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- 751: Internet Access
- Internet Access It would be helpful to provide a brief historical summary of the Internet before jumping into the different means of accessing "The Net". The Internet was developed primarily by Vinton Cerf, an American computer scientist, in 1973 as a part of a United States Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency project managed by American Engineer, Robert Kahn. In 1984, the project was turned over to the private sector ... Access Network where there are a group of computers and other devices that are spread over a relatively limited area and connected by a communications link. This also allows you to communicate with any other computer on the network. If you access by a host, it is usually done through a LAN or with telephone lines and modems combined with Internet software on a personal computer. Terminal access is usually done by a telephone line and a modem and it is used with terminal- emulation software on a personal computer. This also allows you to interact with another computer that ...
- 752: ... dramatic prose and poetry ever written. (Hoffman 27) But, he reiterated this belief nineteen years later, stating, "They are magnificent! Only, William Shakespeare of Stratford-on- Avon never wrote the plays and poems." (Hoffman 27) Crime, guilt, fraud, exile, hate, deceit, and murder are all woven into this shroud of authorship that hides the identity of the world's most renowned writer. Cranks have proposed over fifty candidates for authorship, from ...
- 753: Issue of Gun Control and Violence
- ... issue. Part II: Review of the Literature A) Summary In a paper which looked at gun control and firearms violence in North America, Robert J. Mundt, of the University of North Carolina, points out that "Crime in America is popularly perceived [in Canada] as something to be expected in a society which has less respect for the rule of law than does Canadian society..." . In 1977, the Canadian government took the ... that there is a "positive relationship between availability and use". In Robert J. Mundt's study, when compared with the United States, trends in Canada over the past ten years in various types of violent crime, suicide, and accidental death show no dramatic results, "and few suggestions of perceptible effects of the 1977 Canadian gun control legislation". The only positive effect , Mundt, found in the study was the decrease in the ... 33). In short, the use of firearms "in Canadian homicides has declined since the legislative changes in gun control in 1977". As mentioned in lectures, Canadian cities have been traditionally safer, and less vulnerable to 'Crime Waves' than our American neighbours due to our extensive police force and gun control laws . A factor to be considered, though, is our national heritage or culture which holds traditions of passiveness and peace ...
- 754: Computers, I Don't Like Computers. So Why Can't I Get A Job?
- ... I Get A Job? Today most jobs use computers. Employees are probably going to use one on the job. A lot of people are being refused jobs because they don't have enough(If any) Computer related experience. We are moving into the technology age whrere most everything is going to be run by computers. Is this good? That doesn't matter because people are trying to find the fastest way ... any PC's or networked offices. She remembers the big punchcard monsters that she would have to insert cards into to give it instructions. But my point is that she was not exposed to a computer as everyday life. Now she is really behind so to speak in the computing world. Computers back then were huge, they were usually stored in wharehouses. The earlier ones used paper with holes in them to give it instructions. Later the pre-PC's used tape cartridges to store data on. Then came along in 1979 the first real personal computer. Apple came out on the market with the Apple PC. Two years later IBM came out with their version of the personal computer. When IBM came out with their computer they were now in ...
- 755: Gun Control And Violence in Canada and the US
- ... issue. Part II: Review of the Literature A) Summary In a paper which looked at gun control and firearms violence in North America, Robert J. Mundt, of the University of North Carolina, points out that "Crime in America is popularly perceived [in Canada] as something to be expected in a society which has less respect for the rule of law than does Canadian society..." . In 1977, the Canadian government took the ... that there is a "positive relationship between availability and use". In Robert J. Mundt's study, when compared with the United States, trends in Canada over the past ten years in various types of violent crime, suicide, and accidental death show no dramatic results, "and few suggestions of perceptible effects of the 1977 Canadian gun control legislation". The only positive effect , Mundt, found in the study was the decrease in the ... 33). In short, the use of firearms "in Canadian homicides has declined since the legislative changes in gun control in 1977". As mentioned in lectures, Canadian cities have been traditionally safer, and less vulnerable to 'Crime Waves' than our American neighbours due to our extensive police force and gun control laws . A factor to be considered, though, is our national heritage or culture which holds traditions of passiveness and peace ...
- 756: The History of Computers
- The History of Computers A computer is a machine built to do routine calculations with speed, reliability, and ease, greatly simplifying processes that without them would be a much longer, more drawn out process. Since their introduction in the 1940's ... well, as stated by Rourke Guides in his book, Computers: Computers are used in schools for scoring examination papers, and grades are sometimes recorded and kept on computers (Guides 7). "The original idea of a computer came from Blaise Pascal, who invented the first digital calculating machine in 1642. It performed only additions of numbers entered by dials and was intended to help Pascal's father, who was a tax collector" (Buchsbaum 13). However, in 1671, Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz invented a computer that could not only add but, multiply. Multiplication was quite a step to be taken by a computer because until then, the only thing a computer could do was add. The computer multiplied by ...
- 757: ... homoerotic threads in many of the Shakespearean sonnets and de Veres possible homosexual affair with his son-in-law. Using his identity would have been a dangerous game when such affairs were a high crime (Satchell 71). There are many allusions in Shakespeares plays which de Vere would have been particularly familiar with. As a child, de Vere was tutored by Arthur Golding, the translator of Metamorphoses. This literary ...
- 758: Silicon Snake Oil Second Thoughts on the Information Highway
- ... mail* and is it really better than regular mail. His argument was that although e-mail can be faster and cheaper it is also impersonal, difficult to access, boring, and can be unreliable due to computer failure. Although regular US mail is often times slower and more expensive it is very reliable and more personal than e-mail. Another good argument the author makes is about the claims that computers make your life simpler and easier. He says that a computer can make certain tasks simpler and easier to do if you know how to use a computer and use the specific program needed to complete the specific task. If you do not know how to use a computer or are just learning how to use one, performing new tasks can be ...
- 759: Themes of Oliver Twist
- ... character. A protagonist character has some influence of how a story flows. Oliver lets things happen to him, instead of making things happen. Later in the story he could be considered a pawn in the crime and schemes of Fagin. A man of little morals, and even less of a heart. He is caught up in himself, and what he needs he does everything he can to get. In this novel ... a fevered imagination (Hayens 14). Oliver Twist the main character, is also the main prize of the story. He is a boy seeking for belonging, and in his search falls in into the hands of crime. Misguided and confused, he goes through his childhood being thrown around from person to person. All of this while trying to find out where he belongs . Monks, Fagin and Sikes are the antagonist of this novel. Throughout the novel, every action they take, is linked toward bringing Oliver into a world of crime, and evil. Their lives are filled with crime, and poverty. They are cold men, and Dickens writes about them in the most disgusted way. He seems to write that they bring Oliver a sense ...
- 760: Reconstructing A Crime Scene
- It was a gorgeous Thursday afternoon. The men were in the family room watching the special Thanksgiving Day football game. The Chicago Bears were playing against the Minnesota Vikings. Norton McCarthy and his brother-in-law, Simon Fletcher, ...
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