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- 281: Computer Software Piracy and it's Impact on the International Economy
- ... forms of personal communication, including e-mail and on-line chatting" (Larson Internet). This also creates ideal piracy breeding grounds. Software pirates utilize the services of the Internet to "trade" copyrighted "warez." In 1994 the Washington Post reported about an individual who had set up a computer bulletin board system connected to the Internet, that allowed over one million dollars worth of software to be copied. People using the Internet computer ... intellectual property, but have generally achieved marginal success in reducing losses to piracy. Works Cited "China and Russia Again Named 'One Copy Countries' by the SPA in special 301 Report." Software Publishers Association. Press Release. Washington D.C. 20 Feb 1996. URL: http://www.spa.org/gvmt/spa301.htm. "China Takes Software Piracy Clampdown Inland." Bloomberg Forum. 1995. News and Observer. URL: http://www.nando.net/new...fo/080785/info518_5.html. Daly, Christopher B. "Judge Dismisses Fraud Charges Against Student in Software Case." Washington Post. 30 Dec 1994: D1. NewsBank CD-ROM 1995. "Hong Kong Software Pirates Arrested Due to SPA Investigation." Software Publishers Association. Press Release. Washington D.C. 4 June 1996. URL: http://www.spa.org/ ...
- 282: Of Mice and Men: The Importance of A Close Friendship Between Two People
- ... favorite of many people. So many people can remember the name Lennie. I will explain some of the important factors as well as details in this story. One of the more memorable characters is definitely George Milton. He is Lennie's best friend. George is the kind of guy who will protect Lennie from anybody. He is a nice guy as long as you are nice to him and Lennie. George's best friend Lennie is probably the most memorable character in the book. His full name is Leonard Small. Which could mean he is strong as a lion but slow, as in dumb. One ...
- 283: George Orwells Satirical Appro
- George Orwell once said the Animal Farm, an anti-Soviet satire, was "the first in which I tried, with full consciousness of what I was doing, to fuse political purpose, and artistic purpose into one whole ... of revolutions. The goal of Animal Farm was to get people to open their eyes to Stalin's way of governing Russia. But some people's eyes remained closed even after the book was published. George Soule did not open his mind to Animal Farm. He once said, " the failure of this book arises from the fact that the satire deals not with something the author has experienced, but rather with ... their newly formed state that they took a green tablecloth and painted a white hoof and horn on it similar to the hammer and sickle of the former Soviet Union flag (Unger). In Animal Farm, George Orwell expresses his opinion on revolution through Animalism. Some critics have compared Animalism to Marxism. In the beginning of Animal Farm, Old Major calls for a meeting in the barn and tells all the ...
- 284: A Biography Of George Orwell
- George Orwell was born Eric Arthur Blair on June 25, 1903 in Motihari in India, which was at that time part of the British Empire. His family was not very wealthy and like most middle-class ... leaving the BBC in 1943, he began writing Animal Farm and in 1946, he wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four. These two famous satires helped him attain prominence in the late 1940's. In January of 1950, George Orwell succumbed to his illness and died. George Orwell's books, documentaries, essays and criticism during the 1930's and 40's established him as one of the most significant and prominent influence of the 20th century.
- 285: Of Mice And Men 3
- ... the time the person's internal limitations are the central cause of the dream's downfall. Steinbeck uses the major characters of his novel to express the idea behind dreams. Steinbeck uses the characters of George Milton and Lennie Small to thoroughly explore his idea about dreams. George an Lennie are ranchhands who believe that they "don't belong no place". They are both considered to linger among the lowest rung of the social ladder. Society has driven these two men to believing in the idea that they "ain't got nothing to look ahead to." Even though George and Lennie have a dream about owning "a little house and a couple of acres an' a cow and some pigs and rabbits"someday, their own individual faults hinder their dream from ever coming ...
- 286: Mice Of Men
- Of Mice and Men The novel Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, is about two ranch hands, George and Lennie. George is a small, smart-witted man, while Lennie is a large, mentally- handicapped man. They are trying to raise enough money to buy their own ranch, by working as ranch hands. During the setting of ... loss. These pets consist of mice, dogs, kittens, etc. Lennie loves to feel and pet animals, but he does not know his own strength. He kills them without really noticing what he has done, until George tells him that he did something wrong. After being scolded, Lennie is very remorseful about what he did. Once, after being yelled at Lennie says, I pinched their heads a little and then they ...
- 287: Of Mice And Men - Foreshadowing
- ... have a lot in common. To start both the dog and Lennie were shoot by the same gun, a luger. Carlson owned the luger. The dog was shoot by Carlson and Lennie was shoot by George. Both, Lennie and the dog were shoot in the back of the head "where the spine and the skull were joined."(page 105) Steinbeck and Carlson used the same word to describe the pain, which ... Stern page 2 shooting set up a foreshadow for the killing of Lennie. When one reads the shooting of Lennie they think about how similar they were. But when reads it they also wonder why George shot Lennie. George never really liked having Lennie around him because he could never do anything without being asked stupid questions by Lennie. George never ended up getting paid for his hard work on ranches because of ...
- 288: Amelia Earhart
- ... life was to change forever...a phone call from Captain H.H. Railey asked, "how would you like to be the first woman to fly across the Atlantic?" H.H. Railey had been asked by George Palmer Putnam, a New York publisher, to find the woman to make a trans-atlantic flight. No woman had so far flown across the Atlantic. A week later, Amelia met with George Putnam in New York. George was said to have been so impressed by her at the meeting that he decided Amelia should be the woman to make the flight. Amelia accepted the offer although she would only be a ...
- 289: Romanticism - Washington Irvin
- ... with Frankenstein, Edgar Allen Poe with various poems and selections, such as The Raven, The TellTale Heart, and The Pit and The Pendulum. One person who had a great effect on the Romantic era was Washington Irving. Some called Irving the first real American writer. Washington Irving was born April 3, 1783, in New York City. He was the eleventh child of Sarah William Irving. His father was a strict man, a merchant and deacon in the Presbyterian Church. He started ... were obvious in his works. Irving did not wish to go to college. Though he had great interests in the theater and the arts, his father expected each of his sons to support himself, so Washington decided to be an apprentice in a law office. His employer was Ogden Hoffman and Irving fell in love with his daughter. He also wrote articles for his brother's paper, the Morning Chronicle. ...
- 290: Of Mice and Men: Loneliness
- ... and emotions that surround the major characters rather than their own. Characters like Curley's wife and Crooks are unmistakably lonely, but they show how their lonliness is the opposite of the two main characters, George and Lennie. Crooks actually states that George and Lennie have got each other but he hasn't got anyone. Curley's wife portrays the same message but under different circumstances. There are really no other main characters besides George and Lennie. From reading the novel and watching the film it is clearly evident in most cases that all of the support characters appear to be lonely. Therefore lonliness is quite a strong and ...
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