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- 1771: Integrated Software Application
- ... an important role in all our lives, from making math easier with calculators, to having money on the go with ATM machines. However, with all the help that has been given to us, we haven't done anything for software and the people who write it. Software by nature is completely defenseless, as it is more or less simply intellectual property, and not a physical thing, thus very easily copied. Copied ... for the length of the copyright, but also, it is sometimes necessary to renew them (Del Guercio 22-24), say, for a 10th sequel in a video game series or version 47.1 of Bob's Graphic Program. With copyrighted material, one is able to write software similiar to someone else's, so long as the programming code is their own, and not borrowed from the others (Del Guercio 22-24). This keeps the industry competitive, and thus results in better software (because everyone is greedy, ...
- 1772: The American 2
- ... James, the lead character Christopher Newman feels that he can travel to Europe, find the girl of his dreams, and marry without a problem. Unfortunately, one family has a problem with his goals. The Bellegarde s are the supreme example of old money, and a dynasty that is not going to allow new money into it, no matter how hard Newman tries. A person cannot control his own destiny and he ... things so that he is enriched in what he is experiencing at the moment. He sees himself as a free person standing in a world which seems to be working with him. (Banta 154) Newman s life had always been based on the material things, and now he was ready for something new. As Newman is reflecting with Mr. Tristam over the use of money and how it affects a person ... price on getting what he wants in life and believes he can but his own happiness. (Rowe 89) With money, anything is possible to Newman, and so he controls his destiny. This leads to Newman s assumption that money combined with Mademoiselle Noemie will bring him into European culture. With Mademoiselle Noemie, Christopher Newman believes that he desires a part of the European culture, and obtains this through buying poor ...
- 1773: Comparison/Contrast Essay on Hamlet and A Machiavellian Prince
- ... Only one was a true Machiavellian Prince, Hamlet. A major aspect of being a Machiavellian Prince is knowing what you are capable and not capable of pulling off. Not doing what you know you wont be successful at and knowing that you wont be successful. Hamlet was the better man in this category, even though both men die in the end. Claudius had been staging his takeover for a long time. His idea was to kill the King ... worked well, except he never had any intention of dying after becoming king. Hamlet had everything to gain, and nothing to lose. When he returned to Denmark from school, he was confronted with his fathers death and Claudius marrying his mother. A little more than kin, and less than kind!, Hamlet said in discust. As soon as Hamlet found out from the ghost about how his father really died, ...
- 1774: Windows NT vs Unix As An Operating System
- ... Version 6 and within a few years this was replaced by Version 7. By the mid 1980s, UNIX was in widespread use on minicomputers and engineering workstations from a variety of vendors. In 1984, AT&T released the first commercial version of UNIX, System III, based on Version 7. Over a number of years this was improved and upgraded to System V. Meanwhile the University of California at Berkeley modified the ... made such as the use of paging, file names longer than 14 characters and a new networking protocol, TCP/IP. Some computer vendors like DEC and Sun Microsystems based their version of UNIX on Berkeley's rather than AT&T's. There was a few attempts to standardise UNIX in the late 1980s, but only the POSIX committee had any real success, and this was limited. During the 1980s, most computing environments became much ...
- 1775: Crime And Punishment - Suffering
- Suffering in Crime and Punishment In the novel Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, suffering is an integral part of every character's role. However, the message that Dostoevsky wants to present with the main character, Raskolnikov, is not one of the Christian idea of salvation through suffering. Rather, it appears to me, as if the author never ... kills Lizaveta, an exceedingly innocent person. But does the author ever remind us of the murder at any time in the novel again? Not in the physical sense of the crime itself. The reader doesn't hear about how heavily the murders are weighing on his heart, or how he is tormented by visions of the crime. He doesn't feel the least bit guilty about having committed the crime, only his pride's hurt. He doesn't mention the idea of the pain that might arise from recurrent visions of the crime. Raskolnikov ...
- 1776: Child Abuse
- ... I notice that Sean has a mulberry looking birthmark on the left side of the face. I was having the normal get to know you conversation with his mother when she said something I wasn't expecting. She said, " I want to be up front with you. Last night I got angry with Sean and hit him in the face." I was completely taken by surprise, I had just met this woman and she's telling me she hits her son. She tried to justify it as discipline that got out of hand. She said she got upset because he called her an asshole. Let's remember this boy is five years old. He most likely doesn't even know what that word means. The woman left for work acting as if nothing major had occurred and I was left ...
- 1777: Creative Writing: There Isn't Much Time
- Creative Writing: There Isn't Much Time It is Monday morning and I have slept in, thanks to Thanksgiving. In fact, it's twelve o'clock and I am free for the afternoon. As usual, I sit in front of the . television after I clean myself up, staring endlessly at the screen with my finger clicking on the remote. I realize that I have a draft due on Thursday, but I justify my procrastination with reasons like: "there is still lots of time." Life is faster now, and people in the 90's are supposed to organize and plan in order to keep up; however, it seems to me that more people are procrastinating than ever before. When I ask people why they procrastinate, they often supply ...
- 1778: Child Abuse
- ... I notice that Sean has a mulberry looking birthmark on the left side of the face. I was having the normal get to know you conversation with his mother when she said something I wasn't expecting. She said, " I want to be up front with you. Last night I got angry with Sean and hit him in the face." I was completely taken by surprise, I had just met this woman and she's telling me she hits her son. She tried to justify it as discipline that got out of hand. She said she got upset because he called her an asshole. Let's remember this boy is five years old. He most likely doesn't even know what that word means. The woman left for work acting as if nothing major had occurred and I was left ...
- 1779: Henry Ford 2
- Henry Ford's Influence on Society In E.L. Doctorow's, Ragtime, a classic novel set in the early years of the twentieth century, Henry Ford appears for only one chapter, but in that chapter it becomes clear that Doctorow saw him as a democratic industrialist ... have lunch with him at his Manhattan mansion. In this meeting of the two industry giants, Morgan invites Ford to go on an expedition to Egypt with him. Ford declined because he believed that Morgan's whole purpose for the trip had to do with reincarnation. Ford told Morgan that his belief of reincarnation came out of a book that he purchased for twenty-five cents, instead of a trip ...
- 1780: Creatine 3
- ... what everyone is looking for. But with all of the commotion that is happening, very few people want to put in a solid effort in order to achieve this "perfect body". Others just simply don't have the time to workout on a consistent basis. So the easy way out, as always, is searched for. Not that long ago, people were experimenting with anabolic steroids. They injected horse testosterone into their veins to increase the amount of muscle mass produced from weightlifting. The use of anabolic steroids came with many risks, which people at that time hardly knew of. Many didn't know entirely what kind of effect it might have later in life. But after a while, some professional athletes and high profile people started showing the side effects that are associated with them. For example ... to ATP.5 Creatine helps to speed this process along. Creatine phosphate is similar in structure as ATP in the perspective that they both are made up of high-energy bonds. (APPENDIX A) Creatine phosphate's primary function is to donate its phosphate back to ATP in order to produce more energy. So with higher levels of creatine in your body, ATP is regained faster and thus there is more ...
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