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- 8651: A Hacker
- ... teenagers who have found within the computer world, something into which they can mold their desires. Another definition -a person totally engrossed in computer programming and computer technology. In the 1980s, with the advent of personal computers and dial-up computer networks, hacker acquired a pejorative connotation, often referring to someone who secretively invades others' computers, inspecting or tampering with the programs or data stored on them. (More accurately, though, such ...
- 8652: Real Meaning Of LIfe
- ... obsessive-compulsive disorder, painting, paranoia, pets, pornography, profanity, purdah, racism, rape, religion, road rage, roller-coasters, sadism, serial killers, singing, sleep, smiling, snoring, sperm banks, stuttering, suicide, TV, Tourette's Syndrome, xenophobia, war, wife swapping, writing, yawning, whatever. And one doesn't have to wonder why natural disasters that kill thousands of innocents happen and "why bad things happen to good people". If you ask why, well, WHY NOT? Anything goes ...
- 8653: The Bean Trees
- ... do the same, that proves to be Taylor and Turtle's salvation. The moving, cathartic scene in which the crisis peaks paves the way for the satisfying resolution. The Bean Trees is a story about personal journeys of self-discovery, as well as larger themes of commitment and risk-taking. Taylor Greer finds something in this abandoned Indian child, Turtle that she didn't know she was missing, and which she ...
- 8654: The Awakening
- ... novel; in the end she ". . . looked into the distance . . . heard her father's voice and her sister Maragret's" (Chopin, 698), and then she was gone. Works Cited Chopin, Kate. "The Awakening." Literature: Thinking, Reading, & Writing Critically. 2nd ed. Ed. Sylvan Barnet, Morton Berman, William Burto, and William E. Cain. New York: Longman, 1997. 607-98. "Suicide." Encyclopaedia Britannica. Vol. 21. 1973 ed. Webster, Noah. "Sucide." Webster's New Twentieth Century ...
- 8655: The Awakening
- ... responsibility and duty. The culture portrayed in Kate Chopin's book The Awakening visibly reflects a similar emphasis. The main character finds herself wanting to stray from her responsibilities and embrace her intense desire for personal fulfillment. Edna's choice to escape shows two elements: rebellion to the suppression of her adventurous spirit and the lack of "fulfillment" in her relationship. Although she embraces her new found freedoms, she commits suicide ...
- 8656: The Awakening
- ... hoping to escape from society’s rules and standards. She relates herself to a "bird winging its flight away from [Léonce]." (Chopin, 27) She does this because he treated her like a "valuable piece of personal property" (Chopin, 2) all her life. The movie, once again, doesn’t mention any such symbols. Although the movie shows Edna sleeping a number of times, it doesn’t reveal the symbolism behind it. Throughout ...
- 8657: Silent Spring
- ... think that the authors of the quotes are right in being pessimistic. I feel that in the book Carson is also pessimistic about the future of our enviroment by the feeling she displays in her writing. Everyone in the world should be pessimistic about the enviroment. Yes, you may not live long enough to see what the total outcome of all these chemicals are, but your children will and their children ...
- 8658: The Artificial Family
- ... is complete. There is no long introduction or development of the characters; the characters develop throughout the short story. Tyler uses immediate dialogue making the story even more intriguing for the reader as well as writing simply; this style is ironic due to the intensity of the plot. The author makes it seem like a simple story about two individuals who rush into a relationship only to have it fall apart ...
- 8659: Brief History of Library Automation: 1930-1996
- ... and early 40's progress on computer systems was slow which is not surprising, given the Depression and World War II. In 1945, Vannevar Bush envisioned an automated system that would store information, including books, personal records and articles. Bush(1945) wrote about a hypothetical "memex" system which he described as a mechanical library that would allow a user to view stored information from several different access points and look at ...
- 8660: The American
- ... wood." (231). Urbain is very distant to even his closest family and the only character in the novel that seems to truly like him is his mother, the Marquise de Bellegarde. He is not a personal man and is impassive, much like a city or urban area. Valentin de Bellegarde seems to sound like the English word "valentine," which deals with love and the popular holiday St. Valentine’s Day. He ...
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