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    mind watching ads for the products its computers hear you talking about. The book presents 7 ‘koans’ or principles regarding the bits and the effect of it on humanity. Koan 1: Even though your computer seems to present pictures‚ texts‚ songs‚ and videos‚ they are all composed of bits. Everything that’s digital are ruled by bits. Even as we speak‚ bits are flying through the airwaves by our phones. Koan 2:

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    The Party slogans in George Orwell’s 1984 seem illogical. When hearing the phrase “ignorance is strength”‚ you think to you self‚ knowledge is what allows us to function as human beings. Knowledge has been that vessel that has carried us to where we are today; it is what separates us from the rest of the species. You cannot exist as a functioning member of society without knowledge‚ so how can lack there of lead to strength? Ignorance is the unknown‚ so in order ignorance to lead to strength‚ the

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    Jomon: about 300 BC‚ when Japan was inhabited by a hunter-gatherer culture which reached a considerable degree of sedentism and cultural complexity. Yayoi: is an Iron Age era in the history of Japan traditionally dated 300 BC to AD 300. Techniques in metallurgy based on the use of bronze and iron were also introduced in this period. Kofun:is an era in the history of Japan from around 250 to 538. It follows the Yayoi period. The word kofun is Japanese for the type of burial mounds dating from

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    Relgion 133 Version 3

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    Thomas W.‚ trans. 1881. Buddhist Sutras (F. Max Müller‚ ed.‚ Sacred Books of the East‚ 11). Oxford: Clarendon Press. ______‚ trans. 1880. The Questions of King Milinda‚ Part I (sbe‚ 35). Oxford: Clarendon Press. Suzuki‚ D.T. 1991. An Introduction to Zen Buddhism. New York: Grove Press. Tsunoda‚ Ryusaku. 1958. Sources of Japanese Tradition. New York: Columbia University Press.

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    University of Phoenix Material Appendix D Part I Define the following terms: |Term |Definition | |Ethnic group |Being a member of an ethnic group‚ especially of a group that is a minority within a larger society. | |Anti-Semitism |Discrimination against or prejudice or hostility toward Jews.   | |Islamophobia

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    Numbers Natural Numbers together with “zero” 0‚ 1‚ 2‚ 3‚ 4‚ 5‚ . . .   About the Number ZeroWhat is zero? Is it a number? How can the number of nothing be a number? Is zero nothing‚ or is it something?Well‚ before this starts to sound like a Zen koan‚ let’s look at how we use the numeral “0.” Arab and Indian scholars were the first to use zero to develop the place-value number system that we use today. When we write a number‚ we use only the ten numerals 0‚ 1‚ 2‚ 3‚ 4‚ 5‚ 6‚ 7‚ 8‚ and 9. These

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    Leadership & Organization Development Journal Emerald Article: Leadership moment by moment! Ron Cacioppe Article information: To cite this document: Ron Cacioppe‚ (1997)‚"Leadership moment by moment!"‚ Leadership & Organization Development Journal‚ Vol. 18 Iss: 7 pp. 335 - 345 Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/01437739710190648 Downloaded on: 06-02-2013 References: This document contains references to 20 other documents Citations: This document has been cited by 7 other

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    Open Source and Hacker Anthropology: The Cathedral and the Bazaar (1997-2001) Probably the most popular thing I’ve written. It’s in demand in a lot of different forms‚ so I’ve given it its own subsite. Includes Homesteading the Noosphere‚ The Magic Cauldron‚ and A Brief History of Hackerdom. Goodbye `free software’; hello‚ `open source` (1998) My original February 1998 call to the community‚ issued immediately after the Netscape breakthrough‚ to start using the term `open source’. This is the

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    World Religious Traditions 1

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    REL/133 NOTES CHAPTER 1 agnosticism: “Not know” (Greek); a position asserting that the existence of God cannot be proven. animism: From the Latin anima‚ meaning “spirit‚” “soul‚” “life force”; a worldview common among oral religions (religions with no written scriptures) that sees all elements of nature as being filled with spirit or spirits. atheism: “Not God” (Greek); a position asserting that there is no God or gods. deconstruction: A technique‚ pioneered by Jacques Derrida

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    contrast appeals to the audience on a physical and emotional level‚ providing a much more immediate experience than traditional theatre” ~ (Artmedia Publishing in Zen Zen Zo’s “The Tempest” Teacher’s Notes) “…Then you realise that theatre is a more personal experience.” (Stephen Atkins‚ Dante’s Inferno Director) After viewing Zen Zen Zo’s physical theatre reincarnation of the philosophical poem‚ Inferno by Dante Alighieri ‚ it was clear that the combinations of various dramatic languages ultimately

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