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- 2091: Why You Should Purchase A PC
- ... computer, you can soon discover what you can do with computers to make life easier and more enjoyable. Being computer literate allows you to use many powerful software applications and utilities to do work for school, business, or pleasure. Microsoft is the current leading producer of many of these applications and utilities. Microsoft produces software called operating systems that manage and regulate the information processing cycle. The oldest of these is ... no means has Microsoft limited itself to operating systems alone. Microsoft has also produced a software package called Microsoft Office that is very useful in creating reports, data bases, spreadsheets, presentations, and other documents for school and work. Microsoft Office: Introductory Concepts and Techniques provides a detailed, step-by-step approach to the four programs included in Microsoft Office. Included in this package are Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, and ... a new PC now will help put PC's into the other two-thirds of the homes worldwide and make the transition into a computer age easier. Works Cited "Computer." Webster's New World Compact School and Office Dictionary. 1995. Elmer-Dewitt, P. "Mine, All Mine." Time Jun. 1995: 46-54. Shelly, G., T. Cashman, and K. Jordan. Netscape Navigator 2 Running Under Windows 3.1. Danvers: Boyd & Fraser Publishing ...
- 2092: Catcher In The Rye 4
- ... and his idiomatic style, which helped to re-introduce the common idiom to American literature. While the young protagonists of Salinger's stories (such as Holden Caulfield) have made him a longtime favorite of high school and university audiences, establishing Salinger as "the spokesman for the goals and values for a generation of youth during the 1950's" (qtd. in Davis 317), The Catcher in the Rye has been banned continually ... And he knows how to write about kids. This book, though, it's too long. Gets kinds of monotonous. And he should have cut out a lot about these jerks and all at that crumby school. They depress me. They really do. Salinger, he's best with real children. I mean the ones like Phoebe, his kid sister. She's a personality. Holden and little Phoebe, Hel said, they kill me ... fantasy and live forms" (3).Generally, critics view the novel as Holden Caulfield's melodramatic struggle to survive in the adult world, a transition that he was supposed to make during his years at preparatory school. Some critics will point to the fact that Holden has flunked out of three Pennsylvania prep schools, and use it to symbolize the fact that he is not truly ready for adulthood (Davis 318). ...
- 2093: Interracial Adoption
- ... is proved in most high schools. To prove this statement I have to provide the background information. If the popular trend is to wear your shirt with one sleeve cut off., and everyone came to school with one sleeve cut off the trend would be positive. If only two people came to school with one sleeve cut off the trend would be negative. The more people you have that share a commonality, the more likely you will feel positive. Being that having one sleeve cut off shirts are a noticeable difference; you can try to relate this to a person’s skin color or hair texture. There are only two kids in high school that has a different hair texture. The kids must now look at the positively portal of individuality. They have to try to assimilate their hairstyles to be accepted positively. It would be nice to ...
- 2094: Cinema Paradiso
- ... with Alfredo, that all children need parents to guide and support them to adulthood. The absence of parental guidance in Toto’s life has been a reoccurring theme throughout the film. While he goes to school all day, he spends his nights with Alfredo in the projection booth. Although Toto’s mother is still alive she is unable to provide him with the male role model that every small boy needs ... At the new opening of the Paradiso Alfredo shows up to celebrate Toto’s new job as the projectionist. Instead of talking about films or the stars that act in them, Alfredo asks Toto about school, which demonstrates his “father-like” role. He says to Toto, “I know now that I’ve lost my sight…I see better.” As Alfredo says this, he touches the face of Toto, as if he ... Its as is Alfredo watched Toto grow old into adulthood without even watching just as a father would. Toto begins to find interest in the opposite sex when he sees a new girl in his school. Toto and Alfredo’s talks take a turn towards women and love. Something that most fathers talk about with their sons. Alfredo tells Toto the story of a solider who falls in love with ...
- 2095: Chinese Music
- ... earlier provincial forms. During the first half of the 20th century Chinese music was considerably influenced by the music of the West. Three major schools of thought arose in response to this influence. The first school aimed at reviving the old thousand-piece orchestras that once delighted ancient princes and sages and resisted the influence of Western music. The second school concerned itself almost exclusively with Western music. The last school of Chinese music took great pride in traditional Chinese musical culture but did not hesitate to apply it to Western techniques of composition and performance. During the 1950s Western influence penetrated Chinese music to ...
- 2096: Charles Shults
- ... nothing in common yet that is what makes their friendship so genuine. Marcie is the smartest of the PEANUTS clan, but also the most naive. She’s always willing to help out her friend with school work and she’s on the phone to remind her of homework. There is an innocence to Marcie and Peppermint Patty is her protector. Marcie is also completely clueless when it comes to sports yet ... Brown invited Franklin to visit him at this house across town for another play session. Later, Franklin showed up as center-fielder on Peppermint Patty’s baseball team and sits in front of her at school. Franklin is thoughtful and can quote the Old Testament as effectively as Linus. In contrast with the other characters, Franklin has the fewest anxieties and obsessions. He and Charlie Brown spend quite a lot of ... so proud of his newborn baby sister, Sally, that he passed out chocolate cigars, but ever since then he’s been trying to understand her. She always looks for the easy way out, particularly at school, where her view of life reflects much of the frustration and confusion kids experience. She has the schoolgirl crush on Linus, her "Sweet Babboo." She may never win Linus’ heart, but she has her ...
- 2097: All The Kings Men
- ... all over the state, so people knew who had given them everything. Willie began with a failed campaign as County Treasurer in Canoma Count. He had lost nevertheless he was renowned by people when the school building collapsed due to faulty bricks. Bricks, bricks that he had fought against them using because they were cheap and from a political contact of the County Treasurer Pillsbury. The state got a hold of ... time he asked them questions. He approached one man saying, Are your clothes worn because you don t have the money to buy new? then he asked a woman, Are you kids ignorant, because the school s just don t teach anything? Posing these questions made the audience think, but what made them see more was when he started his story. This wasn t some fairy tale; moreover it was a ... worked the farm during the day, and stayed up nights studying his books, with aspirations to become a lawyer. When he became a lawyer he didn t start thinking about the people, but after a school building collapse in his own county it became apparent the people needed him. They praised him, because he had spoken out against the faulty bricks used to build the building. Soon after, some people ...
- 2098: Chief Seattle
- ... Monroe as a boy I remember playing little league baseball against two teams from the Lummi Indian Reservation. The only memories I have were that they were the two teams that didn't have any uniforms. Now I look back and for all I know maybe they couldn't afford any. While I was in high school I remember driving with my friends to the Indian reservations to buy illegal fireworks. I never really gave it much thought beyond the fact that they were places to get illegal fireworks. Anyway, like I ...
- 2099: Architecture 2
- ... thousand dollars a year, depending on such factors like experience and notoriety of the firm and once again closeness to an urban area. To be considered a professional architect, you must attend four years of school and major in architecture, and then attend two more years of post-graduate school. I would like to go to Duke University because their architecture program is one of the best in the world. However, I will accept going to a smaller school if I don’t have enough cash or my grades aren’t up to par. Overall, I think architects have one of the better jobs out there. They get to earn money, be very ...
- 2100: English Phonetic Interference
- ... childhood quickly disappear while the emigre struggles to master the language of their new home. Almost all people claim to read in their second language more proficiently than they speak1, however, emigres who attend high school and college in a foreign country often find themselves writing more often in their second language than in their first. After time, the second language becomes the default language of writing for these emigres and ... Selected Procedure I selected 6 Russians and 6 advanced American students of Russian for my experiment. Four of the Russians were heritage speakers, and two had emigrated to America at 14, having studied English in school for 4 years. The Americans had been studying Russian for just over three years and had lived in Russia for at least 5 months. All of the Russian subjects, save one young man, claimed that ... second, much simpler piece myself. I spoke with the Russian subjects briefly beforehand, to inquire about the number of years they had been in America, how many years they had studied Russian and English in school, and how they remembered being taught to read and spell. Following the diktanty, I asked if they considered themselves to be good spellers, what sounds or groups of letters are difficult to spell correctly, ...
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