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- 1611: The Great Gatsby - The America
- ... Carraway, a cousin of Daisy, who agrees to set up a meeting, "He wants to know...if you'll invite Daisy to your house some afternoon and then let him come over (83)." Gatsby's personal dream symbolizes the larger American Dream where all have the opportunity to get what they want. Later, as we see in the Plaza Hotel, Jay still believes that Daisy loves him. He is convinced of ... 152) Jay cannot accept that the past is gone and done with. Jay is sure that he can capture his dream with wealth and influence. He believes that he acted for a good beyond his personal interest and that should guarantee success. Nick attempts to show Jay the flaw of his dream, but Jay innocently replies to Nicks statement that the past cannot be relived by saying, "Cant repeat ... American Dream, at least for some. One could say, an outsider perhaps, that Americans strive for the insurmountable goal of perfection, live, die and do unimaginable things for it, then call the product their own personal American Dream. Is having the American Dream possible? What is the American Dream? There is one answer for these two questions: The American Dream is tangible perfection. In reality, even in nature, perfection does ...
- 1612: Little Irish Kids, Another Whi
- In Jonathan Swift s essay, A Modest Proposal , Swift proposes that the poor should eat their own starving children during a great a famine in Ireland. What would draw Swift into writing to such lengths. When times get hard in Ireland, Swift states that the children would make great meals. The key factor to Swift s essay that the reader must see that Swift is not literally ... is humorous, yet at the same time a bit brutal for his justifications. Because of the indifferent tone which Swift imposes, he was very often thoroughly analyzed, as well as judged, for his motives for writing. A Modest Proposal proves noteworthy of being neither modest nor even proposable to any audience, no matter how rough the times may be. This indifferent tone towards the selling of children of which Swift writes ... way in which he does. Throughout his writings, Jonathon Swift has used many different voices to explicate his views on the melancholy time period in which he lived. He uses a totally inverse route in writing his works. Swift brings to light many aspects of his culture such as greed, poverty, and ignorance. Other writers of the period would probably not even touch such aspects. A Modest Proposal is a ...
- 1613: Computer Crime: A Increasing Problem
- ... THE DIGITIZED WORLD In the past decade, computer technology has expanded at an incredibly fast rate, and the information stored on these computers has been increasing even faster. The amount of money, military intelligence, and personal information stored on computers has increased far beyond expectations. Governments, the military, and the economy could not operate without the use of computers. Banks transfer trillions of dollars every day over inter-linking networks, and ... have mutated and expanded far beyond this boundary. Their almost infinite capacity and lightning speed, which is increasing annually, and their low cost, which is decreasing annually, has allowed computers to stabilize at a more personal level, yet retain their position in mathematical and scientific research1 . They are now being used in almost every aspect of life, as we know it, today. The greatest effect of computers on life at this ... there was a total of fifteen nodes within the system. However, by this time, something seemed to be changing concerning the information traveling across the nodes. By 1971, government employees began to obtain their own personal mail addresses, and the main traffic over the net shifted from scientific information to personal mail and gossip. Mailing lists were used to send mass quantities of mail to hundreds of people, and the ...
- 1614: The Invention of the Computer
- ... placed on a single chip, became increasingly common. Many companies, some new to the computer field, introduced in the 1970s programmable minicomputers supplied with software packages. The size-reduction trend continued with the introduction of personal computers, which are programmable machines small enough and inexpensive enough to be purchased and used by individuals (Rogers, 153). One of the first of such machines was introduced in January 1975. Popular Electronics magazine provided ... and Steve Wozniak, founders of Apple Computer, built a much cheaper, yet more productive version of the Altair and turned their hobby into a business (Fluegelman, 16). After the introduction of the Altair 8800, the personal computer industry became a fierce battleground of competition. IBM had been the computer industry standard for well over a half-century. They held their position as the standard when they introduced their first personal computer, the IBM Model 60 in 1975 (Chposky, 156). However, the newly formed Apple Computer company was releasing its own personal computer, the Apple II (The Apple I was the first computer designed by ...
- 1615: Howard Stern: The King of Mass Media or the Anti Christ?
- ... no respect for himself nor does he have respect towards his cohorts, and the general public for that matter. He constantly pushes the limits, and is a nuisance to the air waves. His comments about personal life styles, women, different races, and ethnicity are repulsive and detrimental to society. As a child growing up Howard Stern lead a sheltered life confined to his house his mother Ray Stern was over protective ... people, because he had no experience as a child due to his mothers over protectivness. Ben Stern his father also contributed to the way in which Howard conducts himself in his job and his personal life. Howard says that this was an advantage and a disadvantage for him. When asked what type of personality one needs to be a good comic Stern stated that You have got to be a ... other wise known as Stuttering John). Yet another example of how Stern takes peoples misfortunes such as Johns speech impediment and make a national affair of the situation. Armed with a list of insulting personal, racist, sexist, or just to personal question John goes out with a cameraman and Stern tells him who to approach with these questions. This is only a drop in the bucket, Stern is also ...
- 1616: Hobbes' Version Of The Social Contract
- ... makes them happiest, this includes charity works. Those who do such acts, in the end, feel better about themselves and therefore, it feeds their egos. In other words, socialization among men is for purposes of personal benefit and not for building strong relationships between men. For purposes of this paper, I have interpreted "social contract" as man's interactions with one another through the transference of "rights" (86). To begin with ... someone steals another's possession, then that person may go out and get it back by stealing one of the same from a different person, creating an endless cycle. After all, it is all about personal satisfaction and gain. Hobbes' attempts to prove this through using the Golden Rule found in the Gospel as an example. "Whatsoever you require that others should do to you, that do ye to them" (86 ... one another for our own benefit, feeding our egos. We are brought up learning to be the best. Children are taught to be competitive, to be better than others. We are given rewards for our personal achievements from early age throughout our advancements in the working world. Our government, for example, builds relationships with other countries to ensure our peace, or we go to war to fight for our peace. ...
- 1617: Utopian Societies-The Impossible Dream
- ... New College English dictionary 1302) It would fail in many areas due to different ideas and beliefs by people that would live in this society. These areas could be government, religion, economy, as well as personal freedoms and choices. In this essay I will prove why a utopian society is impossible by going into detail with some of these areas. Ever since the beginning of societies, everyone has had a different ... all businesses and means of transportation, and since we already discussed how one type of government wouldn't work, this economic system obviously wouldn't either. Throughout time people have always enjoyed making their own personal choices as well as enjoying their personal freedoms. Under a utopian society many of your rights would be lost. They would be lost because you would have to conform in order for everyone to unite under an ideal society or utopia. ...
- 1618: Bill Gates
- ... on the future. He sees the world in a Apowerful, high-speed network-both within companies and across the so called Information Superhighway@ (Brandt, 57). He hopes to be on top of the Transformation from Personal Computers to nets. Gates predicts that an explosion of low-cost, high-capacity, networks will radically alter how we use technology in the upcoming decade. Now before Bill Gates came onto the scene in the ... to every computer screen across the country, complete with little pictures called Aicons@ to signify different files and programs. Opening these files and programs was like opening different Awindows@, hence the name. Finally, non-Macintosh personal computers had become user friendly; no longer was it seen by the majority of the consuming public as a cold, high-tech piece of equipment whose secrets could only be unlocked by some alien script ... Gates empire.@ reported the June 24, 1995 issue of the Economic magazine. (The Economist, 59) The basis behind these probes was focused upon possible misuse of licensing agreements and royalty fees by Microsoft with many personal computer makers. Just as the operating software of Bill Gates and Microsoft become the standard of personal computers, so would Mr. Gates like to dominate the software end of the up and coming multimedia ...
- 1619: Bill Gates
- ... on the future. He sees the world in a powerful, high-speed network, both within companies and across the so called Information Superhighway (Brandt, 57). He hopes to be on top of the transformation from personal computers to nets. Gates predicts that an explosion of low-cost, high- capacity, networks will radically alter how we use technology in the upcoming decade. Now before Bill Gates came onto the scene in the ... to every computer screen across the country, complete with little pictures called icons to signify different files and programs. Opening these files and programs was like opening different windows, hence the name. Finally, non-Macintosh personal computers had become user friendly; no longer was it seen by the majority of the consuming public as a cold, high-tech piece of equipment whose secrets could only be unlocked by some alien script ... Gates' empire. reported the June 24, 1995 issue of the Economic magazine. (The Economist, 59) The basis behind these probes was focused upon possible misuse of licensing agreements and royalty fees by Microsoft with many personal computer makers. Just as the operating software of Bill Gates and Microsoft become the standard of personal computers, so would Mr. Gates like to dominate the software end of the up and coming multimedia ...
- 1620: Citizen Soldiers: A Comparison
- ... a squad and platoon; which are the qualities most World War II combat veterans point to when asked how they survived and won. Each incident given by a person represents in its own way the personal levels of war, how it affected the individual and their units of soldiers. The book summarizes the personal and individual aspects of war, rather than military intelligence and strategy. It is not a book about the generals or high ranking officers, but the men on the front lines who put life and limb ... alive and well. Some men died, others triumphed; but it is the actions of men like Waverly Wray, Dutch Schultz, Dick Winters, and numerous other soldiers that fought for liberty in Europe, that encapsulate the personal experience of Normandy. Wray, a Lieutenant in Company D of the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, had entered Normandy on June 6th in the northwestern outskirts of the village. Wray and his men had landed ...
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