"The Machine That Won the War‚" by Isaac Asimov‚ is a story that teaches a valuable lesson about humanity and also has an ironic twist at the end. The setting is the future of Earth‚ and a great war had just been won against an enemy race. Two men‚ Swift and Henderson‚ are debating over who really won the war for Earth: the giant strategy computer known as Multivac‚ or the men in charge of making the maneuvers and programming the computer. John Henderson is an excitable man‚ while Lamar
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been exploited uncountable times. We know and love such works as H.G. Wells’ “Time Machine”; H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Shadow Out of Time”; R. Bradbury’s “A Sound of Thunder”; S. King’s “The Langoliers”; as well as numerous films and TV shows: “Back to the Future”‚ “Butterfly Effect”‚ “Timecop.” These‚ as well as many others are dedicated mostly to one question: how can an individual affect or even change their entire life in the present by making even slight corrections in their own past? In my opinion
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In Support of the Death Penalty Introduction From the ethical perspective of philosopher John Rawls who said that justice should be described as“ a fair system of arrangements; one that the parties can agree to without knowing how it will benefit them personally” ‚ the death penalty must be considered just and right as it creates a fair balance between the act that has been committed and the punishment that has been dealt (Williams 78). Rawls supports the
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Can machines think? Turing didn’t describe the human vs. machine game right away‚ to make a point. He didn’t just flip a coin to see what he was going to write about. His point is simple. If you can distinguish between a man and a machine‚ in the game‚ you could come to the conclusion that the machine doesn’t think‚ right? WRONG! He introduced the idea of the man vs. woman game to prove that making such a conclusion is not in fact a conclusion‚ but an assumption. If it was a fact that‚ if you
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The Time Traveller - The Time Traveller’s name is never given. Apparently the narrator wants to protect his identity. The Time Traveller is an inventor. He likes to speculate on the future and the underlying structures of what he observes. His house is in Richmond‚ a suburb of London. The Narrator - The narrator‚ Mr. Hillyer‚ is the Time Traveller’s dinner guest. His curiosity is enough to make him return to investigate the morning after the first time travel. Weena - Weena is one of the Eloi
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Factors that support Communication (AO1) Section B‚ Activity 2 Promoting equality and diversity Equality is a legal framework that helps avoid discrimination; meaning that you treat an individual fairly and‚ equally without showing a preference of another individual due to their ability‚ disability‚ race or religion. This also means that you meet the needs of an individual‚ covering the area of their age‚ disability‚ race‚ social class‚ gender and religion and‚ the service users have the right
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INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT‚ INDORE Finance 2 Case Analysis Gainesboro Machine Tool Corporation Course Instructor: Prof A Kanagraj Submitted By: Amol Vyawahare Roll Number: 2008PGP021B Gainesboro Machine Tool Corporation Background Reading: Once a company makes a profit‚ they must decide on what to do with those profits. They could continue to retain the profits within the company‚ or they could pay out the profits to the owners of the firm in the form of dividends. Once the
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Spousal support‚ or alimony‚ is based on an outdated social tradition that it is a man’s responsibility to support women because they are weaker‚ incapable of being equal to men‚ and better equipped to raise children. However‚ this is not the case in today’s society and our alimony laws need to be changed to reflect modern times. Spousal support traces its roots back to a time when divorce was considered rare and indissoluble. As a result‚ a husband and wife remained married even after they had
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or not children should have support in their native languages‚ there are surprisingly several theories. With each article and author‚ with each study‚ a new idea is formed. Likewise‚ non-linguists responded the same way. For the interviews‚ I interviewed Isaac‚ Betty‚ and Chantelle. All thought that support came from the family and they had various reasons why they thought so; when it came to potential problems‚ social factors were the answer. Native Language Support Betty believed that there
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Two types of grinding machines In materials processing a grinder is a machine for producing fine particle size reduction through attrition and compressive forces at the grain size level. See also crusher for mechanisms producing larger particles. In general‚ grinding processes require a relatively large amount of energy; for this reason‚ an experimental method to measure the energy used locally during milling with different machines was recently proposed. Ball mill A typical type of fine grinder
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