How The Internet Got Started Some thirty years ago ‚ the Rand corporation ‚ America’s foremost cold war think tank‚ faced a strange straegic problem. How could the US authrieties succesfully communicate after a nuclear war? Postnuclear America would need a comand-and-control network‚ linked from city to city ‚ state to state‚ base to base . But no matter how thoroughly that network was armored or protected ‚ its switches and wiring would always be vulnerable to the impact of atomic bombs
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are often portrayed as overly religious‚ backward‚ and violent. Their image in the world has been clouded by the intergroup hostility that has existed between Muslim and Christian societies for centuries. In his review of Bernard Lewis’s book‚ What Went Wrong: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response‚ Professor Aslam Syed points out a commonly accepted Western narrative of the origins of this hostility. This narrative states that the ancient Muslim world was once an epicenter for intellectual thought
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17th Century English Literature Discuss the ideas of rebellion and authority in Paradise Lost by John Milton and George Herbert’s Denial and The Collar. Paradise Lost was published for the first time in 1667‚ whereas Herbert’s two poems were published in 1633. This period was called the Restoration. It started in England in 1660 under King Charles II‚ who restored the monarchy in England‚ Scotland and Ireland. The literature at that time was dominated by Christian writings and praises to God
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inspired by his work. “After Apple Picking” and “The road Not Taken” at first appear to be worryingly similar to each other. Not only they were crafted by the same poet at approximately the same time‚ but the actual content dig into similar ground as in the two of them‚ they mostly drenched into the past rather than the present and future. However‚ “After Apple-Picking” is told through the voice of a tired‚ weary-some aged man coming to the realization that he hans’t got much left to give and is looking
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initially built upon mutual interests and acceptance and this is closely linked with one’s innate desire to be able to affiliate with a group or another individual. Both these ideas are explored in the ‘Namesake’ by Jhumpa Lahiri and the picture book: ‘The Lost Thing’ by Shaun Tan. Lahiri explores the importance of shared values and experiences in a relationship for it to prosper rather than the need for social interaction. This notion is shown through the relationship Ashoke and Ashima forge throughout their
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In Seamus Heaney’s poem‚ “Blackberry Picking‚” the writer employs diction to illustrate greed. He then parallels his experiences with picking and rotting berries to a deeper meaning through a shift- human’s desperate obsession with preserving all that is good in their life. Heaney’s description reveals the “green” unripe berries as the inexperienced youth and the “first” taste of the berry had sent them “out with milk-cans‚ pea-tins‚ jam-pots.” The younger generation became strongly addicted to
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The TV show Lost is a story about a group of people who survive a plane crash and end up on a mysterious island. Beyond the premise of the show there are deeper themes that run through out the show. While the first season may have been primarily about the survivors realizing that help isn’t exactly on the way and that they must band together to survive. From the very beginning we begin to see conflicts arise when matters of trust are involved. As the survivors begin to know one another better the
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alterations between the people of Kakuma‚ Kenya‚ Sudan‚ and our American culture. The video begins with the discussions of what people from these African countries don’t have‚ that most of us take for granted such as‚ showers‚ electricity‚ and housing. The Lost Boys‚ is a group of men who are originally from a different countries of Africa and travel to America to experience some of our customs and norms. Through the video‚ they discuss basic differences‚ like differences in food‚ and also others such as
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nothing compares to what his song “Papas Got a Brand New Bag” brought to the world. This song single handedly changed the way African American music sounded and was performed‚ while also creating an aspect of music that artists today still utilize in their tracks. James Brown was born on May 3rd 1933 in Barnswell‚ South Carolina. He came from a broken home where his mother left him early in life and his father‚ plagued by extreme
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just a title to differentiate people; it is a part of the person. In Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood by Richard E. Kim‚ names play a major role on the character’s identities. The absence and importance of the names in the story make the story rich with detail and identity through something as simple as the name of a character. Names are a significant factor affecting the story and the characters throughout the novel Lost Names. When the Koreans are forced to change their family names to
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