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- 4431: Computer Technology
- ... astonishing speed and precision. Computer Technology has improved our lives. It will continue to affect our future which will lead to an easier, less complicated lifestyle, with more job opportunities and their benefits. . The modern world of high technology could not have come about except for the development of the computer. Different types and sizes of computers find uses throughout society in the storage and handling of data, from secret government files to banking transactions to private household accounts. Research and development in the computer world moves simultaneously along two-paths hardware designs and software innovations work in each are alternately influences the other. Computers help people in many different ways, but many people prefer to use paper and pencil to write and to use folders and file cabinets to organize there papers. Many people in the world use computers to make their lives easier. Such advances computer technology will benefit us all. People use computers for research, organization, writing, communication for personal or business matters and even to look up stock ...
- 4432: Candide
- ... literary works, Voltaire’s “Candide” and Alexander Popes “A Modest Proposal” They use satire in a different way. One to entertain the upper class and the other to show us the harsh realities of the world. Swift's "A Modest Proposal" In his lengthy literary career, Jonathan Swift wrote many stories that used a broad range of voices that were used to make some compelling personal statements. For example, Swifts, A ... a terrible plan that involves both the sacrifice of another human as well as cannibalism and expect to be taken seriously? Voltaire presents a story with a distinctive outlook on life. He tells of a world that has gone mad and is laced with evil. Voltaire questions optimism, philosophy, and absolutes. Through his story he exploits absolutes such as: justice, happiness, true love, humanity, brotherhood, and many others. He leaves the reader feeling that the world really is a cruel place and that happiness is hard to come by. By using the main character Candide, a naive and innocent optimist, Voltaire ridicules concepts such as: belief, philosophy, religion, and absolutes ...
- 4433: FENCES
- ... The woman died giving birth. Troy asked Rose to take care of the baby. Rose did, what else could she have done? Troy was not a good husband. Troy took care of Gabriel after the war. This made him think that he was a good brother. Troy wasn’t a good brother to Gabriel. He stole the war money that Gabriel got. He used the money that he got to build himself a house. Gabriel couldn’t take care of himself, so Troy oversaw Gabriel’s life. After a while Gabriel moved out ... wasn’t living in his house, he didn’t collect rent from him. Troy then sent Gabriel to an institution. Since Gabriel was there, Troy got half of the money that Gabriel got from the war. Troy couldn’t care less about Gabriel; all he wanted was his money. Would a good brother do this? I don’t think so. Troy thought he was a good father because he put ...
- 4434: The 60’s: Decade of Challenge and Change
- The 60’s: Decade of Challenge and Change The sixties was a decade of dissent. The Civil rights and anti- war movements drew people into the streets, where public protests raged. It was a decade of dynamic change for the nation’s youth, the new generation to whom JFK said,” the torch has been passed.” Long ... show. Actress Marilyn Monroe killed herself. Sir Winston Churchill died. The first heart transplant was done. Then, mankind on the moon. Finally, the development of the birth control pill. Other defining events is the Vietnam War and Cold War. Some of the fads and decorating trends are still popular today. Fads of the 60s included the yo-yo, coloring books and surfing. Popular dances were: the Frog, the Watusi, the mashed potato, the ...
- 4435: Hera
- ... the result of Demeter s sorrow. During that time her daughter, Persephone, has to go with Hades. Hades is her brother, and he is the god of the dead and the ruler of the under world. Poseidon is also her brother, and he s the god of the sea. Zeus is not only her youngest brother, but her husband too. He s the god of the sky, and the ruler of ... and forced him to disgorge his other brothers and sisters. Hera was entrusted to Ocaenus and Tethys, by Rhea, to be raised while Zeus struggled with the Titans. Hera later returned after Zeus won the war. Zeus and Hera got married on the summit of Mount. Ida in Phrygia. Together they were the parents of; Ares the god of war, Hephaetus the god of fire and metal work, Hebe the goddess of youth, and Elithyia the goddess of child birth. Ares was unpopular with both gods and humans. Although he was fierce and war ...
- 4436: A Brief History Of The Blues
- ... and a hundred other privations. (Lomax) The prison road crews and work gangs where were many bluesmen found their songs, and where many other blacks simply became familiar with the same songs. Following the Civil War (according to Rolling Stone), the blues arose as "a distillate of the African music brought over by slaves. Field hollers, ballads, church music and rhythmic dance tunes called jump-ups evolved into a music for ... the first place, and thus made possible the absorption of blues into both jazz as well as the mainstream of pop music." (Priestly 10) American troops brought the blues home with them following the First World War. They did not, of course, learn them from Europeans, but from Southern whites who had been exposed to the blues. At this time, the U.S. Army was still segregated. During the twenties, the ...
- 4437: Hong Kong Transferring Hands
- ... conflict came to be known as the Opium Wars. Britain easily dispatched the Chinese resistance and opened up China for even more trade with the western societies. One of Britain’s gains from the Opium War was that Hong Kong was ceded over to them. In 1860 the Chinese government also ceded Kowloon and Stonecutters Island to Britain. Britain establish a colony in 1843, it capital was Victoria. In 1898, Britain ... will retain some of their civil liberties. It was in an uneasy atmosphere that the British flag was lowered for the last time in Hong Kong and a new day for China had begun. “The world hasn’t realized that nothing has changed,” says Owen Chi, Assistant Executive director of Hong Kong Trade Development Council. “There are no soldiers on the streets,” he insist that laws and business climate remain the ... the first chance the people of Hong Kong have had to participate in self-government. They are hopeful about their economic future and see this as an opportunity to act as a doorway for the world to the closed Chinese market place. The pessimists see the handover as the beginning of the end for Hong Kong. They fear political crackdowns, losing the economic freedoms they have enjoyed under British rule, ...
- 4438: The Salem Witch Trials
- ... There was strong belief in God, but there was also a strong belief in the devil and of the devil’s ability to mesmerize people. “Accusations of witchcraft were not unusual in the seventeenth-century world that believed in divine providence and worried incessantly about the state of each soul” (Breslaw 103). It was felt that all evil stemmed from the devil and that the devil was able to possess people ... folklore deeply embedded in English life and …were transported with the colonists for m the old country”’ (Breslaw 90). These minor practices were not considered witchcraft. “These folk practices were part of the everyday mundane world; they seldom involved diabolical action or evil intent” (Breslaw 91). The second theory is that it was such a stressful time for this community that it was a perfect setting for something like this to ... that witchcraft accusations in 1692 in New England were “prompted by an epidemic of ergotism. The Salem witchcraft affair may have been a reflection of a largely unrecognized but endemic health problem in the New World” (Matossian). But even if there was ergot poisoning, it does not explain why the hallucinations were always of the “devilish” nature. It has been suggested that because this Puritan society was a very religious ...
- 4439: A Detail Look Into The Internet And Where It Is Headed!
- ... They soon replaced the radio as the media form of choice. The newest and currently most controversial form of mass media and communication is the Internet. ‘The Internet has linked sources of information around the world and with the progress made in telecommunications and personal computing, these information sites have become accessible to the common man’(Bergreen 10). We live in a world bursting with new and often brilliantly conceived technology. As soon as we master one technology, we move on to the next, expecting it to make are current obligations easier and less time consuming. We move ... it is still to early to understand what the repercussions of the Net will be! ‘The Internet is a loose amalgam of metals of thousands of computer networks reaching millions of people all over the world’(Carroll 1). Although its original purpose was to provide researchers with access to expensive hardware resources, the Internet has demonstrated such speed and effectiveness as a communications medium that it has transcended its original ...
- 4440: Taronga Vs Children Of The Dust
- ... set in Australia in 1987, two years after last days, a tragedy caused by Chernobyl. Similarly, the novel ‘Children of the Dust’ written by Louise Lawrence is also about a disaster cause by a nuclear war, set in England. The weak are killed and the strong become stronger as the human race fights for survival. The themes, characters and relationships are similar and different in both novels. These two books have ... relatively different to Children of the Dust, where a family of four, Sarah, Veronica, William and Catherine, has to survive in their house, away from all the radioactive material as a result of a nuclear war. Only one of the four survive, Catherine, where she then lives with some other survivors from other families who have not been affected by the radioactive material. The focuses of the characters change in part ... place in Sydney that is under control. “As he penetrated deeper and deeper into what was left of suburban Sydney, the atmosphere of madness grew even stronger” pg. 37. Similarly, Louise Lawrence also creates a world where there is no control and the city and its people are free to do anything. This creates chaos, as it is displayed in part 1 of the novel. The society will do anything ...
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