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- 18251: Global Positioning System
- Global Positioning System Global Positioning System or GPS is better known as "a satellite based radionavigational system developed and operated by the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD). Global positioning system permits land, sea, and airborne users to determine their three-dimensional position, velocity, and time twenty-four hours a day, in all weather, anywhere in the world with ... can use this service. Secondly, the Precise Positioning Service or PPS " is a highly accurate military positioning, velocity and timing service which is available on a continuous, worldwide basis to users authorized by the U.S. PPS is the data transmitted on GPS L2 frequency. Precise Positioning Service was designed primarily for U.S. military use. It is denied to unauthorized users by the use of cryptography. Precise Positioning Service is available to U.S. and allied military and U.S. Federal Government users."(Tycho) The PPS accuracy ...
- 18252: Bill Clinton
- ... on August 19, 1946, in the small town of Hope, Arkansas. He was named after his father, William Jefferson Blythe II, who had been killed in a car accident just three months before his son's birth. Needing a way to support herself and her new child, Bill Clinton's mother, Virginia Cassidy Blythe, moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, to study nursing. Bill Clinton stayed with his mother's parents in Hope. There his grandparents, Eldrigde and Edith Cassidy, taught him strong values and beliefs such as "equality among all and discrimination to none". This was a lesson Bill never forgot. His mother ...
- 18253: Personal Writing: Fickle Fisherman
- ... to the lake at about 6:30 and started to fish. As the day progressed more and more people showed up. Before noon there was no place to sit around the lake and people couldn't fish. Lines were being crossed and people were getting kind of mad. Beside me was an old, hardened looking man who i just ignored.Then finially i had a bite! I looked at the line ... i could. I fought the fish for 5 or 10 min and netted it up. Not a bad catch, it was only a catfish but it was fair sized.But the guy beside me didn't seem to think so he looked at it and gave a little laugh and kept on fishing. I really didn't know what to think, was he laughing at something i didn't see or was there something wrong with my fish? I just disregarded it and continued fishing. Then as i was getting bored ...
- 18254: Ralph Waldo Emerson 3
- Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Self-Reliance" is a highly debatable piece. His ideas are often looked at insensible because much of his audience cannot fathom a life of complete self-reliance. His essay brings up many excellent points that people do not care to consider in society today. He states why people should be more self-reliant, what's generally stopping them, and how to overcome these barriers. Although it's easy to disagree with some of what Emerson has to say, most of his ideas are very intelligent and should be considered. Society has a way of corrupting its members and pulling them away ...
- 18255: Richard The Iii
- ... long, long list to be King, he has a lot of people to deceive. But when he does manipulate people, such as his brothers, Lady Anne, and Buckingham, he does without mercy and conscience. Richard s brothers are one of the first people to be manipulated and he does it by making them think that one is trying to kill the other. From Richard s opening soliloquy from the beginning of the play he tells us: And if King Edward be as true and just As I am subtle, false and treacherous, This day should Clarence closely be mew'd up, About a prophecy, which says that 'G' Of Edward's heirs the murderer shall be.(I,I, ) And this is where King Edward the IV comes up with the assumption that their brother(George Duke Of Clarence) is going to murder him. So King ...
- 18256: A Room With A View
- ... society." Foster places this young maiden in a state of conflict between the snobbery of her class, the "suitable and traditional" views and advice offered by various family members and friends, and her true heart’s desire. This conflict "forces Lucy Honeychurch to choose between convention and passion (Bantam Intro-back cover)," and throws her into a state of internal struggle, as she must sift through the elements of her "social conditioning" and discern them from her true emotions and desires. Foster develops and utilizes Lucy’s internal struggle as a means of transforming her from a petty young woman to a subtle heroine. Lucy Honeychurch is introduced to the reader as a somewhat petty young woman, obviously ignorant to the "ways of the world," who is being chaperoned by her cousin, Charlotte Barlett, while vacationing in Italy. Numerous conversations over matters of dress, the acceptability of various pieces of furniture, and other’s vacations, suggest the snobbish nature of both Lucy and Charlotte. In fact, matters of convention encompass Lucy’s life until George Emerson’s "caddish," yet never the less passionate, display of affection in the ...
- 18257: Peter The Great 3
- ... memories of terror and danger (4:89). When Peter was 10 years old, the palace guards revolted, and brutally murdered the supporters of his mother. Peter witnessed the brutal murders of Artemon Mateev, and Natalia¹s brother on the lawn of the Kremlin. It was then that Peter, his two small sisters, and his mother withdrew to the countryhouse of Czar Alexis in the village of Preobrazhenskoe outside Moscow. They returned ... boys, who were his close friends, playing soldier, and building forts on his home grounds. By the age of 12, he had learned masonry, shooting, hunting, and other games (4:90). Children from neighboring countryside s heard of these games and soon came from Moscow with their servants to play with the young Czar. One of Peter¹s friends brought out a young fellow named Alexander Menshikov, whom, legend says, he had met selling meat pies in Red Square. By the time Peter was in his teens, he had arranged a group ...
- 18258: A Refusal To Mourn The Death
- ... after destruction that lays a symbolic foundation for the rest of the poem. The next stanza depicts Thomas as he himself enters this cosmic cycle and reveals this tremendously cosmic cycle to be death. Thomas's word choice is crucial as he describes the death cycle in order to compress as much meaning into as few words as possible, because it is his words that allow the reader to comprehend death ... murder the mankind" or the humanity of her going with the "grave truth" or certainty of her death, as the child has escaped the wickedness and corruption of the world that caused her fate. Thomas's refusal to "blaspheme" nature's course because the child's death has brought release and peace, and it would be pessimistic and meaningless to consider it otherwise. Instead, Thomas honors the child's death as he buries "London's ...
- 18259: Mary Shelley
- ... nineteen at the4 time. She wrote the novel while being overwhelmed by a series of difficulties in her life. The worst of these were the suicides of her half-sister, Fanny Imlay, and Percy Shelley s wife, Harriet (Student Handbook, 190). After these deaths Mary and Percy married. Fierce public hostility toward the couple drove them to Italy. Eventually they were happy in Italy, but their two children William and Clara ... worked as a professional writer to support her father and son. She died in 1851 of a brain tumor. Mary Shelley combined the ethical concerns of her parents with the Romantic sensibilities of Percy Shelley s poetic inclinations. Her father s concern for the underprivileged influenced her description of the poverty-stricken De Lacey family. Mary s choice of a Gothic novel made her unique in her family and secured her authorial place in the ...
- 18260: Desperation By Stephen King
- "Désirée's Baby" is a story of love, prejudice and rejection, a story with noble beginnings that slowly turns to reveal an uglier side of human relations. Armand, a wealthy landowner of the plantation L'Abri in ... her child, without excuse."(317). Armand was "the proudest father in the parish...it is a boy to bear his name."(317). Additionally, he accuses Désirée of not being white (a crime against his family's "purity") which she adamantly denies. "It is a lie it is not true, I am white Look at my hair, it is brown and my eyes are gray, Armand you know they are gray. And ... shocked and disheartened she sets off towards a local bayou with the child never to be seen again. Armand has made the decision to lose his family in order to save his name and it's too late to bring Désirée back. The irony is that the letter read by Armand from his mother reveals to him that it is he who is of mixed blood and not Désirée. Placing ...
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