Khalil (Krishen Mehta) is an unfaithful and uncommunicative husband; Shehriar (Debargo Sanyal) is an alienated brooder who teeters on instability; and Sunima (Deepa Purohit), in many ways the central character, is wrestling with the problems of assimilation.
Linda Grant's The Clothes on their Backs is a long review of the pains and problems of assimilation, as a young heroine digs far back in time, and European upheaval, to her Jewish origins.
There have been many remakes of the story onscreen and onstage, Jolson's performance in blackface has long been studied for what it says about stereotypes and the problems of assimilation often encountered by ethnic groups.
But God is here, too, and Ali and Jack Kerouac and the great Puerto Rican migration and Dr. Seuss; so along with the politics of dislocation and the problems of assimilation and richer and poorer and neighborhoods and classrooms come fun and a feverish joy of language.
Since World War II there has been large-scale immigration from Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean, posing seemingly more difficult problems of assimilation, and restrictive immigration regulations have been imposed that are out of step with the open-door policy that had been an English tradition for many generations.
French rap groups like IAM, Scred Connexion and Assassin have addressed a vast array of social issues, from racism and the problem of immigrant assimilation in France, to the erosion of parental authority in the dilapidated projects that ring major French cities.
The problem of variational data assimilation for a nonlinear evolution model is formulated as an optimal control problem to find the initial condition function.
As such many extensions of the Kalman Filter have been developed to tackle the different challenges associated with the problem of sequential data assimilation.
The problem of variational data assimilation for a nonlinear evolution model is formulated as an optimal control problem to find unknown parameters such as distributed model coefficients or boundary conditions.
The biggest problem with his argument lies in his view of "assimilation".
