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    Alan Turing

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    Alan Mathison Turing (23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954)‚ was a British mathematician‚ logician‚ cryptanalyst‚ and computer scientist. He was highly influential in the development of computer science‚ giving a formalisation of the concepts of "algorithm" and "computation" with the Turing machine‚ which can be considered a model of a general purpose computer. Turing is widely considered to be the father of computer science and artificial intelligence. He was stockily built‚ had a high-pitched voice‚ and

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    The Divided Line

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    two of the most influential thinkers in world history formed contrasting ideas on the concept of the soul. On one hand‚ Plato’s idea of the soul was created based on his theory of forms‚ as illustrated through a conceptual apparatus called “The Divided Line”. In this diagram‚ concepts of the absolute‚ such as the essence of absolute good‚ come from forms and ideas‚ which are eventually processed into the physical world as images in our minds. These images can then once again be manipulated into

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    A Class Divided

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    A Class Divided This is a video that tells a story on racial issues and stereotyping. In 1968 Martin Luther King was assassinated. A third grade teacher by the name of Jane Elliott noticed immediately that her children in the classroom‚ started to outwardly show their frustration. Ms. Elliott performed and recorded an exercise related to racial profiling. Approximately 13 years later‚ the third grade children were brought back together to watch the video again. This was to

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    a divided class

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    This was one of the most inspirational and educational documentaries that I have ever personally watched. A third grade teacher‚ Jane Elliott divides her class by blue and brown eyes to teach about discrimination and how it affects people in our society. People in society are taught many things in their lifetime‚ but when it is experienced first handedly they have a different perspective about it. When speaking with the class about Brotherhood week and what it meant I was shocked when Jane

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    According to the Iowa Department of Education website‚ there are 200 students attending the Paton-Churdan K-12 School in the 2016-2017 school year. Paton-Churdan is located in the small‚ rural town of Churdan‚ about 13 miles north of Jefferson. Of the 200 students‚ about 3.5% are Hispanic‚ 5.5% are multiracial‚ and 1.5% is Asian‚ making Caucasian the largest group at 89.5%. In looking at these percentages‚ it is easy to see that we do not fit into the idea of a diverse culture. However‚ we do have

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    Divided by Two

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    he was very tired. It means that he have gone a very hard work as associated In the first explanation. • *Hospitable •-despite the fact that the person standing on his porch was his adversary‚ he still managed to invite that person to enter his house. • • *Easy to be influence •-He was forced to do something whenever his wife one. Just like when his wife almost went out to confront their neighbors‚ he decided to write a note instead. •-The music made him relax and the same time missed her

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    Class Divided

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    When I first read the title a Class Divided; the first thought that came to my mind was another story about Blacks and Whites being separated. I really had no idea that what I was about to see and read would be a learning lesson like one I had never had before. But to my surprise once I started reading the article One Friday in April 1968 I knew that this was going to be different then any thing I had read. So I allowed myself to fill what the writer was writing to try and fill what Jane

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    A class divided

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    Forum #2 (Chapters 2 and 3): How did the Atlantic slave trade began‚ and how did the slave trade within Africa compare/contrast to the later slave trade with the Europeans? In order to operate huge tracts of land as effective farms‚ the white land owners of the New World‚ which included what later became America‚ the Caribbean‚ and South America‚ sought slaves from Africa to do the work required to make the white men rich. Slave trade between Africa and the Americas began soon after Columbus arrived

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    Alan Sinfield

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    Cultural Materialism^ Othello‚ aed the Politics of Plausibility Alan Sinfield Alan Sinfield’s Faultlines (1992) is one of the best examples of Cultural Materialism at work. This chapter on Shakespeare’s Othello is an especially forceful rendering of the Cultural Materialist argument that texts are not simple registers of social power. Rather‚ they must necessarily harbor dissident‚ fractious energies that undermine the sense of cohesive certainty that ruling elites seek to impose on a culture

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    Alan Lomax Essay

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    John Lomax and Alan Lomax collected‚ published and disseminated folk music and blues during the Thirties‚ Forties and Fifties. Discuss the importance of this work to modern popular music. Alan Lomax was known to be a legendary collector of folk music. A highly educated musicologist‚ he can truly be seen as a sort of pioneer in the recording and discovering of music. Put under the early apprenticeship of John Lomax‚ his father‚ he began a career travelling the southern states. Although they were

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