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Mp 3 Audio Compression Format Music
720 wordsWhat is the hottest buzzword around the Internet today? What topic has replaced sex as the most searched for term on the web? The answer to both of these questions is MP 3 audio. MP 3 stands for MPEG 1 Layer 3 Audio, which is a digital audio compression format developed by the Moving Picture Experts Group. It takes a CD audio file and gets rid of all the frequencies on the song that can t be heard by the human ear, thus ridding the data file of much wasted space. With compression, the files turn...
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Good Woman Return Home
655 wordsThe Role of Women in The Odyssey Women form an important part of the folk epic, The Odyssey. Within the story there are three basic types of women: the goddess, the seductress, and the good hostess / wife . Each role adds a different element and is essential to the telling of the story. The role of the goddess is one of a supernatural being, but more importantly one in a position to pity and help mortals. Athena, the goddess of wisdom, is the most prominent example of the role; in the very begin...
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Player Must Decide Plans For Sim City 4000 Game
937 wordsAmongst the shelves that are packed with the latest computer software, sits a genre of games, that does not get the recognition that it deserves. Simulation games. These games do not give the player level after level of mind-boggling graphics, blood and gore, or even the feeling of accomplishment. Their one purpose is to give the control to the player, that they would normally not get in their everyday lives. By definition a simulation game is a game where the player must take on a role that is ...
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Ezra Pound E G
1,000 wordsClive Wilmer Mauberley has been described as Pounds farewell to London. In 1920 he left, spending four years in Paris then moving on to Italy, where he settled in Rapallo in 1924. He was now concentrating on The Cantos, his poem including history, and the first section was published in 1925. As The Cantos shows, he was now preoccupied with economics. The war, as he saw it, had been caused by the rivalries of international capitalists. He thought he had found a solution to the evils of unchecked ...
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State Of The Art Zero Sum
910 wordsPrisons Dont Work In our society, the dual purpose of imprisonment is punishment and / or rehabilitation. Throughout the states, there is an increased prison population. For example, more than 40 states prison systems are under court orders to rectify overcrowding. Some prisons have what is called a zero sum status. A zero sum status basically means if a prison receives a new inmate, it is required to release a current inmate. If prisons are meant to hold criminals and punish them for their acti...
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Client Centered Differential Association
927 wordsPrison inmates are some of the most maladjusted people in society. Most of these inmates have had too little discipline or too much, come from broken homes, and / or have little or no self-esteem. They are very insecure and are at war with themselves as well as with society. (Szumski 20) Most inmates did not learn moral values or learn to follow everyday norms. Also, when most lawbreakers are labeled criminals, they enter the phase of secondary deviance. They will admit they are criminals or bel...
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Mental Processes Human Behavior
527 wordsIn psychology there are six modern psychological perspectives. These perspectives are behavioral, psychodynamic, humanistic, cognitive, sociocultural, and biological. Each perspective has its own unique way of explaining the human behavior. I believe to truly explain the complex mental processes and behavior, each perspective must be examined and not limited to just one. The following is my explanation and comparisons between two of these perspectives: psychodynamic and behavioral perspectives p...
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Reserve Police Battalion Police Battalion 101
1,631 wordsOrdinary Men Analysis The men of Reserve Police Battalion 101 were just ordinary men, from a variety of backgrounds, education, and age. It would appear that they were not selected by any force other than random chance. Their backgrounds and upbringing, however, did little to prepare these men for the horrors they were to witness and participate in. The group was made up of both citizens and career policemen. Major Wilhelm Trapp, a career policeman and World War I veteran headed the battalion. T...
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Jesse Jackson Civil Rights
499 wordsReverend Jesse Louis Jackson Jesse Louis Jackson is one of Americas foremost political figures. Over the past three decades he has played a major role in virtually every movement for empowerment, peace, civil rights, gender equality, and economic and social justice. Jackson has been called the conscience of the nation and the great unifier. He is the best-known living American leader in the United States. Jesse Louis Jackson was born on October 8, 1941 in Greenville, South Carolina. A woman who ...
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Hard Days Night Lennon And Mccartney Beatles
530 wordsThe English ROCK MUSIC group The Beatles gave the 1960 s its characteristic musical flavor and had a profound influence on the course of popular music, equaled by few performers. The guitarists John Winston Lennon, b. Oct. 9, 1940; James Paul McCartney, b. June 18, 1942; and George Harrison, b. Feb. 25, 1943; and the drummer Ringo Starr, b. Richard Starkey, July 7, 1940, were all born and raised in Liverpool. Lennon and McCartney had played together in a group called The Quarrymen. With Harrison...
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Nuclear Power Plants Amount Of Energy
1,414 wordsNuclear Power is a very complex subject and deals with a lot of social, scientific and political issues. The scientific side to Nuclear Power is probably the most complex of the three. Nuclear Power can turn you into ash in nanoseconds, render you retarded, or simply power your home. The process of nuclear fission, safety, destruction, will be discussed in the following pages along with history, present and future of this technology. In the process of fission, two major parts are required on the...
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Second World War Civil War
1,055 wordsPeter Elstob The writer, military historian, entrepreneur and former general secretary of International PEN Peter Elstob, who has died aged 86, was one of those people born in the wrong century. With his charm and audacity, his passion for travel, and his love of risk-taking and financial gambles, he would have been more at home in the reign of Elizabeth I. Elstob had joined the English centre of International PEN, the worldwide association of writers, in 1962, quickly gaining a place on the exe...
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Machine Guns West Germans
1,144 wordsTerrorism and Security in the Olympics Security is a fundamental notion in sports. Nowadays athletes are viewed often through the media, therefore they are recognizable. In the Olympics security measures must be taken to protect the athletes. There are many different nationalities involved therefore security has to be taken in order to ensure that there aren? t conflicting views that could possibly be damaging towards another team. But quite often it cannot be prevented. On the morning of Septem...
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Rock And Roll Lead Singer
1,196 wordsThis is Spinal Tap While attempting to be nothing more than a comical spoof of the music industry, Spinal Tap was instead rocketed to cult icon status. The characters in the movie are so fully thought out that almost all rock and roll bands that became popular prior to and half a decade later than the release of the movie fit the stereotypes presented by this fictitious band that ended up being more real than any other legitimate bands of the time. The days of disco had long faded by the 1984 re...
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Stephen King Million Copies
619 wordsStephen Kings first novel would never have been published if not for his wife Tabitha she removed it from the garbage where he had thrown it. Three months later when he submitted it to Doubleday publishing, he received a $ 2500 advance on the book that went on to sell a modest 13, 000 hardcover copies. The book was Carrie. Reviews were mixed, but when United Artists and Brian De Palma released the film version in 1976, it was a critical and commercial success. New American Library purchased the ...
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Blue Chip Technology Stocks Investors
455 wordsWow, what a day on the market today. Technology stocks soared on the news of the new gigahertz processor release. Computer makers like Gateway and Dell saw their shares increase by 68 and 42 percent respectively. Both companies expect the release of this new computer chip to boost sales tremendously. Intel, the maker of the chip also experienced a sudden spike in its stock price. It opened the day slowly, fluctuating around the 100 dollar price, but right before the bell it soared to close at 16...
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Album 1996 Release
222 wordsAlongside other 90 s US acts such as 311 and Rage Against The Machine, Sublime built their reputation by developing a sound which mixed and matched from various traditions, especially rap, ska and rock. The bands profile initially depended on their heavy touring schedule and mesmerizing live performances, which helped to build a loyal following among those in the skate and snow-boarding communities always the groups natural fanbase. Though the group signed to MCA Records subsidiary Gasoline Alle...
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Delta Force Movie Theater
592 wordsSuicide in Chinatown There was a normal afternoon in Chinatown. Everybody was really interested in Silvester Stalone s new action movie that was being played for the first time this weekend. Delta Force was the movie. Stalone was acting as a very famous cop. He became popular because one year before he killed all a group of terrorists that was planning to put a bomb in the Empire State Building. Now he is fighting against some bank robbers. The critics and also the public were complaining about ...
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Tupac Amaru Tupac Shakur
796 wordsTupac Shakur was born Leave Parish Crooks in Brooklyn, NY in 1971. While still a small child, his mother changed his name to Tupac Amaru after an Inca Indian revolutionary, Tupac Amaru, meaning Shining Serpent. Shakur means Thankful To God in Arabic. From childhood, everyone called him the Black Prince. For misbehaving, he had to read an entire edition of The New York Times. When he was two, his sister, Sekyiwa, was born. This childs father, Mutulu, was a Black Panther who, a few months before h...
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Ku Klux Klan Invisible Empire
1,413 wordsMid Term Paper For my mid term report I decided to write about the history of the Ku Klux Klan, called in many cases KKK for short. When reading over the material we covered I found that I didn t really know that much information about the KKK and also that I didn t know or understand why they were formed or why they are still together today. So, thus I decided to do my midterm report about the KKK or Ku Klux Klan. This way I could find out about them, why they formed in the first place, what th...
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