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Dealers Of Lighting, Michael H
1094 Words - 4 Pages.... people who would build it. Finally Steve Jobs, who staged a daring raid to obtain the technology that would end up at the heart of the Macintosh.
In the late 1960s, Xerox founded a PARC, California. Eventually, that facility, became ground zero of the computer revolution. the dinosaur era of computing, a typical machine filled a large room and was shared by dozens of researchers. Hiltzik credits Robert W. Taylor, who assembled the PARC team, with changing that. A psychologist, rather than an engineer, Taylor’s vision of the computer as a communications device proved to be a revolutionary idea. He found his chance to realize it when Xerox’s chief scientist Jacob ....
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Their Eyes Were Watching God -
911 Words - 4 Pages.... crucial elements in her development as a woman.
Throughout the story Hurston uses different men to portray the continuum that men fall into in their society. Janie's marriage to Logan Killicks seems like the first stage in her development as a woman. She hopes that her forced marriage with Logan would end her loneliness and desire for love. Right from the beginning, the loneliness in the marriage shows up when Janie sees that his house feels like a "lonesome place like a stump in the middle of the woods where nobody had ever been" (Hurston 20). This description of Logan's house seems symbolic of the relationship they have. Janie eventually admits to Nanny that she still doe ....
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Language Is A Virus
399 Words - 2 Pages.... through publication in other languages. In many cases they are being
altered to suit the tastes, customs and modes of behavior of the population to
which the readers belong. In other instances the written works are absorbed in
different localities, in their original forms, but even then their meaning
varies in accordance with the cultural, religious and economical conditions of
the country as a whole and of the reader as an individual.
Obviously, a written work is a product of the period in which it is written.
Unless it is a historical tale, the subjects, characters and events described,
would be of a temporary nature or have a temporary outlook and appeal. Many
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Comparing And Contrasting Hamlet And MacBeth
641 Words - 3 Pages.... Similarly in both plays, the
main characters are slightly suspicious of the actual powers these
supernatural figures have. As the witches use their apparent powers to
tell Macbeth the future, the ghost of King Hamlet tells Hamlet what has
happened already. Hamlet states in one of his soliloquies “The spirit
that I have seen / may be the devil” (2.2.598-599). Macbeth also has his
doubts because when the witches tell him that he will be named Thane of
Cawder, Macbeth himself had not known, but many people had. It is
possible the witches could have known. In the same matter in both plays,
the presentation of the supernatural began to lead to the final downfall
o ....
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Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God
463 Words - 2 Pages.... this deep threatening and captivating speech, the speaker uses God as the higher power in order to obtain the audiences attention, to grasp each person’s emotions and fill them with fear. The speaker uses fear to complete the assurance of the people to do his intentions.
Although the Edwards excerpt sentence involved fear, emotional deception and mental deception to obtain the audiences full attention, the opening sentence of Jefferson’s Declaration gives the audience a much different approach to procure the audiences focus. Jefferson’s opening sentence has a mild tone of diction, for the beginning of an informative speech. The eloquent words highly imposed among the sp ....
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Personal Conflicts In Am I Blu
999 Words - 4 Pages.... treat”(line 50). Ashbe knows the girl John has an appointment with and explains what the girl looks like. John makes a comment that he needs to go to a cheap bar so he can stay drunk. Ashbe says she has a bottle of rum and invites John to her apartment. While at Ashbe’s apartment, she entertains John with a blue rum drink, her voodoo doll, and making him a paper hat. Ashbe asks John about his aspirations in life. John is unsure what he wants to do with his life, but his father is pushing him to help manage the soybean farm. As the conversation continues, Ashbe accuses John of being normal. She says he only acts the way he does because it’s expected and makes everyone ha ....
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Was Hamlet Insane
921 Words - 4 Pages.... Hamlet is incensed over his mother’s hasty remarriage to Claudius by stating “She married. O most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!” He comments that he would commit suicide if his religious beliefs allowed it. To add to Hamlets problems, his girlfriend Ophelia refuses to see him anymore. She “did repel his letters and denied His access…”. No explanation is given to Hamlet about her actions. The audience knows that Polonius is responsible however Hamlet does not know this. Hamlet is an angry, depressed man due to life altering events. His faith in humanity is at an all time low.
It is in this depresse ....
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Review Of The Red Lantern
425 Words - 2 Pages.... memories of her life before arriving there were ultimately destroyed. In one instance, the master burned the fourth mistress’s flute that her deceased father gave to her. The film evokes feelings of sorrow and disgust, but it manages to fill in humorous bits that alleviate the tense mood.
The film revolves around the master’s polygamist lifestyle and his utter dominance over his wives. When one mistress was good to him, he would decide to sleep with her that night. At the beginning of the film you get the notion that the forth mistress doesn’t want to sleep with the master, but that changes as the film goes on. Sleeping with the master that night mea ....
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