ASSIGNMENT 4 WEEK 1 - STORAGE DEVICES Describe the main working features of ONE of the following storage devices. Hard disk drive Optical storage Flash memory Include any relevant diagrams that help explain your answer. Optical Storage The optical storage device that most of us are familiar with is the compact disc (CD). A CD can store huge amounts of digital information (783 MB) on a very small surface that is incredibly inexpensive to manufacture. The design that makes this possible is
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Thesis : The cold war caused widespread fear in the United States that there would be a WWIII using nuclear weapons. The Cold War was a period of time from 1953 to 1990 which dealt with tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States which were the two superpowers of the world. The term was an example of the cold tensions and relationships between the USSR and The United States‚ Western Europe and many parts of the world. They had Marshall Plan which was economic and foreign policy that
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Cold War Essay January 22‚ 2013 The Cold War For this essay I decided to interview my three friends since we were all hanging out last week. Not sure it was the best group of people to interview since they are all around my age‚ but I work with what I’m given. Not knowing much about the Cold War myself‚ it was interesting to see some of the responses they gave me. Not knowing if they were correct or not‚ I had a fair share of research that had to be done. To start off my interviews I had the
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The Cold War Michelle Goon SS310 Exploring the 1960’s Professor: Karen Lloyd Unit 2 Assignment Date: 2-12-2012 The Cold war started in 1945 and lasted until 1991 (Timeline of the Cold War‚ n.d.). During this time the world had many political views and agendas to deal with. There was the election between Kennedy and Nixon in 1960 and the election of Kennedy into office in 1961 (Farber‚ 1994) . There were mixed views on the types of government and the battle between countries to maintain governmental
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Did the end of the Cold War make Europe more or less secure? In the late 1940’s Europe was divided into two separate blocs. The Cold War for Europe was illustrated by the existence of two opposed camps across a divided Germany. The end of the Cold War in 1989 and the reunification of Germany in 1990 brought about a transformation in the European security environment unrecognisable from that which had existed five years earlier. The system of two militarized blocs ceased to function. The Warsaw
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Sean Keith AMSTU Cold War DBQ Essay The growing fear of the spread of communism throughout the World during the Cold War era resulted in the United States making brash and misguided decisions stemming from the values of the containment policy. This era was marked by concern that other nations‚ especially those in the Western Hemisphere‚ would fall to Soviet influence‚ and additionally‚ that there were communist supporters within the United States‚ potentially in government offices. Americans
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most important dimensions of globalisations‚ these are cultural and political dimension which in my point of view are the most important aspects of globalisation. Many people view the economic globalisation as a process that offers fear or rather threat to many local markets. They also see it as it makes poor people become poorer and wealthy people become wealthier. It is a fact that economic globalisation offers inequality and not evenly contributed throughout the world. Many countries which have
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advancements that have been made in the last 60 years can be attributed to the Cold War. Much of the technology developed during the period of the Cold War is still in use today by the military and government. Advancements in offensive technology are well known to just about everyone in the way of nuclear energy harnessed in the form of the nuclear bomb‚ but little is known about the battle for information during the Cold War. The Cold War produced some of the most advanced technology used in the fields
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networks that underpin American society. There are three different categories of threats. Natural threats‚ human- cause and accidental/technical threat. “Natural threats include weather problems in both hot and cold climates and also geological hazards like earthquakes‚ tsunamis‚ 18 International Journal of Control and Automation land shifting and volcanic eruption.” (Robles‚ Choi‚ Cho‚ Kim‚ G Park‚ Lee) The human caused threats are referred to as terrorism. “This may include cyber-attacks‚ rioting‚ product
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COLD WAR VIDEO QUESTIONS 1. Stalin forced his people to give up food in order to fund the Cold War. He believed that giving up food; they can put all their necessities to promoting nuclear arms race. 2. Winston Churchill came up with the Iron Curtain. The Iron Curtain was the use of tanks to cut off soviet controlled Europe (East communist) from the Western Europe controlled by democratic countries. 3. The Fair Deal was the term given to an ambitious set of proposals put forward by United
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