A novel is a fictitious prose narrative or tale presenting a picture of real life. The term ‘novel’ comes from Italian ‘novella’ meaning ‘new’, ‘news’, or ‘a short story on something new’. It is the latest form of literary genre in English.The length of the narrative shouldn’t be less than 70,000 words. The roots of novel may be traced in medieval romances.
Easy way to learn English literature. Here you will find clear idea about different types of authors and their writings. Also you will get all important quotations. It will make you fully comfortable to discuss about English literature.
Group Presentation on The Ministry of Utmost Happiness.pptxNilay Rathod
This presentation is about Arundhati Roy's acclaimed novel The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. The presentation will explore the themes, key facts, summary, articles, characters that are explored in the book. It will also discuss the relevance of the novel to today's world and its impact on readers. The presentation will provide an engaging and informative analysis of the book and its themes.
A novel is a fictitious prose narrative or tale presenting a picture of real life. The term ‘novel’ comes from Italian ‘novella’ meaning ‘new’, ‘news’, or ‘a short story on something new’. It is the latest form of literary genre in English.The length of the narrative shouldn’t be less than 70,000 words. The roots of novel may be traced in medieval romances.
Easy way to learn English literature. Here you will find clear idea about different types of authors and their writings. Also you will get all important quotations. It will make you fully comfortable to discuss about English literature.
Group Presentation on The Ministry of Utmost Happiness.pptxNilay Rathod
This presentation is about Arundhati Roy's acclaimed novel The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. The presentation will explore the themes, key facts, summary, articles, characters that are explored in the book. It will also discuss the relevance of the novel to today's world and its impact on readers. The presentation will provide an engaging and informative analysis of the book and its themes.
Victorian History and Literature(Novels, Poems & Drams )Fida Muhammad
The Victorian” era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria’s reign from 1837 until her death in 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined culture, great advancements in technology, and national self-confidence for Britain.
During theVictorian age, Britain was the worlds most powerful nation. By the end of Victorias reign, the British empire extended over about one-fifth of the earths surface. Like Elizabethan England, Victorian England saw great expansion of wealth, power, and culture. But as Victorian England was a time of great ambition and grandeur, it was also a time of misery, squalor, and urban ugliness.
Fable: A short story that often uses talking animals as the main characters and teaches an explicit moral or lesson.
Folktale: A story originally passed from one generation to another by word of mouth only. The characters are usually all good or all bad and in the end are rewarded or punished as they deserve.
Legend: Story, sometimes of a national or folk hero, which has a basis in fact but also includes imaginative material
Here is my Presentation as a part of my Academic activities of Sem-1 M.A . Submitted to Pro.Dr Dilip Barad , Department of English MK Bhavnagar University.
#Chaucer's art of characterization
#Presentation
#classical poetry
#education
#helping material
#teaching
#knowledge
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ayman-batool-4b55a3205_chaucers-art-of-characterization-activity-6767364096041005056-cgX-
Victorian History and Literature(Novels, Poems & Drams )Fida Muhammad
The Victorian” era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria’s reign from 1837 until her death in 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined culture, great advancements in technology, and national self-confidence for Britain.
During theVictorian age, Britain was the worlds most powerful nation. By the end of Victorias reign, the British empire extended over about one-fifth of the earths surface. Like Elizabethan England, Victorian England saw great expansion of wealth, power, and culture. But as Victorian England was a time of great ambition and grandeur, it was also a time of misery, squalor, and urban ugliness.
Fable: A short story that often uses talking animals as the main characters and teaches an explicit moral or lesson.
Folktale: A story originally passed from one generation to another by word of mouth only. The characters are usually all good or all bad and in the end are rewarded or punished as they deserve.
Legend: Story, sometimes of a national or folk hero, which has a basis in fact but also includes imaginative material
Here is my Presentation as a part of my Academic activities of Sem-1 M.A . Submitted to Pro.Dr Dilip Barad , Department of English MK Bhavnagar University.
#Chaucer's art of characterization
#Presentation
#classical poetry
#education
#helping material
#teaching
#knowledge
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ayman-batool-4b55a3205_chaucers-art-of-characterization-activity-6767364096041005056-cgX-
Mike Miozza for Mayor Action Plan - City of Fall RiverJoAnne Breault
Michael L. Miozza is a 2 term Fall River City Councilor. He is running for Mayor of the City of Fall River in the Recall Election. This is the first time in the City of Fall River that a mayor has been recalled. Michael Miozza holds a Master's Degree in Business Management and has extensive community service experience. He has an action plan to get Fall River back on track.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
2. The Wolf in history and folklore
A fear of wolves would have been sensible when
packs roamed the countryside.
Fear easily becomes superstition – and wolves
quickly began to be seen as otherworldly,
unnatural, evil creatures.
This became reflected in folk tales and fairy tales.
Dracula could apparently turn himself into a wolf
(as well as a bat or even mist). The big bad wolf
became a stock character that children were taught
to fear.
3. The Big Bad Wolf
The Big Bad Wolf was known for:
• Talking to children and tricking them
• Stalking little girls and little pigs
• Destroying property with a huff and a puff
• Masquerading as grandmothers to lure prey
• Impersonating sheep in order to sneak up on prey
• Attacking livestock when your back is turned
• Devouring whole families of goats
4. Who IS the Big Bad Wolf?
Is he an actual wolf, a werewolf, or a person who
acts in a wolfish way? Is he symbolic?
5. Are real wolves evil?
Well….no, obviously.
They are predators, but that is their
nature – and ours too, if we think about it.
They are pack animals, with a clearly defined
hierarchy. Only Alphas produce cubs, which are
looked after by the rest of the pack.
OK, their howl is a bit spooky… but that’s about
it.
6. Modern versions
This advert is a
spoof news
feature from the
Guardian.
It plays with our
expectations of
the Big Bad Wolf…
7. Modern versions
Many modern Big Bad Wolves
present alternative ideas to
the traditional stories.
They often explore whether the wolf has been
somehow slandered or misrepresented by the
traditional stories.
The wolf may be a loyal, protective character. We
might feel sympathetic towards the wolf; we might
even be on his side.
9. Carol Ann Duffy’s wolf
In her poem ‘Little Red-Cap’,
Duffy presents us with a
wolf who is seduced by a
16 year-old Little Red and
has a relationship with her.
He is older than she is, drinks
red wine and likes reading poetry.
Little Red asks, at one point, “what little girl doesn’t
dearly love a wolf?” – what do you think this means?
10. Angela Carter’s Wolves
We are going to focus on the following stories:
• The Werewolf
• The Company of Wolves
• Wolf-Alice
11. The Werewolf
Based on the Little Red Riding Hood story
Read through the story carefully and make
notes, focusing on:
• The setting of the story
• How the characters from the original story
have been adapted
12. The Werewolf
How do you respond to the ending of the story?
Is it a satisfying ending?
What do you think this story is about?
• Attitudes towards female power
• The brutality of fairy tales
• The vulnerability of wolves
13. The Company of Wolves
Also based on Little Red Riding Hood
Make notes on the following:
• The setting
• The character of the wolf
• The character of the girl
14. The Company of Wolves
How has Carter adapted the original story this
time?
Consider:
• Themes
• Character
• Motifs – both from the original and from
other stories in Carter’s collection
15. The Company of Wolves
Compare this to The Werewolf –
what similarities and differences
can you identify?
16. Wolf-Alice
This story invites you to compare
what it is like to be human, and
what it is like to be a wolf.
Alice is a feral child, meaning she is ‘wild’. She has
been raised by wolves.
She comes into conflict with human society, which
values ‘civilised’ behaviour.
17. Wolf-Alice
How would you reflect on Alice’s behaviour in the
story?
Consider:
• How she interacts with others
• How she understands the world
• How she understands right and wrong
How does this compare to the Duke’s behaviour?
18. Wolf-Alice
Carter’s presentation of wildness and civilisation:
Consider the following word pairs – which is ‘wild’
and which is ‘civilised’ in the story?
a) human / animal
b) natural / unnatural
c) tame / wild
d) confined / free
e) innocent / knowing
Can you add any more to this list?
19. Wolf-Alice
Many of Carter’s standard motifs and themes
feature in this story:
• Mirror
• Blood
• Metamorphosis
How does Carter use these in Wolf-Alice?
20. Wolf-Alice
What is this story about?
a) Is it a Romantic view of the innocence of
children and animals?
b) Is it attempting to show that wolves are not
the frightening monsters they are often
assumed to be?
c) Is it a ‘coming of age’ story about growing up
and finding your place in the world?
21. Summary
What conclusions can you draw about the
character of the wolf in Carter’s stories?
Create a mind map,
including brief quotations.
22. Creative Task
Brainstorm ways of adapting the Little Red
Riding Hood story, using Carter’s texts as
inspiration.
Consider:
• Characters
• Setting
• Narrative viewpoint
