|
Enter your query below to search our database containing over 50,000+ essays and term papers
Search results 4251 - 4260 of 30573 matching essays
- 4251: Creative Writing: The Present
- Creative Writing: The Present Theme: Greed and stupidity. "Mysterious Fires Breaking out Across Prince Rupert, British Colombia"-- John Reeves "I can't believe there is another one" read surprised Henry Peters. "That must be 5 houses in the last 2 months. Why would anyone do such a vapid thing?" "Dad, they don't even know if someone is setting them yet!" "Oh Billy, wake up and smell the smoke. Fires like that just don't start themselves." Billy knew that as he was walking away, but since he was the cause of all the fires he did not want anyone to know. He felt ashamed that the only way ...
- 4252: Computer Crime: A Increasing Problem
- Computer Crime: A Increasing Problem ABSTRACT Computer crimes seem to be an increasing problem in today's society. The main aspect concerning these offenses is information gained or lost. As our government tries to take control of the information that travels through the digital world, and across networks such as the InterNet ... the economy could not operate without the use of computers. Banks transfer trillions of dollars every day over inter-linking networks, and more than one billion pieces of electronic mail are passed through the world's networks daily. It is the age of the computer network, the largest of which is known as the InterNet. A complex web of communications inter-linking millions of computers together -- and this number is at ... of computers on life at this present time seems to be the InterNet. What we know now as the InterNet began in 1969 as a network then named ArpaNet. ArpaNet, under control by the pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, was first introduced as an answer to a problem concerning the government question of how they would communicate during war. They needed a network with no central authority, unlike ...
- 4253: Character Analysis Of The Gran
- ... is the central character in the story "A good man is hard to find," by Flannery O'Connor. The grandmother is a manipulative, deceitful, and self-serving woman who lives in the past. She doesn't value her life as it is, but glorifies what it was like long ago when she saw life through rose-colored glasses. She is pre- sented by O'Connor as being a prim and proper lady dressed in a suit, hat, and white cotton gloves. This woman will do whatever it takes to get what she wants and she doesn't let anyone else's feelings stand in her way. She trys to justify her demands by convincing herself and her family that her way is not only the best way, but the only way. The grandmother is determined ...
- 4254: Fahrenheit 451 Symbolism
- Ray Bradbury s satire, Fahrenheit 451, is a novel full of symbols criticizing the modern world. Among those symbols appears The Hound. The Hound s actions and even its shape are reflections of the society Bradbury has predicted to come. Montag s world continues on without thought; without any real reason. There is no learning, no growth, and no purpose. The Mechanical Hound slept but did not sleep, lived but did not live in its gently ...
- 4255: Dietary Fibre
- ... a 5-ounce steak has more calories than an equal amount of bread, pasta or potatoes (hold the butter), complex carbohydrates are becoming the chosen food of health and figure-conscious diners in the 1990's. U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop in his 1988 Report on Nutrition and Health recommended reduction in four areas (fats and cholesterol, weight, sodium and alcohol). Only one area received a positive recommendation and this was ... carbohydrates and fibre. The report emphasises an increase in consumption of whole grain foods, cereal products, vegetables (including dried beans and peas), and fruits. According to the director of the division of nutrition at FDA's Centre for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, complex carbohydrates should constitute about 55 percent of the calories in our daily diet, with fat making up 30 percent or less and protein the remainder. In ...
- 4256: Dealers Of Lighting
- "Dealers of Lightning" the legendary story of Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Written by Los Angeles Times corespondent, Michael Hiltzik. The Book brings together moments behind the research labs trailblazing technological achievements. Hiltzik also gives you vast amounts of insight and information about such people as Jack Goldman, Xerox chief scientists who convinced the corporation to sink tens of millions of dollars into PARC, while acknowledging that it may never pay off; Alan Kay PARC’s philosophical soul, who was ridiculed for many years envisioning a computer that could be tucked under the arm yet would contain the power to store books, letters, and drawings until he arrived at Palo Alto ... computing, a typical machine filled a large room and was shared by dozens of researchers. Hiltzik credits Robert W. Taylor, who assembled the PARC team, with changing that. A psychologist, rather than an engineer, Taylor’s vision of the computer as a communications device proved to be a revolutionary idea. He found his chance to realize it when Xerox’s chief scientist Jacob Goldman persuaded his superiors to launch a ...
- 4257: The Grandmother 2
- ... Man Is Hard To Find, the grandmother is shown to be a very self-centered person who thinks that the world revolves around her. The author makes this fact known right away. The grandmother "...didn't want to go to Florida... and she was seizing every chance to change Bailey's mind" (O'Connor 354). These first two lines show how selfish she is, meaning, she is only concerned with herself and has no reagard for others. The grandmother didn't care less about where Bailey and the rest of the family wanted to go on vacation. Her only desire was to go where she wanted to go. In a round-about way, she even ...
- 4258: Educatio During The Victorian
- ... education. The grant increased to 30,000 pounds in 1839 and then to 100,000 pounds in 1846. These voluntary schools were paid for by private subscription and were spread out over the country. Gladstone’s Bill of 1870 was the work of W.E. Forster, who was an ardent churchman of Quaker origin. The bill doubled the State Grant to church schools and to Roman Catholic schools so they could become a permanent part of the new educational system. There were seven elite boarding schools that were defined as “Public Schools” in the 1860’s by the educational Clarendon commission. They were Eton, Harrow, Westminster, Rugby, Winchester, Charterhouse, and Shrewsbury. They were maintained by private funding and received no profits. The Code of 1890 made it possible to maintain evening ... paid for by local rates, or by the local school boards. Church teaching continued in all national schools. Before this, all the churches had to provide the education. The Roman Catholics and the Anglicans wouldn’t let their children go to these schools, though. They felt that these schools did not adequately teach their religious ideas. Board schools were introduced and the Roman Catholics and the Anglicans agreed that these ...
- 4259: Huckleberry Finn - The Concluding Sentence Of The Book
- ... of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain reflects the tone and character of Huck, the main character. "But I reckon I got to light out for the territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can't stand it. I been there before." (497) The language and grammar reflect the manner of an "unsivilized" stray child. Huck want to remain the way he is - wild and crude, wants to keep his jargon ... dinner, wear clothes that are too stiff and clean for him, and he is not supposed to smoke. "I went up to my room … and tried to think of something cheerful, but it warn't no use. I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead. The stars were shining, and the leaves were rustled in the woods ever so mournful; and I heard an owl, away off ...
- 4260: The Great Gatsby: Typical Male Behavior
- The Great Gatsby: Typical Male Behavior Through the interactions between male and female characters, Fitzgerald depicts a variety of social expectations regarding "typical" male behavior in the 1920's. In the novel The Great Gatsby, characters such as Tom Buchanan, Jay Gatsby, George Wilson and Nick Carraway demonstrate behavior that acts to maintain and live up to expectations inherent in society. Through their controlling ways, these characters strive to define the "typical" man in the 1920's. The notion that a man's success can be measured by his possessions becomes evident through the actions of Tom, Gatsby and Wilson. These characters strive to obtain more than just material possessions. For example, Tom seems to view the ...
Search results 4251 - 4260 of 30573 matching essays
|
