Birch

BIRCH (balanced iterative reducing and clustering using hierarchies) is an unsupervised data mining algorithm used to achieve hierarchical clustering over particularly huge data-sets. An advantage of Birch is its capacity to incrementally and dynamically cluster incoming, multi-dimensional metric data points in an effort to generate the best quality clustering for a given set of resources (memory and time constraints). In most cases, Birch only requires a single scan of the database. In addition

In the poem “Birches” by Robert Frost and the famous scientific research paper “The Patterns in Thumb and Finger Marks” by Francis Galton are two significant examples that illustrate that the purpose and the form of a text allows meaning to be drawn from it. First, in poems, various figurative devices are used to emphasis the meaning and enhance the understanding of a word or a sentence. Similar has been depicted in Robert Frost’s “Birches”. Frost too uses many of such devices in his poem out of

Diary Entry #9 (1892) This winter has really taken a toll on me and my life. For a long time have I not been able to find the joy and happiness in my heart. I have tried to read books but their special effect has evaded me. I feel that I am living in a world of dread anxiety and doubt. At the source of this dread was a story I wrote and sent to Mr. Anagnos of the Perkins Institution for the blind. The story was titled, “The Frost King” and I wrote it for his birthday. Mr. Anagnos enjoyed his present

I've lived on this very spot since I was just a sapling. I’ve been through countless storms of thunder, lightning, and rain. Before the battle began, I thought, “I would live out my days sitting on top of Great Birnam Wood” -never thinking I would be part of the battle. But I am, and so is every other tree on top of Great Birnam Wood. Today the English army was to meet at Great Birnam Wood to talk with Malcolm. They were all burning for revenge on MacBeth. All the nobles around were here, even

In Gary Soto’s short story “The Jacket” the main character, the boy with the ugly jacket, says this “ I spent my sixth-grade year in a tree in the alley, waiting for something good to happen to me in that jacket, which had become the ugly brother who tagged along wherever I went.” The boy blames his jacket for all the struggles that happened to him, and he believes that the jacket brought him imperfect luck. Soto uses this to support the theme because the boy is being distracted by the jacket, which

Many films around the world use objects to symbolize a deeper meaning. In the movie “Simon Birch” the armadillo and all three deers symbolized Simon and God’s will. In the movie “Simon Birch” the armadillo symbolizes Simon because just like Simon, the armadillo is small but has a hard shell which can endure a lot. This is equivalent to what Simon has since even though his whole town makes fun of him and laughs at him, his shell protects him, and he continues to put a smile on his face. Furthermore

Have you ever been picked on for being short? Well, In this movie directed by Mark Steven Johnson, Simon Birch, the main character, faces many bullies and people who treat him negatively based on his inability to grow. In this movie, you learn about a boy who faces many problems and struggles with many things in his daily life. But all throughout this movie, Simon Birch is able to push through these problems and not let them completely bring him down. The most effective things that help people

1. The 2D manuscript painting on vellum of The Limbourg Brothers from the February calendar was a beautiful lively artwork. The painting illustrates the frigid winter air by using the white colors of the snow to cover the landscape. Proportion is used to portray the far distance at which the center village lies. The individuals in the painting are also larger in size than the animals to give a more realistic representation. The artist uses lines to create the edges of the farm building built of wood

In Movement One, one can imagine that the speaker is walking through the woods, looking over the top of the tree line. He notices trees swaying in the wind, he sees “birches bend to left and right” (Frost 2). Robert Frost’s vivid details in Movement One offers the reader an opportunity to immerse themselves into the reading. He explains that as the trees bend, the frozen covering of the branches “cracks and crazes their enamel” (Frost 7). While watching over the trees, he starts to imagine that the

Figurative language tends to be written in the first person about a very intense and or private experience. In this story " Birches " By Robert Frost, there are many times when parts of figurative language appear. " When i see birches bend left and right Across the of straighter darker trees, i like to think some boy's beens swinging them " is a use of metaphor because he is saying that the branch swinging by the wind but he says he likes to think theres sum boy swinging them. Also in that phrase