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- 6621: Comparative Essay On The Lord
- ... the way and into the water just in the nick of time. With a shriek that deafened man, felled trees and split stone, Smaug shot spouting into the air, turned over and crashed down from high in ruin. (229) A character that displays the traits of heroism is one who overcomes the odds through the use of unique and valuable qualities; this remains just as true in The Lord of the ... sparks all among the goblins. (59) A source of unexpected magic appears in the story when we discover that Bilbo has acquired a magical ring while in the mysterious under ground maze of the goblins high in the Misty Mountains. After being knocked out during a battle with the crazed and wicked goblins, Frodo wakes to find a ring in vicinity to him. He later discovers this ring has the strange ...
- 6622: France
- ... shop. In Normandy, shops have a rich selection of antiques. Sunday is a good day to shop on in Normandy because many stores have discounts. Normandy has a lot of lace too. The prices are high and the pieces are labor intensive. There are some good beaches in Normandy. It has lots of seaside coasts. There are many widely spaced resorts. On the Atlantic coast there are many waterslides, wavepools, and ... aquarium. It costs $5 per person. It's open from Tues.-Friday from 10- 12:30 A.M. and 1:15-5:30 P.M. Transportation In France many places are accessible to cars. Some high-cost hotels have car-renting services. Paris has 6 train stations, so you could get around easily. Most taxis will charge $2-3 per mile. Fashion In France you should bring sweaters and sweatshirts because ...
- 6623: Telecommunication
- ... LANs. The Server-based networks rely on one major server to store data, offer access to perhiperals, handle the printing and accomplish all the work associated with network management. The Server- based networks have a high start up cost, but offer high security as well as ease of operation. These networks become more economical as more computers are added to the network. In Peer to peer networks the network responsibilities are divided among many computers. Some act ...
- 6624: Telecommunications
- ... disk. The three kinds of computer networks are local area networks (LAN), private branch exchange (PBX) networks, and wide-area networks (WAN). LANs interconnect devices with a group of cables; the devices communicate at a high speed and must be in close proximity. A PBX network interconnects devices with a telephone switching system; in this kind of network, the devices must again be in close proximity. In wide-area networks, on ... Association. One of the goals of these organizations is the full realization of the integrated services digital network (ISDN), which is projected to be capable of transmitting through a variety of media and at very high speeds both voice and nonvoice data around the world in digital form. Other developments in the industry are aimed at increasing the speed at which data can be transmitted. Improvements are being made continually in ...
- 6625: The Population Growth Rate in India
- ... a family seeks sons it may also have to bring into the world some "unwanted" daughters, thereby furthering the trend towards large families. Under conditions of severe impoverishment, attended as it has traditionally been by high childhood mortality rates, "it has estimated for India that in order to have a 95 per cent probability of raising a son to adulthood, the couple had to have at least six children." In general ... so." "Most important, perhaps," writes John Cool, is the fact that thousands of years of Indian experience have shaped cultural values and social institutions, which encourage the survival of the family and the community through high fertility. Modernization is slowly changing this situation, but to insure success considerably more progress needs to be made. Bibliography Chandrasekhar, S. Abortion in a Crowded World: The problem of abortion with special reference to India ...
- 6626: Guyana
- ... of alluvial soil are very rich in nutrients. A big problem that these coastal lands see are much flooding and irrigation problems such as drainage. This happens because much of this land is below the high-tide mark of the sea and the rivers. Guyanian government is trying to help this problem by reclaiming some land for cultivation. Mining Bauxite is one of Guyana's major elements. They are a very ... members are elected to a five- year term. The Judiciary is based on English common and statute law. The Supreme court is divided into branches which are a court of appeal as well as a high court. The Local Government is divided into ten different regions and each is governed by a council. History In 1499, Spanish explorers charted what is now Guyana. The British held possession in 1814 but did ...
- 6627: Diamonds
- ... all parts of the globe. (Arem, p.34) Gradually, new places for mining were discovered. Today, there are diamond mines in Brazil, Venezuela, Guyana, Australia, etc. Despite this abundance in places where mining takes place, high quality diamonds are not abundant at all. On the average, a diamond mine yields less than one carat of diamond for every five tons of rock. Of this, on average, less than 20% is usable for gems and half of this is lost in cutting. (Arem, p.37) In order to be used in jewelry, after diamonds are mined, they must be cut. Because diamonds have such a high hardness, they are cut using other diamonds. What allows them to be cut at all is the fact that they do not have uniform harness throughout the entire stone. For example, the point of an ...
- 6628: Speeding Up Windows 95
- ... provide you with insightful instructional and informative tips about free programs such as TweakUI, and day to day maintenance OS needs. First, it is very important that you run Windows 95 with at least a high-end 486 (Pentium recommended), 8 megs of ram(adding more ram will increase overall performance), and at least 1 meg of video memory. Most of the following tips included here are for speedy application processes ... and a good video card make up a great conventional way of boosting the level of your performance, unfortunately the expense is never a pretty to hear. If you currently have the minimum required setup (high-end 486, 8 megs of ram, 1 meg of video memory), you should see some good effective results from this tutorial. However, if your system falls short of the minimum requirements, I would definitely recommend ...
- 6629: Solving Problem Creatively Over the Net
- ... a web site. I want my homepage to be bold and simple but most of all animation- free. As a surfer myself, I know how it feels when entering a homepage that is full with high resolution graphic and animation. The animation had to be reload and reload again. Within 2 hours I managed to made myself a homepage.I also know to make an impressive homepage,one must have a high counter number so that people will revisit the homepage again. I can't use any "sensual" word to attract people cause it's against Geocities's rule. So I did a very nasty thing. I ...
- 6630: Invisible Man: Plot Summary
- ... allowed to give his speach that will determine wheather he will be accepted to the 'college'. He is accepted and goes through two of his years at the college uneventfully. He is ejected from the school during his junior year when the trustee who ws in his care while visiting the school fell ill and is taken to a local bar to get some alchohol. He is given seven letter of what he suposes to be recomendation to give to people in New York. He moves to ...
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