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- 1341: Tim Paterson
- ... 1980, they completed the task. It combined all the information the company knew and condensed it into this one program. At this point, 86-DOS was being sold to OEM's (original equipment manufacturers) and big name companies like Microsoft. While modifying 86-DOS, Paterson decided that he could do better working for Microsoft instead of staying at Seattle Computer. By joining Bill Gates and going to Microsoft, he would be ... good move from both companies. Seattle Computer did not have the "marketing clout" that Microsoft had, and Microsoft was benefiting from receiving a quality Computer Program. Now that Paterson was working for a larger corporation, big companies such as IBM wanted better computer programs to fit their computers. So Paterson headed up the division to make an eleven versions of MS-DOS. With these high demands came a lot of bickering ...
- 1342: The Mouse Vs. The Wolf.
- ... Yak's latest friend. You see, Yak has gotten himself a fan. Albeit a small one, it's still a fan. And a great fan, in it's own small way. This fan has one big advantage to all the other creatures Yak has come to know - it's so small even Yak doesn't have to be afraid of it, and therefore bark at it. Yak is actually a big coward. You should see him skipping a fence (or rather; not doing it). It's a rare sight to see a dog running a kilometer to find the next gate, rather than to skip the ...
- 1343: Movie: Tucker - Preston Tucker
- ... so he issued 4 million shares to raise his money. Besides, retooling for a model change could cost $20 million and since his car was a new brand, Tucker was lack of support of the big firms, so he needed a lot of money to advertise his car. Second, Tucker's company had to produce 100 cars as the outputs every day so that he could make a balance. He also ... he does not have much technology on build a new car, the other thing is wrong time. Since the market is oligopoly, so when you have a new thing, you need to deal with the big company. When they know you can do a thing better than them, then they will use any way to stop you or control you, they never let you do it.
- 1344: The Martian Chronicles
- ... was crucified for a stupid reason. The Luggage Store This was about a man who owned a luggage store that was not getting much business. He was talking and found out there might be a big war on Earth. Therefore, he believed that his business would pick up. This story was laid back and just bringing the thought of war into the story. It was not too enjoyable to read. The Off-Season This story was about a man who opened a hot dog stand with the dream of hitting it big when more people came to Mars. One day a Martian came down and wanted to talk to him. The man, out of fright, killed the Martian. More started to come down from the nearby hills ...
- 1345: The Success of Michael Crichton's Novels in the Media Industry
- ... successes. This movie was based on a book that Crichton wrote in the early 80's, long before he became the entertainment powerhouse that he is now. Chrichton's novels seem to be written for big screen translations (Brom 14). Publishers say that they can't recall a time since Jaws and The Exorcist, two decades ago, when movies gave such a boost to the books that inspired them (Romney 5 ... marks of Willis O'Brien's King Kong or Ray Harryhausen's The Valley of Gwangi (Newman 44). As a matter of fact, it set a new standard of how movies should be made. Another big boost of income from the movie was the tremendous amount of merchandising that went along with the film. Jurassic Park T-shirts came out before the movie itself did. It was dino-mania at many ...
- 1346: Death of A Salesman
- ... commission and his sons which reduced him to a failure. The next largest flaw in society is a lack of compassion. This could be as a result of almost overwhelming greed, the main culprit being big business. "I'm always in a race with the junkyard! I just finished paying for the car and it's on it last legs. The refrigerator consumes belts like a goddam maniac. They time those things."(Act 2, page 73, lines 16- 19) Willy's belief in this statement drew him to believe that big business lacked compassion. It is because of this that he is abandoned by Biff and disowned by Happy, left babbling in a toilet. It is this flaw which allowed him to die a slow death ...
- 1347: Movie Villains
- ... to easily detected them or stopping them. They come in all shapes and sizes from animals to little children to even space aliens. Each villain has his or her own particular style, usually greed. Another big reason for there evil acts is because of revenge, revenge can turn innocent people in to cold blooded killers. The term used to represent villains is antagonist, or someone who opposes the protagonist or hero ... and probably is still trying to find gold to this day. One more modern villains is Jaws, not the fish, from the James Bond series. Jaws is a really tall man who has hands as big as a person head, and metal teeth that can crush thorough anything. Jaws never dies but usually comes back in another movie, he actually turns good in one movie. Villains are in every form and ...
- 1348: John Ford and Frank Capra: A Study of Their Movies
- ... in Ford's and Capra's movies is money. Money is used in many ways in these four films sometimes their is plenty and some times their is not any. Money ends up playing a big role in each of these films, money is also used as a device to show how characters behave when serious matters occur. Deeds and The Informer are very similar in their dealing with money. Both ... also very similar with the use of money potrayed in these pictures. Both are centered on the fact that society through money is being abused and the little guy can not fight these odds. The big buisness men who smoke fat cigars and buy up land and kick off the farmers in Grapes of Wrath are the same men that work in the Senate in Smith. These men the wealthy are ...
- 1349: 1984: Summary
- ... for the common good by which all of the society will benefit. The party doesn't need to justify its selfish ways because it holds all of the power. The symbol of the party was Big Brother. The idealism of blind loyalty was embodied in this symbol. It was the centre of control. The Party has set its agenda of completely controlling every single human mind by narrowing down the complexity ... to the authorities even though it meant punishment for their mothers and fathers. When Winston was in jail he met a colleague named Mr. Parsons who's child turned him in for saying " down with big brother " in his sleep. Husbands and wives were also affected. They would report their spouses or children if they said anything improper, did anything improper, displayed a facial tick or any other abnormalities. The Party ...
- 1350: The House On Mango Street
- ... is "...a pretty box with flowers painted on it, with a ballerina inside..." but when it's revealed to her that a music box is just "...a wood box that's old and got a big brass record in it with holes" she feels ashamed she did not know better. Despite her low self-esteem she still keeps hold of her dream of acquiring "A house all my own.". Esperanza's ... From this poverty was born Esperanza's dream. "I knew then I had to have a house. A real house." Although her dream is to live in a house "with trees around it, a great big yard, and grass growing without a fence," Esperanza does not plan to abandon those who cannot leave Mango Street. "They will not know I have gone away to come back. For the ones I left ...
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