![]() ![]() If this was one of the main criticisms Christopher Tolkien was referring to, it may simply be a misunderstanding of adaptation and the needs of the source material on the page versus the big screen. It's clear he plotted any changes to the novel with a great deal of consideration and deliberation. Jackson explained his decision-making regarding Helm's Deep in the behind-the-scenes DVD extras. For film, however, this added an extra bit of drama to a battle that needed to carry the weight of a climax. The Elves never showed up to Rohan's aid during the battle of Helm's Deep in the original text. And Jackson even featured specific details from those scenes in his films, such as the heads of Gondorian soldiers being flung over the walls of Minas Tirith during the Battle of Pelennor Fields. Anyone who's read The Lord of the Rings books knows that there are intense battle scenes. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Lawson insightfully explores the ways in which dark moments serve to make the lighter times all the brighter. Though mostly comedic, the text also addresses such serious issues as self-injury and why mental illness is misunderstood. She also shares days of darkness, social anxiety, and a range of fears that sometimes keep her housebound. Lawson decides that rather than wave a white flag, she will combat mental illness by being "furiously happy." Helping her stuffed raccoons ride on her cats, visiting Australia in a koala bear costume, and battling menacing swans are just a few of the ways she creates humor in a life that might defeat a less inventive individual. ![]() Popular blogger/author Lawson (Let's Pretend This Didn't Happen) writes that this "funny book" about mental illness is not so much a sequel to her last book, but rather "a collection of bizarre essays and conversations and confused thoughts stuck together by spilled boxed wine and the frustrated tears of baffled editors." While followers of Lawson's blog will be familiar with her fascination with unusual topics (e.g., stuffed critters, the mysteries of Japanese toilets), newcomers may initially be jolted by the author's litany of diagnoses (depression, anxiety, autoimmune disorders, phobias, insomnia, etc.) as well as her unique ability to turn life's lemons into hilarious stories. ![]() ![]() Most programming assignments will take significantly longer than you anticipate. Points will be awarded for correct and faithful designs, complete implementation, adequate testing, and reports and documentation. Therefore, no starter-code or templates will be provided, to give students the maximum flexibility and freedom to explore the unconstrained design space. In most cases, the programming assignments are language agnostic (you can pick any reasonable programming language).Ī key learning objective of this course is to design, architect, and implement a distributed system from scratch, and to design useful test-cases for evaluating the implementation. The design oriented assignments will involve a large degree of programming and debugging. Students will implement various classic distributed algorithms (such as Map-Reduce, totally ordered multicast, logical clocks, various consistency models in a distributed key-value store, etc.). The assignments will be a mix of theory and distributed system design. High-level communication and publish-subscribeĬonsistency Models: Sequential Consistency ![]() ![]() Vector clock applications and Causal Orders ![]() |