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  • Social Construction Of Cultural Artifacts

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    Museum exhibits are commonly understood as organized displays of a selection of items that are presented for the public. But exhibits do more than just display items that are otherwise unreachable; they also provide a site for the construction of identity. When people go to museums, they want to be told what they should value. Exhibits provide resources for reflecting upon objects, ideas, social relations, histories, and memories. Visiting exhibits, then, allows people to formulate notions of quality

  • Case Study: Influences On Harold's Management Display

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    2. Influeces on Harold 's management display Harold is a self-taught person and it would be unusual if he would not be influenced by anything or anybody. Information from the company and his own experiences have helped him to build his managerial style. A crucial mistake was made by the organization when no training and information on what they wanted from him were offered to Harold. Additionally, that mistake was even bigger because it had been made at the time of big changes in the company. As

  • The X-Files

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    The X-Files is generally acclaimed as the television cult hit of the 1990’s. The pilot that aired in September of 1993 introduced FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully. Together the two work to uncover the truth behind unsolved cases that defy normal investigation, the cases that the government has buried or ignored, labeling them the “x-files.” The two agents are wonderful examples of modernism and post-modernism world views. First in order to understand the reasons Scully and Mulder portray the two

  • An Unsuitable Job For A Woman: Two Detectives

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    Paretsky’s character of V.I. Warshawski are two private investigators that display great passion for their jobs and will stop at nothing in order to close their cases. But, are inexperienced Cordelia Gary and wisecracking Warshawski prime examples of private investigators or are they two naïve women who have entered an occupation where compassion and sympathy are two traits that are better left unused. Both Cordelia and Warshawski display great ability as women to enter a world of hate, lies and murder and

  • Free Essay on Homer's Odyssey: Hospitality

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    Telemakhos displays the very soul of hospitality.  Why?  The poet states in Book 1, line 167 “…he wished privacy to ask for news/about his father, gone for years.”  The island of Ithaka and indeed the whole of Greece were composed of isolated pockets of civilization.  Travel on the unpredictable sea and over the mainland’s mountainous terrain was no easy feat;  therefore news of the world by any means, even at the mouth of strangers, was welcomed and well-rewarded with hospitality. Nestor’s case is somewhat

  • Rhinoceros

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    Eugene Ionesco, associates this difference in moral standards and laws of nature. Ionesco uses Jean, a French businessman, to display the differences between these two ways of life. In Act I, Jean believes in the values of the society, moral standards, but as he changes into a beastly rhinoceros in Act II, his beliefs begin to change; the dramatic transformation of Jean displays the difference in the laws of man and the laws of beast. The laws of man contain society values such as manners and friendship

  • Guilt In The Scarlet Letter And The Crucible

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    character’s guilt originates from a different source. Through different characters, Hawthorne and Miller display guilt and it’s source to the reader. In both The Scarlet Letter and The Crucible the use of relationships between a man and a woman are used as a primary source of guilt. Hawthorne uses Dimmesdale and Hester, and Miller uses Proctor and Elizabeth. The men in both cases are experiencing guilt involving mistakes made sexually. Dimmesdale, who is a highly respected

  • Advancement In Peripherals Essay

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    Peripherals you cannot tell the computer to do any of the above processes, and if you could, without an output device of some kind, the computer has no way of delivering the result to the user! Examples of peripherals include printers, disk drives, display monitors, keyboards, and mice etc. These can be separated into two categories: - Input devices An input device

  • The Character of Mr. Jaggers in Great Expectations

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    scarcely known Pip for two minutes. Mr. Jaggers' silent and terrifying ambiguity conjures mystery and enigma all around him. We find that very little is mentioned of his background and that he has no family. He is the epitome of callousness and displays the very least human feelings and affection. Through his desperate attempts to remain on the pedestal and away from social company, he is also Dickens' classic example of isolationism, in line with the theme of Great Expectations. He fears that friendly

  • Macbeth: Heuristic Response

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    killing his friend Banquo to protect the kingship. The witches’ predictions sent Macbeth into his own world where he could not be deterred from becoming king. Macbeth displays his cowardice by avoiding Lady Macbeth’s initial plan to murder King Duncan. By overcoming his personal matters to plot the death of the king, Macbeth only displays that women are manipulative, and often have their way with men. It was Lady Macbeth who initiated and urged Macbeth to go along with the prophecy. In the scene where

  • Essay On Operating System Architecture

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    maximum security against viruses and other threats can be achieved. Operating system and the rest of the software should be modular. Each small module performs a function and may take parameters. For example, a web browser uses an HTML renderer to display a webpage. In turn, the HTML renderer uses a jpg-renderer

  • Revenge In The Odyssey

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    The Greeks, as portrayed by Homer, are a very vengeful people. Throughout The Odyssey, a theme of vengeance is dominant. These displays of retribution come from different entities for fairly different reasons. So why is revenge such a factor in The Odyssey? Fear and the overwhelming feeling of payback are two answers. Homer gives numerous examples of how certain characters demonstrate their power in a fury of rage. He writes of the payback Zeus gives to those who break the rules, of Poseidon’s

  • Your Dog is Your Father: The Deceptive Simplicity of Eristic in the Euthydemus

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    between Socrates and Crito is that they seem to establish the setting and characters of the dialogue concretely—Socrates and his attractive young friend Clinias meet the well-known brothers Euthydemus and Dionysodorus at the Lyceum and ask them to display what Crito calls their “particular wisdom,” and what they call simply “virtue.” However, within these first few pages of dialogue, we already begin to sense something about the brothers that makes them difficult to pin down. When Crito asks, “Where

  • The Right To Privacy By Robert Bork.

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    The Right to Privacy by Robert Bork. Robert Bork's The Right of Privacy examined the landmark case Griswald v. Conneticut. Bork's "originalist" view proclaimed that Justice Douglas erroneously interpreted the right of privacy from the Constitution. The originalist view is that judges must strictly adhere to the language of the Constitution, thus people do not have a general right to privacy because it was never actually written into the Constitution. This view severely restricts judges in dealing

  • Silence Killing Your Company Essay

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    something illegal that you morally object to however continue to do. You may be held legally responsible for your actions. As in the case with Enron, many people whom were just following orders and refused to speak out about the problems within the company, cost themselves time in jail. They never spoke out therefore they were held responsible for their actions. In this case I believe it is important to rise up and let your voice be heard to defend yourself and those hurt by the actions taken by your

  • Shakespeare's Macbeth - The Proud Characters of Macbeth and Duncan

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    completely until he discovered that the Thane was a traitor who was betraying him. In Macbeth's case, he believed the prophecies of the three witches without realizing that they have ulterior motives behind their glimpses of the future. Mabeth shows similar weakness when he accepts the vague statements of the apparitions as absolute fact instead of considering and acting rationally upon them. These poor displays of judgement by Macbeth and Duncan allow them to be taken advantage of at various times in

  • Calvin Klein’s Ad Campaign

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    An array of young models, each idealized and every one showing themselves off in a beautiful, yet sexual stance. The focus on flowing dark hair and thin bodies draped with trendy clothes that in some cases leave a lot of skin to be seen and admired. The idea of perfection personified through facial expressions of self-confidence and uncompromising appearances in each image. These are just a few ways in which Calvin Klein’s ad campaign tries to attract costumers. Attempting to convince the public

  • Flattery Holds The Key

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    battle of words to win their money and material goods. This is the case in Shakespeare's King Lear. Even in the first scene Lear is asking his daughters which one of them loves him more. " Which of you shall we say doth love us most? That we our largest bounty may extend" (I,i, 52-53). With this demand of knowing who loves him more, Lear offers a reward, all his land. This reward is key to the show of emotion each daughter displays to please her father. His two older daughters jump at the opportunity

  • William Shakespeare's Macbeth and Brian Clark's Whose Life is it Anyway

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    interesting for the audience. Besides, our scene was not in a real court room; we used rostra to display the raised area would the judge should sit - but apart from that, our court comprised of one chair on which Ken sat. The alternative would be two very stationary characters, providing little interest for the audience - although it would focus the audience attention onto the speech and the actual case. The language is modern and understandable with little thought, as it would come naturally to

  • Social Unrest

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    'All we lack is the will- the will to see that the greatest threat is not change, but our continued resistance to it.'; These words, expressed by the late, Senator Edward Kennedy, display perfectly how our society is reluctant to change when a change is needed. Any change or variation, be it in education, personal attitudes, or traditions can be difficult to achieve. One specific area of our society that is disinclined to change is the social unrest that plagues public schools. The results of this