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Mp 3 Player Mp 3 Files
1,289 wordsTwo years ago, MP 3 was just another audio compression format. Today, it's a Net phenomenon that's at the center of an enormous controversy. That's because MP 3 makes it possible for people with an Internet connection to bypass record stores (and cashiers) and download CD-quality music by their favorite artists -- for free. MP 3 is great for music lovers and cheapskates, who can download funky tunes to their hearts' content without spending a dime; however, it's a nightmare for musicians and rec...
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Cost Effective First Time
1,172 words... , California. In 1990, Galvin stepped down as chairman of Motorola on January 11 to become chairman of the executive committee. The Government Electronics Group supplied radio equipment for the Galileo, Magellan, and Hubble Space Telescope missions. A new 8. 5 -pound portable Lightweight Satellite Terminal (LST) radio was introduced. The Wireless In-Building Network (WIN) became available. It used high frequency, short-range radio technology to provide wireless local area network communicati...
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Boundary Street Elementary One Thing I Found School
488 wordsBoundary Street Elementary School When I got to the school, the first thing I did was check into the office. There I met the school secretary, who was very nice and willing to help me in any way she could. I was allowed to move about the school freely, while wearing a visitors badge or pass. I felt very comfortable walking around the school, as it was a very inviting atmosphere. The corridors were decorated with the students different artworks and projects. I really think that is a great idea be...
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Object Oriented Programming Languages
1,063 wordsLet me say at the start that, as I write this, my experience is not that diverse, nor am I highly skilled in all the languages I've come into contact with yet. In the order I learned them, I know QBASIC, C, Dr Scheme, and Java. And, uh, Tierra. So when I say "imperative", I'm speaking from my C experience; "functional" refers to my Dr Scheme night... , er, experience, and "object-oriented" means Java, along with what I've heard about C++. My background in particular: QBASIC from early childhood ...
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Aluminum Foil Toilet Paper
1,066 wordsOne of the earliest inventions in human history is the Candle. A source of light, usually made of wax (tallow was widely used in the past, which is the processed fat of cattle and sheep). The wax is melted then molded, and contains a wick that is burned to give light. Or the wick itself would be dipped in melted wax several times. These days, candles are mainly used for decorating rooms and celebrations. The art of candle making has advanced rapidly since Chevreul a nineteenth century French che...
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Modern Relevancy Of Bradbury Fahrenheit 451
594 wordsImagine walking into a room and being surrounded by televisions on all four walls. You look to the left as a train approaches and watches as it passes you from one side of the room to the other. This is the type of entertainment available to the people in Fahrenheit 451. The society in that book is more similar to our society than the time that Bradbury wrote the book. Apparently, the most obvious similarity is the technology. Mildred, Montags wife, always had both ears plugged with electronic b...
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Afro Cuban Catholic Saints Yoruba
801 wordsThe Yoruba, one of Sub-Saharan Africa's most populous groups, sixteen million strong, live in the Republic of Nigeria. They are heirs to an ancient culture exceptional for its urban density, refinement and complexity. When forced migration took Yoruba peoples to the plantations of Cuba, Brazil and Haiti, they recombined their deities into a new pantheon and incorporated Catholic saints whose powers and histories seemed parallel. For example, some representations of the Virgin Mary were equated w...
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Discovering Computers Registry Mechanic
456 wordsDiscovering Computers: Registry Mechanic Registry Mechanic designed for All of the following are widely used input devices except the printer and monitor. Answer: d. printer and monitor The mouse is a small handheld input device that controls the movement of a small symbol on the screen called the pointer. Answer: b. mouse 3. The average floppy disk can hold more than 80 billion characters. Answer: b. False 4. A scanner is an input device that converts printed material to a form the computer can...
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Data Access March 29
743 wordsMobile computing Digital technology is the most rapidly developed brunch of modern industry. I think that computers take the leadership in this industry. In this paper I want to drag your attention to such fact as mobile computing. As you can notice the computers become smaller and smaller with time. It became possible thanks to the wide use of microchips. One tiny microchip can process a lot of information. Not only hardware development leads to the mobile computing but the software too. At the...
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Battle Royal Audience Members
902 wordsIn Battle Royal, Ellison uses details of setting to create the mood of horror and repulsion. The horror begins when the narrator listens to a conversation between his father and grandfather, as his grandfather lay on his death bed. Son, after Im gone I want you to keep up the good fight. I never told you, but our life is a war and I have been a traitor all my born days, a spy in the enemy's country ever since I give up my gun back in the Reconstruction. Live with your head in the lions mouth. I ...
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Piece Of Canvas Doctor Jenkins Men
607 wordsCharacter Analysis for The Portable Phonograph Walter Van Tilburg Clarks short story, The Portable Phonograph, is a tale about the last survivors in the world after the total destruction of a war. The author gives clues and hints of this throughout the beginning by writing in a narrative voice and describing the scene in dark war-like terms. The characters are then introduced as a group of men huddled around a fire. The older of the men, Doctor Jenkins, is the leader and his character is full of...
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Physical Activity Age Group
252 wordsJeremy Johnson Kin 553 Dr. Shows Sept. 18, 2000 The Department of Kinesiology at The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Freer Hall, a study of the relationship with activity measured by a portable accelerometer using the Physical Activity Scale for the Elderly (PASE) was conducted. In the study 20 healthy adult volunteers were used. 17 women and 3 men participated in the study after providing written consent. The women had a mean height, weight, and body mass in kg were 72. 4, 159. 8, an...
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Hall Of Fame Bell Labs
799 wordsOverview While at AT& T Bell Laboratories, Dennis Ritchie, along with Ken Thompson, developed the UNIX computer operating system for minicomputers. He later developed the programming language called C, which has become a virtual standard in the microcomputer / workstation marketplace. Dennis Ritchie was born on Sept. 9, 1941 in Bronxville, New York. After doing undergraduate and graduate work in physics and applied mathematics at Harvard University, Ritchie joined Bell Labs in 1968. In the m...
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Millions Of Dollars Ozone Depletion
946 wordsHalon an extinguishing agent was developed after World War II for the protection of aircraft engines. Several types were developed, and several were banned and discontinued such as halon 104. Other types were halon 1202, halon 1211, halon 1301, and halon 2402, which was never widely used in the United States due to its high toxicological concerns. Halon type 1101 was widely utilized for aircraft engines. The two most common types being; halon 1301 bromotrifluoromethane, C BrF 3, which is most co...
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Reading The Book North Carolina
634 wordsOn Saturday October 14, 2000, the North Carolina Shakespeare festival put on a performance of Hamlet. This show, which was performed at the Carolina Theatre in Durham, North Carolina, was directed by, who also directed. did a really good job at playing Hamlet, which is a very hard role to act for any actor. Hamlet was produced by the North Carolina Shakespeare Festival, which is a group of actors that travel around NC and the South, running productions of Shakespeare's many plays. The North Caro...
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Entered The Service Leonardo
370 wordsLeonardo da Vinci, perhaps the greatest man in history, invented thousands of things including the helicopter, tank and portable bridge. Leonardo was not only an inventor, but a sculptor, an artist and an architect. He was born 1452 in the small town of Vinci, in Tuscany. His father was a wealthy notary and his mother a peasant woman. In the mid 1460 s the family moved to Florence here he was given the best education Florence could offer. He advanced rapidly socially and intellectually. He was v...
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Acute Target Audience
1,081 wordsLucozade, first established in 1927 is now a highly successful soft drinks product. As times change so do people, so in order to keep a wide customer base Lucozade has been constantly changing its image and broadening its appeal to the public. To investigate how Lucozade has changed its image between 1960 and 2000 we have examined three television advertisements that Lucozade used to promote its product. The first one was shown in 1960, the second in 1980 and the third in 1999. The narrative of ...
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Portable Stereos Tape Players Music
298 wordsPORTABLE STEREOS In the last 5 or 10 years, portable stereos and tape players have become quite popular. People are more tuned into music nowadays than ever before. Music can affect you in many different ways. It can make you happy, sad, excited or angry. Different types of music affect people differently, which leads to the subject of public space and personal space. Most people with any amount of decency should carry their tape players, or stereos with headphones. It is rude to carry them arou...
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Mp 3 Player Consumer Electronics
921 wordsSamsung Electronics Leading the Pack Samsung is a multinational corporation originally based in Korea. Founded in nineteen thrifty-eight by Byung-Chull Lee, the conglomerates roots were in the exportation of dried fruits, vegetables and fish from Korea to Manchuria. Its hard to believe that one of the worlds electronic superpowers began with a guy driving a truck full of dried goods around the Korean countryside. Ten years after the company was founded, Byung-Chull Lee incorporated Samsung into ...
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Fifth Grade Sex Education
870 wordsWhat is the first thing you think about when you think of elementary school rites of passage? For me it is and always will be sex education. Only for me it was not such a time of wonder; it was more like a time of trying to keep my stomach from turning inside out. I remember it like it was yesterday, even though it was more like seven years ago. It was late April, headed into the summer of my fifth grade year. My teacher was Mr. Atkinson, a funny little man with a good background in American his...
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