In this essay, Jennifer Richards suggests that a study of Gabriel Harvey’s neglected poetry and prose qualifies his current reputation as a purely pragmatic Renaissance humanist. In his literary writings, Harvey explores the different ways in which social bonds are formed and sustained; this interest is also manifested in his marginalia. Richards considers the continuity between Harvey’s work a...

Textual Information in the “Social Media World” can be broadly categorized into two main types: Facts and Opinions. Opinions are usually subjective expressions that describe people sentiments, feelings towards entities, events and their properties. Sentiment analysis tracks the mood of the speaker or writer about a particular product or entity. In this paper, an approach is proposed for automat...

to study art, sociologists have so far related it either to the economic base of the artistic product or to the artist's ideology or world-view or the class structure of the audience and art consumers. the importance of none of these factors could be denied; however, what is more important is the relation between these factors, the complex network of political, economic and social relations tha...

Although robotics researchers commonly contend that robots should not look too humanlike, many artforms have successfully depicted people and have come to be accepted as great and important works, with examples such as Rodin’s Thinker, Mary Cassat’s infants, and Disney’s Abe Lincoln simulacrum. Extending this tradition to intelligent robotics, the authors have depicted late sci-fi writer Philip...

Amma Darko follows in the tracks of the two leading Ghanaian women writers, Efua Sutherland and Ama Ata Aidoo. However, as a writer, Darko differs in her approach to social, political and cultural issues. Her first three novels, Beyond the Horizon (1995), The Housemaid (1998) and Faceless (2003), all present and contest the culture of patriarchy. In her works, women are victims of rape, battery...

This paper discusses the gender difference in the English intonation patterns used by native speakers of English from sociophonetic and functional perspectives with a preliminary corpus-based experimental study. The main purpose of this research is to dig out the possible reasons of gender difference in intonation usage with social and cultural impacts. The research isolates gender as the major...

As a result of personal experience on the staffs of Holloway Prison and of the Aylesbury Borstal Institution, the writer of this book can speak with some authority on the methods of treating women prisoners and delinquent girls as she found them to exist; from the knowledge gained by training as a Psychiatric Social Worker she has formed very definite convictions as to the much better methods w...

There are many myths about bilingualism in children, many of them negative ones. Some educators have cautioned against the use of two languages in children, claiming that bilingualism causes cognitive, Social, and emotional damage to children. Although few scholars today would claim that bilingualism could cognitively harm children, this view has been advocated in the past, and can still be occ...

In the Spill o Llibre de les dones, the 15th century writer and physician from Valencia, Jaume Roig, uses the motif of pilgrimage to attack earthly women, particularly women healers. Roig undermines the salutary function of medieval pilgrimage in order to expose worldly women in their effort to harm male pilgrims. Since men cannot rely on earthly women, they must seek a healing encounter with t...

Introduction Scholarly communication in the social sciences is centered around publications, in which data also play a key role. The increasingly collaborative scientific process, from a project plan, to collecting data, to interpreting them in a paper and submitting it for peer review, to publishing an article, to, finally, its consumption by readers, is insufficiently supported by contemporar...