FEATURE Joshua Jireh Alcala Vasquez KitKat It was early dawn. The sun was still in slumber. The cold mist of the early ‘Ber’ months added to the excitement. I woke up with all my bags packed up and my food sealed. I knew something memorable was going to happen. Although a part of me kept saying that I wouldn’t and should not enjoy‚ I still drove the pessimistic side of me away. Without a doubt‚ the fieldtrip was a go. No backing up. As I arrived just in time at the meeting place‚ which
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The book‚ “Ten Little Indians”‚ by author Sherman Alexie‚ is a collection of fictional short stories that are all fascinating and enthralling. All the characters in this book are full of depth‚ but there are two that stand out to me. One of those characters is William from the story‚ “Flight Patterns”‚ and the other is the character David from the story‚ “Do You Know Where I Am”. I find both these characters as very 3-dimensional and interesting. They both have their good and bad traits‚ they both
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At first glance this picture might not seem like much‚ for the most part there is an eerily blank background. The collection of photographs “Untitled” by Diane Arbus was centered on showing the public a glimpse of what it was like being held at a mental hospital. There are four girls in the picture‚ all of which are covering their faces with a mask of some sort. The timing and ambience might give off the impression that they are celebrating Halloween however the absence of traditional Halloween items
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habits of neat and sloppy people‚ to help neat and sloppy people get along better‚ to defend sloppy people‚ to amuse and entertain‚ or to prove that neat people are morally inferior to sloppy people? Discuss. 3. What is meant by “as always” in the sentence “The distinction is‚ as always‚ moral” (para. 1)? Does the author seem to be suggesting that any and all distinctions between people are moral? 1. What is the general tone of this essay? What words and phrases help you determine that tone? 2
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Big data‚ Big rewards 1.Describe the kinds of big data collected by the organizations described in this case. There are mainly three kinds of big data collected by the organizations described in this case. First‚ IBM Bigsheets help the British Library to handle with huge quantities of data and extract the useful knowledge. Second‚ State and federal law enforcement agencies are analyzing big data to discover hidden patterns in criminal activity. The Real Time Crime Center data warehouse contains
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This is a situation that can lead to affecting future generations in negative ways. This is an issue that is illustrated throughout the poem “Without Title” by Diane Glancy as she depicts the life of her father who has left his beloved cultural life as a Native American for a more “civilized” world with what we can assume is with the whites. In the poem Glancy states‚ “When he brought home his horns and hides
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After watching The Inconvenient Truth and then analyzing the ten things to do that Al Gore recommend that is necessary to do‚ with the goal of minimizing the emissions of carbon dioxide‚ I think that this ten points are easy to make. Changing the lights‚ replacing one regular light bulb with the new compact fluorescent go green lights‚ can save 150 pounds of carbon dioxide per year‚ and this changes you can start in the place where you live‚ for example‚ my dad last year changed all the lights of
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told when we are young and even when we get older to motivate us to work to improve‚ but is practice really the key to success? Malcolm Gladwell makes an argument on page 40 of his book‚ Outliers that‚ “The emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a world class-expert--- in anything.” There are several people who disagree with his thinking. Although I agree with Gladwell partially that lots of practice
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Xavier T When reading the article “Big data: Big hype”‚ written by Mark Barrenechea‚ I found that the main focus of the article to be on if big data is practical in industries. Right now there is a large build up of data‚ it’s estimated that only .5% of it being analyzed to this day. The only disadvantage to this build up of data is that people don’t know how to use all the data to their advantage. Meaning that they have lots of information that could be applied to the demand for a product‚ but
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Then there were none otherwise known as Ten Little Niggers is the seventh most popular book of all time with more than 100 million sales and was written by Agatha Christie. The story is about ten people who arrive on a mysterious island for a reason or another; strangely their host and hostess are missing. Then‚ one by one they die in different circumstances. The major themes of this novel would be‚ suspicion and guilt. Firstly‚ when the tragedies begin with the deaths of some main characters
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