floods the region until a boundary is met. A simple recursive algorithm can be used: void floodFill(int x‚ int y‚ int fill‚ int old) { if ((x < 0) || (x >= width)) return; if ((y < 0) || (y >= height)) return; if (getPixel(x‚ y) == old) { setPixel(fill‚ x‚ y); floodFill(x+1‚ y‚ fill‚ old); floodFill(x‚ y+1‚ fill‚ old); floodFill(x-1‚ y‚ fill‚ old); floodFill(x‚ y-1‚ fill‚ old); } } 8-connected vs. 4-connected Recursive Flood-Fill Algorithm The algorithm is very simple‚ however it is: • highly
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Burns’ Roots of Prohibition‚ A Nation of Drunkards shows how alcoholic beverages have been around America and how it caused trouble from the beginning. In the documentary by Ken Burn’s it states that even the Mayflower ship was filled with barrels of whiskey‚ rum‚ cider‚ and many more alcoholic drinks. Skipping ahead some years‚ Ken Burns’ Roots of Prohibition‚ A Nation of Drunkards‚ mentions that Abraham Lincoln sold whiskey by the barrel from the market. Also‚ African American slave‚ Frederick
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Child Labor Child Labor is a fairly big problem in the U.S. as well as many other countries. Children all over are being forced to work in factories or other harmful environments and so to put an end to it‚ our government created a law determining the age required for children to be able to start working in order to protect them. Except there is one problem with the new law. Children are now not capable of applying for a job‚ no matter how much they aspire to get one. If children were allowed to
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mining company in America for a long period of time and it was among the top 300 largest private companies in America before it shifted to Colombia. AMC had a reputation of providing high quality coal‚ reliable delivery and excellent service. AMC told its workers that the company would not transfer its operations to abroad but they did eventually. AMC moved to Colombia because the country provided some very crucial advantages. Among the advantages posed by Colombia‚ one was that the labor cost was
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In The Mind Of A Seven Year Old P. 2 Isaiah is a delightful seven year old boy who lives with his family in Chino. In his family are parents‚ Esther‚ Cesar and sisters; Sylvia and Samantha. Isaiah’s sisters are ten and eighteen months and his parents are in their forty’s. Upon entering their home‚ Isaiah had just come home from school and was like a tornado flowing through the house. He was quite indeed a rambonxious noisy seven year old who couldn’t stay still
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Imagine a child‚ a ten year old girl‚ working long hours at a sewing machine. She is covered in dirt and grime‚ and cringes whenever somebody walks by. Soon‚ two large men come up and grab her back‚ pulling her own body over her head like a jacket‚ transforming the child into a sweatshirt and then laying her down with other identical sweatshirts which echo with the laughter of other children. A haunting video on globalmarch.org shows that to our very eyes through cinematography. It strikes a chord
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article in 1990‚ Amartya Sen suggested that worldwide‚ particularly in Asia‚ millions of women were missing from the population totals of many countries. He also noted the alarming fact that the sex ratio for female children in China‚ India and South Korea is actually deteriorating while the overall sex ratio for females in those countries has marginally improved. Sen argued that the number of women missing in any population could be estimated by calculating the numbers of extra women who would
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oddities of this time of progressive reform‚ however‚ was prohibition. In 1920‚ the United States passed the 18th Amendment which outlawed the “manufacture‚ sale‚ or transportation of intoxicating liquors” (Legal Information Institute Staff). President Herbert Hoover famously called prohibition
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Tutor: Date: 12 Years a Slave Established in 1841‚ 12 Years a Slave is a 2013 British-American chronicled show movie and a version of the 1853 slave account chronicle Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup. It recounts the outlandish story of the subjugation of Solomon Northup‚ a free black man living and operating in New York (Jimmy). Northup‚ an expert fiddle entertainer‚ is deceived into joining the revel by a couple of slave captors‚ cloaked as promoters. On joining the trip‚ he is consequently
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Would you buy something that a 10-year-old made? I know I wouldn’t. I wouldn’t buy it because I wouldn’t like to make it. Those kids in those hot‚ musty factories are only getting paid about $1 to $2 a day‚ according to The New York Times. Kids are having to work in horrible conditions. They are dying while working. They also have very heavy machinery in the factories. Along with many other companies‚ Nike took the pledge to End Child Labor. They also applied the rules abroad the United States.
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