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- 4141: History of the Computer Industry in America
- ... of precision machining techniques used at the time and the lack of demand for such a device (Soma, 46).After Babbage, people began to lose interest in computers. However, between 1850 and 1900 there were great advances! in mathematics and physics that began to rekindle the interest (Osborne, 45). Many of these new advances involved complex calculations and formulas that were very time consuming for human calculation. The first major use ... using computers of relatively modest capability for controlling and regulating their activities. In the 1960s the programming of applications problems was an obstacle to the self- sufficiency of moderate-sized on-site computer installations, but great advances in applications programming languages removed these obstacles. Applications languages became available for controlling a great range of manufacturing processes, for computer operation of machine tools, and for many other tasks (Osborne, 146). In 1971 Marcian E. Hoff, Jr., an engineer at the Intel Corporation, invented the microprocessor and another ...
- 4142: Juice
- ... and physically. Physically, there are both long term effects and short term effects. The long term effects include jaundice, cancer, and death. Short term effects include hypertension and severe acne. The mental effects are aggressiveness, depression, mood swings and psychosis. The liver is the body organ most effected by steroid use because it is the primary means of clearing these drugs from the body. The toxic chemicals in the steroids, mainly ... invincible feeling. They feel a constant source of power and energy and nothing could ever defeat them. If a user decides its time to stop, they most likely will go through a period of severe depression. The depression is brought on by insecure feelings and degrading thoughts of weakness. This is when the user will eventually decide to start up again. Serious mood swings also occur when steroids are in the equation. ...
- 4143: Development of Computers and Technology
- ... the World Wide Web, which is a mass of information networked from places around the world. Nowadays, no matter where you look, computers are somewhere, doing something. Changes in computer hardware and software have taken great leaps and jumps since the first video games and word processors. Video games started out with a game called Pong...monochrome (2 colors, typically amber and black, or green and black), you had 2 controller ... was known as the first computer programmer. Daughter of an English poet (Lord Byron), went to work with Babbage and helped develop instructions for doing calculations on the analytical engine. Lovelace's contributions were very great, her interest gave Babbage encouragement; she was able to see that his approach was workable and also published a series of notes that led others to complete what he prognosticated. Since 1970, the US Congress ... was already won. In Britain however, scientists succeeded in making a computer called Colossus, which helped in cracking supposedly unbreakable German radio codes. The Nazis unsuspectingly continued to use these codes throughout the war. As great as this accomplishment is, imagine the possibilities if the reverse had come true, and the Nazis had the computer technology and the British did not. In the same time frame, American military officers approached ...
- 4144: Shermans March
- ... A scar still remains on the southern psyche. (Miles, Intro) When I look carefully at this quote, I can see the strong emotions each side had toward the march. The North saw it as a great triumph; while the South saw the march as if the devil himself had come down and burned their homes and crops. What Sherman thought about this is expressed in the introduction of David Nevin’s ... saw other reasons for destruction of the South. One in particular would be the slaves in Georgia. Sherman felt it was necessary to free them from their bondage. In the book The Story of the Great March by George Ward Nichols, he wrote a letter telling just how Sherman felt about doing this. General Sherman invites all able bodied Negroes (others could not make the march) to join the column, and ... D.C.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1996. Osborn, Thomas. Ward The fiery trail : a Union officer's account of Sherman's last Campaigns. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1986. Nichols, Brevet Major George W. The Great March From the Diary of a Staff Officer. Williamstown, Massachusetts: Corner House Publishers, 1984. Thorndike, Rachel. The Sherman Letters. New York: 1894. Hitchcock, Henry. Marching With Sherman. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1927. Simpson, ...
- 4145: Bill Cosby
- ... support the family. In school he was the class clown and was sent to a special school for rowdy boys. In his new school his teacher was Mary Forchic. She saw that he was a great comedian and she put that into her lessons to make them more understandable for Bill. She made the lessons fun for him and made it easier to learn. He said that she made him what ... It was called, AI Started Out As a Child@ and it was very successful. Cosby was selected to play a spy on a TV show series called AI Spy.@ The producer, Sheldon Leanord, was taking great risks in having Cosby playing this part. Racial issues were stirring in the 60's and Cosby was the first Black American to have a major role on a very popular television series. Bill Cosby ... What were your feelings when you first heard about your son=s death? I would ask this because the book is entitled, ABill Cosby Family Man,@ and his son=s death must have had a great effect on his family. I would also ask him: When you were asked to go to court about your alleged daughter, what was your reaction? What was the first thing that popped into your ...
- 4146: Neal Cassady
- ... Third) With him as not only the legendary driver of On The Road but also as the driver of the bus with the Merry Pranksters in tow, the two generations were symbolically connected by this great man, this damaged angel, Neal Cassady. His influence spanned over many different writers, artists, most notably the Grateful Dead, and prominent figures of the time. He tied the two movements together to make the fifties ... of it, alive. The most can be learned of Neal Cassady through his correspondence with Kerouac, Ginsberg and Kesey. The First Third, Kesey’s unfinished autobiography, includes the most famous of these letters, called "The Great Sex Letter," from Cassady to Kerouac. Reading his words and manner of speech, his speed of living can be felt. He tells of bars and women and adventuring. The letters are littered with capitalized and ... to seduce a woman without saying a word. Just like the Beat writers and the Pranksters were uncannily drawn to him, women would fall in love with him within minutes of meeting him. In "The Great Sex Letter," Cassady tells Kerouac from a bar in Kansas City "…by 2 AM I had her swearing eternal love, complete subjectivity to me and immediate satisfaction…. Knowing her supremely perfect being was completely ...
- 4147: Emily Dickinson's Literary Devices and Techniques
- ... world of Emily Dickinson and her poetic works. Emily Dickinson makes use of three easily distinguishable, literary techniques which make her poetry unique and creative. These techniques are her use of rhymes, paradoxes, and the great use of imagery and figure of speech to elaborate her poetry. These devices shall be further examined in this review. Dickinson's establishes great use of rhyme and rhyme schemes I her poetry. For instance in "Heart! We will forget him!" she uses a rhyme scheme of: A, B, C, B. The first stanza goes like this: "Heart! We ... be taken literally, but adds to the quality of the poem. Imagery and figures of speech, like rhyme, also make poems enjoyable to read. In short, Emily Dickinson is a well established poet, who makes great use of simple literary devices which enhance an characterize her poetry. Though, in life she was she, her poetry was outspoken and helped define the true person she is known as today. Don't ...
- 4148: About All Sharks
- ... the fact that sharks have bones instead, they have cartiladge which countrary common belief is rather solid. In the rarest of cases complete fossil have been discovered. Scientific data shows that following a period of great physiological changes. There was not to many changes in the sharks fossil in the millions of years, of studying the shark fossils. The Hybodonts who made their appearance some 320 million (years ago the age ... oceanic and fresh water hybodonts because exticnt at about the same time as the dinosaurs. The largest shark to ever swim the oceans is called the megalodon. Many think that it's ancestor to the great white shark however there is great controversy surrounding this matter. The size of the shark is 40 to 50 feet in length it is safe to say that megalodon is still considered to be largest predatory fish to have ever ...
- 4149: The African Penguin
- ... the African Penguin continues to increase, in the near future the African Penguin can be back to its normal numbers. I believe that we should continue to help the African Penguin because it is a great animal. It has a beautiful fur coating and just looks really great. Instead of killing this species we should help it because it never did anything to the human race yet we go on killing it. If you would like to go see an African Penguin, the New England Aquarium in Boston, Massachusetts has a great penguin exhibit. I would highly recommend it.
- 4150: Mr. Flood’s Party: A Cry for Help
- ... poem. He also effectively uses it in his dramatic poem, “Mr. Flood’s Party”. Robinson’s theme for “Mr. Flood’s Party” is that of a man, perhaps Robinson himself, who at one time had great aspiration and high achievements, all to be lost to old age, alcohol abuse and the complementing disease, alcoholism. Using symbols, tone and dramatic irony, Robinson appears to reflect on his own life, as he cries ... is his friends and community that have shut him out. This tragic irony further isolates him from the hope of one day becoming a productive part of society, drawing him only deeper into his alcoholic depression. Robinson’s theme revolves around a man struggling with not only alcoholism’s effects on himself but on society as well. This overall theme helps to reveal the often sad and pitiful life of an ...
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