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- 2561: Vegetarian Diet
- ... which has been linked to an increase in the risk of heart disease and possibly even cancer. The amount of cholesterol of a lacto-ovo vegetarian is about 150 to 300 mg of cholesterol per day compared to the 400 mg of cholesterol that an omnivore consumes (Messina 59). Vegans, who exclude the intake of any food that contains animal byproducts, do not consume foods that contain significant amounts of cholesterol ... that form the base of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Department of Health and Human Services Food Guide Pyramid, which recommends servings of bread, rice, cereal, and pasta 6 to 11 times per day. (Farley 52) The typical intake of fiber for an average omnivore is "about 12g of fiber each day,", with vegetarians eating "50% to 100% more fiber than nonvegetarians" (Messina 59). A vegetarian diet also includes consumption of more antioxidants, which are believed to reduce the risk of cancer, heart disease, and possibly ...
- 2562: Franny And Zooey And The Razor
- Franny And Zooey & The Razor s Edge Many novels use religion as the central object of their plot. Franny and Zooey, by J.D Salinger and The Razor s Edge, by W. Somerset Maugham both display religion as having they key role in their novels. Religion is the main guide in Franny and Zooey and The Razor s Edge ... a mental breakdown. The child s laying there by the hour crying her eyes out it you say boo to her, and mumbling heaven knows what to herself, and your father wonders if maybe she d like a tangerine. 3 Zooey described Franny as a very disturbed and depressed individual, trying to seek a way of life through religion, in which she did not even completely understand herself. Worse than that ... want to attend school and do something with his life. Larry explains this by saying: When I came back from France they all wanted me to go to college. I couldn t. After what I d been through, I felt I couldn t go back to school. I learnt nothing at my prep school anyway. I felt I couldn t enter into a freshman s life. They wouldn t have ...
- 2563: Artifical Intelligence
- ... Assigns values to all factors 4. More than a yes or no format 5. Highly fault tolerant C. Chaos Engineering 1. Evaluates several variables 2. Predicts massive chaotic systems 3. Finds order to random phenomena D. Knowledge-based systems (KBS) 1. Maintains large knowledge base 2. Facts programmed into rules 3. Only as good as the information E. Expert Systems 1. Database of information 2. Limited to structured rules 3. Use ... index 3. Recognizing new patterns of credit-card fraud B. Fuzzy logic 1. Washing machines 2. Vacuum cleaners 3. AC's C. Chaos theory 1. Wall street 2. Ability to predict and diagnose heart disease D. Expert systems 1. Employee Training 2. Wisdom Simulators 3. Industry applications E. KBS and CBR 1. Help desks 2. Law 3. Paroling inmates IV. Recommendations A. Neural Nets 1. Best for sifting through super large ... Cheap, low processor requirements 3. Handles only a limited amount of variables C. Chaos Engineering 1. Best for analyzing a large amount of variables 2. Primitive, large amount of processing power very high learning curve D. CBR and KBS 1. Supplements expert systems with powerful search engines 2. Requires an expert system already in place E. Expert systems 1. Simple analyzes almost anything 2. Archaic very limited in scope How ...
- 2564: 1984: The Party's Methods of Controlling People
- ... Big Brother."1 The telescreens are such a power tool in controlling the people. What ever the Inner Party wants the people to see and believe can be easily placed on the telescreen and watched day after day. They can play with your minds and brainwash you before you realize it. The truth lies in the mind of every person and the telescreen is the best form of controlling the mind of every ... record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, and every date has been altered. The process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. Reports and records of all kinds, of newspapers, books, pamphlets, films, sound tracks, and photographs all had to be rectified a lightening speed. History has stopped. Nothing exists ...
- 2565: The Robber Bride
- ... confronting politically correct feminism . The truth is it isn t either of these. While some of the situations are greatly exaggerated, this book comments on the way that women interact with each other on a day-to-day basis. Atwood tells the story of three women, and how they are drawn together because they have all been double-crossed by a mutual female friend, Zenia. These characters seem so real that in some ... and think Woman, as in Just another one, like me, and where does she get off? The female characters do not come across as more emblematic than real. as Timson suggests. Charis decides how her day is going to be by swinging a crystal above her head. This behavior reminds me of an acquaintance who once tried to lecture me on the power of crystal vibrations . This may be because ...
- 2566: The Suspension Bridge
- ... have to be strong enough to withstand the swift currents and powerful winds of the East River. It could not get in the way of the hundreds of boats that traveled on the river every day. It had to be so high that the masts of tall sailing ships could easily pass under it. And it had to be long. The East River was nearly half a mile wide at that ... and the caisson was filled with concrete. The first foundation was finished. On the New York side of the river, the caisson sank deeper and deeper below the river without reaching solid rock. Washington worked day and night doing tests on the soil beneath the caisson. He discovered that it was hard-packed sand and gravel, a very solid surface. He concluded that it could support the bridge tower. The caisson ... time, women never worked on construction projects. She won respect of all the workers. They realized how important she was to the building of the bridge. The construction of the towers was very different. Every day thousands of people watched in amazement from ferries and docks as three tall cranes, powered by noisy steam engines, hoisted each huge stone block high into the air and swung it into position. The ...
- 2567: Math Model
- ... cubed, etc., and a difference equation adds or subtracts certain levels of need. 2.) DX(n) = b1 Y(n-1) - a1 X(n-1) + c DY(n) = b2 X(n-1) - a2 Y(n-1) + d Use these equations to represent the change in billions of dollars spent on national arms where 1£ n £10 and a1 a2 b1 b2 c d X(0) Y(0) a) .4 .4 0 0 .7 3.0 6.0 2.0 b) 1.0 1.0 .5 1.0 1.0 -1.0 20.0 10.0 4.) The graph of 4 will be similar to 2b with the only difference being that because d is positive, the slope between Y(1), Y(2), Y(3),
Y(n) will alternate just as X(1), X(2),
X(n). The significance of c, d is that they will determine how ...
- 2568: King Arthur
- ... for over 800 years, not a lot is known about the real Arthur. It is believed that Arthur was a 5the-century British King named Riothamus (meaning "high king") who ruled from 454 - 470 A.D. and led an army into Gaul where he was defeated by the Goths of Burgundy. Two men by the names of Jordanes (6the century) and William (11the century) contributed to the legend of Arthur. Their ... national hero in a book written in Latin by Geoffrey of Monmouth called Historia Regum Britanniae (meaning History of the Kings of Britain). he book supposedly covered history from 1200 B.C. to 689 A.D. Geoffrey includes many sources of information with his work but most scholars believe it to be a fictional bibliography added only to give his book some credibility. Therefore his work is considered to be literature ... more detail and depth to the story. Robert Wace concentrated on the Arthurian aspect of the story while Chretien concentrated on the romantic aspect of Arthur's life. Some of the new elements added include d the Round Table, courtly love and the love affair between Lancelot and Guenevere. In 1205 A.D. Layamon wrote the first English version of the King Arthur stories with a distinctly British perspective. Another ...
- 2569: "The Yellow Wallpaper": The Main Character and Cry for Freedom
- ... John insisted she really did not want to go. "Dear John! He loves me very dearly, and hates to have me sick. I tried to have a real earnest reasonable talk with him the other day, and tell him how I wish he would let me go and make a visit to Cousin Henry and Julia. But he said I wasn't able to go, nor able to stand it after ... pattern to some conclusion."(510) The woman longed to find some kind of importance in that pattern. The woman herself has made conclusions as to what the pattern symbolized. Being in the house, closed all day, oppressed by her husband, not being able to do anything the woman had all the time in the world to think about the meaning. She makes an unclear conclusion that the wall symbolizes a woman ... in the wallpaper. She states: "
By daylight she is subdued, quiet. I fancy it is the pattern that keeps her so still
"(511) She describes herself in the paper, but she is also subdued by day. The main character mentions "I don't sleep much at night, but I sleep a good deal in the daytime
"(513) By using these quotes from the main character Gilman gives us the impression ...
- 2570: John Hancock
- ... been varied. A decision came andHancock, for very much promoting the ........Affair , was moved down in class rank four places. The other two were moved down seven places. Like most college students, there comes the day that they graduate. This day came for John Hancock. It was in July of 1754, when John and his fellow classmates received their bachelor s degrees. That afternoon, he said farewell to his friends, all the memories, and set out ... anexcellent job of representing the firm in London. About a year and half later, give or take, John was made partner of his uncle s successful business. Thomas( John s uncle) declared I have this day taken my nephew Mr. John Hancock into partnership with me having had long experience of his uprightness and great abilities for business. On August 1, 1764, John would have to go in life on ...
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