Google is a play on the word googol‚ which was coined by Milton Sirotta‚ nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner‚ and was popularized in the book‚ "Mathematics and the Imagination" by Kasner and James Newman. It refers to the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros. Google’s use of the term reflects the company’s mission to organize the immense‚ seemingly infinite amount of information available on the web. Back before Google? Aye‚ there’s the Rub. According to Google
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My interest in traveling to and participating in a study tour of Germany stems most currently from my fervent study and passionate teaching of Advanced Placement (AP) European History; yet the genesis of this interest began decades earlier. In the 1950s my mother grew up in Munich as an Army brat while my grandfather was a full Colonel of the United States Army stationed at U.S. Army Garrison Munich after World War II. The images of my mother ice skating on frozen ponds and my grandfather’s collection
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Comparing texts forces us to question our values in the context of the author’s zeitgeist and our own. The dystopia novel The Handmaid’s Tale (1985)‚ written by Margaret Atwood‚ and the film adaptation Children of Men (2006)‚ directed by Alfonso Cuarón‚ both examine the abuse of power by totalitarian government regimes which come about as a result of chaotic disasters. These oppressive governments’ abuse of their given power creates a dystopic world‚ and with it come restrictions to individual freedom
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Jin Kang AP Language‚ Per. 2 Taylor 22 February 2011 The Great Gatsby According to The Great Gatsby‚ what traits constitute the zeitgeist (spirit of the time) of the 1920’s? Fitzgerald’s novel is set during the 1920s‚ an period of American history known as the “Roaring Twenties” and the “Age of Wonderful Nonsense.” America had emerged from the First World War as an economic giant‚ resulting in a general increase in wealth in the population. Pretty soon‚ Americans indulged in extravagances
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story of Armin Meiwes‚ aka the Rotenburg Cannibal‚ a German who achieved international notoriety for killing and eating a voluntary victim whom he had found via the Internet. "The play seems to be well-timed to whatever is nibbling around the zeitgeist as eating human flesh seems to be all the rage these days. In May‚ a chef in Tokyo cooked and served his own genitals. Also that same month‚ in an horrific incident in Miami‚ a man was shot dead after eating the face of a homeless man. "Gordon
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Cultural Institute." Monk by the Sea - Google Cultural Institute. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 03 Oct. 2013 Pollitt Ben. “Friedrish’s Monk by the Sea” Romanticism in Germany. Smarthistory presented by Knathacademy‚ n.d. Web. 09 Oct. 2013 Wyss‚ Beat. “The Whispering Zeitgeist.” Home. TATE Britain‚ 1 Sept. 2008. Web. 09 Oct. 2013 "Wanderer above the Sea of Fog." Artble: The Home of Passionate Art Lovers. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 07 Oct. 2013.
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The development of modern psychology. Discuss how the subject matter of Psychology changed and evolved across the history of the discipline‚ from the early Empiricists to modern Cognitive approaches. 2010 Outline how the methods of investigation and subject matter of Psychology have changed from its early philosophical beginnings to modern cognitive approaches. 2011 Briefly outline how the discipline of psychology has evolved from its early philosophical beginnings into modern experimental field
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one of the major themes in time which also allows us as a reader to understand in more detail the time travel of one character from child to adult frequent. As one of the main themes is time Frayn tries to create a war time period- to do this he zeitgeists using things such as smell and sound. Frayn also uses first person narrative to transport us back to the present‚ this helps to separate the young Stephen from the older one which brings us further to explore the nostalgic tone when he talks about
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2014‚ from http://www.mediacollege.com/audio/01/soundwaves.html Kadner‚ R. (2014‚ January 1). Growth of bacterial populations. Retrieved December 4‚ 2014‚ (2010‚ June 1). Retrieved December 4‚ 2014‚ from http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/symphonicsewagewastetreatmentplantplays
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fuelled.” Bibliography Cheng‚ Chester J. “The Mystery of the Battle of La-Tzu-k’ ou in the Long March.” The Association for Asian Studies 31‚ no. 3 (1972): 593-598. China A Century of Revolution. Directed by Sue Williams. 20 min. Zeitgeist Films‚ 2007. DVD. Nolan‚ John M. “The Long March: Fact and Fancy.” Military Affairs 30‚ no. 2 (1966): 77-90. Spence‚ Jonathan D. The Search For Modern China. New York: W. W. Norton & Company‚ 1999. --------------------------------------------
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