Class Notes: Data Structures and Algorithms Summer-C Semester 1999 - M WRF 2nd Period CSE/E119, Section 7344 Homework #6 -- Due Fri 09 July 1999 : 09.30am In class, we discussed AVL trees, binary search trees, and the breadth-first and depth-first search (BFS and DFS) algorithms for graph or tree traversal. The purpose of this homework is to exercise your knowledge and develop skills you will need for the exams and for Projects 4 and 5. Use your class notes and the text (Chapter 12) as a guide
replacing old-growth forests with faster-growing young trees". A new study of young and old forests says how this is in fact not true. Loggers have said that new trees pull the carbon dioxide better than old trees, and this may seem true, but it is not. There is one point being overlooked from all of this. The older, larger trees can store much, much more carbon dioxide than a new tree could. By cutting and burning these magnificent seasoned trees, the CO2 is being released back into the atmosphere
Beloved, Toni Morrison uses trees to symbolize comfort, protection and peace. Morrison uses trees throughout Beloved to emphasize the serenity that the natural world offers. Many black characters, and some white and Native American characters, refer to trees as offering calm, healing and escape, thus conveying Morrison’s message that trees bring peace. Besides using the novel’s characters to convey her message, Morrison herself displays and shows the good and calmness that trees represent in the tree imagery
to represent both literally the tree or trees, and figuratively, they represent a journey to peace, a climb to "heaven". In "The Road Not Taken", the "wood" is merely the setting. It is described as a "yellow wood". This is obviously fall. I can see the orange, yellow and red leaves, lying all around. The gray/brown bark of the trees where the leaves are already fallen. The bright plumes where they have not. The trees also hide the road as it passes from sight
The man then fell back down but to his knees weeping in pain from the gruesome slash that went from the bottom of his ribs to the middle of his chest. The man rolled on to one knee and fell to his back, and as the man look up towards the branches of trees the light seemed to fade, as he heard faint cries of his fellow soldiers fighting in the war miles away he passed out on the forest floor. Awakening from a faint soothing voice, his eyelids slowly opened allowing the light to fill his eyes. He went
Japanese tradition is ‘bonsai’. Bonsai is the art of growing miniature trees. These trees were introduced by China around the thirteenth century. Japanese bonsai trees have evolved into an expression of beauty consistent with the teachings of Zen Buddhism which profess an interrelationship of man and nature. Bonsai has three basic tenets. These tenets are called ‘shin-zen-bi’ which stand for truth, goodness and beauty. The miniature trees are grown in small ceramic pots. They endure a great deal of cultivation
stand now, and prevent the short-sightedness of others from destroying what ultimately belongs to us all. Alternatives to Destruction: Saving the Old Growth Forests. Imagine walking down an ancient path amidst a forest of tangled and twisted trees, some of which have existed since before a time even great grandparents can remember. The air echoes with sounds of life, and the fragrance is that of cedar or juniper… or something not quite either. The living things that dwell here, bridge a gap
Chestnut Blight and American Chestnut Trees Since the early 1900's a disease known as Chestnut Blight has infected many American Chestnut trees and causing their removal from forests. A greater look at the history of this fungus as well as the mechanisms of action will allow us to learn on how to preserve the American chestnut. At one point, the American chestnut was virtually eliminated. With the help of government acts and conservation agencies, the American chestnut is slowly growing back in
Investigating the Effects of Shade From Trees on Plants Below Introduction A collection of living things together at the same place and time is called a Habitat. The main purpose of a habitat is to provide and adequate food supply, a comfortable place to breeding/reproduction to take place and to provide a certain degree of shelter. Examples of various habitats are: ü Forests and woodland/ trees ü Bushes and shrubs ü Ponds/ lakes ü Sand dunes ü Grassland ü Rocky shores
The order of growth of t(n) is not larger than g(n). When put in terms of order of growth, f = O(g) is like "f <= g." When two searching algorithms are compared, both the worst and average time is O(n) for a sequential search and O(log2 n) for the binary search. (Sestoft, p. 110) Big-O notation is concerned with what happens for very large values of N, therefore only the largest term in a polynomial is needed. All smaller terms are dropped. For example, the number of operations in some sorts is
As a person gets older and more mature their idea on what's “fun” changes. What other ways do people demonstrate change throughout a lifetime? In The Giving tree, the boys idea on what he enjoys doing changes. When he was younger he would go visit the tree everyday and play on it. As he got older and older he grew more and more away from the tree and became more independent. Shel Silverstein uses the character of the boy to illustrate the theme of change. The first way that the boy demonstrates
Throughout the text of Milton’s Paradise Lost, we can see many instances of binary relationships connecting separate conceptual ideas. The construction of "authorship" in the poem exists as a good example of just such a relationship. This theme incorporates two very different ideas in the poem, and is central to the understanding of issues concerning the creation and use of power. The attention Milton gives to each character, and their specific personality, allows us to interpret their actions
of little importance. I found no key gaps within this poem on a personal level, although I can define some that would occur should a reader not be familiar with the concept of bonsai trees. My father has grown bonsai trees for many many years, thus the concept of pruning back and stunting the growth of such trees has been in my cultural and personal repertoire since childhood.
effects of deforestation and the consequential decline of biodiversity, trees are cut down for an economic and consumer benefit. Members of society need to determine how much economic cost they are willing to spend in order to preserve plant and animal species. To reduce the degree of deforestation, tree harvesters may use selective logging, which involves only the removal of trees that are the most economically beneficial. Trees with lower economic value are left standing. This method still has problems
define itself against. It is "a transgression of the border which is necessary to constitute the border as such" (Fuss 235). Heterosexuality becomes that which is not homosexuality. The secretive space that the closet provides, though, complicates this binary structure. By providing the ability for an "outsider" to pass as an "insider," it serves as an ambiguous space that is neither clearly inside nor outside. It is a contradiction in itself, in that it is both inside and outside simultaneously. Furthermore
to a fact or are the two facts disjointed? How are Truth and Fact interrelated? One answer is that Truth value is a shorthand to describe the possibility that an event will occur. If true – it must occur and if false – it cannot occur. This is a binary world of extreme conditions of being. Should all possible events occur? Of course not. If they do not occur would they still be true? Must a statement demonstrate a real life correlate to be true? Instinctively, yes. We cannot conceive of a thought
Binary reasoning limits our knowledge for it oversimplifies the subject being studied. Computers operate in binary mode, that is they only can understand a 1 or a 0, and this fact is what makes artificial intelligence so hard to achieve. The fact that humans can work outside of simple duality is what distinguishes us from other animals and machines. Certain issues cannot be studied on their integrity unless they are looked upon without using the “two-valued logic” system. Two examples would be: whether
hedonism is in no way relevant to my defense of this argument, because the loss of goods has no bearing on death, regardless of what exactly the goods are. Second, I will define death as follows: the permanent end to existence. Since existence is a binary property (either there exists something that corresponds to x or there does not), this means that death must be instantaneous. For at any given moment one could ask, "Does Kai exist?" and receive an answer, we can narrow the time of death to an instant
At a very early age I remember dressing up my dolls in as many outfits I could. I especially liked the bigger dolls, whereas I was able to use newborn baby clothes that my mother had been collecting over the years. I guess every little girl did that. But, I think not everyone's girlish habits continued, like it did for me. I was now in the 4th grade and dolls didn't interest me all that much anymore. I remember I had gone to my mother and said that I would dress Jimmy, my two year old brother
about could be the earlier life of the elder speaker. Nature, the boy, and the life cycle are all three different themes that helped complete this poem by Frost. Nature is beautiful and can stand for many things. Birches are beautiful, tall, thin trees that can not hold that much stress and weight. “But swinging doesn’t bend them down to stay. Ice-storms do that.”, Robert Frost explains how the weather takes part, comparing the the ice-storms to stress. Robert Frost also explains the life cycle through