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- 4481: The American Dream, And All It
- ... Dream" -- the belief that anyone can, and should, achieve material success. The defining writer of the 1920s was F. Scott Fitzgerald whose most famous novel, The Great Gatsby, has become required reading for present-day high school students. We study Fitzgerald's novel for the same reason we study Shakespeare. The literature composed by both authors contains themes and morals that continue to be relevant to modern society. As a result, this ...
- 4482: The Great Gatsby- Jay Gatsby V
- ... Gatsby who dreams of happiness with Daisy and the relationship they once had. He also has the power to make his dreams reality. He dreamed as a boy of a luxurious life of riches and high society, and he got it. Later he dreams of Daisy and their future together, which he has in reach for a time before it falls away. He loses it because his love for Daisy is ... do anything for his love and worked towards his dreams all his life. Nick is still, however, an honest and good man. He is not extravagantly rich, but unlike Gatsby he earned all of his high social connections fairly. He is rather disgusted with the East and its empty values by the end of the book. But he is still intrigued by it all, as he demonstrates through his relationship with Jordan Baker. He holds an almost subconscious curiosity about the flashy Eastern life, but unlike Gatsby his curiosity has its limits. He does not become obsessed with the life or ideals of high society. In the end, he returns to the life he was born into, in the Midwest where people have morals and life is not such a shallow game. all information from theSpark.com
- 4483: The Birth Of Fiber Optics-To it's Popularity
- ... s also illustrated the need for a purer form of glass to help reduce light loss. In 1970, one team of researchers began experimenting with fused silica, a material capable of extreme purity with a high melting point and a low refractive index. The team carefully added controlled levels of dopants to make the refractive index of the core slightly higher than that of the cladding without raising attenuation dramatically. Corning ... from one point to another. This is accomplished by using thin filaments of glass through which light beams are transmitted. Fiber optics is becoming a popular trend in the technological world because, they have a high information carrying capacity. Very low error rates, totally insensitive to electromagnetic interference and a great immunity to eavesdropping. Fiber optics have high information carrying capacity optical waveguide fibers are capable of carrying 65,000 times more information than copper wire, and information carried by a pattern of light waves can be decoded at a destination of ...
- 4484: Computer Technology
- ... and precision. Computer Technology has improved our lives. It will continue to affect our future which will lead to an easier, less complicated lifestyle, with more job opportunities and their benefits. . The modern world of high technology could not have come about except for the development of the computer. Different types and sizes of computers find uses throughout society in the storage and handling of data, from secret government files to ... can also help with editing a paper, they can even check spelling and grammar. Typing on a computer today is probably the most common way people write there research papers, reports and other documents for school and business. Families can use computers to keep in touch with each other through E-mail.They help people talk with others all around the world, using different services and methods. Since computers are used ...
- 4485: The Year 2000 Problem
- ... for various systems to be down at all times (Moffitt & Sandler 66). Testing the solutions may be seen as an unimportant phase in the conversion process. The rewards seem few, and the costs of are high. However, testing solutions is the only way to ensure that a business will flow smoothly into the 21st century. This procedure involves making sample databases and records to verify that the fixes were made correctly ... into everyday use. An advantage of this method is that all of the tests are done at the same times, allowing quicker feedback. The downside is that the amount of down time will be fairly high. The other approach is the same as the first, except switching the second and third items. The systems are first put back into production, and then they are tested for year 2000 compliance while they ... a longer time (Pollner 2-3). As the year 2000 comes closer and closer, companies are losing precious time in order to swat the millennium bug. The deadline is fixed. The price of survival is high and the only reward is the hope of continuing to operate in the worlds of commerce and industry. Businesses that continue into the next millennium will enjoy the happiness of existence. Companies that fail ...
- 4486: Eating Disorder
- ... puberty. (Attie and Brooks-Gun, p.71) Aside from the pubertal changes that the authors found significant in this issue, family relationships were also detected to influence the emergence of eating disorders. Families that set high standards for achievement, gave little support for autonomy, and blurred interpersonal boundaries left adolescent girls with deficits in their self-esteem. (Attie and Brooks-Gun, p.71) Once again, as mentioned earlier, it makes sense ... variables entered this problem, but only at a later stage. Attie's and Brooks-Gun's findings suggest that body shape becomes a primary focus and that efforts to control weight intensify during the middle-school years. In other words, the rapid accumulation of body fat that is part of the female experience of puberty often functions as a triggering effect, in the sense that it starts the attempt of weight ...
- 4487: BAG OF BONES
- ... This book is 732-pages long, and I read it in six days, not being a huge book fan, that says quite a bit, doesnt it? I would recommend this book to anyone of high school reading level. If it kept my attention, itll keep theirs; and in the meantime, make them think a little bit. But I will say, being a King book, it contains very strong mature themes ...
- 4488: The Year 2000 Computer Problem
- ... for various systems to be down at all times (Moffitt & Sandler 66). Testing the solutions may be seen as an unimportant phase in the conversion process. The rewards seem few, and the costs of are high. However, testing solutions is the only way to ensure that a business will flow smoothly into the 21st century. This procedure involves making sample databases and records to verify that the fixes were made correctly ... into everyday use. An advantage of this method is that all of the tests are done at the same times, allowing quicker feedback. The downside is that the amount of down time will be fairly high. The other approach is the same as the first, except switching the second and third items. The systems are first put back into production, and then they are tested for year 2000 compliance while they ... a longer time (Pollner 2-3). As the year 2000 comes closer and closer, companies are losing precious time in order to swat the millennium bug. The deadline is fixed. The price of survival is high and the only reward is the hope of continuing to operate in the worlds of commerce and industry. Businesses that continue into the next millennium will enjoy the happiness of existence. Companies that fail ...
- 4489: Porn on the Internet
- ... far away from children's reach. Still, there is one thing that many parents do not think about putting away. It is the computer. Although the computer is mostly used for helpful things such as school work and business work, it can be manipulated to show vulgarity. Sites that contain pornography can be linked to with ease. These sites can be seen whether or not the child is purposely or mistakenly ... use for their children by purchasing and installing a program that filters out pornography. Surprisingly, there is an unlimited amount of pornography on the Internet. Search engines that most kids use for gathering information for school projects are the tools that anyone can use to connect to the pornography sites. Some search engines that teachers recommend to studnts are www.yahoo.com, www.aol.com, and www.gateway.com. However, once ... act of sex. Another topic that a child can type into the search box to find links to pornography sites is "farm animals." When a child is assigned a project about farms and animals for school, he or she is most likely to use the computer at home to gather beneficial information. One will wonder how the topic, "farm animals," could associate to pornography. Astonishingly, the links gathered by the ...
- 4490: May Day And USA
- ... as the rich and the poor. The parallel lives of Eveline Johnson and Mary French reveal Dos Passos's distinct attitudes in regards to the upper and lower classes of society. As a member of high society, Eveline Johnson exemplifies Dos Passos's attitudes of the rich. These attitudes begin to take shape as Mary French enters the party, "Eveline Johnson was ushering them through some sliding doors into a high-ceilinged room dusky from shaded lights and cigarettesmoke where they were swallowed up in a jam of welldressed people talking and making faces and tossing their heads over cocktail glasses" (1527). This description tends to ... a name hinting that in his veins, however thinly diluted by generations of degeneration, ran blood of some potentiality. But one could stare endlessly at the long, chinless face, the dull, the watery eyes, and high cheek-bones, without finding a suggestion of either ancestral worth or native resourcefulness" (35). Rose is described in much the same way, "His companion was swart and bandy-legged, with rat-eyes and a ...
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