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- 1361: Slaughterhouse Five
- ... what he felt was necessary to stay alive and to further his work. The author himself tells us he had to write this book. His subtitle A Duty-Dance with Death also takes on a personal aspect. Vonnegut had to reconcile himself with the war, the death, and its impact on him. Tools and Context (war) Through the use of philosophies and ideas, characters, and entire settings, Kurt Vonnegut makes his experiences as a soldier and a prisoner in the Germany of World War II an important part of his writing, as it is no doubt an important part of his life. He is able to take the attitudes and feelings of himself and of the general population during and following the war, and to use ... fabulous yarns warning against the dangers of militarism and excessive scientific zeal, without detracting from his own story. There is no doubt that World War II played a crucial role in the development of his writing, and that is proof that at least some good can be salvaged from Man's mistakes. Again, when one choose to discuss Vonnegut s literary tools and how he uses them in Slaughterhouse-Five, ...
- 1362: Data Warehousing
- ... typically run on minicomputers, are used for online transaction processing, or O.L.T.P., to operate networks of automated teller machines, for example. Now come data warehouses, commonly run on client/server networks of personal computers and more powerful server machines. These latest systems are used for online analytical processing, or O.L.A.P., an essentially strategic application. Put another way, traditional database systems are good at recording and ... outstanding. As the final piece in a complex £500,000 IT jigsaw, the SQL Server based warehouse went live in June 1996. It was loaded with the first five months of trading data. This meant writing interfaces to extract data from six operational and management systems, some of which are also fed from several others. Nationwide drew on a relational database structure of 90 tables with up to 50 data items ... of the most complex reports covers Key Performance Indicators. Drawing on 1.5Gb of stored data taken from all feeder systems, these KPIs track seller performance and help comply with the regulatory requirements of the Personal Investment Still, I feel it necessary to mention the fact that despite all the technological gains, I understand that running a data warehouse is neither a simple nor a predictable proposition. And as much ...
- 1363: Pierre Elliot Trudeau
- ... the Constitutional Problem, A Constitutional Declaration of Rights) while other compositions deal with impending and contemporary Federal predicaments (Federal Grants to Universities, The Practice and Theory of Federalism, Separatist Counter-Revolutionaries). Throughout all these documented personal accounts and critiques, the reader learns that Trudeau is a sharp critic of contemporary Quebec nationalism and that his prime political conviction (or thesis) is sporadically reflected in each essay: Federalism is the only possible ... that "The language provisions of the British North American Act are very limited" and therefore believes that they continue to divide the country and aid the nationalist movement in Quebec. Using an informal, first person writing approach, Trudeau makes it clear that his words are for reactionaries, not revolutionaries who are looking to destroy the political fabric of the country. However, Trudeau considers possible alternatives and implications in the second essay ... held towards the political disorder of his own country and magnifies his disgust towards the sluggish and immobile Duplessis regime. Throughout all these radical and riveting compositions, the reader is faced with an extremely unorthodox writing style which consists of both formal and informal essay techniques. Federalism and the French Canadians presents the reader with a superlative ideological perspective of "how" and "why" the executive branch of the country should ...
- 1364: What Sort Of Man Reads Playboy
- ... draws on direct feedback, the purchase of another issue. Simply put, Playboy uses shameless visual and written appeals in their self advertisements in attempt to sell more magazines by drawing on mens social concepts. In writing this, it is my goal to decipher the meaning and intentions of this ad so that not only the message will be apparent but also Playboys manipulation of its audience. To every message there is ... man would see the ad in the August issue and draw some sort of relationship to it; perhaps this man thinks that "real" men workout and in seeing the ad it only agrees with his personal belief system. His social concept is that women are attracted to tough, physically macho men who take control of the situation. When he sees this particular ad, the conclusion he draws is, "This guy is ... realize, "It is just a cheap ad to get me to buy this magazine. Anyway, I don't see a picture of Bill Clinton reading it." So what sort of man reads Playboy? From a personal standpoint I think viewer discretion is advised.
- 1365: The Communications Decency Act
- ... The Internet has grown explosively over the last few years. "The Internet's growth since its beginnings in 1981. At that time, the number of host systems was 213 machines. At the time of this writing, twelve years later, the number has jumped to 1,313,000 systems connecting directly to the Internet." (Cavazos 10) "Privacy plays a unique role in American law." (Cavazos 13) Privacy is not explicitly provided for ... remain anonymous. Cavazos says, "Computers and digital communication technologies present a serious challenge to legislators and judges who try to meet the demands of economic and social change while protecting this most basic and fundamental personal freedom." Networks and the Internet make it easy for anyone with the proper equipment to look at information based around the world instantly and remain anonymous. "The right to conduct at least some forms of ... the providers and system operators censor the users it is called editorial discretion. When the Government does it, it is infringement of privacy. So why are we still trying to let the Government into our personal and private lives? The popularity of the C.D.A. with the unknowledgeable and the right conservatives makes it a very popular law. The left ant the knowledgeable are in the minority, so our ...
- 1366: The Women Of Jane Austen
- ... a tricky road toward happiness, sometimes falling into the pitfalls of love and money, or love of money, but it is the gradual revelation of their character in comparison with others that displays Austen s writing at its best. The average reader will find that Austen is a master at revealing the true nature of a character through his/her interactions with others. As found in all of her other novels ... be discernable to the reader if they were placed within a context and given positive and negative foils. Kettle states that to have written with such intricacy, Austen obviously was fascinated by the complexity of personal relationships (913). While [h]er novels unquestionably reflect her justified frustration with women s economic dependence, the neglect of their education, and the unfair inheritance laws of her day, Austen s women are not that ... predict her heroines happiness at the end of her novels because their happiness depends on so much more than the character, disposition, or continued affection of their husbands (344). Many critics still view Austen s writing as romantic love stor[ies] in which social and economic realities of [late eighteenth] century women s lives are exposed but undermined by comedy, irony, and most tellingly, marriage (Newman 693). While this may ...
- 1367: Pride And Predjudice
- Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, set in Nineteenth century England, is a novel about marriage. Austen's feminine writing and weaved storyline creates a novel which can be interesting to read and which women especially enjoy. The novel has a strong theme of marriage as a mother (Mrs. Bennet) desperately trying to marry her ... into marrying her. Mrs. Bennet's strong desire to marry off her children and her unsatisfactory attempts at matchmaking show that in her society, marriage is held in high regard. It is a person's personal worth and the transfer of family fortunes that occurs during a marriage in this time that is probably the most important factor, not how the couple gets along or likes each other. Austen plays on ... novel would have been a 50 page short story. But, contrary to what the romance novels of the past two hundred years seem to tell us, life is not always like that, and oftentimes our personal prejudices and imperfect selves get in the way of our best will, leaving only our libidious egos to judge. Her treatment of characters helps us to see the shallowness of the peoples of her ...
- 1368: The Work of Robert Frost
- ... own certainties, his own excitements. And there is absolutely no end to these, given the skill he needs to state them and the strength never to be wearied by his subject matter. "The object in writing poetry" Frost has said, "is to make all poems sound as different as possible from each other." But for this, in addition to the tricks any poet knows, "we need the help of context--meaning ... it has helped; which is why we know that his poems mean exactly what he means, and might say in some other language if he chose. But he has chosen this language as the most personal he could find, toward the end that what it conveys should be personal for us too. We need not agree with everything he says in order to think him wise. It is rather that he sounds and feels wise, because he is sure of what he knows. ...
- 1369: Ordinary People
- ... Ordinary People is somewhat like the novel The Body by Stephan King because both books illustrate the conflicts of having a death in the family, and of a child's great need for affection. My personal favorite aspects of this book are the characters, the theme, and Guest's style of writing. I enjoyed the complexity and intensity of each character, and each character's need for affection. I also enjoyed reading how each character would react differently with other characters. Another thing I liked was the ... try to repress one's feelings, even when it may be difficult to face them. Feeling occasional depression or anger may be what we must sacrifice for the happiness in life. Guest's style of writing is also very interesting to read. I enjoyed the way she would use the word "he" when describing a character rather than stating who the character was. I was still able to identify the ...
- 1370: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- ... on the enfranchisement of both ex-slaves and women. We lost the election, but won other support, including financing that allowed us to begin publishing the Revolution in January, 1868. I did most of the writing on women's issues for the newspaper. I published editorials on jury duty and prostitution as well as some standard topics. But in 1869, the newspaper collapsed in bankruptcy. Meanwhile, Susan and I separated from ... on suffrage, I remembered that the original movement had included far more than suffrage- and that it was I who had to fight for the addition of suffrage on the agenda. As I aged, my writing focused more on issues that directly concerned women's personal lives, particularly dress reform, divorce, and the damaging influence of religious and educational systems on the female population. In June of 1902, Susan Anthony spent a week in my home and she found me ...
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