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- 881: Application Software
- ... categories: system software and application software. System software controls the operation of the computer hardware; whereas, application software enables a user to perform tasks. Three major types of application software on the market today for personal computers are word processors, electronic spreadsheets, and database management systems (Little and Benson 10-42). A word processing program allows a user to efficiently and economically create professional looking documents such as memoranda, letters, reports, and resumes. With a word processor, one can easily revise a document. To improve the accuracy of one's writing, word processors can check the spelling and the grammar in a document. They also provide a thesaurus to enable a user to add variety and precision to his or her writing. Many word processing programs also provide desktop publishing features to create brochures, advertisements, and newsletters. An electronic spreadsheet enables a user to organize data in a fashion similar to a paper spreadsheet. The difference ...
- 882: Crime
- ... is the crime most difficult to classify. The law considers robbery a crime against the person or against the property, according to the case. Robbery may involve simply taking property from another person. But a personal encounter occurs between the robber and his victim, and it may include violence and bodily harm, especially in muggings or other strong- arm robberies. Robbery is probably the crime most people have in mind when ... so to stretch the family budget. Many automobile thieves take cars for the joy-riding, but others strip down the stolen autos and sell them. Many embezzlers take money from their employers to meet a personal emergency, intending to return the money. The motives also vary in crimes of violence. A robber may kill his victim to avoid detection, some gangsters torture people to obtain money, and a man may beat ... and loss of reputation because they have less of a risk. About 85 per cent of the persons arrested for crimes are males, but the arrest rate for females is rapidly rising. I really enjoyed writing this paper, it was supposed to be about violence but everywhere I looked, there was barely anything on violence and there was almost always a reference to crime so this is more of a ...
- 883: Charlotte Brontes Jane Eyre An
- ... about it. Otherwise, why did she take a West Indian for that horrible lunatic, for that really dreadful creature? 2 So in Wide Sargasso Sea, Rhys rewrites Bronte s canonical text according to her own, personal experiences, as both a white West Indian and a woman. But, giving Antoinette a voice, she exposes truth behind madness: The history of the land in which she lived, and the role of the woman ... between Bronte and herself, in terms of the feminist writer. I shall consider these in due course. Rhys (p)reviews Jane Eyre by correspondences in thematic content and characterisation. Her book was written for very personal reasons and invited many comparisons with events in her own life. Antoinette represents the culmination of her female fictional characters. In Rhys s fiction, for the leading lady, we can invariably read Rhys herself. I ... terms, specifically in terms of miscegenation and contamination 8. This reflects the Victorian preoccupation that syphilis - the precursor of madness and contracted by the sexually promiscuous - originated in Africa. The commonplace assumptions of British abolitionist writing, such as Montgomery and Wilberforce, linked slavery with pervasive sexual promiscuity. The Emancipation Act had the following consequence: Licentiousness, whatever it might have been before, was almost entirely banished from society: young men no ...
- 884: Dante’s Influence on Italian Culture
- ... split from the Black Guelphs. When the Blacks took over, Dante was banished from political office and exiled from Florence (Parish Internet). His life changed drastically during his exile, enabling him to concentrate on his writing. Dante was one of the most influential individuals in early European literature, language, and politics. He influenced Italian society and culture through his poetry and his prose (Dante Internet). His writings helped to unify the ... thinker and had lots of time during his exile to reflect on his life and write the truth about the Middle Ages. It was during this time that Dante’s writings reflected many of his personal experiences, his political beliefs, and his philosophy of life. He addressed human affairs and problems that happened in every day life (Holmes 26). This is important since at that time, writers were primarily religious scholars writing about their religious beliefs, not political thoughts or common every day happenings. The Divine Comedy, written during his exile, is said to focus on “every aspect of earthly human life” (Dante: The Divine… Internet). ...
- 885: Analysis Of Poem Woman To Man
- ... circles) that Wright addressed this poem to her husband when she was pregnant with one of their children. The intimate nature of this exchange between Wright and her husband is evident in her use of personal pronouns: " you and I have known it well"; " your arm "; " my breast ". The second intended audience is every woman and every man, as an expression of something from every woman to every man. The title ... and sophisticated control over language: this skill has been analysed in essays and studied in schools for years. The poem requires an intelligent and educated audience to appreciate its poetic proficiency. Wright's purpose in writing this text was to articulate her feelings about her unborn child and its creation. On one level this was an announcement to her husband about the procreative act: " the third who lay in our embrace ... birth. This was something that was 'not done' in 1949. The physical and emotional context of pregnancy and its effect on Wright also needs to be considered. Wright was heavily pregnant at the time of writing the poem. Her body had undergone many physical changes and she was on the verge of giving birth. The physical experience of the child in her womb (" the blind head butting in the dark ") ...
- 886: Allen Ginsberg : Howl
- ... typed list of "all the spirits broken, impaired , or thoroughly destroyed by a force he would not name until the second part of the poem." (Burns 104). Since he did not feel that he was writing for publication, Ginsberg felt free to experiment. He replaced his normally short lines with the Kerouac and jazz influenced long line. He employed a cataloguing style similar to that used by Walt Whitman in "Song ... the world, making a crippled living outside of family and academic shelter--this motif accounting vocational failure or readjustment, leaving the city, or nervous breakdown, typical post-college crisis." (Schumacher 226) C. Lines "grouping together personal apocalypsis, estrangement, breakthrough to social solitude, disaster or triumph, mixed illumination and/or madness, travel, unthinkable dramas, comedies and tragedies of maturation--arrest, hospitalization, outcast status--degradation and transcendence. D. Verses conjoin images of practical ... Davis. 3. "Cool bluesey and lyrical feeling similar to the moody music played by John Coltrane." (Ehrlich 73) This similar cataloguing style is utilized in Part III of the poem, but the focus is more personal. A brief excerpt from David Burner's Making Peace with the Sixties (University Press, 1996): Ginsberg's stay in the mental ward was not intended to help him realize his desire for life to ...
- 887: Dante Alighieri 2
- ... split from the Black Guelphs. When the Blacks took over, Dante was banished from political office and exiled from Florence (Parish Internet). His life changed drastically during his exile, enabling him to concentrate on his writing. Dante was one of the most influential individuals in early European literature, language, and politics. He influenced Italian society and culture through his poetry and his prose (Dante Internet). His writings helped to unify the ... thinker and had lots of time during his exile to reflect on his life and write the truth about the Middle Ages. It was during this time that Dante s writings reflected many of his personal experiences, his political beliefs, and his philosophy of life. He addressed human affairs and problems that happened in every day life (Holmes 26). This is important since at that time, writers were primarily religious scholars writing about their religious beliefs, not political thoughts or common every day happenings. The Divine Comedy, written during his exile, is said to focus on every aspect of earthly human life (Dante: The Divine Internet). ...
- 888: Woman To Man
- ... circles) that Wright addressed this poem to her husband when she was pregnant with one of their children. The intimate nature of this exchange between Wright and her husband is evident in her use of personal pronouns: "…you and I have known it well"; "…your arm…"; "…my breast…". The second intended audience is every woman and every man, as an expression of something from every woman to every man. The title ... and sophisticated control over language: this skill has been analysed in essays and studied in schools for years. The poem requires an intelligent and educated audience to appreciate its poetic proficiency. Wright's purpose in writing this text was to articulate her feelings about her unborn child and its creation. On one level this was an announcement to her husband about the procreative act: "…the third who lay in our embrace ... birth. This was something that was 'not done' in 1949. The physical and emotional context of pregnancy and its effect on Wright also needs to be considered. Wright was heavily pregnant at the time of writing the poem. Her body had undergone many physical changes and she was on the verge of giving birth. The physical experience of the child in her womb ("…the blind head butting in the dark…") ...
- 889: The Crucible
- ... typical Depression--era trauma--the blow struck on the mind by the rise of European Fascism and the brutal anti-Semitism it had brought to power. But by 1950, when I began to think of writing about the hunt for Reds in America, I was motivated in some great part by the paralysis that had set in among many liberals who, despite their discomfort with the inquisitors' violations of civil rights ... as routine, but there was an element of the marvellous in it which I longed to put on the stage. In those years, our thought processes were becoming so magical, so paranoid, that to imagine writing a play about this environment was like trying to pick one's teeth with a ball of wool: I lacked the tools to illuminate miasma. Yet I kept being drawn back to it. I had ... write about the period. Upham had not only written a broad and thorough investigation of what was even then an almost lost chapter of Salem's past but opened up to me the details of personal relationships among many participants in the tragedy. I visited Salem for the first time on a dismal spring day in 1952; it was a sidetracked town then, with abandoned factories and vacant stores. In ...
- 890: Donald Barthelme
- ... review (Harte and Riley, 41). His other jobs included serving in Korea and Japan in the U.S. Army (Barthelme Bio, 1), Professor of English at the City University of New York, teacher of Creative Writing at the University of Texas in Houston, and of course author of short stories and novels (Anderson et al, 919). He is the author of a number of collections of short stories including Come Back ... there appear to be no governing or shaping beliefs, no transcendent ideals or intimations, no very significant physical experience, no sense of place or community, no awareness on the part of his characters of any personal history or context of profession or family or, for the most part, personal relationships, no psychology of character, indeed no characters at all in the usual sense of the term. (Marowski and Matuz, 35)I agree with what Leitch says. The short stories I read did not ...
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