a What is Computer Science? Computer Science is the systematic study of the feasibility‚ structure‚ expression‚ and mechanization of the methodical processes (or algorithms) that underlie the acquisition‚ representation‚ processing‚ storage‚ communication of‚ and access to information‚ whether such information is encoded in bits and bytes in a computer memory or transcribed in genes and protein structures in a human cell. The fundamental question underlying all of computing is: what computational
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What They Fought For Book Review Did the south have the right to popular sovereignty or were they being inhumane and infringing upon the North’s Industry? During the civil war the south were fighting an Invading force. In their minds the Union was a tyranny‚ one very much like they faced in the revolution. England had ruled over them for many years‚ setting the rules and dictating what was right and what was wrong. The south was not going to allow another tranny to take over them‚ especially after
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Trebuchet Questions 1. What is a trebuchet? It’s an invaluable medieval siege attack weapon that’s similar to a catapult 2. What is it used for? It was used for smashing city and castle walls by hurling giant stones 3. What makes it different from a catapult? Catapults use springs and tension to launch projectiles while trebuchets use a counter weight 4. When was it used? It was used around 500AD during the Middle (or Dark) Ages 5. Why did it fall out of favor? Trebuchets fell out of favor
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“What Are Heavy” – Christina Rossetti In the children’s poem “What Are Heavy” by the Victorian poet‚ Christina Rossetti‚ the author uses two speakers in order to show the contrast between the innocent curiosity of a child and the wisdom of an adult who attempts to answer the child’s questions truthfully while preserving the child’s innocence by simplifying an extremely complicated topic. Exploitation of the truth leads to the attainment of knowledge‚ from the attainment of knowledge comes the acquisition
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Answer these questions : (a) What is MIDI? How is a basic MIDI message structured? (b) In what ways can MIDI be used effectively in Multimedia Applications‚ as opposed to strictly musical applications? (c) How can MIDI be used with modern data compression techniques? Briefly describe how such compression techniques may be implemented. (a) What is MIDI ? How is a basic MIDI message structured ? MIDI : a protocol that enables computer‚ synthesizers
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“flourishing” to “the good life”. However‚ such facile English renditions of the word fail to grasp a complete sense of what exactly eudaimonia implies. It is especially necessary to have a full understanding of the idea of eudaimonia when reading Aristotle‚ because the concept plays an important role in both his ethical theory and his political theory. In this paper‚ first I will describe what exactly Aristotle’s specific conception of eudaimonia was‚ then I will show how it fits in with his larger ethical
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What is Education? Answers from 5th Century BC to the 21st Century The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things‚ not simply repeating what other generations have done. -- Jean Piaget‚ 1896-1980‚ Swiss developmental psychologist‚ philosopher An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory‚ or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don’t.-- Anatole France‚ 1844-1924‚
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What is the evil What could be consider as evil? What do you understand for evil? Would if you tell your wife you have a meeting and you will be home late‚ but in fact you went to a bar instead could be consider as evil? In “the nature of evil” Eagleton gives a definition for evil as “evil is not something positive but a kind of lack or defectiveness‚ a sort of nothingness or negativity‚ an in ability to be truly alive”(Eagleton1). Which means evil is some action due to lost confidence to live well
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What is ATTRACTION? n. 1. in social psychology‚ the natural feeling of being drawn to other individuals and desiring their company. This is usually (but not necessarily) due to having a personal liking for them. 2. in environmental psychology‚ a quality that affects the proximity of relationships - usually reflecting such factors as their liking for each other. For example‚ male-female and female-female pairs who like each are found to be closer to each other than do pairs who feel no personal
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What is newsworthy? Timing‚ significance‚ proximity‚ prominence‚ human interest are the five factors that all reporters use to decide if it is newsworthy or not. (Media College.com) I also believe that I would want to hear the news that is most important and that is exciting to watch and listen to. With an article or story that is national news it will become the story that you‚ the reporter‚ would love to get in order to get good ratings. I find this article I read to be newsworthy for the fact
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