Index card Essays

  • Who Is The Stolen Generations In The Film, Rabbit-Proof Fence

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    which is meant to convey a sense of importance. The camera then pans down to an index card which Neville is writing the details of one of the girls on. The girls, as was the case with all aborigines, have anglicised names. One of the girls was even called Gracie Fields - this was the name of a famous English singer who, at least in the eyes of the Australian government, epitomised what it was to English. The index card has fields such as, “Native name”, “Skin Colour” and “Married”. This again is symbolic

  • The Meaning of the Phrase, Beating the Market

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    return than the market average. The market average can be calculated in many ways (some of which are shady and used to make it look like someone has exceeded market returns), but usually a benchmark like the S&P 500 or the Dow Jones Industrial Average index is a good representation of the market average. If your returns (which you can learn how to calculate here) exceed the percentage return of the chosen benchmark, you have beaten the market - congrats! 2. A company's earnings, sales or some other

  • School Library's Database- Original Writing

    595 Words  | 2 Pages

    will produce a database for the school library. The school needs a database because they are currently using an out of date card index. The card index is useful but there are some problems with this method of recording of who has taken what book from the library. The problem with the card index is that the person who took a certain book out the library might lose his/her card and forgets he has taken that book out then that boy/girl can’t take a book out again. In order for Mrs Flude the librarian

  • The Life of Mass Murderer, Henry Lee Lucas

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    childhood of abuse and neglect. If there is a case that proves a person's childhood is reflected in their later actions this could certainly be one. He was never taught that life had any value and perhaps this led him into a life of crime. (killer index) Henry Lee Lucas was born on August 23, 1936, in Blacksburg Virginia. Lucas's mother was an abusive prostitute who forced both her disabled husband and son Henry to watch her performance of sexual acts on strangers. Henry's father was missing both

  • The Simon Effect: A Case Study

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    that start button, a window will appear in which the experiment will take place. To begin, press the space bar. A small fixation dot will appear in the center of the screen, it is necessary to stare at the dot. Place your left index finger on the V key and your right index finger on the M key. A fraction of a second later a red or green square will appear to the left or the right...

  • Database

    761 Words  | 2 Pages

    The Database Databases are becoming as common in the workplace as the stapler. Businesses use databases to keep track of payroll, vacations, inventory, and a multitude of other taske of which are to vast to mention here. Basically businesses use databases anytime a large amount of data must be stored in such a manor that it can easily be searched, categorized and recalled in different means that can be easily read and understood by the end user. Databases are used extensively where I work. In fact

  • Investigating Tabloid and Broadsheet Newspapers

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    Hypothesis: To investigate what type of people read which paper, I will do a survey. In the survey I will try to find out what their occupation is , their age, and what newspaper they read. T o investigate the reading age I will use the "Gunning Fog Index" readability test, I also tried the "Flesch Readability Test". And then decided which test was more accurate, and suitable for the result I needed. To find the average word length I took the first 100 words of an article and made a tally chart

  • Censorship in Literature and Music

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    written word was destroyed. Responding to this new technology of freedom, the Church developed a number of control mechanisms. The most obvious, and perhaps famous of these was the Index librorum prohibitum (Index of Prohibited Books). The Index listed hundreds of banned authors and books.3 Less famous than the Index but absolutely central to the rise of censorship, was Church and government use of exclusive printing privileges, which granted favored printers a monopoly right to publish books so

  • Clinical dentistry

    1170 Words  | 3 Pages

    Indices and Charting Specific Objectives: 1) Define the purpose of dental indices, such as DMF-T, DMF-S, Gingival Inflammation Index and Plaque Index. Dental indices are important tools used in examinations to provide a numeric score that quantifies the magnitude of the disease measured. DMF-T: The number of teeth that are decayed, missing, or filled, the DMFT index, is a total score of all affected teeth and provides a caries experience score for an individual. DMF-S: A count of tooth surfaces

  • Newspapers

    915 Words  | 2 Pages

    The front page of a newspaper provides a great deal of information on various subjects. Most newspapers include a weather forecast, an index or brief description of articles inside the paper, and a small sports scorecard to accompany the local and national news. Newspapers also concentrate on how to grab the attention of readers. They most commonly use a larger, darker type of print, mixture of color, and/or pictures on the front page of the paper. A newspaper’s job is to update people on the happenings

  • Refraction of Light

    1436 Words  | 3 Pages

    between the two media. The amount of bending depends on the indices of refraction of the two media and is described quantitatively by Snell's Law. (Refer to diagram below) The index of refraction is defined as the speed of light in vacuum divided by the speed of light in the medium. In this experiment, the index of refraction for the perspex is 1.50. Snell's Law relates the indices of refraction of the two media to the directions of propagation in terms of the angles to the normal. It

  • Hashing and Randomizing

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    original string. Hashing is used to index and retrieve items in a database because it is faster to find the item using the shorter hashed key than to find it using the original value. It is also used in many encryption algorithms Hash functions: Hash functions are mostly used in hash tables, to quickly locate a data record (for example, a dictionary definition) given its search key (the headword). Specifically, the hash function is used to map the search key to the index of a slot in the table where

  • Creative Writing: The Room

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    features except for the one wall covered with small index card files. They were like the ones in libraries that list titles by author or subject in alphabetical order. But these files, which stretched from floor to ceiling and seemingly endless in either direction, had very different headings. As I drew near the wall of files, the first to catch my attention was one that read "Girls I have liked." I opened it and began flipping through the cards. I quickly shut it, shocked to realize that I recognized

  • Investigating the Volume of an Open Box

    2149 Words  | 5 Pages

    piece of rectangular card that has all four corners having had squares cut out of them. Firstly I will be studying the volume whilst changing the side of one length of the cut out square and the size of the original rectangle card. After I have investigated this relationship I will try to find out the formula for finding the cut size to get the largest volume for any specified original card size. Square card size I am going to begin by investigating a square card because this will give

  • Hacking satellite cards

    8760 Words  | 18 Pages

    Anyway, "3M" now is just a generic term for a card that has all channels open and no stealth or write protection. In stealth scripts, the "3M" code refers to the actual part of the code that enables the video.All scripts that open all of the channels are 3M's, however most people are referring to scripts that auto-update on their own, when they refer to a 3M. The card auto-updates because it has no commands blocked, and it appears to be a normal subbed card, as much as possible. The EASIEST type of 3M

  • Two Explanations of the Behaviour of Crowds

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    respected experiment to do with conformity was carried out by Asch. It involved showing participants a set of two cards. On one of the cards, there was a line, whilst on the other card, there was a three lines, one of which was identical to that on the other card. The experiment proceeded by Asch asking participants to say aloud which line out of the three matched the single line on the other card. He found that when the participants were alone and were asked to decide, they all answered correctly by matching

  • Hold Em Vs Poker Essay

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    raise and when the cards are turned over I realize that I had just made the right call. I won the pot and

  • Soccer

    1991 Words  | 4 Pages

    be when the hand ball is in the goalie box. Another rule of soccer is that you can’t hit the other players or curse at them. If you do hit another player you will either get a yellow card or a red card depending on the severeness of the hit and if was an accident or not. A yellow card is a caution and a red card puts you out of the game. Soccer is played al over the country and all over the world. It is a sport that is in the summer Olympics. The games will be held in Atlanta this year and teams

  • Psychic ability

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    of this study was to prove that the human mind has telepathic ability. To prove this, the subjects were asked to guess the suit of each card from a standard playing deck. The subjects were tested in a cozy, quiet environment inside their house. The first data recorded were the percentage of cards the subjects would randomly guess right. There are 52 cards in a deck and thirteen of each suit, so that would give someone a 13 out of 52 chance of merely guessing right or one-fourth. During the test

  • Online Presence And Online Restaurants

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    Online Presence One of the most powerful tools the restaurant industry is beginning to make use of is having an online presence via websites, social media, and advertisements. In today’s day and age, the Internet is widely used and dependent on to complete everyday task, resulting in many hours at a time being spent on the Internet. Rather than a restaurant depending on physical advertisements; billboards, newspapers, or coupons, they make use of virtual advertisements via the Internet as it is more