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- 19531: Computer Integrated Manufacturing
- ... through the conception, design and development of the product, production, marketing, and support of the product in use. Every action involved in these activities uses data, whether textual, graphic or numeric. The computer is today's primary tool for manipulating and using data. It has been used by business for generating, storing, transmitting and transforming data. Within the past two decades the computer's ability to store and manipulate data has increased by astronomical numbers. More importantly, computing techniques now permit analysis and solution of problems never before possible. What is Computer-Integrated Manufacturing? Utilizing the computer to integrate ... organizational options within a company, before opting for a specific type of technology, is also stressed. There is a need for companies to embrace a corporate philosophy, which takes into account ¡§the human factor¡¨. CIM's aim is that of using computer networks to accelerate, improve and render more economical operations by ensuring high availability of necessary data at all stages of the commercial, logistic and technological process chain. Enterprises ...
- 19532: Priests of Ancient Israel
- Priests of Ancient Israel In ancient Israel the priests were a special people set apart by God's revealed directives. The priests were drawn from descendants of Aaron and were members of the tribe of Levy. They were not allowed to own land or serve as civil or military leaders . They lived off ... faith and morals. (A vestige of these century old limitations was seen recently. Even though priests and bishops have lost their special standing relative to the total community, a few years ago, Rev. Robert Drinan, S.J., a U S Congressman from Boston, was forced to resign his seat because the Pope did not want a Catholic priest holding a position of temporal power.) In America today, lawyers (and judges) serve these "priestly" functions. ...
- 19533: The Crucible 2
- ... failings including those mentioned above, fear, and hysteria. Reverend Parris is the character that initiates the hysteria of the Salem witch trials, in a community where authorities wasted no time minding the business of it s citizens, what should have been seen as teen frivolity was blown into one of the ugliest moments in American History. Parris sparks this by firstly acting on his own paranoia, which the reader would find ... cries out] I want to open myself. For the rest of Act I Betty and Abby in feverish ecstasy cry out the names of their enemies. Here two young women, usually powerless in that day s society, find the ability to grant life or death and what sprang from a want for revenge came to a frightening lust for power. Abigail uses the fear within her community to cultivate and expose ... in doubt. We see this after Giles tells the story of Putnam killing his neighbours for their land and Judge Hathorne asks for a name I ll give you no name. I mentioned my wife s name once and I ll burn in hell long enough for that. I stand mute . It must be a heavy burden on Giles heart to know his wife will hang because of him. After ...
- 19534: Alcohol An Issue Within Colleg
- ... home for the first time with a new found freedom to live as they please. College life is a new experience and the pressures that come along with it have an effect on a student’s path to success. Unfortunately, alcohol is one of these pressures. Alcohol abuse is a major problem that many young men and women encounter throughout their college experience. Drinking on college campuses is a problem that affects everyone. Let’s first begin by understanding what alcoholism is and what it does to us. Alcoholism can be defined as an illness or a chronic disorder that comes from constant drinking. It obviously has serious physical and ... has no barriers to race, religion or sex; anyone can have this addiction. Is alcoholism a disease? The American Medical Association and the World Health Organization officially acknowledged alcoholism as a disease in the 1950’s. It is very apparent that alcohol abuse has major effects on major organs of the body. Ethyl alcohol, or ethanol, causes severe damage to excretory organs including the liver and kidneys. Yet the major ...
- 19535: Adapting New Culture
- ... adapting to a new culture or environment depends on three main reasons: background culture, where they stay, and their personality. The first reason is the background culture of people. There are many people who don't like their own culture or environment. They try to run away or change their culture. Therefore, it would be easier for those people to adapt to a new culture or environment. For example, many Russian people especially businessmen don't like the business system in their country. Their system is Communism, which means that the government controls all the production and distribution of goods. Therefore, when many Russian people go to a new environment or ... stayed in the United States for a long time before he visited his family in Iran. When he arrived in Iran, he found a lot of changes. It can be understood that the writer didn't like his country and his culture before he left to the United States. When he lived in the United States, he found the right place for him that made it very easy for him ...
- 19536: Analysis The Impact Of Shift W
- The schedulilng of hours of work is undoubtedly one of the major social problems of industrial society. Statistic estimates that 30% of Canada's workforce are involved in some kinds of shiftwork. Of those, 33% work irregular shifts, just under 30% work rotating shifts, 17% work long term evening shifts, 10% work on call, 3% work split shifts, 3 ... to maximize their efficiency by spreading their operating costs over 24 hours. However, on the other hand, working other than the standard dayshift can cause many problems for the worker. It can affect the worker's health and safety and the relationships with one's family and the community (Carpentier 14). In this essay, I will analysis the impact of shiftwork on humans and make some suggestions of how to alleviate some negative aspect of it. On one hand, ...
- 19537: David Hume
- ... discarded the possibility of certain knowledge, finding in the mind nothing but a series of sensations, and held that cause-and-effect in the natural world derives solely from the conjunction of two impressions. Hume's skepticism is also evident in his writings on religion, in which he rejected any rational or natural theology. Besides his chief work, A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40), he wrote Political Discourses (1752), The Natural History of Religion (1755), and a History of England (1754-62) that was, despite errors of fact, the standard work for many years. "Nothing seems more unbounded than a man's thought," quoted Hume. Hume took genuinely hypothetical elements from Locke and Berkeley but, rejected some lingering metaphysics form their thought, and gave empiricism its clearest and most rigorous formulation. (Stumpf) Hume wanted to build a ... methods of physical science. But, with conflicting opinions offered on all subjects how can we know the true nature of things? Hume believed that all knowledge came from experience. He also believed that a person's experience's existed only in the person's mind. Although our body is confined to one planet, our mind can roam instantly into the most distant regions of the universe. Hume believed that there ...
- 19538: Freedom of Speech on the Internet
- ... has to do with the easily obtainable content that the Internet provides, specifically, the easy accessibility to websites that contain offensive or immoral material. When Congress began its quest of censoring one of the world’s fastest growing sources of information, the anti-censorship campaign began. This bitter argument has been debated, legislated, and written about extensively. Although the Internet contains content children should not view, censoring the entire or part ... square”(CIEC). Hot-Wired, a very popular and prestigious Internet magazine, now famous for rallying one of the most infamous protests against Internet censorship, published an article describing the protest. “Within minutes of last Tuesday’s news that a House committee had voted to incorporate an “indecency” clause into the proposed telecom bill, a collective panic spread through San Francisco’s Multimedia Gulch. Informed by word of mouth, a handful of pamphlets, and, most efficiently, the Internet, more than 500 protesters gathered on the 14th of December in the heart of San Francisco’s Internet ...
- 19539: Francisco Franco
- ... the Spanish political party, into an official political party at the service of his government. Tens of thousands of executions during the war and in the years immediately following it guaranteed the stability of Franco’s authoritarian regime. Franco kept Spain officially neutral during World War II, but after the Axis defeat he was labeled the last of the Fascist dictators and ostracized by the United Nations. As the Cold War ... the return of Spain to international society. Franco permitted the United States to build air and naval bases in Spain in exchange for economic and military aid. This aid helped bring about industrial expansion. Spain’s living standard rose thanks to Franco, but it remained as one of the lowest in Western Europe. Franco’s regime became somewhat more liberal during the 1950s and 1960s. It depended for support not on the Falange, renamed the National Movement, but on a range of political families running from those on the ...
- 19540: Beowulf: An Epic Hero
- ... the ocean. Beowulf is also strong enough to kill the monster Grendel, who has been terrorizing the Danes for twelve years, with his bare hands by ripping off his arm. When Beowulf is fighting Grendel's mother, who is seeking revenge on her son's death, he is able to slay her by slashing the monster's neck with a Giant's sword that can only be lifted by a person as strong as Beowulf. When he chops off her head, he carries it from the ocean with ease, but it ...
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