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    A Culturalist Interpretation of the Dark Brothers’ Sound Bitterness in Hughes’s I, Too, Sing America

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    Langston Hughes is an important poet over the Harlem Renaissance who has contributed to the enhancement of the thematic profundity of his poetry in the association of African-American culture rooted in its literature, music, theater, art, and politics with his poetic production. Inspired by the original newness of his great poems, many foreign and Chinese scholars and critics have not only discussed much about his indispensable role in promoting dark brothers’ folk culture on the basis of their valuable explorations among his works but also made a mention of dark brothers’ lower social position as well as their unfair treatment in American society that has been dominated by their counterparts’ culture through the careful combination of his poems with the unbearable experience they have been suffering from. What they haven’t focused on in their respective studies of dark brothers’ discriminated culture is a sound and detailed discussion about the dark brothers’ empirical bitterness in the whole textual spaces of one of their academic essays or monographs in correspondence to one of his poems. To reduce the academic limitations in this respect, this essay will take one of his poems, I, Too, Sing America, as an analytical example to give a culturalist interpretation of the dark brothers’ sound bitterness

    An Optimistic Exploration of the Essential Transcendence of Man Potentiated in The Last Man

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    The science fiction of Mary Shelly has engendered an increasing attention of an increasing number of literary scholars in their meticulous and miraculous exploration of the ideological and epistemological values in which the cautious and conductive production of this science fiction titled The Last Man (1826) has been interwoven in the very pessimistic narrative facts and narrative events to crop up in 2073 an incredible fashion. A good look taken at the analytical findings of a good many scholars who have been devoted to the studies of this science fiction, it will be found in an apparent way that they have done a lot in the discussions about the themes, narrations, as well as, languages of this science fiction, the minds of the characters as have been depicted in this science fiction, and, the artistic thoughts of it from various perspectives while a little in the essential explorations of the true transcendence of man as indebted to what has been mirrored in it. For the sake of the inadequate elaboration in this regard, this article will aim to make an exploration of how the evolution, promotion, and, liberation of man as focused on the enrichment and improvement of the theoretical frameworks and theoretical systems of legal naturalism have a great impact on the stimulation and promotion of the essential transcendence of the views, values, and, virtues of man in line with what has been exemplified in this science fiction to make it clear that this science fiction has shed some impressive lights in the successful and sufficient achievement of this transcendence in the future

    Essentializing the Feminist Implausibility for Bathsheba to Subvert Patriarchal Dominance in Far from the Madding Crowd

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    Adequate critical attention has been paid to Thomas hardy who has developed a strong aesthetic and artistic interest in the feminist awareness of Bathsheba epitomized in his novel Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) while inadequate critical concern shown for the implausibility for her to subvert the patriarchal dominance she has to be faced with. Thus, this paper will give an overall interpretation of a series of events happened to her to show that in spite of the appropriate and adequate development and improvement of her female awareness that is inclined to enable her to have a good understanding of the historical, cultural, and, social implications of feminism and to make best use of those rich implications to challenge the historical, cultural, and, social dominance of patriarchal history, patriarchal culture, and, patriarchal society in an ambitious fashion and in an aggressive fashion, she has eventually turned out to be unable to subvert the historical, cultural, and, social governance of men in the patriarchal history, patriarchal culture, and, patriarchal society where she lives in a thorough fashion and she has to return to the acceptance of or even submission to the patriarchal history, patriarchal culture, and, patriarchal society she has refused in her previous life and experience, for it is difficult or impossible for her to achieve a great success in subverting the patriarchal mechanism most women have been prisoned in an individual fashion on account of the asymmetrical perceptive and cognitive balance between men and women at that historical moment when the historical, cultural, and, social dominance of men has been popularized in a substantial fashion and in a sufficient fashion in the lives and experiences of men and women as what has been impressed in the aesthetic and artistic production of this novel in a particular fashion

    Modeling of moisture diffusion in CFRP strengthened concrete based on thermal-moisture analogy

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    In this paper, the thermal-moisture analogy schemes were applied to simulate moisture diffusion in an epoxy resin and CFRP strengthened concrete system numerically. The two thermal-moisture analogy schemes were adopted for homogeneous material (e.g., epoxy adhesive) or multi-component material systems. The direct analogy (DA) is only valid for the homogeneous material system and can simulate the moisture diffusion in an epoxy adhesive accurately. The normalized analogy (NA) was proved be an effective tool for the CFRP-concrete system. In addition, based on NA, the interfacial stress and swelling stress induced by water can be simulated accuratel
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