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6271: A Farewell To Arms: ... I am an Italian.” This displays the extreme nationalism and uncertainty people carry during war. Towards the end of the novel Italian forces have lost several key battles. The morale of the troops is sinking day by day and everyone is exhausted from the war. Surgeons, including Rinaldi is working around the clock. “This war is killing me,” Rinaldi tells Fre*censored*. “All summer and fall I’ve operated. I do everybody’s ...

6272: Affecting How We Think: ... is ethically wrong to ignore real news in favor of celebrity gossip. It can be detrimental to the intelligence of the public to "dumb down" the news for the sake of ratings. And it seems, day by day, that ratings take total precedence in the media. Television programming is a significant example of rating precedence. Much of the population believes that violence is a reoccurring theme in television programs, and that this violence ...

6273: Ultrasonic Radar for a Home PC System: ... CGA) as seen in Figure 7. This radar assembly is a very neat project. It can be costly, but for the enjoyment and learning experiences it can be an asset. This radar assembly will one day come in a package at one tenth the cost of the parts (about $250.00 today). Although it's range is restricted, the transducer can be changed and amplified to increase to range. This radar assembly can open the gates as monitoring equipment and perhaps one day a property monitoring alarm system on your own PC at very little cost. This radar assembly has a great potential.

6274: A Dependent Generation: The computer has become one of the most important and influential luxuries of this generation. Young people use computers every day for school, work, and entertainment. They are the first generation to have become computer literate as early as the onset of adolescence. For most of their lives they have used computers, so it is not ... conveniences, they live happily within the vicinity of their colored monitor. What is most surprising is the excessive time spent playing computer games. Many friends of mine spend four, sometimes five or more, hours a day playing computer video games. They skip class and stay up at all times of the night, to play popular computer games, like Star Craft. Even when Friday and Saturday nights come around, these students insist ...

6275: Holden Caulfield (catcher In T: Holden Caulfield, the main character in J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, is what I believe to be one of the most well-developed characters which I have read about. He has many characteristics that are all his own, such ... mind so quickly when she finds that Holden has no money is a prime example of the "phonies" Holden encounters. Another general example of what Holden thinks is "phony" is actors. He talks about how D.B. took Phoebe and him to see "Hamlet," and he talks about Sir Laurence Olivier, and how the play would have been good, except that Olivier "knew he was good, and that spoils it." Holden ...

6276: Children And Video Games: ... Game Use by Children Recent studies of television watching by children has included measures of the time children spend playing video games. In 1967, the average sixth-grader watched 2.8 hours of television per day. Data from 1983 indicated that sixth-graders watched 4.7 hours of television per day, and spent some additional time playing video games. A recent study (Funk, 1993) examined video game playing among 357 seventh and eighth grade students. The adolescents were asked to identify their preference among five categories ...

6277: A Tale Of Two Cities: ... with his wife, Madame Therese, who gets revenge on her enemies. Charles Darnay is also put on trial again, but is set free after being in prison for a year and three months. The same day he was freed he was re-arrested and put on trial again after new evidence was brought forward by the Defarges. When Dr. Manette was in prison he wrote a letter telling of an incident ... Darnay dead. When the letter was finished being read the court decided to send Charles Darnay, formerly Evremode, to his death. He was the last of the Evremode family and was held responsible. On the day of his execution he was visited by Sydney Carton, his "twin", who drugged him and took his place. Carton loved Lucie, but knew he could never have her, so he vowed to sacrifice himself for ...

6278: Mexico's Drug Trade: ... 727’s full of illegal cargo from Latin American suppliers, to their ranch in Juarez. They are responsible for much of the drug distribution across the southern Texas border (Constantine 4). Unfortunately, with each passing day, these two powerful groups only gain more knowledge regarding U.S. and Mexican anti-narcotics policies. The efforts of the U.S. government and the DEA in combating this hemispheric drug problem is often deterred ... States in case of smuggling interruptions (Boaz 58). Corruption on All Sides Interestingly, many employees of the U.S. border patrol have recently voiced concerns regarding the amount of drugs that pass through customs every day without being discovered. They blame this on the reluctance of Washington to pursue the possibility that numerous employees of the U.S. Customs Service, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and the border patrol have come ...

6279: Culture Clash: ... would speak both languages, my father speaking Vietnamese. At dinner we would socialize about many subjects, and our daily lives. My father would talk in Vietnamese about his work, and I would talk about my day in English. My dad was not fluent in English, so he had a difficult time interpreting, and understanding what I was saying. Points could not be proven effectively, and it made situations extremely frustrating. As ... out money. My family got used to not celebrating our cultural New Year. Every time the New Year would come around, no one would mention it. The Chinese New Year slowly became like any other day. Hong’s family would throw a huge New Year’s party. His relatives would drop by to socialize with his family in Chinese. I would see his grandmother, grandfather, parents, and other relatives give out ...

6280: Contrcat Law Implied Terms: ... Fundamentals of Business Law, Rev. ed.(Sydney:McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1996) 190-196. § Gooley J.V & J.C Carvan, The Principles of Contract Law, (Sydeny: Legal Practices Update Pty Ltd, 1992) 111-126. § Greig D.W, Commercial Law, 3rd ed. (Sydney: Butterworths, 1988) § Khoury. D & Y.S.Yamouni, Understanding Contract Law,4th ed. (Sydney: Butterworths, 1995) 106-158. § Latimer. Paul, Australian Business Law, 12th ed. (Sydney: CCH Australia Limited, 1993) 358 - 362 § Parker David & Gerry Box, Basic law for Business ...

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