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- 2521: Internet The Advantages And Disadvantages
- ... world wide and connecting 50 million users. With its popularity, it is incumbent upon our society to recognize how the Internet works and to be aware of its advantages as well as disadvantages. While seemingly high tech the Internet concept is rather simple. Computers speak to one another and send information. This is accomplished by sending and receiving electronic impulse, and then decoding them into a message. In order to communicate ... e-mail via the Internet, and it is all very affordable.(Why use the Web? n.page) Students as well as commerce is benefiting from the Internet. Students need more information than is offered by school libraries. The Internet gives students access to resources from around the world. They are also more willing to sit and browse the Internet then to use the library. Information can be found, selected and retrieved ... they cash the check and move on. ( Anarchy Online 98) Secure passwords can prevent hackers from accessing computers. Passwords should consist of numbers, letters and symbols: an example "P11++69." No matter how secure and high tech the computer security system, all it takes is a simple , stupid password like "hello" to render the whole system worthless. (Freedman 279) Though the Internet has its advantages it also has disadvantages, therefore ...
- 2522: Arthur Miller-BIO
- ... New York Drama Critics Circle Award. He was quickly catapulted into the realm of the great, living, American playwrights; and once was compared to Ibsen and the Greek tragedians. After his graduation from Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, young Miller worked as a stock clerk in an automobile parts warehouse for two and a half years until he had enough money to pay for his first year at the University of ... fooling around.” It wasn’t until he was above the age of seventeen that he read Tom Swift, and Rover Boys, and started to dabble into the books of Dickens…. He passed through the public school system unscathed. His family remembered him as a child handy with tools, he even built their back porch and planted roses in the back yard. In brief Arthur Miller was a very physical child. ...
- 2523: Canada's Ideal Population - What Is It? and How Should It Be Achieved?
- ... It Be Achieved? Population growth, is it desirable? So many things run through my mind when I ask myself that question. I believe that I would desire a higher population , but to an extent. Too high of a population would spell disaster in many ways. In each geography class I've taken, we have always covered the issue of our earths natural resources. And how if we're not careful and ... all the gasses, gasoline and other oil products. Other problems that would occur due to an increase in population are, an increase in taxes. More people would be using facilities funded by taxes, like schools, school supplies, utilities, conservation areas, prisons, courts both provincial and federal, as well as other government services such as snow clearing, and lets not forget that the government has salaries too, and our taxes pay for ... would feel as if they were outcasts, probably end up revolting, and a war would start. There are many factors affecting Canada's population. Each as important as the next. Some are in favour of high population favourable, and some are in favour of low population. So it is very difficult to determine what Canada's ideal population should be. I think Canada's ideal population should be about 125, ...
- 2524: Biography of Arthur Clarke
- ... was 13 years old, he constructed his own telescope, and changed a bike light to transmit sound along the path of light it gave off. Arthur made his first literary connections by writing in the school newspaper. He attended elementary, Middle, and high school in his home town, and then later went to King's College in London, where he made honors in Math and in Physics in 1948. After Arthur had finished college, he became a member ...
- 2525: Gillian Anderson
- ... family was somewhat nomadic. Now being an inhabitant of England, the family moved several more times. At the age of 5, Gillian was living in Crouch End in north London, where she attended her first school. By this time Gillian had spent most of her life in London but had picked up her parents’ American accent. Her classmates teased and taunted her, and she was bullied in the schoolyard. She immediately ... Gillian and her punk friends would walk down the street giving the finger to whom ever stared. All of which lead up to her getting arrested on graduation night for breaking and entering into the high school. So it is safe to say that Gillian’s friends, social position, and the society in which she lived all were influential to her life. Gillian does not regret entering the punk scene, because ...
- 2526: Charles Dickens
- ... clerk in the navy pay office and was well paid, but his extravagant living style often brought the family to financial disaster. The family reached financial "rock bottom" in 1824. Charles was taken out of school and sent to work in a factory doing manual labour, while his father went to prison for his debt. These internal disasters shocked Charles greatly. He refers to his working experiences in his writings. Although ... first of his nine surviving children had been born, He had married Catherine, eldest daughter of a respected journalist George Hogorth (April 1836). Novels His first major success was with The Pickwick Papers. They were high spirited and contained many conventional comic butts and jokes. Pickwick displayed, many of the features that were to be blended in to his future fiction works; attacks on social evils and the delight in the ... London, and moved from house to larger house as his family grew. He became acquainted with may popular authors and journalists and entertained them regularly at his home. Though financially well off, he generally avoided high society, he hated to be idolized or patronized. He was extremely proud of his work, and strived on improving it with every new venture, yet his work, never employed all of his energies. He ...
- 2527: Albert Einstein
- ... nine even led some teachersto believe he was disabled. Einstein’s post-basic education began at the Luitpold Gymnasium when he was ten. It was here that he first encountered the German spirit through the school’s strict disciplinary policy. His disapproval of this method of teaching led to his reputation as a rebel. It was probably these differences that caused Einstein to search for knowledge at home. He began not ... he continued his education. At sixteen he attempted to enroll at the Federal Institute of Technology but failed the entrance exam. This forced him to study locally for one year until he finally passed the school’s evaluation. The Institute allowed Einstein to meet many other students that shared his curiosity, and It was here that his studies turned mainly to Physics. He quickly learned that while physicists had generally agreed ... allowed Einstein to access an enormous library. It was here that he extended his theory and discussed it with the leading scientists of Europe. In 1912 he chose to accept a job placing him in high authority at the Federal Institute of Technology, where he had originally studied. It was not until 1914 that Einstein was tempted to return to Germany to become research ! ! director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute ...
- 2528: Alchemy
- ... art was attributed to Hermes Trismegistus and supposed to be contained in its entirety in his works. The Arabs, after their conquest of Egypt in the seventh century, carried on the researches of the Alexandrian school, and through their instrumentality the art was brought to Morocco and thus in the eighth century to Spain, where it flourished exceedingly. Indeed, Spain from the ninth to the eleventh century became the repository of ... On the introduction of chemistry as a practical art, alchemical science fell into desuetude and disrepute, owing chiefly to the number of charlatans practicing it, and by the beginning of the eighteenth century, as a school, it may be said to have become defunct. Here and there, however, a solitary student of the art lingered, and in the department of this article "Modern Alchemy" will demonstrate that the science has to ... metals made use of must be purified to insure the success of the operation. The process for the manufacture of silver is essentially similar, but the resources of the matter are not carried to so high a degree. "According to the "Commentary on the Ancient War of the Knights" the transmutations performed by the perfect stone are so absolute that no trace remains of the original metal. It cannot, however, ...
- 2529: Hitler
- ... Jews, and others considered inferior human being. Hitler was born in braunauam Inn, Austria, on April 20, 1889, the son of a minor custom official and a peasant girl. A poor student, he never completed high school. He applied for to the academy of fine arts in Vienna but was reject because of a lack of talent. Staying in Vienna till 1913, he lived first on an orphanage pension, later on small ... party. Organizing meeting after meeting terrorizing political foes with groups of party thugs, Hitler spread his gospel of racial hatred and contempt for democracy. He soon became a key figure in bavarian politics, aided by high officials and executives. In November 1923, a time of political and economic chaos, he leads the up rising in Munich against the postwar Weimar republic, proclaiming him Chancellor of a new authoritarian regime. Without ...
- 2530: Albert Einstein
- ... nine even led some teachersto believe he was disabled. Einstein’s post-basic education began at the Luitpold Gymnasium when he was ten. It was here that he first encountered the German spirit through the school’s strict disciplinary policy. His disapproval of this method of teaching led to his reputation as a rebel. It was probably these differences that caused Einstein to search for knowledge at home. He began not ... he continued his education. At sixteen he attempted to enroll at the Federal Institute of Technology but failed the entrance exam. This forced him to study locally for one year until he finally passed the school’s evaluation. The Institute allowed Einstein to meet many other students that shared his curiosity, and It was here that his studies turned mainly to Physics. He quickly learned that while physicists had generally agreed ... allowed Einstein to access an enormous library. It was here that he extended his theory and discussed it with the leading scientists of Europe. In 1912 he chose to accept a job placing him in high authority at the Federal Institute of Technology, where he had originally studied. It was not until 1914 that Einstein was tempted to return to Germany to become research director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute ...
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