Chapter 7 In late 1960s US created the ARPA to launch new technology for military after the Soviet Union launched sputnik ARPANET located at UCLA UCSB Standford and Utah NSFNET created to connect computer science departments of universities to web World Wide Web is different from net because the internet is the physical entity and the WWB is just one way the information moves about the internet‚ I‚ email‚ VoIP‚ file sharing created in late 1990s Late 1990s the commercial network came out: Pizza
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Soviet Union was corrupted after World War I. Economic recovery such as Russian industrial production had gotten passed prewar levels by forty percent. New power plants‚ canals‚ and giant factories were built. Testing of hydrogen bombs in 1953 and Sputnik 1 in 1957 enhanced the Soviet state’s reputation as a world power abroad. Soviet people did not have much‚ their apartment’s one room served as both a bed and living room. As the struggle for power continued‚ Joseph Stalin‚ the general secretary
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A History of 19th and 20th Century Russia A society’s understanding of its history is crucial to a society’s perception and definition of itself. During the 1980s the Soviet Union underwent a cultural revival‚ whereby the Russian people‚ prompted by Mikhail Gorbachev’s invitation to glasnost (more openness)‚ began critically re-examining Soviet and pre-revolutionary history. As the nation engaged in oral discussions and literary readings to study their past‚ they started to reassess the Soviet
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The Space Race The United States and the Soviet Union thought it was a huge deal to be the first country to explore space. It was between 1957 and 1975 these two nations were determined to be the first to explore the unknown in space. What they were first trying to do was shoot these huge technologic metal things known as satellites into space so it will orbit the Earth like the Moon. They also they wanted to be the first country on the Moon as well. They made a huge deal out of this and were very
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National Science Board’s data‚ Friedman observes a trend in the overall decline in US’s output of STEM innovators and emphasis on STEM innovation: “the generation of scientists and engineers who were motivated to get into science by the threat of Sputnik in 1957 and the inspiration of JFK are reaching their retirement years and are not being replaced in the numbers that they must be in an advanced economy like that of the United States is to remain at the head of the pack” (Friedman 329). By relying
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Entrepreneurial Profile Pirates of Silicon Valley Andrea Odunze 2nd April 2013 Entrepreneurial Profile Pirates of Silicon Valley Andrea Odunze 2nd April 2013 Bill Gates Bill Gates was born William Henry Gates the third on the 28th of October ‚1955 to his parents Mary Gates‚ who was a professor and businesswoman and William Gates II‚ who was a prominent lawyer of his time (Summers). Bill was enrolled in the prestigious Lakeside School of Seattle in 1967 because he showed
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Young Discoverer Series UNIVERSE NICKNAMES OF PLANETS: Mercury – Speedy Messenger. Venus – Morning or Evening Star. Earth – The Blue Planet. Mars – The Red Planet. Jupiter – Jove or the Galilean System. Saturn – The Ringed Planet. Uranus – Father Sky. Neptune – The Windy Planet. Pluto – The Ice Planet. DEFINITIONS: STAR: A huge body made of hot luminous gas that is held together by its own gravity. Compared to other stars‚ our Sun is a star of average size and energy. PLANET: A large
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its disadvantages‚ and its future Everybody in these days talks‚ debates‚ argues‚ and uses the Internet‚ but does anybody know when all of this abut Internet began? Everything began when The Soviet Union launched its first artificial satellite‚ Sputnik in 1957‚ proving before the eyes of the world they were leading the technology in the world. As a consequence of this event‚ the- United States president‚ Dwight D. Eisenhower‚ exhorted to the best of the
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schedule came to fruition in 1921 because the National Education Association (NEA) stipulated the measures used to evaluate merit pay were unreliable. According to Gratz (2005) a small resurgence for merit pay began in the 1950’s because of Sputnik and a true commencement occurred during Nixon’s Presidency. In the 1960’s an experiment at Texarkana‚ AR in the use of merit pay was initiated due to the concern over the neglect of educational achievement in the urban poor. This resurgence was followed
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Standardized Tests Sections I and II Brittany‚ an honors student in Atlanta‚ Georgia‚ had worked hard her entire academic career to celebrate what would be her proudest moment in high school: commencement. She wanted to walk across the stage to the flash of cameras and smiles of her family just like her classmates‚ and then journey off to a college in South Carolina where she had already been accepted. So she gathered her proud family members from Chicago and Washington‚ D.C.‚ to come to share
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