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Phone Company Internet Connection
1,005 wordsAchieving a reliable Internet connection as close to 56 K as possible is something every Internet user strives to achieve. However, due to line conditions and phone companies, the dream of every surfer is shattered into something reminiscent of 5 year old 33. 6 technology. The general rule of thumb is that to obtain speeds greater than 33. 6, one must live within 2 - 3 miles of the telephone company's switch box. The further out, the more degraded the connection speed becomes. Connections speeds...
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Raymond Carver Death Scene
2,024 words... pert 59). The seizures only complicated matters. Unger continues, "He was then terrified to quit drinking, because it had happened in a hospital in San Francisco and it had happened when he'd tried to quit on his own; so he kept on drinking" (59). In his story "Where I'm Calling From, " Carver has a character named Tiny in Frank Martin's drying out facility who has these sort of seizures immediately after describing to his fellow recovering alcoholics how he feels much better and will be lea...
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Thousand Six Hundred Type Atomic Bomb
1,027 wordsI read the book A World Destroyed: Hiroshima and the Origins of the Arms Race written by Martin J. Sherwin. I thoroughly enjoyed reading on Hiroshima. Throughout many history classes at different schools I have learned a great deal on Hiroshima, but have found many things in this book that have struck my attention. I really overly enjoyed reading this book, I have learned many new things. I learned many things in this book that I will explain. On the morning of August 6, 1945, a B- 29 bomber nam...
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Animation Is Getting More Popular Today
762 wordsAnimation is getting more popular today Animation, motion pictures created by recording a series of still images-of drawings, objects, or people in various positions of incremental movement. When played back no longer appear individually as static images but combine to produce the illusion of unbroken motion. The term animation applies to creations on film, video, or computers, and even to motion toys, which usually consist of a series of drawings or photographs on paper that are viewed with a m...
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Cd Rom Drive Hard Drive
1,502 wordsSubject: [ 3 - 2 ] How do I extract tracks from, or copy all of, an audio CD? Start with the CD-DA FAQ: web Take a look at web to see if your CD-ROM drive is up to the task. EAC, from web is often recommended for extracting ("ripping") audio tracks. To copy from CD to CD, the source drive needs to support digital audio extraction, which is rare among older drives but very common in current models. Ideally, the copy program will use disc-at-once recording to produce a duplicate that mimics the or...
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Thermal Expansion Physical Properties
1,122 words... nitride. Cubic boron nitride is the second hardest known substance, after diamond, and has some special applications, such as abrasives in grinding wheels and cutting tools. It does not exist in nature and is thus made synthetically. Titanium nitride is used widely as a coating on cutting tools. IT improves tool life by virtue of it's low frictional characteristics. Silicon nitride has a high resistance to creep at elevated temperatures, low thermal expansion, high thermal conductivity, and ...
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Young People As A Social Problem
929 wordsIn the wake of the alarming rate of juvenile delinquency and the accumulating cases of teenage suicide since the mid 90 's, it's not surprising to see that the majority started to accuse young people as a source of social problem. Nowadays, some may even consider young people as a group of easily-agitated gangsters equipped with the potential ability and the desire to disrupt the present social order. However, is it justified to point the finger of blame on our teenagers for the social problems?...
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Change The World Aesthetic Value
1,555 wordsOut of Light cometh Darkness, dark ambient music and the impulse towards deconstruction 2000 Daniel du Prie 1. These recordings may be seen as a notation of our dead minded society, but not as a reaction against it, we will all become ambient dead heads, if not... (Archon Satani, In Shelter, liner note, 1994) If not, then ellipsis. The conditional clause of fact, followed by an open-ended ellipsis, where not only the conjunction between a conditional present and an effected future (then... ), bu...
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World War Ii 60 Years
1,154 wordsWas the "Hindenburg disaster" a result of sabotage committed by the opponents of the Nazi organization? Did a bolt of lightning strike the zeppelin? Or was one of the most devastating accidents in aviation history nothing but a cunningly planned insurance fraud? Over 60 years ago, airships were the "queens of the skies. " In the early 1900 s, a stubborn, yet brilliant German count, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, took keen interest in balloon flights and was devoted to the design and construction ...
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Programming Languages Black Box
1,120 words... d Java (which does have garbage collection) is incredibly slow. Therefore, the chief problem with C, allocating memory before use, being careful only to use memory you own, and then freeing it after use, isn't really remedied by C++. OOP's idea of hiding data and functions that shouldn't be seen elsewhere can already be done in C, with the use of static variables and static functions, and proper use of headers. C doesn't have exactly the right functionality for this, in fact it's rather prim...
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Past Present And Future Point Of View
1,456 wordsShirley Jackson's short story, "The Lottery", ironically gives the lottery a bad meaning. The lottery in this story is used for a public stoning, contrary to the first thing that comes to a reader's mind when they think of winning the lottery; a big sum of money. The reader sees both literal and metaphorical meaning of this story because for one it shows for face value what the entire story is about, and hidden behind it is the notion of the scapegoat being picked like a lottery number. The sett...
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Three Dimensional Failure Rate
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Worth A Thousand Thousand Words
945 wordsA picture is worth a thousand words. You " ve heard it so many times that it sounds trite. But a picture really IS worth a thousand words. And if a dream is a very special kind of picture, how much is IT worth? Maybe more? What about very simple pictures and very simple dreams? No doubt they " re worth a little bit less than complex, elaborate ones. Or are they? In my psychotherapy course one day, I presented my undergraduate students with these questions. "Here's a very simple dream from a psyc...
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Lot From This Project Learn A Lot Galileo
1,021 wordsI hope that I will learn a lot from this project. Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa on the 18 th of February in 1564. His father, Vincenzo Galilei, belonged to a noble family and had gained some distinction as a musician and a mathematician. At an early age, Galileo wanted to learn both mathematical and mechanical types of things, but his parents, wishing to turn him aside from studies, which promised no important return, steered him toward some sort of medical profession. But this had no effect ...
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Cask Of Amontillado Character Montresor Fortunato
602 wordsNicole Jackson The Cask of Amontillado In The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe, the tale is told in 1 st person by an extremely vengeful character. This character, Montresor, would first appear to the reader as a victim but in reality, he is plotting to take the life of Fortunato. Montresor is a very manipulative and vengeful person. One would suspect this through his words, I must not only punish but punish with impunity. A wrong is undressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It i...
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Cause Bad Credit Killed Many People Cell
508 wordsThe terrifying effects on cell phones It s hard to stay safe in the world today. It s not even safe to drive or walk down the street. Cell phones have caused a number of wrecks and have killed many people. They also have a tendency to cause bad credit and are expensive. The most important effect that cell phones have is technical difficulty. Many states have started banding driving while talking on a cell phone. Forty five percent of wrecks are caused due to talking on cell phones. They distract...
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Electric Charge Electric Field
972 wordsElectric Water Heater And Piezoelectric Force Transducer Electric Water Heater And Piezoelectric Force Transducer What is a piezoelectric force transducer (or sensor)? A transducer is a device that transmits power from one system to another. In the case of the piezoelectric, they power comes in the form of electricity from a piezoelectric material acted on. Piezoelectricity may be described as the property of some materials that become electrically charged when subject to mechanical stress. Thes...
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Quot Everyday Short Story
829 words" Everyday Use" is a short story written by Alice Walker. Walker did a wonderful job illustrating her characters. There are all types of characters in this short story from round to static. Her use of simple symbolism prompts the reader to take a deeper look into the story. Walker? s humble way of conveying the theme makes the reader take a second look at him or herself. Walker did an excellent job in writing this story, so she could warn people of what might happen if they do not live...
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Sexual Relations Attend University
937 wordsThroughout Margaret Laurence? s novel The Diviners the character of Morag Gunn experiences values which are ever evolving from her childhood until she reaches old age. As we read the novel it becomes apparent that Morag learns from the values of those whom she is in contact with for a prolonged period of time. Because of Morag? s tendency to learn from the values of others and then move on, she experiences many changes in her value systems, and personality during her entire life. The first major...
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Radio Waves Radio Frequency
584 wordsRadio waves travel at 186, 000 miles per second through air. In contrast, sound waves travel at only 1 / 5 of a mile per second. If a modulation is made of the radio wave that exactly reproduces the amplitude and frequency characteristics of the original sound wave, then sound can be transmitted rapidly over long distances. This leads to a very interesting phenomena. During a live broadcast in New York, the music will reach listeners in California a fraction of a second before it can be heard by...
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