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- 1231: Creative Writing: Hackers Manifesto
- ... eyes of the hacker? Did you ever wonder what made him tick, what forces shaped him, what may have molded him? I am a hacker, enter my world... Mine is a world that begins with school... I'm smarter than most of the other kids, this crap they teach us bores me... Damn underachiever. They're all alike. I'm in junior high or high school. I've listened to teachers explain for the fifteenth time how to reduce a fraction. I understand it. "No, Ms. Smith, I didn't show my work. I did it in my head..." ...
- 1232: Parking Deck Project of University ______________
- ... and cost are a few of the criteria that will be discussed for locating the new parking deck. After reviewing the criteria, the location for the new parking facility should be at the current Kilby School. Plans have already been discussed for the relocation of Kilby School and the future empty location would provide the optimum qualities needed for a new parking deck. The Master Plan places practice athletic fields at this location. Therefore, it would not be displacing any dominant structures ... an alternate direction. Traffic lights and existing intersections would regulate the traffic flow from the parking deck smoothly into existing traffic. (see Figure 2) The use of express exits would be implemented to accommodate the high traffic flow exiting the parking deck after classes or during other school activities. The Kilby location would also provide ample area for the construction. This site could easily accommodate 300 parking spaces per level. ...
- 1233: JFK: The Death of a Conspiracy
- ... was on its way to Washington, Bethesda Naval Hospital made preparations to receive it. The three doctors chosen to do the autopsy were Commander James Humes, M.D., director of labs at the Naval Medical School in Bethesda; Commander J Thorton Boswell, M.D., chief of Pathology at Bethesda Naval Hospital, and Lieutenant Colonel Pierre Finck, M.D., chief of the Wound Ballistic Pathology Branch at the Armed Forces Institute of ... P.) (1749,2794,5,8). In addition to the three pathologists, there were two Navy enlisted men who served as autopsy technicians, three radiologists, and two photographers. One of the photographers was Bethesda's medical school chief of photography, John Stringer (2797). Dr. Humes was told personally by Rear Admiral Kenney, Surgeon General of the Navy, to find the cause of death (2796). According to Breo, Drs. Humes and Boswell thought ... with the doctors first noticing the massive head wound. According to Drs. Humes and Boswell, ...it was a huge hole in the right side of the head that could only be caused by an exiting, high velocity, missile. This missile exploded away a six-inch section on the right side of the head, with the second bullet entering at the base of the neck. It was clear that the shot ...
- 1234: Fraternities
- ... fraternity is a life-long experience that helps its members develop social, organizational, and study skills during college, and that teaches true, everlasting friendship. As a matter of fact, fraternities have a long tradition of high academic achievement, and most of our nation's presidents were members of a Greek association. According to Irving Klepper, the first fraternity (Phi Beta Kappa) was founded for "social and literary purposes" at the College ... Today's fraternities still have all the characteristics and precepts of the their past fraternities: "the charm and mystery of secrecy, a ritual, oaths of fidelity, a grip, a motto, a badge, a background of high idealism, a strong tie of friendship and comradeship, and urge for sharing its values through nationwide expansion." (Klepper pg. 18) In addition, today's fraternities help their members develop many skills which are used in ... other Greek associations' members, every brother must be able to uphold that office at any time. Organization is a must for every member of a fraternity. Fund raising activities and community service always have a high priority in every chapter, and each member is required to organize and/or take part in many of these activities as a pledge, a brother and an alumnus. This helps individuals within the group ...
- 1235: Personal Writing: The Evaluation of My Coaches
- Personal Writing: The Evaluation of My Coaches Throughout my high school basketball career I experienced several different coaches. Every new coach brought a different approach to coaching. The varying techniques of coaching brought about different attitudes and expectations during practices and games. I found that during ... also had different methods of coaching during and after the games. Practices are very important to basketball. If you practice hard and take it seriously, your team can become successful. All of my coaches in high school took practices seriously. I basically had two different types of coaches when it came to practice. There was the drill sergeant type, which had the team line up in the same place every ...
- 1236: Architecture 2
- ... servants. Usually, in any job, the closer you are to a city, the more money you make. In the case of architects, this is especially true. In booming areas, the demand for architects is incredibly high, often too high for the current amount of architects in the area to fill. And so more architects are brought in fresh out of college, and the demand is met. As long as somewhere in the world there ... thousand dollars a year, depending on such factors like experience and notoriety of the firm and once again closeness to an urban area. To be considered a professional architect, you must attend four years of school and major in architecture, and then attend two more years of post-graduate school. I would like to go to Duke University because their architecture program is one of the best in the world. ...
- 1237: Personal Writing: The Game
- ... each team's captain onto the playing surface the referee informed them of the rules. I want a clean game. No elbows, no scratching, or biting, said Bob, the head referee. Bob tossed the ball high into the thick air and the game began. Shelby won the opening tip and converted it into a quick two points. The Detroit Central Cougars brought the ball up the court and scored a lay ... their free throws. Hearing the sound of the final buzzer, the Shelby Tigers had won their first ever State Basketball Championship and Todd was the MVP. Todd had recorded the first ever quadruple double in high school basketball history tallying; 39 points, 17 assists, 13 steals, and 11 rebounds. They had finally done it, their dream had been fulfilled. After high school, Todd jumped straight to the pros and became the ...
- 1238: Can Intelligence be Measured
- ... a test may be for standardizing a group's intellectual ability. To issue a truly standardized test, the background of their studies must all is the same between students. For example, children from a big school in Indianapolis certainly had different classes that could be taken in Kendallville, In. The schools probably have different funding, environment, children, plus many other factors that are not the same in every school. The actual environment that they are taking the test in could be different and affect different individuals in different ways. A person could not be feeling good on the certain day of the test and ... Standardized tests can also hurt a person's self esteem in some cases. If results are lower than expected, their expectations of themselves may also lower. I have seen many cases like this in my high school thought my four years. "The examiner scores the responses and comes up with a single number- the girls IQ. This number (which the little girl may actually be told) is likely to exert ...
- 1239: Slang in America
- ... of the adults did the same thing when they were children. Adults have been frowning on slang for generations (Crystal 104). Conservatives also look down upon slang because slang is not used by people of high status. If they hear someone speaking in Jive, they will be angry because Jive is not the way that high class people speak. People who do not like slang are usually prejudiced as well. They do not want to hear other ways of talking because it deviates from the way they talk. Also, much slang ... want to speak it? Language has always changed to fit the paradigms of society (Crystal 105). For example, in Shakespeare's time, many contractions used today were considered poor English. Rarely could a person of high social status be found using "don't" in a sentence. Today, however, people may use contractions without fear of being scorned by society. This simply illustrates The same types of people who opposed contractions ...
- 1240: Multimedia
- ... delivering of programs and services which are still largely hypothetical. So what is behind such grand prophecies? Primarily, two technological advances known as digitization (including digital compression), and fibre optics. Both are indispensable to the high-speed networks that will deliver dynamic new services to homes and offices. Digitization means translating information, either video, audio, or text, into ones and zeros, which make it easier to send, store, and manipulate. Compression ... the education arena. From pre-schoolers to college students, learning adapting to this multimedia craze was not hard to do. Teachers and Professors alike share in this technology to plan out their curricular schedules and school calendar. Most will agree that classroom computers seem to have a positive effect on students of the 90's. As schools and universities become more technology driven, there will be an even bigger plea for ... the number of computers used in U.S. elementary and secondary schools increased from under 100,000 to over 2.5 million. A majority of students now use computers and computer software sometime during the school-year, either to learn about computers or as a tool for learning other subjects. By the end of the decade, the typical school had 1 computer per 20 students, a ration that computer educators ...
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