Fiorelis Guillen Lit 230‚ Section 6‚13 Professor Majeske November 14‚ 2013 Clytemnestra notices Orestes In 458 BC‚ Agamemnon was murdered by his own wife‚ Clytemnestra. Orestes‚ the son of Agamemnon‚ has come back home from exile to avenge Agamemnon’s death with his friend Pylades. Orestes cuts two locks of hair as an offering to a river in Argos‚ and also to the spirit of his father. After making these offerings‚ Orestes sees his sister Electra coming up to their fathers tomb‚ with the
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How did the Internet get its name? The Internet got it’s name from AT&T’s UNIX operating system‚ released in the late 1960’s. UNIX was the first operating system that would run on different models of computers‚ and used a common communications protocol called TCP/IP to talk between the different machines. TCP/IP stands for "Transmission Control Protocol / Internetworking Protocol" and the word "Internet" came from that. What was the first name of Internet before it was called Internet? The name
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forming on Earth billions of years ago‚ new political ideals oozed from a seemingly disengaged primordial ooze of activists and idealists. Foner says‚ “the rise of a protest movement among white youth came as a complete surprise” (Give me Liberty!‚ 1103). A new age of free thinkers‚ inspired by a variety of factors found themselves questioning their government‚ challenging the steady diet of “propoganda” they had been force-fed. The counterculture was historic in that “millions of young people openly
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Hist of Civilization II Age of Anxiety Writing Assignment During the age of anxiety‚ we learned about totalitarian states. What is it? A state in which the government controls every aspect of public and private life. It existed in Germany‚ Italy‚ and the Soviet Union. A totalitarian state is one in which all systems of government are controlled by a central power. A dictorship and a party will control the law courts‚ the police‚ the media and the government. All freedoms will be denied. In essence
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of firing them‚ whenever domestic assembly lines were reduced or foreign lines were established. They were kept inside the so-called ‘‘global manufacturing technology center‚’’ with the number of its employees increasing from 80 in 2006 to more than 1103 in 2011. These employees visit overseas factories to conduct activities such as maintenance‚ monitoring‚ re-modeling of assembly lines‚ and automation. In terms of strategy‚ Samsung engages in offshoring‚ but not outsourcing. This is in contrast to
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his reliance for his thanes become more apparent. Though they swear to keep Beowulf "both sound and safe" (1105) from evils‚ they run like cowards as Beowulf needs them most. On the fateful day of the dragons appearance‚ Beowulf’s "mighty thanes" (1103) "fled to the forest" like true cowards. These cowardly thanes help set the stage for Wiglaf’s bravery (in an ideal setting to be introduced) as a true and loyal thane. Wiglaf is a hero with no great powers other than his courageous heart. Wiglaf
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Brown 1 Toni Brown English Composition 1103 Room M 139 B Louis Finkelman February 9‚ 2014 Whose fault is it really? “Cover your eyes. This is the bad part.” That was always my mother’s solution to keeping us from seeing the unsavory things displayed on our television screen. Try as she might‚ she couldn’t protect me from everything. In today’s social society‚ accessing any kind of visual imaging is relatively effortless. For most of us‚ our easiest medium for being exposed to these things
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HIST-410 The Berlin Wall [Type the document subtitle] Alina Nazar The fall of the Berlin Wall has triggered much controversy and plays a major part in the shaping of the modern political ideology and beliefs. The specific date of the descent of the Berlin encasement wall was the 10th of November‚ 1989. The wall took 3 hours to fall and between 125-206 people died trying to cross the wall. There were many tourists participating who could hire axes to hit the wall and contribute to the atmosphere
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Kylie Best Michael G. Kelley HIST 1302 24 Sept 2012 Woodrow Wilson’s War Address Woodrow Wilson was a man of neutrality when World War I first broke out‚ despite of the pressure America was under to join the war. Wilson’s fight for neutrality during German submarine attacks on ships slowly deteriorated when finally he came to believe that war was a necessary action to defend America and it’s people. After a German attack that sank the American ship Lusitania‚ despite Americans outrage
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Chanel Harry April 27‚ 2013 HIST 118 Prof. Tsokodayi The Great Zimbabwe There are many great African kingdoms in history that have been documented throughout time. Most of them we don’t know very much about unless we take an Africa history course such as this one because African history is left out of the “mainstream” history books. The Great Zimbabwe is one of the kingdoms that caught my attention in this course. Modern Zimbabwe is named after the enclosures that were
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