanda Coleman, Dear Mama Simon J. Ortiz, My Father's Song. Adrienne Rich, A Woman Mourned by Daughters. Dylan Thomas, Do not go gentle into that good night. Poems about Nature. William Wordsworth, I wandered lonely as a cloud. Christina Rossetti, Summer. Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Windhover. Robert Frost, Birches. William Stafford, Traveling through the Dark. Simone Muench, Dogwood. Joy Harjo, Morning Song. Richard Wilbur, In Trackless Woods. Poems about Love. Robert Browning, Meeting at Night. Robert Browning, Parting at Morning. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, How Do I Love Thee?. Edna St. Vincent Millay, What Lips My Lips Have Kissed. Dorothy Parker, General Review of the Sex Situation. W.H. Auden, Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone. Sandra Cisneros, In My Little Museum of Erotica. Joseph Brodsky, Love Song. Tupac Shakur, Love Is Just Complicated. Jeffrey McDaniel, The Quiet Word. Pablo Neruda, Absence. Poems about War. Rupert Brooke, The Soldier. William Butler Yeats, An Irish Airman Foresees His Death. Robert Lowell, For the Union Dead. Boris Slutsky, How Did They Kill My Grandmother?. Denise Levertov, What Were They Like?. Yusef Komunyakaa, Facing It. Eliza Griswold, Buying Rations in Kabul. Carl Phillips, On the Notion of Tenderness in Wartime. Wislawa Szymborska, The End and the Beginning. Writing Suggestions: Discovering Themes in Poetry.
Langston Hughes, The Negro Speaks of Rivers. Langston Hughes, Mother to Son. Langston Hughes, Dream Variations. Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues. Langston Hughes, I, Too. Langston Hughes, Song for a Dark Girl. Langston Hughes, Ballad of the Landlord. Langston Hughes, Theme for English B. Langston Hughes, Dream Boogie. Langston Hughes, Birmingham Sunday (September 15, 1963). Langston Hughes, Old Walt. Langston Hughes, Genius Child. Langston Hughes, Park Bench. Langston Hughes, Lenox Avenue: Midnight. Langston Hughes, Un-American Investigators. Langston Hughes, Dinner Guest: Me. Langston Hughes, Ballad of Booker T. Langston Hughes, from The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain. Langston Hughes, To Negro Writers. Langston Hughes, from My Adventures as a Social Poet. Arnold Rampersad, from The Origins of Poetry in Langston Hughes. Herman Beavers, from Dead Rocks and Sleeping Men: Aurality in the Aesthetic of Langston Hughes. Steven C. Tracy, from "Midnight Ruffles of Cat-Gut Lace": The Boogie Poems of Langston Hughes. Karen Jackson Ford, from Do Right to Write Right: Langston Hughes's Aesthetics of Simplicity. George B. Hutchinson, from Langston Hughes and the 'Other' Whitman. Topics for Further Research. Student Paper: Challenging the Father/Challenging the Self: Langston Hughes's 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers'.
Elizabeth Alexander, Apollo. Sherman Alexie, Defending Walt Whitman. Lewis Allen, Strange Fruit. Maya Angelou, Africa. Anonymous, Bonny Barbara Allan. Anonymous, Go Down Moses. Anonymous, Western Wind. Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach. Elizabeth Bishop, The Fish. William Blake, The Chimney Sweeper. William Blake, The Lamb. William Blake, London. William Blake, To see a World in a Grain of Sand. William Blake, The Tyger. Eavan Boland, The Emigrant Irish. Anne Bradstreet, The Author to Her Book. Gwendolyn Brooks, The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock. Gwendolyn Brooks, Medgar Evers. George Gordon, Lord Byron, She Walks in Beauty. Thomas Campion, There is a garden in her face. Geoffrey Chaucer, from The Canterbury Tales Lucille Clifton, Praise Song. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan. Billy Collins, Introduction to Poetry. Billy Collins, The Names. Hart Crane, To Brooklyn Bridge. E.E. Cummings, Buffalo Bill's. E.E. Cummings, next to of course god america I. Emily Dickinson, After great pain, a formal feeling comes--. Emily Dickinson, Because I could not stop for Death--. Emily Dickinson, 'Faith' is a fine invention. Emily Dickinson, 'Heaven'--is what I cannot reach!. Emily Dickinson, I dwell in Possibility--. Emily Dickinson, I heard a Fly buzz--when I died--. Emily Dickinson, I never saw a Moor--. Emily Dickinson, I taste a liquor never brewed--. Emily Dickinson, Much Madness is divinest Sense--. Emily Dickinson, Safe in their Alabaster Chambers--. Emily Dickinson, Some keep the Sabbath going to Church--. Emily Dickinson, The Soul selects her own Society--. Emily Dickinson, Success is counted sweetest. Emily Dickinson, Tell all the Truth but tell it slant--. Emily Dickinson, There is no Frigate like a Book. Emily Dickinson, There's a certain Slant of light. Emily Dickinson, This is my letter to the World. Emily Dickinson, Wild Nights--Wild Nights!. John Donne, Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God. John Donne, Death Be Not Proud. John Donne, The Flea John Donne, Song. Rita Dove, Fox Trot Fridays. Paul Laurence Dunbar, We Wear the Mask. Stephen Dunn, Waiting with Two Members of a Motorcycle Gang for My Child to Be Born. T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. James A. Emanuel, Emmett Till. Louise Erdrich, Indian Boarding School: The Runaways. Robert Frost, Acquainted with the Night. Robert Frost, Desert Places. Robert Frost, Design. Robert Frost, Mending Wall. Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken. Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. Federico García Lorca, Arbolé, Arbolé . Nikki Giovanni, Nikki-Rosa. H.D. Helen. Thomas Hardy, The Convergence of the Twain. Seamus Heaney, Mid-Term Break. Edward Hirsch, Fast Break. Garrett Kaoru Hongo, And Your Soul Shall Dance. Gerard Manley Hopkins, God's Grandeur. Ha Jin, Ways of Talking. Donald Justice, On the Death of Friends in Childhood. Mary Karr, A Blessing from My Sixteen Years' Son. John Keats, La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad. John Keats, Bright Star! Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art. John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn. John Keats, When I Have Fears. Aron Keesbury, On the Robbery across the Street. Yusef Komunyakaa, Ignis Fatuus. Ted Kooser, In the Hall of Bones. Ted Kooser, Selecting a Reader. Philip Larkin, Aubade. Li-Young Lee, The Gift. Li-Young Lee, Little Father. Philip Levine, Before the War. Archibald Macleish, Ars Poetica Christopher Marlowe, The Passionate Shepherd to His Love. Claude McKay, If We Must Die. James Merrill, Page from the Koran. W.S. Merwin, To My Brother. John Milton, from Paradise Lost. John Milton, When I consider how my light is spent. Pablo Neruda, The United Fruit Co. Sharon Olds, First Thanksgiving. Sharon Olds, The One Girl at the Boys' Party. Mary Oliver, An Afternoon in the Stacks. Judith Ortiz Cofer, Claims. Grace Paley, Here. Linda Pastan, Ethics. Linda Pastan, Marks. Marge Piercy, Barbie Doll. Miguel Pinero, La Bodega Sold Dreams. Robert Pinsky, Shirt Sylvia Plath, Mirror. Ezra Pound, The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter. Sir Walter Raleigh, The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd Henry Reed, Naming of Parts. Edwin Arlington Robinson, Miniver Cheevy. Edwin Arlington Robinson, Richard Cory. Jaime Sabines, The Moon. Sonia Sanchez, right on: white america. Carl Sandburg, Fog. Vijay Seshadri, Baby Baby. William Shakespeare, Let me not to the marriage of true minds. William Shakespeare, Not marble, nor the gilded monuments. Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ode to the West Wind. Charles Simic, Old Soldier. Louis Simpson, American Poetry. Stevie Smith, Not Waving but Drowning. Cathy Song, Lost Sister. Gary Soto, Saturday at the Canal. Wole Soyinka, Hamlet. Wallace Stevens, Anecdote of the Jar. Wallace Stevens, The Emperor of Ice-Cream. Wallace Stevens, The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm. Mark Strand, 2032. Virgil Suárez, La Florida. Wislawa Szymborska, ABC. Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Ulysses. Gina Valdes, My Mother Sews Blouses. Mona Van Duyn, In Bed with a Book. James Welch, The Man from Washington. Phillis Wheatley, On Being Brought from Africa to America. Walt Whitman, A Noiseless Patient Spider. Walt Whitman, from Song of Myself. Richard Wilbur, Man Running. C.K. Williams, Doves. William Carlos Williams, The Dance. William Wordsworth, Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802. William Wordsworth, London, 1802. William Wordsworth, My heart leaps up when I behold. William Wordsworth, She dwelt among the untrodden ways. William Wordsworth, The Solitary Reaper. Charles Wright, In Praise of Han Shan. Richard Wright, from Six Haiku. William Butler Yeats, Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop. William Butler Yeats, The Lake Isle of Innisfree. William Butler Yeats, Sailing to Byzantium. William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming. Kevin Young, The Hunch. Adam Zagajewski, Poetry Searches for Radiance.
Origins of Modern Drama. The Ancient Greek Theater. The Elizabethan Theater. The Modern Theater. Tragedy and Comedy. Tragedy. Comedy. Defining Drama. Anton Chekhov, The Brute. A Note on Translations. Recognizing Kinds of Plays.
Jane Martin, Beauty. José Rivera, Tape. Billy Goda, No Crime. Arlene Hutton, I Dream Before I Take the Stand. Warren Leight, Nine Ten.
Reading Drama. Active Reading. Writing about Drama. Planning an Essay. Drafting an Essay. Student Paper: The Women's Role in Trifles (First Draft). Revising and Editing an Essay. Student Paper: Confinement and Rebellion in Trifles (Second Draft). Student Paper: Desperate Measures: Acts of Defiance in Trifles (Final Draft).
Plot Structure. Plot and Subplot. Plot Development. Flashbacks. Foreshadowing. Checklist: Writing about Plot. Emily Roderer, Scheherazade. Susan Glaspell, Trifles. Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun. Henrik Ibsen, A Doll House. Writing Suggestions: Plot.
Characters' Words. Formal and Informal Language. Plain and Elaborate Language. Tone. Irony. Characters' Actions. Stage Directions. Actors' Interpretations. Checklist: Writing about Character. August Strindberg, The Stronger. David Auburn, Proof. Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman. William Shakespeare, Hamlet. Writing Suggestions: Character.
Stage Directions. The Uses of Staging. Costumes. Props. Scenery and Lighting. Music and Sound Effects. A Final Note. Checklist: Writing about Staging. Tracey Scott Wilson, Small World. Milcha Sanchez-Scott, The Cuban Swimmer. Sophocles, Oedipus the King. William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream. Writing Suggestions: Staging.
Titles. Conflicts. Dialogue. Characters. Staging. A Final Note. Checklist: Writing about Theme. David Henry Hwang, Trying to Find Chinatown. Sophocles, Antigone. Chiori Miyagawa, Antigone's Red. August Wilson, Fences. Writing Suggestions: Theme.
Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie. Tennessee Williams, Author's Production Notes (Preface to the Published Edition). Jacqueline O'Connor, from Dramatizing Dementia: Madness in the Plays of Tennessee Williams. Tennessee Williams, from Tennessee Williams: Memoirs. Jean Evans, Interview. Thomas L. King, from Irony and Distance in The Glass Menagerie. Nancy Marie Patterson Tischler, from Student Companion to Tennessee Williams. Roger B. Stein, from The Glass Menagerie Revisited: Catastrophe without Violence. Tom Scanlan, from Family, Drama, and American Dreams. James Fisher, from "The Angels of Fructification": Tennessee Williams, Tony Kushner, and Images of Homosexuality on the American Stage. Tennessee Williams, Portrait of a Girl in Glass. Topics for Further Research. Student Paper: Laura's Gentleman Caller.
Formalism. A Formalist Reading: Kate Chopin's "The Storm". For Further Reading: Formalism. Reader-Response Criticism. Reader-Response Readings: Kate Chopin's "The Storm". For Further Reading: Reader-Response Criticism. Sociological Criticism. Feminist Criticism. A Feminist Reading: Tillie Olsen's "I Stand Here Ironing". For Further Reading: Feminist Criticism. Queer Theory. Marxist Criticism. A Marxist Reading: Tillie Olsen's "I Stand Here Ironing". For Further Reading: Marxist Criticism. New Historicism. A New Historicist Reading: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper". For Further Reading: New Historicist Criticism. Psychoanalytic Criticism. Psychoanalytic Terms. A Psychoanalytic Reading: Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado". For Further Reading: Psychoanalytic Criticism. Structuralism. A Structuralist Reading: William Faulkner's "Barn Burning". For Further Reading: Structuralism. Deconstruction. A Deconstructionist Reading: Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard to Find". For Further Reading: Deconstruction. Cultural Studies.
Beginnings: The Greeks and Romans (c. 450 B.C.-A.D. 400). The Middle Ages (c. A.D. 400-1500). The Renaissance (c. 1500-1660). The Enlightenment (1660-1798). The Romantic Period (1798-1837). The Victorian Period (1837-1901). The Modern Period (since 1901).
Glossary of Literary Terms.
Index of First Lines of Poetry.
Index of Authors and Titles.
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She's alive!
Kim Kardashian made her first appearance of any kind whatsoever since giving birth to her daughter, North West, seven weeks ago.
The 32-year-old has been locked away in a fortress of self-imposed solitary confinement (her mom Kris Jenner's house in Calabasas) ever since, but finally she's ready to give the world a look at herself…just a glimpse.
Worth the wait?
It's not that her physical appearance itself was disappointing—that's not what this post is about—it's just that after teasing it on Instagram, the whole thing ended up being a short video message.
In a pre-recorded message, Kim "surprised" Kris on her new daytime talk show, congratulating the Kardashian matriarch on all her success and apologizing for being unable to show up in person.
"I watch you every single day and you are so amazing," Kim said. "You really are born to do this. I just want to say I love you and have an amazing show."
It was just moving enough to bring Kris to tears.
In related BREAKING NEWS: Kris Jenner has a heart.


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UE Basketball: Aces mostly healed with workouts under way
School awaits news on big man's eligibility
University of Evansville coach Marty Simmons said this week that of the Aces' three players injured this summer, only sophomore forward Rokas Cesnulevicius hasn't been fully cleared to participate in workouts.
Sophomore forward Jaylon Moore, who along with Cesnulevicius was injured in a June all-terrain vehicle accident, is healthy again. And Simmons said Jordan Jahr is back to work after suffering a setback on his broken foot.
"Rokas is doing non-contact stuff right now," Simmons said. "He's got more tests to take to get cleared from his concussion, but he's as far along right now as he's been since he's been injured. We anticipate him being released here in the near future."
Jahr originally broke his foot in December and sat out the rest of the season, redshirting to preserve a year of eligibility. He broke the fifth metatarsal on his right foot, which connects the toe with the ankle, again in May while running.
Since that happened, Simmons' squad hasn't experienced full health until now.
"I think we have our nicks and knacks that are treated on a daily basis," he said. "But knock on wood, we've been pretty fortunate."
Preseason drills: Leading up to Saturday, when Division I teams can start two hours of weekly team instruction from coaches, the Aces have spent workouts in small groups of four or less.
"They're getting conditioning too even though they were here for most of the summer," Simmons said. "Guys go home for three or four weeks and they tend to lose the conditioning we had, so we're just trying to get them back into shape."
Simmons said he's seen marked improvement from his freshmen this year as opposed to the past. For the first time this summer coaches were allowed time to work with players, both incoming and returning, who were enrolled in summer courses.
"The great thing about the motion is ... the basic fundamentals are screening, cutting, delivering the basketball and reading the defense," Simmons said. "In our opinion (the summer workouts) made all of the above better because of the ability to teach those fundamentals."
Practices officially start on Oct. 12, at which point Simmons said the Aces' men's and women's programs should be moved into the new Fifth Third Bank Practice Facility.
Clearinghouse process: Since announcing it had signed big man Egidijus Mockevicius to an Athletics Grant In Aid agreement on Aug. 27, Evansville hasn't received news from the NCAA regarding the Lithuanian native's eligibility this season.
Simmons said what Mockevicius will go through is "somewhat similar" to fellow Lithuanian Cesnulevicius experienced this time last year while waiting until the fall for officially clearance.
"But every case is different," Simmons said.
Unlike Cesnulevicius, who spent time at a Hawaii prep school, the 6-foot-10 Mockevicius attended a the Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences before signing with Evansville. His school was unrelated to time spent this summer on the country's U20 national team that won a European Championship.
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My playful little lordling mine
Gambolling on hay
Pouting shouting scouting kine
Dallying all the way
I lose the thread he flies
I catch him on the skies
From age to age
In sinner and sage
Through shepherd boys' eyes
The cunning one so full of fun
Merry wistful on the run
From his lovers' eyes
Lilting tilting jilting one
In thousands of disguise
How he steals the hearts
With ankle bells and yellow shells
With lotus eyes where mischief dwells
Of poor little damsels running wild
Bewitched by the tartar's arts
To top it all he plays a flute
Like none played it before
Conjuring heavens lush with love
With promise of more in store
Half turning he looks askance
Kills by a casual glance
And full of mirth runs on through hearts
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"Oops flag? You're one dead Murloc!"
I recommend everyone takes a bit to play the game. It's good fun. As you progress in levels more people come out to watch you play. Around level 40 Arthas himself comes out to cheer you on. It's unknown what happens at later levels, if there really is a cow level, and what the gold cap is.
You can also click through for a bunch of basic instructions at the loading screen, and there's some funny ones hidden amongst them.
Let's look at some Failoc-alypse hints.
Use your charge attack
Stand in the middle and kill with your charge attack as a Dranei, or if you're a Witch Doctor or Marine stand off to one side and let a rip. You'll kill a lot more.
Farm gold for the later levels
Just like in WoW, you want to farm as much gold as possible for the later levels. Each nuke you release costs 250g and destroys everyone on screen. Since more Murlocs come out during the end game, be sure to save your nukes until then.
Don't worry about letting Murlocs slip by
There is apparently no negative consequences for allowing a Murloc to exit the game area. Personally, I think this will be nerfed in patch 1.1. Ghostcrawler has mentioned how Blizzard's side scrolling games have a tendency to give "too much room for error" for casual players who doesn't feel the need to kill everything. There was some initial math he presented in which he mentioned the ratio of Murlocs killed to Murlocs escaped should be right around (1 + sqrt(5))/2. We'll see if he can't correct this serious flaw. And he better, because he promised me a pony, damnit.
First we were WoW Insider, now we're WoW.com, and tomorrow? Welcome to failoc-alypse-insider.com! That's right folks, your favorite WoW news site has now decided to exclusively cover the latest Blizzard hit!


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"New" iBook keeps beach balling!
Hello everyone! I just bought a 1.2 GHz iBook G4 ... first Mac ever, trying to get used to how it works >.>
It keeps beach balling, though! Just clicking on "Applications" in the Finder causes it to become unresponsive for several minutes. So did trying to download and install Adium. I repaired disk permissions, and that didn't help. I even had the Activity Monitor open at one point and tried to Force Quit and everything, and that still didn't do anything. I've been restarting this thing a lot!
What could cause this? Does anyone know? Is the hard drive bad or something? Any help would be appreciated ...
Oh ...
And a bunch of the icons in Applications are messed up, too, when it finally decides to load. I'm not sure what's up ... and I thought at least some of them were working when I saw them earlier.
What are the basic specs and especially which version of OSX and how much RAM?
Click the Apple in the top Left corner of the screen and about this Mac.
"About This Mac" will not load. >.<
It supposedly has 512 MB RAM and is running OS X 10.4. I'm wondering if the install wasn't corrupted somehow.
The Activity Monitor confirms 512 MB RAM. About This Mac isn't the only thing that won't load, however ... iWeb won't, either, and I suspect there are other OS components missing. It may be that they used a corrupted install disc ... or perhaps the hard drive itself is messed up?
How can I tell, what can I do about this, and should this be moved to the laptops forum? >.> Any help would be appreciated.
Er, sorry ...
iWeb actually will load. It just takes half of forever. The beach ball is there for awhile, just like trying to access the Applications folder, and the hard drive makes this clunk, clunk, clunk sound.
The "clunking" sound coming from your hard drive is a good indication that it's failing. Probably need to swap it out. Make sure you have the original install media so you can reinstall OS X once you change out the hard drive. While you're at it, it might be a good idea to max out the memory.
To learn how to add memory and to change the hard drive, go to:
iFixit: Apple Mac, MacBook, iPod, and iPhone Repair Parts and look up your year model iBook and then find the step by step instructions. If I remember correctly, memory modules are located below the keyboard on the iBook. Not too sure about the hard drive though.
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Air Hockey Experimentation
18 Mar 2013, 10:18
Kelsey Roden (6 posts)
I'm reading the book for the second time, this time I'm experimenting with the results of each chapter. My question is in regards to the first air hockey project where there are two triangles for the table, one line for the player's region boundary, and two points for the mallets.
I modified the project to have another set of vertexData for a border around the table. What I did was removed this code from onSurfaceCreated() ( all of the changes I did to the Renderer class )
glVertexAttribPointer(A_POSITION_LOCATION, POSITION_COMPONENT_COUNT, GL_FLOAT, false, 0, vertexData); glEnableVertexAttribArray(A_POSITION_LOCATION);
I moved this code to the onDrawFrame() method and duplicated it to draw a border before the table is being drawn. This seems to work fine in the running project but does my application now take a huge performance hit, or is it fine to do things like this even in larger applications?
18 Mar 2013, 10:30
Kelsey Roden (6 posts)
My onDrawFrame() method looks something like this:
glVertexAttribPointer(A_POSITION_LOCATION, POSITION_COMPONENT_COUNT, GL_FLOAT, false, 0, vertexData_Table_Border); glEnableVertexAttribArray(A_POSITION_LOCATION);
glUniform4f(uColorLocation, 0.9f, 0.9f, 0.9f, 1.0f); glDrawArrays(GL_TRIANGLES, 0, 6);
glVertexAttribPointer(A_POSITION_LOCATION, POSITION_COMPONENT_COUNT, GL_FLOAT, false, 0, vertexData); glEnableVertexAttribArray(A_POSITION_LOCATION);
glUniform4f(uColorLocation, 1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f); glDrawArrays(GL_TRIANGLES, 0, 6);
( This draws the table border using the first float buffer, then it gets the second float buffer and uses it to draw the table. )
18 Mar 2013, 15:13
Kevin Brothaler (41 posts)
You probably won't notice an impact for a simple application, though in general you'll want to minimize state changes, and later on this could have an impact once you start dealing with complex scenes.
This resource has some good technical information that goes into more detail (it's for iOS, but since it's based on OpenGL ES much of the information applies to Android as well; just ignore the part about VAOs since that's nonstandard): http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/3DDrawing/Conceptual/OpenGLES_ProgrammingGuide/TechniquesforWorkingwithVertexData/TechniquesforWorkingwithVertexData.html
18 Mar 2013, 16:06
Kelsey Roden (6 posts)
Thank you for that link.
Now its time to contemplate merging tree, building, and enemy coordinates/textures into one vertex array. :) It might prove easier than I first expected.
19 Mar 2013, 02:21
Kevin Brothaler (41 posts)
The next update will have a quick section on using the Tracer for OpenGL ES. This is a neat tool that can help you dive into more detail and see how much time each draw call is taking, and where you might be having performance issues.
In the meantime, this is also a good read: http://www.teamblubee.com/2012/09/22/android-openggl-and-slow-rendering/
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Ride around the island
Get a bike and go!
What we say:
Southern loop
Head south from Duong Dong till you reach the junction with the road to Ham Ninh -- take the left turn and ride onwards to Suoi Tranh waterfall. The waterfall isn't sign posted, but just keep an eye out for the massive concrete gates on your left -- that's the entrance. There's a small charge for leaving your motorbike. The falls are more of a river running over rocks than anything else, but it's nevertheless a pleasant and cool environment.
Once you're done there, continue on the road towards Ham Ninh, but when you reach a main right, take it, heading south to Bai Sao beach. Along the way you'll come to a sealed left which runs down to Bai Vong beach, so if you want to see Bai Vong as well, take that. Otherwise, continue southwards to Bai Sao. The turnoff isn't clearly marked, but it's at the top of a rise and there's a bunch of beer and cafe signs -- that's where you want to go.
Follow the sometimes bumpy dirt road down to Bai Sao beach and decamp for lunch and a good deal of frolicking. Once done, get back onto the main road and head south till you reach a sealed road running off to the right -- take the right -- if you continue straight ahead you'll end up in An Thoi.
Follow the road around to the right and you'll end up running up the length of Long beach till you hit Duong Dong. Stop as many times as possible for a swim and don't forget to swing by the pearl farm.
Western loop
This is one of the prettiest loops. Head north from Duong Dong -- it's a little confusing as the signposting isn't great, but keep bearing left and following the signs to Mango Bay -- eventually you'll end up on the right road. Following this road takes you to the turnoffs to Mango Bay and Bo Resort -- both of which are worth dropping by for a coffee or snack, accompanied by a swim.
Continue north, along Vung Bau Beach and at the northern point you'll reach a great viewpoint looking back over the beach and down the coast. Continue north and you'll reach a seafood restaurant with good views across to Cambodia -- the frontier is a mere five kilometres from here.
After lunch continue eastwards till you reach a T-junction and take the right. This road takes you back to Duong Dong through some pleasing stretches of forest.
Eastern loop
Head south from Duong Dong and take the turn east as per the southern loop, but instead of turning south after the waterfall, continue east till you reach Ham Ninh.
Ham Ninh is a small fishing village with a couple of excellent seafood restaurants. The food is outstanding -- just be sure to confirm the prices before eating anything. Once you're well fed, head north along the coastal road. Lots of deserted scenery up here till you reach a bunch of rather scenic islets just off the coast.
After that the road tends southwestward and eventually hooks up with the main road back to Duong Dong.
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- My Tho, Can Tho & Phu Quoc Island
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main points:
* wrap the bed in cloth ala under the sycamore
* i would love to talk charlie into a more subtle rug
* build pelmet and sew curtains for closet
* see all of that american girl stuff - we need to build it a home - bunkbed, armoire, etc.
* hang art : her art, real art, ballet shoes, etc.
* make a new duvet cover
* make a dress up station (super pared down)
* hang a mirror somewhere, anywhere
hmmm. i go round and round on this room. the bed is awkward, the room is awkward.
and she is really girly - so i have big job to make this room come together,
and not feel like a barbie vomited all over it.
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This Post Has 18 Comments
Daniel Nishimura
Very cool to see this working outside of matlab. Great job!
Great illustration of th power and flexibility of ruby! Another, albeit less illustrative, approach would be to use the ruby-gsl library, which utilizes the GNU Scientific Library. GSL is a numerical library in C that is deployed in a myriad of scientific computation tasks.
@Sameer Thanks for your feedback. I looked at ruby-gsl but decided against it for this post. My goal was to illustrate the underlying math, and show the simplicity of the Ruby necessary to perform this basic statistical method. If I was going to be deploying a large scale production system I would definitely consider using a C based approach. The GPL license of GSL does make it somewhat problematic.
Jonathan Clemons
Slick work! Will be nice to use this and Sameer's suggestion of GSL in custom dashboards!
To echo Tony, I too am curious what you used to plot the final plot.
Marco Falcioni
I think it would be best to coerce the data type to Decimal. Computing averages like you do above is bound to run into rounding errors. For large data sets "sum" will eventually become much larger than "value", and you lose precision.
It's neat to have "simple" implementations of mathematical formulas, but floating point math is tricky.
Marco Falcioni thanks for your feedback. I thought about the risk with large values but decided that for this particular post I wanted to make the code as simple as possible to try and help people understand the math. In a production setting I would work with a big number library to ensure precision wouldn't be lost. This code is ment more as a basic example than a fully featured library but perhaps I should have included a warning about the risk with large numbers and I appreciate you pointing this out.
Michael Kohl
In "mean", "total = values.reduce(0) { |sum, x| x + sum }" is the same as the much shorter "total = values.reduce(0, :+)". Personally I'd just reduce the whole method body to "values.reduce(0, :+).to_f / values.size".
Dave Guarino
I dig. You might be interested in this presentation from a dude who just wrote a neat book on doing rad things with Ruby and R: http://www.slideshare.net/sausheong/rubyand-r
It describes the pros and cons of three Ruby/R interfaces (RinRuby, RSRuby, and RServe) and illustrates with a text classification problem.
Probably not a solution for very large data sets, but for the non-trivial stuff where you don't want to have to dump out of Ruby but you also don't want to hand-code, could come in handy.
Non Plus
Why not just write this in a different language? I notice you refer to methods as functions in several cases. This seems like a square peg in a round hole. Classes are superfluous when you're just using conditions and Enumerable methods, and even if you decided to ignore that aspect of Ruby (forced OOP), then you'd still need to contend with the dismal performance of Ruby's numerics, lack of native threads, and so on.
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Letter: Never growing up
Jack Anderson, Naples
Never growing up
We are outnumbered.
What we saw in the election on Nov. 6 was a tipping point. We are now at a place where there are legitimately fewer Americans who desire a free republic with a free people than there are those who think the government should give them stuff.
Fewer who believe in the value of free enterprise and who do not wish to demonize successful people to justify taking from them.
What did we win? Drugs. Vulgarity. Bad manners. Lies. Cheating. Name-calling. Blaming. And irresponsible spending. This does not bode well.
People grow up one of two ways: either they choose to or circumstances force them to. The warnings are all there, whether the looming economic disaster, or the inability of the government to respond to crises like Hurricane Sandy, or the growing strength of our enemies. American voters block their ears and say, "I can't hear you."
What circumstances will it take to force Americans to grow up? Most who voted for President Barack Obama have no idea what they are in for. Obama does not have a mandate and he does not care. He does not view himself as being elected to represent individuals. He views himself as having been re-elected to complete the "fundamental transformation" of America, the basic structure of which he despises.
Expect more of the same — complete disregard of the will of half the American public, his rule by executive order and the utter inability of another divided Congress to rein him in.
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@Scott - what is your problem man? So its OK for these two very large aggressive dogs to be free and you don't see a problem with it? I guess you never go out of your house to exercise. I for one would not want to be running around the neighborhood and come face to face with these two dogs. Maybe they won't be agressive towards a human being - but we have all heard of stories where this is not the case and it did not turn out too well for the innocent bystander. These dogs obviously belong to somebody that I can only conclude is not very responsible or we would not have this situation now would we. Besides - don't you have something better to do at 4 in the morning than to post a comment on what you think of my original posting! Get a life loser.
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A Conversation with Former Ambassador to the Soviet Union, 1987-1991: Ambassador Jack Matlock, Jr.
Tue, September 23, 2014 • 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM • LBJ Library, 10th-floor Atrium
Tuesday, September 23rd, 12:15pm-1:30pm
10th Floor Atrium of the LBJ Library
Free and open to the public, but registration required
(Check HERE for more information and updates on where to register)
Jack Matlock, a retired diplomat, has held academic posts since 1991: Sol Linowitz Professor of International Relations, Hamilton College, 2006; visiting professor and lecturer in public and international affairs at Princeton University, 2001-2004; George F. Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, 1996 - 2001; Senior Research Fellow and then Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor in the Practice of International Diplomacy at Columbia University, 1991 to 1996. During his 35 years in the American Foreign Service (1956-1991) he served as Ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1987 to 1991, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and Senior Director for European and Soviet Affairs on the National Security Council Staff from 1983 until 1986, and Ambassador to Czechoslovakia from 1981 to 1983.
Before his appointment to Moscow as Ambassador, Mr. Matlock served three tours at the American Embassy in the Soviet Union, as Vice Consul and Third Secretary (1961-63), Minister Counselor and Deputy Chief of Mission (1974-1978), and Chargé d'Affaires ad interim in 1981. His other Foreign Service assignments were in Vienna, Munich, Accra, Zanzibar and Dar es Salaam, in addition to tours in Washington as Director of Soviet Affairs in the State Department (1971-74) and as Deputy Director of the Foreign Service Institute (1979-80). Before entering the Foreign Service Mr. Matlock was Instructor in Russian Language and Literature at Dartmouth College (1953-56). During the 1978-79 academic year he was Visiting Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University.
He is the author of Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended (Random House, 2004, paperback edition 2005); Autopsy on an Empire: The American Ambassador's Account of the Collapse of the Soviet Union (Random House, 1995); and a handbook to the thirteen-volume Russian edition of Stalin's Collected Works (Washington, D.C. 1955, 2nd edition, New York, 1971).


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Animals Matter
See what Express-News pets columnist Cathy M. Rosenthal has to say about animals.
Monthly Archive for April, 2013
What to do when your dog or cat is choking
Yesterday, a friend's five-year-old dog died. Her husband had just given the dog a small piece of turkey from a pot pie he had finished. These pieces are cubed and often the size of a dog treat. He thought it was a safe treat to give to his dog. A few minutes later though, she […] [Read More]
Therapy dogs comfort Boston victims and others in need
When tragedy strikes, our canine friends continue to be by our sides. At the Boston marathon, bomb-sniffing dogs helped ensure no more bombs were on the marathon route after the first two explosions. During the Waco tragedy this week, where an explosion at a fertilizer plant leveled many homes, dogs may again be called upon […] [Read More]
5 easy ways to help animals today
People are always asking me, "How can I help animals?" It's actually quite easy to do. In fact, if you can do these five simple things, you will be well on your way to becoming an awesome advocate for dogs and cats. 1. Spay/neuter your pet. About 50% of litters that end up in animal […] [Read More]
Search on for missing guide dog
When a dog goes missing, it's tragic. When it's a missing guide dog, it's doubly tragic. A few weeks ago, a seven-year-old German Shepherd named Potter went missing from Shady Wood Lane in San Antonio, Texas. He slipped out of his house and hasn't been found yet. Guide Dogs for the Blind in California began […] [Read More]
How NOT to tell neighbors to neuter their cats
Beck, the tabby cat, came home with a message scrawled in red felt tip ink on his back — "Please neuter this cat." Sharon Munns, who lives in Cottrill Way, Bedford, England, was shocked, especially since her beloved Beck had been neutered eight years earlier. One can only imagine Beck's fear as strangers captured him, […] [Read More]


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Our UK and Ireland branch of the Licensing Executives Society (LES) is having an event on open source on Wednesday 10th September 2008 at 5:30 PM (speakers starting at 6). From the event description (DOC file):
Free and open source software has had a radical impact on how we – both individuals and businesses – use and develop software. At this event, three speakers will discuss open source software from three different perspectives. We will hear an introduction to the subject from an IP and IT barrister (ed note – David Harris mentioned below). This introduction will be followed by commentaries by two speakers from very different places in the IT world: Mark Lange of Microsoft and Gerry Gavigan of the Open Source Consortium.
The event will also feature blogger, IP/IT barrister, and Open Rights Group board member David Harris and former IMPACT blogger (now at Shoosmiths) Alex Newson will chair the event.
The event will be at Withers LLP, 16 Old Bailey, London, EC4M 7EG. Cost for LES Members is £20.00, non-members is £40.00. An optional dinner will follow (venue to be confirmed) for £35.00
Posting information about IP events will be a regular feature here on Tangible IP. I'm looking into how we will get it set up so that we can have a well integrated calendar with the site. Let me know if you have any suggestions.


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The results of the annual survey of college freshmen, released this week by researchers at UCLA, confirm that the fragile economy continues to weigh heavily on the minds of today's students. Since 2006, freshmen have listed getting a better job as the most important reason to go to college, and this year, 88 percent of them said so, an all time high.
Previously, first-year students had said that learning about things that interest them was the number one reason to go to college. Nearly 3 in 4 students now say that making more money is a very important reason to go to college.
It's no wonder that economic concerns now dominate the discussion about the value of college. List prices for colleges continue to rise as the incomes of Americans lag. The median net worth of American families hasn't been this low since 1992, so tuition is eating up a greater share of income, now nearly 38 percent of median income, up from 23 percent in 2001.
Sure, more financial aid lowers the list price for many students, but the current model of tuition discounting does not seem sustainable for a large swath of institutions. Six in ten colleges report flat or declining net-tuition revenue, meaning that they are giving away just as much or more in financial aid than they have in the past despite raising their tuition prices.


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NEW YORK — Sting, Rihanna and Bruno Mars will hit the stage for a special performance at next week's Grammy Awards.
The Recording Academy announced Monday that they will perform together at the Feb. 10 awards show. Triple nominee Kelly Clarkson will also take the stage.
Beyonce, Prince, Jennifer Lopez and country singer Hunter Hayes will be presenters at the Grammys, which will be held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
Six acts tie for the most nominations with six each, including Ocean, The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach, Kanye West, Jay-Z, fun. and Mumford & Sons.
Previously announced performers include Ocean, Alicia Keys, Maroon 5, Ed Sheeran, Elton John and fun. Taylor Swift will kick off the show, to be hosted by rapper-actor LL Cool J.
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Diego Laxalt's agent has admitted that maybe their loan move to Bologna this season may have been a mistake.
The Uruguayan youngster joined the Rossoblu over the summer on a season-long deal from the Nerazurri, but has so far failed to make an appearance for Stefano Pioli's men.
"The boy has a lot of quality," Vincenzo D'Ippolito told ItaSportPress. "The fans are following him with particular interest.
"Unfortunately Pioli currently prefers Christodoulopoulos to Diego.
"But I hope that can change soon and he will be taken more seriously.
"I think that if he had stayed at Inter then maybe he would have played more, because I know Mazzarri really likes him."
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