Right to own an architecture (by Wolfgang Koehler‚ Memmingen‚ Germany 10/2008) The social issue I would like to discuss here is: “Suppose a computer manufacturer develops a new machine architecture. To what extent should the company be allowed to own that architecture? What policy would be best for society?” To develop a new machine architecture would require many recourses. Manpower‚ research laboratories‚ manufacturing equipment and last but not least a lot of money. Since companies are
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The Charles Manson Family Introduction Charles Manson is probably one of the most prolific serial killers in the United States and he and his “family” have become an icon of evil. Born in 1934 to a sixteen year old mom‚ Charles was often spent his youth in the homes of relatives or reform schools. When Charles was nine years old he had already started stealing and not long after he was committing burglaries and stealing cars. In 1954‚ after some time in jail‚ Manson was released on parole after a
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Coketown By Charles Dickens Dickens is using figures of speech to make pictures in the readers head and he is therefore helping people imagine the things he is telling about. One would say that Dickens is using metaphors to put a picture on his story and to make everyone feels how awful and terrible Coketown is. “Coketown was a town of red brick‚ or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but‚ as matters stood it was a town of unnatural red and black like the
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Post Modernism (1965-present): 1. responses to modernism‚ especially refusals of some of its totalizing premises and effects‚ and of its implicit or explicit distinction between ’high’ culture and commonly lived life 2. responses to such things as a world lived under nuclear threat and threat to the geosphere‚ to a world of faster communication‚ mass mediated reality‚ greater diversity of cultures and mores and a consequent pluralism 3. acknowledgments of and in some senses struggles
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Lars von Trier propose that‚ beyond its traditional conventions of representation‚ architecture resides in the superimposition of space‚ movement‚ and events. The event‚ in particular‚ is the figurative origin of architecture itself‚ through which Tschumi proposes an architecture of difference and opposition rather than synthesis and totality. Narrative techniques—be they pictorial or cinematic—evoke the ability of fiction to produce an alternative form of critique. Bernard Tschumi was already widely
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Greek & Etruscan Architecture Greek and Etruscan architecture began to take shape during the Archaic and Early Classical periods. There were similarities between the early Greek and Etruscan architectural styles‚ but there were far more differences. One of the most obvious similarities between the Greek and Etruscan styles was the use of a gabled roof. A gabled roof resembles a triangle in that it has a peak in the middle‚ and then has two straight slopes from the peak to each side wall.
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Post-Colonial Literature Not losing one’s sense of identification/culture with the colonizer’s culture Language itself engages in the creation of an ‘other’ with inferior connotations/associations; terms like “vernacular” or “native”. Travel histories/writing creates notions and myths about other cultures and civilization. History and a sense of civilization comes in only with the influence of the colonizers. Justification of the empire brought forth as a civilizing mission – a creation of
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Inspired by the article “How social networks can destroy your social life” by John Naughton ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Komal Prakash Friday 8 November 2012 A collage of posts posted on 3 different
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at this point the Austrian prime minister Lammasch advised Charles that the situation he was in was only getting worse so the best case would be to step down and give up his right to exercise sovereign power. In November of 1918‚ an armistice was signed to end war between the allied powers and German forces. The same day Charles issued a proclamation that would address the Austrian people right to determine the future of the state. Charles similarly did the same for Hungary on the 13th of November
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Internet Routing Architectures‚ Second Edition Sam Halabi Danny McPherson Publisher: Cisco Press Second Edition August 23‚ 2000 ISBN: 1-57870-233-X‚ 528 pages Internet Routing Architectures‚ Second Edition expands on the highly successful first edition‚ with new updates on BGP4 and current perspectives on internetworking routing architectures. This book is intended for any organization needing to build an efficient‚ reliable‚ enterprise network accessing the Internet. Its purpose is to make
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