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1950s Essays and Term Papers
The Computer UndergroundDepartment of Sociology
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, IL 60115
(5 March, 1990)
THE BAUDY WORLD OF THE BYTE BANDIT:
A POSTMODERNIST INTERPRETATION OF THE COMPUTER UNDERGROUND
An earlier version of this paper was presented at the ...
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Henry FordNow a days, people are more concerned because of how they look, their image; especially women. This is due to the major influences that the media has over their visions. It is not only the media that is having this type of influence over women; also fashion dolls are having much of an influence, ...
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Hard Drive EvolutionEven before the first commercial computers appeared in 1951, "mass" storage, although minuscule by today's standards, was a necessity. As early as the mid-1800s, punch cards were used to provide input to early calculators and other machines. The 1940s ushered in the decade when vacuum tubes were ...
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Understanding Holden Caulfieldin J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye (Salinger 1953), is a novel told in an autobiographical manner which tracks Holden Caulfield on his two day sojourn through 1950’s New York City. This short twentieth century novel delves into the underlying ...
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The Unknown CitizenThe 20th Century witnessed the rise of nationalism. Government started to justify many of its actions, unimaginable before, as for the good of the nation. The government played a deeper role in people’s personal life, probing and examining every minute detail in search for any ...
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History Of AsiaAugust of 1917 Japan was ready to reap her benefits of imperialism and she had her eyes on China. The exchange of the Lansing -Ishii Notes between the U.S. and Japan, this agreement granted territorial superiority of China to Japan. Japan interest in China mostly economic. The Japanese population ...
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Hazing A Benefit Or BurdenThe concept of hazing has long since been a source of debate, yet it has also served as a means of training designed to save lives. Hazing has been around almost as long as mankind but its formal introduction became most apparent in the military. Hazing is used to bring a group of people ...
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Succeeding Through OthersMost managers and supervisors have heard about delegation. We have read about it. We know that it is important for supervisors to practice. But, like many of the skills presented in classes and seminars, very few managers or supervisors take the time to study and practice how to be an effective ...
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What Is Macroevolution?In science, macro at the beginning of a word just means "big", and micro at the beginning of a word just means "small" (both from the Greek words).
In evolutionary biology today, macroevolution is used to refer to any evolutionary change at or above the level of species. It means the splitting of ...
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The Crucible: A ReviewWhat creative ways we humans invent for persecuting each other.
Isn't it amazing that despite all our scientific and humanitarian advances
we, as a race, still feel the need to persecute each other?
The Crucible is set in Salem, Massachusetts during the famous witch
hunt held there in the late ...
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Bioethics In A Brave New WorldBiology is the science of living things, but with the advancements in the fields of technology many moral questions raise the eyebrows of the biologists all over the world. It used to be simple, observing organisms under a microscope, no harm is done. Now biology has expanded into many fields, ...
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Killer BeesThe Africanized Honey Bee is actually a variety of honeybee derived by hybridization from African honeybees naturalized in the western hemisphere. Because they are highly defensive and will attack perceived intruders more readily than the common European honeybee, they are also known by the ...
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Movie Review: Introducing Dorothy DandridgeThe troubled life of Dorothy Dandridge, the first African-American
woman to garner an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress (for CARMEN
JONES) is dramatized in this fine made-for-HBO film from director Coolidge
(RAMBLING ROSE). Gorgeous Berry shines as Dandridge in a role she seems
born to ...
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Cloning: BackgroundA clone is a group of genetically identical cells. For example, tumors are clones of cells inside an organism because they consist of many replicas of one mutated cell. Another type of clone occurs inside a cell. Such a clone is made up of groups of identical structures that contain genetic ...
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Africa 2AFRICA. There are more than 50 independent countries in Africa and on the islands off its coasts. Together, they make up more than one third of the membership of the United Nations. In 1991 Egyptian Deputy Prime Minister Boutros Boutros-Ghali became the first African and the first Arab to serve ...
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AutomobileAfter the steam engine was invented in the early 17th century, various attempts were made to apply this source of power to self-propelled road vehicles. Early efforts were unsuccessful, except for those that produced interesting toys such as the machine developed about 1680 by the English ...
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Frank SinatraFrancis Albert Sinatra born on December 12, 1915, in Hoboken, New Jersey later became known as and one of the greatest entertainers of his generation. American singers - Bing Crosby and Billie Holiday, influenced . Sinatra then developed a signature vocal phrasing in his music that influenced ...
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Mosquito Coast"The " reunites Harrison Ford and Peter Weir after "Witness," for which they both received Academy Award nominations. Ford's performance may make him a dark horse for such a nomination in this long-anticipated film however, Weir is unlikely to receive similar accolade. Best box-office prospects ...
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The Crucible And The MccarthyEra
Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, depicts the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692 but is analogous to the McCarthy trials of the 1950s. In both situations, widespread hysteria occurs, stemming from existing fears of the people of that particular era. The Salem witchhunt trials parallel the ...
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Should We LegalizeE-mail: mdb123s@mail.smsu.edu
Should America Legalize The Federal Government, while trying to protect us from our human nature, developed harsh anti-drug policies with the hope of eradicating drugs. These policies seemed simple enough: imposition of penalties on those who use substances ...
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