University collaborated to invent a new search engine. Larry Page and Sergey Brin named their new search engine BackRub because its purpose was designed to determine the amount of back links leading to the websites. David Filo‚ a prior user of BackRub convinced Page and Brin to leave Stanford in 1998 and focus on making their search engine the best internet company of all time. BackRub was then renamed Google which was inspired from the number 1 followed by 100 zeros. In 1998 a Stanford professor
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Riley Swortz Leslie Michael English 107 4/22/15 Essay 1‚ Word Count: 971 The play “The Cuban Swimmer” seems to be a run-of-the-mill coming of age story‚ where a young girl finds her confidence to be herself‚ and shows her family that she can handle her life on her own. However‚ it is not just Margarita who is coming into herself in this play. Her younger brother‚ Simon‚ deals with a crisis of his own in this story. His sister goes missing at sea‚ and suddenly‚ he cannot imagine what
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In a short run‚ firms may earn profit or loss or zero economic profit. On the other hand‚ in a long run‚ firms will earn economic profits due to the higher barriers of entry. Since the patents and copyrights of a brand‚ as well as the name recognition of a firm‚ are very hard to obtain a reputation among
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Ribe Katedralskole | The American Dream | SRO | Spansk/Engelsk | Ida Enevoldsen | 30-11-2012 | | Abstract In This assignment is written firstly to make a state of the term “The American Dream” and secondly to analyze a novel and a poem about emigration to the U.S and the problems this can cause. The novel “Soñar in Cubano” is about a girl and her family who emigrated from Cuba when she was two years old. Her greatest issue is to find out which culture she belongs to‚ because
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I was struck by a big idea. This idea is: Basic Assumption: The universe is only spacetime. This idea will be taken as a basic assumption for the remainder of this book. If this simple starting assumption is correct‚ it should be possible to invent a model of the universe that uses only the properties of 4 dimensional spacetime. Ultimately‚ all matter‚ energy‚ forces‚ fields and laws of physics should logically be obtainable from just 4 dimensional spacetime. This is a large project that
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IN 1996‚ ELECTRIC CARS BEGAN TO APPEAR ON ROADS ALL OVER CALIFORNIA. THEY WERE QUIET AND FAST‚ PRODUCED NO EXHAUST AND RAN WITHOUT GASOLINE. TEN YEARS LATER‚ THESE CARS WERE DESTROYED. TEACHER’S GUIDE “A QUIETLY SHOCKING INDICTMENT OF OUR GAS-GUZZLING AUTO COMPANIES AND THE PETRO-POLITICIANS WHO LOVE THEM.” –KAREN DURBIN‚ ELLE MAGAZINE SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2006 • TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL 2006 WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR? NOTE TO THE TEACHER Who Killed the Electric Car? is
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The Polarity of a Man The conflict between conformity and rebellion has always been a struggle in our society. Fight Club is a movie that depicts just that. The movie portrays the polarity between traditionalism and an anti-social revolt. It is the story of man who is subconsciously fed up with the materialism and monotony of everyday life and thereafter creates a new persona inside his mind to contrast and counteract his repetitive lifestyle. The main character is actually unnamed‚ but sometimes
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air filled by electricity using a compressor. The electricity requirement for compressing air has to be considered while computing overall efficiency. Nevertheless the compressed air vehicle will contribute to reducing a air pollution and tend to zero pollution level and promoting great environment. Main advantage of this engine is that no hydrocarbon fuel required means no combustion process is take place. HISTORY In fact‚ two centuries before that Dennis Papin[6]apparently came up with the
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Precious: Based on the Novel ’Push’ by Sapphire SUMMARY Precious is a bemused plump teenage black American girl who lives and study in Harlem‚ New York. The kind of girl who has all the characteristics that a man would detest. Her name “Precious” was derived from her mother’s affection for her when she was young. However‚ in the movie‚ she grew up verbally abused by her mother and sexually abused by her father. Her mother’s verbal abuse centered on encrypting into her mind that
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Born in Chicago‚ Illinois in 1836‚ Whitcomb L. Judson invented the zipper because he was tired of fastening his high –buttoned boots by hand. He was a heavy man who did not like bending over to button his shoes‚ so he decided that he needed to find a replacement to the buttons‚ known today as the zipper. Patented in 1893‚ the Clasp Locker was a moveable guide that meshed two sets of hooks and eyes together. Excited about this new idea‚ Judson also invented a machine to manufacture the Clasp Locker
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