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- 6131: Windows NT
- Windows NT Once a small and simple collection of computers run by the Defence Department, is now a massive world wide network of computers, what we call the 'Internet'. The word "Internet" literally means "network of networks." In itself, the Internet is composed of thousands of smaller local networks scattered throughout the globe. It connects roughly 15 million users in more than 50 countries a day. The World Wide Web (WWW) is mostly used on the Internet. The Web refers to a body of information, while the Internet refers to the physical side of the global network containing a large amount of cables ... files from one Internet computer to another. Telnet lets a person to log into a remote computer. They have combined these two tools in complex ways to create the Internet tools such as Gopher, the World Wide Web and IRC. Some collections of phone lines and routers are larger and more powerful than others. Spirit and MCI both have each built collections of phone lines and routers that crisscross the ...
- 6132: Justifying the Ways of God to Man: Paradise Lost, Book III
- ... punishment or suffering in a spiritual sense. It is reason that says man must die "or Justice must," (Hughes, 210) for it would be cruel of God to make man wallow fallen in a fallen world for all of eternity. By letting man die, he has the opportunity to rise again with the Son. Death, while seen by man as his ultimate punishment, is actually the key to his salvation. Empson ... to God than the ways of God to man. Works Cited Chambers, A.B. "Wisdom at one entrance quite shut out: Paradise Lost, III, 1-55. "Milton: Modern Essays in Criticism. Ed. Arthur E. Barker. New York: Oxford University Press, 1965. 218-225. Empson, William. Milton's God. London: Chatto and Windus, 1965. Hughes, Merrit Y., ed. John Milton: Complete Poems and Major Prose. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1957. Kelley, Maurice. "The theological dogma of Paradise Lost, III, 173-202." Milton: Modern Essays in Criticism. Ed. Arthur E. Barker. New York: Oxford University Press, 1965. 226-232. Samuel, ...
- 6133: Insanity
- Insanity Everyone in the world has done something in his or her life that can be viewed as being abnormal or insane, whether they admit to it or not. What one person sees as being normal may be totally weird ... in his career, John appeared to be as normal as you or me. After years and years of making hit records, John Lennon started to get weirder and weirder. A lot of people believe his new found love, Yoko Ono, had a major role in his sudden change. As the band reached the peak of their popularity, John single-handedly shot them down. The turning point of their career was when he made the comment believing he was “bigger than Jesus.” People all over the world heard this and became very upset about his claim. Some even banned the group all together. Then the song, “Number 9” came into play. The song is basically an instrumental with the words “Number ...
- 6134: Wuthering Heights: Romanticism
- ... When Heathcliff and Catherine are young, they often go out at night onto the heath to enjoy the freedom and beauty of nature. The moor serves them as a religious sanctuary from the harshly exaggerated world they live in: Mr. Earnshaw tells his own daughter, "'thou ‘rt worse than thy brother. Go, say thy prayers, child, and ask God's pardon'" (46). Much later, in a symbolic replay, Cathy says to ... the characters become more introverted and reclusive except for the newest generation—Hareton and Cathy. Heathcliff is a perfect example of the Byronic hero. He has ennui, or melancholy over the inevitable sadness of the world: Heathcliff is saddened with mistreatment and thinks that he can cure the sadness with revenge. Heathcliff is also a very solitary person after Catherine leaves him; he has no friends, he has nothing to love ... gives Heathcliff the characteristics of a typical protagonist, but as his character develops Heathcliff becomes the evil, lonely, and miserable Byronic hero. In Wuthering Heights, there is a huge clash between the old and the new, the Neo-Classical age and the Romantic age. This clash is displayed through the apparent contrasts between Lockwood and Heathcliff and between Thrushcross Grange and Wuthering Heights. Thrushcross Grange and the characters from there ...
- 6135: Beringia to the Revolution
- ... At first England paid little attention to the colonists. When England started to clamp down, the colonists rebelled and revolted. As a result of the colonists protesting, the Glorious Revolution, the Massachutes Revolt, and the New York Revolt occurred. By the 1700's, the colonists began to consider new ideas. The Enlightment hit and people began to question religious authority. The Charter of 1691 allowed religious toleration. Witchcraft became an issue too. Education grew, but the north remained more educated than the South. As ... led to armed conflicts. In 1754 a major war broke out between the French and the British. The War is known as the French and Indian War and its purpose was for domination in the new world. In 1763, the English won the war and the Treaty of Paris was signed. Effectively the English gained all land east of the Mississippi from the French, except for New Orleans. The colonists ...
- 6136: Diversity of Hawthorne's Writings in "Young Goodman Brown", "Ethan Brand", and "The Birthmark"
- ... Though Goodman Brown believes himself to be alone in his journey down the trail the stranger tells him that it is a beaten path and has been taken even by his father. So does the world that has been built up around Goodman Brown begin to crumble and with the first blow he is set up for more devastation into the world of the devil. " Wickedness or not, I have a very general acquaintance here in New England." The devilish stranger explains how even the noblest of people have an evil in their character and those who hide are those who are trusted the most. Many of these characters that the ...
- 6137: A Rose For Emily
- ... allows the reader to examine this puzzle piece by piece, step by step. By doing so, he enhances the plot and presents two different perspectives of time held by the characters. The first perspective (the world of the present) views time as a "mechanical progression" in which the past is a "diminishing road." The second perspective (the world of tradition and the past) views the past as "a huge meadow which no winter ever quite touches, divided from them now by the narrow bottleneck of the most recent decade of years." The first ... a dead rose. Once again, time stands in her house, while the rest of the setting, the town, changes. Years passed and the "newer generation became the backbone and the spirit of the town." The new generation makes Miss Emily feel even more isolated. "When the town got free postal delivery, Miss Emily alone refused to let them fasten numbers above her door and attach a mailbox to it." Miss ...
- 6138: The Scandinavian Drama: Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts
- ... sent him away from the poisonous atmosphere of her home. And now he has returned, fine and free, much to the disgust of Pastor Manders, whose limited vision cannot conceive that out in the large world free men and women can live a decent and creative life. Manders. But how is it possible that a--a young man or young woman with any decent principles can endure to live in that way?--in the eyes of all the world! Oswald. What are they to do? A poor young artist--a poor girl. It costs a lot of money to get married. What are they to do? Manders. What are they to do? Let me ... Oswald! take care! are you mad? let me go! Mrs. Alving (starts in terror). Ah! (She stares wildly toward the half-opened door. Oswald is heard coughing and humming inside.) Manders (excited). What in the world is the matter? What is it, Mrs. Alving? Mrs. Alving (hoarsely). Ghosts! the couple from the conservatory has risen again! Ghosts, indeed! Mrs. Alving sees this but too clearly when she discovers that though ...
- 6139: Classification
- ... Classification in biology, is the identification, naming, and grouping of organisms into a formal system. The vast numbers of living forms are named and arranged in an orderly manner so that biologists all over the world can be sure they know the exact organism that is being examined and discussed. Groups of organisms must be defined by the selection of important characteristics, or shared traits, that make the members of each ... distantly related. Carolus Linnaeus is probably the single most dominant figure in systematic classification. Born in 1707, he had a mind that was orderly to the extreme. People sent him plants from all over the world, and he would devise a way to relate them. At the age of thirty-two he was the author of fourteen botanical works. His two most famous were Genera Plantarum, developing an artificial sexual system ... in naming species taxonomists realized that there would have to be a universal system of nomenclature. A system that was not affected by language barriers, and would also classify the millions of species throughout the world. Binomial classification in its simplest form is a way of naming a species by means of two names both in Latin. Latin was originally used because it was the language of the founders of ...
- 6140: Savage Inequalities: Conditions of Poor Schools
- ... These schools, usually in high crime areas, lack the most basic needs. Kozol creates a scene of rooms without heat, few supplies or text, labs with no equipment, sewer backups, and toxic fumes. Schools from New York to California where not only are books rationed, but also toilet paper and crayons. Many school buildings turn into swamps when it rains and must be closed because sewage often backs up into kitchens ... to rise to. Children in these poor areas are being compared to children in affluent areas where the quality of their education is much higher. Kozol asks how these children will succeed in today’s world if they are not given the same opportunities as affluent schools give their children. Kozol believes that by depriving our poorer children of their basic needs we are forcing them into lives of crime, poverty ... aspirations that most will never achieve due to the lack of opportunities made available to them. The part of the book that shocked me the most was when Kozol reported on the schools in Camden, New Jersey. Camden is so close to my home and my schools, that it is almost unbelievable that the conditions could be so horrid. Of course you would come to expect these inequalities in New ...
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