One summer night‚ July 20‚ 2012‚ a gathering of joyful people pile into a Century 16 movie theater in Aurora‚ Colorado‚ waiting in anticipation to watch the midnight screening of the film The Dark Knight Rises. Half-an-hour into to the movie‚ an intense gun-fighting scene comes onto the screen‚ and a man dressed in tactical clothing walks in front. Smoke starts to rise and spread through the theater. The audience members soon have burning eyes and itching throats. For the slightest moment for some
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The Joker In the film‚ The Dark Knight directed by Christopher Nolan‚ The Joker‚ one of Batman’s most dangerous enemies whose aim is too push Batman to his ultimate limits‚ to break his personal rules and strict moral code. This‚ being the Jokers only reason to live‚ he has no fear of death and pain. The Joker is characterised as a calculating and logical criminal‚ a rebel with minimal empathy or moral and a nemesis who commits purposeless crime. Together these characteristics are developed through
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Exploiting Semantic Web Technologies for Recommender Systems A Multi View Recommendation Engine Houda OUFAIDA‚ Omar NOUALI DTISI Laboratory‚ CERIST Research Center 03‚ Rue frères Aissou - Ben Aknoun – Algiers‚ Algeria {houfaida‚ onouali}@mail.cerist.dz Abstract Collaborative filtering systems are probably the most known recommendation techniques in the recommender systems field. They have been deployed in many commercial and academic applications. However‚ these systems still have some limitations
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Report On EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF A DIRECT INJECTION DUAL FUEL DIESEL-NATURAL GAS ENGINE Presented by JAGADEESH PUTTA ME04B118 S8 ME 27 Department of Mechanical Engineering NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY CALICUT KERALA- 673 601 Winter 2007-08 CERTIFICATE This is to certify that this seminar report entitled “EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF A DIRECT INJECTION DUAL FUEL DIESEL-NATURAL GAS ENGINE “is a bonafide record of the seminar presented by JAGADEESH PUTTA‚ Roll no:ME04B118
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the Medieval Knight by David Edge and John Miles Paddock is an extremely great overview of the development of the knights’ armor and weapons‚ covering the evolution of the knight from the eleventh century all the way to the sixteenth century. The novel also shows illustrations of the weapons and armor that the knights used so the reader can get a better understanding of the material. On top of covering armor‚ weapons‚ and the evolution of the knight the book goes over the role of a knight and how a
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Organisation Assignment 1: Business Leadership & Organisation Issue Date : 6th February 2014 Submission Date : Non DDS :1st May 2014 DDS : 15th May 2014 Potential Marks Available : 75% Students will be expected to attempt all parts of the task listed. Ideally‚ the work should be presented in a logical sequence and should be word-processed. Completion Date: All written work must be submitted for marking to the Unit Leader‚ (Elaine Thomson – J102)‚ by 3.30 p.m. on the date
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Games in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight The theme of games plays a very important role in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. In fact‚ much of the action that takes place in this story revolves around the playing of various “games.” When one thinks of the word “games‚” there are several thoughts that may come to mind. Sports‚ board games‚ and card games are all types of games that society today might be familiar with. The author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight uses different kinds of games than
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Samurai and Knights: Were the Similarities Greater than the Differences? In Europe and Japan‚ very similar forms of government developed within a couple hundred years of each other. This occurred despite the fact that these two parts of the world were very distance from each other and it was very unlikely that these countries had contact with each other. This form of government‚ called feudalism developed in both places due to the need to establish order after a time in chaos. The knights and the samurai
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America’s vision and are introducing vehicles that draw their power from electricity rather than the traditional gasoline engine. “We are on the verge of an automotive revolution.” states author‚ William White in his article‚” Why the Gasoline Engine Isn’t Going Away Any Time Soon.” (Behrens & Rosen‚ p534-535). Electric or hybrid cars are environmentally safer than the traditional engine however‚ the cost and repair of such vehicles are very high. Battery replacements for a hybrid vehicle can run a consumer
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Hastings the foot-soldier based army of the English wilted under the charge of the Norman knights. With this conquest‚ Marcus Bull argues‚ the old era of foot-soldier armies was wiped away and the new era of the horse-backed knight began. Up until the end of the thirteenth century the mass cavalry charge was the ace-card of battle. The destructive fury of a group of heavily armoured knights could break any unit. Knights lived their entire life to fight. They trained all day in the art of war and at tourney
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