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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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San Jose Mercury Extreme Right Wing
2,388 wordsGroup Polarization And Competition In Political Behavior Group Polarization And Competition In Political Behavior On Tuesday, November 14, 1995, in what has been perceived as the years biggest non-event, the federal government shut down all " non-essential" services due to what was, for all intents and purposes, a game of national " chicken" between the House Speaker and the President. And, at an estimated cost of 200 million dollars a day, this dubious battle of dueling egos...
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Emma Goldman Great Lengths
1,621 wordsFew people are fearless speakers. As students, we generally feel the rumble of butterflies in our stomachs, but the most we have to lose is a good grade. For Emma Goldman, the stakes were considerably higher. She had the daunting task of speaking to secure her own freedom when she was placed on trial for obstructing the draft in 1917. The country was awash in patriotism, and she was prosecuted as an enemy of the state. When preparing her speech, she realized that a seated jury would be a microco...
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Socrates Believes South Vietnam
1,424 wordsThe purpose of " Crito" seems intended to exhibit the character of Socrates in one light only, not as the philosopher, fulfilling a divine mission and trusting in the will of Heaven, but simply as the good citizen, who, having been unjustly condemned is willing to give up his life in obedience to the laws of the State. The main argument that seems to entail the discussion between Crito and Socrates is the opinion of the majority on Socrates? fate. In the " Crito" Socrates sta...
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Law And Order Acts Of Terrorism
1,616 wordsTerrorism by nature is difficult to define. Acts of terrorism conjure emotional responses in the victims as well as in the practitioners. No two writers agree on what is terrorism. Even the U. S. government cannot agree on one single definition. The old adage, " One mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter" is still alive and well today (" Terrorism Research Center: Definitions" 1). Although many people believe that terrorism is evil, it is merely misunderstood because ...
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Quot And Quot Quot Quot
2,842 wordsDonna Allen Margaret Abigail Walker was born on 7 July 1915 in Birmingham, Alabama. Her parents, the Reverend Sigismund C. Walker, a Methodist minister and an educator, and Marion Dozier Walker, a music teacher, encouraged her to read poetry and philosophy from an early age. Walker completed her high school education at Gilbert Academy in New Orleans, Louisiana, where her family had moved in 1925. She went on to attend New Orleans University (now Dillard University) for two years. Then, after ac...
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Aggressive Behavior Violent Juvenile
801 wordsI. Marijuana causes behavioral changes A. Chronic Marijuana users become more aggressive during withdrawal. People who have smoked marijuana daily for many years display more aggressive behavior when they stop smoking the drug, according to a new study by researchers at Harvard Medical School. The study, funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Institutes of Health, is further evidence that a withdrawal syndrome is associated with abstinence from long-term marijuana use, a...
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Stopping By Woods Mordecai Marcus
1,676 wordsRandall Jarrell First of all, of course, the poem is simply there, in indifferent unchanging actuality; but our thought about it, what we are made to make of it, is there too, made to be there. When we choose between land and sea, the human and the inhuman, the finite and the infinite, the sea has to be the infinite that floods in over us endlessly, the hypnotic monotony of the universe that is incommensurable with us everything into which we look neither very far nor very deep, but look, look j...
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Indian Woman South Africa
1,580 wordsAn Indian Woman In Guatemala: Without A Trace Of Bitterness In Her Voice State Rothbard Transcultural perspectives November 11, 1996 Guatemala is the land of Eternal Springs and the home of the richly cultured and historic Mayan people. It it also the country of Rigoberta Menchu, an illiterate farm worker, turned voice of oppressed people everywhere. Guatemala also has the sad distinction of being home to Latin Americas oldest civil war. " For more than three decades, left-wing guerrillas h...
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Nicholas Ii Privilege Russia
2,094 wordsThe quotation, " ? I shall maintain the principle of autocracy just as firmly and unflinchingly as it was preserved by my unforgettable dead father. (Nicholas II) In spite of the Czars decrees and declarations, Russia, by the beginning of the 20 th century, was overripe for revolution, " is supported by political and socioeconomic conditions late monarchial Russia. Nicholas II was the Czar of Russia from 1896 - 1917, and his rule was the brute of political disarray. An autocrat, Nichol...
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