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Hackers 2
Number of Words: 803 / Number of Pages: 3
... away copyrighted software, which causes the prices of software to increase, thus increasing the price the public must pay for the programs. Companies reason that if they have a program that can be copied onto a disc then they will lose a certain amount of their profit. People will copy it and give to friends or pass it around on the Internet. To compensate, they will raise the price of disc programs. CD Rom programs cost more to make but are about the same price as disc games. Companies don't loose money on them because it is difficult to copy a CD Rom and impossible to transmit over the Internet (Fact ...
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The Evolution Of A Disc Jockey
Number of Words: 2462 / Number of Pages: 9
... the pivotal point of the disc jockeys evolution. No
longer were people putting quarters into the jukebox, or dancing to the American
Bandstand, but enjoying parties that offered live entertainment. In the late
seventies, the disc jockey changed and evolved different musical cultures into
segments. Along came the culture of hip-hop. Hip-Hop lent their open ear
allowed the disc jockey to let the creativity flow. The role of the disc jockey in the hip-hop society evolved into much more than just playing music. The early revolutionaries and their musical ventures contributed to the hip-hop society. T ...
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What Came First Thought Or Lan
Number of Words: 612 / Number of Pages: 3
... in the unconscious mind. Recent research has shown that only a very tiny proportion of our unconscious thinking is converted to conscious thinking. This conversion processes like the search engine in a computer: this ‘search engine’ unconsciously selects the thoughts we want to be available for our conscious mind. Then a small part of the thoughts from the unconscious component of the mind, the part that is aware of, and to a certain extent induces the person’s choice of action, is consciously translated into language. This means that the meaning a person wishes to express provides ...
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The Philosophical Foundations
Number of Words: 4125 / Number of Pages: 15
... create new products.
Whatever one's individual tastes in heroes, one fact is abundantly clear: the great men and women whose achievements provide inspiration for millions come with an assortment of specific characteristics. Some are predominantly physicalistic heroes, some primarily intellectual, some are excellent examples of the principle of mind-body integration; some are grand-scale characters towering through a work of fiction, whether on the printed page, stage or screen--while some perform their great and notable deeds in actual existence. More prosaically, some are male, some are female; som ...
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Uniforms Will Make Schools A Better Place
Number of Words: 823 / Number of Pages: 3
... are spreading to the suburbs, where this is a cheap way to make schools safer, just by making students wear these uniforms. This shows that, it’s possible for all students to be able to find a way to get these uniforms to schools. It also shows that, were there are places with a lot of violence and hopefully their uniforms could helps these students. However, uniforms could be a pricey engagement. This shows that, some and most people won’t be able to afford uniforms. This also shows that, this will not solve all of the society’s problems with schools. Uniforms could really change the perspective ...
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Communication Today
Number of Words: 2327 / Number of Pages: 9
... several ways in which we can communicate among ourselves more effectively. This paper will demonstrate how we can become more effective as communicators, and to be able to apply the four topics covered.
Verbal communication includes anything written, or spoken. Nonverbal communication includes eye contact, body movement, facial expression, tone of voice, touch, silence, and several different expressions. This book discusses verbal & nonverbal communication jointly. It has become obvious that you can't really separate the verbal & nonverbal parts. As stated by D.J. Higginbotham & D.E. Yoder ...
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Water
Number of Words: 1375 / Number of Pages: 5
... to wash away all the garbage on the floor,
and to flush away dirty or contaminated water. They also throw out the hot water that is left after they cool metal.
The second biggest user of water is agriculture and food processing, at 42% of total annual water use. More than 380
billion liters (100 billion gallons) of water are used for irrigation of crops each day in the United States. A fully
grown cotton plant uses about a gallon a day. It takes about 3,040,000 liters (800,000 gallons) of water to grow an
acre of cotton. Irrigation is the main agricultural use, but much of the water is used to fe ...
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Conscription In Canada
Number of Words: 2540 / Number of Pages: 10
... half ago , had left them in the snow and ice along the St . Lawernce surrounded by their enemies , had later murdered her anoited king and turned athiest ... if a people deserted God they were punished for it , and France was being punished now . " 1This sort of sentiment was one that was shared by many French Candiens . French-English relations were already suffering and continued to do so before World War 1 . But the biggest strains occurred when issues of Canadian participation in World war 1 and 2 were mentioned . Most of the strain originated from Quebec .Conscription was be the nail that drove a ...
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Ukraine’s Genocide
Number of Words: 384 / Number of Pages: 2
... red army troops sealed all roads and rail lines; nothing came in or out of Ukraine. Farms were searched and looted of food and fuel. Ukrainians quickly began to die of hunger, cold, and sickness. When OGPU failed to meet weekly execution quotas, Stalin sent Lazar Kaganovitch, to destroy Ukrainian resistance. Kaganovitch, the soviet Eichmann, made quota, shooting 10,000 Ukrainians weekly. Eighty percent of all Ukrainian intellectuals were executed. Ukrainian Nikita Khruschchev helped supervise the slaughter. The precise number of Ukrainians murdered Stalin’s custom-made famine and checka firing squa ...
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Definition Paper American
Number of Words: 375 / Number of Pages: 2
... Waldseemuller coined the word "America" in Cosmographiae Introductio, a small work designed to accompany and explain a wall map and globe executed by Waldseemuller. In this work two names were suggested for the "fourth part" of the world, one Amerige (pronounced A-mer-i-gay with the -ge from the Greek, meaning "earth"), and the other America (in the feminine form, parallel to Europa and Asia). The latter form was placed on Waldseemuller's maps of 1507, and their wide circulation brought about the gradual adoption of the name. Waldseemuller was aware of only South America as a continent, but Ger ...
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