processing technologies employed‚ it is possible to distinguish four distinct phases of IT development: pre-mechanical (3000 BC – 1450 AD)‚ mechanical (1450–1840)‚ electromechanical (1840–1940) and electronic (1940–present).[5] This article focuses on the most recent period (electronic)‚ which began in about 1940. Devices have been used to aid computation for thousands of years‚ probably initially in the form of a tally stick.[7] The Antikythera mechanism‚ dating from about the beginning of the
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Chinatown‚ Set in the 1940’s dried up Los Angeles. This Film is made up of a complex story line that is supported by the articulate acting of costars Fayne Dunaway and John Huston. The multilayered story line pulls you in and doesn’t let you go‚ as J.J. Gittes (Jack Nicholson) discovers himself trapped between mysteries trying to solve his way out. J.J. Gittes (Nicholson)‚ a former cop‚ now private detective is trying to keep his head abover water during a drought in 1940’s Los Angeles‚ California
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225 | 236 | (Note: Olympic Games were not held in 1940 and 1944.) Task One: Graph 1: This graph shows the correlation between the year and the height of the gold medal winners in the Olympic. The x-axis on this graph presents the years that the data was collect while the y-axis presents the height of the gold winner of that current year. This graph was graphed using the program Graphical Analysis. Constraints: During the years 1940 and 1944‚ the Olympic was cancelled due to World War II
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The Nazi Occupation of Holland On May 14‚ 1940 Holland surrendered to German Forces‚ and Dr. Arthur Seyss-Inquart was appointed Reichkommissar‚ the highest governing authority. He watched over a German administration that included many Austrian-born Nazis. These Nazis‚ in turn supervised the Dutch civil- service. This configuration proved fateful for the Jews of the Netherlands. During 1940‚ the German occupation officials forbid Jews from the civil-service and required Jews to register the
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Germany used fast-moving airplanes and tanks. The invasion ended on April 9‚ 1940. Fall of France/ Dunkirk In France of May 1940‚ Hitler sent many soldiers to France. The Germans killed and wounded many soldiers. France tried to go to Dunkirk but they were trapped by the Germans in sea. But then Great Britain came and sent 850 ships to rescue the French. Unfortunately the French fell into the Germans on June 22‚ 1940. This was just the start of Hitler’s plan to take over the world. Battle of
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There is one single light on their table which pushes the audience to focus on the table. There is a part of the scene where it is an extreme long shot and I can’t help but look in the background of the scene. I am unaware of how everyone else in the 1940’s acted. Yet‚ in this movie the main characters speak differently from how we speak in 2015. Also‚ when Ilsa and Laszlo entered the room they walked so confidently and they stood out. It is no wonder every single person was staring at them‚ among other
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11 7 March 2016 Characterization Through Symbolism in A Streetcar Named Desire In the 1940s‚ modernist plays were in the rise to fame. This is because modernist plays portrayed real life during the time period. One of the most famous modernist plays of this time that portrayed the somewhat harsh reality of the 1940s in A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams. The play is set in New Orleans in the 1940s and it portrays the life of Blanche Du Bois‚ the main character. The play follows Blanche’s
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After about a year in the war Great Britain decided it was time to elect a more aggressive Prime Minister. In May of 1940 Winston Churchill replaced Neville Chamberlain as Prime Minister. That same month a large German offense forced British troops into one of the largest retreats in history‚ it was called the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk. During July through October in 1940‚ the English people suffered through the Battle of Britain. Extremely destructive German bombs rained down for months
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The drug “dinitrophenol” (DNP) was prescribed by some physicians in the 1940’s to help patients lose weight. This unsafe method was abandoned after a few patients died. DNP uncouples the chemiosmotic machinery by making the lipid bilayer of the inner mitochondrial membrane leaky to H+. Explain how this could cause weight loss. In chemiosmosis‚ NADH are passed along the electron transport chain‚ with energy used to pump protons across the inner mitochondrial membrane. As the protons are transferred
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monthly Social Security benefits began in January 1940‚ and were authorized not only for aged retired workers but for their aged wives or widows‚ children under age 18‚ and surviving aged parents. The first monthly retirement check was issued on January 31‚ 1940 to a lady by the name of Ida May Fuller of Ludlow‚ Vermont‚ in the amount of $22.54. Miss Fuller‚ a Legal Secretary‚ retired in November 1939. She started collecting benefits in January 1940 at age 65 and lived to be 100 years old‚ dying in
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