The problem with today’s youth is their addiction to technology. We have an undeniable hunger for entertainment. The hunger must be fed and sustained or we cannot function properly‚ yet it is never filled. We yearn for more and more. This‚ in turn‚ produces new technology to meet consumer needs. MP3 players‚ cell phones‚ and laptops are all objects to entertain our dulled minds. Rarely do we cure our boredom with a book or another form of "intellectual" entertainment. We would rather let the screen
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The Colomber Dino Buzzati‚ translated by Lawrence Venuti When Stefano Roi was twelve years old‚ he asked his father‚ a sea captain and the owner of a fine sailing ship‚ to take him on board as his birthday gift. “When I grow up‚” the boy said‚ “I want to go to sea with you. And I shall command ships even more beautiful and bigger than yours.” “God bless you‚ my son‚” the father answered. And since his vessel had to leave that very day‚ he took the boy with him. It was a splendid sunny
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Part 1: Estimation of demerged entities’ future earnings Tabcorp Holdings Limited (ASX: TAH‚ “Tabcorp”) announced a demerger on 18th October‚ 2010. The Company separated into two entities: the casino business was operating as an independent entity‚ Echo Entertainment Group (“Echo”) ever since‚ and the waging business was still operating under Tabcorp. The two entities announced their respective annual report for financial year 2011. Based on the historical financial data‚ we applied pro-forma
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chairman of the Federal Reserve. During the boom of the beginning of this decade the word of Alan Greenspan was golden. The old adage "if it aint broke‚ don ’t fix it" seemed to apply to the reappointment of Alan Greenspan at each election season. Even when a democratic president left office‚ he was reappointed by the incoming Republican president rather than being replaced by a republican counterpart. Alan Greenspan controlled the economy during the booming 90 ’s into the declining economy of the
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James Alan McPherson When one begins to look into the life of James Alan McPherson you find a very common story among people of his time. Born in 1943 in the south‚ he lived during a time of segregation. He worked numerous odd jobs while going to a Catholic school to help support his mother and siblings when his father developed a drinking problem and was jailed. McPherson felt that his father had abandoned his family and that it was his responsibility to help support them in his father’s absence
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significance of emotional pain and suffering felt by the characters. The use of fire imagery‚ in particular‚ is utilized as a symbol of emotional distress‚ and is used very dominantly among all of the images mentioned throughout the novel. This type of imagery is important towards developing the main theme and tone of the novel – the emotional pain that the war had inflicted upon humanity. In The Wars‚ the way in which fire had been represented had provided a mirror to Robert Ross’s emotional distress
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Tyler Hill 08/12/10 American Intercontinental University Abstract Now that my product‚ M&M candy pieces has been developed‚ it needs to be determined how it will become available to the end user. There are a few things that need to be determined before this can happen. These include an overview of distribution channels that also include channel levels and channel organizations. Another thing that needs to be considered is analyzing my target market needs- meaning I need to know my target market
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terrible accident‚ this fire did more than just take the lives of many by also affecting others in a mental aspect. This accident was that of the Hartford Circus Fire. It was a fire that resulted in the entire destruction of a circus and lives lost by many of the circus’ very own staff‚ along with many spectators. Many years later‚ the cause of this fire is still up to some speculation among authorities. This essay will dig into the event of the fire‚ the investigation of the fire‚ and the possibilities
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A form of literature that is rapidly growing more popular today is that of the graphic novel. This unique type of text has been associated with and been more commonly called the comic book. But‚ in recent years‚ this form of literature has grown more powerful through the realization of all the values it offers and has thus caused scholars to adopt other more sophisticated names such as graphic novel or graphic narrative. Books that have become sources of scholarly learning have been categorized under
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The role of Alan Turing in the history of computing Alan Mathison Turing was born on 23 June 1912‚ Paddington‚ London. He was a true pioneer in computer science and if it were not for this man‚ no one would probably be typing an essay based on him on a modern computer. He is renowned for his passion of mathematics and the invention of the Turing machine/test‚ breaking the German enigma code during World War One‚ and for making the first automated computing machine (the ACE). At an early age
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