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- 1991: Why You Should Purchase A PC
- ... computer, you can soon discover what you can do with computers to make life easier and more enjoyable. Being computer literate allows you to use many powerful software applications and utilities to do work for school, business, or pleasure. Microsoft is the current leading producer of many of these applications and utilities. Microsoft produces software called operating systems that manage and regulate the information processing cycle. The oldest of these is ... no means has Microsoft limited itself to operating systems alone. Microsoft has also produced a software package called Microsoft Office that is very useful in creating reports, data bases, spreadsheets, presentations, and other documents for school and work. Microsoft Office: Introductory Concepts and Techniques provides a detailed, step-by-step approach to the four programs included in Microsoft Office. Included in this package are Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, and ... a new PC now will help put PC's into the other two-thirds of the homes worldwide and make the transition into a computer age easier. Works Cited "Computer." Webster's New World Compact School and Office Dictionary. 1995. Elmer-Dewitt, P. "Mine, All Mine." Time Jun. 1995: 46-54. Shelly, G., T. Cashman, and K. Jordan. Netscape Navigator 2 Running Under Windows 3.1. Danvers: Boyd & Fraser Publishing ...
- 1992: The Life And Times Of The Man
- ... brothers died of tuberculosis, Melville Bell took his remaining family to the healthier climate of Canada in 1870. From there, Aleck Bell journeyed to Boston, Massachusetts, in 1871 and joined the staff of the Boston School for the Deaf. The following year, Bell opened his own school in Boston for training teachers of the deaf; in 1873 he became a professor of vocal physiology at Boston University, and he also tutored private pupils. Bell's interest in speech and communication led him ... on things that interested him, things that brought attention to him. He was always willing to try out an idea no matter how farfetched. He didn’t do as well as we might think in school, because of the fact that he literally did what he wanted to do. This upheld throughout his life. I believe that it was his pursuit to the ideas he liked which led him unconsciously ...
- 1993: Dave Matthews Band, The Most Compelling Band Around
- ... born in South Africa in 1967. His father was a scientist and moved around a lot, explaining Dave’s unique accent. As a teenager, he moved to the United States. Without a United States high school diploma, Dave’s opportunities were limited and therefore decided to go into music. Dave spent his time in Africa soaking up African percussion music, and listening to artists such as King Sunny Ade, Salif Keita ... a bouncy feeling, arousing ones senses. “Lie in our Graves” is about being dead, and having no regrets. It is a happy song, provoking happy thoughts and mood. “Typical Situation” is based on a poem: “Prayer in the Pentagon”, by Robert Dederick. This poem arouses ones senses with its descriptive language. Passages such as: “ … …arched over the tidal blue and branching grey and grazing green and foaling brown down and away ...
- 1994: Dandelion Wine The Effects
- ... of the main and supporting themes that intertwines throughout the book. Friendship can come in all shapes and sizes, but when you lose a friend there are many affects. People can t imagine surviving high school and adolescence without their friends. John the best friend of Doug moves away, the aspects of losing his best friend were devastating bringing a turning point in to Doug s life with many affects. It ... they both looked at it (Bradbury 103). With this type of situation kids are forced to make decisions to cope with the environment around them. Whether they re gossiping on the telephone or huddled in school hallways, teen-agers are constantly reaching out to their friends. They can t imagine surviving high school and adolescence without them. The very word of friendship is complicated in the world today. When someone leaves you for any reason you are going to miss him or her with many affects. As ...
- 1995: Alchemy
- ... alchemy was in many ways the predecessor of modern science, especially the science of chemistry. The birthplace of alchemy was ancient Egypt, where, in Alexandria, it began to flourish in the Hellenistic period; simultaneously, a school of alchemy was developing in China. The writings of some of the early Greek philosophers might be considered to contain the first chemical theories; and the theory advanced in the 5th century BC by Empedocles ... an artisan could duplicate this process in the workshop. Efforts toward this goal were empirical and practical at first, but by the 4th century AD, astrology, magic, and ritual had begun to gain prominence. A school of pharmacy flourished in Arabia during the caliphates of the Abbasids from 750 to 1258. The earliest known work of this school is the Summa Perfectionis (Summit of Perfection), attributed to the Arabian scientist and philosopher Geber; the work is consequently the oldest book on chemistry proper in the world and is a collection of all ...
- 1996: AIDS Related Stigma
- ... contraction, the innocent victims. It is only since the beginning of this decade that we have begun to notice this phenomenon. In the past, no distinction was made regarding mode of transmission. In the 1980s, school children who had contracted HIV through blood transfusions were stigmatized almost as badly as homosexuals and often not even allowed to attend public schools. It was only after the highly publicized case of Ryan White ... attitudes and the formation of the innocent/deserving distinction (Giblin, 1995). Social Implications The effects of stigma for PLWAs are many. They suffer discrimination from the general public in a variety of settings, including work, school and within the health care environment. In the early years of AIDS, many PLWAs were actually refused service in North American hospitals and some were fired from their jobs upon announcing that they had AIDS ... for having AIDS. A major turning point occurred in the U.S. in 1990 after the highly publicised case of Ryan White. Ryan was a child with AIDS who was not permitted to attend public school due to his condition. Shortly after his death, a law was passed (the Ryan White Act) to try to prevent such discriminatory actions from happening again. White’s story is not unique. At the ...
- 1997: Anti-Censorship
- ... be censored. First, if one can't read a book because it is censored, then he is losing some of his freedom. Imagine having to secretly get a copy of a book, just because the school deems it unfit. Also, how would the school decide if a book is safe to read. If a teacher finds a book to be trash, a student may the same book educational, and worth reading. Not only do the people reading the book ... they won't be worried about what they are writing. Many books that are part of American society could be banned because of their content. If a book says a few curse words, then the school could say than it can't be read even if it teaches us an important lesson. Many books important to society have local color in them, and censorship takes away from the connotation if ...
- 1998: Grease: Theme
- ... slumber party and malt shop to the dance contest and drag race. Better yet, it has a sense of humor about those days, to the point of including ultimate icon Frankie Avalon in the "Beauty School Dropout" dream sequence. That brings up the main draw of GREASE -- the music. As I type this, at least one Top 40 station across the country is playing the "Grease Megamix," a medley of the ... virginal good-girl from Australia he had a fling with over the summer. They parted ways, him headed for his senior year and her headed back for Australia, only to find themselves at the same school. Sandy finds out that the sensitive, caring boy she knew over the summer acts completely different at school, but she's hopelessly devoted to him anyway. There's a song about it, of course. The plot is thin and transparent but has to be that way so that all the production numbers ...
- 1999: Japanese Human Resource Manage
- ... labor force that consists of more than 60 million people, 45 million of those are regular employees. And for those who are working in a large firm, they are usually hired at the time of school graduation and retire at the compulsory age of 60. This kind of long-term employment system makes employers feel that labor is more of a fixed cost than a variable cost. Regular employment is not ... one of the reasons why this seniority based salary system is losing its validity in recent years. Salary differentials are implicit in the starting salary, a notion used in reference to the recruiting of new school graduates. In the overall salary system, it would be the closest approximation of a market rate. The competition to hire new school graduates remains keen among Japanese firms because they are the lowest paid in the system. The performance of the individual employee affects the basic salary by varying the speed of its progression. Appraisal is ...
- 2000: The Detrimental Effect Of An Education In A Foreign Language
- ... parents were in California legally but not paying taxes. Even though they were not paying for services such as a police force or fire protection, they still felt entitled to send their children to public school. Since their children did not speak English, they wanted school to be taught only in their native language. However, it remains unjust that people who do not pay taxes have any say in how the educational system is conducted. Fortunately, the ESL plan eliminated all ... California educational system by incorporating English much earlier in a child's education. Under the old plan, even graduates were not proficient enough to go to college, or even do well in upper-level high school courses because they had little exposure to the English language. For instance, when they took standardized tests or tried to write college application essays, they were simply at a disadvantage. Nationwide, certain statistics are ...
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