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Ten Years Computer Screen
1,103 wordsTechnology for the disabled has made numerous advances over the recent years. The things they have been doing to help disabled people to be able to stay with the advances that have been going on in the world is proceeding nicely. This helps the disabled do basic things that we have thought to be an easily accessible occurrence. For example the Internet, all we have to do is turn on the computer and follow the mouse pointer to the designated icon, where as blind people have to do different things...
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Medieval Literature And Poetry Illuminated Manuscripts
966 wordsThe Middle Ages was a period of about one thousand years, between the collapse of the Roman Empire during the fifth century AD and the revival of classical art and learning known as the Renaissance around the fifteenth century. During this dark and chaotic period small groups of devout Christians could live with security and pursue a religious life. These people were doing something that almost no one else could do at the time- reading and writing. They were making something that almost no one e...
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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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Benjamin Franklin English Language
1,325 words... udon in order to remain anonymous. Hence, Richard Saunders Philomath is created by Franklin and predestined to write his almanac. Benjamin Franklins almanac was a tremendous success; no other book in the colonies sold more copies, except the Bible (Doren 148). With success comes recognition and Franklin was most certainly recognized within the colonies. Year after year, Franklin packed the almanac with his sayings and rearranged proverbs. Franklins Biographer Milton Meltzer says, Franklin wa...
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Day By Day Walt Whitman
1,319 wordsWalt Whitman's poem A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim, sets the picture of a solider camp near a battlefield. (This was probably around the time when he served as a volunteer nurse and comforter in the army. ) In line two Whitman wakes up early due to little sleep, perhaps from going to battle. As he goes outside near the hospital tent, he sees three people on stretchers brought outside untended. He describes the blankets covering the soldiers over each stretcher. In the next lines se...
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Project Manager Good Girl
1,118 words... error. He was given the chance to have a romantic relationship with Delia, but his selfish stupidity completely blew that chance. Watching this disaster play out is horribly painful. Unlike Delia who comes to hate Brian because she does not fully understand the situation, the viewer, cognizant of the entire situation, can only pity Brian. Another prime example of Brian's romantic ineptness comes when he and Rayanne are forced to spend the night together after he got them stuck in the school ...
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Leonardo Da Vinci 16 Th Century
1,055 wordsDuring the era known as the Renaissance Europe emerged from its economic troubles of the Middle Ages and experienced a time of financial growth. Also the Renaissance was an age in which artistic, social, scientific and political thought turned in new directions however. The most important changes during the Renaissance were the changes that took place in the way how people viewed themselves and their world. The Renaissance was a rebirth that occurred throughout most of Europe but the start of th...
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Protestant Reformation Martin Luther
1,057 words... ganda Campaign of Godly Proportion A key to any revolution, in any time period, is spreading the key points within the ideology of the revolution in an efficient and effective manner. The Protestant Reformation, which is accredited chiefly to the efforts of the German monk Martin Luther, involved a very large group of people splitting from the Catholic church, an institution present for 1500 years before the reformation. A task as large as this split cries out for a method of spreading ideal...
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Alexander The Great Louis Xiv
1,050 wordsHieroglyphics - Writing of ancient Egypt that used pictures to represent words and sounds. Dynasty - Family of rulers in which heirs to the throne are members of the rulers family. Monotheism - Worship of single god. Hammurabi's Code Of Laws - The 1 st set of written laws. "eye for an eye."tooth for a tooth" Cuneiform's - early forms of writing mesopotamia in which the characters were wedge-shaped Reincarnation - An after life in which the person comes back a different entity. Hinduism - Worship...
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Primary Colors Urban Life
1,209 words... goes of bourgeois, proletarian, and peasant classes, proved so compelling that Marxist notions affected public policy throughout the Euro-American world for nearly a century. The arts were similarly affected, both in practice and in theory, by Marxist systems stressing fundamentally economic forces that underlie all modern civilization. This influence produced numerous Impressionist images that present or analyze class relations, family structures, and individual anxieties in the midst of so...
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Shih Huang Ti Ray Bradbury
797 words? What are the rights of a government? Does the government have the right to control what we think and where we get our intellectual stimulation? After the Constitution of the United States was drafted, a Bill of Rights containing ten articles was adopted and ratified by the thirteen states. In the first article, it guaranteed the people the freedom of religion, speech, the press, and public assembly. People were given the right to enrich themselves with knowledge accumulated through their readi...
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Electronic Publishing Transfer Protocol
1,107 wordsIt's 6 PM and a faceless modem dials into an Internet provider. Using File Transfer Protocol, he logs onto a UNIX server in Indiana. He types in a few arcane commands, and within a half hour he possess the complete score for Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, Pi to a million digits, various works of classic fiction, political papers, census results, the CIA World Factbook, the King James Bible, and some books about the Internet. No, this isn't some "hacker" snubbing his nose at copyright law - this is ...
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Suzuki Harunobu Eighteenth Century Prints
1,108 words... till women) were especially prominent. The early eighteenth century was a period of development in print-making. The quality of the paper improved; shapes and sizes of prints became varied; and polyptych were introduced. Techniques of printing became more sophisticated. The urusei-e (lacquer-print) was developed, in which certain areas of black are made to shine by mixing glue with the printing-ink. The greatest innovation in technique, however, was in the use of color. From the earliest tim...
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U S Troops Indian Removal
659 wordsIndian Removal Policy -- White settlers believed that Indians stood in the way of their progress -- 1820 's Isaac McCoy, Baptist minister, believed that Indians would like to live in Kansas present idea to Sec. Of War Calhoun -- William Clark, Superintendent of Indian Affairs negotiated treaties (agreements) with the Kansas and Osage Indians n to insure move of Indians Congress passes the Indian Removal Act of 1830 n promised the land in Oklahoma for "as long as the grass grows and the rivers ru...
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Wife Died Morse Code
561 wordsThe Alphabet is: A. - B - C -. -. D -... E. F... -. G. H. I... J. K -. - L. -... M N -. O P... Q. - R. -. S T U... - V - W. X -... - Y -. Z-. 7 8... 9 -. 0 There you have it! There are also punctuation marks but not included here. I History, the morse code was first transmitted from one point to another in 1844. It was developed by just looking at the printing press collection of letters and by counting each letter, a pattern was found where the letters E, T, I, A, N, R, M are the most numerous ...
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Twill Enterprises Company Faces Management
248 wordsTwill Enterprises Limited is a successful printing and packaging company based in Toronto, Ontario. Recently the company has been plagued with many problems. One of the main problems that the company faces is its inability to change the management structure in the midst of growth. The company has grown in leaps and bounds through the years and the tightly knit management committee can no longer sustain the power it once held. Yet the upper management staff refuses to relinquish power to the lowe...
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Written Word Powerful Force
793 wordsCensorship in the Written Word The written word is mankind s oldest form of recorded information. It has allowed us to read about ideas and events of times long past. Writing was once accessible only to the rich and powerful, but the printing press allowed the common people the ability to read books cheaply, and more importantly, the ability to publish books and pamphlets of their own. Using a printing press, anyone had the ability to record and distribute his or her ideas. The printed word beca...
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White Light Red Green
1,468 wordsColor is the curves, where the height of the curve represents the amount, or intensity, of that particular wavelength. Everyone of these distribution curves then corresponds to a color of light. Many of the colors we are familiar with appear on the EMF visible spectrum, such as red and yellow. We would therefore expect the distribution curves of these colors then to have a positive value only at a certain wavelengths. Under most conditions this is not true there are usually traces of all the oth...
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Theory Of Evolution Darwin Theories
225 wordsDarwin is considered the father of evolution. In truth, Darwin arrived at his theory of evolution at the same time another scientist, Alfred Russell Wallace, came to the same conclusion. However, Darwin was a respected scientist even before he wrote On the Origin of Species, while Wallace was relatively unknown, so people were more inclined to listen to Darwin. Origin enjoyed immediate success: its first printing sold out immediately and a second printing following a month later. Darwin's ideas ...
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Tape Recorder Learning Disability
981 wordsDyslexia My Adversity When some people hear the word dyslexia, they think of reading, writing, spelling, and math problems. Some associate it with word and letter reversals, and others only think slow learners. Almost everyone considers it some from of a learning disability, but the learning disability is only one face of dyslexia. The dyslexic learns in a different way. It can also be an advantage; ninety-nine percent of dyslexics have higher intelligent quotations. I have faced personal advers...
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