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    How did things get this way? To answer that we have to go back almost a thousand years. Around 1100, Europe at last began to catch its breath after centuries of chaos, and once they had the luxury of curiosity they rediscovered what we call "the classics." The effect was rather as if we were visited by beings from another solar system. These earlier civilizations were so much more sophisticated that for the next several centuries the main work of European scholars, in almost every field, was to assimilate

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    The Secret Life Of Bees, written by Sue Monk Kidd, should be considered a classic because of its unique way of relating the characters and the story line to the reader's emotions and to history. In The Secret Life Of Bees- and all books- descriptive detail and skillful writing is crucial. The principle reason this story is a classic is because of how Sue Monk Kidd was able to use a metaphor throughout the entire story. Bees represent society and life and without help from other bees and the queen

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    My Grandfather Interview

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    The moment I was informed about this oral history report, only one person came to my mind when deciding who to compose this project about. This person was my grandfather. He was an inspiration in my life. This project has given me the opportunity to reflect back onto my grandfather’s stories and historical accomplishments for on March 19, 2012 was the day my grandfather Richard “Joel” Pettingell left this earth. There was no such thing as a dull moment in my grandfather’s life. The time I got to

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    Apple Ipod And The Ipod

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    routine off to a good start. After my morning walk, I take a shower while listening to my favorite high-energy-time-to-wake-up music. The weather channel says it is going to be a rainy morning, so I grab my umbrella and head for the door. During the car ride, I toggle between the news and my French audio lessons. These events are done using a little device that seems to be everywhere you look. For the past years we have seen how Apple has introduced iPhones into the market for their consumers to purchase

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    These days, we take the pretty graphical user of Windows for granted, but getting there wasn’t intuitive. The blinking cursor of operating systems like DOS is the most obvious interface for a computer, because what could be more intuitive than telling a computer what you want it to do in English? The only problem is that computers were not smart enough to understand English and to work out what users wanted them to do, so computers had to have their own language and to accept command and what had

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    One day I was bored at home so I decided to clean up my room because it was mess. So after cleaning up my room I looked in one of my drawers that use to have all the junk in it and found my old iPod classic. I decided to charge it to hear all the old music I had in it. After it charged I was looking through the playlists and I found this song I use to listen to. This song was No Te Veo by Casa de Leones. This song I listened to it all the time, it was my favorite and as I soon as I heard it I started

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    All of the changes we as a society have adjusted to over the past few decades have created revolutionary milestones for our everyday lifestyles and habits. Thanks to these advancements, we are also given a glimpse of what our society may become in the near and distant future. One of the most evolutionary aspects to today’s society is the cell-phone. As of today, our society most definitely takes the idea of cell-phones for granted, since they are now so easily accessible and common. But cell-phones

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    Apple Analysis

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    Apple: Incremental Innovation and Impending Obsolescence. From the humble beginnings of a portable music player to the empire we know today of phones, computers, music players, games systems and of course, if they don’t have it, ‘there’s an App for that’ – Apple Inc. is an innovative force to be reckoned with in the current portable communications and entertainment industry. It owes this success to constant, incremental changes made to its products over the course of many years –

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    Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow

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    Roberts has called the “central metaphor” of the novel. When put together with the cohesive historical narrative within the novel, the discussion reveals the ways in which Doctorow uses Ragtime to perform a work that mirrors the ups and downs of the classic ragtime style of music. Doctorow does this through the introduction of a distinctive way of reading history which is vitally deconstructive and politically charged. When a curious soul looks for critical material available on Ragtime they are sure

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    TO: Olo Dictum and Areta Obiter, Senior partners FROM: Kate Thompson RE: Damage from Contamination This opinion assesses Fancy Fertiliser’s liability under the rule in Ryland’s and Fletcher. Was the hydrofluorosilicic acid likely to cause mischief? The rule established in Ryland’s and fletcher is that anything likely to cause mischief, if it escapes refers to “beasts, or water, or filth, or stenches.” In the case of Cambridge Water Co and Eastern Counties Leather, the chemical perchloroethene (for

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