Arnab Sinha / September 22‚ 1983 / Applying to PhD‚ Department of Electrical Engineering‚ Princeton U. STATEMENT OF PURPOSE “Stay hungry‚ stay foolish” Steve Jobs [Commencement Address‚ Stanford University‚ 2005] I first felt the thrill of pursuing a dedicated scientific research‚ when I read about Prof. Andrew Wiles‚ (who spent seven years in isolation‚ solving the toughest riddle of mathematics) in the popular book - ``The Fermat’s Last Theorem’’ by Simon Singh‚ in my sophomore undergraduate
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explorer’s eyes. At the end of the story‚ the officer who runs the machine ends up putting himself in the machine. I think this decision was made in bad faith by the officer‚ because of how the officer acts‚ how he feels about justice‚ and the outcome of what happened. In this story‚ the officer shows how much he has dedicated his life to the care of this machine. The officer put countless hours into making this machine operate correctly. The way the officer excitingly shares about the different parts
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world clueless. Expectations differ from culture to culture and that is what results in a diversity of norms‚ morals and desires. Cultural expectations influence the way the citizens of that society think‚ talk and act. In Douglas Coupland’s novel‚ Generation X‚ he uses a variety of diverse characters to represent different groups of people born in the time frame of the late 1950’s to the early 1960’s. The novel follows three main characters Andy‚ Dag and Claire who are experiencing hardship at this
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American society. One of them is African American civil rights leader‚ Malcolm X. He was a major 20th-century spokesman for Black Nationalism. Malcolm X was born as Malcolm Little on May 19‚ 1925‚ in Omaha‚ Nebraska. His father was a Baptist minister and was an outspoken follower of Marcus Garvey who was the Black Nationalist leader in the 1920s who advocated a "back-to-Africa" movement for African Americans. Malcolm X started working as a shoeshine boy‚ soda jerk‚ busboy‚ waiter‚ and railroad dining
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Evolution of information technologies‚ a new capitalist accumulation model following the oil shock of 1973-4‚ and the growing availability of telecommunications (allowing the global integration of financial markets) are three of the main factors causing globalization‚ according to Manuel Castells. Harvey concurs with these claims‚ focusing however on the influence of postwar Fordism and the formation of the new world market through deregulation and financial innovation. The importance of these last
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the east). The main reasons for the
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What was the main reason for Italian Unification? In 1815 after the battle of waterloo and the end of the Napoleonic wars‚ the victorious powers met to discuss what to do to at what became to be known as the Congress of Vienna. To ensure that war on the same scale never broke out again they decided to make very little changes to the current map of Europe‚ except strengthening all of France’s neighbours. I was agreed at the conference that the ruling powers should meet in the future whenever
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revolution was in action. The main cause of the revolution was the power struggle between the English monarchies and the representative body‚ the parliament. This resulted in the English Civil war where the different sides argued whether England should have been a constitutional monarchy or an absolute monarchy. Various ideas were present on how the government should be run‚ by divine right‚ secular absolutism‚ or a constitutional state. John Locke thought that the government’s main job was to maintain the
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What are the main narrative function of Nelly and Lockwood? In ‘Wuthering Heights’ Emily Brontë uses a dual narration alongside a complex narrative structure of a story within a story within a story – Brontë is telling us the story of Lockwood (the first narrator)‚ who then its recalling the story told to him by Nelly (the second narrator). Although complicated‚ Brontë’s use of the two narrators gives the reader alternate aspects of the story‚ shown by Nelly romanticising parts and having a connection
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Gertrude Brown American Intercontinental University Discussion Board 2 Surveys are taken for many different purposes. They are a manner in which business and other entities gather information for evaluation. Information that is collected for surveys give insight on trends‚ markets‚ and other areas of interest depending upon what someone wants to gain knowledge about. The purpose of a survey also‚ is to question different groups of individuals on different matters‚ and then assessing the data
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