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- 4521: Catcher In The Rye By Jd Salin
- ... wanted to get out of there. He then talks about where his room is at pencey and how its in a hall named after Ossinburger some fat guy who donated alot of money to the school. He remembers of the time when Edgar Marsalla fladulated loudly during some speach that ossiburger gave during church. He then made it to his room where he was happy to be (his room had two ... into phoebe's room and wakes her (she's really happy to see him and questions his being there and he lies to her about why he's there) he then talks to her about school and people. Chapter's twentythree- twentyfive: *Holden's parents come home from their party and he almost gets caught but makes it out safely. He ends up at Mr. Antolini's house where he is ... sits in the rain and cries out of joy and because he is such a confused boy. Chapter twentysix: *Holden says he isn't gonna tell us anymore, but he could tell us about what school he's suposed to go to after he gets out of the mental institution. He says the doctors are askin him a million questions and so is his brother DB. "Don't ever tell ...
- 4522: Metamophasis
- ... Kafka had trouble at home with his father. His father wanted him to become a lawyer, but Franz did not want to be a lawyer, he wanted to be a writer. He went to law school against his will, because his father wanted him to go there. He then took a high paying position with the government of Czechoslovakia in an insurance post. In the story, Gregors father had very little respect for him, and Gregor had to work to pay off the family debts. That ...
- 4523: Cry. The Beloved Country
- ... battered country that has suffered far to much for far to long. The book takes you to South Africa, where the land itself is the essence of a man. It as if the mountains, soaring high above the clouds, are the high moments in life, and the valleys are those low and suffering times. Next, you will take a journey to a place called Johannesburg. While reading the pages, begin to envision Johannesburg being a polluted, very ... city. The setting is more of a emotional setting than a physical setting. As I stated it takes place in South Africa, 1946. This is a time where racial discrimination is at an all time high. The black community of this land is trying to break free from the white people, but having little success. It is this so called racism that is essential to the setting of the story. ...
- 4524: Computers in Education
- Computers in Education The typical school has 1 computer per 20 students, a ratio that computer educators feel is still not high enough to affect classroom learning as much as books and classroom conversation. Some critics see computer education as merely the latest in a series of unsuccessful attempts to revolutionise education through the use of audio ...
- 4525: Development Of Operating Systems
- ... buffer management and supervision for I/O devices as well as support for programming in assembly language. Around the same time as SOS was being developed, the first operating system to support programming in a high-level language was achieved. FMS (Fortran Monitoring System) incorporated a translator for IBM's FORTRAN language, which was widely used as most programs where written in this language. Third Generation Computers (1965-1980) In the ... held in a partition of memory. Many time-sharing operating systems were introduced in the 1960's, including the MULTICS (Multiplexed Information and Computing Service). Developed by Bell Labs, MULTICS was written almost completely in high-level language, and is known as the first major operating system to have done so. MULTICS examined many new concepts including segmented memory, device independence, hierarchal file system, I/O redirection, a powerful user interface ... the languages BASIC, COBOL-80, and FORTRAN-80, and Multiplan. 1984 saw the release of the Apple Macintosh, a low-cost workstation, which evolved from early Alto computer designs. The Macintosh provided advanced graphics and high performance for its size and cost. As the Macintosh was not compatible with other systems, it required its own operating system, which is how the Apple operating system was established. MIMIX, based on the ...
- 4526: Computer Pornography
- ... This bill is censorship. This bill threatens to interrupt and curb the rapid evolution of electronic information systems. This bill isn't needed. This bill usurps the role of parents("CDA: LP calls new bill `high-tech censorship'.": 1)." Clifford Stoll, a renown Internet scientist and author of the 1989 bestseller The Cuckoo's Egg, when asked "Are you concerned about the abundance of pornography on the Net?" said: Well, I ... ban Internet pornography (Wallace: 1). As stated by Steve Dasbach, "The Communications Decency Act is a case of 20th-century politicians using 19th-century laws to control 21st-century technology("CDA: LP calls new bill `high-tech censorship'.": 1)." Two easy cures for this unorganized, uncensored, uncontrollable Internet are: First, Promoting the use of child safe Internet Service Providers and second, the use of local screening software(Wallace: 5). The Government ... Works Cited BigGuy. Online Personal Interview. washington.dc.us.undernet.org/port=6667 (20 Jun. 1996). Bruce, Marty. "Censorship on the Internet." Censorship on the Internet. 1996. (29 Jun. 1996). "CDA: LP calls new bill `high-tech censorship'. " Libertarian Press July 1995. (29 Jun. 1996). Chidley, Joe. "Reality Check." MacLean's 22 May 1995: 59. Chidley, Joe. "Red-Light District." MacLean's 22 May 1995: 58. Emigh, Jacqueline. "Computers & Privacy - ...
- 4527: INTEL Knows Best? A Major Marketing Mistake
- ... in conjunction with the "Intel Inside" logo and stated 'with Intel Inside, you know you have got. . . unparalleled quality'. This provided immediate name recognition for the company and led the consumers to associate Intel with high quality computers. Then Intel went the extra mile in the marketing world and spent another $80m to promote its new Pentium chips. The basis for this extra $80m was to "speed the market's acceptance ... up with a correct answer. This was not the case with the Pentium. A table containing 1066 entries had five incorrect entries, resulting in certain calculations made by the Pentium chips to be inaccurate as high as the fourth significant digit.) Considering the low number of people that the chip would supposedly affect and the high cost ($475m) associated with replacing the chips, Intel decided a case by case replacement policy "for those limited users doing critical calculations". Intel's VP- corporate marketing director, Dennis Carter, stated, "We're satisfied ...
- 4528: The History of Computers
- ... 1939 there was the first true digital computer. It was called the ABC, and was designed by Dr. John Astanasoff. In 1942 John O. Eckert, John W. Mauchly, and associates had decided to build a high speed computer. The computer they were to build would become to be known as the ENIAC (Electrical Numerical Integration And Calculator). The reason for building this was there was a demand for high computer capacity at the beginning of World War two. The ENIAC after being built would take up 1,800 square feet of floor space.14 It would consist of 18,000 vacuum tubes, and would take up 180,000 watts of power.15 The ENIAC was rated to be 1000 times faster than any other previous computer. The ENIAC was accepted as the first successful high speed computer, and was used from 1946 to 1955.16 Around the same time there was a new computer built was more popular. It was more popular because it not only had the ability ...
- 4529: Modernization of Air Warfare
- ... Electric engines. F-117As were designed for first-strike capabilities and to be able to fly into any countries airspace undetected. The primary task of the F-117A is to break through enemy airspace, destroy high value targets, and return back unharmed. They were considered to first be used in several different tasks, but weren't used until Operation Dessert Storm where they did an excellent job. As Donald Rice, Secretary ... the Lockheed YF-22 even though the YF- 23 was more stealthy and could go faster. A new swing-wing stealth aircraft has been spotted undergoing test. In September of 1994 it was seen circling high over Anarillo, Texas. While it was circling, a radio scanner picked up a military UHF channel with the call sign Omega. This call sign has never been heard before. The pilot was talking about a ... has been in service since 1967. Recently there have been millions of dollars spent expanding the Cannon Air Force Base and a new plane might be undergoing testing there. It has also been said that high ranking officials have gathered there to look at the new aircraft. The Pentagon has announced that the F-111 will be retired by the end of 1995. The new swing-wing aircraft spotted will ...
- 4530: Beloved
- ... people thought of her and her family and what they did to show it. People are cruel, some just show it more than others. I felt bad for Denver and how she was teased at school. They would tease her and accuse her mother of being a witch, which we know is not true But what it shows is how Denver becomes isolated from the world during the years where friends are needed. Im sure that at one point or another Denver told Sethe about what was happening at school, which pushed her more and more away from society. Something else that I noticed is that the public never had much interaction with the characters. Possibly this was the authors way of proving the theme ... in this novel Beloved. The theme can be seen in the isolation of Sethe and her inner self. It can also be seen with Denver and her separation from society because of the children at school. There is also the detachment of Sethes family from the rest of the world because of her past and what people think of the house and the family. Isolation can be a very ...
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