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Sexual Objects Sexual Relations
1,538 wordsBoccaccio's View of Woman For centuries Boccaccio's view of woman has been disputed by those who have read his work. Some state that Boccaccio was merely writing to entertain the people of his time, others believe that he was sexist and that his writings hold woman in an inferior, negative light. It is widely found that the people of the twentieth century find the constant downgrading of woman offensive. Throughout his stories Boccaccio tends to depict woman as sexual objects and not as people. ...
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764 wordsHow Do Americans View One Another? The Persistence of Racial/Ethnic Stereotypes In national surveys, fewer and fewer Americans admit openly to holding racist views for instance the view that African Americans are less intelligent than white Americans. Many polls have attempted to measure racial and ethnic stereotyping by presenting declarative statements of negative attributions and asking respondents to agree or disagree with them. Whether they may hold these views or not, many survey responden...
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Pieces Of Metal Ufo Sightings
4,154 words... most no limits, although his theology seems to. I do not think it idle to speculate that the recent "Death-of-God" theology may have forced modern man to look elsewhere, especially to the heavens, for a new God. That we should externalize a quality so deeply rooted in man's nature is not at all surprising and one need not accept Marshall McLuhan's ingenious speculations to see that quite logically man uses his interior world with its enormous powers to try and locate what he has often believ...
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Board Of Education Intelligent Design
801 wordsIf you " re planning a vacation later this year, better make sure it's not in Kansas. According to recent reports, the state's overall IQ has just taken a nosedive. What has caused this "giant step back into the nineteenth century" as one person called it? Quite simply, the State Board of Education voted to de-emphasize evolution in state testing and to give local school boards the option of deciding whether or not evolution would be taught. Nationwide, the reaction has been vehement. On ABC's "...
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Air Traffic Control Intelligent Agents
2,027 words... engines suffer from partial coverage of information. To solve this problem Etzioni (1996) suggested the use of Meta search engines to gather information from different search engines. Agents for E-commerce: agents are widely used in different applications in E-commerce such as: o Comparison Shopping Agents: agents are used to help users find the most suitable product while buying online. It recommends product on other products and compare prices to find the best deal available. It also monit...
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Communications Decency Act Corn Revere
2,215 words... rom viewing unsuitable material on the Net. In addition, Meleedy, a computer science graduate student at Harvard University, questions that if "the Internet makes democracy this accessible to the average citizen, is it any wonder Congress wants to censor it?" (Meleedy 1) Allison and Baxter assert that, "the most significant new properties of the Internet media are the diversity of information sources and their ability to reach almost anywhere in the world. Authors range from major corporatio...
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Hardware And Software Goods And Services
5,191 wordster> Sam Vaknin's Psychology, Philosophy, Economics and Foreign Affairs Web Sites The State of the Net: An Interim Report about the Future of the Internet Who are the participants who constitute the Internet? Users - connected to the net and interacting with it The communications lines and the communications equipment The intermediaries (e. g. the suppliers of on-line information or access providers). Hardware manufacturers Software authors and manufacturers (brow...
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Feelings Of Love False Sense
2,129 words... what will be, we sense, a much better and fuller life in the court. The Language of Love The most obvious concern of As You Like It is love, and particularly the attitudes and the language appropriate to young romantic love. This, I take it, is obvious enough from the relationships between Orlando and Rosalind, Silvius and Phoebe, Touchstone and Audrey, and (very briefly) Celia and Oliver. The action of the play moves back and forth among these couples, inviting us to compare the different s...
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Radio Telescopes Radio Signals
1,153 wordsSETI, or the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, is the scientific search for signals, primarily radio signals, from outer space. It is based on the belief that we will hear extraterrestrials before we see. The organizations work has been going on ever since the 1960 s. The main tools the scientists / searchers use are radio telescopes and listening equipment. To understand this organization, one must first look at its rocky history, and its unique discoveries. The Beginning of SETI is re...
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Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Claudius And Polonius
635 wordsThe Mad Hamlet William Shakespeare wrote 'Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'. 'Hamlet, Prince of Denmark' is a tragedy. William Shakespeare was born 1564 and died 1616. William Shakespeare himself, was one of the greatest play writers of all times. Hamlet was an odd character in the play because of the way he acted. Hamlet is intelligent, mad, and selfish. Hamlet is a very intelligent character. Claudius and Polonius planned to send Hamlet to England to be put to death, escorted by Rosencrantz and Guild...
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Intelligent Agents Intelligent Design
494 wordsIn the 1930 s and 1940 s, neo-Darwinian synthesis or neo-Darwinism appeared. The theory gave a new look at Darwinism theory. It proved that genetic variations in populations are the result of mutation and recombination. Evolution between one generation and another is a result of genetic drift, gene flow and natural selection. When populations are isolated by geographic barriers the process occurs gradually. The discovery of DNA caused those statements. It proved that the evolution of species hap...
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2,060 wordsE-Business Concepts and Customer Relationship Management SUMMARY The paper examines the advantages of e-commerce for e-business providing B 2 C (business to consumer) home shopping services by the example of Littlewoods Home Shopping Limited, the second largest UK home shopping retailer and the fifth largest non-food retailer. The use of Customer Relationship Management techniques and the use of Intelligent Agents on the e-business providing B 2 C retailer are examined. The paper explores possib...
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Flowers For Algernon Mentally Handicapped
1,694 wordsFlowers for Algernon By: Daniel Keyes By: Nick Kouvaras For: Giannakopoulos Date: 08 / 03 / 01 Eng 3 A 1 Flowers for Algernon By: Daniel Keyes JOURNAL ENTRY # 1 At the beginning of the novel, Charlie is like any other normal mentally handicapped adult, but there is one thing that separates him from the others which is the fact that he has motivation to learn how to read and write properly. He has been highly recommended by his teacher, Miss Kinnian, for a unique scientific operation, which incre...
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Mentally Handicapped Genetic Engineering
1,486 wordsImagine a world where only the genetically elite could get jobs. People who couldn t afford the gene-therapy would be left by the wayside. Why hire someone who s imperfect when there are thousands of genetically perfect people to chose from? These genetic alterations could be defined as anything that allows a parent to make a cosmetic decision about their unborn child. For example, genetic-tinkering would include any genetic alterations of intelligence; physical traits such as strength, speed, a...
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Artificial Intelligence Cambridge Massachusetts
3,835 wordsARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: HOW TO GET A COMPUTER TO WRITE A TERM PAPER WITHOUT DOING ANY WORK ALEX ZIMMERMAN, OSHKOSH NORTH HIGH SCHOOL Can computers think? What is thinking, exactly, and how does one recognize it? What is the correlation, if any, between thinking and consciousness? Could a computer be conscious? For years, science fiction writers have used these questions as material for their stories, from domestic robots who do all the housework to automated spaceships colonizing and mining the...
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Mental Ability Common Sense
516 wordsMany times in our society intelligence is judged by test scores, careers, and success. Although these methods of measuring intelligence are not always accurate they are still used. IQ tests are given to people and the scores on these tests are supposed to reflect the level of intelligence a person has. What makes these tests so accurate? What about intelligent people who do not take tests well? They may become nervous and may not work well under pressure. I believe there are many forms of intell...
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1,068 wordsAt the current time, there are conflicting views on the exact definition of intelligence. Some say that intelligence is the knowledge of concrete facts and trivia, while others contend that intelligence is the ability to think critically and reasonably. Other people assert that intelligence is not the knowledge one learns through formal education, but from life experience and lessons given by elders, in other words street sense. Joseph Walters, in his essay A Rounded Version: A Theory of Multipl...
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Neural Networks Artificial Intelligence
2,450 wordsMind and Machine: The Essay Technology has traditionally evolved as the result of human needs. Invention, when prized and rewarded, will invariably rise-up to meet the free market demands of society. It is in this realm that Artificial Intelligence research and the resultant expert systems have been forged. Much of the material that relates to the field of Artificial Intelligence deals with human psychology and the nature of consciousness. Exhaustive debate on consciousness and the possibilities...
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Wes Craven Horror Genre
2,324 wordsAt a time when the stalker movie had been exploited to all ends and the image of mute, staggering, vicious killers had been etched into society? s consciousness to the point of exhaustion, a new kid entered the block. The year was 1984 and it was time for a new villain to enter into the horror genre. A villain that was agile, intelligent, almost inviolable yet viscous, and by all means deadly. A Nightmare on Elm Street introduced the distinctive presence of Fred Krueger to the horror industry an...
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Sci Fi Special Effects
1,268 wordsWho gets to go? This is a question from Contact, and unfortunately, due to the trailers, we already know the answer. Its a shame though, because the suspense mounts and yet it doesnt get as high as we would like it to. However, if you are capable of forgetting the fact of who goes, you can thoroughly enjoy the suspense-filled moments. On the other hand, Contact is not a film about suspense. It is about characters and a story that draws us in and takes us for a ride up to a very satisfying conclu...
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