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    Where Did UNIX Come From and Why Are There Different Versions Of UNIX? The first efforts at developing a multi-user‚ multi-tasking operating system were begun in the 1960’s in a development project called MULTICS. While working for Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1969 and 1970‚ Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie began to develop their own single-user‚ multi-tasking small operating system and they chose the name UNIX. Their initial goal was simply to operate their DEC PDP machines more effectively.

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    What was your culture 30 years ago? Was it the same or did it change over time? Anzaldua described her community to be a Hispanic one. Adults judged her on how she talked spanish and she felt left out. Wideman described his community to be an African-American one where you grew up in a tough neighborhood. In his neighborhood doing something bad meant good.. For example‚ a person making money to feed his family by selling drugs or doing other illegal activities. Me and Jennifer’s discourse community

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    Different Cultures Come Together in Tucson The Tucson Meet Yourself Festival is a great opportunity to familiarize yourself with different cultures‚ that live right in our city. You get to experience these great cultures that thrive in our community‚ by sampling the cultures food and watching and listening to their traditional dances and music. There is everything there from Vietnamese‚ Greek‚ Mexican‚ Native American‚ Chinese‚ and many more cultures featured at this event. I was lucky enough to

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    Shakespeare in Popular Culture Shakespeare was an English playwright who lived in the Elizabethan times and wrote many plays that many people enjoyed. Shakespeare wrote many plays‚ some of which are still very popular today. Screenwriters even based some of their movies and musical storylines on s Shakespeare’s plays. Some songwriters have also based their songs on Shakespeare’s plays or made music specifically for his plays. Shakespeare has written many plays and few are still popular to this

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    USA Unites It is late evening of May 1‚ 2011. I am trying as patiently as I possibly can to relax in my chair. I am sitting in a heavy black-painted room in a comfortable brown chair. The chair is at the head of a long table that occupies most of the room. This room happens to be my favorite room in all of the White House. Well anyways‚ I am sitting in this room...alone...with nervousness circling throughout my body...along with envy...because the United States Navy Seals are currently in Pakistan

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    TWELVE ANGRY MEN Was Henry Fonda convinced right from the start of the case that the boy was not guilty? He was not absolutely sure that the boy was guilty but he was sure that the evidences provided are not strong and sufficient enough to proof the boy guilty of murder. So he decided to dig deep in to the case and analyzed the evidence technically to make sure if they are worthy of declaring the boy guilty of the charge. So from the beginning of the case he was convinced that there is some

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    Philosophy emerged as an alternative or innovative type of thinking that harbored a path towards logical reasoning rather than following stories of religions and deities. Greek philosophers began to contemplate the world and the ideas behind it which led to experimentation‚ discovery‚ and further questions and understanding. Greek philosophers such Pythagoras‚ Socrates‚ Plato‚ Aristotle‚ and others paved the way for advances in science‚ logic‚ reasoning‚ mystic beliefs‚ mathematics‚ moral and ethical

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    million European Jewish people. This had many impacts on both Europe and other countries around the world. The main impacts were the drop in population of Jewish people and how survivors demanded everything they lost‚ the emigration of survivors from Germany‚ and the Nuremberg Trials. One of the many impacts of the Holocaust was the drop in population of Jewish people in Germany and around the world and how they demanded everything they lost. Around six million Jewish people were killed during the

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    millions of people willing to spend time and money to watch these events in person and on television. But this raises another question: why are people so interested in other people playing sports? Well‚ it ’s a hard question to answer‚ but there seems to be a psychological need for many to watch these sports every year and to support their favorite teams. It is pondering to some why there are so many people that watch sports almost religiously. They cannot understand why these sports fanatics

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    provides great insight on hypermasculinity and modern sport in her book‚ The Rites of Men: Manhood‚ Politics and the Culture of Sports. In this book‚ Burstyn asserts that performance enhancing drugs have become institutionalized as part of the “hypermasculinization” in sports and society. Athletes use performance-enhancing drugs to receive an energy boost as a means of playing through the pain endured during a sporting event. Especially in modern sports‚ competition has increased dramatically and athletes

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