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- 6941: In The Skin Of A Lion
- In the novel, “In the Skin of a Lion,” by Michael Ondaatje, the main character, Patrick Lewis, searches for identity and light. Without these elements, he lacks love and cannot survive the world. A passage in chapter three describes him as a lonely man that is isolated from the world around him. “Clara and Ambrose and Alice and Temelcoff and Cato- this cluster made up a drama without him. And he himself was noting but a prism that refracted their lives. He searched out things ... up the Muskoka Hotel. He becomes a criminal like Caravaggio by breaking into the Waterworks. When Patrick is without light to reflect, he is without identity. When Clara leaves Patrick, he is thrust into a world of darkness. Only when Alice re-enters his life can he begin to have an identity again. Just like Alice's story of several actresses sharing the animal pelt to tell the story, the ...
- 6942: Bill Gates
- ... has continued being successful through the years and will be in the future as long as ! it keeps innovating new and exciting computer software. Bill Gates has his eye on the future. He sees the world in a Apowerful, high-speed network-both within companies and across the so called Information Superhighway@ (Brandt, 57). He hopes to be on top of the Transformation from Personal Computers to nets. Gates predicts that ... of low-cost, high-capacity, networks will radically alter how we use technology in the upcoming decade. Now before Bill Gates came onto the scene in the early seventies, the main focus in the computer world was hardware. Chips, circuit boards, capacitors and controllers these were what computers were all about at this time. Companies like IBM, Compaq and Apple were at the head of the pack in the Aindustry that ... business, a market that was inevitably going to grow as fast of faster than its complimentary hardware market. Bill gates saw this opportunity and took advantage of it. When William Henry Gates came into the world in the year 1955, the fledgling computer industry was still trying to spread its wings and fly. AOn the day he was born in 1955, fewer then 500 electronic computers had existed in the ...
- 6943: Bill Gates
- ... has continued being successful through the years and will be in the future as long as it keeps innovating new and exciting computer software. Bill Gates has his eye on the future. He sees the world in a powerful, high-speed network, both within companies and across the so called Information Superhighway (Brandt, 57). He hopes to be on top of the transformation from personal computers to nets. Gates predicts that ... of low-cost, high- capacity, networks will radically alter how we use technology in the upcoming decade. Now before Bill Gates came onto the scene in the early seventies, the main focus in the computer world was hardware. Chips, circuit boards, capacitors and controllers these were what computers were all about at this time. Companies like IBM, Compaq and Apple were at the head of the pack in the industry that ... business, a market that was inevitably going to grow as fast or faster than its complimentary hardware market. Bill gates saw this opportunity and took advantage of it. When William Henry Gates came into the world in the year 1955, the fledgling computer industry was still trying to spread its wings and fly. On the day he was born in 1955, fewer than 500 electronic computers had existed in the ...
- 6944: Computer Crime: The Crime of the Future
- ... a result, computers play an intricate part in our daily lives. The areas in which computers affect life are infinite, ranging from entertainment to finances. If anything were to happen to these precious devices, the world would be chaotic. There is a type of person that thrives on chaos, that is the malevolent hacker. Some hackers act on revenge or just impersonal mischievousness. But whatever their motives, their deeds can be ... resurrect a screen name that had been deleted by the hackers, and is rumored to have call-tracing technologies in the works (Alan 37). Hacking is not just a problem in America. All across the world hackers plague anyone they can, and they're getting better at it. In Europe they're known as "Phreakers" (technologically sophisticated young computer hackers). These self-proclaimed Phreakers have made their presence felt all the ... around as long as there is something to hack. Works Cited Alan Robert, "AOL's Piracy Woes: Attack and Counterattack" Macworld 16 June 1995: 37-38 "Computers: On-line Copyright Protection Proposed" Facts on File World News Digest 14 September 1995 "Data Busters" PC Weekly 8 August 1995: 12-14 Phelps, Alan Abstract "On-line Slime" PC Novice 1995 74-75 Pro Quest, DiscII Sussman, Vic: "Hacker Nabbed" Us News & ...
- 6945: Human Nature: Exposed
- ... and feathered by a mob of angry townspeople. Here Huck describes what he is thinking while he witnesses it happen. "..it seemed like i couldn't ever feel any hardness against them more in the world. It was an dreadful thing to see. Humans can be awful cruel to one another" (Twain 231). So it would appear, that no matter what, the root of people, no matter how it's intended ... and satire. "But what is the significance of all this?" you might be asking yourself, well frankly if one thinks about it hard enough, if we take one big step back and look at the world as a whole, we can see it is in fact flawed. Perhaps, when we read novels such as this one, it can help us to more completely understand the world around us and in turn perhaps inspire us to change our world for the better, eliminating all of the cruelty and hypocrisy we see today.
- 6946: My Great-Grandmother was not a Person
- ... raised families, maintained the homestead, hunted food, fought natives, made clothes, cooked, cleaned, as well as the many manual labour jobs that men held. For example, women worked in coal mines, armories, and aided the war effort via the manufacturing industry, such as factorys. If this is what is determeined as equality then women were getting the short end of the stick and men were receiving all of the benifit. This ... conquered countries and nations for their rights. When questionning the wording of "qualified persons to the senate" the Supreme Court of Canada rejected that the word "persons" included women. This battle was lost but the war was won when the Privy Council of England (the highest court in the land) ruled that the word "persons" included women. That was the 18th of October, 1929. The famous five women are: Irene Perlby ... message for society, that women are not perceived as equals. By educating out children and the following generations that gender equality is an important value that society should respect. The Famous Five fought the legal war that recognizes women as equals. It's time for us to fight society's gender war. We are here as humans, as people, as equals, as persons. I'll leave you with this closing ...
- 6947: George Berkely Philosopher
- George Berkeley was an Irish philosopher. His philosophical beliefs were centered on one main belief, the belief that perception is the basis for existence. In doing so, he rejected the notion of a material world in favor of an immaterial world. Berkeley felt that all we really know about an object we learn from our perception of that object. He recognized that in the materialist’s view the real object is independent of any perceiver’s ... God cannot be perceived, and if to be is to be perceived, then God cannot possibly exist. Although the existence of God can be inferred through the classical ontological argument, doing so scuttles his immaterial world. If one can have knowledge through inference, then one can infer the existence of a material world. Berkeley’s answer to the existence of the tree in the quad is not convincing because his ...
- 6948: The Ocean
- The Ocean The world's ocean covers about 70% of the Earth's surface. It is use to produce us many things. It is more than a place to swimming, sailing and other recreation. The ocean serves as a ... and the clean oil can be the fuel. South china sea has a big processing plant that produces the oil and natural gas. In late 1980ˇ¦s, offshore wells produced about 25 percent of the worldˇ¦s oil and about 20 per cent of the worldˇ¦s gas. Scientists estimate that 3 trillion barrels of oil lie undiscovered beneath the ocean. Equally huge amounts of untapped gas accompany the oil. As gas and oil reserves on land are use up ...
- 6949: Christmas Traditions Around Th
- ... considered a religious holiday. Because of the lack of biblical instructions, Christmas rituals have been shaped by the religious and popular traditions of each culture that celebrates the holiday. On Christmas Eve, churches around the world hold evening services. At midnight, most Catholic and many Protestant churches hold special candlelight services. The Catholic midnight Mass was first introduced by the Roman Catholic Church in the 5th century. In Greece The Greek ... red sashes, and wear crowns of greenery and glowing candles C2 In Germany The German custom of decorating an evergreen tree at Christmastime has become one of the most popular images of Christmas around the world. At one time, Germany supplied the world with almost all of the decorative glass ornaments for Christmas trees. The Christmas season begins in Germany during the first week of December, when town squares become filled with stalls selling everything from toys ...
- 6950: McDonaldization Of Society
- ... been exposed to McDonaldization. McDonaldization is “the process by which the principles of the fast food restaurant are coming to dominate more and more sectors of America society as well as the rest of the world” (Ritzer, 1996, 1). Nearly ever aspect of today’s society has been affected by McDonaldization including the restaurant business, education, work, healthcare, travel, leisure, dieting, politics and the family (Ritzer, 1996, 1). I observed three ... is the same no matter where you go you could virtually enter one restaurant and not know whether you were in Burlington, Ontario, Canada, or Phoenix, Arizona, USA. This is limiting the diversity of our world and proves that McDonaldization is homogenizing every aspect of society into one. All of these dehumanizing effects of McDonaldization apply to ESM and add to the irrationality that actually exists. “As McDonaldization comes to dominate ... a superficial McDonaldized system”. Every product and service has been presented before. ESM doesn’t have the original calamari al’ diavolo sitting in a glass case to display. We now live in an n impersonal world. Even though employees approach customers with interest and a smile, they do not have a personal relationship with them. There no longer exists much emotion or expression in the postmodern society. We have to ...
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