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    edu/~fid/.../15-103/artificial-intelligence.html‎ This Essay is basically a summary of the article in the New York Times on ... specifically talking about the development of a super computer‚ Watson‚ that has ... Watson Jeopardy! computer: Ken Jennings describes what it’s like to ... www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/.../my_puny_human_brain.html‎ Feb 16‚ 2011 - When I was selected as one of the two human players to be pitted against IBM’s "Watson" supercomputer in a special

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    Group of Inspiration Throughout time there have been different groups that inspired creativity‚ academics‚ and great achievements. In the United States anyone can be successful with a little education and hard work. Knowing that anyone has the chance to do something revolutionary is amazing. In Weber’s book In Cheap We Trust she talks about two groups of people. Weber first talks about the Jews and how they got their start in America. There are many stereotypes about Jews such as how they are

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    Catcher in Rye

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    The poem "Comin Thro the Rye" by Robert Burns may be best-known today because of Holden Caulfields’s misinterpretation of it in The Catcher in the Rye. In the book‚ Caulfield relates his fantasy to his sister‚ Phoebe: he’s the "catcher in the rye‚" rescuing children from falling from a cliff. Phoebe corrects him‚ pointing out that poem is not about a "catcher" in the rye‚ but about a girl who has met someone in the rye for a kiss (or more)‚ got her underclothes wet (not for the first time)‚ and is

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    Japanese Internment Essay

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    Whirlwind. Victoria: Orca Book Publishers‚ 2007. "Japanese Canadian History.net." Japanese Canadian History.net. Accessed May 9‚ 2012. Last modified April 7‚ 2011 [2] Carol Matas‚ The Whirlwind. (Victoria: Orca Book Publishers.‚ 2007)‚ 34 [3] Adachi‚ Ken. The Enemy that Never Was: A History of the Japanese Canadians (1976)

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    Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf

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    largest privately owned‚ familyrun coffee and tea companies‚ was facing this very dilemma in 2001 when Michael Serchia‚ director of human resources for International Coffee & Tea‚ LLC‚ was invited to attend a briefing hosted by soft skills trainer The Ken Blanchard Companies (Escondido‚ Calif.). “We were looking for a training program to help with our general manager retention‚” Serchia told CTDA. “In 2001‚ our management turnover rate was 60% and our team member turnover rate was about 180%. It was

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    Coach cater

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    "l came to coach basketball players‚ and you became students. l came to teach boys‚ and you became men". This quote shows how successful Coach Ken Carter’s managing techniques are‚ however Coach Carter uses many managing styles through out the film. A good manager uses multiple managing techniques these techniques are autocratic‚ persuasive‚ consultative‚ participative and laissez faire. Coach Carter’s managing methods vary between the different situations he comes across. As shown through out the

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    Timothy Leary

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    Timothy Leary "Turn on‚ tune in‚ drop out." That saying has turned into the slogan of Timothy Leary ’s mind-expanding movement. Although a graduate of both West-Point and Berkley‚ and a Harvard professor‚ these were not his greatest lifetime achievements. Throughout his publicized life‚ he became the spokesperson of the psychedelic age. His devotion to the belief that LSD and marijuana were gateways to enlightenment resulted in a new church‚ numerous prison sentences‚ and a following of

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    it. He misses the old McMurphy so he kills McMurphy. After Bromden kills McMurphy he escapes from t it is society who dictated norms and urges conformity‚ while those individuals who reject societal views and pressures are the ones deemed insane. Ken Kesey wove a similar mirror image of society and asylums into his novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest which tells the story of a cowboy-like outlaw named Randall McMurphy who is introduced into a mental institution to contain his behavior but instead

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    It is a humans basic function to inspire. In One Flew Over the Cuckoos’s Nest by Ken Kesey and K-PAX directed by Iain Softley. Prot and McMurphy‚ both‚ inspire the patients. Both pieces of literature involved a psychiatric hospital and the main character in both K-PAX and in One Flew Over the Cuckoos’s Nest changed the one the institutions were run in positive ways. Also‚ the patients in both hospitals were more aware of themselves and were able to stand up for themselves. In both K-PAX and One Flew

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    The Last Samurai

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    1) Japan. The end of XIX century‚ Capt. Nathan Algren(main character)‚ an American military officer hired by the Emperor of Japan to train the country’s first army of the rising sun to contemporary art of warfare. The Emperor is trying to eradicate the ancient Imperial warrior class of samurai‚ in preparation for a more pro-Western government policies supporting foreign trade. Meanwhile‚ as a result of collisions with the samurai‚ Algren finds himself in the center of the confrontation of two worlds

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