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Specific Task Software Patents
950 wordsSoftware consists of lists of instructions that a computer reads and executes. The tasks done by a computer are largely repetitive; the same chunks of instructions are executed many times. Each chunk performs one specific task and goes by the label algorithm, a method for accomplishing a specific task. In the United States, it is possible to obtain a patent for a software algorithm. One example of a patented software algorithm is the LZW software algorithm. The LZW patent is owned by Unisys. The...
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Make Good Neighbors Back And Forth
1,998 wordsAnd the work is play for mortal stakes, For Robert Frost it seemed that the deed of writing and interpreting his poetry never ended. His technique included simple dialect and description, his imagery was physical yet hypothetical, and his method showed his opposing views of the universe. Frost said, The subject of poetry should be common in books should happen to everyone but it should have occurred to no one before as material (Trachea 165). He was known to use anything he could to help the rea...
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Virtual Communities Virtual Community Metaphor
482 wordsIn 1988, when everybody thought the only people who would use computers to communicate were adolescent boys with complexion problems, I witnessed some heart-touching acts of spontaneous support and charity people raising tens of thousands of dollars to help parents struggling with a sick child, shifts organized to sit and read to a dying comrade, and other instances where flesh-and-blood humans reached through the computer screens and changed each other's lives. I wrote on "Virtual Communities" ...
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Russian Revolution Revolutionary Movement
1,511 words... his powers and reducing him to a game piece in the hands of victorious gentility. The blatant naivet of the Northerners is depicted in their sincere belief that the traditionally absolute monarch would willfully acquiesce to the limitations on his power introduced by the Constitution. Although the Northerners desired to eliminate autocracy, they nonetheless harbored a belief in the benevolence and broadminded of their monarch. Muraviev, as did his adherents, sincerely credited Alexander with...
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Bomb Was Dropped Atomic Bomb
1,150 words... hing' was dropped. I uses the word 'large' to describe it because the planes were about 30, 000 feet above the ground, but we still saw an object was released. I did not move, I was shocked and I was too frighten. Then that massive bomb landed within a minute. Suddenly, a strong flash of light startled me, and then another. I cold not see anything. When I was able to open my eyes, all the houses and creatures were blew down into pieces. I looked up to the sky, a streamer of smoke, perhaps fi...
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Frank Lloyd Wright One With Nature
1,462 wordsIt was a cool spring day with a light soothing breeze, flowers were blooming, the grass as green as it could be. The light glistened off the mesmerizing surroundings, and the babbling brook whispers in the distance. This is what Frank Lloyd Wright would think about every time he was faced with a new project. His love for nature is so profound and strong he says, I believe in god, only I spell it nature (quotations 1). Wright works with his bond with nature and gives it back in what is called lan...
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Mcgartland Amp Polgar Mcgartland Amp Polgar 1994 Method
658 wordsIn a world driven by experience, the quest to find the best method and approach to scientific and psychological studies continues. Mcgartland and Polgar (1994) contend that psychology can be clearly seen to have two distinct methods of investigation- 1) The empirical- mathematical and 2) the culture interpretive method. In recognizing this, it is still often the empirical-mathematical approach that is dominantly used and the commitment to this method has, according to Mcgartland & Polgar (19...
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September 11 2001 Twin Towers
672 wordsOn September 11, 2001, Americas World Trade Centers was attacked by a faceless enemy, and the people of America stood in shock and mourning. On lookers watched in horror and disbelief, struggling to comprehend what was happening. But at the time there was no answer. All over the country people turned on their televisions and watched as another Bowing 767 crashed into the second tower. The question thats in the back of my head is why did the building collapse after the planes crashed into the tow...
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Nature Nurture Psychological Traits
1,042 wordsWhen I was a young child, people always used to squabble over whether I was more like my mother or my father. Some people swore that not only was the physical resemblance to my mother similar, but our personalities were eerily identical. Others argued that my father and I were carbon copies of each other, right down to our Scorpio wit. Then later in life I found myself assimilated more and more to my best friend, who I hadnt grown up with, but had begun to spend every waking minute with during m...
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Human Beings Native American
1,131 wordsThe Sacred Shamans Shamanism is one of the oldest magical and religious traditions, relics of which still trigger the major religious faiths of the modern religious world. The function of the shaman is to people the concealed powers behind the simple appearances of nature. Shaman possesses concrete knowledge of nature. All shaman powers are experienced through intuition, in states of trance or during mystical visions. Native American shamans possessed healing powers, could communicate with the d...
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Quot Iv Quot Iii
747 wordsAfter a night of wandering through the woods, chasing fairies, having various potions rubbed over their eyes, falling in and out of love, and threatening each others lives and limbs, the four lovers of A Midsummer Nights Dream wake up in the forest to the trumpeting of horns and find themselves surrounded by nobility. Its no wonder they are confused, and " cannot truly say... " (IV. 1. 7) how they ended up where they are and what happened the night before. But what they are sure about ...
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Theory Of Forms Theory Of Knowledge
1,268 wordsforms The influence that Plato, the Greek philosopher born in 427 BC in Athens, has had throughout the history of philosophy has been monumental. Among other things, Plato is known for his exploration of the fundamental problems of natural science, political theory, metaphysics, theology and theory of knowledge; many of his ideas becoming permanent elements in Western thought. The basis of Plato? s philosophy is his theory of Ideas, or doctrine of Forms. While the notion of Forms is essential to...
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Frank Lloyd Wright Avant Garde
1,113 wordsFrank Lloyd Wright is a name that is spoken synonymously with the advancement of American architecture in the early 20 th century. For 70 years he worked to push the architectural profession in America to new limits. Wright sought to create an architecture that reconciles mans relationship with Nature and Wrights quest resulted in a style so successful and so innovative that, for once, instead of America looking to Europe for new ideas, Europe's avant-garde looked to Americas Prairie style for i...
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Em Browned Itself Moment Browned Itself Moment Heath
218 wordsThe Return of the Native AP Essay: Hardy? s Dark and Dreary Heath Thomas Hardy feels that Edge Heath, the setting of the novel The Return of the Native is a powerful, scary, dark and dreary place. He uses various techniques to express this attitude. Some of the techniques he used to convey this thought are diction, imagery, syntax, and tone. The diction he choose was specific and concrete, presenting an actual place that was depressing. The words he used attempted to present a specific, concrete...
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Nature Of Things Primary Qualities
1,389 wordsEnlightenment began with an unparalleled confidence in human reason. The new sciences success in making clear the natural world through Locke, Berkeley, and Hume affected the efforts of philosophy in two ways. The first is by locating the basis of human knowledge in the human mind and its encounter with the physical world. Second is by directing philosophy's attention to an analysis of the mind that was capable of such cognitive success. John Locke set the tone for enlightenment by affirming the...
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Writing Skills Main Idea
973 wordsDear Incoming Student, The transition from high school to college is challenging for most students. Classes are more difficult than high school, life get increasingly complicated, and the future is unclear. A major aspect of college that is often ignored is good writing skills. With so much riding on our college sucess, excellent writing skills are a must. Tests play a large role in measuring a students capabilities, but most college courses rely on essays and papers as well. The first step of t...
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Technological Change Sports Cars
1,091 wordsRacing, Feeling Life In The Fast Lane Automobile Racing is considered a sport, but to me, it has ten times more excitement, unpredictability, and amazement than any activity that I have participated in. This passion originates when drivers race specially designed automobiles over tracks or courses of differing lengths, designs, and constructions. It tests the skills of the drivers, the speed capabilities of the vehicles, and the endurance of both. Automobile racing, which originally consisted of...
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World We Live Art And Architecture
1,045 wordsRoman Art and Architecture Roman art and architecture was the art and architecture of Rome and its empire, which in its golden era extended from the British Isles to the Caspian Sea (Roman Encarta 96). The earliest Roman art and architecture is generally associated with the overthrow of the Etruscan kings and the establishment of the Republic in 509 BC (Roman). The end of Roman art and architecture and the beginning of medieval art is usually said to occur with the conversion of the emperor Cons...
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Left Brain Left Hemisphere
1,240 wordsSavant Syndrome is a rare, but spectacular, condition in which persons with various developmental disabilities, including Autistic Disorder, have astonishing islands of ability or brilliance that stand in stark, markedly incongruous contrast to the over-all handicap. In some, savant skills are remarkable simply in contrast to the handicap (talented savants). In others, with a much rarer form of the condition, the ability or brilliance is not only spectacular in contrast to the handicap, but woul...
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Mutations Are Random Evolution Is A Theory Dna
760 wordsEvolution Evolution Evolution vs. Creation Evolution versus Creationism is a hot topic that is in constant debate among scientists and Christians. Held in high regard to the world of science, Evolution, is the theory that groups of organisms change with passage of time, mainly as a result of natural selection, so that descendants differ morphologically and physiologically from their ancestors. On the other hand, faith of millions of Christians hold the truth that, the act of GOD by which the who...
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