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Ahab's arithmetic; or, the mathematics of Moby Dick

Ahab's arithmetic; or, the mathematics of Moby Dick

... the Moby-Dick of mathematics, fatally undone by Gödel so soon ...In Moby-Dick, there are chapters on ‘Cetology’ in which Ishmael attempts a classification of whales (using the publishing terms ...

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Mathematical Quotations in Melville’s Moby Dick

Mathematical Quotations in Melville’s Moby Dick

... In Moby-Dick, the narrator (‘Call me Ishmael’) is employed as a deck-hand on a whaling-ship, the Pequod, with its captain, Ahab, first mate Starbuck (latterly of coffee-shop fame) and second mate ...killing ...

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Tall-fins and tale-ends in Taiwan: cetacean exploitation, oil refineries and Moby-Dick

Tall-fins and tale-ends in Taiwan: cetacean exploitation, oil refineries and Moby-Dick

... in Moby-­‐Dick,” ISLE, and “Humanizing Moby Dick: Redeeming Anthropomorphism,” The Future of Ecocriticism: New Horizons); Diane ...read Moby-­‐ Dick in the undergraduate English ...

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Forms of Insanity and Insane Characters in Moby-Dick

Forms of Insanity and Insane Characters in Moby-Dick

... Tragic dimensions of the "final monomania" take final shape as Ahab draws upon disappoint- ments of early years, the deepening troubles of middle years, or second stage, to regar[r] ...

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The archetypal quest and Moby Dick : Melville's "ecological, cosmic democracy"

The archetypal quest and Moby Dick : Melville's "ecological, cosmic democracy"

... How does one put "the world before life, life before man, and respect for other before self interest", particularly in a world in which progress has come to mean power at any cost, rathe[r] ...

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Comparative evaluation of phase-change mechanisms for the prediction of flashing flows

Comparative evaluation of phase-change mechanisms for the prediction of flashing flows

... “Moby Dick” nozzle-Comparison of the numerical predictions to available experimental data: a Pressure and b vapour volume fraction at the axis along the nozzle length.. It must be pointe[r] ...

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Chromophilia: The Design World's Passion for Colour

Chromophilia: The Design World's Passion for Colour

... in Moby-Dick (1851), and impelling Modern architects and interior designers to proliferate white walls in chic upscale interiors well into the late twentieth ...

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Stories of things remote : (re)placing the self in 19th-century adventure fiction

Stories of things remote : (re)placing the self in 19th-century adventure fiction

... 1 At the same time, Melville‟s chosen narrator, Ishmael, lived out a transformation that adventure fiction would soon experience, in part because of novels like Moby-Dick : beginning[r] ...

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The Revitalization of the Community based Management of Acute Malnutrition Program in Haiti

The Revitalization of the Community based Management of Acute Malnutrition Program in Haiti

... known: Moby-Dick is ‘difficult and immensely important’” (Selby 44). Moby-Dick’s internal difficulty and reception history remains at odds with one another even when scholars employ sophisticated ...

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The influence of English grammar, syntax, idiom and style upon contemporary literary Arabic

The influence of English grammar, syntax, idiom and style upon contemporary literary Arabic

... 483; under the direct influence of the 'You may go', Melville, Moby Dick, p.. English, Nuýayma, al-Yawn al-Akhir, p.[r] ...

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Estimating readability with the Strathclyde readability measure

Estimating readability with the Strathclyde readability measure

... Text SRM1 A Tale of Two Cities 43.61 The Brothers Karamazov 46.33 Notes from the Underground 47.39 Great Expectations 64.85 Crime and Punishment 44.32 Moby Dick 64.92 Around the World in[r] ...

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Measuring Strategic Communications

Measuring Strategic Communications

... touching Moby Dick, which could not but occasionally awaken in any man's soul some alarm, there was another thought, or rather vague, nameless horror concerning him, which at times by its intensity ...

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Threshold Extension of Gallium Arsenide/Aluminum Gallium Arsenide Terahertz Detectors and Switching in Heterostructures

Threshold Extension of Gallium Arsenide/Aluminum Gallium Arsenide Terahertz Detectors and Switching in Heterostructures

... As Ahab becomes the ultimate agent of determinism, Melville incorporates Calvinist elements in Moby-Dick. The bleak outlook Calvinism takes on the nature of mankind correlates to several aspects of Ahab’s ...

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Through A Scanner Darkly: Neuropsychology and psychosis in Philip K. Dick's novel "A Scanner Darkly"

Through A Scanner Darkly: Neuropsychology and psychosis in Philip K. Dick's novel "A Scanner Darkly"

... Apart from these carefully observed vignettes of drug use and its consequences however, A Scanner Darkly is notable as a study on the separation and fracturing of self-consciousness. Dick explores this by setting ...

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PERFORMANCE STUDY OF PACK BOWIE DICK TEST READY: CASE STUDY OF FIVE MARKS

PERFORMANCE STUDY OF PACK BOWIE DICK TEST READY: CASE STUDY OF FIVE MARKS

... Sterilization is one of the special processes whose results cannot be fully verified by a final control of the product. For this reason it is necessary to ensure the validation of sterilization processes before ...

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Romantic Depiction of Death in the Poetry of Sarojini Naidu

Romantic Depiction of Death in the Poetry of Sarojini Naidu

... The theme of death is a powerful presence in the poetry of Sarojini Naidu and it keeps reminding us of the poetry of Emily Dickinson on the mysteries of death... Emily Dick[r] ...

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The influence of customer loyalty on small island economies: an empirical and exploratory study

The influence of customer loyalty on small island economies: an empirical and exploratory study

... Dick and Basu’s (1984) proposition is supported by other research (Palmer et al, 2000; Knox and Walker, 2001; Rowley, 2005) which regard posting customers to either the attitudinal or behavioural ends is an ...

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Mind modelling with corpus stylistics in David Copperfield

Mind modelling with corpus stylistics in David Copperfield

... It is noticeable here that Dick’s speech is repeatedly associated with reference to markers of his emotional state of mind or to his cognitive processes. Specifically, exam- ple (1), where Mr. Dick refers to ...

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PR Writing Learning Package Flipbook as an Instructional Media

PR Writing Learning Package Flipbook as an Instructional Media

... the Dick and Carey learning model which is combined with the development steps of Suparman in the MPI model which the researchers themselves ...the Dick and Carey development model which is a learning ...

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MR Imaging Guided Interstitial Photodynamic Laser Therapy for Advanced Head and Neck Tumors

MR Imaging Guided Interstitial Photodynamic Laser Therapy for Advanced Head and Neck Tumors

... Interstitial photodynamic therapy as salvage treatment for recurrent head and neck cancer.. Dick EA, Taylor-Robinson SD, Thomas HC, Gedroyc WM.[r] ...

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